My target audience is
anyone from 10 to 100 who wonders why when everything else is doubted and questioned all the time, they aren't allowed to
ask questions
about Darwinism or discuss the problems with unguided molecules to man
evolution, and any other sceptics who might wish to acquaint themselves
with the arguments of the Darwin dissenters rather than swallow the
approved establishment view.
I have not dealt with all areas of the controversy, my work is incomplete. For example, I have not said a lot about geology since biology is what I know best. This self-funded project took up much of my fishing and cycling time in 2006/2007. I don't intend to make this my life's work. While I was researching, I found so many excellent resources on the web which I felt no need to duplicate, that I have not attempted to do much more, and I will probably not be adding much to the work as of autumn 2007. (currently doing a bit of tidying up, December 2010) I ran a Blogger questiondarwin blog in the run up to and during Darwin's bicentenary year 2009, partly as I was so angry at the 100% unquestioning worship lavished upon Darwin across the media during this period with no dissent heard, but took it down in late 2009 as I felt it had served its purpose and keeping it up had become a pressure and I had other things to do.
My work here and on the now defunct questiondarwin blog has been described as laughable. Interestingly, that is exactly what God says about man's efforts to disenthrone Him (see Psalm 2). 'He who sits in the heavens laughs'. He who laughs last......
As a Christian, I know I should
not make unpleasant remarks about people with
whom I disagree, or their deeply held beliefs, even when they slander and curse me. Sorely provoked, I often fail to live
up to this standard. So much the worse for me.
Am I anti-science, as some have said? Absolutely not. I oppose Darwinistic evolution principally on scientific grounds. I insist that I understand, practice, love and uphold the scientific method. SCIENCE is supposed to be about a disinterested search for true knowledge, and about testing theories to see if they can be falsified. But SCIENTISTS being human are not immune to pride, jealousy, irrational behaviour, incorrect thinking, ignorance, prejudice, selfish ambition, a desire for job security and honours, sucking up to the boss, and plain and simple error. Scientists respond to peer pressure, threats, bullying, temptations, inducements and the pressure to conform just like the rest of us. As the premier UK science body the Royal Society says in it's motto 'Take the word of no man'. Quite so. We should demand evidence, remembering that the establishment has been and can be wrong, whether through honest ignorance, group dynamics, consipracy, pride, inertia, denial or a mixture of all these factors.
Scientists are only motivated by the search for truth, are they? Can you honestly say that you believe that the British science establishment welcomes honest attempts to falsify evolution? Or that people's doubts are at least sometimes kept to themselves through fear? Look up the Michael Reiss or Richard Sternberg affairs, these men's careers were damaged by the Darwinist establishment not because they doubted Darwin, they did not, but because they said the issue could, within limits, be DISCUSSED! And that was the real message of the infamous Dover Intelligent design trial-if you even talk about allowing Darwin to be questioned-we will crush you. So don't even THINK about TALKING about it! Again, peer review. What does 'peer review' mean? It means 'me and my mates, who define truth by our mutual consent, are of the opinion...'.Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, was on the BBC radio 4 Today programme last week talking about the peer review process, after work had been published in the BMJ (which I take) a week earlier about how peer review, that hallowed process meant to ensure the highest standards of objectivity, is often abused to protect vested interests and stop certain ideas going forward. The idea that scientists are totally objective is highly questionable.
I do
not apologise for saying
that Charles Darwin was wrong about evolution.
He was
utterly wrong, and probably knew it.
Even
given the near-total ignorance of biochemistry, genetics etc at the
time, he should have known, and perhaps DID know, at the time that his
results did not justify his conclusions. Darwin plagiarised,
oversimplified, made gigantic assumptions, was highly selective in his
evidence and examples, and I am sorry to say used subtle trickery to
dissemble away rather than honestly answer 'problems with the theory'.
Darwin used circular arguments and
self-referential reasoning, straw man tactics and he fudged or avoided
key issues. His followers today do the same.
The most obvious examples were the issue of origin of life which he totally avoided, and the obstacle to his theory of non-functioning intermediate structures, e.g. reptile arm to bird wing. To get from one to the other by 'innumerable small changes' as his hypothesis asserted, many useless intermediate stages MUST NECESSARILY have existed but COULD NOT HAVE BEEN SELECTED FOR AS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN NON FUNCTIONAL. Even in 1857, this was in-your-face evident and by itself should have strangled his hypothesis at birth. Why did it not do so? Because many influential protagonists, such as Haeckel and Huxley, and Marx and his fellow revolutionaries, very much WANTED a God-free origins story because of their hatred of the Christian religion, which stood in the way of their revolutionary ideas. Would it had stood more effectively against the secular ideologies of Naziism and Communism that turned the 20th century into a slaughterhouse! Like Darwin, they 'imagined' and 'supposed' away the difficulties. The same thing happens today, and for the same reason.
