Is John Loftus another atheist failure destined to leave no legacy like the atheists Paul Kurtz, Farrell Till and other atheists? Recently, we demonstrated that global atheism is shrinking and that leading atheist websites were losing their global market share and/or web traffic in recent years. See: Decline of global atheism
Let's see what the web traffic tracking company Alexa has to say about John Loftus's influence on the world.
John Loftus's blog is losing global market share according to the web traffic tracking company Alexa:
Is Paul Kurtz another atheist failure without a legacy?
I previously did an article on the atheist failure Farrell Till who is headed for leaving no legacy. In addition, I showed that Richard Dawkins and other major atheist and/or evolutionist websites have lost significant traffic in recent years.
Paul Kurtz, who is "the father of secular humanism", appears to be destined for obscurity as well.
Dr. Paul Kurtz appears to have been forced to resign from an main organization that he founded which was the Center for Inquiry. Dr. Kurtz described this humiliating event as a "shattering blow" in a Buffalo News article entitled Redirecting a long life of godlessness. The infighting among the organization appeared to be a power struggle between the New Atheist (militant atheist) and the non-New Atheist factions of his organization.
On October 10, 2010, a contentious exchange between members of the Secular Humanism faction of atheism founded by Paul Kurtz and the atheist Ron Lindsay was caught on tape.Video - Part one and Video - Part 2
During the exchange Ron Lindsay said that infighting has been occurring within the Secular Humanism faction of atheism for years. A Paul Kurtz supporter said that Kurtz was censored by Ron Lindsay and his supporters and driven out of the organization that he founded (Center for Inquiry). On the other hand, Lindsay claimed that Kurtz voluntarily resigned from the organization he founded and Kurtz was never censored. Furthermore, Lindsay said that Kurtz's idea of a "planetary federation" was impractical. Kurtz countered that he was never allowed to publish why he resigned from the organization and that he was censored by the organization that he founded. Below is the web traffic of the Center for Inquiry according to Compete.com - unique visitors per month
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Below is the web traffic graph of Paul Kurtz's current main website according to Alexa:
Also, according to Compete.com Paul Kurtz's website receives about 600 visitors a month as of 3/2012 as can be seen below (click the graph below):
We recently did a series of post on the creation vs. evolution debating forum EvC forum. EvC Forum is a forum which has banned creationist after they won debate after debate. As a result, their website traffic has plunged and the forum is a ghost town (see the graphs below).
And we know that believers in biblical creation easily win debates with evolutionists. Around the 1970s, prominent evolutionists lost hundreds of debates at colleges, universities and other public places. As a result, they are now like timid little bunnies who are afraid to publicly debate.
I just read this EvC Forum post by someone with the username of Bolder-dash about the apparent owner of EvC forum who goes by the username Percy and it made me laugh:
Gee percy, h0w's about we add up the duration of all those little suspensions that you apply so fairly.
Let's see:
All evolutionists suspensions added up equals to 26 days and 4 hours.
and
All creationists suspensions add up to-1 month plus 6 weeks plus 13 days, plus two indefinitely! Oh and let's not forget, I am suspended indefinitely from the biology forums and buzz is suspended indefinitely from science forums, and I am probably missing some other hidden suspensions.
Oh, and since creationists make up a tiny portion of all the posters on your site, that pretty much blows your whole attempt to even try to compare the suspensions of creationists to evolutionists to smithereens. Its not even close Percy.
Do you have cognitive dissonance?
Internet atheism and evolutionism is one big hamster wheel
Would you like to see how internet atheism and evolutionism is one big hamster wheel? Examine the resource below:
We also have another New Zealander in our Question Evolution! group and we are contacting him about this matter too. So we may have three New Zealanders working on this project. He previously mentioned that a Christian newspaper reporter in New Zealand (NZ) was looking to report on the campaign. Should we put out a New Zealand press release which mentions a NZ grant writing team for a worldwide wide internet evangelism and Question Evolution! project? Should it mention we are seeking volunteers?
Although there are 200-300 grants available at any time in America for Christian evangelism according to Christian grant expert, since the grassroots Question Evolution! Campaign is a worldwide campaign, there is no reason why foundations and other organizations sponsoring grants in other countries should not be approached as well.
Accordingly, in addition to soliciting the help of the aforementioned New Zealand fans of CMI for putting together a grant writing team, it is certainly worthwhile to look at other grant opportunities in multiple countries.
Most Kiwis are descended from immigrants from Great Britain in the late 1800's. Oh, but perhaps I should mention the New Zealand national bird instead?
Most scientists believe that flightless birds had ancestors that did fly. DNA evidence suggests that the Kiwi is related to Australia's emu and cassowary. So apparently unknown/extinct birds flew to Australia and New Zealand, then 'devolved' to eventually become the several species of flightless birds that we have today. By devolved, I mean the loss of functionality. Yes creationists believe in science, natural section, and speciation - that may surprise some creation deniers!
