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My wife asked me why I keep complaining about Neo-Darwinism being taught in the schools? I replied that I care about what is taught to our youth. I am terribly disturbed by what these young people are being taught about science. I believe it is criminal that these so-called educators of the materialist stripe are brainwashing our young people with the woefully mistaken, clearly unscientific myths, fables and Scientism of the Neo-Darwinists. In biology classes the achievements of the great scientist Pasteur are generally studied before they study cell biology. Young people learn that Pasteur painstakingly proved spontaneous generation to be impossible, life can not come from dead matter. Then later on they are given the scenario in their biology class that needs spontaneous generation for life to have begun from dead matter. Of course the Darwinists are careful not to call it "Spontaneous Generation". I submit that Creationism and Neo-Darwinism are both faith-based religions and should not be taught in the science classes of public schools. The theory of Evolution as taught in schools today is not scientific but like other religions is based on faith. It ignores the Cell Theory, which states that:
It ignores the impossible odds for life to have been generated by chance. 10 to the 40,000th power are what one famous evolutionist has calculated. Neo-Darwinism and Scientism does not deny this, they just ignore it. It ignores the fact that even though Stanley Miller's experiment was able to produce 3 amino acids, the so-called building blocks of life, 50 years later Miller has still not been able to produce the rest of the 20 left-handed amino acids or any thing resembling Life. Yet his experiments are offered as proof that Life comes from dead matter. The high priest of materialism, Richard Dawkins continues to write popular books that are said to explain all this Neo-Darwinist garbage but really can't stand much scientific scrutiny. Dawkins makes a lot of money but he does real science a discredit. (What a waste of a brilliant mind.) Like most religions Scientism and Neo-Darwinism don't want to be confronted with the facts. If you have Faith enough you can believe anything. Creationists want equal time with the Neo-Darwinists in the schools to explain how life began. This would not solve anything, but would only muddy the waters further. Both of these viewpoints and other viewpoints should be presented as a hypothesis; they really don't have enough scientific facts to explain the phenomena to even be called theories. With the Internet available kids could be required to go to several ("Origin of Life") sites to see which one seems to make the most sense. Instead assumptions that are clearly preposterous are presented as FACTS. "No arguments students, it is a FACT!" Since the Neo-Darwinist's solution has been thoroughly discredited by so many honest scientists and Nobel laureates, doesn't it seem time to do a little editing in the textbooks? After all Life is cells, cells come from cells so it seems reasonable to many scientists that life did not spontaneously generate from dead matter. But then reason is not a hallmark of religions. I'm not holding my breath waiting for Neo-Darwinists to release their death-grip on the origin of Life. By the way if you can "propose a plausible mechanism for the spontaneous rise of genetic instructions in nature sufficient to give rise to life," you can win the one-million-dollar Origin of Life Prize offered by The Origin-of-Life Foundation. The Origin-of-Life Foundation should not be confused with "creation science" groups. It has no religious affiliations of any kind. The Foundation is a science and education foundation. All right, you Neo-Darwinists, send me e-mail when you win the prize and I will eat a Mexican sombrero. |