1. Will the most dominant form of evolutionary belief, neo-darwinism, developed in the period of 1937 to 1950 be abandoned?
2. Is there anything credible within evolutionary thought to replace neo-darwinism? Will it be replace with any credible evolutionary thinking in the future?
Neo-Darwinism has been the dominant school of evolutionism for some time and as noted above it was a school of evolutionary thought first developed between 1937 to 1950. An online dictionary defines Neo-Darwinism as "Darwinism as modified by the findings of modern genetics."
The Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould tried to dislodge neo-darwinism with a radical new form of evolutionism called punctuated equilibrium but he wound up watering down his brand of evolutionism because he could not support it via the biological sciences. Gould initially developed his school of evolutionary thought because neo-Darwinism does not fit at all with the fossil record. According to the American Museum of Natural History punctuated equalibrium "asserts that evolution occurs in dramatic spurts interspersed with long periods of stasis".
How satisfied are evolutionary biologists with the current neo-Darwinism model?
In 2005, Massimo Pigliucci, in a book review for the prestigious science journal Nature, wrote: "The clamour to revise neo-darwinism is becoming so loud that hopefully most practising evolutionary biologists will begin to pay attention. It has been said that science often makes progress not because people change their minds, but because the old ones die off and the new generation is more open to novel ideas."
In July of 2008, Elizabeth Pennisi wrote in the prestigous American science journal Science: "Seventy years ago, evolutionary biologists hammered out the modern synthesis to bring Darwin's ideas in line with current insights into how organisms change through time. Some say it's time for Modern Synthesis 2.0."
A Darwinism skeptic whom evolutionists fear says neo-darwinism will be abandoned in 15 years
The popular YouTube Christian Shockofgod has a chatroom moderator who is studying biology at a major university in the world. He goes by the name of VivaYehshua. Our Question evolution! campaign group has challenged the European evolutionist Fergus Mason along with an evolutionist of his choosing to debate Shockofgod and VivaYehshua concerning the 15 questions for evolutionists.
We suggested Mr. Mason pick an evolutionist debate partner from Rationalwiki (Mr. Mason edits at RationalWiki) despite the fact that an atheist called his fellow athests/agnostics at RationalWiki baboons. See: Fellow atheists says RationalWiki is overrun with baboons
Unfortunately for Mr. Mason and other RationalWikians, they were afraid to accept our debate offer. Yes, they cower before VivaYehshua and Shockofgod like timid little bunnies. They know that VivaYehshua and Shockofgod will make hasenpfeffer out of their lame argumentation and their foolish beliefs/behavior would be widely public exposed if they were to accept the public debate offer we proposed.
According to VivaYehshua, the Darwinism skeptic whom evolutionists fear (they fear any creationist with an in-depth knowledge of biology), neo-darwinism will be abandoned in 15 years. He believes it will be replaced with something even more ridiculous and the evolutionist community will pay lip service to this new school of evolutionism.
Of course, this would be a tremendous opportunity to creationists. When Stephen Jay Gould came out with his punctuated equilibrium creationists capitalized on the confusion/dissension he created within the evolutionary community. And there is every reason to believe that the abandonment of neo-darwinism with some other evolutionary pseudoscience would be much worse than the initial controversy that followed the introduction of Stephen Gould's punctuated equilibrium. Why?
The public is to a certain degree fickle when it comes to believing the scientific community consensus. For example, belief in global warming drops during cold snaps public opinion researchers have found. One thing for certain, relying on the scientific community consensus over biblical authority has an unreliable track record whereas the Bible can be trusted as it has a wealth of evidential support. There definitely have been cases where the scientific consensus was wrong and the Bible was proven to be right. See: Bible versus scientific consensusand Evidence for Christianity
On July 24, we published an article entitled Is Richard Dawkins a flip-flopper? which discusses how he went from being a militant atheist to a wishy washy agnostic. Furthermore, the article demonstrates the it appears that Dawkins' publicist and/or publisher continued to call Dawkins an atheist even after he made few very public declarations that he was an agnostic. An attempt to sell more books? You be the judge.
On March 5, 2013, the Christian Post reports that Richard Dawkins calls himself a "cultural Christian":
Of course, we all know what is coming next, don't we?
Given Richard Dawkins' inability to answer the 15 questions for evolutionists which are the focus of the Question Evolution! Campaign, we all know what is coming next. Richard Dawkins declares that he is a Bible believing young earth creationist!
