Evolution quotes #48

Le Gros Clark "'Probably nothing has done more to introduce confusion into the
story of human evolution than the reckless propensity for inventing new (and
sometimes unnecessarily complicated) names for fragmentary fossil relics that
turn out eventually to belong to genera or species previously known.' Instead of
filling gaps in the story of human ancestry, this habit tended 'to produce gaps
that did not exist.'[1]
This problem has in some part been eased in the
half-century since Hooton made his pithy remarks. But it remains inescapably
true that applying the correct label is astonishingly difficult, not least
because such labels are in a sense arbitrary abstractions, and especially so
when the material on which the analysis is being done ins fragmentary and
eroded. 'It is one so difficult that I think it would be legitimate to despair
that one could ever turn into a science.'"[2]

[1] Man-Apes or Ape-Men, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967, p. 9

[2] Roger Lewin (noted science journalist), Bones of Contention (New York, NY: A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster Inc., 1987), p. 27 citing "Choose Your Ancestors," lecture at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Sep. 1974

The 2,000 Question Evolution! tracts are grabbing people's attention. It is hard for people to stop reading them

On March 17, 2012, we reported that a member of our Question Evolution! Campaign group ordered 2,000 Question Evolution! tracts which feature the 15 questions for evolutionists.

How are the tracts working? The Question Evolution! tracts are really high quality and are very effective.

Here is a recent report from the member of our group who ordered the 2,000 Question Evolution tracts:

One man sat down, picked up a Question Evolution! tract and began reading. He walked away, but then returned, picked it up again and continued reading. I saw something similar in another city.

The 15 questions for evolutionists are like delicious blueberries which taste fantastic and are really good for you. Once you read one question for evolutionists and develop a taste for questioning evolution, you have to read more questions which evolutionists cannot effectively answer. You can't just stop at one question for evolutionists!

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Evolution quotes #47

"If all this were not bad enough, Hooton warns that 'in addition to the
frailties inseparable from the enactment of the role of original describer, one
must also discount the author's previous commitments on the subject of fossil
man, the ghosts of earlier opinions which rise to haunt him in the
interpretation of new evidence.' A dispassionate analysis of new fossil evidence
is possible, he says, 'only when one awaits the reworking of the material by
persons not emotionally identified with the specimen.' Even then, an independent
analyst, while not potentially blinded by emotional attachment to a fossil, will
still have a particular set of preconceptions against which he will judge it. So
dispassionate it may be, but totally objective it can never be."

Roger Lewin (noted science journalist), Bones of Contention (New York, NY: A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster Inc., 1987), pp. 26-27

Why the Darwinism bully lost some battles in the United States and how these victories can be capitalized on in a big way

Is the false ideology of Darwinism a bullying ideology?

How did creationists in Alberta, Canada create a 21% drop in evolutionary belief in their province? Can a similar and more efficient method be used to accomplish even better results?

How can the 15 questions for evolutionists of the Question Evolution! Campaign be used to achieve big drops in evolutionary belief?

What is the underlying reason why creationists won some legislative victories recently in the United States?

Is it enough to win legislative victories? In other words, how can legislative victories best be capitalized on to keep the momentum going?

Why Darwinism is a bullying ideology and not science

A review of the book Slaughter of the Dissidents reads:

In his Preface to the 1959 (100th anniversary) edition of Origin of Species, Professer W.R. Thompson, FRS, detailed the shortcomings of evolutionary theory, and then commented: “It is therefore right and proper to draw the attention of the non-scientific public to the disagreements about evolution. But some recent remarks of evolutionists show that they think this unreasonable. This situation, where scientific men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define, much less demonstrate with scientific rigour, attempting to maintain its credit
with the public by the suppression of criticisms and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science.”

Slaughter of the Dissidents gives a detailed report on the educational establishment’s efforts to insulate evolutionary theory and philosophical naturalism from critical assessment. It describes the suppression of critical views, and the victimisation of dissenting teachers and pupils in schools, and students and faculty in universities.

The movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed also showed what a bullying ideologues many Darwinists have become. Not only do they use the power of the state to indoctrinate young people into a false ideology, but they bully dissidents as well.

Anti-evolution legislative victories in the United States

In recent years the United States has seen some anti-evolution academic freedom legislative victories in the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin (see: Proliferation of Academic Freedom Bills Is Darwin Lobby's Worst Nightmare).

But are legislative victories enough? Shortly, we will explain how Canadian creationists in Alberta, Canada achieved a 21% reduction in evolutionary belief in their province and why we believe even better results can be achieved.

Why militant secularism is a house of cards and explaining the recent creationist legislative victories

The Birkbeck College, University of London professor Eric Kaufman wrote in his 2010 book Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? concerning America

High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to liberal Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will begin to tip the balance in the culture wars towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be pro-life. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.

Furthermore, Eric Kaufmann recently wrote concerning the Western World: "Committed religious populations are growing in the West, and will reverse the march of secularism before 2050."

