The evolutionist’s comical dogma

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM The evolutionist’s comical dogma Exclusive: Alan Keyes highlights irony of Darwinists’ ‘it just happened’ explanation Posted: December 18, 2009 1:00 am Eastern By Alan Keyes I am continually impressed with the incongruity of our situation as Americans. We live in a country where the form of government (a constitutional republic framed to secure unalienable rights by implementing the principle that the just powers of government are derived from the consent of the people) logically and historically depends upon an idea of human justice that appeals to the authority of the Creator. But it is also a country where the most widely accepted and enforced paradigm for human knowledge (empirical science) is held to require the exclusion of creation as a rational explanation for the existence of human life. I again experienced this impression recently as I read an article about the controversy in which Stephen Meyer’s book “The Signature in the Cell” continues to simmer. Meyer is an expositor of the challenging questions DNA-related advances in the scientific account of biological mechanisms pose to those who have used evolutionary theory as the preferred WMD in their war against God, or what their atheist polemarch-in-chief has attacked as “The God Delusion.” In his book, Meyer gives an account of the path of rational inquiry along which he encountered the questions he explores. They appear to be inherent in the peculiar characteristics of living matter that give rise to the distinction between physics and biology, and so far continue to justify that distinction even in the presence of the reductionist implications of contemporary nuclear physics. According to Meyer’s account, it was not his faith in the existence of a Creator that gave rise to the questions. Rather, it is the rational cogency of the questions that impels him and others like him toward the hypothesis of a “master programmer” whose intelligent predispositions would account for the complex encoding of material substances now identified as the key to explaining the activities of even the simplest living organisms. The theory that fooled the world – read “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design” At the very least, the deep encoding of matter that appears to underlie the mechanisms of life appears to cast a shadow over the significance of the supposedly wonderful achievement represented by Darwin’s theory of evolution. According to the evolutionists, this achievement involved empirically accounting for the panoply of life, the crowning glory of the intelligently ordered and consummately coordinated phenomena of the natural world, without positing the existence and will of a consummately intelligent being as the source of that order. But a dogmatic emotionalism seems to drive those who ridicule and seek to ban any consideration of the “intelligent design” hypothesis. This thoroughly unscientific dogmatism feeds the suspicion that the pride and satisfaction many of its admirers take in Darwin’s supposed breakthrough has nothing at all to do with its contribution to the progress of science. After all, biology is not the only natural science that greatly benefits from the assumption that natural events don’t “just happen” but instead reflect an ordered relation of cause and effect governed by a discoverable rule. Aristotle was probably right to see this assumption of intelligibility in nature as the key first step toward natural philosophy. It may in fact be the prerequisite for any and all scientific knowledge in the strict sense of the term. Yet the evolution theorists have succeeded in imposing the view that the epitome of scientific understanding lies in accepting the notion that, given enough time, things just happen – marvelous things that seem to be the result of intelligence and intention but are in fact just random events. It has obviously proven useful to mark out fortuitous moments (stretches of the space-time continuum) in which a certain appearance of rule-governed order is allowed to contradict the reality of prevailing chaos. Indeed, the activities and inventions made possible by doing so are in other contexts the solid basis for praising and promoting scientific endeavors. But the predictability and precision that allowed people to fashion rocket ships and ride them to the moon; build electrical devices to make certain aspects of life vastly more convenient and comfortable; or devise electronic engines that digest and transmit vast quantities of data in a few instants; these are not the sine qua non of scientific validity. Instead, the true scientist must recognize the hallmark of scientific rigor as adherence to an understanding that reduces our explanation of the meticulous and orderly patterns we increasingly find, even in what we once thought to be the entirely random and unique flotsam and jetsam of natural events (like snowstorms or hurricanes or the lives of a cell), to the profound observation that, given enough time, an intricate, deeply improbable order of things just happens. (Column continues below) There is something comically irrational about this kind of dogmatism, something that reeks of the sort of willful intention that clouds and impairs rational analysis. It bespeaks a state of mind quite the opposite of the selfless reflectivity that keeps careful account of what happens so as to understand what is happening. This is what distinguishes scientific experiment from mere experience, and the achievements of human scientific knowledge from the merely cunning prowess of the less intelligent animals. The general theory of evolution purports to explain the causal origin of life. But it does so ironically, as it denies both the external ordering essential to the concept of causality and the inward causality essential to the concept of life. The very idea of evolution implies arrangement toward a goal. Why, then, do evolutionists insist that in order to be scientific, one must deny that, as such, the goal exists? It exists, they might respond, but only as a convenient matter of perception. But if this convenient perception is the essential feature of scientific knowing, what is science but a convenient delusion, distinguished from other useful delusions mainly by the warrant it denies to Divine power? Perhaps, as Erwin Shrodinger’s example implied at the conclusion of his examination of the question “What is life?”, the true aim and achievement of evolution theory is this very denial, which makes way for the assertion that the only order worth knowing is the one we ourselves, all godlike, impose upon an otherwise pointless chaos. But if this is the aim, then the theory of evolution isn’t science after all. For the aim of science is to perfect what we know, not to assert, against all the evidence of our mind and experience, what our ambition drives us to become.

