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You Won’t Believe What Politicians Are up to Now
| January 27, 2013 | Posted by Cornelius Hunter under Intelligent Design |
Rep. Rush Holt (NJ), with the help of the atheists at the American Humanist Association, wants Congress officially to designate February 12, 2013 as Darwin Day. And you wondered why our government is a disaster. Holt believes that “Without Charles Darwin, our modern understandings of biology, ecology, genetics, and medicine would be utterly impossible.” Read more
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Darwin Day as a celebration of science??? What a laugh!!! Darwinism has contributed nothing to science!!! Indeed Darwinism is, in reality, a pseudo-science!
In fact neo-Darwinism, and Naturalism in general, both suffer from epistemological failure:
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‘Darwinism has contributed nothing to science!!!’
Don’t you mean that, via its acolytes, it has had a desperately deleterious effect on science, BA?
Apparently this tool has never heard of Alfred Russel Wallace.
Axel:
You are right! Sorry for understating the travesty of ‘Darwinian science’! It can’t be stated strongly enough that neo-Darwinism, wherever it has touched science, or society, has had a desperately deleterious effect!
Dr. Egnor relates how actual Medical Diagnostics is done here without any recourse to Darwinian explanation:
Yet, as to the somewhat minor extent that evolutionary reasoning has influenced medical diagnostics, it has led to much outright ‘medical malpractice’ in the past:
Moreover, besides evolutionary reasoning NOT ‘producing new scientific discoveries or increasing understanding of molecular biology’, and besides the outright medical malpractice that evolutionary reasoning led to, is the fact that it can be forcefully argued that evolutionary reasoning, the more dogmatically it has been clung to, has in fact sidetracked ‘producing new discoveries and increasing understanding’. This is clearly illustrated in the junk DNA fiasco, that was just recently overturned by ENCODE last September, that evolutionary reasoning had forced onto biology. Indeed imposed onto molecular biology prior to investigation for any functionality in the non-coding regions of DNA;
And please Axel, let’s not forget the horror of the holocaust. Richard Weikart has done a excellent job in tying evolutionary reasoning directly to the ‘scientific justification’ behind the holocaust:
The unmitigated horror visited upon man, by state sponsored atheism, is simply chilling,,,
footnote: the body count for abortion is now over 55 million in America since it was legalized, by judicial fiat not by public decree, in 1973 (legislation by liberal justices from the bench!):
Charles Darwin stated this…
Further notes:
If Darwinists want to insist that all these murderous consequences of Darwinism are just a mistake from the past of the unenlightened masses, will someone please go inform Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University, of that development:
Further notes:
The following video shows that the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores for students showed a steady decline, for seventeen years from the top spot or near the top spot in the world, after the removal of prayer from the public classroom by the Supreme Court, not by public decree, in 1963. Whereas the SAT scores for private Christian schools have consistently remained at the top, or near the top, spot in the world:
You can see that dramatic difference, of the SAT scores for private Christian schools compared to public schools, at this following site;
Atheists deny prayer has any effect, this following expert begs to differ:
Here is a quote by someone who is considered the greatest scientist of all time by many
Moreover,,,
It’s pretty scary to read how widespread the appeal that eugenics exerted among the ‘bien-pensants’, before WWII, numbering among their ranks even the likes of J M Keynes. Although he was, I believe, an atheist, despite his stated respect for the benefits that our Christian culture had brought us.
When I was young and heard the Christian teaching about spiritual warfare, it all sounded a bit kind of fanciful. Those figures you cite tell a whole nother story, don’t they. We’re playing ‘for keeps’ against a terrible enemy.
Timaeus was surprised and rather aggrieved by Greg’s rancour. He should have been very pleased, as it is evident from their fury, that people like you and Tim cause immense anguish to the Covenanters of the Double Helix. I laughed an hour ago at an incandescent reference by someone to William Lane Craig!
Axel:
Here’s my fav “Spiritual Warfare” text:
Sounds familiar?
This one runs a close second — and veins are about to pop in several hate or snip and snipe sites:
I think we have been just a tad too spooky on that subject.
Number one weapon we address: deception, rooted in lies that can so blind dupes that they cannot even SEE the obvious when it is in front of them.