For more information on biblical Christianity and religious conservatism increasing in America and in the UK please see our posts Why are 2012 and 2020 key years for Christian creationists and pro-lifers? and Biblical Christianity is growing in the UK

Biblical creation organizations and their supporters doing outreach and anti-evolution books being published and other initiatives are having an effect on Darwinism. At the same time, demographic factors are at play too. Both help explain the legislative victories of creationists in the United States recently. And of course, without the help of Christian legislators, lawyers, judges and activist these creationist legislative victories could not have happened.

Are creationist legislative victories enough? Why did Alberta, Canada see a 21% reduction in evolutionary belief. Is there an even better way?

Now I want to make something perfectly clear: I am certainly not against creationist legislative victories. I wish there were more of them. But are legislative victories sufficient? Are they achieving big results where they occur? Is there evidence there is a better way?

In December we relayed to our readers how Alberta, Canada creationists achieved a 21% reduction in evolutionary belief in their province through creationists educating the public (see our post: Why Canadian belief in evolution will crumble under the assault of the grassroots Question evolution! campaign).

I am not aware of similar reductions in evolutionary belief through creationist legislative victories through the academic freedom bills which were mentioned above.

The key to defeating Darwinism is education and developing a skeptical mindset to Darwinism. That is the reason why Albertans were able to create a significant drop in evolutionary belief.

Academic freedom legislation is like having a gym membership. Having a gym membership merely gives you the potential to work out. Unless you do workouts which are effective you are never going to create a strong body. In short, educational "workouts" are the answer.

The Question Evolution! Campaign with its 15 questions for evolutionists educates people in a systematic and concise way on the many weakness and inadequacies of Darwinism.

Bringing the biblical creation message and education to the people

In addition, I personally have never gone to a creation museum like the ones they set up in Alberta, Canada to educate people. I am all for creation museums and I plan on visiting one in the future.

Yet, at the same time, with the high cost of gas and the fact that some people are going to be far from creation museums, it does make perfect sense to bring the creation museum to them through grassroots tracts and programs like the Question evolution! campaign. In previous posts, I indicated that we want to develop more and more Question evolution! materials as time goes on.

Militant Darwinism and atheism is doomed - let's put it out of its misery

In 2011, the American Spectator declared concerning research published in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research:

The report estimates about 80,000 new Christians every day, 79,000 new Muslims every day, and 300 fewer atheists every day. These atheists are presumably disproportionately represented in the West, while religion is thriving in the Global South, where charismatic Christianity is exploding.

As you can see, militant atheism and secularism is doomed. Let's help bury it. Let's rapidly accelerate its unraveling via the Question Evolution! Campaign Take action today!

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Is Darwin’s theory of evolution a theory about everything or about nothing?

Some actually think that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution applies to all biological processes. In other words, Orthodox Darwinists assert that the reason that evolution applies in all, each and every, situation is because it is, biologically speaking, a theory about everything. Yet, clearly, it is a worldview philosophy and a theory about nothing.

Consider the following attempted catch all Darwinian statement by Prof. Randy Thornhill (Department of Biology, University of New Mexico):

Under certain conditions of human evolutionary history outgroup alliances are highly advantageous whereas under others close ingroup alliances better promote
survival.*

To elucidate the problems with this view, which is premised upon Darwinism not as a theory about biology but a worldview philosophy, consider the following observations.

Do-While Jones:

Notice that if things are similar, it is evidence of evolution. It shows they have a common origin. But, if things are different, it is evidence of evolution.
It shows that they have changed over time. Since similarity is evidence of evolution, and difference is evidence of evolution, everything is evidence of evolution!**

Philip S. Skell:

Natural selection makes humans self-centered and aggressive — except when it makes them altruistic and peaceable. Or natural selection produces virile men who eagerly spread their seed — except when it prefers men who are faithful protectors and providers. When an explanation is so supple that it can explain any behavior, it is difficult to test it experimentally, much less use it as a catalyst for scientific discovery.***

With regards to Game Theory, Benjamin Wiker notes,

By using games with fewer rules than Candy Land, the Darwinian game theorists are claiming "to uncover the fundamental principles governing our decision-making mechanisms." We’d better take a closer look, starting with their presuppositions … The answer seems to be that whatever has survived must be the most fit; therefore whatever exists must have been the result of natural selection. Fairness exists; therefore, it must be the result of natural selection. Q.E.D. It is always convenient to have a theory that cannot possibly be proved wrong.****

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Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

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Refuting evolution

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Notes:

* Roger Highfield, “Does a poor upbringing make you more left wing?,” Daily Telegraph, 23 May 2007 AD

** Do-While Jones, “Comparative Anatomy Vindicated,” Science Versus Evolution’s newsletter “Disclosure,” Jan 2012 AD, Vol 16, Issue 4

*** Philip S. Skell, “Why Do We Invoke Darwin? - Evolutionary theory contributes little to experimental biology,” The Scientist, August 29, 2005 AD
Skell is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Emeritus Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University

**** Benjamin Wiker, “Playing Games with Good and Evil: The Failure of Darwinism to Explain Morality, Crisis,” Discovery, 1 May, 2002 AD.
FYI:
Candy Land is a “Hasbro” board game for children ages 3 and up.

