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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.

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