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"Evolution is not science, it's an angry fist in the face of the intelligent designer Friday, April 03, 2009 Kalamazoo BY BETTY ORWELLER Evolutionists are celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birthday and the 150th anniversary of his book, ``Origin of the Species.'' I want to counter the prevalent fallacious viewpoint that evolution theory is science while intelligent design and creation science are philosophy or religion. The definition of ``science'' has changed in recent years. My 1980 Webster's Dictionary still stressed ``systematized knowledge'' gained ``by study and practice.'' Only in recent decades have humanist philosophers redefined and limited science to what can physically be observed and tested. Even given the new, limited definition, if intelligent design -- or for that matter, creation science -- is not real science, neither is evolution. Most people, even textbook authors, keep forgetting that evolution is only a theory -- one possible explanation for the natural world which we observe. Whenever ``science'' deals with origins issues, no one can offer conclusive proof, since no one can observe, experiment or repeat. Thus evolution theory is as much philosophy and religion as are creation and intelligent design. Any of these viewpoints must ultimately be accepted or rejected by faith, though science can and must evaluate each theory's claims based on the weight of evidence and the validity of its proponents' assumptions. My studied conclusion is that the preponderance of evidence supports the premise that an intelligent designer -- the creator described in the Bible -- must have planned this universe for it to ``work'' so amazingly well at both macro and micro levels. I'm especially amazed at put-downs of intelligent design, since it seems the most objective and thus should be most acceptable to a world that worships science. As a University of Michigan graduate certified to teach science -- and with many years experience teaching a variety of subjects in public and private schools, as well as to homeschoolers, I own much material by intelligent design scientists, creationists and evolutionists. Intelligent design proponents, like creation scientists, are very experienced scientists trained in evolutionary assumptions, but who in the course of their work as professors in secular colleges, or as employees of government (like at NASA) or private research firms, have concluded that evolution cannot adequately account for observable facts. At a micro level, these scientists have observed tremendous numbers of irreducibly-complex structures involving all micro-mechanisms fully functional at the same time, which bars the possibility of a step-by-step evolutionary development. Statistically, this could not have occurred by chance. Likewise, at the macro level, the multitude of characteristics observable about planet earth in our solar system demonstrate a uniquely ``life-friendly'' planet unlike anything else in the universe, also statistically impossible by chance. Intelligent design does not express or represent any religious viewpoint, though I suspect many intelligent design scientists end up ``finding'' God. To the contrary, most leading evolutionists not only ignore abundant evidence discounting their claims, but are strongly-vocal God deniers who twist the facts to fit their chosen assumptions (such as Richard Dawkins, author of ``The God Delusion''). Evolution is not the pure science it claims to be, it is an angry fist in the face of God! Not until the 1960s did public schools cease acknowledging that our founders believed in a transcendent God who created this world, whose claims ought to be considered as the basis for morals and values. When God was expelled from schools, history was rewritten so that students no longer hear that most great scientific discoveries of the past grew out of men's assumption that predictable, orderly physical laws reflect the nature of their Creator. (Random-chance philosophy would never have spurred these discoveries.) Evolutionary assumptions result in a society that no longer acknowledges that our freedoms, our representative form of government, and our Constitutional laws are based on ``the laws of nature and of nature's God.'' Instead, it yields a ``do-your-own-thing'' social chaos! Students today ought to hear real, unprejudiced facts. Far more objective evidence exists for God's creation of this world than for evolution. Creation scientists acknowledge their assumption that God is the highest authority for even scientific truth. They are, nonetheless, highly-educated, experienced, professional men and women who deserve respect and admiration, not the contempt this humanist society heaps on them. Numerous validated scientific findings by creation scientists and their religion-neutral intelligent design colleagues disprove or significantly challenge evolutionary claims, but blind, deaf, and arrogant men prefer to ignore the facts, rather than to study with an open mind. Betty Orweller resides in Allegan. "

4/5/2009 12:24:01 AM

summary please...i read the title and know i cant read that unbiasly

4/5/2009 12:24:36 AM

summary: DNL doesn't know how to read, remember to use pictures next time

4/5/2009 12:25:05 AM

People who believe in evolution make God an angry panda.

4/5/2009 12:25:34 AM

pictures of ppl with captions of a summary would be awesome imo...

4/5/2009 12:26:16 AM

holy fuck im not reading all of that

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4/5/2009 12:57:59 AM

i am not reading it, but surely the ideas expressed in it are new and groundbreaking

4/5/2009 12:58:40 AM

holy shit that entire thing was one baseless claim after another.

next time try to add a little evidence for at least ONE claim

4/5/2009 1:01:58 AM

I never understood why it's such a big deal whether evolution happened or not
just love thy neighbor and shit

4/5/2009 1:03:47 AM

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"the multitude of characteristics observable about planet earth in our solar system demonstrate a uniquely ``life-friendly'' planet unlike anything else in the universe, also statistically impossible by chance"

4/5/2009 1:06:44 AM

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"Evolutionary assumptions result in a society that no longer acknowledges that our freedoms, our representative form of government, and our Constitutional laws are based on ``the laws of nature and of nature's God.'' Instead, it yields a ``do-your-own-thing'' social chaos!"

wat

4/5/2009 1:08:27 AM

^^ I wish I could have visited every planet in the universe like this woman obviously has.

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4/5/2009 1:11:40 AM

One of the markings of a terrible, fallacy-riddled argument is a reliance on the dictionary.

[Edited on April 5, 2009 at 1:20 AM. Reason : and a 30 year old one at that]

4/5/2009 1:19:19 AM

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"People who believe in evolution make God an angry panda."

4/5/2009 2:53:48 AM