Evolution quotes #46

"But [Earnest] Hooton identifies an even greater danger. This is 'the
psychological conflict in which the discoverer or describer is torn between his
desire to find primitive, unique, or anthropoidal features which will allow him
to place his specimen nearer to the apes than any previously recorded, and his
equally powerful urge to demonstrate the direct and central position of his new
type in the ancestry of modern man.'
When the former impulse is in the
ascendancy, says, Hooton, 'the author is likely to blow the dust off his Greek
and Latin dictionaries and perpetrate some horrid neologism in creating a new
zoological species, genus or even family, thereby committing simultaneously
mortal sins in both philology and taxonomy.' When the latter impulse succeeds,
the describer 'may seize upon metrically or morphologically insignificant
features common to both [modern man and the fossil under study] as evidence of
their genetic relationship.'
In other words, on the one hand you exaggerate
the difference between your fossil and modern humans, thus getting for yourself
a nice, ancient, discrete ancestor. And on the other, you overlook the
differences and exaggerate the similarities, thus setting your fossil on the
threshold of the noble Homo sapiens."

Roger Lewin (noted science journalist), Bones of Contention (New York, NY: A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster Inc., 1987), p. 26

What do the bones say?

One argument that gets used a lot from creationists that truly has little logical problems or forensic mistake is. When you see a fossil all you know is an animal died, you don't know if it had any kids and lived.
Further more you don't know that those children succeeded the family tree of what ever life-form you are examining. given that Edward Wilson estimates 27,000 species are currently lost per year. By 2022, 22% of all species will be extinct if no action is taken.
http://www.whole-systems.org/extinctions.html


Estimates of the extinction rate
To publicize the rate of species loss, the United Nations organizes an International Day for Biological Diversity which takes place on May 22 each year. The UN Secretary General said in a 2007 press statement that species are becoming extinct at an unprecedented rate.

Alarming figures have often been quoted, but how do scientists know how many species go extinct each day, week, month or year? It isn't possible to gather data non-stop in every location around the world, and the estimated extinction rate greatly exceeds the number of known species that have been declared extinct after thorough surveys failed to locate any survivors. The difference is due to the way the projections are calculated. Estimates for the number of species that will become extinct each year are extrapolated from the known rate of habitat loss.

http://dodosgone.blogspot.ca/2007/06/extinction-rate-estimates.html


now it is arrogance of ones knowledge to state that we know all species that ever lived as I stated in a previous blog post of mine. it's another to expect others to believe in the same magical knowledge of all lifeforms that have walked swam or flown the earth. Recently I had a discussion or argument with an atheist who stated that there's evidence that there's no god and proceeded to say that the fossil record is one such evidence, mind you many Christians or other theists believe in evolution. Though when I said that a fossil is not evidence of evolution only that something died. They said "that's very ignorant of you". now this either means they couldn't wrap their head around this statement of fossils only showing death and not heritage. Maybe they submit to authority which is a fallacy of intellect. We should not be discouraged for using this logic of demanding living proof over death in bones. Since a child can look at the bones of a grand parents long lost Horse and make a story about it saying they had many great adventures and the horse had children. Mind you unless you have proof of offspring in the horse and a dietary and fitness record you can't say this is honest. But we love children for they will learn what truth is and why lies are disregarded. though if it's ignorant to expect and wait for a proof in living terms rather than just saying "Humans came from apes which came from a NON-APE ancestor" this is far too much to believe for anyone who has a hunger for scientific truth. We accept this fossil heritage because the authorities force it and believe it. But until I see a complete skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus) and a provable offspring found less than half a mile of it showing new structural features (bones) I'll be skeptic and so should the reader.


Resources:

Question Evolution! Campaign

15 questions for evolutionists

Shockofgod

Extinction paper

estimated rates of world extinction

Reporting on the initial phase of our Question Evolution! Campaign group's outreach for Texas

The Bible belt state of Texas definitely has an impact on the creation vs. evolution culture war in America due to the sheer size of the amount of textbooks it purchases relative to other states in the United States and its state policies on textbooks.

In 2010, the Utne Reader wrote concerning Texas's influence on national textbooks:

The politicized textbooks would be a problem just inside Texas, but economic factors have given the state a huge influence over textbooks throughout the country. Unlike many other states, Texas makes the decisions on a state level on what books local school districts can buy. So when the state makes a decision on what books to purchase for its 4.7 million high schoolers, publishers take notice. The only bigger market for textbooks in the country is California, a state whose budget is in such disarray, it announced that it won’t be buying new books until 2014. In the meantime, an anonymous industry executive told Washington Monthly, “publishers will do whatever it takes to get on the Texas list,” even if that means caving in to right-wing activists.

