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On 2024-06-26, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-06-25 20:50, RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-06-26, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-25 20:01, RonB wrote:
>>>> On 2024-06-25, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 01:52:09 -0400, Joel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> He doesn't follow God, he's a racist, a phobe, a Catholic dupe.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The accumulation of evidence is overwhelming by now that there is no
>>>>>>> contradiction between the first of those things and the rest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or so it would be convenient for an atheist to assert ...
>>>>>
>>>>> Religionists do tend to prioritize their ideology over evidence, don’t
>>>>> they?
>>>>
>>>> Evolutionists are big on "just so" stories. They believe (by faith) how the
>>>> extremely highly improbable always just "mystically" happens, and that
>>>> "evolution" somehow knows how to anticipate the thousands of necessary
>>>> mutations that will eventually all work (beneficially) together towards some
>>>> specific goal.
>>>>
>>>> And this is all supposed to be a result of blind "chance."
>>>>
>>>> You have to be amazingly gullible to believe this crap. That's why
>>>> evolutionists claim there is the so-called "fact" of evolution (in other
>>>> words what they believe by faith) and the "theories" of evolution (in other
>>>> words the pathetic attempts at explaining this extremely improbable theory).
>>>>
>>>> Basically what evolutionists do is give "Evolution" God-like powers endowing
>>>> it with the ability to create whatever is needed so "support" the theory.
>>>>
>>>>      “The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in
>>>>      the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory —
>>>>      is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory is thus exactly
>>>>      parallel to the belief in special creation, both are concepts which
>>>>      believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been
>>>>      capable of proof.”
>>>>      
>>>>      – L Harrison Matthews, Introduction to Charles Darwin, Origin of the
>>>>      Species (1971 edition)
>>>>      
>>>>      “To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is
>>>>      entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis based
>>>>      on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts. These classical
>>>>      evolutionary theories are a gross over-simplification of an immensely
>>>>      complex and intricate mass of facts, and it amazes me that they are
>>>>      swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so
>>>>      many scientists without murmur of protest.”
>>>>
>>>>      (Sir Ernest Chain, Nobel Prize winner, as cited in “Was Darwin Wrong” by
>>>>      Francis Hitching, LIFE magazine, April 1982, p.50)
>>>>
>>>>      “Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common
>>>>      sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science
>>>>      and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent
>>>>      absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill
>>>>      many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the
>>>>      tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so
>>>>      stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.
>>>>      It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us
>>>>      to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the
>>>>      contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes
>>>>      to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that
>>>>      produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter
>>>>      how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is
>>>>      absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”
>>>>
>>>>      Lewontin, Richard C. [Professor of Zoology and Biology, Harvard
>>>>      University], “Billions and Billions of Demons”, Review of “The
>>>>      Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,” by Carl Sagan, New
>>>>      York Review, January 9, 1997.
>>>>
>>>>      Few people outside of genetics or biochemistry realize that evolutionists
>>>>      still can provide no substantive details at all about the origin of life,
>>>>      and particularly the origin of genetic information in the first
>>>>      self-replicating organism….How did huge information-rich molecules arise
>>>>      before natural selection? Exactly how did the genetic code linking
>>>>      nucleic acids to amino acid sequence originate? Clearly the origin of
>>>>      life – the foundation of evolution – is still virtually all speculation,
>>>>      and little or no fact.
>>>>
>>>>      — Dr. Christopher Williams, professor of biochemistry at Ohio State
>>>>      University
>>>>      
>>>>      “That a mindless, purposeless, chance process such as natural selection,
>>>>      acting on the sequels of recombinant DNA or random mutation, most of
>>>>      which are injurious or fatal, could fabricate such complexity and
>>>>      organisation as the vertebrate eye, where each component part must carry
>>>>      out its own distinctive task in a harmoniously functioning optical unit,
>>>>      is inconceivable. The absence of transitional forms between the
>>>>      invertebrate’s retina and that of the vertebrates poses another
>>>>      difficulty. Here there is a great gulf fixed which remains inviolate with
>>>>      no seeming likelihood of ever being bridged. The total picture speaks of
>>>>      intelligent creative design of an infinitely high order.”
>>>>
>>>>      Dr H. S. Hamilton. MD. ‘The Retina of the Eye – An Evolutionary Road
>>>>      Block'
>>>>      
>>>> Evolution is a sad joke.
>>>
>>> I love that I can count on you to fill in the blanks for whatever
>>> general statement I make. I finished reading a book on the matter a few
>>> weeks ago and have never had my faith so strongly confirmed before. They
>>> mock us for our strong belief in God all the while believing in their
>>> own theories in a way that is not dissimilar.
>> 
>> They believe in the "fact" of evolution (by faith) because they think it
>> frees them from believing in God. The theories of evolution, themselves, are
>> absurd.
>
> I never realized _how_ absurd they were until it was made clear to me 
> through some additional reading. Like everyone else who went to school 
> after the 1960s, evolution was taught to me as fact. I would say that it 
> played a big role in compromising my belief in God.

That was the point. Materialism. That's why "agnostics" (atheists) like 
Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") were so anxious to glom on to the theory and 
promote it — even though Darwin, himself, claimed to believe in God.

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