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Evolution is preposterous
The Irish Independent ^ | July 7, 2007 | CIARAN FARRELL,

Posted on 07/07/2007 2:31:35 AM PDT by balch3

Mr Lundbergh is absolutely accurate in his critique of the false pseudo-scientific religion of Darwinism.

The hysterical/irrational reaction of its adherents is similar in many ways to the reaction to Pope Benedict's brilliant Regensburg lecture.

Such people do not like to have their certainties questioned.

For anyone with an open mind, neither historical evidence nor scientific experimentation lend any credibility to this "theory". It remains just that, a preposterous theory, not a matter of fact. It's very much a case of ideology masquerading as science, a crutch for closed minds, an ideology for the deluded.

There's nothing concrete or tangible about it. The contrast with the contribution of its adherents' great ideological enemy (Roman Catholicism) could not be greater. There you have tangible evidence of its reality. For example you can visit the great universities, Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna etc. You can see the Sistine Chapel. You can expand your mind by absorbing the genius of Thomas Aquinas and so on, and so on.

Bad "scientific" ideas (like all bad ideas) have bad consequences. ERIC CONWAY, NAVAN, CO MEATH * Redmond O'Hanlon writes that adherents of evolution rely on "a biased interpretation" (Letters, July 28).

This could not be futher from the truth. One of the main reasons so many books by atheist writers have appeared recently is because of the "intelligent design" concept in the USA.

Over the last few years hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in an attempt by scientists to find evidence for God's handy work in the natural world. They have even tried (unsuccessfully) to have intelligent design inserted into school science courses on the basis that both arguments deserve equall respect, even though Darwinian evolution has literally mountains of ancient evidence to back it up, and intelligent design has no evidence at all, only theory based on parts of evolution which have not been fully explained by conventional science, yet.

If people such as Mr O'Hanlon can't reconcile evolution with the existence of God, then this is as good as proof that God dosen't exist, in the same way we know the earth is not flat because we know its true shape. Proof is always positive which is why nobody can ever find evidence for the non-existence of God.


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the title says it all.
1 posted on 07/07/2007 2:31:36 AM PDT by balch3
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To: balch3

I only meant to paste the first letter. The second is Darwinist garbage.


2 posted on 07/07/2007 2:43:27 AM PDT by balch3
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I'm a firm believer in Evolution.

That it happened by God's design in God's time.

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"Oi! You over there in the puddle with the 18 eyes and 36 legs...yes you! Stand upright, breath oxygen, walk over here and paint the 'Mona Lisa'!"

OK, not quite, but something along those lines. : )

3 posted on 07/07/2007 2:48:29 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: balch3
Over the last few years hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent in an attempt by scientists to find evidence for God's handy work in the natural world. They have even tried (unsuccessfully) to have intelligent design inserted into school science courses on the basis that both arguments deserve equall respect, even though Darwinian evolution has literally mountains of ancient evidence to back it up, and intelligent design has no evidence at all, ...
Good find. Tell it brother!
4 posted on 07/07/2007 2:50:52 AM PDT by dread78645 (Evolution. A doomed theory since 1859.)
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To: balch3
Mr. Farrell is a bit.....passionate in his viewpoint.

Being Creationist is not the same as being a flat Earther.


5 posted on 07/07/2007 3:08:08 AM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: balch3

6 posted on 07/07/2007 3:16:02 AM PDT by HighWheeler (A true liberal today is a combination of socialist, fascist, hypocrite, and anti-American.)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

The problem with your second point is that the science is known to be in its infancy. We’re learning new things every day, and there are many big mysteries yet to be solved. They’ve been studying evolution for what? About 150 years yeah? I’m going to paraphrase Men In Black (yeah I know, bad movie to quote in a science thread but there’s a really good quote that explains the viewpoint). “A thousand years ago everybody KNEW the Earth was the centre of the universe. Five hundred years ago everybody KNEW the Earth was flat. Imagine what you’ll know tomorrow.”

We see evolution in (Human) behaviour, why can’t it exist in biology? The problem with the “young Earth” theory is that it doesn’t stand up to scientific inquiry either. But the difference between scientists and creationists is that scientists are always willing to entertain a new theory if it is supported by facts, creationists are not.


7 posted on 07/07/2007 3:30:21 AM PDT by AntiKev ("No damage. The world's still turning isn't it?" - Stereo Goes Stellar - Blow Me A Holloway)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

Just wanted to add “I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith - it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.” - Robert Heinlein through Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land


8 posted on 07/07/2007 3:31:37 AM PDT by AntiKev ("No damage. The world's still turning isn't it?" - Stereo Goes Stellar - Blow Me A Holloway)
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To: balch3

God created Evolution!


9 posted on 07/07/2007 3:55:01 AM PDT by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
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To: Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; Cian; col kurz; ...

Ireland ping!


10 posted on 07/07/2007 4:07:39 AM PDT by Tax-chick (John Edwards is a gamma male. "Yeah, buddy, that's his own hair!")
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To: raybbr

Exactly.


11 posted on 07/07/2007 4:21:40 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
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To: balch3

You mean you only meant to use the garbage you agree with don’t you? It’s pathetic when you have to post letters to the editor from an Irish paper to try and prove your point.


12 posted on 07/07/2007 4:37:38 AM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions----and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: balch3
the title says it all.

LOL!

13 posted on 07/07/2007 5:21:23 AM PDT by Misterioso
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Question is, how do you get people (evolutionites in this case) who are massively wrong to stop acting arrogant about it?


14 posted on 07/07/2007 5:49:57 AM PDT by rickdylan
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I sense... Irony.

C.W.


15 posted on 07/07/2007 5:52:51 AM PDT by colderwater
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To: balch3
I only meant to paste the first letter. The second is Darwinist garbage.

But also more accurate than the first.

16 posted on 07/07/2007 5:53:45 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Misterioso

Only Darwin (and a few million medical doctors and scientists) could understand Evolution.


17 posted on 07/07/2007 5:54:06 AM PDT by Does so
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To: Does so

And yet have to resort to name calling to defend the theory.


18 posted on 07/07/2007 6:02:19 AM PDT by omega4179 (El 43.o presidente de los Estados Unidos De Norteam?rica Jorge W Bush)
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To: Non-Sequitur
But also more accurate than the first.

What, you don't see how the directive to "visit the great universities, Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna etc" applies to topic of evolution? That portion of the text doesn't seem to follow the rest of the letter. There must be a Latin phrase to explain such things...if only I could think of it... ;-)

19 posted on 07/07/2007 6:03:47 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: raybbr

Yes he did! The God I know is powerful enough to do that. I have never seen anything to argue about here. Evolution was Gods plan and it is brilliant!


20 posted on 07/07/2007 6:04:49 AM PDT by Ditter
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