Although the present United States economy is hard to predict and Texas is affected by the the U.S. economy, Texas is expected to purchase $1 billion in textbooks in 2012-13.

Also, an excerpt from a 2011 MSNBC news article entitled Creationism controversy again slips into Texas textbook debate declares: "In any event, school districts don't have to follow the board's recommendation, under a new law that gives them the sole authority to spend their state education funds."


Reporting on the initial phase of our Question Evolution! Campaign group's outreach into Texas

The initial phase of our Question Evolution! Campaign groups efforts in Texas has been completed. We are going to share with you some data/information on our outreach.

Consider:

1. The Creation Ministries International, which is Creation.com, is directly measured by the web traffic tracking company Quantcast and not merely estimated. 

Here is a measure of the web traffic of Creation.com in the USA:

Quantcast reporting of Creation Ministries International's website broken down by states in the USA

2. We now have a list of 500 Texas churches and their contact information which we will use in our second phase of Texas outreach.

3. Dallas and everything is big in Texas!: During the second phase of our Texas outreach, we do have a "Texas size" tactic in terms of its potential impact which we certainly hope comes to fruition.

And remember evolutionists:

- We do have a creationist contact established who is a big fan of Creation Ministries International in the Texas size city of Dallas, Texas.

- "Everything is big in Texas!"

Message to Texas and American evolutionists/atheists

Message to evolutionists: You better evolve some Texas size answers to the 15 questions for evolutionists of the Question Evolution! Campaign because your wimpy evolutionist "answers" will not suffice in the Bible Belt state of Texas.

We definitely want to give Texas YouTube atheist/evolutionist AronRa and his flowing locks of hippy hair a "bad hair day". In addition, the slow moving Texas atheist Matt Dillahunty will be no match for the second phase of our outreach to Texas.

Related resources:

Creation Evangelism and the Question Evolution! Campaign

Creation Magazine

Refuting evolution!

More proof that atheism is ignorant. American Atheists organization badly embarrasses itself

The popular Christian YouTube video creator Shockofgod just released a hilarious video entitled Proof atheism & evolution are stupid.

On the video, he first did a Google search at Google USA for the word "atheism". The #1 search result for atheism was for the website of the American Atheists organization and they misspelled the words "separation" and "church" on the main page title tag for their website. The title of their website reads: "Supporting Civil Rights for Atheists and the Seperation of Curch and ...". Did the American Atheist organization's webmaster go to one of the many evolution indoctrinating public schools with a high drop out rate? It appears so!

Is it any wonder that the American Atheists organization has been silent concerning the 15 questions for evolutionists of the Question Evolution! Campaign? Besides being poor spellers the American Atheists organization's staff is probably poor when it comes to science as well!

In addition, on the video by Shockofgod there is a discussion with evolutionists concerning the 15 questions for evolutionists where an atheists claims that creationists are allegedly buying the alleged transitional fossils and hiding them (See the blog post:
Evolutionist claims creationists are buying up alleged transitional fossils and then hiding them from the public!).

Make sure you watch the video: Proof atheism & evolution are stupid



Related resources:

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Creation Magazine

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Evolutionist claims creationists are buying up alleged transitional fossils and then hiding them from the public!

The popular Christian YouTube video creator Shockofgod has been discussing the
15 questions for evolutionists of the Question Evolution! Campaign with Reddit atheists/evolutionists. He has been doing this in his free chat room where the 15 questions are commonly discussed.

One of the 15 questions of the Question Evolution! Campaign is:

Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing? Darwin noted the problem and it still remains. The evolutionary family trees in textbooks are based on imagination, not fossil evidence. Famous Harvard paleontologist (and evolutionist), Stephen Jay Gould, wrote, “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology”.6 Other evolutionist fossil experts also acknowledge the problem. See: That quote!—about the missing transitional fossils.

Evolutionists were unable to provide any convincing transitional fossils during a recent discussion with Shockofgod. As a result, one of the evolutionists in the discussion claimed that creationists are buying up alleged transitional fossils and are hiding them from the public! When asked where or from whom creationists are buying these supposed transitional fossils, the evolutionist said he didn't know, but he believed this must be happening.

Don't miss the Shockofgod video Proof atheism & evolution are stupid

Folks, evolutionists are using desperate measures to prop up their dead as a doornail evolutionary fantasies.

Related resources:

Creation Evangelism and the Question Evolution! Campaign

Creation Magazine

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2,000 Question Evolution! tract order and soon an enormous and hungry school of creationist piranha will begin devouring Darwinism

A few days ago we reported on a member of our Question Evolution! Campaign group ordering 2,000 Question Evolution! tracts (see: 0n fire Question Evolution! evangelist in our group ordered 2,000 Question Evolution! tracts).

We have only just begun to fight

Evolutionists, the Question Evolution! Campaign is not going away. It has only just started.