Unguided molecules to man evolution is not a morally neutral concept-it gets rid of the need for a creator God. This was obvious at the time, it was also obvious that people who wanted there to be no God, or at least no 'Big Scary God' were the most active in promoting evolution, as they do today.
If the Christian God is dead, slain by Darwin as we are told, and this can be proved, we'll have to live with that as Dawkins says, and we'll have to try and find some way other than the love of God, divine law and the fear of righteous judgement to restrain our selfish and evil desires and make us act with disinterested love towards one another. Not much success so far on that one, as you can tell from the News.
But investigative science
cannot prove or disprove God. Many atheists admit this, as Alister
McGrath (Oxford professor of theology and science pHD) writes. Science
can however demonstrate multiple insuperable difficulties for the
supposed scientific theory of molecules to man evolution. Numerous science facts falsify evolution fatally at multiple
points.
These facts, even the mention of them, are actively suppressed in our
education system and media-something which would not occur in any other
field of science. Correction, any field of science. If Darwinism cannot
be
questioned then it is not science but dogma.
Professor Michael Behe is on record as saying that when he first came
across this evidence against Darwinistic evolution, well into his
career as a research biochemist, he was angry (and he is a very mild
tempered man) that it had been kept from him for so long. It is NORMAL for differing points of view to exist in any area of science, but ABNORMAL for dissenting views to be suppressed. Take global warming-nobody doubts that the planet is warming up, this can be measured-majority opinion (from which I have no reason to dissent) is that this is due to burning fossil fuel and other human activity. However, a minority asserts that it is due to the sun heating up. Minority views can be unexpectedly proved right in time, but even if they aren't, it does science no good to suppress them, yet this routinely happens with arguments against evolution.
Incidentally, Peter Hitchens, former Marxist revolutionary and one of the very few journlists who ever questions Darwin, writing about his career in political journalism ('The Cameron Delusion') said of conspiracy theories, that since they are no more and no less than 2 or more people agreeing something in secret that they would strongly prefer the public didn't know about, it would be the more surprising if there were none than that there should be many conspiracies going on all the time. Or don't you think that there are people who are running our lives for their opwn purposes behind the scenes?
I wish all readers well.
I HAVE PUBLISHED THIS SITE BECAUSE EVIDENCE WHICH FALSIFIES DARWINISM IS BEING SUPPRESSED.
One little story to
make
you think.
Three men, a Christian and
Muslim and an atheist, are stuck
in a snowbound mountain hut during a prolonged blizzard. They pass the
time taking turns politely trying to convert the others to their
beliefs by
reasoned argument.
Consider this-no more than one of them can possibly be right (in theory, they could all be wrong if something like Hindu or Buddhist philosophy is in fact true, so perhaps all three are wrong, but under no circumstances can more than one of them be 'right'.
If
there is no God, then
neither Mohammed nor Jesus spoke on His behalf. (atheist is
right, Christian and Muslim wrong)
If
Jesus is the son of
God, then the atheist has a big surprise coming and Mohammed did not
hear from a good angel, although maybe he heard from a bad
one. (Christian is right, other 2 wrong)
If
Mohammed was God's final messenger, then Jesus is not the son of
God.
(Muslim is right, atheist and Christian wrong)
People accuse me of being stupid because I believe in Jesus and dissent
from Darwin, but I think the above scenario is realistic and sets a
useful
scene for thinking about. As I say-only 1 of these men can be even
almost right, the other 2 men are SERIOUSLY wrong.
Will you take the
test? Perhaps you are a
Christian, Muslim or atheist, maybe some other category of belief.
Anyway, imagine you are one of the three men, or women if you prefer.
You KNOW you are right and that your evidence is the best. You have
always known you are right, all the evidence is on your side, you would
change your mind if you were proven wrong but the issue does not arise
as YOU ARE RIGHT.
The other 2
believe the same but they are wrong . You
KNOW.
You can't
understand how the other 2 could be so deceived and believe something
so obviously false. There is no impartial umpire who can judge between
you, neither in your mountain hut nor anywhere else. But you KNOW you
are RIGHT. Think about what
you are going to say to persuade the other 2 that they are mistaken,
for the sake of argument, honestly mistaken. You KNOW you are right and
they are both wrong.
OK. Now imagine being one of the other two men, the ones who 'know'
they are right but aren't. Think
about how that would feel if you were one of them. Is it
possible that you would feel just as they do-wrong, but certain you are
right? I labour this point as I believe that the majority is wrong about evolution, but is persuaded that it is right.