Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Ben Stein has produced a film that needs to be seen.



In theatres nationwide April 18, 2008.

For more information please visit: getexpelled.com

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My first real life sighting of someone wearing the "A" shirts from Richard Dawkins happened earlier today.

Amazingly "A" does not stand for "Atrocious" in fashion design.

The Immoral Gene?

Mike at Christian Cognition with another interesting article.

Excerpt:

If macro-Evolution / natural selection / Darwinism are true – that species are selected to survive based on their survivable traits – is it possible for gay species to fit into the reproductive model? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to conclude that same-sex, sexually-reproductive species cannot reproduce their own kind when uniting together. If there is a gay gene that has evolved over time, wouldn’t those same gay genes actually die? (Therefore, it seems that the gay gene – if there was one – would die after the first generation.) After all, they cannot survive via reproduction. Instead, it seems they would adapt and evolve into heterosexual genes.

And how can it be moral (according to Darwinists) for same-sex, sexually-reproductive species to lay with the same sex of that same species? If Darwinism means that unfit species with doomed traits would eventually die, then why would it be moral for that species to lie with the same sex of that same species when doing so would lead to its own death? Instead, it should absolutely not lie with the same sex of that species. Therefore, shouldn’t the Darwinist strongly oppose homosexuality since the species cannot survive via reproduction (without the assistance of the opposite sex)?

A Human Life

Matt Slick defending the unborn.

Excellent brother, God bless you!

Air America Launches Nationwide Atheism Program

Air America now brings The Freethought Radio Program, hosted by the co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

The liberal talk radio network Air America announced this week it will launch a nationwide show focusing on atheism. The first national show will feature Christopher Hitchens, author of "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything."

I wonder how much freedom of thought is going to be allowed.

Creating Life From Scratch?

From AP's Seth Borenstein, Artificial life likely in 3 to 10 years.

Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch
and they're getting closer.

Actually "creating" from what is already existing.

"Creating protocells has the potential to shed new light on our place in the universe," Bedau said. "This will remove one of the few fundamental mysteries about creation in the universe and our role."

Would it really? It would seem to highlight the need for a creator.

Bedau figures there are three major hurdles to creating synthetic life:

• A container, or membrane, for the cell to keep bad molecules out, allow good ones, and the ability to multiply.

• A genetic system that controls the functions of the cell, enabling it to reproduce and mutate in response to environmental changes.

• A metabolism that extracts raw materials from the environment as food and then changes it into energy.

Why not let random processes create life without intelligent interaction?

His idea is that once the container is made, if scientists add nucleotides in the right proportions, then Darwinian evolution could simply take over.

"We aren't smart enough to design things, we just let evolution do the hard work and then we figure out what happened," Szostak said.

Is blind, mindless darwinism better at design? I want to let it design a car for me. It should be easier since it is not a living organism.

Bedau said there are legitimate worries about creating life that could "run amok," but there are ways of addressing it, and it will be a very long time before that is a problem.

"When these things are created, they're going to be so weak, it'll be a huge achievement if you can keep them alive for an hour in the lab," he said. "But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen."

Yet, under darwinian evolution, this is what supposedly happened. It brought a wide variety of life that was able to reproduce and eventually take over the planet and produce reading material such as this one.

Universe: Spaceship Earth

The History Channel's "Universe" episode "Spaceship Earth" cannot refrain itself from asserting mankind's ancestors are microbial organisms.

The television program shows images of microbes, followed by tadpoles, frogs, and then continues on to finally reveal humans as the newest animals on the block. The evolutionists on the program happily note how similar we are to bacteria.

"Spaceship Earth" comes to a close by incorporating the biggest threat to mankind, yes, global warming. The closing comments give the idea that it's been a good run for us humans. Perhaps we were the most complex organisms on the surface of this planet. Let's build a spaceship too!

I didn't see anything uplifting about how we just happened to evolve into who we are. This reminds me of a comment by an atheist on a message board. He posted, "We are chemically no different from a piece of [expletive removed]. Why should we be treated any differently?".

I wouldn't recommend that person to defend human rights. Obviously, certain themes in shows like the "Universe" do not help in this department.

We have an inherent value because we are made in the image of God. The universe is indeed beautiful and will become moreso.