Evolution vs. Intelligent Design

World Net Daily ^ | August 5, 2005 | Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld

[wallcrawlr]

Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld is the author of eight books on education, including: "Is Public Education Necessary?" "NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education," "The Whole Language/OBE Fraud" and "Homeschooling: A Parents Guide to Teaching Children." His books are available on Amazon.com. Back issues of his incisive newsletter, The Blumenfeld Education Letter, are available online.

[BikerNYC]

Oh, sweet fancy moses, another one?

[wallcrawlr]

Darwin also believed that all life originated from a single source – a kind of primeval slime in which the first living organisms formed spontaneously out of non-living matter through a random process – by accident.

The first false idea in the theory is that non-organic matter can transform itself into organic matter. Pasteur proved that this was impossible. Second, the enormous complexity of organic matter precludes accidental creation. There had to be a designer.

Revelation 4:11
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[WildHorseCrash]

This guy got his doctorate where, exactly? Clown College?

[Tequila25]

Darwin said absolutely nothing in his theory to support or deny abiogenesis.

[Right Wing Professor]

The first false idea in the theory is that non-organic matter can transform itself into organic matter. Pasteur proved that this was impossible.

Au contraire. Wohler proved 60 years previous to that that it could. What does this guy have a doctorate in? Basketweaving?

[King Prout]

Oh, sweet fancy moses, another one?

yep.

[Izzy Dunne]

Intelligent Design is certainly proven by the fact that every living organism lives through a programmed cycle of birth, growth and, finally, death.

There, THAT settles it!

[Redgirl]

Intelligent Design is three things: a scientific research program that investigates the effects of intelligent causes; an intellectual movement that challenges Darwinism and its naturalistic legacy; and a way of understanding divine action ...

Nope, nope, and no.

[Paul Ross]

Solomon had a prescient observation in Ecclesiastes 3:11

" He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end. "

[Izzy Dunne]

Second, the enormous complexity of organic matter precludes accidental creation. There had to be a designer.

There, THAT settles it!

[highball]

But homeschoolers, although not affected by what the court forces on government schools, should know how to refute the fairy tale called the Theory of Evolution. Justice Brennan called it fact, which simply indicates the depth of his ignorance.

I'm sorry, but the ignorance is yours. Evolution does have a "factual basis," which is what Brennan said.

The reason that evolution and creation should not be treated equally in science class is that creation has no basis in science. It cannot possibly be tested by the scientific method.

Creationism is an appeal to religion, and therefore is a very appropriate subject for religion classes, philosophy classes or ethics classes. It has no scientific basis, so it has no place in a science class.

[Right Wing Professor]

This guy got his doctorate where, exactly? Clown College?

He has an 'honorary doctorate of law' from Bob Jones University.

In other words, brilliant guess! Who do you like for the superbowl?

Note to all; honorary doctorates aren't real degrees, and calling yourself 'Dr.' based on an honorary doctorate is close to fraud.

[ClearCase_guy]

Didn't take long for the ad hominems to start up. And which side started the name-calling? Why, what a surprise! It's the scientists.

[Tequila25]

Oh, I found a quote from Darwin on the subject of abiogenesis, found in one of the later editions of The Origin of Species, "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone circling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."

[DoctorMichael]

This guy got his doctorate where, exactly? Clown College?

The same place the Reverend Jackson got his Divinity Degree and Muslim Imams get theirs: In a box of Crackerjack, as the secret prize.

[mudblood]

"intermediary forms of species"

He states there being no intermediary forms of a species that you can point to. Natural Selection doesn't jump around from stage to stage, at least not intentially. All species should be considered in transition, and thus "intermediary". You won't find any three-legged horse ancestors - three-legged because they hadn't yet evolved that crutial 4th leg to make them real horses :)

Despite agreeing with the theory of natural selection, I'm also of the opinion that God could have put evolution in motion, possibly tipping things here and there with the odd comet or plague in order to realize her grand design.

[Redgirl]

The first false idea in the theory is that non-organic matter can transform itself into organic matter. Pasteur proved that this was impossible. Second, the enormous complexity of organic matter precludes accidental creation. There had to be a designer.

Darwin's TOE does not address whether or not there was a designer. It explains how matter has evolved, over time.

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks, but this article isn't up to the standards of our ping list.

[Moral Hazard]

"He hath made everything beautiful in its time"

All things dull and ugly, All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty, The Lord God made the lot;
Each little snake that poisons, Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous, All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous, The Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet, Each beastly little squid.
Who made the spiky urchin? Who made the sharks? He did.
All things scabbed and ulcerous, All pox both great and small.
Putrid, foul and gangrenous, The Lord God made them all.