But it is possible that these birds never had ancestors that flew; in which case how did they get here?
One possiblity is via large masses of floating mats of vegetation created during Noah's Flood.
An alternative hypothesis, is that the kiwi walked here via landbridges during the ice age, when sea levels were much lower. This seems unlikely due to the (currently) very deep sea floor of the Tasman Sea.
On Friday, September 28, 2012, a 5 page document was sent to a Christian in New Zealand who successfully obtained an $8,000 Christian grant in the past with about 15-20 hours of grant writing work. He is a big fan of the work of Creation Ministries International and his friend is too. His friend, who also lives in New Zealand, is an active supporter of Christian evangelism and he may get involved in the grant writing too. Today, he is going to approach his friend concerning this matter.
Will Christians in New Zealand help spark a revolution in the funding of anti-evolutionary efforts in the world?
Evolutionary gut feelings vs. a well funded Question evolution! campaign
In January of 2012, the Journal of Research in Science Teaching published a study indicating that evolutionary belief is significantly based on gut feelings. A January 20, 2012 article entitled Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling published by the website Live Science wrote of the research: "They found that intuition had a significant impact on what the students accepted, no matter how much they knew and regardless of their religious beliefs." See: Evolutionary gut feelings, "Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling"
We believe that a well funded Question Evolution! Campaign which disseminates the 15 questions for evolutionists will have a significant effect on "evolutionary gut feelings". There is going to be a lot of evolutionists with stomach aches!
In the past, Christians have raised millions to promote biblical creation and an enormous amount on Christian evangelism. At any given time, there are 200-300 Christian grants for evangelism in the United States. We strongly believe that developing a Christian grant writing team and a team which engages in other types of fundraising as well is going to pay significant dividends. See: Winning the creation vs. evolution war through more firepower and A creation vs. evolution fundraising arms race has begun
One of the members of our group is interested in obtaining a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) certification.The biblical creation cause is an excellent cause and it deserves to be very well funded in order to carry out its work.
The soft underbelly of Darwinism and the importance of sustained and aggressive efforts
Due to the rapid rise of biblical Christianity and creationism in the world and a recent Gallup poll indicating the creationism has grown in the last year or so in the United States, we firmly believe that the the evolutionary community has a soft underbelly and we are going to relentlessly pummel the soft underbelly of Darwinism.
Despite all of the highlight reel type knockout’s you get with headshots in boxing, I’ve always been a much bigger fan of body shots—I truly believe that they are the most effective punch in boxing. Unless you are a huge, concussive puncher, not too many head punches have a devastating effect; a correctly delivered body punch may not knock your opponent out, but if you can leave him winded and breathless, it leaves you in a much better position to land more head shots, as your opponents hands suddenly come down to protect their ribs, fearful of another crunching shot to the body.
Body shots may not always deliver a knockout blow, but over time they do wear an opponent out and can cause him to collapse due to sheer debility and exhaustion. Astute observers can already see that evolutionism has shaky legs and that it will inevitably hit the mat. Around the 1970s, prominent evolutionists lost hundreds of debates
at colleges, universities and other public places. As a result,
they are now like timid little bunnies who are afraid to publicly
debate.
The queasy Mr. Darwin and his evolutionary gut feelings
For the last 45 years of Charles Darwin's life, he had an illness which often made him queasy. The 1992 New Encyclopedia Britannica declared that Charles Darwin's illness was psychogenic in origin (A psychogenic illness is one that originates in the mind or in mental condition).
Creation Ministries International has a few articles on this matter:
A 1997 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association declared concerning Darwin's illness that the "variable intensity of symptoms and chronic, prolonged course without physical deterioration also indicate that his illness was psychiatric." In addition, a journal article in the American Journal of Medicine indicated that Darwin suffered from "psychoneurosis provoked and exaggerated by his evolutionary ideas". The American Journal of Medicine article also indicated that Darwin's wife, Emma, greatly disapproved of his evolutionist ideas and "This, facsimile of public reaction, must have kept lively his anxiety and torment".
Charles Darwin who suffered from neurosis due to his evolutionary gut feelings and doubts often suffered from these medical symptoms: palpitations, shortness of breathe ("air fatigues" ), light headedness ("head swimming" ), trembling, crying, dying sensations, abdominal distress, and depersonalization ("treading on air and vision"), nausea, severe vomiting, flatulence, alimentary canal pain, various forms of eruption of the skin, and nervous exhaustion.
Richard Milner wrote about Darwin's illness in the 2002 issue of Scientific American in an article entitled, "Putting Darwin in his Place" which indicated that Darwin clipped, catalogued and indexed hundreds of offprints, about 350 reviews and 1,600 articles, as well as satires, parodies and Punch caricatures, with which he filled hefty scrapbooks". After Charles Lyell published a very weak endorsement of Darwin's Antiquity of Man, Milner wrote that "Darwin's disappointment brought on 10 days of vomiting, faintness and stomach distress."
