10. The fossil record doesn’t support Darwin’s theory….yet the result of government schooling is that their captives come away believing it is factual, proven, irrefutable.
Why? Because the mission of said institution is to weaponize education against religion. That is the Left’s desire.
Our knowledge of the damage mutations cause doesn’t fit Darwinist’s view that these ‘modifications’ advance evolution, that they result in new species. As of this writing, they never have.
I’ve shown examples of outright lies designed to advance Darwinism, yet in 2004, Haeckel’s embryo drawings were used as evidence for Darwinism in numerous textbooks….. in the tenth edition of Starr and Taggart’s Biology; The Unity and Diversity of Life; in an early version of Raver’s Biology: Patterns and Processes of Life; and in the third edition of Voet and Voet’s Biochemistry.
Noted in:
Stephen Jay Gould, “Abscheulich! Atrocious!” Natural History (March, 2000), 42–49, 44–46. Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart, Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life, Tenth Edition (Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning, 2004), 315. Joseph Raver, Biology: Patterns and Processes of Life (Dallas, TX: J. M. LeBel Publishers, 2004), 100. Donald Voet and Judith G. Voet, Biochemistry, Third Edition (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2004), 4.
Must be some mighty strong reasons to use lies to support a failed thesis.
11. And it continues:
“At the Tribeca Film Festival in April and May 2006, evolutionary biologist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson premiered Flock of Dodos, a film that claims Haeckel’s embryos haven’t appeared in biology textbooks since 1914. Yet Olson knows that many recent textbooks do contain Haeckel’s faked drawings. Although Flock of Dodos pretends to be a documentary, it is actually a pro-Darwin propaganda film.” Jonathan Wells
So many lies to advance Darwinism……why?
Your silly ''quotes'' from Jonathan Wells, another dishonest hack at the Disco'tute, tells you what you need to know about ID'iot creationism / religionism.
Encyclopedia of American Loons
Wells is an
intelligent design creationist (in fact, he is just as often described as an “anti-evolution activist”, which is revealing) and a prominent member of the
Discovery Institute. He is also a pronounced
Moonie – indeed, a
“Unification Church Marriage Expert” – and has been known to be
involved in AIDS denialism together with his old friend and mentor Phillip Johnson. It is as a creationist (or “intelligent design proponent”) that he has made the biggest impact, however – though it was allegedly his own studies at the Unification Theological Seminary and his prayers that convinced him to devote his life to “destroying Darwinism”.
Wells happens to be one of the few Discotute creationist with legitimate credentials, a Ph.D. in biological science, which he completed – according to himself – for the sole purpose of “debunking” evolution. He has not yet succeeded in debunking evolution, of course, but has certainly been caught
lying,
gish galloping,
data mangling,
quote-mining,
misrepresenting evidence,
moving goalposts, and
spewing nonsense a respectable number of times. A fantastic example of Wells
trying to link Darwinism to Nazism is discussed
here.
Wells is the author of
“Icons of Evolution” and
“Regnery Publishing’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design”, both of which
failed to survive even cursory glances from
people who actually know anything about evolution; a truly substantial analysis and critique if Icons can be found
here. But then, the purpose of the former was explicitly to
argue that creationism should be taught in public schools – and for those purposes the actual science is of course less important, since the
creationists cannot win on that battlefield anyways (a point that is well made in
this review of the Politically Incorrect Guide; after all, the whole frame is that Darwinism has declared war on traditional Christianity; the science is just a pretense). Wells’s
lack of understanding of development and evolution (
and science) is
duly documented; he does, in short,
not have the faintest idea, and can obviously not be bothered to look it up either (because, you know, fact checks won't yield the results he wants).
True to form, Wells also wrote the “Ten questions to ask your biology teacher about evolution” for high school students (published by the Discovery Institute). They are answered
here and
here. Instead of trying to point to any shortcomings with the answers, though, Wells prefers to repeat the questions as if nothing has happened, since that is rhetorically more effective, and the goal is to win debates, not find out what's actually the case.
He also participated in the Kansas evolution hearings and has been featured
on a Starbucks’s “The Way I See It”.
His newest book, “The Myth of Junk DNA”, discusses the phenomenon of
junk DNA, a phenomenon that heartily offends Intelligent Design proponents insofar as it suggests that not everything in the universe has a purpose. The book is just as well-informed as his previous books, and responses to the first three chapters can be found
here,
here, and
here.
Diagnosis: Appallingly inane crackpot, infuriatingly dense, and reprehensibly dishonest, Wells’s lack of insight and inability to even pretend to begin to understand anything before he starts criticizing it based on personal dislike, is of almost epic proportions. Yet he continues to be shockingly influential.
