Dubious theory

I read with interest The Associated Press article by Dylan T. Lovan that appeared in The News on Feb. 9. His whole point was to paint Ken Ham as a manipulator by quoting David Shultz when he said the claim by Ham that Charles Darwin was a racist was "a ploy to get evolution out of the curriculum."

If Lovan had done his research, the motives of Ham would have been a moot point. But alas, he then wouldn't have had any reason for the article. All one has to do is read Darwin's works and his racist statements are evident. For instance, in "The Descent of Man" published in 1971, Page 241, Darwin wrote, "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the Negro (sic) or Australian and the gorilla." So, according to Darwin's own words he was racist. It makes no difference if Ham used it as a ploy; it's true!

Lovan also made the statement that Ham says the theory of evolution is wrong because it contradicts the Old Testament. This is not a just critique. Ham's museum was built to show that evolution's theory not only contradicts scripture, but that it also contradicts science. It is a science museum extraordinaire.

Lovan then made a point to cast doubt on Ham's assertion that Hitler was influenced greatly by Darwinian theories. He said Eugenie Scott of the National Center for Science Education in California said Hitler rarely mentioned evolution. According to Harvard's Stephen Jay Gould in his "William Jennings Bryan's Last Campaign" article published in November 1987, Page 22, he said: "Darwin's theories came to be openly set out in political and military textbooks as the full justification for war and highly organized schemes of national policy in which the doctrine of force became the doctrine of right." The fact that Hitler tried to ram "survival of the fittest" down the world's throat is very evident to all historians who study that dark period of history. Evidently Hitler didn't have to mention evolution often; all he did was socially implant it.

I end with a quote from world-famous journalist and philosopher Malcolm Muggeridge from his Pascal Lectures at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1978. "I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it's applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has."

And I will add a Muggeridge quote to yours...

“It is precisely when every earthy hope has been explored and found wanting, when every possibility of help from earthy sources has been sought and is not forthcoming, when every recourse this world offers, moral as well as material, has been drawn on and expended with no effect, when in the shivering cold every faggot has been thrown on the fire, and in the gathering darkness every glimmer of light has finally flickered out – it is then that Christ’s hand reaches out, sure and firm, that Christ’s words bring their inexhaustible comfort, that His light shines brightest, abolishing the darkness for ever”
- Malcolm Muggeridge, from Christ And The Media

Faggot or fagot may refer to: (according to wikipedia)

Faggot (slang), a pejorative term for a homosexual or effeminate man
Faggot (food), a British meatball commonly made of pork offal
Faggot (unit of measurement), an archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks
Faggot (wood) (or fagot), bundle of sticks or branches
Faggots (novel), a novel by Larry Kramer
Faggoting (metalworking), a metalworking technique
Faggoting (knitting), a knitting term
Ashen faggot (or ashton fagot), a British Christmas tradition
Fire and Faggot Parliament, an English Parliament of 1414.

My critique of Natural Selection is not based on religion. It is my understanding the mechanism of evolution has never been discerned. Random mutations simply don't work, and most scientists are unwilling to go beyond randomness to acknowledge any design in the workings of nature.

Nature has to include a mechanism by which organisms respond to their environment and pass on needed changes to furure generations, and that cannot be explained by the birth of a random mutation that out survives all other members of the species.

In this sense even if species change, Darwinism is wrong because science will not allow for any design in a universe that rather obviously follows a design.

Here is the passage in situ together with footnotes (The Descent of Man, Chapter 6):

At the period and place, whenever and wherever it was, when man first lost his hairy covering, he probably inhabited a hot country; a circumstance favourable for the frugi-ferous diet on which, judging from analogy, he subsisted. We are far from knowing how long ago it was when man first diverged from the catarhine stock; but it may have occurred at an epoch as remote as the Eocene period; for that the higher apes had diverged from the lower apes as early as the Upper Miocene period is shewn by the existence of the Dryopithecus. We are also quite ignorant at how rapid a rate organisms, whether high or low in the scale, may be modified under favourable circumstances; we know, however, that some have retained the same form during an enormous lapse of time. From what we see going on under domestication, we learn that some of the co-descendants of the same species may be not at all, some a little, and some greatly changed, all within the same period. Thus it may have been with man, who has undergone a great amount of modification in certain characters in comparison with the higher apes. The great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species, has often been advanced as a grave objection to the belief that man is descended from some lower form; but this objection will not appear of much weight to those who, from general reasons, believe in the general principle of evolution. Breaks often occur in all parts of the series, some being wide, sharp and defined, others less so in various degrees; as between the orang and its nearest allies- between the Tarsius and the other Lemuridae- between the elephant, and in a more striking manner between the Ornithorhynchus or Echidna, and all other mammals. But these breaks depend merely on the number of related forms which have become extinct. At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked,* will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

* Anthropological Review, April, 1867, p. 236

With respect to the absence of fossil remains, serving to connect man with his ape-like progenitors, no one will lay much stress on this fact who reads Sir C. Lyell's discussion,* where he shews that in all the vertebrate classes the discovery of fossil remains has been a very slow and fortuitous process. Nor should it be forgotten that those regions which are the most likely to afford remains connecting man with some extinct ape-like creature, have not as yet been searched by geologists.

* Elements of Geology, 1865, pp. 583-585. Antiquity of Man, 1863, p. 145.

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