The Dini-gration of Darwinism

AgapePress ^ | April 29, 2003 | Mike S. Adams

[Remedy]

Texas Tech University biology professor Michael Dini recently came under fire for refusing to write letters of recommendation for students unable to "truthfully and forthrightly affirm a scientific answer" to the following question: "How do you think the human species originated?"

For asking this question, Professor Dini was accused of engaging in overt religious discrimination. As a result, a legal complaint was filed against Dini by the Liberty Legal Institute. Supporters of the complaint feared that consequences of the widespread adoption of Dini’s requirement would include a virtual ban of Christians from the practice of medicine and other related fields.

In an effort to defend his criteria for recommendation, Dini claimed that medicine was first rooted in the practice of magic. Dini said that religion then became the basis of medicine until it was replaced by science. After positing biology as the science most important to the study of medicine, he also posited evolution as the "central, unifying principle of biology" which includes both micro- and macro-evolution, which applies to all species.

In addition to claiming that someone who rejects the most important theory in biology cannot properly practice medicine, Dini suggested that physicians who ignore or neglect Darwinism are prone to making bad clinical decisions. He cautioned that a physician who ignores data concerning the scientific origins of the species cannot expect to remain a physician for long. He then rhetorically asked the following question: "If modern medicine is based on the method of science, then how can someone who denies the theory of evolution -- the very pinnacle of modern biological science -- ask to be recommended into a scientific profession by a professional scientist?"

In an apparent preemptive strike against those who would expose the weaknesses of macro-evolution, Dini claimed that "one can validly refer to the ‘fact’ of human evolution, even if all of the details are not yet known." Finally, he cautioned that a good scientist "would never throw out data that do not conform to their expectations or beliefs."

The legal aspect of this controversy ended this week with Dini finally deciding to change his recommendation requirements. But that does not mean it is time for Christians to declare victory and move on. In fact, Christians should be demanding that Dini’s question be asked more often in the court of public opinion. If it is, the scientific community will eventually be indicted for its persistent failure to address this very question in scientific terms.

Christians reading this article are already familiar with the creation stories found in the initial chapters of Genesis and the Gospel of John. But the story proffered by evolutionists to explain the origin of the species receives too little attention and scrutiny. In his two most recent books on evolution, Phillip Johnson gives an account of evolutionists’ story of the origin of the human species which is similar to the one below:

In the beginning there was the unholy trinity of the particles, the unthinking and unfeeling laws of physics, and chance. Together they accidentally made the amino acids which later began to live and to breathe. Then the living, breathing entities began to imagine. And they imagined God. But then they discovered science and then science produced Darwin. Later Darwin discovered evolution and the scientists discarded God.

Darwinists, who proclaim themselves to be scientists, are certainly entitled to hold this view of the origin of the species. But that doesn’t mean that their view is, therefore, scientific. They must be held to scientific standards requiring proof as long as they insist on asking students to recite these verses as a rite of passage into their "scientific" discipline.

It, therefore, follows that the appropriate way to handle professors like Michael Dini is not to sue them but, instead, to demand that they provide specific proof of their assertion that the origin of all species can be traced to primordial soup. In other words, we should pose Dr. Dini’s question to all evolutionists. And we should do so in an open public forum whenever the opportunity presents itself.

Recently, I asked Dr. Dini for that proof. He didn’t respond.

Dini’s silence as well as the silence of other evolutionists speaks volumes about the current status of the discipline of biology. It is worth asking ourselves whether the study of biology has been hampered by the widespread and uncritical acceptance of Darwinian principles. To some observers, its study has largely become a hollow exercise whereby atheists teach other atheists to blindly follow Darwin without asking any difficult questions.

At least that seems to be the way things have evolved.

[ALS]

A picture is worth a thousand million words years.

[Aric2000]

Nope, only your pictures.

I can cut and paste from a cd all day long, it takes real talent to take a picture and actually make it funny.

I must have that blind dude on 4 of my CD's around here somewhere, but I have never seen the picture that you have.

You may be wrong, but you are original.

[ALS]

Instead, you cut n paste from heathen chimp-hugger sites.

It's 6pm, do you know where your Uncle Bonzo is?

[f.Christian]

Bad uncle bozo ... a2 is sock puppet ?

[ALS]

[Aric2000]

Heathen, gotta love it, and you claim that you are not a creationist.

Not nice to lie.....

[ALS]

You said "heathen".
ipso facto you're a fundy.

[Aric2000]

Well, you sure seem to have that creationist lingo down pat, hmm, OK, if you say so, but the evidence is pointing more and more to the conclusion that you are exactly what you claim you are not.

[ALS]

Do you believe in God?

[Aric2000]

Which god, and why do you think that it is important?

[ALS]

It seems to be important to you if I do, but it's not important to me if you do.

typical

which god?

[PatrickHenry]

I was away for a few hundred posts. Placemarker.

[ALS]

During that time 2,364,159 new species were formed in the minds of an infinite number of chimps pounding an infinite number of sticks on an infinite number of rocks......

[Dimensio]

I think that most of the regulars have trotted off. Dataman seems to be trying to think up some more biting insults or searching for more pictures to put into his postings rather than actually address questions put to him.

[balrog666]

I was away for a few hundred posts. Placemarker.

You haven't missed anything. Placemarker.

[balrog666]

Dataman seems to be trying to think up some more biting insults or searching for more pictures to put into his postings rather than actually address questions put to him.

That *IS* his usual style.

[f.Christian]

ghost chimps -- science !

[Dimensio]

Then again, maybe he's watching the series finalé of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that's on right now.

[Dark Knight]

>>Do you believe in God?<<

Isn't the more important question: Does God believe in us?

If you don't believe and God exists, God does not cease to exist. If you don't believe and God does not exist, the question has no meaning.

If you believe and God exists we live. If you believe and God does not exist, does the question still have no meaning?

Ask your physician, I'm sure he will fill in the right answer! I would not want a doctor that could not answer such a simple question.

DK

[ALS]

It does to Aric. And here we sit yawning, waiting for him to say which one(s).