You're making about as much sense as your namesake(s) here...
OBTW, you are also a certifiable M***N because you keep posting the same CR*P...either that or your reading comprehension chip has burned out.....
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
"For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son (Jesus), that all who believed in Him (Jesus) should not perish but have eternal life.
Men cannot say who is or is not condemned, but men can understand who God determines by reading His Word. Men can say whether they themselves are going to Hell by choosing either to, or not to, believe in the risen Christ.
But you knew that.
Pass the barbecue sauce, please.
;-/
But it's 12:49 AM in flyoverland, and one hour later than that in the center of the world.
That picture was made BEFORE his little motorbike adventure...that's why his face is still symmetrical there....
Nice try, talk much? Devil got your tongue? Keep laughing (for as long as you can...) :-o
PTBS
;-/
...like what is in someone's heart...
...lemme give you an example: the ex-psycho I have referred to even threw stones at Ronald Reagan (when I expressed a bit TOO MUCH admiration for him, the knives came out to cut me back down - "of course you know that he's not a Christian!")
Of course I knew even then that RR did not wear his faith on his sleeve, but LIVED it....as many other people figured out after his death when the stories of his devout faith - as demonstrated in his life and private letters became more widely known...
but way back in 1994, this 'perfect Christian' woman was willing to consign RR to h*ll based on her own prejudices about him....
as I've said before - LIVE your faith...and don't try to rave on about who's going to h*ll and who's not, because...unless you have a direct link to the mind of God...YOU DON'T KNOW THEIR HEARTS AND THEREFORE YOU CANNOT MAKE SUCH STATEMENTS WITHOUT SOUNDING LIKE MY EX...
...and I'm reasonably sure that you're (probably) NOT a violent undiagnosed psychotic like her...
You're right, duh! I guess my brain's in neutral. ;)
One thing for sure, my eyes are closing!
Dude - are you just being flippant or thick?
There is a difference between your subjective definition of 'sin' and MULTIPLE FELONIES like assault and battery, perjury, theft....
if someone with that kind of track record keeps pretending that she is a 'perfect Christian', that person is CERTIFIABLE...
The reason why Darwinism is doomed is irrelevant. What's relevant is that it IS doomed.Thank God.
Like, far out, man.
;-/ (PTBS)
You got it. And she still is - and will probably do so for the rest of her life because she is psychologically incapable of admitting that she has EVER done anything wrong to another person....so if anything 'feels out-of-whack' in her life....you don't want to be the nearest one around, let me tell you....cause then it will ALL be 'your fault'....
You're making about as much sense as your namesake(s) here...
OBTW, you are also a certifiable M***N because you keep posting the same CR*P...either that or your reading comprehension chip has burned out.....
OK. Maybe I got a little too cranky in my last post. You know what my point is, so I won't repeat it again. You can keep driving people away from your faith with your mouth. I won't say another word...
For over 150 years it has been doomed, and real scientists have been trying to falsify it the entire time.
Guess, what, they have failed, so, I seriously doubt that you will succeed, where they have failed.
Thank God!! LOL
"Jaguar Bird Hazard"??????????
Actually it is Jaguar Biohazard, as in a halflife game server that I am part owner of, I use it all over the net, and when I found this forum, I decided to use it here as well.
Well, I think this claim is more often made 'by omission'...you know, if you've known someone for, say, 10 years, on a daily basis, and they have NEVER (and I mean that literally) uttered the words "I'm sorry", "I was wrong", "Please forgive me" or any combination thereof towards you or anyone else, its pretty obvious that they have an infallibility complex (also demonstrated by excessive judgementalism...)
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