tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post6534086861805484111..comments2024-02-14T03:56:12.027-08:00Comments on La Salette Journey: Clark University's "Freethought Society" promotes racist Charles Darwin and the fantasy of Darwinian EvolutionPaul Anthony Melansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-66230780020648976622012-05-06T04:32:22.374-07:002012-05-06T04:32:22.374-07:00Joseph Keysor writes that "Haeckel was a comm...Joseph Keysor writes that "Haeckel was a committed secularist. He despised religion and thought only scientific knowledge had any value. He not only saw Darwinism as the correct explanation of the origin and development of life on earth, he evangelized for it. Many of his statements asserting the factual truth of Darwinism and attacking religion as false and opposed to science are identical in content and in spirit to those uttered by present-day champions of those same ideas. <br /><br />Unfortunately, Haeckel’s pursuit of disinterested and objective scientific truth was combined with a belief in German racial superiority. He saw blacks as inherently inferior, and imagined that the superior northern Europeans had through evolutionary struggle attained to the top of the evolutionary pyramid. <br /><br />Haeckel also advocated militarism and imperialism. He upgraded the evolutionary concept of survival of the fittest to the level of nations and of races. Thus, if one nation defeated a weaker one and seized its territory, this was only an illustration of the basic law that was the foundation of our earthly existence. If a stronger and superior race – in this case the white Europeans – subjugated weaker and inferior races, this was only natural, an example of evolution in action." <br /><br />Haeckel described himself as a "free-thinker."Ted Loiseaunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-92126151070528087402012-05-05T11:42:31.367-07:002012-05-05T11:42:31.367-07:00Mario Seiglie, in an article entitled "DNA: T...Mario Seiglie, in an article entitled "DNA: The Tiny Code That's Toppling Evolution," writes:<br /><br />"Up to now, Darwinian evolutionists could try to counter their detractors with some possible explanations for the complexity of life. But now they have to face the information dilemma: How can meaningful, precise information be created by accident —by mutation and natural selection? None of these contain the mechanism of intelligence, a requirement for creating complex information such as that found in the genetic code.<br /><br />Darwinian evolution is still taught in most schools as though it were fact. But it is increasingly being found wanting by a growing number of scientists. "As recently as twenty-five years ago," says former atheist Patrick Glynn, "a reasonable person weighing the purely scientific evidence on the issue would likely have come down on the side of skepticism [regarding a Creator]. That is no longer the case." He adds: "Today the concrete data point strongly in the direction of the God hypothesis. It is the simplest and most obvious solution . . ." ( God: The Evidence , 1997, pp. 54-55, 53).<br /><br />Quality of genetic information the same<br />Evolution tells us that through chance mutations and natural selection, living things evolve. Yet to evolve means to gradually change certain aspects of some living thing until it becomes another type of creature, and this can only be done by changing the genetic information.<br /><br />So what do we find about the genetic code? The same basic quality of information exists in a humble bacteria or a plant as in a person. A bacterium has a shorter genetic code, but qualitatively it gives instructions as precisely and exquisitely as that of a human being. We find the same prerequisites of a language—alphabet, grammar and semantics—in simple bacteria and algae as in man.<br /><br />Each cell with genetic information, from bacteria to man, according to molecular biologist Michael Denton, consists of "artificial languages and their decoding systems, memory banks for information storage and retrieval, elegant control systems regulating the automated assembly of parts and components, error fail-safe and proof-reading devices utilized for quality control, assembly processes involving the principle of prefabrication and modular construction . . . [and a] capacity not equalled in any of our most advanced machines, for it would be capable of replicating its entire structure within a matter of a few hours" (Denton, p. 329).<br /><br />So how could the genetic information of bacteria gradually evolve into information for another type of being, when only one or a few minor mistakes in the millions of letters in that bacterium's DNA can kill it?<br /><br />Again, evolutionists are uncharacteristically silent on the subject. They don't even have a working hypothesis about it. Lee Strobel writes: "The six feet of DNA coiled inside every one of our body's one hundred trillion cells contains a four-letter chemical alphabet that spells out precise assembly instructions for all the proteins from which our bodies are made . . . No hypothesis has come close to explaining how information got into biological matter by naturalistic means" (Strobel, p. 282)."<br /><br />http://www.ucg.org/science/<br />dna-tiny-code-thats-toppling-evolution/Paul Anthony Melansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08455719838570381999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-75730454021189522772012-05-05T10:15:55.634-07:002012-05-05T10:15:55.634-07:00"The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbo..."The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils." (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University. "Evolution’s Erratic Pace", Natural History Vol. 5, May 1977).<br /><br /> <br />"The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages has been a persistent and nagging problem for evolution.” (Dr. Stephen J. Gould, Evolution Now, p. 140, Professor at Harvard University in Boston)."Michael Colehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17489929697997071892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-22888561839491502342012-05-05T09:11:50.302-07:002012-05-05T09:11:50.302-07:00Interesting. Clark students promoting a racist wh...Interesting. Clark students promoting a racist who viewed blacks as "weeds" or "rogues." Interesting but not surprising. Clark University advances hate in many forms.Jonathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9695096.post-13835869057339599852012-05-05T08:55:51.948-07:002012-05-05T08:55:51.948-07:00More bigotry from Clark University. Thanks again ...More bigotry from Clark University. Thanks again for exposing what Allen Dale has referred to as a "third-rate school."Samanthanoreply@blogger.com