In a letter to the editor in the April 23/30 1997 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association Dr. Colp wrote: "I believe that Darwin's illness consisted of panic disorder (without agoraphobia), psychosomatic skin disorder, and possibly Chagras disease of the stomach." Dr. Colp also mentioned that Darwin had facial eczema that often was caused by controversies over his evolutionist ideas.
Evolutionists and an ulcer epidemic
We are putting out a medical advisory to evolutionists. Due to an upcoming epidemic of ulcers among the evolutionists community who believe in evolution due to evolutionary gut feelings and have their evolutionary notions increasingly challenged, the promoters of the Question Evolution! Campaign and its 15 questions for evolutionists are going to be referred to by medical doctors as "carriers" of ulcers among evolutionists.
We highly suggest you abandon your rebellion to biblical authority and your evolutionary gut feelings and become believers in biblical creation now before its too late.
The creation vs. evolution debate forum called EvC Forum has been around since at least 2001. Yet, the "achievements" of EvC Forum in terms of outreach are very modest indeed as can be seen by the graphs below.The web traffic of that web forum has been plunging too.
The owner of EvC Forum appears to be someone who goes by the username of Percy. Percy has done over 11,000 futile posts at EvC Forum. I am guessing that the "superior evolutionist intellect" of Percy is in charge of EvC Forum's evolutionist "outreach".
Percy and his fellow internet evolutionists remind me of hamsters that furiously spin around in their wheel, but never really go anywhere. For example, Gallup Inc. recently reported its largest recorded increase in biblical creation belief in the United States. 46% of Americans are now young earth creationists. Also, global atheism/agnosticism are both shrinking while global Christianity and creationism are rapidly expanding. See: Global decline of atheism and the rise of global creationism.
Yet, despite the plunging web traffic of EvC Forum and the explosive growth of biblical creationism, Percy is afraid to accept our debate offer which would give his obscure evolutionist website and his errant evolutionist views exposure to tens of thousands of people. See: We challenge Percy to a debate!
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It appears as if Percy wants to continue to spin in his EvC Forum hamster wheel and keep banning creationists who win debate after debate.
And we know that believers in biblical creation easily win debates with evolutionists. Around the 1970s, prominent evolutionists lost hundreds of debates at colleges, universities and other public places. As a result, they are now like timid little bunnies who are afraid to publicly debate.
Given the speciousness of evolutionism (see: Refuting evolution), the explosive growth of global biblical creation belief, the global shrinking of atheism/agnosticism in terms of adherents which is expected to affect the Western World and the obscurity of EvC Forum, Percy should consider himself fortunate that we will debate someone promoting evolutionary quackery!
Internet atheism and evolutionism is one big hamster wheel
Would you like to see how internet atheism and evolutionism is one big hamster wheel? Examine the resource below:
The Question evolution! campaign is making greater inroads into India. A goal was set by a member of our group to make greater inroads into India and it was recently achieved.
In March of 2012, according to the web traffic tracking company Alexa the website of Creation Ministries International, which is Creation.com, received 3.5 percent of their web traffic from India. As of September 27, 2012, their website receives 5% of their web traffic from India. In addition, according to Quantcast, Creation.com now receives a slightly above average amount of their web traffic from India whereas in March of 2012, it was receiving below average traffic from India.
There is a lot of growth potential in India for the gospel. For example, I recently heard a report of a church in Chennai (Madras) which has approximately 25,000 members and it is made up of 90% ex-Hindus. In addition, there are other churches like this in Chennai as well other parts of India. Christianity has been in this part of India for some time. For example, Madras Christian College, which was founded in 1837, is one of the oldest Christian Colleges in India.
Will this have an effect on North American, Britain and Europe as a whole? Yes, it will due to immigration and global communication. The Birbeck, University of London professor Eric Kaufmann declared to a secular audience in a lecture titled Shall the religious inherit the earth: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us." The prophet Daniel wrote of the end times: "But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase." (Daniel 12:4).
India has made significant economic progress in recent years and has developed a higher skilled workforce and people with greater wealth. As a result, Indian citizens are able to immigrate to other countries more easily than the citizens of many countries. For example, in the United States there are many Indians in high skilled fields and many successful Indian business people. During my travels, I encountered the "Patel Motel" phenomena first hand in the United States. In 1999, the Asian American Hotel Association reported that slightly more than 50 percent of all motels in the United States were owned by people of Indian origin. Also, next week I am having dentistry done by someone of Indian descent.
Besides having ambitious goals for Question Evolution! Campaign and its 15 questions for evolutionists in North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, South Africa, Korea, Latin America, China, Taiwan and the rest of the world, I personally would like to see the campaign expand significantly in India.