IS RICHARD DAWKINS REALLY STUMPED? The TRUTH - In His OWN WORDS - YES
The Chinese atheists/Darwinist leaders in communist China are getting more desperate due to the rapid growth of Christianity in China. Arrests and detentions of Christians were up 130% in 2012 according to the U.S. based ChinaAide.Read more at: Arrests of Christians in China remained high in 2012
Below is a collection of articles documenting the growing irrelevance of the evolutionist Richard Dawkins and the rapidly growing influence of biblical Christianity and creationism in the world.
Cai Yong, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, said the report holds extra weight because the think tank is under the State Council, China's Cabinet. He said he found it remarkable that state-backed demographers were willing to publicly propose such a detailed schedule and plan on how to get rid of China's birth limits.
"That tells us at least that policy change is inevitable, it's coming," said Cai, who was not involved in the drafting of the report but knows many of the experts who were. Cai is a visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai. "It's coming, but we cannot predict when exactly it will come."
Of course, this will be a big boost to global belief in biblical creation as Christianity is exploding in China and creationist families often have larger families than evolutionist families. It will also be a big blow to world atheism as atheist/agnostic populations typically have sub-replacement levels of births.
In an article entitled Two Pillars of Skepticism Leon Jaroff and Paul Kurtz died this weekend Smithsonian.com declared:
Leon Jaroff, the man who founded Discover Magazine in 1980, has died at the age of 85. Paul Kurtz, a philosopher, was only a year older than Jaroff and also passed away this weekend. Together, the two men represent some of the founding ideas of the modern skeptic community.
Global market share of Discover Magazine according to Alexa:
Unique monthly visitors to Discover Magazine according to Compete.com
Taking an axe to the rickety pillars of evolutionism and atheism
It certainly seems as if these pillars of evolutionism and atheism are cracking doesn't it? Imagine the effects on these cracking and rickety pillars of evolutionary belief and atheism when the well designed and aggressive anti-evolution grassroots Question Evolution! Campaign with its15 questions for evolutionists campaignis unleashed upon them.
Evolutionists and atheists, the Question Evolution! Campaign axeman cometh! 2012 and 2013 are going to be HORRIBLE years for evolutionism and atheism.
See:
Professor Eric Kaufmann told a secular audience
in Australia: "The trends that are happening worldwide inevitably in an
age of globalization are going to affect us."
Scienceblogs.com: More proof and evidence showing that evolutionary pseudoscience, liberalism and atheism are irrelevant, boring and that public is tiring of them. In addition, I will offer more proof and evidence Christianity fosters scientific development.
In 2010, Mariano Grinbank's Christian apologetics website True Free Thinker wrote concerning Scienceblogs.com:
Scienceblogger Chad Orzel described the commentators on PZ Myers ' Scienceblogs.com site Pharyngula, and other Scienceblogs.com commentators, as "screechy monkeys.
Prof. PZ Myers' website "Pharyngula" is part of the "Scienceblogs"
network. While the premise of Scienceblogs is to give professors access
to the masses and the masses access to the professors with regards to
science it has morphed into something quite different, as Scienceblogger
Matthew C. Nisbet stated it in referring to:
"…the major perceptual hit that the scienceblogs.com
community and brand continues to take because of PZ's antics. The Seed
sponsored blog portal is supposed to be a place that attracts new
audiences to science, but in fact, it has turned into the Web's leading
echo chamber of anti-religious rants and sophomoric discussions of
atheism, what the physicist Chad Orzel refers to as the 'screechy monkey' problem. In a recent interview
on the podcast Point of Inquiry, host DJ Grothe asked PZ if he worried
that scienceblogs.com was becoming better known as 'atheistblogs.com.'
It's a question that merits serious consideration, especially in light
of recent events."
Our Question Evolution! Campaign group has showed again and again and again how major atheism and evolutionism are dropping visitors like flies. It is like a series of biblical plagues which rain down on atheism and evolutionism along with its websites. The hail, fire and locust of bad news is going to continue to rain down on evolutionism, atheism and agnosticism again and again and again until evolutionism is no more. The sad and pathetic state of evolutionism, atheism and agnosticism can be clearly seen via these articles: Global decline of atheism/agnosticism and the rise of Christianity and Decline of internet atheism and evolutionism
Elisha's bears mauled wicked young men and now Google Panda is mauling evolutionist and atheist websites. And Google Penguin is putting a deep freeze on their website traffic. Evolutionists and atheists, Google knows when you are creating useless and uninformative content! Why do you persist? It is hard to kick against Google's goads. If you post about some bogus pseudoscience that supposedly now confirms macroevolution occurred (until it is debunked of course) and then nobody read it about it, why do you persist?
