It amuses me greatly
to watch the anti-science crowd contort themselves into perverted shapes in
their efforts to discredit sound science.
Their mendacity is astounding.
They know they are
just making pathetically crafted arguments.
They know it very well. Their
plan is not to prove the science wrong.
Their plan is to obfuscate science in the minds of their hapless
minions. They think that creating doubt
in the minds of their ignorant and gullible followers is the way to perpetuate
their power and authority. The problem
is, it is not working, and funny enough, most of them admit it.
Ken Ham has done
studies, written books, and continues to use those studies to scare people
into giving him money. Demonization of
opponents is all they've got; all the while scaring away anyone with a bit of
sense or education.
And, what are the
results of their study? The results and
conclusion is that they must] begin the indoctrination of their children
at younger ages and sequester them from society in general to achieve their plan
of complete and total cultural conditioning.
No room for free expression or inquiry.
Everyone is sorely
aware of Ken Ham's supercilious attacks on everything not AIG. He now lashes out almost daily at the boogie
men he sees under his bed and in his closets.
His rambling exhortations are the antithesis of perspicuity, yet he is
his own worst enemy and here is the reason why.
When we look at the
veracity of the vast conclusions of science, it is obvious that the scientific
method and the vetting process works to a very high degree. If nothing more, we can look around us and
see the results of our technical and scientific accomplishments, but it just so
happens that the only science that the deniers oppose, is the science that
shows them in error. Then, rather than
merely state that God is capable of anything he chooses, they lay out their
jejune hypotheses while eliding the evidence to the contrary and offering no
record of evidence or experimentation of their own doing.
One of my personal
favorites is their penurious hypothesis of "Hydraulic Sorting of Animals
During the Flood." I can hardly
type while laughing out loud. What
really amazes me is that they think no one will notice that they do not have a
hypothesis of the hydraulic sorting of Plants during the flood, and the
reason why is that the way that plants appear in the geologic column shows the
least biologically complex plants at the lowest strata and becoming more
complex the farther up the column we go.
They claim that the tiny fauna sank to the bottom quickly while the
larger animals bloated, floated and sunk later....orrrrrr.....ran to high
ground to then be nicely covered by a completely different type of strata than
the layer below. First of all, there is
no model that shows how this can be accomplished under swirling, or even stagnate
waters and there is no flood plain on earth, as far as I know, where that type
of sorting is observed.
But the plants? Well, they are rooted down.... and the more
evolved/ complex cannot run to high ground.
Of course their density (density of chlorophyll) is such that most of them
would sink at about the same rate, yet here we find those plants in their
rightful geologic locations. The
hypothesis of hydraulic sorting is vacuous and absurd beyond description.
What the creationists
have failed to note, and the cause of their continued demise, is that any good
religion has to have a magical supernatural being in control; a mysterious entity that can annul the laws
of nature as he sees fit, with the mystery being part of the mystique and the
attraction to the religion. They don't
mind applying this magic to the virgin birth or the resurrection (for the most
part, but I have seen some of them try to explain those events using their
fractured conjectures) but when they try to explain the flood and other
biblical events using pseudo science, they leave themselves wide open to
attacks and incursions from without and within. On their decision to make the
bible a science book they have painted themselves into the proverbial corner,
since now they have no room for supernatural intervention. But yet we find them often, when left with
slack jaws at a challenge, appealing to the supernatural powers of their
god. It seems to me that to try to have
their cake and eat it too is spelling their accelerated doom.
The weaknesses of
intelligent design/ creationism, is its failure to offer a mechanism.
The Creationist's magical
designer is not only unseen and unknown, but his alleged handiwork is
detectable only to those who experience some mysterious revelation from reading
he bible.
It is my opinion that
the creationists have bastardized their beliefs and destroyed the mystique of
their own superstitions, opening them to logical and reasonable scrutiny of
which they have no hope of overcoming.
Froggie
