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Darwinism Must Die So Evolution Can Live
Pickens writes "MacArthur fellow Carl Safina, an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University, has an interesting essay in the NYTimes that says that equating evolution with Charles Darwin opened the door for creationism by ignoring 150 years of discoveries, including most of what scientists understand about evolution — Gregor Mendel's patterns of heredity, the discovery of DNA, developmental biology, studies documenting evolution in nature, and evolution's role in medicine and disease. Darwinism implies an ideology adhering to one man's dictates, like Marxism, says Safina. He adds that nobody talks about Newtonism or Einsteinism, and that by making Darwin 'into a sacred fetish misses the essence of his teaching.' By turning Darwin into an 'ism,' scientists created the opening for creationism, with the 'isms' implying equivalence. 'By propounding "Darwinism," even scientists and science writers perpetuate an impression that evolution is about one man, one book, one theory,' writes Safina. '"Darwinism" implies that biological scientists "believe in" Darwin's "theory." It's as if, since 1860, scientists have just ditto-headed Darwin rather than challenging and testing his ideas, or adding vast new knowledge.'"
You don't build a house THEN come up with the idea to build a house. The Meta-Physical Idea ALWAYS precedes the Physical implementation. Darwinism completely ignores this, and is junk science as it is completely ass-backwards.
What the (biological) Evolutionists completely fail to understand that there is ALSO Spiritual evolution. In the same manner a mind matures and is able to do basic arithmetic, and eventually calculus, a person's understanding of Morality, Ethics, and their Understanding of the All-Parent / All-That-Is / God / Goddess also becomes more complete as they get older as they understand the Spiritual Laws.
Creationism tries to fill this gap, and fails miserably because it trying to solve the _wrong_ problem.
I can't wait for First Contact when all this nonsense gets put behind us, when people finally learn the truth about the development of this planet. Bring on Homo Spiritus.
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I didn't realise slashdot was a safe harbour for christans.
Moraelin you're being a fucktard, the guy asked you to disprove sexual selection and win an award for it.
Either disprove it and make your point or get the fuck out and don't come back.
...they eventually figured out that stars work with nuclear processes...
There is evidence that this is not the case either. The fact that the solar corona is almost 1000 times hotter than the surface violates the known fact that heat always flows from a hotter to colder location. If the sun were really heated by a 20+ million degrees thermonuclear reaction, the surface should be much hotter than the corona.
There is also the fact that the sun's mass is not enough to gravitationally oppose the huge outward pressures generated by a thermonuclear reaction at the needed temperatures. Gravity is simply too weak to overcome the strong nuclear and electrical forces that would have to be present in such a thermonuclear reaction furnace.
Then there is the missing neutrino problem. From thermonuclear fusion experiments and bombs, we know what the production rate of associated neutrinos should be for the sun IF it were indeed powered by fusion, as theorized. However, the actual neutrino flux from the sun is only a tiny fraction of what should be measured if fusion were the energy source of the sun. At this point scientists really are back to square one in determining the power source of the sun and similar sized stars.
There is also radar evidence that the sun is not a big gas ball, but actually has a solid iron core, similar to the earth, surrounded by an atmosphere of seething plasma kept hot by an as yet unknown external electrical power grid, in the same way as a metal arc lamp here on earth. There is some evidence that the sun, along with other stars in the spiral arms of our galaxy, is part of a galactic scale electrical power distribution system powered from the center of our galaxy.
All theory is gray
"a theory must provide a way to be falsified, and evolution does not".
Technically, evolution does provide a way to be falsified.
Any biological systems that can be shown to have not been formed in a series of minor tweaking is not likely to have been formed by evolution. The book Darwin's Black Box is and interesting read.
.. that's because Darwinism IS a theory. Also, when many people say Creationism they are assuming Judeo/Christian/Islamic Creationism, while there are many other Creationist theories.
You know that lying is a sin right? Because of this post, you're going to burn in a lake of fire, being tortured for all eternity. Don't worry though, you'll have plenty of us "Darwninists" to keep you company. While you're busy screaming in agony we'll be devising testable hypothesis to figure out our environment. And you'll have to watch us do it FOREVER. All because you thought lying to protect your supposedly all powerful, all knowing "God" was a good idea even though he told you specifically not to do it.
Well done, thou good and faithful servant!
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
I think both sides are crazy and claims like this just stand to misinform both side. We will never be able to prove that humans evolved from basic molecules over billions of years by random chance or by a god, because we can not travel to the past and see what happened. Secondly we can not repeat this feat because we can't control god, or have a billions years in which to repeat this experiment. However it also impossible to prove either false. While evolution might be slightly ahead on the "evidence" front because they have 1000's of experiments that prove one one-billionth of the way from a molecule to a human, neither side is even close to "prove", "demonstrate", or "verify" their theory.