Posted on 09/27/2006 9:56:09 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Why Darwinism is doomed
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Posted: September 27, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Jonathan Wells, Ph.D.
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© 2006
Harvard evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote in 1977: "Biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God." Darwinism teaches that we are accidental byproducts of purposeless natural processes that had no need for God, and this anti-religious dogma enjoys a taxpayer-funded monopoly in America's public schools and universities. Teachers who dare to question it openly have in many cases lost their jobs.
The issue here is not "evolution" – a broad term that can mean simply change within existing species (which no one doubts). The issue is Darwinism – which claims that all living things are descended from a common ancestor, modified by natural selection acting on random genetic mutations.
According to Darwinists, there is such overwhelming evidence for their view that it should be considered a fact. Yet to the Darwinists' dismay, at least three-quarters of the American people – citizens of the most scientifically advanced country in history – reject it.
A study published Aug. 11 in the pro-Darwin magazine Science attributes this primarily to biblical fundamentalism, even though polls have consistently shown that half of the Americans who reject Darwinism are not biblical fundamentalists. Could it be that the American people are skeptical of Darwinism because they're smarter than Darwinists think?
On Aug. 17, the pro-Darwin magazine Nature reported that scientists had just found the "brain evolution gene." There is circumstantial evidence that this gene may be involved in brain development in embryos, and it is surprisingly different in humans and chimpanzees. According to Nature, the gene may thus harbor "the secret of what makes humans different from our nearest primate relatives."
Three things are remarkable about this report. First, it implicitly acknowledges that the evidence for Darwinism was never as overwhelming as its defenders claim. It has been almost 30 years since Gould wrote that biology accounts for human nature, yet Darwinists are just now turning up a gene that may have been involved in brain evolution.
Second, embryologists know that a single gene cannot account for the origin of the human brain. Genes involved in embryo development typically have multiple effects, and complex organs such as the brain are influenced by many genes. The simple-mindedness of the "brain evolution gene" story is breathtaking.
Third, the only thing scientists demonstrated in this case was a correlation between a genetic difference and brain size. Every scientist knows, however, that correlation is not the same as causation. Among elementary school children, reading ability is correlated with shoe size, but this is because young schoolchildren with small feet have not yet learned to read – not because larger feet cause a student to read better or because reading makes the feet grow. Similarly, a genetic difference between humans and chimps cannot tell us anything about what caused differences in their brains unless we know what the gene actually does. In this case, as Nature reports, "what the gene does is a mystery."
So after 150 years, Darwinists are still looking for evidence – any evidence, no matter how skimpy – to justify their speculations. The latest hype over the "brain evolution gene" unwittingly reveals just how underwhelming the evidence for their view really is.
The truth is Darwinism is not a scientific theory, but a materialistic creation myth masquerading as science. It is first and foremost a weapon against religion – especially traditional Christianity. Evidence is brought in afterwards, as window dressing.
This is becoming increasingly obvious to the American people, who are not the ignorant backwoods religious dogmatists that Darwinists make them out to be. Darwinists insult the intelligence of American taxpayers and at the same time depend on them for support. This is an inherently unstable situation, and it cannot last.
If I were a Darwinist, I would be afraid. Very afraid.
Get Wells' widely popular "Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design"
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Jonathan Wells is the author of "The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Darwinism and Intelligent Design" (Regnery, 2006) and Icons of Evolution (Regnery, 2000). He holds a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in theology from Yale University. Wells is currently a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle
Methinks the author took the small bus to school, and got his degree via a correspondence course in Watchtower or The Plain Truth.
Only the most gullible and stubborn true believers still believe that the universe is ageless and without beginning, and that molecules had time and opportunity to bring something--life--into being from nothing through endless, aimless, pointless, undirected, chance collisions, couplings and decouplings.
That kind of belief requires infinitely more faith than the simple belief that a man rose from the dead.
Wow - was that an intellectual response or what!
It doesn't matter how many mainstream Christians and Jews working in the biological sciences say that evolution is foundational to our understanding of modern biology and is an important scientific discipline. They are all apostates and they are all wrong.
But if someone accepts so-called "intelligent design theory" then it doesn't matter how fringe their beliefs are. They can be a member of a mind-control sex cult that believes the Lord is throwing Christianity on the ash heap of history and establishing a new body of the Church with Sun Myung Moon as the new Christ, but that's just a distraction from his arguments against evoltion.
Cubic boron nitride, perhaps you may mean. Better than diamond when wearing down the iron-headed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron_nitride.
Arguably harder than diamond as well.
Only the most gullible and stubborn true believers still believe that the universe is ageless and without beginning, and that molecules had time and opportunity to bring something--life--into being from nothing through endless, aimless, pointless, undirected, chance collisions, couplings and decouplings.
That kind of belief requires infinitely more faith than the simple belief that a man rose from the dead.
Speaking of intellectually bankrupt...
The theory of evolution is about change in genomes, leading to speciation.
It is a lie to repeatedly associate that theory with the age of the universe, the creation of the universe, or the creation of life.
" Wow - was that an intellectual response or what!"
When you quote someone, make sure you get it right. Your quote of me left out the link to your original trash remark at post #68. The article is rubbish. There's nothing intellectual about it. It's simply wrong and contains many flat out lies. You're not interested, or capable of arguing this material anyway. It's beyond your ability. That's why all you've done and have been able to do on this thread is pick nits.
That seems to be the crux of the matter. Not just Darwin and TToE, but the reduction of man to a specimen of inquiry. It is all matters of the flesh, and doesn't take away from or add to the soul one iota. To be so vexed about it seems little more than vanity.
No, I was in fact referring to cubic zirconium.
I still can't cook an egg on it.
Flawless Victory!
I was kinda hoping for a *Babality* !
Cheers!
These passages are abundant and straightforward, all pointing to the same conclusion. Christianity is based on the revealed Word of God which consistently teaches throughout: God created man, and He did not use evolution to do it.
Where do you derive your belief?
I say to you, once again, WELL DONE!
Cheers!
A propos of this, DC Talk's Colored People video
Cheers!
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