A friend writes to remind us that David Stove, in his Darwinian Fairy-tales, calls evolutionary biology a fairy tale. “Evolution” “explains” every possible behaviour found. He offers as evidence:
Wired piously ran an article about a marsupial “mouse” species in which the male dies after mating exhaustively for two weeks, leaving the female to raise a litter in which half the pups die too:
She’ll actually give birth to up to three times as many young as she has teats. This, too, is where good genes from their fathers benefit the diminutive, barely developed young. “They haven’t got much going for them except for a really strong mouth and sucking mechanism and some little hands and arms to crawl their way up,” said Baker. “They’ll crawl up and attach to a teat and then once all the teats are occupied all the other extras that were born will die within an hour or two.”
The whole affair is one of nature’s most striking manifestations of the true meaning of life: At a very basic level, all critters, including you and me, are on this planet to pass along their genes, even if it means an early demise. Antechinus males, after all, were only born after the previous year’s mating season. Not a single one reaches 12 months old, while females live up to three years.
Okay, but how does this elucidate the “true meaning of life”? Antechinus impacted the planet how, exactly? Apart from providing unexpected amusement for cats?
Almost makes one wonder why the book was titled Darwinian Fairytales rather than The Darwinian Fairytale.
Of course darwinists follow fairytales. Where else could frogs can become princes (provided you give them enough time and magical mutations)?
Blue_Savannah:
“Frogs Into Princes”
by Richard Bandler, John Grinder
A classic introduction to NLP.
From a Frog to a Prince – video – Gitt – Spetner – Denton – video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClleN8ysimg
“The whole affair is one of nature’s most striking manifestations of the true meaning of life: At a very basic level, all critters, including you and me, are on this planet to pass along their genes, even if it means an early demise.”
Yep. If atheism is true, then Nihilism is indeed truer and more valid than Secular Humanism. Glad that this article is indeed honest about that.
This YEC is sure marsupials are just placentals with minor differences.
this case is possibly showing why marsupialism came too be.
It was all about reproduction. After the flood there was a short timeline to fill the earth up and so those creatures with the farthest to go had to increase reproduction rates. so marsupialism helps this and the male dying here shows this desperate attempt to speed things up. then its a little dysfunctional.
Unless they can tell he wasn’t complaining!
OT: Why I’m Not An Atheist – JP Moreland, PhD – video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB_n9QCi6Gc
But Darwin’s followers DO believe in fairy tales
otoh, I believe in HUMAN tails.
Science free Darwin fairy tales are fairly common. Here are a few quotes to get that point across,,,
At the 7:00 minute mark of this following video, Dr. Behe gives an example of how positive evidence for ID is falsely attributed to evolution by using the word ‘evolution’ as a sort of coda in peer-reviewed literature:
No matter how counter-intuitive the finding, Darwinism is always given undo credit for producing the effect:
Moreover, Darwinists insist that the only things that are ‘real’ are the ‘material’ things that we are able to taste, touch, see, feel and hear. The elephant in the room that they fail to acknowledge is that there must be a subjective self, an ‘I’, in place, which is completely apart from the material realm, that is able to do all this tasting, touching, seeing, feeling and hearing of material reality in the first place. But in the Darwinian materialistic view of reality this ‘subjective self’ which is necessary to do the perceiving of material reality in the first place becomes the ‘fairly tale’, i.e. becomes an illusion:
But the ironic thing for the Darwinists in their insistence that our subjective sense of ‘self’, i.e. our consciousness, is merely an illusion is that the MOST SURE thing that we can know about reality is the fact that we are indeed conscious:
Here are a few examples of ‘subjective self’:
In the following videos, although the girl in the videos was written off as hopelessly retarded by everyone who saw her, reveal that there was/is indeed a gentle intelligence, a “me”, a “soul’, within the girl that was/is trapped within her body. And that that “me” was/is unable to express herself properly to others because of her neurological disorder.
One of the more fascinating branches of Near Death Studies have been the studies of people who were born blind who have had NDE’s, who could see for the first time in their life during their NDE. This simply has no explanation within the materialistic framework, whereas, in the theistic framework, this is expected:
Here is a first person account of the split-brain experiment in which the person in the experiment testifies to being ‘one’ person although his actions were split:
This following video interview of a Harvard Neurosurgeon, who had a Near Death Experience (NDE), is very interesting. His NDE was rather unique from typical NDEs in that he had completely lost brain wave function for 7 days while the rest of his body was on life support. As such he had what can be termed a ‘pure consciousness’ NDE that was dramatically different from the ‘typical’ Judeo-Christian NDEs of going through a tunnel to a higher heavenly dimension.
And, of course science itself, untainted my materialistic/atheistic prejudices, reveals that consciousness is primary. i.e. due to advances in quantum mechanics, the argument for God from consciousness can now be framed like this:
Verse and Music:
OT: Molecular high-speed origami: Researchers elucidate important mechanism of protein folding – May 09, 2014
“Our results demonstrate that the chaperones not only prevent protein clumping, but also dramatically accelerate the folding process”, explains Florian Georgescauld, scientist at the MPIB. “Surprisingly, the chaperones achieve this by changing the mechanism of folding: Instead of folding in one large single block, the protein gets its final structure in a series of small, rapid steps – like an elaborate high-speed Origami.”,,,
the folding process is finished in a few seconds rather than in several minutes.
The study shows for the first time that chaperones can act not only passively, by preventing aggregation, but as an active folding cage that catalyzes the folding process.,,,
in this way proteins can be folded faster than they are produced. Thus, a backlog of proteins which are not yet or improperly folded and the disastrous consequences which might go along with this can be avoided.
http://phys.org/news/2014-05-m.....rtant.html
What One Famous Scientist Said About Evolution
“One morning I woke up and something had happened in the night, and it struck me that I had been working on this [evolution] stuff for twenty years and there was not one thing I knew about it. That’s quite a shock to learn that one can be so misled so long. Either there was something wrong with me or there was something wrong with evolutionary theory. Naturally, I know there is nothing wrong with me …..”
“[The] question is: Can you tell me anything you KNOW about Evolution? Any one thing? Any one thing that is true? I tried that question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology Seminar in the University of Chicago, a very prestigious body of Evolutionists, and all I got there was silence for a long time, and eventually one person said, “I do know one thing – it ought not to be taught in high school”.”
Part of a keynote address given at the American Museum of Natural History by Dr Colin Patterson (Senior Palaeontologist, British Museum of Natural History, London) in 1981. Unpublished transcript.
http://www.unmaskingevolution.com/main.htm