As you can see below, the widespread distribution phase of the Question Evolution! Campaign and its 15 questions for evolutionists is beginning to descend on evolutionism like plagues of locusts. The Question Evolution! Campaign combined with internet evangelism is going to increase creation evangelism in the world by at least 400%. Evolutionism is going to be mauled so bad that even Richard Dawkins won't recognize it,
More proof and evidence that evolutionism can't compete according to Compete.com!
Web traffic of Creation Ministries International, Creation.com, according to Compete.com
Web traffic Richarddawkins.net according to Compete.com
As you can see, according to Compete.com, evolutionism, atheism and agnosticism can't compete! And we all know why, don't we? Because all evolutionists, including Richard Dawkins, cannot satisfactorily answer the 15 questions for evolutionists.
G.K Chesterton wrote in the 20th century "The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die." Things have gotten much worse for evolutionists, atheists and agnostics in the 21st century. They can't even muster one sting anymore. Their comments at this blog are riddled with logical fallacies and when they are given the opportunity to have their evolutionist views aired before tens of thousands of people in a recorded oral debate on the 15 questions for evolutionists of the Question Evolution! Campaign, they scamper away like frightened little bunnies. And when I see how ineffectual they are in dealing with 15 questions for evolutionists, it is very humorous (see video below).
The evolutionists, atheists and agnostics are also seeing their websites fall like lead balloons in terms of their web traffic. See: Decline of internet atheism and evolutionism Of course, this is not surprising. They are like chips off the old block.
Some words of Jesus Christ: "And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."
I am very much enjoying sharing our vision of combining creation evangelism, internet evangelism Christian apologetics and creationism/Christian news with fellow Christians and getting them involved. See: 4 pillars of Darwinism There has been a positive and friendly response.
And we are making progress in mastering the technical details of building online communities as well and completed the registration process of 3 of them today. In fact, the customer service department of a firm which specializes in helping people build online communities was very responsive to our customer service ticket today and solved our problem. See: October 15, 2012 has been a great day for the Question Evolution! Campaign and it's still early in the day!
The evolutionists may continue to make their feeble attempts to stop the inevitable and continual rise of biblical creation belief, but they are like inept defensive players in American football who are easily passed by a fast moving members of the offensive team. Evolutionists, make no mistake. We laugh at the "superior evolutionist intellects" who are totally unable to effectively tackle the 15 questions for evolutionists and cringe before our debate offers. And we will continue to score point after point against evolutionism. Are you ready for the already growing biblical creation movement in the United States to become a majority? Get ready evolutionists! It rapidly approaching!
In addition, 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).
1. Will future historians see the May through August period of 2011 as being a as on of the major turning points in the Christianity vs. atheism/evolutionism culture war? If so, why?
2. Does external pressure often spark communities and people to make unforced errors so their plight becomes worse? In other words, a downward and reinforcing cycle of loss of confidence and infighting?
3. Is atheism/agnosticsm suffering from a downward cycle of loss of confidence and infighting?
4. Are believers in biblical Christianity and biblical creation seeing experiencing a reinforcing cycle of growing confidence and enthusiasm and growth in their world communities?
5. In May/June of 2011, were there signs that a worldwide grassroots movements were forming or gaining in momentum in both the areas of Christian apologetics (defense of Christianity) and the defense of biblical creation?
5 reasons why future historians may see the period of May through August of 2011 as being one of the major turning points in the atheism vs. Christianity culture war
Many times societal, economic and ideological collapses play themselves out over a series of decades, years or months and it is not singular events which causes a collapse. For example, the fall of the Soviet Union was definitely a setback for atheism and the secular left. Also, the current current economic crisis in secular Europe is likely to adversely affect atheism, agnosticism and evolutionism.
