originally posted by: whereislogic
a reply to: gosseyn
I think you're confused with the belief in evolutionary ideas/philosophies, myths and storylines, including the one referred to as "the chemical
evolution theory of life" (which speaks about the origin of life by means of chance and chemical evolution, i.e. 'Nature did it', arguing that it is a
result of coincidence and a mindless process rather than purposeful design; quoting from the Wikipedia page for "abiogenesis", which was quoting
Haldane and Oparin).
Fraud is defined as “an act of deceiving or misrepresenting.” It is the “intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with
something of value.”—
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.
“Evolution is a fact.” This is the standard confession of faith that assures the scientific community of your orthodoxy. And for public
consumption, the claim is often added: ‘It has been proved so often that there is no longer a need to repeat the proof.’ Very convenient,
especially since the evolutionist has no proof to repeat. Yet, for years the statement has been made again and again, like some mystical chant:
“Evolution is a fact.”
In April 1989, in a book review in
The New York Times Book Review magazine, biologist Richard Dawkins wrote: “We are here talking about the
fact of evolution itself, a fact that is proved utterly beyond reasonable doubt.” He then said that to consider creation “in biology classes is
about as sensible as to claim equal time for the flat-earth theory in astronomy classes. Or, as someone has pointed out, you might as well claim
equal time in sex education classes for the stork theory. It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in
evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or
insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that).”
Stephen Jay Gould wrote an essay on evolution in the January 1987 issue of the science magazine
Discover (the same magazine which you linked an
article from). Intent on overkill, in this five-page article he proclaimed evolution to be a fact 12 times!
At one point in the article, Gould said: “I don’t want to sound like a shrill dogmatist shouting ‘rally round the flag boys,’ but biologists
have reached a consensus . . . about the fact of evolution.” But really, does that not sound like “a shrill dogmatist shouting ‘rally round the
flag boys’”?
Molecular biologist Michael Denton referred to this glib talk about evolution’s being a fact and dismissed it with these words: “Now of course
such claims are simply nonsense.” It’s much more than nonsense. It’s fraud. It deceives and misrepresents. It perverts the truth to induce
another to part with something of value. Newspapers, radio, TV, nature series, science programs, schoolbooks from second grade on—all drum this
evolution-is-a-fact litany into the public mind. In 1989, however,
The New York Times reported that California’s school board has issued
guidelines for science textbooks that apparently de-emphasize teaching evolution as a fact.—November 10, 1989.
It copies the tactics of the chief priests and the Pharisees of Jesus’ day. When officers sent out to arrest Jesus came back without him, the
Pharisees demanded: “‘Why is it you did not bring him in?’ The officers replied: ‘Never has another man spoken like this.’ In turn the
Pharisees answered: ‘You have not been misled also, have you? Not one of the rulers or of the Pharisees has put faith in him, has he? But this crowd
that does not know the Law are accursed people.’” (John 7:45-49) The tyranny of authority: ‘None of the important people, none of the educated
people, accept Jesus as Messiah. Only the stupid accursed ones do.’
Evolutionists today use the same Pharisaic approach: ‘Believe as we do,’ they say. ‘All competent scientists believe evolution. All intelligent
people believe it. Only the uneducated and the ignorant* don’t believe it.’ (*: quoting Dawkins: “ignorant, stupid or
insane”; the same
paintjob is often done on those who believe in God's existence) By such intimidation and mental bullying, masses of people are herded into the
evolutionists’ camp. They know nothing of the weaknesses and inadequacies of evolutionary theory or its unsound speculations and hypothesized
impossibilities—such as the origin of life from inanimate chemicals.
So they are swept along by the repetitious mantras recited by evolution’s propagandizers. The theory becomes dogma, its preachers become arrogant,
and dissenters reap disdainful abuse. The tactics work. They did in Jesus’ day; they do today.
This four-word propaganda line, ‘Evolution is a fact,’ is little (little in content), is a simple sentence (easily said), and is repeated
persistently (even 12 times in one short essay). It qualifies as effective brainwashing propaganda, and with repetition it reaches the status of a
slogan—and slogans everywhere repeated are soon programmed into brains and tripped off tongues with little critical examination or skeptical
dissection.* Once a theory has been sloganized into community thinking, it no longer requires proof, and any who dissent are scorned. If such
dissenters present rational refutation of the slogan’s validity, they are especially irritating and subjected to the only available response,
namely, ridicule.
Evolutionists that specialize in the Big Lie that ‘Evolution is a fact’ also take another leaf out of Hitler’s book, for in it he said of the
masses he controlled: “With the primitive simplicity of their minds they will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one, since
they themselves perhaps also lie sometimes in little things, but would certainly still be too much ashamed of too great lies.” A book of popular
quotations lists this one among them: “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it often enough, many will believe it.” The one evolutionists tell is
apparently big enough, and it’s certainly told often enough, for millions believe it.
It is a lie that is also a fraud because it is “an act of deceiving or misrepresenting,” an “intentional perversion of truth in order to induce
another to part with something of value.” Teaching that man’s ancestors are animals, starting with some microbe and ending with some ape,
evolutionists have “exchanged the truth of God for the lie.” By this lie, they induce many to part with something of great value—their faith
in God as their Creator.—Romans 1:25.
This fraud does terrible damage. Its victims feel freed from the Creator’s laws, and they become a law to themselves: ‘No right or wrong. Fulfill
all fleshly desires. Do your own thing. No need for any guilt trips.’ Enter the moral breakdown, unrestrained and full-blown. Parted from their
Creator and the true values of the Bible, they become spiritually impoverished and end up “like unreasoning animals born naturally to be caught and
destroyed.”—2 Peter 2:12.
*: As astonomer George Greenstein expresses such a creedal dogma and slogan:
“As we survey all the evidence, the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency—or, rather, Agency—must be involved. Is
it possible that suddenly, without intending to, we have stumbled upon scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme Being? Was it God who stepped in
and so providentially drafted the cosmos for our benefit?” But Greenstein recovers from such heretical thinking and reasserts his orthodoxy to the
evolutionary religion, reciting one of their creedal dogmas: “God is not an explanation.”
Source:
Fraud in Science—The Greatest Fraud of All (Awake!—1990)