Darwinist Ideologues Are on the Run

Human Events Online ^ | Jan 31, 2006 | Allan H. Ryskind

[Sweetjustusnow]

The two scariest words in the English language? Intelligent Design! That phrase tends to produce a nasty rash and night sweats among our elitist class.

Should some impressionable teenager ever hear those words from a public school teacher, we are led to believe, that student may embrace a secular heresy: that some intelligent force or energy, maybe even a god, rather than Darwinian blind chance, has been responsible for the gazillions of magnificently designed life forms that populate our privileged planet.

[metmom]

Of course,people like John Paul II, and Mother Theresa, and Billy Graham.

If you want to try to claim those people are frauds, go right ahead, but few would agree with you.

Try reading the post to which that statement was addressed. Your comment has no connection to that.

[Creationist]

Evolution is a myth no physical evidence not one fossil bone can be linked in any physical way. No proof that it gave birth to anything let alone anything different than itself.

If you are done don't post.

[Mamzelle]

re: Want to fix failing kidneys due to diabetes? Pray to God or pay me. I've done it, God hasn't.)))

Holy mackerel--

[edsheppa]

Hubris? Am I the one who claimed a "wider" view? You may want to attend to that beam in your own eye.

[Virginia-American]

Where did people get the idea that high school classes were all about presenting a "dialogue" between "opposing viewpoints",

I'm not sure, but my list of suspects includes leftist economists adn political theorists.

[Stultis]

Are you suggesing that modern science/medicine knows all there will ever be known about the appendix?

Uh, No. (Duh!)

We do know, however, that the human appendix doesn't hold and decompose pounds and pounds of course and difficult to digest vegetable matter. That much is wildly obvious just from the fact that it's far too small. Whatever secondary functions it may retain, or whatever new functions it may have acquired, it is undeniably "vestigial" with respect to the primary function it "used" to have (does have in most other animals -- i.e. the "normal" function of appendixes qua appendixes) of digesting mass quantities of food stuffs that would go undigested if not held for an additional period of time in the digestive tract.

[AndrewC]

You were absolutely correct in post 397.

[Stultis]

When an evolutionist testified in the famous 1925 Tennessee Scopes Trial that are "no less than 180 vestigal structures" in the human body, was he correct?

It's probably an underestimate if you include every possible case. But it's meaningless in itself to simply say that a structure is "vestigial [full stop]". It can only be vestigial with respect to some phylogenetically former state AND with respect to some specific function. Since most structures have multiple functions, a particular structure or organ might well be vestigial with respect to some function(s) and at the same time advanced with respect to others.

[Virginia-American]

We don't want to see any propaganda papers; we want evidence and that is non-existant,...

You might not like the evidence, but there is some

Primate ERV chart Source

There are thousands of primate ERVs. Every one of them follows the same rules for which species it is found in.

"Proof" like the proof of Pythagoras' Theorem? NO.

"Proof" beyond a reasonable doubt? People have been sentenced to death, rightfully, on much less evidence.

[shuckmaster]

I'm sure you're aware that the term "spam" involves heavy or excessive posting of articles or links not composed on your own, but rather as part of an effort to overwhelm or inundate the opposition,

Seeing as how creationists constantly lie about everything else, it's no surprise to see you lie about the definition of spam.

[metmom]

-- male/female genders do *not* have to arise at the same time.

But it would be pretty useless if they did not arise at the same time. They would have died out in one generation so the mutation would have been lost.

[shuckmaster]

Behe may be emotional about the subject, but he does not paint his opponents as idiots.

That's because with Behe, it's the idiots who are buying his charlatan book.

[metmom]

"Which Creationist, anywhere or at any time has ever exposed fraudulent science?
The answer is simple - none, because no Creationist knows enough about science to spot a fraud.

So in one simple staement you manage to insult every creationist on the planet. Good move. Now with what can you back up your statements? I presume you have staistics and citations?

[metmom]

staistics=statistics

[shuckmaster]

To the folks on editor-surveyor's ping list -- do you approve of his grossly lying and slandering in order to try to further creationism? Yes or no?

From what I've constantly seen here, lying is matter of fact action synonymous with advocating creationism in the first place so, it would therefor be foolish for you to expect an honest answer to your question from anyone on a lying creationist' ping list.

[AmericaUnited]

The answer is simple - none, because no Creationist knows enough about science to spot a fraud.

What a moron! Do you usually speak with such stunning ignorance? Some of the greatest scientists of all time were Creationists.

[editor-surveyor]

That is not evidence, it is totally subjective opinon based on extrapolation from conjecture.

[GLDNGUN]

Are you suggesing that modern science/medicine knows all there will ever be known about the appendix?

Uh, No. (Duh!)

My thoughts exactly, so when someone says "the appendix is useless!" (which isn't even true according to the latest information) I see that as a result of temporary ignorance, rather than truth.

I recall when I was young, doctors would yank your tonsils out if got a cough.

Why was that?

Now, I can't recall the last time I heard of someone having their tonsils removed.

Why is that?

[whattajoke]

Some of the greatest scientists of all time were Creationists.

Oh please oh please oh please give us a list of great scientists who plied their trade before Darwin. I do so love those lists!

[whattajoke]

Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise

What the heck does this even mean?