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It would seem small-minded to call it a
conspiracy, but there is clear-cut evidence that numerous agencies are working
in unison to prevent the dissemination of what are considered “dangerous”
alternate interpretations of the available evidence (Gould 950). By definition, inquiry is the seeking
after truth and knowledge and is a derivative of the word “inquire,” which means, “to
question.” All throughout history man has been asking questions, and the
scientific method has become the accepted means whereby answers to these
questions can be uncovered. However, a gradual takeover of the scientific
community by ultra-evolutionists (Darwinians) has guaranteed that only certain
types of questions are allowed, and all others must be silenced. Despite the
arrogance of this small camp of theorists, there are other voices which must be
heard. It is time the public (which is not absolutely convinced of the legitimacy
of origins-evolution) rise up and demand that in all quarters, including
universities, journals, and even public school classrooms there be an open
forum for sound, empirically based alternate views of intelligent-design by qualified
young-earth scientists.
The University
of California System, for instance, was sued because it refused to admit
students who had been previously taught via Christian
science textbooks, even though these texts were found to be scientifically
sound (it was suggested these tomes might be acceptable if the Bible verses they
contained were removed) (DeWitt). Scientists with PH.D.s such as Richard Sternberg
(DeWitt), Martin Gaskell (Luskey, Evidence),
and Guillermo Gonzalez (Luskey, Design)
have all faced discrimination in one form or another, and some have brought
suits in which the underlying prejudices have been clearly exposed when
interoffice communications were examined.
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| The Privileged Planet |
Scientists
the world over rely on peer-reviewed journals as a means to publish their
findings and share them with the scientific community. However, these
periodicals have become bigoted and quite closed-minded. Andrew Kulikovsky,
writing in the Journal of Creation, laments the rejection of creation-based
scientific papers by evolution-controlled journals in his own paper,
“Creationism, Science and Peer Review,” stating that:
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| A. S. Kulikovsky |
…creationist
scientists generally do not bother submitting papers that directly support a
creationist interpretation of the natural world. Any such papers would be
dismissed out of hand as being unworthy simply on the basis that they advocate
a creationist interpretation. The quality of the research, the soundness of the
arguments presented, and the validity of the logical conclusions would not even
be considered (Kulokovsky, 49).
According
to Kulikovsky, creation scientists are regularly criticized for their lack of
published articles in the evolution-controlled journals by Darwinian scientists
who suggest that if young-earth research papers were really sound they would be
able to pass muster by old-earth scientists, however, young-earth scientists
have had no hope of having their papers even considered for publication by such
periodicals. Kulikovsky considers this type of thinking to be filled with
“glaring inconsistencies,” and quips:
…if
young-earth research should only be taken seriously if it passes the
peer-review of non-young-earth scientists, then shouldn’t old-earth research
only be taken seriously if it passes the peer-review of young-earth scientists?
Are the ‘peers’ of old-earth scientists not also proponents of an old earth?
Would this not cast serious doubt on the validity of their research (44)?
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| The Garden of Eden |
Of course, pro-evolutionists claim to
have real reasons for the rejection of scientists who are pro-creation. They
claim first that creation science is not true
“science”; that it is sloppy and is not empirical (Gould, 950). They also claim
that abiogenesis (the idea of a spontaneous origin of life), homology (the idea
that all living things are similar and so they must have originated from a
single source), and the geologic column (upon which the geologic ages are
based) are all tenets that cannot be
refuted, and, since creationism rejects these tenets, it cannot be valid. Creationists,
meanwhile, assert that facts and proofs are neutral until interpreted in
accordance with the observer’s premise. One thing is for certain; no one alive
today witnessed the dawn of the universe or the advent of life. Although some Darwinians
confidently demand that their theories be unquestionably treated as “fact” by
creation “dissenters,” (Gould 949), honest evolutionists concede that the evidence
does not always support their assumptions:
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 [relating to what can be known
through an understanding of how certain things work rather than by observation]
adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set
of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive,
no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is
absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door (Lewontin, 39).
In fact, young-earth scientists who
believe in a literal creation by an intelligent God have different
interpretations of the data evolutionists use to substantiate their claims. First
and foremost, according to creationism, there is very little actual, provable
evidence to support abiogenesis, since no one was around billions of years ago,
and the exact culmination of all the elements necessary for the spontaneous
advent of life is impossible to recreate. They further counter that homology is
not the evidence of evolutionary theory, but evidence of a single Creator who
stamped all of His creation with His own personality. They are also quick to
point out the irregularities in the geologic column and offer an alternate
theory of a global flood as an explanation (including sudden burials of living
organisms, which would account for the plentiful amounts of fossil remains
available today) (Creationist).
While Darwinians are busy maligning
their contemporary creationist peers, they fail to realize that the very
foundations of modern scientific discovery are replete with the contributions of creation
scientists. In fact, if there was a banquet to be held in
honor these benefactors and only the pro-evolution originators of all of the major
scientific branches were to be invited, the hall would almost be empty!