"I have not yet begun to fight" - John Paul Jones

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." - Thomas Carlyle

"Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these." - James Whitcomb Riley

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge


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Evolution quotes #45

"The individual lucky enough to have first access to a particular specimen is
therefore likely to 'leave no bone unturned in his effort to find new and
striking peculiarities which he can interpret functionally or genealogically,
Unless he is very experienced, he is prone to discover new features which are
partially the creations of his own concentrated imagination.'"

Roger Lewin (noted science journalist), Bones of Contention (New York, NY: A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster Inc., 1987), p. 26

0n fire Question Evolution! evangelist in our group ordered 2,000 Question Evolution! tracts

One of the members of our Question Evolution! Campaign group recently ordered 2,000 Question Evolution! tracts in order to share the campaign with the public. Plus, he ordered some
Creation Magazines as well.

Here is a recent report on some of his activities:

I was down getting my driver's license renewed. I took a Question Evolution! tract and Creation magazine to leave there. There wasn't anywhere to leave the magazine. The lady at the counter commented on the pic on the cover of the magazine, saying it was a great photo. I told her I'd brought it to leave there, but there wasn't a place for it. She grabbed it off me and said she would read it.

In the next 60 days or so (or possibly sooner), we expect to report some even more exciting news. Hint: It is going to be a huge boost to something we did an post on earlier (see:
Creation Evangelism and the Question Evolution! Campaign). Please stay tuned. You definitely will not want to miss it!

Related resources:

15 questions for evolutionists

Refuting evolution!

Evangelical Christianity is rising in the UK. Demographic data points to upcoming reversal of secularism in the UK. No English speaking country will be safe for Darwinism

Darwinism will be crushed like a tin can in its UK birthplace due to: demographic trends such as immigration and the higher birth rate of religious conservatives plus the Question Evolution! Campaign.

A 2012 report shows that evangelicalism is rising in the UK: UK: The rise of evangelicalism is shaking up the established church ( Please read this article or you will have difficulty understanding the rest of this article).   Generally speaking, Christian evangelical immigrants from developing countries in Africa and areas such as Latin America are often apt to be creationists.  

If you don't understand what evangelicalism is or what biblical (theologically conservative) Christianity is I suggest reading these articles: An evangelical "litmus test" and  The slippery slide to unbelief  and Loving God with all your mind: logic and creation and Evangelicalism -Theopedia and  Why Conservative Churches Are Growing: David Brooks and the Limits of Sociology 

In April of 2011, Thomas Seymat reports in an article entitled Immigrants strengthen Christianity in the UK that half of the new immigrants to the UK that 50% of recent immigrants to the UK are Christian.

Thomas Seymat declares:

...African Pentecostals are the fastest-growing denominations. “In Lewisham, there are 65 Pentecostal churches serving the Nigerian community, and others serving the Congolese, Ghanian and Ivorian communities,” says the report. It adds, “perhaps the most significant change has been the growth of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity within migrant populations, particularly those from Africa and Latin America.”

This trend of increasing Christian migrants has not gone unnoticed by religious observers. Dr Joe Aldred, secretary of the Minority Ethnic Christian Affairs section of the Churches Together in England (CTE) tweeted on @joealdred : “At national Church Planting Consultation. Didn’t know so much going on planting new churches. Christianity making a come back in Britain?”

The tide of secularism in the UK is expected to be reversed

England is the motherland of Darwinism and atheists tend to be the most vocal defenders of evolutionary belief. Eric Kaufmann, a professor at Birkbeck, University of London, using a multitude of demographic studies argues in an academic paper entitled Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century the decline of atheism in terms of its global adherents is an established trend that will persist for the foreseeable future and the rate of decline will accelerate. In the Western World, which includes the UK, due to immigration and the higher birth rates of religious people, Kaufman writes: "Committed religious populations are growing in the West, and will reverse the march of secularism before 2050."

Our Question evolution! campaign group will have a UK outreach

Although our Question evolution! campaign group will focus on spreading the campaign in the United States and Canada for a spell, we definitely have our sights on spreading the campaign in the UK. It probably will not occur until after the summer Olympics though due to CMI-UK focusing on a campaign specifically geared towards for the Olympics.

A member of our group does an awesome Richard Dawkins imitation so it should be a lot of fun spreading the campaign in the UK.

It really is an exciting time to be a creationist and the time is ripe for a grassroots anti-evolution campaign like the Question evolution! campaign.

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A collection of our articles on European creationism

Research shows a significant amount of American nondenominational church members are checking "unaffiliated" or "no religion" on surveys

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Refuting evolution

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Evolution quotes #44

"With the emotional elements of adventure, sacrifice and reward all compounded
in the discovery of a new fossil, together with the soul-stirring aspects of
ancestor worship, it might seem that the odds are heavily stacked against an
objective analysis by the individual who by custom has the right of first
pronouncement. Earnest Hooton, a prominent Harvard anthropologist of the 1930s
and '40s, recognized this trap as 'the psychology of the individual discoverer
and describer.' He wrote that 'The tendency towards aggrandizement of a rare or
unique specimen on the part of its finder or the person to whom its initial
scientific description has been entrusted, springs naturally from human egoism
and is almost ineradicable.'"

