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The Dini-gration of Darwinism
AgapePress ^ | April 29, 2003 | Mike S. Adams

Posted on 04/29/2003 10:43:39 AM PDT by Remedy

Texas Tech University biology professor Michael Dini recently came under fire for refusing to write letters of recommendation for students unable to "truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer" to the following question: "How do you think the human species originated?"

For asking this question, Professor Dini was accused of engaging in overt religious discrimination. As a result, a legal complaint was filed against Dini by the Liberty Legal Institute. Supporters of the complaint feared that consequences of the widespread adoption of Dini’s requirement would include a virtual ban of Christians from the practice of medicine and other related fields.

In an effort to defend his criteria for recommendation, Dini claimed that medicine was first rooted in the practice of magic. Dini said that religion then became the basis of medicine until it was replaced by science. After positing biology as the science most important to the study of medicine, he also posited evolution as the "central, unifying principle of biology" which includes both micro- and macro-evolution, which applies to all species.

In addition to claiming that someone who rejects the most important theory in biology cannot properly practice medicine, Dini suggested that physicians who ignore or neglect Darwinism are prone to making bad clinical decisions. He cautioned that a physician who ignores data concerning the scientific origins of the species cannot expect to remain a physician for long. He then rhetorically asked the following question: "If modern medicine is based on the method of science, then how can someone who denies the theory of evolution -- the very pinnacle of modern biological science -- ask to be recommended into a scientific profession by a professional scientist?"

In an apparent preemptive strike against those who would expose the weaknesses of macro-evolution, Dini claimed that "one can validly refer to the ‘fact’ of human evolution, even if all of the details are not yet known." Finally, he cautioned that a good scientist "would never throw out data that do not conform to their expectations or beliefs."

The legal aspect of this controversy ended this week with Dini finally deciding to change his recommendation requirements. But that does not mean it is time for Christians to declare victory and move on. In fact, Christians should be demanding that Dini’s question be asked more often in the court of public opinion. If it is, the scientific community will eventually be indicted for its persistent failure to address this very question in scientific terms.

Christians reading this article are already familiar with the creation stories found in the initial chapters of Genesis and the Gospel of John. But the story proffered by evolutionists to explain the origin of the species receives too little attention and scrutiny. In his two most recent books on evolution, Phillip Johnson gives an account of evolutionists’ story of the origin of the human species which is similar to the one below:

In the beginning there was the unholy trinity of the particles, the unthinking and unfeeling laws of physics, and chance. Together they accidentally made the amino acids which later began to live and to breathe. Then the living, breathing entities began to imagine. And they imagined God. But then they discovered science and then science produced Darwin. Later Darwin discovered evolution and the scientists discarded God.

Darwinists, who proclaim themselves to be scientists, are certainly entitled to hold this view of the origin of the species. But that doesn’t mean that their view is, therefore, scientific. They must be held to scientific standards requiring proof as long as they insist on asking students to recite these verses as a rite of passage into their "scientific" discipline.

It, therefore, follows that the appropriate way to handle professors like Michael Dini is not to sue them but, instead, to demand that they provide specific proof of their assertion that the origin of all species can be traced to primordial soup. In other words, we should pose Dr. Dini’s question to all evolutionists. And we should do so in an open public forum whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Recently, I asked Dr. Dini for that proof. He didn’t respond.

Dini’s silence as well as the silence of other evolutionists speaks volumes about the current status of the discipline of biology. It is worth asking ourselves whether the study of biology has been hampered by the widespread and uncritical acceptance of Darwinian principles. To some observers, its study has largely become a hollow exercise whereby atheists teach other atheists to blindly follow Darwin without asking any difficult questions.

At least that seems to be the way things have evolved.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: creatins; creation; crevo; crevolist; darwin; evoloonists; evolunacy; evolution
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To: PatrickHenry
Darwin Central Weekly Message placemarker ook-ook!
1,901 posted on 05/22/2003 7:29:05 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: Dark Knight
Ichneumon, bar none that I have seen so far, although Dimensio comes in a close 2nd and Right wing Professor comes in close third.

But I think Ichneumon is by far the most proven knowledgeable, considering his lengthy and very specific and fact filled posts.

No offense to the rest of you guys, I think that you know a lot too, but if I were to pick one, he would be it.
1,902 posted on 05/22/2003 7:30:13 PM PDT by Aric2000 (Are you on Grampa Dave's team? I am!! $5 a month is all it takes, come join!!!)
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To: js1138
This is a bit tough. Hospice is not a nice environment. Watching my GM die was not a pleasant experience There was no comfort in it.

I really believe that we have a bunch of clues here, right now that are greatly important in quality of life decisions. We don't use them. We can use Growth hormone and hormone balancing to help those that don't have the genes to do 100 plus naturally.

We don't and it is expensive.

A set of coupled equations.

DK

1,903 posted on 05/22/2003 7:30:39 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Dark Knight
WHICH VERTEBRATES MAKE VITAMIN C?

Hope this helps...