Invitations could not be sent to Sir Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, James Clerk
Maxwell, and Lord Kelvin, all of which developed and advanced the field of
physics. The 17th century chemist Robert Boyle would not warrant a
place card, nor would his colleagues John Dalton and William Ramsay. Biologists
Ray, Linnaeus, Mendel, Pasteur, Virchow, and Aggasiz would not be allowed to
join in the festivities, and even Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler would have to
dine elsewhere (Creationist). Even
today, the list of serious scientists, most of them Ph.D.s, who have
contributed heavily to scientific understanding and yet who reject Darwinism, is
vast. The website entitled “A Scientific Dissent from Darwin” includes a
petition signed by approximately 840 distinguished individuals! The heading of
the petition reads:
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| Sir Isaac Newton |
We
are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection
to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for
Darwinian theory should be encouraged (Scientific Dissent).
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| Dr. Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis |
Even
in the face of such overwhelming support by active, contributing scientists,
others, such as Bill Nye in his recent debate with Ken Ham (president and
founder of Answers in Genesis-U.S.) have expressed the concern that giving
credence to young-earth science will lead to the cessation of scientific
discovery (Nye). However, creationists assert the opposite opinion; that belief
in the Biblical narrative has accounted for increases
in understanding. It could actually be said that one of the greatest physicists
of all times, Johannes Kepler, best known for discovering the three
mathematical laws of planetary motion, received the inspiration for his
discoveries directly from God, since he often is eminently quoted as saying, “O
God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee.” Even recent discoveries in the
areas of geology, astrophysics, and medicine can be directly attributed to a
belief in the authority of Christian Biblical scriptures. For instance, Dr.
Russell Humphreys believed that the earth was young in accordance with the
Genesis account and based his theory of the strength of magnetic fields
surrounding the earth and other planets on this assumption. His hypothesis
based on the Biblical narrative was later corroborated by empirical data that
was transmitted back to earth by Voyager 2. Accordingly, Physicist John
Baumgardner’s predictions of the state of plate tectonics, which he based on
the Bible account of Noah’s flood and formulated in the early 1980s, has
recently been proved to be exactly as he had theorized (Successful). Regrettably,
given the antagonistic stance taken by the conventional science of today, even
the beneficent research of such great scientists as Louis Pasteur, a devout
Christian who disproved the evolutionary theory of spontaneous generation,
would have been rejected, which would have had disastrous results (Lamont)! Who
can say what other discoveries are currently being suppressed by such
short-sighted discrimination?
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| Johannes Kepler |
Given the substantial amounts of
unfavorable data, as well as the overwhelming criticism of absolute Darwinism,
how is it possible that this body should rule the scientific community?
Kulikovsky asserts it is due to a “coercive consensus.” He explains that
current science is built on the suppositions of previously accepted theories,
many of which have been questioned or disproved (Kulikovsky). Take the account
of the peppered moth, for instance. Every public school uses biology textbooks
which include this story of moths which changed color in response to
environmental changes as convincing proof of evolution. However, it has been
brought to light that the moths remained moths
throughout the entire incident, and that the original data contained in the
moths’ DNA never changed; new information was never introduced, so “evolution”
never occurred (Mitchell, Much Ado).
Another inaccuracy that is widely
distributed and accepted is the chart created by German biologist Ernst Haeckel
in 1868. Haeckel, in keeping with his Darwinian beliefs, wanted to demonstrate
that, “the human embryo supposedly goes through a fish stage, an amphibian stage,
a reptile stage, and so on.” Even though reputable scientists almost
immediately began refuting this assertion and it has been verified that Haeckel’s
drawings were falsified, students are still being taught that, “Ontogeny
recapitulates phylogeny” (Mitchell, Something).
No matter that many of the tenets of
evolution have been disproved, students are required to continue to operate as
if they are true, even building their
own theories on such flawed foundations and giving the heavy-handed impression
that evolutionary theories are proven fact, when they are actually unproven
hypotheses.
Kulikovsky further explains that, besides
the continuous propagation of what is essentially misinformation or downright
myth, most scientists capitulate and feign a support of evolutionary ideas
because they want to be employed.
Whether
we want to admit it or not, there is a remarkably comprehensive scientific orthodoxy
to which scientists must subscribe if they want to get a job, get a promotion,
get a research grant, get tenured, or get published. If they resist they get
forgotten (Bauman).
All
of this coercion gives the impression that there is a consensus among
scientists, but this is merely unsubstantiated fiction.
Amazingly, given all of this maneuvering
on the part of Darwinians, the American public is not convinced of the absolute
integrity of evolutionary theory. In recent Gallup polls the numbers show that
the majority of Americans (70%) would not be upset if creationism was taught in
public schools (Carlson). Even more amazingly, the majority of Americans (46%)
stated they were convinced that human beings were directly created by God
without evolution (only 15% of respondents believed in a Godless evolution of
man) (Newport), which begs the question, “Why is a minority of Americans
dictating what is disseminated to the majority of Americans”(Bell, 48)?
Christian evangelists would certainly be castigated for attempting to coerce
the public and control information so that it was slanted to their bias, but
evolutionists do this with impunity, claiming they have the “right” to be the
“thought police” for a populace of uninitiated simpletons (Bell, 48).
In conclusion, should Americans, should
any people for that matter, accept such patronization? Why is it considered tolerable
to replace closely held beliefs that have stood the test of time with the
babblings of priests in white lab coats? If evolutionists are as honest as they
claim to be, they should welcome examination by those with whom they do not
agree, instead of silencing opposition while hiding behind their supposed
adherence to “empiricism.” It is time the majority stand up and demand candid transparency
of the minority; it is past time the free-thinking public demand of the
scientific community what the scientific community demands of the rest of the world.
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