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Friday, March 04, 2005

HOW DARWINISM IS GOING TO LOSE ITS HEGEMONY.

It’s pretty well known that in the U.S., people who believe that there is a some form of intelligent designer behind what we see all around us in the universe and our own biosphere vastly outnumber those who believe that there is no ultimate cause, just the interplay of matter and energy. However, it is the belief of the latter small minority that is enshrined in the textbooks, as well as in every public school classroom that the ACLU has been able to intimidate by the threat of a lawsuit.

This Darwinist hegemony began in a Dayton, TN courtroom back in 1925, when the Scopes trial made monkeys out of those who opposed the teaching of Darwinism. Today, there is a concerted effort to get our masters in black robes to balance the presentations a little, by letting science teachers explain that there really IS evidence that Darwinism isn’t very good at explaining - despite fulsome promises of future breakthroughs. This insurgency is going to be helped immeasurably if it begins to make the following insight central to their efforts:

...there are essentially two separate theories advanced by Darwin. The first is that the process of the world attaining its current form was characterized by evolutionary transitions in its phasing, which built themselves into permanence by providing in each instance a fitter form or functionality. The second (theory) is the idea that this could have happened by itself without a conscious design.

JAY D. HOMNICK calls these Darwin 1 and Darwin 2. We currently have a lot of evidence that is most easily explained by Darwin 1. On the other hand, there is NO scientifically credible evidence of which I am aware for Darwin 2.

The Darwinist strategy has always included muddying the waters about distinctions of this sort—Stephen Jay Gould famously said that if you are going to accept the advances in refrigeration, transportation, and space travel that science provides, then you’ll just have to accept that they’re right about Darwinism, too (very rough paraphrase). This is a real howler of a category error, of course, but it’s hard to get that into sound bite form. Perhaps Darwin 1 and Darwin 2 will catch on, and every child in America will learn to do a bit more critical thinking…...we can hope.

Posted by Earl on 03/04 at 02:02 PM
Science • Intelligent Design • Politics • Comments •

Monday, February 21, 2005

NOW THEY TELL US!! “RAISING CHILDREN AS VEGANS ‘UNETHICAL’”

A leading US nutritionist today claimed that vegetarian and vegan parents are damaging their children’s health by denying them meat….Prof Allen conducted a study of impoverished children in Kenya, and found that adding as little as two spoonfuls of meat a day to their starch-based diets dramatically improved muscle development and mental skills….Allen added. “Had these children received these foods earlier in life, or their mothers received them when they had been pregnant, or people could receive them throughout their lives, we think that the improvements in human capital development would be even more dramatic.”

Makes you wonder why some of that US$15 Billion for condoms isn’t spent on two daily spoonfuls of meat for pregnant Moms and their children, doesn’t it?

Read the whole article…

Posted by Earl on 02/21 at 09:46 PM
Science • Health • Politics • International • Comments •

SOME GOOD SENSE ON GLOBAL WARMING OUT OF GERMANY

The polar ice caps are disappearing! The Gulf Stream is soon to reverse! Right? Well, maybe. But calling such apocalyptic theories into question is becoming more and more difficult for skeptical scientists. Meanwhile, the public is getting tired of being fed a diet of fear.

The two scientists who authored this article recently published - in Science, the world’s pre-eminent scientific journal - a refutation of the “hockey stick” beloved of the global warming extremists. What was the result? They were personally attacked.

Prominent members of the climate research community did not respond to the article by engaging use in a dispute over the facts. Instead, they were concerned that the worthy cause of climate protection had been harmed.

Other scientists are succumbing to a form of fanaticism almost reminiscent of the McCarthy era. In their minds, criticism of methodology is nothing but the monstrous product of “conservative think-tanks and misinformation campaigns by the oil and coal lobby,” which they believe is their duty to expose. In contrast, dramatization of climate shift is defended as being useful from the standpoint of educating the public.

Read the whole article…..

Posted by Earl on 02/21 at 01:19 PM
Science • Environment • Comments •

Thursday, February 17, 2005

HUMANS NOW OLDER THAN EVER…...

A new analysis of bones unearthed nearly 40 years ago in Ethiopia has pushed the fossil record of modern humans back to nearly 200,000 years ago—perhaps close to the dawn of the species.

How much overlap with one’s ancestors is allowed before they can’t be ancestors anymore?
Read the rest of the article here:

Posted by Earl on 02/17 at 10:10 AM
Science • Intelligent Design • Comments •

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

EMBRYO ARE HUMANS, AT LEAST IN COOK COUNTY

A frozen embryo destroyed in a Chicago fertility clinic was a human being whose parents are entitled to file a wrongful-death lawsuit, a Cook County judge ruled Friday.

Click here to read the whole story

Posted by Earl on 02/15 at 02:07 PM
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WHY KILL EMBRYOS, WHEN ADULT STEM CELLS ARE HEALING HEARTS RIGHT NOW?

While rancorous debate on stem cells has focused attention on the ethics of destroying human embryos, studies around the globe are successfully using adult stem cells for a genuine therapeutic breakthrough - healing human hearts.

Click here to read the whole article (Free registration required)

Posted by Earl on 02/15 at 01:35 PM
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