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.
Amen brother, we "see through a mirror dimly"
But then I don't have to because I put my trust in Him
G'night
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.
Guess I cry "wolf" a lot then:).
Damn LibInExile, a little rough there.. How about Galatians 3:26-28 (in Christ there is no distinction between male and female)..ie, as there is no difference in male and female, we're all as wicked as you find scripters saying women are.. But, I have a feeling you're just pushing buttons for fun.
I meant that in terms of creation.
I put my trust in him too and work my tail off to keep his.
But, I have a feeling you're just pushing buttons for fun.
I agree:).
"put bluntly: everywhere you look among the living and the dead, there they are."
'Blunt' ain't science. There are no transitional species, if there were, the Darwinsits would be lifting them up high and trumpeting to the world that they've discovered the "Holy Grail of Evolution". When it's a myth , and you know it's a myth, only one reason remains for propagating the lie.... it's an anti-Christian, anti-religion movement fueled mainly by the liberals, atheists, socialists and communists of the world.
Darwinism is dead, it cannot and will not ever be proven. All that supports this ridiculous 'science' is one lie after another after another. But I have no illusions, when Darwinism finally falls on it's slithering face and its head is crushed by the Truth, it will be replaced by another insideous assault on Christianity, some other lie which will also meet with its doom.
Now I *know*
G'night
I do declare:
What is my underwear showing?
According to Exodus 34:14 the name is Jealous ( /Bibilical Literalist)
Oh, no, they are witchy women for going against the plain language of the Book. And we know what the Bible says should happen to that kind of woman.
Exodus 22:18
"Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
-I thought that it was too complex just to be designed by anyone other than God.
The guy who ID the glowing pigs is God? Thanks
"Oops, wrong side."
Yer not sa'sposed to get off the BACK.
Yer not sa'sposed to get off the BACK.
NOW you tell me.
pfft.
EVERY SPECIES IS TRANSITIONAL.
simple gel electrophoresis analysis, let alone a full individual genetic decryption, validates my statement.
add in known rates of random mutation, even without shifiting environmental pressures, and speciation on the strictly genetic level is inevitable.
shifting environmental pressures of the past are well recorded. though we cannot precisely predict which way the environmental pressures will shift, we can quite confidently predict that they WILL shift, and that they will, as in the past, contribute to acceleration of speciation through adaptive selection (and maladaptive deselection).
what remains of your post is mere Luddite garbage, the usual slanders and exaggeration, hatred, fear, ostrich-like denial, and jealousy. I've no reply for such.
well... it seems you *think* you know. If that lets you sleep, no skin off my nose. 'nite.
Uh-oh, another somebunny who wants to get into an argument.
I need one of those glowing pigs. My outside light keeps burning out. Then again, maybe I could turn them off.
If that lets you sleep, no skin off my nose.
Will you chew your fingernails instead??:)
the fact that no one knows everything - indeed, that the sum of all human knowledge is miniscule in comparison to human ignorance - is a source of delight to me: there is so much left to learn.
that's what science is about, at root.
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