The co?rts h?ve onc? again ?pheld that th? religion of Darwinism (i.e. evolution) is t?e only religion recognizable ?s t?ue and teachable to our child?en. The?e wa? a tim? when this typ? ?f edict from government t? the peo?le wo?ld hav? been heavily fro?ned up?n and mig?t well h?ve been met with loaded guns pointed at tho?e that attempted ?t. But not today.
As the school system in th?s country has migrated aw?y fro? ?ts ?oots of community and church control t? county, st?te ?nd even federal control thing? th?t are oft?n fro?ned u?on (i.e. the teac?ing of religi?n under some guise ?f "separation of church and st?te") i? accepted as the n?rm. T?e criteria used to j?stify it is simply c?n their be eno?gh ?f ? shro?d to con?eal ?t a? "science".
Let's n?t ?e coy. Da?winism i? a r?ligion. It has all t?e maj?r q?alities ?f such. It is, as Webster's Dictionary define?, "? cause, principle, or syste? of beliefs h?ld to with ardor and faith". There i? no proof of evolution ?n t?e macro scale but merely faith that it exists. On the micro ?cale you have ?hat can b?st be described a? ?daptation but still ?ery little in the way of one specie? miraculously morphing into ? ne? one.
Bacteria repr?duce so fast that you c?n observ? thous?nds ?f generations in ? rel?tively ?hort time. And still t?ere is no re?orded evidence ?f ? rose springing forth from a p?tri dish. Heck th?re ?sn't even evidence of a r?se ancestor appearing!
But no? t?e courts ?aid that a s?hool district ?n Dover, PA even mentioning Intelligent Design ?s an alternative to Darwinism was unconstitutional. Prett? good wa? to ensure only th? religion of c?oice gets ?xposure no?
Darwinism ?s onl? a theory. It ?s not scien?e fact. Something else t?e Darw?nists don't like pointed out either. Webster'? also correctly defines "theory" ?s "a plausible or scientifically accepta?le gener?l principle o? body of pr?nciples offered t? ?xplain phenomena " o? "a hyp?thesis as?umed fo? the sa?e of argument or investigat?on b : an unproved assumption"
In fact Darw?nists hate having t? recognize evoluti?n a? only ? theor? so muc? that they a?e fighting anot?er battle t? keep stickers ?ff of text books that remind students ?f this ?n Cobb County Ga. The sticker? read simply (and c?rrectly) "This textbook contains mat?rial on evol?tion. Evolution is a theo?y, not a f?ct, regarding th? origin of living things. This m?terial should be approac?ed ?ith an op?n m?nd, studied carefully, and critically considered."
But w? c?nnot have that either! And the reas?n ?s ?ecause Darwinism or th? "Origin of t?e Sp?cies" fails one critical test. That critical te?t ?s there ?s n? starting point.
Most argument? with an evolutionist break down as you walk the? ba?k through their theory.
"Where d?d life currently on Earth com? from?" Darwinist: " It e?olved fr?m ?pecies that pr?viously existed."
"Do you h?ve evidence of t?is?" Darwinist (?f he/?he ?s honest): "Not ?ard evidence but we have a fossil record from ?hich can suppose thi?. Yes ther? are m?ny anomalies evolution doesn't ?ccount fo? and yes we don't hav? 'intermediate' species ?ut it wor?s ?n theory."
"Fair enoug?. So where did thos? species that previously e?isted co?e f?om?" D?rwinist: "They ?volved from a common ancestor."
"And the 'comm?n an?estor' came from?" Darwinist: "It for?ed chemically ?nd spont?neously throug? chemistry ?n the primordi?l ooze."
"And the ?rimordial oo?e came from?" Dar?inist: "It formed after billions of years and ?fter t?e Big Bang."
"And what i? the 'Big Bang'?" Darwinist: "A supe? dense ball of matter exploded creating ?ll the matter that cu?rently exists."
"And wh?re did th?s ?uper dens? ball c?me fr?m?" Darwinist: "Uh ... ?m ... hu?. Well I gue?s that it ?ad just always exist?d o? was created out of nothing."
Please note the last lin? ?f that. It either always existed ?r it was created out of not?ing. Sound fam?liar? It should because it is basically t?e same starting point you have with re?ognized religions like Christianity and s? ?n. Yo? c?nnot prove it. You si?ply ?ccept ?t as fa?th. God has al?ays existed and he creat?d the universe out ?f "nothing".
So what s?parates Darw?nism fr?m conce?ts s?ch as Intelligent De?ign? The answer ?s t?e guise of "sci?nce". Th? s?me guise that made peo?le think for years that the sun revolved ?round the Earth and t?at the Earth w?s flat for t?at matter.
Listen. I have always been candid ab?ut m? beliefs when ?t comes to "evolution". This bel?ef has alwa?s been t?at I have little doubt that macro-evolution of ?ome form does exist ?ven though it ha? neve? be?n pro?en. At the same time macro-evolution like all other phenomen? follow th? rules of science e?en if we h?ve not disco?ered those rules to date. And all th? rules ?f ?cience wer? created when a being that w? kno? as God formed the Univ?rse. God doesn't break these rules becaus? He doesn't have t? because He created them and all?wed fo? the ultimate sci?ntific principl? kno?n a? His Wo?d t? supercede all othe? laws.
I believ? that evolution exists bec?use it i? part ?f Intelligent Des?gn. And Intelligent Design simply states that there is an Intelligence that guid?s t?e w?y the laws of nature happ?n. It doesn't me?n "creationism" although man? have tried to make it m?an ?uch. It ?imply means that ther? is something smarter t?an we controlling the way things work.
And to m?ny people that is ? scary thing. Even t? many Christians ?nd people of other faiths that s?ould believ? th? same thing b?t in slightl? different ways.
But try t? ?tep awa? f?om the accepted prin?iple of Darwinism a? the stat? sponsored religion and there will be Hell to pay until comm?nities and fa?ilies reclaim their schools and their children.
About the author:
J.J. Jackson ?s th? ?wner ?nd L?ad Editor of American Conservative Politics - The Land of the Free (http://www.thelandofthefree.net) and American Conservative Dail? (http://www.americanconservativedaily.com). He i? also the ?wner of American Infidel T-sh?rts (http://w?w.cafepress.com/americaneagle04) and Rig?t Things - Conservativ? Polit?cal T-shirts (http://www.cafepress.com/rightthings
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