Posted on 01/16/2006 8:32:58 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Darwinists must be an endangered species. How else to explain their 80-year need for court protection to ensure their survival?
In 1925, an ACLU-driven defense team in the Scopes-Monkey Trial wanted a court to declare that laws forbidding the teaching of evolution were unconstitutional. In recent weeks, in a courtroom in Dover, Pa., the same organization applauded a judge’s ruling that the teaching of ideas contrary to evolution, in this case Intelligent Design, were unconstitutional.
The same ACLU that once advocated for free and open discussion in schools is working to see it stifled today.
Its website boasts, “Intelligent Design is a religious view, not a scientific theory, according to U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III in his historic decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover. The decision is a victory not only for the ACLU, who led the legal challenge, but for all who believe it is inappropriate, and unconstitutional, to advance a particular religious belief at the expense of our children's education.”
Science involves observing nature and producing hypotheses which explain the data -- and of discrediting theories which don’t fit new observations. Having judges decide what constitutes science is as nonsensical as scientists issuing judicial decisions.
And the irreligious left, perpetually misusing the First Amendment, can’t identify which religion is being established. Is it that of the Jehovah’s Witnesses or of Catholicism? Perhaps Mormonism or Orthodox Judaism? Among many others, these disparate faiths all claim as canon the book of Genesis, where the religious version of creation is found.
But ironically, while no particular religion is being promoted by the teaching of Intelligent Design, there’s a belief system, which has established “churches” in several states, that is being favored by ACLU-- and court-imposed censorship: atheism, whose worldview promotes moral relativism and secular humanism.
The left maintains that Intelligent Design is merely creationism -- a literal reading of the Bible’s account of creation -- camouflaged in scientific language. But even a casual perusal of ID demonstrates there is no dependence on Genesis for any of its arguments, nor does it teach any biblical doctrine. It merely demands an examination of the evidence -- or lack thereof -- that uncountable species arose from primordial soup, or that they evolved over time from one to another.
To support Darwin’s theory, the earth should be teeming with myriad transitional specimens, but they are noteworthy, despite incessant extrapolation, only by their absence.
Other modern observations are daunting for Darwinists: digital information -- universally a mark of design -- in the genetic code and irreducibly complex structures such as miniature molecular machines within the cell which Darwin could hardly begin to imagine. Using the eye as an example, he coined the phrase, “organs of extreme perfection and complication” and recognized his theory’s inability to explain them. New discoveries only exacerbate these shortcomings.
And despite frequent references to “organic chemicals” present on the formative earth, neither Darwin nor modern scientists can demonstrate how to get from these compounds to just a single-cell living organism, or even a virus -- let alone the complex life forms. The search for that initial “spark” of life, or an explanation of why it is no longer in evidence, has been forever elusive.
Ironically, the scientific community, which anxiously tries to find evidence of other intelligent life in the universe, blatantly turns its back on the one intelligence we have the most indication of: a creator; a master chemist for whom the DNA code -- a puzzle which even our terrestrial species is just starting to grasp -- is a simple blueprint.
Even though ID relies not at all on the Bible, it does leave open the conclusion that the designer is the biblical God and this implication of God is what the Darwinists seem to fear.
So there may yet be hope for these folks since the Psalmist says, “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.” Let’s hope they eventually wise up.
ROFLMAO...vision of a little Shi-tzu going 'yipe-yipe-yipe-yipe-yipe!'
I couldn't resist that one. Nice to see that your sense of humor is back.
Judging by your posts you are far from "in charge"
Shut your yap.
You said that already, yawn
Jesus said so.
So who is this Jesus?
Well said
so, in effect, you believe IDeists can get away with calling both complex order and catastrophic disarray (antipodal opposites) equally evidence of intelligent design?
I'm hoping you will wait for that one to sink in a bit before attempting further reply.
Darwin wrote that his objective was to overturn the authority of the Bible. "Darwinism" is Satan's tool to suppress Christianity and overthrow Christian faith.
There has never, ever, before been a theory so far from being proven, missing so many important pieces, (fossils), and so controversial amongst scientists themselves, that has been so forcefully fed down peoples' throats, as evolution has. They think of it as a religion itself, with a complete set of doctrines, all of it anti-Christian and anti-Scripture. It is so obvious that these people are straight from Hell, or Satan's dupes.
I know I possess mere human knowledge.
that is what distinguishes me from you, in a nutshell: we both possess only mere human knowledge, but unlike you I am fully aware of that fact.
You're right somewhat. I was referring to things outside of this. I disagree with Lib on some things, but I don't hold it against him. He has a good and genuine sense of humor that I've seen in other places.
And yes, I don't like it when people do the put downs. But I put myself down enough so I usually don't take things too seriously (I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU), though a couple of times here, people really misinterpreted what I put.
I know what I believe and my concern is getting to "enter in his rest, " not where I necessarily came from. The truth is that NO ONE KNOWS EVERYTHING. I'm comfortable with that and know that someday God will tell the answer. For now, I try to live my life so that I can go to Heaven. I have too many of my own faults than to be preoccupied with others'. I'm continually thankful for even the little things that God has made possible for us and thankful for the many wonderful blesssings he gives me.
Maybe that's why Zebra's have stripes too
I think the Lord designed some things just to delight and keep us guessing
:>)
You do understand that the glow-in-the-dark pig (among a host of other things) proves that ID is a scientific concept?
The guy that designed the pig is the great ID'er that we've been seeking? Its more likely that the natives will worship the glow-in-the-dark pig.
bad guess. read more good books. Kipling. a little collection called Stalky & Co. therein you will meet Housemasters Prout and King.
but it is always amusing to have folks mine my profile page for quotes to hurl.
Never lost it. I simply quote the Book and ask it be obeyed, and I'm demeaning the faith in some folks' eyes. Too bad some women simply refuse to acknowledge that God wants them to keep out of their superiors' bidness when it comes to discussing Him. I guess some prefer to bend the Bible to their own purposes than to follow the Scripture as written.
Eccles. 42:13-14
"For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness. Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach."
him to someone---that is what distinguishes me from you, in a nutshell: we both possess only mere human knowledge, but unlike you I am fully aware of that fact.
I can have knowledge? What's that?:)
Hey, you two want to keep denying the plain language of the Bible, your sin, not mine. All too typical from your sex, I might add.
Eccles. 42:13-14
"For from garments cometh a moth, and from women wickedness. Better is the churlishness of a man than a courteous woman, a woman, I say, which bringeth shame and reproach."
Oh please get off your high horse
You must not have been paying attention or you would never make such an incorrect statement
Geez
it is stuff you use to hold back the wolf named "Why?" when you come to know that the only things you know *without doubt* are that you observe and you think.
I've read everything you have posted thus far on this thread - a lot of posturing, as a messenger bearing IMMORTAL knowledge in the form of quips from what some believe is a holy book.
so, like I said: I *know* all I have is mere human knowledge...
I guess you can believe that. I believe that we are one in purpose (men and women), but then again, I'm not equal to anyone. That's always why they put the ">" sign before my name:).
I know your sense of humor from some of your "pun" posts. You make me look like Sherman next to Peabody.
Who said it was catastrphic disarray? That would be your own opinion.
Oh please get off your high horse
Okay. AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! THUMP! Oops, wrong side.
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