And yes, the numbers racked up by the officially atheistical regimes are past 100 million victims. Add in the related ones, and the numbers get beyond merely horrific.
KF
KF, Its seems to me that the whole of Scripture is predicated on voluntarism. If it had been simply on worldly intelligence, heaven would accommodate the likes of Mengele, while poor old Joe Gargery would be consigned to the infernal regions.
‘Why here’s a J and here’s an O equerval to anything, Pip, old chap!’
The passage about the Principalities and Powers is a favourite of mine, too, as they go ‘under our radar’ all the time.
‘For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.’
Ephesians 6:12
F/N: Time to call out the ER staff and ambulances. Here are snippets from the White Rose Movement statements on Hitler:
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>> No 2: It is impossible to engage in intellectual discourse with National Socialism because it is not an intellectually defensible program. It is false to speak of a National Socialist philosophy, for if there were such an entity, one would have to try by means of analysis and discussion either to prove its validity or to combat it. In actuality, however, we face a totally different situation.
At its very inception this movement depended on the deception and betrayal of one’s fellow man; even at that time it was inwardly corrupt and could support itself only by constant lies. After all, Hitler states in an early edition of “his” book (a book written in the worst German I have ever read, in spite of the fact that it has been elevated to the position of the Bible in this nation of poets and thinkers): “It is unbelievable, to what extent one must betray a people in order to rule it.” . . . .
We do not want to discuss here the question of the Jews, nor do we want in this leaflet to compose a defense or apology. No, only by way of example do we want to cite the fact that since the conquest of Poland three hundred thousand Jews have been murdered in this country in the most bestial way. [--> This was the first public expose of the holocaust] Here we see the most frightful crime against human dignity, a crime that is unparalleled in the whole of history. For Jews, too, are human beings – no matter what position we take with respect to the Jewish question – and a crime of this dimension has been perpetrated against human beings.
Someone may say that the Jews deserved their fate. This assertion would be a monstrous impertinence; but let us assume that someone said this – what position has he then taken toward the fact that the entire Polish aristocratic youth is being annihilated? (May God grant that this program has not fully achieved its aim as yet!) All male offspring of the houses of the nobility between the ages of fifteen and twenty were transported to concentration camps in Germany and sentenced to forced labor, and the girls of this age group were sent to Norway, into the bordellos of the SS!
Why tell you these things, since you are fully aware of them – or if not of these, then of other equally grave crimes committed by this frightful sub-humanity? Because here we touch on a problem which involves us deeply and forces us all to take thought. Why do the German people behave so apathetically in the face of all these abominable crimes, crimes so unworthy of the human race? Hardly anyone thinks about that. It is accepted as fact and put out of mind. The German people slumber on in their dull, stupid sleep and encourage these fascist criminals; they give them the opportunity to carry on their depredations; and of course they do so. Is this a sign that the Germans are brutalized in their simplest human feelings, that no chord within them cried out at the sight of such deeds, that they have sunk into a fatal consciencelessness from which they will never, never awake?
It seems to be so, and will certainly be so, if the German does not at least start up out of his stupor, if he does not protest wherever and whenever he can against this clique of criminals, if he shows no sympathy for these hundreds of thousands of victims. He must evidence not only sympathy; no, much more: a sense of complicity in guilt. For through his apathetic behavior he gives these evil men the opportunity to act as they do; he tolerates this “government” which has taken upon itself such an infinitely great burden of guilt; indeed, he himself is to blame for the fact that it came about at all! Each man wants to be exonerated of a guilt of this kind, each one continues on his way with the most placid, the calmest conscience. But he cannot be exonerated; he is guilty, guilty, guilty!
no 4: Every word that comes from Hitler’s mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan. His mouth is the foul-smelling maw of Hell, and his might is at bottom accursed. True, we must conduct a struggle against the National Socialist terrorist state with rational means; but whoever today still doublts the reality, the existence of demonic powers, has failed by a wide margin to understand the metaphysical background of this war. Behind the concrete, the visible events, behind all objective, logical considerations, we find the irrational element: The struggle against the demon, against the servants of the Antichrist. Everywhere and at all times demons have been lurking in the dark, waiting for the moment when man is weak; when of his own volition he leaves his place in the order of Creation as founded for him by God in freedom; when he yields to the force of evil, separates himself from the powers of a higher order; and after voluntarily taking the first step, he is driven on to the next and the next at a furiously accelerating rate. Everywhere and at all times of greatest trial men have appeared, prophets and saints who cherished their freedom, who preached the One God and who His help brought the people to a reversal of their downward course. Man is free, to be sure, but without the true God he is defenseless against the principle of evil. He is a like rudderless ship, at the mercy of the storm, an infant without his mother, a cloud dissolving into thin air.