We have a goal of helping to increase Creation Ministries International's creation evangelism efforts in the United States by at least 600% and helping creation evangelism expand by 400% in the world. Due to the explosive growth of global Christianity/creationism in the world and its expected affects on the Western World and our plans to take aggressive and strategic creation evangelism efforts, we believe this is very achievable. For more information please see: Our group's plan, strategy and tactics for advancing the Question Evolution! Campaign
Johnson C. Philip
There are some wonderful Christian Indian creationists in India. One of the more prominent Christian creationist is Johnson C. Philip and he has made some valuable contributions to the Christian apologetics field (Christian apologetics is the discipline which concerns itself with defending the Christian faith). A excellent biography of Johnson C. Philip is available at CreationWiki plus another good biography of Dr. Philip can be found at at Brethrenpedia It would be great to get Dr. Philip involved in the campaign and/or people he recommends.
Our Question Evolution! group believes that the cultivating friendly relationships with our Christian creationist brethren in India would be a wonderful thing to do and it would make the biblical creation movement stronger plus make the Question evolution! campaign stronger. This is especially true when it comes to the internet presence of the Question evolution campaign as far as English speaking countries. Obviously, the more English speaking countries that are involved in the campaign, the stronger than campaign will be in terms of prominence on the English speaking portion of the internet. We also want the campaign to expand into other languages as well. The Great Commission is for all nations of the world after all. See also: Top 10 languages for turbocharging creation evangelism. Our Question Evolution! teams translating goals
Indian elephants picture
The blog picture features Indian elephants. In 2010, the elephant was officially declared the National Heritage Animal by the government of India.
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If you click the graph below, it will help you will see that our Question Evolution! Campaign group's efforts continue to pay off in the United States and in the world:
Remember evolutionists, we are committed to help to grow the creation evangelism of Creation Ministries International expand by 600% in the United States and help Christendom's creation evangelism grow by 400% in the world at large. In addition, we are determined to helping biblical creation become a majority belief in the United States.
We are going to help our fellow believers in biblical creation bring down the temple of Darwinism in the United States.
46% of Americans are now young earth creationists according to the latest Gallup poll and there was a 6% reported jump in the last year or so. The momentum is on our side and there are powerful demographic and other social forcesin our favor.We are striking while the iron is hot and going all-out effort to crush evolutionism in the United States, Canada and the world.
The envelop of creation evangelism outreach and fund raising is being pushed. We will move faster, stronger and more efficiently each day, week, month, year and decade. Weak, lackluster and insincere evolutionists are not going to stop us or get in our way. Evolutionism cannot survive a strong and sustained anti-evolution grassroots campaign in local communities across the world and across a wide variety of venues such as the internet, radio, news outlets, etc.
Evolutionists, are you ready for an all-out assault on evolutionary belief? Judging by your inability to effectively answer the 15 questions for evolutionists we both know you are not! It's on its way and your are not ready! You will never be ready. Evolution is quackery that cannot stand up to cross-examination.
Well, in response an evolutionist at EvC Forum admits his website is a ghost town!
Here is a quote from the evolutionist Percy who is part of the forum's "leadership" and I use the term leadership loosely given the tremendous loss of web traffic to his forum:
Gee, nice to be mentioned, even if only in an obituary!
His graph seems accurate, seems to track the decline in messages posted. It would be interesting to see a graph that went all the back to 2001.
Any guesses as to the creationist he quotes who says he was banned? Sounds like ForEverYoung, except that he's not suspended anymore.
--Percy
Percy, want more web visitors at your website forum? Stop banning creationists when they easily and effortlessly win debate after debate!
And we know that believers in biblical creation easily win debates with evolutionists. Around the 1970s, prominent evolutionists lost hundreds of debates at colleges, universities and other public places. As a result, they are now like timid little bunnies who are afraid to publicly debate.
Percy, are you confident that evolutionary belief can withstand cross-examination in a live debate? Are you willing to debate in an environment where you cannot ban creationists? We can even agree to a series of live oral debates lest you complain you didn't enough time to make your case.
We challenge Percy and his fellow EvC Forum evolutionists to a live public oral debate on the internet
Percy, are you willing to have a team debate centered around the 15 questions for evolutionists via a live recorded oral debate which would be distributed to tens of thousands of people?
If you are confident, please make the necessary arrangements via this free chat room: http://login.meetcheap.com/conference,89538844 You can make the necessary arrangements with the chat room moderators Shockofgod or VivaYehshua.
Alternatively, you can reach Shockofgod via his YouTube email account.
If you want to know more about the debate, any and all questions should be directed to Shockofgod or VivaYehshua.
Please don't make excuses as we know you and your fellow EvC Forum evolutionists have a lot of time on your hands and the graphs below help demonstrate this.