Roger Lewin (noted science journalist), Bones of Contention (New York, NY: A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster Inc., 1987), pp. 25-26 citing Apes, Men and Morons, published by Putman, 1937, p. 112

Why our Question Evolution! group is focusing on America and Canada

America and the West are becoming a harsher place.

More and more in the news reports of angry gunman going on killing sprees and/or other acts of hatred are being reported in America plus other countries in the Western World as well. Articles like Now THAT Is Cold - 19 Signs That America Is Becoming A Very Heartless Place are becoming more commonplace.

Focusing on the weakest and most pivotal link to Darwinism - North America

Our Question evolution! group mainly consist of Americans and Canadians although we have other members outside these two countries. So it would be foolhardy not to develop the campaign in our own backyard through our fellow countrymen. Also, although our group is going to primarily focus on America and Canada in the next 6 months or so, both countries are filled with many immigrants which will help spread the campaign throughout the world (And would definitely like to have an international blog network of Question evolution! campaign blogs).

It is no secret that America per capita has more biblical creationists than any Western nation plus more creationists as well due to its large population. Furthermore, another excellent reason for focusing on America is that it still has a lot of influence in the world due to its reputation for many scientific and technological breakthroughs and its films, media, world trade, etc. In addition, the USA and Canada being friendly neighbors definitely have an influence on each other. Plus, parts of Canada have seen major victories for biblical creation (see: Canadian creationist victories)

The famous Chinese General Sun Tzu, whose work The Art of War is still studied by military strategists today, advised it was best to attack the opposition's weak points and quickly establish momentum. In addition, it makes all the sense in the world to attack Darwinism at its weakest and most vital point and that makes America an excellent candidate.

Americans and Canadians, now is the time to start preaching the gospel and help establish momentum for a return to biblical authority in America, Canada and Western Civilization. Help Creation Ministry International make 2012 be the worst year in the history of Darwinism.


Another key reason why we are focusing achieving a breakthrough in the USA and Canada

Consider this key information relating to the United States:

The Birkbeck College, University of London professor Eric Kaufman wrote in his 2010 book Shall the Righteous Inherit the Earth? concerning America:

High evangelical fertility rates more than compensated for losses to liberal Protestant sects during the twentieth century. In recent decades, white secularism has surged, but Latino and Asian religious immigration has taken up the slack, keeping secularism at bay. Across denominations, the fertility advantage of religious fundamentalists of all colours is significant and growing. After 2020, their demographic weight will begin to tip the balance in the culture wars towards the conservative side, ramping up pressure on hot-button issues such as abortion. By the end of the century, three quarters of America may be pro-life. Their activism will leap over the borders of the 'Redeemer Nation' to evangelize the world. Already, the rise of the World Congress of Families has launched a global religious right, its arms stretching across the bloody lines of the War on Terror to embrace the entire Abrahamic family.

Treating the symptoms of society decay vs. the application of a cure

Certainly there is nothing wrong with confronting and treating the symptoms of America's and Canada's ungodliness such as homosexuality, sex outside of marriage, abortion, frivolous divorces and a host of other societal ills, but let's not forget the cure and that is the gospel and a return to biblical authority in America, Canada and the Western World (see our post Why is evolution pushed by fanatical evolutionists?).

Let's not tolerate the lies of evolution and bitter fruits. Spread Question Evolution! Campaign and its 15 questions for evolutionists

The influence of the Christian gospel dramatically improves societies. The preaching of John Wesley and the life changing words of the Bible is widely given credit for helping England avoid a bloody revolution like the French Revolution.

America, Canada and the world desperately need to see some changes. Wouldn't it be great to see your local community and country be won for Christ and become a community of Bible believers? Take action today and join the Question Evolution! Campaign!

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Why is evolution pushed by dogmatic evolutionists?

Have you ever wondered why evolution is pushed so passionately by dogmatic evolutionists despite all the evidence against evolution?

(For those who are familiar with creation vs. evolution issue, the January 20, 2012 Live Science article reporting that Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling came as no surprise)

Also, please ask yourselves these questions:

1. What is the primary underlying reason why so many evolutionists push evolutionary belief?

The businessman J.P. Morgan declared: "A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one."

Atheist evolutionists certainly have no cause to push evolutionism since creation testifies to the existence of God. (Romans 1:20).

2. Why are the next 8 years so important in the creation vs. evolution battle? What is at stake for America, Canada and the world.


3. Do you want to effectively combat the evolutionary plague?

A closer look at fanatical Darwinism

There are a lot of misguided beliefs in the world. For example, there still plenty of people who believe in the astrology bunk, but you don't see Darwinist typically doing astrology protests or commonly making great efforts to get astrology sections out of their local newspapers, do you? There is definitely something inconsistent and amiss. The are also people who still believe the world is flat and the moon landings were merely hoax. But you don't see Darwinists engaging in Flat Earth Society protests or putting in a lot of effort to combat moon landing deniers, do you?