I ask you, you as a Christian wrestling for the preservation of your greatest treasure, whether you hesitate, whether you incline toward intrigue, calculation, or procrastination in the hope that someone else will raise his arm in your defense? Has God not given you the strength, the will to fight? We must attack evil where it is strongest, and it is strongest in the power of Hitler. >>
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Remember, these young students and their professor died as Christian Martyrs for these words and more like them.
We dare not forget, and we must demand to know why we were not taught this in school. (And as for the slander that Hitler was a Christian, cf here.)
KF
F/N 2: Head for ICU!
Eph 4: 7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Therefore it says, “When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.” 9 Now what is the meaning of “he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth? 10 He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.
11 It was he who gave some as apostles, some as prophets, some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, that is, to build up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God—a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature. 14 So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes. 15 But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head. 16 From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.
Live in Holiness
17 So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. 19 Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
20 But you did not learn about Christ like this, 21 if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus. 22 You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires, 23 to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image—in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.
25 Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger. 27 Do not give the devil an opportunity. 28 The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need. 29 You must let no unwholesome word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for the building up of the one in need, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 You must put away all bitterness, anger, wrath, quarreling, and slanderous talk—indeed all malice. 32 Instead, be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you. [NET]
KF
Notes the work The Wonders of Life on Earth:
“Darwin’s most influential work was his theory of evolution. It revolutionized the science of botany, biology and medicine. It brought new ideas into the study of religion and astronomy, of history and psychology . . . [Those ideas] which Darwin perceived have affected every branch of science.”
Okay, but what does that mean for us living in the 21st century? Challenging problems like crime, sickness and poverty stare daringly, not just at “Western civilization,” but at all mankind. Will a belief in evolution aid men to meet these challenges? It would be expected to do so. We say that because evolution is an integral part of virtually every endeavor of mankind. So its influence is extremely broad.
But is evolution’s guidance leading men out of their morass of challenging problems? Or have the evolution-backing sciences misdirected man’s efforts?
Consider, for example, the space program. Years ago, Science magazine noted that the moon landings were important for this reason: “The search for carbon-containing material on the lunar surface is not only a component part of the study of the origin and history of the moon, but an important step in our understanding of the early stages of chemical evolution leading to the origin of life.”
Yes, one of the main reasons billions of dollars have been spent, it is indirectly admitted, is to prove true the evolution theory. But no evidence of evolving life has been found outside the earth.
Consider how that same money could have been spent. Says Hans Gaffron of Florida State University:
“Other choices for spending all these billions would have been to eliminate most pockets of poverty in this country . . . A program for a balanced population could have been vigorously put forward, and the age of ruthless power politics and unimaginably stupid wars would thereby have been brought nearer its end for the benefit of all the people.”
Further, with men concentrating their attention, not on “unimaginably stupid wars,” but on problems of health and disease, would not these, at least, have been reduced?
A former director of America’s Center for Disease Control asserts that “two or three years of reasonable stability in international relations could bring the eradication of smallpox on this planet.” Even if such a prediction is exaggerated, it emphasizes that man’s resources, spent to search space for evidence of evolution, could have been used more wisely.
Did you see how little the theory of gravity changed over the decades? What a worthless theory.
Then opposition to Darwin day should also be a day.
Equal time.
Why not creationist day?
If they got MLK day why not something more important.!
These days are being made to impose conclusions of right and wrong and winners and losers.
Its not very american in reality .
State holidays should be just for general American values.
No origin or MLK or holocaust day or anything.
Its just propaganda to put in the conscience things that otherwise would not be in the public conscience.