EvC Forum - Web traffic tracking graph from Compete.com for the period from 7/2011 to 7/2012:
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EvC Forum - Web traffic tracking graph from Alexa:
Question Evolution! Campaign resources and other resources:
China, which arguably has the world's largest atheist/evolutionist population, currently has Christianity exploding in adherents in the countryside and cities. Of course, this has HUGE implications in terms of the world's population of atheists as it will take an ENORMOUS bite out of the world's atheist and evolutionist population. If you have not read our article about this matter, I suggest reading our article entitled World's biggest atheist population about to see a big decline
I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who has a close friendship with a Chinese Christian creationist who is very committed to speed up the growth of Christianity in China by removing the stumbling of Darwinism. It is a major focus in this person's life.
My friend suggest that I contact this Chinese Christian and gave me his/her contact information. My friend thinks this is something that he/she would be interested in hearing about and getting involved with. My guess is that this person knows Mandarin Chinese, but he/she may know other Chinese dialects as well. Also, in order to gain wide dissemination the translation would use simplified Chinese characters
I am contacting this Chinese person today. If you are a Christian creationist, please pray about this matter as history teaches us that Chinese translators can have a big effect on Chinese history in terms of the creation vs. evolution issue.
Yan Fu (1854-1921), a famous Chinese intellectual, was the first to introduce Darwinian ideas to China. He is well-known for his 1808 translation of Thomas Huxley's Evolution and Ethics, which sparked the dissemination of evolutionary ideas in China. Also, his work had a profound social impact due to Darwinism helping to spawn the murderous ideology of Chinese atheistic communism.
We are definitely going to be persistent about getting Chinese translators for this campaign. The potential increase in Christians and belief in biblical creation is too large to ignore.
And this could definitely have an affect on atheism in the West. The Birbeck, University of London professor Eric Kaufmann declared to a secular audience in a lecture titled Shall the religious inherit the earth: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an age of globalization are going to affect us."
Question Evolution! Campaign resources and other resources:
Our Question Evolution! group just broke through a SECOND goal we set for the United States! In addition, we believe we may soon have a successful grant writing person on our team now as he expressed considerable interest and we have spoken to him for over 2 hours at this point.
Go Question Evolution! American team! USA! USA! USA!
You can see the exciting data below plus see our plan for making quantum leaps and continuous improvement.
We are beginning to move faster and faster towards the Question Evolution! speed of sound.
North America is going to be a BIG focus for our group in the coming 60-90 days. That is because Americans LOVE questioning evolution. The United States is a key battleground in the creation vs. evolution culture war. It is one of the weakest geographic areas in the world for Darwinism.
Below is the web traffic of Creation Ministries International (CMI). According to Quantcast, it directly measures the web traffic for Creation.com which is CMI's website. According to Quantcast, direct measurement requires being "Quantified" which means the website owner put Quancast tracking code on their website.
According to Quantcast the figures below represent:
The volume of traffic originating from individual countries in a 30 day period. Indexes are calculated by comparing the percentage of a site's traffic from a given country to the pattern of all Internet traffic measured by Quantcast - e.g, an index of 500 indicates that the site gets five times as much of its traffic from the given country than the average Internet site.
For example, as you can see below, Creation.com now had an index of 105for the United States on 9/25/12 which means it is now has an above average to a typical website in terms of the percentage of web traffic it gets from America. We had set a goal to reach the 105 benchmark and we just recently reached it.
Our next goal is to expand the campaign both on the internet and in local communities by a little over 100%. This would mean that the web traffic of Creation.com would be about 150,000 visitors plus the ministry would have increases in other areas as well such as greater exposure in radio, print, local community efforts, etc.
Based on the United States vs. Australia numbers below, we feel conservatively that Creation.com could increase its web visitors by 600% which would mean it would have over 400,000 web visitors a month from the United States. We believe this goal is realistic because biblical creation belief is very prevalent in the United States and recent trends portend future growth.
Of course, this would spur the growth of its outreach in other countries as well due to spill over effects as no country is an island unto itself.
Creation.com - website of Creation Ministries International - unique visitors a month
Creation.com - website of Creation Ministries International - unique visitors a month - data obtained on 9/25/12 - countries section
Country Unique visitors Unique Index
United States 69,129 105
Australia 17,288 671
United Kingdom 12,213 153
Canada 12,210 193
India 4,047 105
Philippines 3,265 211
South Africa 3,815 1002
New Zealand 3,646 968
Singapore 1,228 248
Quantum leaps and continuous improvement
We are definitely pursuing reaching the masses with the Question Evolution! Campaign and its 15 questions for evolutionists via all methods available such as news media, radio, the internet and local initiatives and doing this in a integrated way.
We have some very creative people withing our group and we are very open to using their ideas. We believe creativity can produce quantum leaps in productivity as far as getting the word out about social movements.
Another approach we are going to utilize as far as getting out our message in a better and better way is the technique first developed by Americans and then further developed by the Japanese. The principle of kaizen.