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Sarah Palin Demolishes Matt Lauer

How’s that Boycott Against Beck Working Out?

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I noticed Stu Burguiere of the Glenn Beck show point out something fascinating on Facebook:

Olbermann 8pm + Maddow 9pm + Olbermann 10pm + Maddow 11pm + 109,000 other people = Beck at 5pm.

So . . . um . . . how’s that boycott against Beck going? The one designed to get him off the air? Sure there have been some advertisers who fled. There have been many more who were never there, but claimed to be part of the boycott.

But does it really matter? Other advertisers are filling the void and Roger Ailes is, so far, perfectly willing to take care of the show.

Again:

Olbermann 8pm + Maddow 9pm + Olbermann 10pm + Maddow 11pm + 109,000 other people = Beck at 5pm.

So how’s that boycott working out? Heh.

Is it Okay for Liberals to Call Blacks the ‘N’ Word?

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By Lloyd Marcus
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“Maybe this nigger should shut up and learn his place” is one of numerous racist hate-filled comments posted on YouTube attacking me, a black Conservative, for writing the American Tea Party Anthem. And who is spewing this racist hate? So-called “tolerant” liberals.

But how can this be? According to the biased media, liberal Democrats are saviors saintly protecting blacks from evil rich white conservative Republicans. Regretfully, their “devoid of the truth” marketing plan has been extremely successful. For generations, like zombies, blacks have awarded liberal Democrats 90 percent of their vote.

Like the woman in the old diet infomercial, I want to scream to my fellow blacks, “STOP THE INSANITY! Liberals Democrats are NOT OUR FRIENDS!” They want to keep us on their “you’re a victim” plantation. Simply put, liberal Democrats HATE “uppity” blacks who achieve without their programs such as Affirmative Action.

Here are my outrageously stupid beliefs which have caused libs to call me the “N” word on numerous occasions: I love my country; I tell youths all limits are self-imposed; no one is entitled to the fruits of someone else’s labor; and I refuse to see myself as a victim.

Liberal actress-comedian Janeane Garofalo, diagnoses blacks who think like me as suffering from “Stockholm Syndrome”. Garofalo, in her arrogance, is REALLY saying, “Get your black ‘A’ back on the plantation. Who do you think you are? You are NOT free. You are an eternal victim. Every white American will ALWAYS owe you! GOT IT, you dumb, ‘N’?”

And yet, with help from their local buddies in the media, Democrats successfully brand Conservative Republicans as racists. History reveals the truth that blatant racism has been the elephant in the liberal Democrat’s living room for years. See this site for the facts.

FACT! Conservative Republicans do not persecute black achievers. Liberal Democrats DO! Blacks achieving without Liberal Democrat assistance are targeted for destruction. Examples are former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. These two brilliant blacks should have been held up to black youths as shining examples of what can be achieved in America via character, education and hard work. Instead, Liberal Democrats despise Rice and Thomas. Rice and Thomas severely weaken the lie that America is racist with limited opportunity for minorities.

Also, the “victim business” can be extremely profitable. Remember when the NAACP got $54 million from Denny’s because some blacks received slow service? Give me a break! And then, there is the dirty little secret among liberal black Democrats. Rice and Thomas broke an unspoken rule which goes as follows: to be true to one’s blackness, one MUST always harbor, at least a minimal, resentment against white America!

Here are more examples of liberal racism. A white blogger posted a doctored photo of black former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in white minstrel blackface. The caption read, “Simple Sambo wants to move to the big house.” Liberal cartoonists published vicious racist cartoons of Rice. They even called her “Aunt Jemima.” Former KKK member, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.), used the “N” word in an interview. Senator Byrd apologized and everyone moved on. A few Republicans who made far milder gaffs were verbally flogged within an inch of their lives and subjected to high-tech lynchings.

The media ignores liberal Democrat racism. I guess they consider it a kind of ‘tough love’ to reign in us blacks who have wondered off the victim plantation. When they call us the “N” word, it is only because they care. “Ouch, I’m movin’, easy with that whip!”

It is time for blacks to wake up and smell the betrayal. Democrats’ so-called compassionate policies and programs have destroyed many black families. Before Democrat President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” in 1965, most black families were intact. Today, over 60 percent of black kids grow up without dads. Again, I refer you to this site for the facts.  The media and Democrats are co-conspirators in keeping as many blacks as possible crippled with a victim mindset and dependent on Democrats and government. Totally disgusting.

So, you libs and Dems, keep calling me the “N’ word. It only strengthens my resolve to keep standing up for the truth. In my best Charlton Heston as Moses impression, I command, “Liberal Democrats, LET MY PEOPLE GO!”

Editor’s Note: Lloyd Marcus is the Deltona, Fla.-based songwriter and vocalist who vaulted to fame for his song, “American Tea Party Anthem,” which became the musical rallying cry of the American Tea Party Movement.  He is also president of the National Association for the Advancement of Conservative People of Color (NAACPC).  I’ve written about him on at least four occasions.  To learn more about him, visit www.LloydMarcus.net or LloydMarcus.com.