Intelligent Design Theory: Science or Religion?

By Tom Flannery
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

What happens to a society when its children are taught they evolved
from the slime of some prebiotic soup through random chemical
reactions in a chaotic, completely unsupervised universe that emerged
from a chance explosion?

After decades of indoctrination into Darwin's theory of evolution,
this question is no longer an academic one. The fruits of this
experiment are evident everywhere we look, from staggering increases
in the homicide and suicide rates among young people to a total
disdain for human life.



Evolution is not only junk science, it is a pernicious social doctrine
which produces a bitter harvest in the hearts and minds of its
adherents. When children are taught this theory as fact (as most are
today), it affects their entire belief system and outlook on life. The
implications are devastating for individuals as well as for society at
large.

The first implication of accepting evolution as fact is hopelessness.

Creation 'Answers' in new magazine
(BY PAUL MCKIBBEN, COMMUNITY RECORDER, July 20, 2006)

PETERSBURG -- Answers in Genesis has a Web site, a radio program, countless educational materials and it now has a magazine in its evangelical tool bag.

The Petersburg-based Christian organization, which has received lots of attention for its Creation Museum, is producing a quarterly magazine called "Answers." The magazine debuted with a July-September issue.

"It's meant to be something for the whole family but also involves building a Christian worldview," said Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis' president and CEO.

Answers in Genesis used to order "Creation," an Australian publication that Answers in Genesis purchased for its readers.

"We had so many people saying, 'I'd really like to have something more American-centric, more dealing with the laws,'" said Dale Mason, the magazine's publisher/executive editor, noting that people wanted to know about such issues as whether it's appropriate to say "Merry Christmas."

The first issue, consisting of 74 pages, featured articles about intelligent design, the Earth's age and the Christian nature of such founding fathers as John Adams.

The magazine includes a children's section. The first issue had a section about dinosaurs and a four-page picture where children can look for various animals.

Mason said the response to "Answers" has been "overwhelmingly positive."

"Answers" has two-full time staff members but numerous others who help with it.

There were 33,000 subscribers to "Creation" who were moved over to "Answers" that now has an estimated 40,000 subscribers. Mason said the magazine is growing by about 1,500 subscribers per month with projected readership of more than 50,000 by this time next year.

Was wande jesting about Dylan and the newspaper?

I feel sure most of them would assert that they do and that's good enough around here ain't it.

Dylan has a version. He says it to a English audience who booed and shouted "Judas" at him for going electric.

And what can anyone say about something "delightful" except that the limited range of expressions often used to articulate it seem to cover the ground quite amply. In my experience anyway.

Thats pART of the entire point, while you Englishmen are busy getting your Victorian words and phrases just so, weve invented about a billion new words.

Anti-evolution standards a key issue in Kansas school board races
(JOHN HANNA, Associated Press, July 21, 2006)

BURDETT, Kan. - After a potluck lunch in one of many hamlets dotting the Great Plains, candidate Sally Cauble confronted a key issue in Kansas politics: whether schools should teach students to doubt evolution.

Cauble wants to oust incumbent Connie Morris from the State Board of Education in the Aug. 1 Republican primary. Five races this year could remove half the board's members, undo its conservative majority and doom anti-evolution science standards that brought Kansas international criticism.

Cauble hoped to pick up a few votes in Burdett, a prairie town of 240 people, about 130 miles northwest of Wichita, just off a two-lane state highway, surrounded by fields and best known for being the hometown of the astronomer who discovered the planet Pluto.

When asked by Cleo Gorman, a 68-year-old nurse, about "the science issue," Cauble said she would not have supported the anti-evolution standards.

"To be a scientific theory, it has to be tested. It has to be measured, and then other scientific data is tested against that," Cauble said. "The science of evolution has gone through that, and it has been tested."

But Gorman disagreed and is inclined to vote for Morris, who once wrote in a constituent newsletter that evolution is an "age-old fairy tale."

"Evolution is not proven as much as they thought it was," Gorman told Cauble.

Later, Cauble said she wished evolution weren't an issue. Yet the former teacher and ex-school board member from Liberal contends the conservative-led state board has damaged Kansas' image.

"I believe they've lost their effectiveness because they have lost respect," she said.

Morris, an author and former teacher from St. Francis, sees criticism of the board generated by the media, not most Kansans.

"I may not win the election, but at least I spoke for the people," Morris said recently before preparing a booth at the Ellis County Fair in Hays.

Getting our words "just so" is much more difficult than piling up new ones like jigsaw pieces.

"I may not win the election, but at least I spoke for the people," Morris said recently before preparing a booth at the Ellis County Fair in Hays.