Continuous improvement though Kaizen and Kaizen blitzes
Kaizen(改善), which is the Japanese for "improvement", is a "philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices that underlies total quality management and just-in-time business techniques."
The American businessman K. Edwards Deming taught the Japanese some principles of kaizen and I want to share with you some key quotes of Demming's:
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing." - W. Edwards Deming
"Lack of knowledge... that is the problem." - W. Edwards Deming "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." - W. Edwards Deming
Every month we want to get continually improve at getting out our message in a bigger and more efficient way. We can teach others how to do this easily and efficiently via developing training videos and materials which is easy using free computer screen capture video recorder software such as Cam Studio.
In addition, we can do "kaizen blitzes" to learn how to do specific tasks better in a more rapid way (see: video below).
In short, we want to put together a grassroots Question evolution! social movement "Dream team". And you cannot become a Michael Jordan in any field of human endeavor without hard work and efforts to continually improve your performance. In addition, our efforts to put together a grant writing team is moving forward so we can do some heavy duty funding and be able to throw considerable more resources towards the Question Evolution! campaign (see below).
The American Danny Cox is an ex-Navy fighter pilot and speaker who wrote an excellent book for those wanting to continually shatter their previous efforts. The book was entitled There are no limits and I heartily recommend reading it.
A classic quote from Mr. Cox:
"Decide what 'personal best' record you'll commit yourself to breaking on daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis. Once you break the first three, the last two are easier!" - Danny Cox
Michael Jordan quotes:
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. " - Michael Jordan
"I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win." - Michael Jordan
Fundraising efforts
This weekend we spoke to a Christian gentleman outside of North America who has successfully engaged in grant writing for a Christian organization and he has expressed some interest in doing grant writing with our group. He informed our Question Evolution! group that he obtained a grant of $8,000 and it required an investment of grant writing time of 15-20 hours. Of course, that was his first grant writing attempt so he was probably slower in his grant writing efforts than a more experienced person.
For the sake of discussion let's assume we put together a grant writing team. If an experienced grant writing team can initially raise $8,000 via 15 hours of grant writing time that means they are raising $533 an hour. That's not bad. Of course, the law of diminishing returns would eventually take place so continual effort would be necessary - especially if you want to raise considerable funds like we do.
However, we don't know if the $8,000 raised in 15-20 hours is representative of this person's efforts.
If his efforts are above average, I think you know what this may mean. We may have a virtuoso of Christian grant writing on our team whose efforts will be blessed by God!
I can hear our Question Evolution! team members after he finishes each grant application:
Bravo! Magnificent! Olé! Olé! Olé!
God willing, the beast of evolutionism will be skewered with the help of our grant writing team.
A seasoned grant writing pro told us in the past that at any given time there are 200-300 grants for Christian evangelism. We believe that creation evangelism and internet evangelism are very worthwhile and grant reviewers will look favorably on these endeavors. Plus, creation evangelism and general internet evangelism can be synergistically combined together. See: Internet evangelism is powerful especially when combined with creation evangelism
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Around the 1970s, prominent evolutionists lost hundreds of debates at colleges, universities and other public places. As a result, they are now like timid little bunnies who are afraid to publicly debate. We love challenging evolutionist blowhards who make comments on our blog to debates and watching them run away
I just received this email from a creationist:
As for EvC Forum, I am banned. Percy will not reinstate me. If the Forum is dead then there is no mystery as to why. Without Creationists there can be no forum.
Due to losing debate after debate, the evolutionists at the creation vs. evolution debate forum called EvC Forum resorted to censoring creationists and banning them. Their web traffic appears to have plunged as a result (see: web traffic tracking graphs below).
Below are web traffic tracking graphs from the leading web traffic tracking companies Compete.com and Alexa.
EvC Forum - Web traffic tracking graph from Compete.com for the period from 7/2011 to 7/2012:
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EvC Forum - Web traffic tracking graph from Alexa:
After we publish the Question Evolution! book for middle school students and fully initiate the wide dissemination phase of the Question Evolution! Campaign and its 15 questions for evolutionists, we are considering launching a creation vs. evolution forum.
Right now, people are free to bring up the 15 questions for evolutionist at at Shockofgod free audio chat room located here: Shock's chat room
There are free audio chat rooms providers and free forum software providers.
1. What 5 key strategies can opponents of evolution use to collapse Darwinism?
2. Will opponents of evolution collapse Darwinism through having sheer numbers of adherents or through superior resources, creativity, foresight and the attrition of Darwinists? Alternatively, will it be though a combination of some or all of these factors?
Three master strategists in history
Some believers of biblical creation are satisfied with incremental gains over Darwinism. Our Question Evolution! Campaign group and other like minded creationists want total victory. In short, the world collapse of Darwinism.
History is replete with examples of various ideologies and religions disappearing off the face of the earth. And make no mistake about it, Darwinism is both an ideology and a religion. Michael Ruse, an atheist and evolutionist science philosopher admitted, “Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.”
