The New Inquisition in Science

Vision America has a nice article on how dissenters from scientific
orthodoxy, be it global warming or evolution, are mocked, ousted, and
persecuted just like religious heretics.

Scientists who dissent from the alarmism [over global
warming] have seen their grant funds disappear, their work derided, and
themselves libeled as industry stooges, scientific hacks or
worse….Some have gone so far as to propose that “global warming
deniers” are aiding and abetting a global holocaust and should be
prosecuted.
 
A new report from the U.S. House of Representatives has condemned
officials at the Smithsonian Institution for imposing a religious test
on scientists who work there. And it suggests their attacks on a
scientist who just edited an article on intelligent design are just the
tip of the iceberg of an industry-wide fear of anything that suggests
man might not have come from a puddle of sludge.

Darwin Understood the Social Application of his Theory

Evolutionists constantly try to disavow the logical link between Darwinism and social Darwinism, but no matter how they try to divorce themselves from it, even Darwin himself understood that this logical conclusion followed because humans are part of the natural order.  Below are a couple of quotes from Darwin, alongside one each by Nietzsche and Hitler.  Chilling, isn’t it?  While it is often a cheap trick to compare one’s ideological opponents to Hitler, in this case, made well in the recent book From Darwin to Hitler, the shoe fits perfectly.

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Darwinism Impeding Science I – Spontaneous Generation or Creation

As I have claimed previously, Darwinism contributes nearly nothing to medical science (and most practical science in general), except maybe an errant world view and scientific philosophy.  Here’s a nice example from history of how the Darwinian view has impeded science, courtesy of American Vision.

There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose. Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God. . . . There is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that just leaves us with only one other possibility. . . that life came as a supernatural act of creation by God, but I can’t accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.
– Nobel Prize winner George Wald (1906–1997)

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Ultraconserved Phenotype Defies Macro-evolution

On the heels of my article on conservation of junk DNA (genotype conservation across time), Uncommon Descent has posted a nice article on a worm whose phenotype has remained unchanged for (supposedly) millions of years of mutation – so even though the genome has changed, the worm is still, well, a worm, not any other kind of animal.  Also note that the original article calls the changes "adaptation," presumably because no new genetic information was ever created. And that’s pretty much all that does happen over time – genetic LOSS of information, genetic swapping, and variable expression of EXISTING (created) genes.  QED.

Analysis of the sequence revealed that major evolutionary changes in
genomes do not necessarily lead to gross physical changes in the
adapted organism.

Another genetic "proof" that macro-evolution is not how we got here.  OK, it’s not a proof, but it is consistent with creationism, and inconsistent with the idea of macroevolution.  I am so not surprised.

Conned by Evolution

I greatly enjoyed the post The Atheism Delusion: The Destructive Power of Materialist Indoctrination, because this scientist’s experience with being awakened from the “evolution is fact” dream was very similar to mine.

I was an atheist, brainwashed by the establishment, into my 40s…..I was once debating evolution with a friend, and I was spouting all the platitudes I had been taught. He said, “Look, rather than debating me, why don’t you read a book, Evolution, A Theory in Crisis, by Michael Denton?” I assumed that it would be some nonsensical religious hogwash, but I was in for a big surprise.

I devoured the book in a couple of days, and when I was finished I slapped myself on the forehead and thought, “I’ve been conned all my life!” My atheism was quickly unraveling.

This is what the hysterical anti-ID folks fear: Once the evidence of modern science is evaluated without the blinders of a passionately materialistic worldview, design screams at us from every corner.