Posted on 06/24/2007 12:20:25 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
The effort to recast Darwin as a religious man, more religious in fact than the common run of Christians and other believers, in the runup to the bicentennial of his birth is well under way in many quarters:
"Darwin counted himself an agnostic, but in his reverence for the creative agency of nature we should count him a devoutly religious man. "There is a grandeur in this view of life," he famously wrote on the last page of The Origin of Species. The grandeur of which he spoke of has more of the divine about it than did the anthropomorphic idol who occupied the thoughts of his contemporaries."
This musing by Chet Raymo (April 22, 2007) is a typical encomium. Go here, here, and here for examples of ridiculous hagiography whose authors take it all quite seriously. For intolerance, unreasoning fanaticism, and belief in miracles, there is no religious bunny anywhere like the serious Darwinist.
But recently, my attention as attracted to Lifetime: Songs of Life & Evolution a musical by British composer David Haines, with somewhat catchy songs, sung by people "with a mission to spread the good word about evolution."...
(Excerpt) Read more at arn.org ...
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“The good word” about Darwinism?
Deosn’t Satan ever sleep?
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Deosn’t Satan ever sleep?
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Never. There are “people” on this planet that have little to do in life, so they create the insane, the absurd, the ridiculous pursuits of anything they can make trouble for. Just ask Al Gore and his “religous” following of liberal zombies...
Denyse O’Leary is great.
Yes she is! I have been a regular reader of hers for the last six months or so...and I must say, she consistently fails to disappoint :o)
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The fun thing about Darwin is his years of experimentation.
He spent years (and published hundreds of papers) on how long seeds would remain vital soaked in sea water. By matching that with the known direction of wind and current, he was able to match the extent of species to the viability of their seeds.
The alternative? A combination of Special Creation (divine intervention in the creating of each species) and Special Delivery (divine intervention in the positioning of each species).
Of course the argument from biogeography -- or rather the combination of biogeography and paleontology -- presents a double problem for strict creationist who insist on "flood geology" and the story of Noah's ark.
Not only did the plants and animals, upon being released from the ark, have to arrange themselves about the globe in patterns of distribution that mimicked the results of descent with modification over millions of years, but the also and simultaneously had to manage to return to those places where their fossils, and those of their (apparent) ancestors were buried. Quite a trick!
We have been hearing a lot lately about the scientific theory of evolution being a religion. This idea is BS, of course, and pretty much everybody knows it. But who keeps repeating this falsehood, and what is their motivation?
(Who was it who first said that if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth?)
Perhaps you should have the moderator delete your comment. I know FR isn’t what it used to be, but hopefully they still don’t allow the “F” word.
The (neo-pagan) Church of Darwin worships a mysterious force that they fervently believe both creates and pushes life towards ever greater degrees of complexity and perfection. Sorry Coyote, in my book, that's religion.
Still BS.
==Still BS.
I wonder how many times you have to repeat that to yourself every day in order to justify your membership in the Church of Darwin.
If you google the "F" word on freerepublic.com you will find hundreds of instances wher it has not been deleted.
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