Military commanders and scholars consider these three military strategist to be among the best in the history:
1. The Chinese general Sun Tzu
2. The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz
3. Antoine-Henri Jomini who served under French and Russian armies. Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu's strategies and tactics embody the "Eastern tradition of strategy that emphasizes outwitting an opponent through speed, stealth, flexibility, and a minimum of effort." An essay discussing Sun Tzu declares that Tzu promotes "fluidity, flexibility, surprise,,, and intelligence over sheer military might." Other key principles of Sun Tzu are: finding ways of conquering an enemy without actually fighting (putting the opposition in no win situations), attacking an enemies strategy, attacking weak points of an enemy, the importance of timing and bringing war to an end as quickly as possible.
Sun Tzu is widely credited for writing the classic work The Art of War which is still studied by military strategist today. Carl von Clausewitz
Two key quotes of Carl von Clauswitz:
“If you want to overcome your enemy you must match your efforts against his power of resistance, which can be expressed as the product of two inseparable factors; the total means at his disposal and the strength of his will.”
“If in conclusion we consider the total concept of a victory, we find it consists of three elements: the enemy’s greater loss of material strength, hisloss of morale, and his open admission of the above by giving up his intentions.”
In addition, Clausewitz was focused on: the massive application of force, "the importance of finding the center of gravity, or the critical point at the critical time, upon which the outcome of the conflict depended" and the unpredictability of war and/or "fog of war".
Because Clausewitz has a focus on breaking the enemies will and civilian leadership is often in charge of the military in the Western socities, Clausewitz wrote about the political aspects of war also.
Antoine-Henri Jomini
Jomini stressed: putting superior combat power at a decisive point, attacking key points, operational warfare and using a minimal of combat power to achieve objectives. 5 strategies to collapse Darwinism
I don't agree with all of the ideas expressed by these military strategists in terms of defeating an opposition and ideological wars are not the same as military conflicts. Yet, there are some similarities.
With that being said, below is a list of the key ways that creationists can collapse Darwinism. 5 strategies to collapse Darwinism
In short, we want to we want to "flood the zone" on the public forum as much as possible.
We will do what it takes to optimize fundraising using fundraising best practices and using a variety of methods to fundraising. Millions have been raised to fight Darwinism. We believe that attacking Darwinism involves a well designed, strategic and efficient grassroots effort and other efforts to support it (such as internet evangelism and other forms of evangelism) will be attractive to the Christian community.
We know that secular ideology is weak and worth attacking in a broad way to reach the general public. And this is certainly true in the case of Darwinism. A 2012 study found that people believed in evolution due to having a gut feeling. See: Evolutionary gut feelings, "Belief in Evolution Boils Down to a Gut Feeling"
A 2012 Georgetown University study indicating that those who raised atheist by their family have a mere 30% retention rate as far as staying atheist indicates that atheism is a weak ideology. Also, in communist China, Christianity is rapidly growing in both the countryside and in its cities too. Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz also taught value of timing. Currently, the Western World is buried by a mountain of debt which is causing wide spread unemployment in various countries and financial instability. A growing number of financial experts conclude that the West is going to experience a very significant amount of financial pain and/or that a global economic depression is coming. History teaches us that in times of trouble people often turn to God and question their current views on life. For more information please see: Social unrest in Europe altering its religious landscape In addition, Western society under financial duress and facing increased business competition from the Eastern World is likely to make cuts in public funding of Darwinist ideology such finding ways to private schooling since it is more economical (vouchers for private schools, charter schools, online education, shut down some public colleges/universities, etc.).
In addition, I believe in the strong use of fundraising because I think it is important to kill off Darwinism as quickly as possible as it is a needless stumbling block to Christian evangelism. This is in accordance of Sun Tzu's principle of ending conflicts as quickly as possible. In addition, Sun Tzu stressed the importance of preparation and having a well supplied army.
2. Attacking Darwinism at key points
Although Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz and Antoine-Henri Jominihave very different approaches, they all agree on the importance of attacking the opposition strategically and at key points. See: Attacking Darwinism at key points
3. Attacking the enemies strategy
Sun Tzu taught it is important to attack the enemies strategy. For example, indoctrinating students in public schools is a key strategy of Darwinists.
We know that in America most teachers are reluctant to endorse evolutionism in class.
Therefore, we are going to educate children on the many weaknesses of Darwinism through the 15 questions for evolutionists taught through a variety of methods such as tracts, booklets, books, videos, online courses, workbooks, classes, etc. .