The financial writer Michael Snyder wrote in June of 2012:
Many people hype “the coming economic collapse" as if it is some kind of big summer Hollywood blockbuster. Many people out there write about it as if it is something that will happen in a single day or over a few weeks and that it will suddenly change how the entire world functions. But that is not how the financial world works. The financial world is like a game of chess – very slow and methodical. Yes, there are times when things happen very quickly (like back in 2008), but even that crisis played out over a number of months. Sadly, most Americans are not used to thinking in terms of months or years. These days, most Americans have the attention span of a goldfish and most Americans have been trained to expect instant gratification. They are simply not accustomed to being patient and to wait for things. Well, despite what you may have read, the economic collapse is not going to be a single event. It is going to play out over quite a few years.
It is often said that the victors often write history.
There is an abundance of evidence that in the Christianity vs. atheism/agnosticism/evolutionism culture and spiritual war that there are going to be some influential Christians writing about the conflict between Christianity vs. atheism. Biblical Christianity is seeing a global resurgence which will affect the Western World. See: Atheism/Darwinism vs.biblical Christianity/creationism
5 signs that Christianity will prevail in the current Christianity vs. atheism/evolutionism culture war:
1. On May 14, 2011, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph published a news story entitled Richard Dawkins accused of cowardice for refusing to debate existence of God.
In a letter to fellow evolutionist Richard Dawkins which was subsequently quoted by The Daily Telegraph, Oxford University atheist Dr. Daniel Came wrote concerning Dawkins' refusal to debate the Christian apologist Dr. William Lane Craig: "The absence of a debate with the foremost apologist for Christian theism is a glaring omission on your CV and is of course apt to be interpreted as cowardice on your part."
On August 19, 2011, Fox News reported in a news article entitled Christian Philosopher William Lane Craig Is Ready to Debate, but Finds Few Challengers:
American Evangelical theologian William Lane Craig is ready to debate the rationality of faith during his U.K tour this fall, but it appears that some atheist philosophers are running shy of the challenge. This month president of the British Humanist Association, Polly Toynbee, pulled out of an agreed debate at London’s Westminster Central Hall in October, saying she “hadn’t realized the nature of Mr. Lane Craig’s debating style.”
Willam Lane Craig, who is a professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, Calif., and author of 30 books and hundreds of scholarly articles, is no stranger to the art of debate and has taken on some of the great orators, such as famous atheists Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. Harris once described Craig as “the one Christian apologist who has put the fear of God into many of my fellow atheists”.
Responding to Toynbee’s cancellation, Lane Craig commented: "These folks (atheists) can be very brave when they are alone at the podium and there's no one there to challenge them. But one of the great things about these debates is that, it allows both sides to be heard on a level playing field, and for the students in the audience to make up their own minds about where they think the truth lies."
2. In June of 2011, Creation Ministries International launched the worldwide grassroots Question Evolution! Campaign.A supporter of the Question Evolution! wrote of the campaign:
Michael B., United States, 8 October 2011
This is a grand movement and I’m glad it has begun. Our youth are indoctrinated very early to believe every word spoken about evolution without questioning. Creation Science has so much to offer and new discoveries are being made almost every day in this exciting new field of science...
The Question Evolution! Campaign features 15 questions that evolutionists cannot effectively answer. As you can see by the video below, the atheist/evolutionist community has been unable to effectively respond to the Question Evolution! Campaign.
3. On July 2, 2011, an abrasive Richard Dawkins made inappropriate remarks to the atheist woman Rebecca Watson and the incident has since been dubbed Elevatorgate. No doubt being very publicly labeled a coward and having a worldwide grassroots anti-evolution campaign launched by a leading biblical creation organization contributed to the already abrasive Richard Dawkins being a very grumpy and irritable old man.
The New Statesman reporter and fellow skeptic David Allen Green said he believed Richard Dawkins was a sexist. In addition, Green wrote: "Can Richard Dawkins still credibly pose as a champion of rational thinking and an evidence-based approach? In my opinion, he certainly cannot, at least not in the way he did before."
In the aftermath of Elevatorgate, Mindy an skeptic blogger at Rebecca Watson's website Skepchick wrote concerning Richard Dawkins: "“I look forward to watching your legacy crash and burn,” and “you don’t get a second chance.”
Jacques Rousseau wrote in the Daily Maverick: "Elevatorgate..has
resulted in three weeks of infighting in the secular community. Some
might observe that we indulge in these squabbles fairly frequently." An ex-atheist wrote : "As an Atheist for 40 years, I noticed that there is not just a wide variety of Atheist positions, but there exists an actual battle between certain Atheist factions."
