Posted on 07/18/2008 1:54:34 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
No one knows how life began, but so-called theories of evolution are continually being announced. This book, The Altenberg 16: Will the Real Theory of Evolution Please Stand Up? exposes the rivalry in science today surrounding attempts to discover that elusive mechanism of evolution, as rethinking evolution is pushed to the political front burner in hopes that "survival of the fittest" ideology can be replaced with a more humane explanation for our existence and stave off further wars, economic crises and destruction of the Earth.
Evolutionary science is as much about the posturing, salesmanship, stonewalling and bullying that goes on as it is about actual scientific theory. It is a social discourse involving hypotheses of staggering complexity with scientists, recipients of the biggest grants of any intellectuals, assuming the power of politicians while engaged in Animal House pie-throwing and name-calling: "ham-fisted", "looney Marxist hangover", "secular creationist", "philosopher" (a scientist who can’t get grants anymore), "quack", "crackpot". . .
Perhaps the most egregious display of commercial dishonesty is next year’s celebration of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species – the so-called theory of evolution by natural selection, i.e., survival of the fittest, that was foisted on us almost 150 years ago.
Some of the Altenberg 16 or A-16, as I like to call them, have hinted that they’re trying to steer science in a more honest direction, that is, by addressing non-centrality of the gene. They say that the "Modern Evolutionary Synthesis", also called neo-Darwinism – which cobbled together the budding field of population genetics and paleontology, etc., 70 years ago – also marginalized the inquiry into morphology. And that it is then – in the 1930s and 1940s – that the seeds of corruption were planted and an Evolution industry born.
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Does that make it false? Polling is truth?
Fascinating to me how godless liberals think they’re somehow conservative.
I was telling my brother today that this world boils down to the ideology of liberalism vs. that of conservatism can be literally traced to a hatred of God vs. a Love for Him, respectively.
If you don't like living under the US Constitution, there are alternatives.
However, because people recognize God in all walks of life be it education, law, or even having IGWT on our coins doesn’t mean we’re somehow doomed to a “theorcracy”. In other words, if a president places his hand on the Bible when he’s sworn in...we’re all not doomed!
Which if Obama gets elected will SURELY make alot of godless libs squirm!
We’re FAR closer to a socialist state dictating that people can not have any shred of Christianity in public places and is to be kept behind closed doors on Sundays than we are to have proselytization patrols in the hallways of schools!
Simply no contest!
I was telling my brother today that this world boils down to the ideology of liberalism vs. that of conservatism can be literally traced to a hatred of God vs. a Love for Him, respectively.
Preach it, brother!
Unfortunately FR is infested with "rationalist" Ayn Rand types who think the argument is about taxes ("rationalists" seem to think money is the purpose of life).
Our struggle is with non-Theistically based morality. All non-Theistically-based morality, whether left or right, cruel or gentle, is basically the same thing. It denies the right of the Creator to make laws (because they are "tyrannical") while defending the right of human beings to make laws based on a "mutual agreement" to act as if a meaningless universe had meaning. I notice no one ever seems to object to laws made by "rational" human beings as being arbitrary or tyrannical. Apparently only G-d A-mighty doesn't have the right to tell people how to behave.
These people are hypocrites, pure and simple.
If you don’t like the idea of living in a self governing nation, nobody is making you stay here.
Same thing, really. Both theocracy and socialism are governments based on compelled morality. Both are flawed by mankind's imperfect understanding. Both would end up most likely run, not by believers, but by hypocrites who can mouth the right words, while not believing them in their hearts. Both are equally odious.
G-d A-mighty has the right. You don't. When you call for a theocracy, you are usurping God's place.
And you are a theocrat, pure and simple.
What if some of us don't choose to live under your interpretation of a deity and the resultant laws? What happens to us blasphemers?
Speaking of "crimes:"
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing -- with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973
Not true: The invisible pink unicorn hasn't this right, neither...
Seriously CoyoteGuy,
Quoting Heinlein from any of his books adds no intellectual gravitas at all.
He wrote some engaging novels, but when you got thru to the end of them, you saw it as entertaining junk. I read a lot of his work, ‘Friday’ was my most liked out of him.
My all time most liked SciFi novels were ‘Childhoods End’ and ‘Rendezvous with Rama’
wholly agreed, but socialism is far far more likely and more imminently dangerous. In fact, it’s already firmly ensconced in liberal enclaves like NYC, (NO Christmas trees allowed in public schools) and SF, (NO ROTC near public schools), etc. etc. etc.
And alot of other places are ripe for a fall if they haven’t fallen already: Montgomery County Maryland...D.C.
Boston...
How ironic, I’m reading ‘Atlas Shrugged’ for the very first time! I picked it up at an antique store, paper back.
Another wonderful quote: If you don’t believe in God you’re gullible enough to believe in anything. Rush spoke about it today.
Of course to believe in a God that justifies beheading or murdering people because they don’t marry the person the family chose, amongst many other examples...isn’t exactly the loving God I’m envisioning...as you well know!
Liberals see cops and criminals the exact same, they both carry guns, so naturally the answer is to ban all guns!
Just as they see U.S. troops just like the nazis (and Japanese) they defeated, so, to them, the Rosie O’Donnell types, Christians are no different at all from militant Islamists. and so on.
Kooky!
I wasn’t there, and neither were the evos,
but I know Someone who was.
Yeah, we’ve seen how all the social indicators have gone since pulling “theocratic” teaching out of schools...
yep, nothing but good times since then, we’re well on the way to Utopia, once we get the last vestiges of Christianity purged from our society, we’ll have achieved perfection.
/sarc needed?
Keep in mind that the evolution industry receives tax dollars.
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