Scientists: We've found creator's tracks

AV Press (California) ^ | 4-24-2008 | Titus Gee

[lainie]

An evolutionist professor from Antelope Valley College on Wednesday conceded the strong probability of intelligent design in life's earliest forms.

The announcement came at the end of a 3-hour presentation at the LPAC by scientists from Reasons to Believe, a Christian ministry that creates and tests scientific models based on the Bible.

Matthew Rainbow, a biology professor with a Ph.D. in molecular biology and biochemistry, told a crowd of several hundred that he had been persuaded to change his view of the origins of life about six months earlier, after reading books by the evening's two Reasons to Believe presenters, Hugh Ross and Fazale Rana.

Rainbow helped organize Wednesday's event in connection with a local Reasons to Believe chapter.

The professor described himself as a "flag-waving and card-carrying evolutionist and, about half the time, an atheist," but said evolutionary theory has not explained how the first living cells came into being.

"I now believe with about 60% certainty that the first living things were intelligently designed by a creator," Rainbow said.

"For 50 years, the best scientific minds on the planet have tried to show where the first cells came from and we failed miserably to demonstrate that. … If you try hard for 50 years and fail to show something, that's pretty strong evidence - the old theory of a prebiotic soup now appears to be kaput."

He referred to what many would know as the "primordial ooze," which some evolutionary theorists described as the birthplace of the earliest and simplest forms of life, leading to the evolution of all other forms.

Ross and Rana, and now Rainbow, contend that no such "soup" existed, primarily because no chemical evidence of it can be found, even in the oldest rock formations that bear evidence of early organic life.

[Captain Beyond]

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[Sun]

“New Ben Stein Flick, Expelled, Blows the Whistle on the Darwinist Inquisition

Expelled is a disturbing new documentary that will shock anyone who thinks all scientists are free to follow the evidence wherever it may lead.

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University of Idaho president Timothy White issued an edict proclaiming that it is now “inappropriate” for anyone to teach “views that differ from evolution” in any “life, earth, and physical science courses.”

The National Center for Science Education sent out a letter urging all 50 state governors to restrict teaching the controversies of Darwinian evolution.

The Ohio State Board of Education was pressured by the ACLU to repeal its Critical Analysis of Evolution lesson plan and revert to teaching only those items which support Darwinism, essentially censoring the state’s science teachers from expressing any criticism of Darwinian evolution at all.

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High school teacher Roger DeHart was driven from his public school simply because he wanted his students to learn about both sides of the scientific debate over Darwinian evolution. “

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http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/08/new_ben_stein_flick_expelled_b.html

This movie is about academic freedom/free speech.

[Fichori]

When one strikes a compromise between religion and science with the intent of making them agree, as Dr. Ross has done, the result can neither stand on religion nor science.

And yes, these types of threads can [and tend to] get vicious.