Also, both evolutionists and creationist believe in things like natural selection (natural selection was a creationist idea first proposed by creationist Edward Blythe), speciation and that populations of animals and plants can genetically change so there are no supposed hindrances to biological science advancement posed by biblical creation (creationists just don't believe in molecules to man evolution). In fact, Dr. John Sanford, co-inventor of the gene gun, has endorsed the Question Evolution! Campaign so we know creationists are perfectly capable of innovative and useful science. Also, the Scientific Revolution occurred in an area steeped in Christianity and the Bible.

On the other hand, we now know that the tonsils and other supposed useful organs in the body serve a purpose and thanks to evolutionism many people had their tonsils needlessly ripped out. The truth is that no scientific breakthroughs which have greatly benefited mankind have occurred due to Darwinism and that Darwinism has hindered science.

Interesting study: Morals decline linked to belief in evolution

A research survey of 1535 people, conducted by the Australian National University, revealed that belief in evolution is associated with moral permissiveness.

For more information see:

Morals decline linked to belief in evolution

Why do many fanatical evolutionists religiously promote Darwinism?

The Bible declares:

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. - I Corinthians 6: 9-11

Likewise the Bible declares:

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,
idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. - Galations 5: 19-21

The Apostle Paul wrote to the Roman church:

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in [t]their own persons the due penalty of their error. - Romans 1:26-27

Plus, you can add sins like sloth and gluttony and a myriad of other sins which men commit. For example, sins of omission can be counted too.

Acceptance of biblical authority via things like the acceptance of biblical creation means men are accountable to God and in need of repentance and that is something the great bulk of mankind is unwilling to do. Wide is the gate to destruction Jesus taught and narrow is the way to life.

In short, the required humility, moral purity, accountability and love for thy neighbor required of Christian creationists is very distasteful to the dogmatic Darwinist. Hence, Darwinists have concocted things like Social Darwinism and the master race of the Nazis which resulted in millions of deaths through racial genocide.

In the last 60 years, the most ardent promoters of evolutionary belief have been atheists and their ideological cousins agnostics. On the internet the hatefulness, combativeness and dysfunction of atheists is infamous. For example, in 2010 the The Telegraph ran a story titled Richard Dawkins in bitter web censorship row with fellow atheists with the byline "Professor Richard Dawkins is embroiled in a bitter online battle over plans to rid his popular internet forum for atheists of foul language, insults and 'frivolous gossip'." Recently, YouTube's most subscribed to atheist, TheAmazingAtheist, told a rape victim that "she deserved it" and that her rapist "deserved a medal". Atheism does not exactly have a positive image on the internet, does it? Want to know why so many evolutionists are so argumentative and hateful? Now you know why.

Change is possible for dogmatic evolutionists/atheists: How to become a Christian

Good news - The gospel of Jesus Christ

Why are the next 8 years so important in the creation vs. evolution battle? What is at stake for America, Canada and the world?

Would you like to hear some fantastic news - especially for creationists? Don't watch the television news because you won't hear it discussed by the liberal media.

Please read our posts:

Why our Question Evolution! group is focusing on America and Canada

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Our Question evolution! campaign groups' geographic focus

Although a member of our Question evolution! campaign group is in New Zealand an another member is in Switzerland (plus we know a couple of Christians in Australia), most of the members of our group are in the United States and Canada. Therefore, our group has decided to mainly focus our efforts in North America until the summer Olympic games are over in the UK (CMI-UK is doing a Olympic Games creation outreach for the games).

Of course, people from North America have family and friend ties all over the globe so our groups assistance to the campaign may spread to other countries. Eventually, we want a blog network of many countries.

The remainder of this week and next week we want to work on tools to share the campaign plus reaching out to the Christian blogosphere. Plus, we have some other things in mind as well that we want to do which we may blog about this week.

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Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes?

Question 15:

Why is a fundamentally religious idea, a dogmatic belief system that fails to explain the evidence, taught in science classes? Karl Popper, famous philosopher of science, said “Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical [religious] research programme ....”[13] Michael Ruse, evolutionist science philosopher admitted, “Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.”[14] If “you can’t teach religion in science classes”, why is evolution taught?, creation.com/notscience (Sourced from 15 Questions for Evolutionists)

[13] Popper, K., Unended Quest, Fontana, Collins, Glasgow, p. 151, 1976.

[14] Ruse, M., How evolution became a religion: creationists correct? National Post, pp. B1,B3,B7 May 13, 2000.

So, the famous Karl Popper admitted that “Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.”  A “metaphysical” program?

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary Online tells us metaphysical means “of or relating to the transcendent or to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses, supernatural.”

Evolutionists claim Biblical Creation cannot be taught in schools, regardless of whether or not it is true, because it does not rely on science, but upon the supernatural.  How is it a leading evolutionist of his time could admit evolution is NOT a testable scientific theory, thus making evolution NOT science, but is instead a metaphysical (reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses, supernatural) program and evolutionists still claim evolution is science, and do so with a straight face and actually expect anyone to believe them?

