“You see, in evolution you have to look at that hummingbird feeding at your feeder, and assume that all of its parts have somehow come together by random, purposeless change combined with natural selection.”
“You see, in evolution you have to look at that hummingbird feeding at your feeder, and assume that all of its parts have somehow come together by random, purposeless change combined with natural selection.”
"In northern Europe, theism has almost died out, and is heading that way too (but slowly) in the U.S., the slowness being due to historical colonial reasons."
If it’s up to the ACLU there will be, sort of. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has a law on his desk that is drudging up memories of a trial long ago in the state that fined a teacher for teaching evolution. The law seems harmless enough.
By Mike Gray “I am not prepared to accept anything that disagrees with my naturalistic conceptions … [that] over hundreds and millions of years of development man has developed downwards, to become ‘Homo sapiens’.” — Adolf Eichmann You probably have never heard of Eichmann. Russell Grigg explains who he was: Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) was one of the principal architects of the Nazi Holocaust, in which six million Jews were systematically murdered. His task was to maintain the killing capacity of the concentration camps by providing…
by Mike Gray Can Titan be the home of living organisms? YES! — if you ignore the laws of biology and information science: Imagine a puree of plant matter in a blender. Then imagine an army of very tiny tweezers selecting and throwing out most of the important chemicals and elements, like the lipids, vitamins, metal ions, phosphates, sugars, and most of the amino acids. Then add a broad mixture of thousands of other random chemicals to the few remaining but now pulverized and randomized…
by Mike Gray The evolution of the horse is indisputable, right? (Note: “10e12″ means “10-to-the-12th power” and so forth): According to Julian Huxley (arguably one of the most prominent evolutionists of the last century) at least one million positive mutations were required for the modern horse to evolve. He believed that there is a maximum of one positive mutation in a total of 1,000 mutations. With the help of these values Huxley calculated the probability for the horse to have evolved from one single unicellular…
by Mike Gray It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that). — Richard Dawkins One wonders how Dawkins would classify an Israeli scientist fired for his views: Heresy. Is that the right word to use here? It seems so harsh! But that is precisely how skepticism of evolution and anthropogenic global warming are treated in modern academic, political, and social…
by Mike Gray —probably not. Why should he alienate an important, affluent, and influential segment of his political base? In 2008, CMI‘s Lita Cosner reviewed then-Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s views on the matter: What does Barack Hussein Obama, who is now set to become the Democrat nomination for Presidential Candidate of the United States, have in common with so called ‘bioethicists’ such as Peter Singer and Joseph Fletcher? They all advocate that parents have a ‘right’ to kill their baby, not just before birth, but…
by Mike Gray These remarks are not from a creationist, as commonly defined today (and note the evasive use of the passive voice without an identifiable subject): Well, it is the very simple, plain, and old-fashioned one that there was at some stage in the history of the earth, after the cooling process, a definite act of creation. Something came from the outside. Power was exercised from without. In a word, life was given to the earth. All the errors of those who have distorted…
By Denyse O’Leary It is Sunday, so I allow myself one religious story. One is informed by the Reverend Michael Dowd, an evangelist for Darwinism and author of Thank God for Evolution, that the “new atheists” are God’s prophets: According to Dowd, God is speaking pointedly to Christians today through some very unlikely messengers outside the church—namely New Atheists, such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. These bestselling authors mock the biblical view of a God who, according to the U.S. Department of…
by Mike Gray It’s very possible—and, according to this article, cave men (and women) are alive today: Evolutionary stereotypes of the first humans as primitive “Stone Age” cave men who had not yet evolved agriculture just do not square with the Bible’s account of history. The Bible says that in Adam’s day, people “worked the soil” (Genesis 4:2—following the events of 2:15 and 3:17), forged bronze and iron tools (4:22) and made and played musical instruments (4:21). There never was a “Stone Age”! (Nor the…
TAC correspondent Mike Gray likes the characters and sense of adventure in the new BBC series Primeval, but wonders why it propagandizes for a radical notion of Darwinism that evolutionary biologists have rejected.
TAC correspondent Mike Gray likes the characters and sense of adventure in the new BBC series Primeval, but wonders why it propagandizes for a radical notion of Darwinism that evolutionary biologists have rejected.
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