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.
Evolution is the atheist philosophy. Darwin, Gould, Eldredge, Dawkins, Huxley, Haeckel, etc., etc. were all atheist evolutionists. Evolution specifically denies the Bible as we see abundantly in this thread also. Evolution is materialism and the basis of Communist 'scientific materialism'. It is a direct attack not just on fundamentalists, but on all Christians. Atheists have forever been cowards who refuse to admit their true beliefs in order to subvert the faith of good Christians.
You keep ranting and you cannot give a single example of an article which is fair, scientific and correct. Have you read that garbage? You keep sending people to the Library of Congress but never give any solid evidence for your position, just links and a ton of rhetoric. Put up an article here for discussion - you choose it and we will show what garbage it is.
Of course not, because no theory in science can be proven.
But wait, you evolutionists have been calling everyone who disagrees with the theory idiots, uneducated, dolts, unscientific, and many other foul names for disagreeing and now you tell me that you have been making these statements and there is no proof for the theory????????????????
Seems to me that if a theory is unproven it is not stupid to disagree with it, don't ya think?
Funny how once I ask for proof the evolutionists go into the 'science cannot prove anything' mode. Here we have people who claim that science is the be all and end all of knowledge and when asked for proof of their theory they all of a sudden say that science cannot give proof of anything! Don't you see the total hypocrisy of your position? Don't you see that you are proving yourself and your friends liars and slimers by making such a statement?
WOW!
Too late. I see blue now!
Careful; he's on a roll. I fully expect he'll tell us all about the "wildly elliptical" planetary orbits again, or how "a circle isn't an ellipse", or that 1720 is a really, really, really, really big number........
Whoa! Must have missed that one!
And where have the evolutuionists on this thread given evidence to support their position?????
Where have they refuted WITH FACTS the evidence provided by their opponents?
All that the evolutionists have done is attack Christianity, demonize their self-made strawman 'creationism' and call opponents fools and ignorant. However, no evidence in support of evolution has been given.
In addition, even though this thread is about Dini's discrimination against Christians no evidence has been given by him, or by evolutionists here to show that a Christian cannot be a scientist. In Post# 358 I give evidence that Christian can indeed be good scientists. I also made a challenge to evolutionists (and that means you) to show how evolution has benefitted humanity as much as the work of a single Christian - Pasteur. I do not see any attempt to refute my statement with facts. In fact, as I am typing this when I press the replies button it says 'no replies'. So who is it that is disregarding evidence and insulting people and not providing facts to support their position?
So what is it like to spend your life insulting people Patrick? Don't you have anything worthwhile to say?
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