How is it this admitted metaphysical theory about history, a religious idea and dogmatic belief system, is taught as science in science classes?

Eminent philosopher of science, Michael Ruse spelled this out even more clearly when he said, “Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.”

If religion is not allowed to be taught in public schools, and not allowed to be taught in science classes, then why is the religion of evolution (in evolutionist Michael Ruse’s own words) being taught in our science classes?  Scientifically inquiring minds want to know.

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Evolution quotes #43

Michael Day anatomist, "Nine-tenths of your importance in this field comes from
your finds…There is a tremendous bias towards finders. And with this goes an
unwarranted weight on their opinions…I can easily be accused of sour grapes,"[1]
which he states because he is not a finder.

[1] Roger Lewin (noted science journalist), Bones of Contention (New York, NY: A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster Inc., 1987), p. 25 citing an interview with the author, London, 11 June 1985

Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as operational science?

Question #14:

Science involves experimenting to figure out how things work; how they operate. Why is evolution, a theory about history, taught as if it is the same as this operational science? You cannot do experiments, or even observe what happened, in the past. Asked if evolution has been observed, Richard Dawkins said, “Evolution has been observed. It’s just that it hasn’t been observed while it’s happening.”12  creation.com/notscience#distinction (Sourced from 15 Questions for Evolutionists)

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http://www.pbs.org/now/printable/transcript349_full_print.html, 3 December, 2004.

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A question for the eminent Richard Dawkins, “Sir, if evolution hasn’t been observed while it’s happening, then how can you say it has been observed at all?”

If evolution has been observed, but not while it was happening, then what was actually being observed? 

MOYERS: Is evolution a theory, not a fact?

DAWKINS: Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

MOYERS: What do you mean it's been observed?

DAWKINS: The consequences of... It is rather like a detective coming on a murder after the scene. And you… the detective hasn't actually seen the murder take place, of course. But what you do see is a massive clue. Now, any detective…

MOYERS: Circumstantial evidence.

DAWKINS: Circumstantial evidence, but masses of circumstantial evidence. Huge quantities of circumstantial evidence. It might as well be spelled out in words of English. Evolution is true. I mean it's as circumstantial as that, but it's as true as that.

It seems a detective such as Richard Dawkins would likely arrest, prosecute and jail the wrong person for the crime, and be rather proud of himself for doing so.  A massive clue?  How many massive clues does it take for Mr. Dawkins to state a lie to be true?

Clues:

1)  Abiogenesis has never been observed to happen in nature anywhere at any time.

2)  Life has always been observed to come from previously existing life absolutely 100% of the time.

3)  Natural selection “chooses” only the “most fit” traits to pass on, eliminating “weaker” traits and preserving “stronger more fit traits”.  Neither of these adds the new traits necessary for one kind of animal to evolve into another kind of animal.  Natural selection is known to strengthen a given kind of animal, not cause it to become a new kind of animal as required by evolution. (i.e., the breeding of more fit dogs will still only produce a dog)

4)  Mutations corrupt and destroy the information in DNA, causing the organism to “devolve” not “evolve”.  Mutations cause the loss of information giving birth to a lesser animal that will be weeded out by natural selection; not the increase in information which would be necessary for the evolution of one kind of animal to evolve into a more complex, more fit, greater kind of animal.

5)  There are no examples of transitional forms ever existing in nature.  The only transitional forms believed to exist are in the imaginations of scientists and artists.  The massive lack of transitional forms is a clue testifying that evolution did not happen.

6)  By Mr. Dawkins’ own admission, evolution has never been observed while it is happening.  If you cannot observe something while it is happening, how do you know it ever happened?  You need irrefutable evidence before the event, observation and irrefutable evidence during the event, and irrefutable evidence after the event.

Mr. Dawkins, these clues are testable and confirmable, as required by science.  The evidence is against you and your belief in something, which according to your own statement, has never been witnessed to happen.

Evolution is indeed a theory about history.  Evolutionists claim evolution is science, even though evolution directly opposes actual, real, operational science.

Evolutionists:

1)  Where in nature can we observe any animal of any kind reproducing another kind of animal that is more than the original kind and not just a variation of the same kind of animal?  To observe this happening today would make it plausible that it happened in the past.

2)  Where in nature can we observe non-living chemicals evolving into living organisms?  To observe this happening today would make it a plausible explanation for believing it happened in the past.

3)  Science involves conducting experiments and observations to figure out how things operate.   If you cannot conduct experiments on or observe evolution while it is happening, how can it be science?

The belief in evolution is a belief about the history of the universe, from nothing to the “Big Bang” to gas clouds to stars and planets to elements to chemicals (still non-living) to the first living organism(s) to all life we see in existence today.  Evolutionists continually attempt to minimize and change their definition of evolution when part of the overall idea of evolution is shown to be false.  Continuous bait-and-switch changes of definitions continue to show the weakness and bankruptcy of the belief in evolution and its lack of scientific foundation.

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