Then of course, we are going to encourage students to bring up these 15 questions in class if there teachers are trying to indoctrinate the class in evolutionary dogma. We can also train students to do this in summer camps, churches and other places. See: The high price of NOT asking the 15 Questions for Evolutionists in your classroom
If David has the boldness to defeat Goliath, should not Christian students bring up objections to Darwinism to teachers who are often reluctant to endorse Darwinism in class? Isn't this especially true since the false beliefs of evolutionary thought are antithetical to what the Bible teaches and corrosive to biblical morality. See: Morals decline linked to evolution - university study
In addition, conservative Bible clubs are proliferating across the United States in public schools and other places through coordinated effort of a national Christian organization. It makes all the sense in the world to form a strategic alliance with this group and similar groups via Question Evolution! materials designed with their needs in mind. See: Bible in schools and alliances with Question Evolution! campaign supporters
Now that a Question Evolution! book for middle school students is soon going to be completed (we expect it to be completed in 2013), the process of mass dissemination of the Question Evolution! Campaign has started. Since it is a grassroots campaign, recruiting more and more volunteers is key. We have a member of our team who worked for a national employee recruiting firm and he is very good at recruiting people and teaching others.
5. Flexibility and minimum of effort to achieve goals
We are always gong to be looking for ways to deliver our message faster and more economically. For example, forming alliances and taking advantage of technological advances and/or new marketing venues/channels. This is in line with the thinking of Sun Tzu and Jomini.
Also, people like learning content in various ways. For example, a businessman might like an audio he can listen to in his car. Other people prefer books or videos. Other people like structured online courses. We will endeavor to meet the public's preferences as much as possible.
In addition, Sun Tzu taught the importance of surprise and stealth to keep your opponents off balance. We have a number of things planned we want unleash which we think will be very effective.
War of attrition:
Alex White, a manager for non-profit causes, says that often modern day ideological wars are wars of attrition and there is some wisdom and applicability in this statement. On the other hand, in an information age and various technologies to rapidly get out one's message, the applicability of White's statement is mitigated and is not a blanket statement. It all depends how entrenched an ideology is in various regions and sectors of the populace.
J. Bartholomees wrote: “there will always be one enemy soldier armed with a knife who is willing to give their life to continue the fight”. Unfortunately for evolutionists, post losing hundreds of debates at colleges, universities and other public places around the time of the 1970's, they are now like timid little bunnies who are afraid to publicly debate. We love challenging evolutionist blowhards who make comments on our blog to debates and watching them deflate and cowardly scamper away.
In addition, Richard Dawkins and the British Human Society ducked debating the Christian apologist William Lane Craig and this was reported in major news outlets and in the Christian and conservative press. Furthermore, the ex-atheist Richard Dawkins in a very public way declared himself an agnostic (which many people where not aware of) which was very embarrassing to the atheist community. Dawkins and his publisher seem to want to retain the label of atheist for Dawkins when he is peddling books, however. See: Is Richard Dawkins a flip-flopper?
As you can see, Carl von Clausewit's stressing of the importance of breaking the will of the opposition so their will to fight is removed has very limited applicability in the creation vs. evolution controversy. Unless of course, you think timid little bunnies need their will to fight diminished.
Also, Christopher Hitchens was an atheist sophist who had charisma. Post Hitchens dying the little esprit de corps is gone and now atheists are involved in intense bickering among themselves and trying to launch feeble gimics to repackage atheism and put a new face on atheism (Atheism+, etc.). It is pointless. The atheist Dr. Sam Harris said about the label of atheist, "It's right next to child molester as a designation."
Eric Kaufmann and attrition and immigration
The work of Professor Eric Kaufmann and the scholarship Gordon-Conwell Seminary is very instructive in terms of the battle of attrition between Christians and atheists, agnostics and those who are more secular minded.
In 2012, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (GCTS) reported that every day there are 800 less atheists per day, 1,100 less non-religious (agnostic) people per day and 83,000 more people professing to be Christians per day (see: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary - status of Global Mission report).
Michael Blume, a researcher at the University of Jena in Germany, wrote "Most societies or communities that have espoused atheistic beliefs have not survived more than a century." Blume also indicated concerning concerning his research on this matter: "What I found was the complete lack of a single case of a secular population, community or movement that would just manage to retain replacement level."
A review of Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutionsdeclares about old paradigms dying out through attrition:
Kuhn argues that scientific “progress” is not linear. New theories and paradigms are not continuations of old ones but replace the old ones and are discontinuous and incommensurable with them. Criticism of earlier science must be made through the eyes of the contemporary. The new ones arise due to the bulk of evidence against the old becoming intolerable; they become paradigms as they become accepted by younger scientists and as the older ones die.
The science community does not exist in a vacuum. Scientists are human beings who are affected by their culture and personal worldviews. It is no mistake that the Scientific Revolution occurred in Christianized Europe and that many of the founding fathers of modern science were Christians. And as per the factors of described in Kaufman's work and other factors, we believe that a secular culture is destined to die in the West.
Summary
Bible believing Christians being instrumental to collapsing Darwinism will involve a combination of working hard, working smart and through attrition due to demographic factors.
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