A blog of sorts...

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Latest Joke From World Nut Daily

This is almost beyond parody...

...there's some absurd nonsense, not especially funny, being taught our school kids every day, in almost every school in America.

Darwin's theory of evolution.


LOL!

"But it's science," you say. No, not really. Certainly, not yet, if it ever will be. It's a theory, an extremely farfetched, unproven theory and – at its base, its fundamental core – terribly unscientific!


Where to begin!

If all life on this planet were actually in a process of "evolution," would every species evolve in lock step, regardless of different environments? Or wouldn't there be all the intermediate steps still in evidence, at various places around the globe? Wouldn't there be plenty of evolving apes, tending toward homo sapiens, in the jungles and rain forests, possibly developing verbal skills and capable of elementary math and reasoning?

None such. Ever. Nada. Apes have always been apes, and humans always human (though some of us less so than others).


(My emphasis)

Please tell me this is a joke, and the WND will post a "Ha! Gotcha!" article in the coming days.

I'm grateful to Joseph Farah and the editors here at WND for letting me take this space each week. This topic, I feel, is so important – and I've got so much to say about it – that I'll pick up here, in this space, next week. I hope you'll stop by.


I can hardly wait.

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Intelligent Design Downunder


I spend a fair bit of time keeping an eye on ID movements in the US and the UK, and I thought I should check out what a search for "intelligent design" at Google's Australian website would yield.

This was one of the results.

Complete with banners straight out of the 1960's, this website could best be desrcibed as
Uncommon Descent on acid. It tells us:


You don't have to believe in god to support scientific design

In its pure scientific form, Intelligent Design is NOT a religious explanation of how we came into existence BUT a new and recognised scientific theory with an explanation that even atheist scientists can accept, a leading consultant medical specialist and research scientist.



Intelligent Design IS a religious explanation of how we came into existence. ID asserts that natural processes (in the form of evolution) cannot account for humans as they are today. When leading ID advocates are pressed to reveal their thoughts on who the intelligent designer is, the answer is fairly unanimous - the Christian God. ID is creation science which replaces "creation" with "design" and "God/The Creator" with "intelligent designer". The underlying (and flawed) logiv behind it is the same.

Furthermore, it is most certainly NOT a "recognised scientific theory". The overwhelming response to ID from the scientific community (especially biologists) has been a resounding What the F....?!

So, I suppose we should ask, if we're not a result of evolution, and we're not a result of a supernatural God, where did we come from? IntelligentDesign.org.au asks its readers the very same question. Your choices are...

A. Darwinian Evolution
B. Advanced ET Scientists
C. Intrinsic Cosmic Intelligence
D. A Supernatural God

IntelligentDesign.org.au tells us it can't be A and they assure us they don't think it's B. That leaves us with Advanced Extra-Terrestrial Scientists and Intrinsic Cosmic Intelligence. But what do these ET Scientists look like? And what's cosmic intelligence? Luckily, IntelligentDesign.org.au offers us some ideas...

"Options 2 or 3 are compatible with Scientific Design"


Um...Ok...

Further down the page you can find a series of pesentations. In The Intelligent Design of Crop Circles we can learn that...

Crop circles...(are) a language without words...A unique learning tool...To change our view...To change our life.

"Mankind desperately needs a miracle but could we recognise one if it stared us in the face?"

A message of FEELING & CARING


Well I've certainly seen the light...have YOU?!

When I've got some more time I might offer some reviews of the other presentations, just for a laugh. Looks like I'll be needing to add an "I Hope They're Joking" section to my sidebar.