1,904 posted on 05/22/2003 7:34:35 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: ALS
Hmm, maybe ignorance is NOT bliss, because ALS sure is angry all the time.

Is there a particular reason why you are so pissed off, or is that pissed on?

So besides being clueless, ignorant(with an IQ of 167), and a total buffoon, are there any traits that you actually share with the human race?

Maybe this is my pet parrot, probably pissed because I clipped his flight feathers.
1,905 posted on 05/22/2003 7:34:41 PM PDT by Aric2000 (Are you on Grampa Dave's team? I am!! $5 a month is all it takes, come join!!!)
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To: Heartlander
I'm not particularly interested in the Platonic level or in prolonging this life indefinitely. But either we submit to the will of Allah on everything, or we use our minds to improve our live and minimise suffering.
1,906 posted on 05/22/2003 7:35:03 PM PDT by js1138
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To: Aric2000
relax
1,907 posted on 05/22/2003 7:35:11 PM PDT by ALS (ConservaBabes.com - Home of ConservaBotâ„¢)
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To: js1138
But either we submit to the will of Allah on everything, or we use our minds to improve our live and minimise suffering.

These are the only choices?

1,908 posted on 05/22/2003 7:44:48 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
Now I am surely more confused than when I started out.

That is the burden of science, I guess.

DK
1,909 posted on 05/22/2003 7:45:01 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Dark Knight
I'm pretty sure that if we had the science to make people live comfortably to 90+ then rich people would do it. We don't and they don't. I come from a long line of Nonagenerians. But after 85, things get dicey.
1,910 posted on 05/22/2003 7:46:08 PM PDT by js1138
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To: js1138
I'd like to say I do too, but my ancestors keep getting hit by cars in their 80's. How those 80's cars continue to do it...

We have a bunch of stuff about genetic replication and telomeres, that are the stuff of longevity. We are at the beginnings of why there is genetic degradation. That is a start of the next question. How do we stop unecessary aging?

I think it is a worthwhile question.

DK
1,911 posted on 05/22/2003 7:58:48 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: cornelis
My reasonable guess is that the terminology of political science stems from a time before scientistic thinkers began to aspire to a monopoly. Back then science meant a knowledge of whatever, similar to what Greek suffix -logy means today.

A reasonable guess. Actually, it dates to the latter half of the 19'th century and the beginning of the 20'th century, back when the flower of Cartesian determinism was in full bloom - you know, back when Freud dreamed of reducing individual human behavior to an empirical science. And at the same general time, a regular rogue's gallery of progressive fellows with names like Henry Jones Ford and Frank Goodnow and A. Lawrence Lowell dreamed of reducing collective human political behavior to an empirical science. The fact that the predictive powers of political "science" are virtually nil has hardly slowed it's virus-like spread, even beginning to infect foreign shores these days....

1,912 posted on 05/22/2003 7:58:49 PM PDT by general_re (When you step on the brakes, you're putting your life in your foot's hands...)
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To: js1138
I'd like to say I do too, but my ancestors keep getting hit by cars in their 80's. How those 80's cars continue to do it...

We have a bunch of stuff about genetic replication and telomeres, that are the stuff of longevity. We are at the beginnings of why there is genetic degradation. That is a start of the next question. How do we stop unecessary aging?

I think it is a worthwhile question.

DK
1,913 posted on 05/22/2003 7:58:51 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Dark Knight
understand proteins better
1,914 posted on 05/22/2003 8:10:31 PM PDT by ALS (ConservaBabes.com - Home of ConservaBotâ„¢)
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To: general_re
Right, the shift is 17th c. and on, the older meaning at least from 4th c. BC where for Aristotle political science concerned commensurability more than predictability.
1,915 posted on 05/22/2003 8:22:37 PM PDT by cornelis
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To: ALS
Huh.

That was a very enlightning comment but my immediate response wanted to be FO...

Is this communication clear???


DK

1,916 posted on 05/22/2003 8:25:25 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Dark Knight
Yes, you have an anger management problem.
1,917 posted on 05/22/2003 8:28:36 PM PDT by ALS (ConservaBabes.com - Home of ConservaBotâ„¢)
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To: ALS
>>Yes, you have an anger management problem.<<

Maybe, but I have undergone numerous and extensive testing. They say no.

Your criteria to make this judgement?

Please include information on yourself, and how I can get my reputation back once you have denigrated it.

Dillitante warning. A person with little knowledge has proclaimed an ideal in an open forum. Warning, Warning.


Care to take an MMPI or MMPPI?


If you haven't for a job, then back off. No one cares if you are sane.

Dk
Sorry, Tough love is important for the hard cases.

1,918 posted on 05/22/2003 8:52:24 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: general_re; Dark Knight
Hey! Did you guys notice? You either made a transistor(PNP or NPN choose your sides) or a baloney sandwich!

general, just joking ;^)

1,919 posted on 05/22/2003 9:01:44 PM PDT by AndrewC (my foot's hand's palm fronds are fair weather)
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To: ALS
Gee, I guess no one cares.

What a shock.

DK
1,920 posted on 05/22/2003 9:11:36 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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