Richard Dawkins may have had a chip on his shoulder as well post the
William Lane Craig debate challenge and charges of cowardice. His abrasive remarks
to Rebecca Watson could have been Dawkins trying to be a "big man on the atheist campus". Well, if this is the case, Dawkins's remarks didn't work out so well, did they?
The Elevatorgate has caused the factious atheist community to be even more fractured in a significant way with various factions of atheism criticizing or supporting Richard Dawkins's remarks after the Elevatorgate incident.
4. In her book Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End, the Harvard University Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter writes about how success often breeds success and how failure often breeds more failure. And make no mistake, atheism and evolutionism are intellectually failing and they are failing to developing a winning culture as a community as well.
Specifically, atheism/agnosticism/evolution community appears to be have been affected by this very public atheist/agnostic loss of nerve and cowardice and the resulting fallout of Elevatorgate.
Although Richard Dawkins is a flip flopper when it comes to the atheism and agnosticism issue, in May/June he was still seen as the standard bearer of atheism/agnosticism. See: Is Richard Dawkins a flp-flopper
Below are two web traffic graphs of Richard Dawkins's website in terms of global market share according to the leading website web traffic tracking firm Alexa:
The leftist/atheist/evolutionist PZ Myers and other atheists/evolutionist have attempted to unify and energize the atheist community post Elevatorgate by launching an atheist/agnostic blogging community but that effort has largely failed and the various atheist factions are still squabbling post Elevatorgate.
Below are two traffic tracking graphs of the website freethoughtblogs.com according via the website traffic tracking company companies Alexa:
Freethoughtblogs web traffic graph according to Quantcast which directly measures their web traffic:
According to the web traffic tracking company Quantcast which indicates it directly measures their web traffic this occurred:
Time period Unique monthly visitors
January of 2012 490,270
September 9, 2012- October 8, 2012 332,281
Freethoughtblog.com web traffic from 7/11/12 to 10/8/12 according to Quantcast
Lack of leadership within the atheism and evolutionist communities
Crisis and problems can either bring out the best in a community or have a community descend into denialism, bitterness and infighting.
It is clear from the articles below which path the atheist, agnostic and evolutionist communities have chosen to confront the explosive growth of biblical Christianity and biblical creation belief.
5. Below are signs that biblical Christianity and biblical creationism is growing and energized
Biblical Christianity and creationism is growing and energized
While atheism has been publicly humbled and in a state of confusion and factionism, Bible believers and believers in biblical creation are energized and biblical Christianity is growing explosively as can be seen in the data and articles below:
Creation.com - website of Creation Ministries International - unique visitors a month according to Quantcast:
Creation.com - website of Creation Ministries International - unique visitors a month - data obtained on 10/06/12 - countries section
Country Unique visitors Unique Index (relative to other websites)
United States 86,829 106
Australia 16,029 646
United Kingdom 13,825 163
Canada 13,743 216
India 4,014 99
Philippines 3,411 198
South Africa 3,586 924
New Zealand 3,623 898
Singapore 1,306 254
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
Intellectual defense of Christianity movement growing
Ratio Christi is a global movement that equips university students and faculty to give historical, philosophical, and scientific reasons for following Jesus Christ.
In May of 2011, the Christian apologetics organization Stand to Reason wrote:
“
Ratio Christi, a fairly new apologetics organization that is seeking to change the intellectual atmosphere at universities by bringing Christianity into public, academic discussion. Their goal is to start on-campus apologetics clubs at 500 universities in the next five years. This is where you come in--because it’s also Ratio Christi’s goal to connect each of these clubs with a person who has been trained in apologetics (but who probably has a different day job) to act as chapter director. Ratio Christi helps each chapter organize one or two campus-wide events a year by connecting them with speakers and debaters like William Lane Craig and Gary Habermas, helping them find the funding, etc. But after the event has come and gone, the lay apologist is still there to lead discussions and interact with the Christians, skeptics, atheists, and seekers who may never have realized that Christianity has a weighty intellectual tradition behind it.
Creation Ministries International which historical been involved in general Christian apologetics in addition to main focus of biblical creation apologetics has decided to promote general Christian apologetics more via a book entitled Christianity for Skeptics which was co-authored by Dr. Steve Kumar and Dr. Jonathon Sarfati
No doubt this will better enable Creation Ministries International and their fans to network more easily with Christian apologetic organizations and other Christians. Checkmate atheists and evolutionists! See: 4 pillar of defeating Darwinism
