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       Huge study highlights stupendous design in human DNA
       By: AGelbert Date: January 20, 2014, 5:32 pm
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       Agelbert NOTE: Hot Dog! I have been claiming since 1986 that
       there is no "junk" DNA. I HAVE MAINTAINED THAT THE ORIGINAL
       DESIGN INCLUDED adaptive DNA coding to respond to environmental
       pressures WITHOUT "evolving" into another species; i.e. SAME
       species, new genes turned on and some turned off.  Now it seems
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       Dazzling DNA
       Huge study highlights stupendous design in human DNA
       by Don Batten
       This is an exciting time to be a creationist! Following pilot
       studies published in 2007,1 the ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA
       Elements) project has now published some 30 papers of phase two,
       revealing that most of our DNA is functional and effectively
       killing the evolutionary idea that nearly all our DNA is ‘junk’.
       The research involved over 440 scientists in 32 institutes
       performing over 1,600 experiments.2 They found that over 80% of
       the human DNA does something, although the details of what it
       does mostly remain to be determined. Less than 2% of the DNA
       codes for proteins; the rest turns out to be like a huge control
       panel, with millions of switches that turn protein-producing
       genes on or off.  [img width=80
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       />different cells have different switch settings, because they
       need different parts of the DNA to be active.
       Discover magazine’s website reported:3
       “And what’s in the remaining 20 percent? Possibly not junk
       either,  ;Daccording to Ewan Birney, the project’s Lead Analysis
       Coordinator and self-described ‘cat-herder-in-chief’. He
       explains that ENCODE only (!) looked at 147 types of cells, and
       the human body has a few thousand. A given part of the genome
       might control a gene in one cell type, but not others. If every
       cell is included, functions may emerge for the phantom
       proportion. ‘It’s likely that 80 percent will go to 100
       percent,’ says Birney. ‘We don’t really have any large chunks of
       redundant DNA. This metaphor of junk isn’t that useful.’”
       Evolution needs ‘junk DNA’
       Many evolutionists don’t like the findings.  ;D
       Even with the most favourable assumptions, evolutionists could
       not account for more than a tiny amount of the human DNA  :o, so
       they have long claimed that 97% or more of it is useless
       leftovers of evolution—‘junk’. In contrast, based on the premise
       that we were created by a super-intelligent Creator—‘fearfully
       and wonderfully made’—creationists have long questioned the idea
       that we have mainly useless DNA. In 1994, founder of Creation
       magazine Carl Wieland wrote,
       “Creationists have long suspected that this ‘junk DNA’ will turn
       out to have a function.”4
       Many evolutionists don’t like the findings. One blogged on
       Scientific American’s website that he doubted the death of junk
       DNA and complained about the “public damage” done by ENCODE
       publicity.5
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       Damage to what?  ;) Surely not science? Atheism? Giving three
       reasons why evolution requires lots of junk DNA, he concluded
       that the finding of 80% (+) functional must be
       wrong/misreported. But junk DNA is dead and this blog only shows
       that evolution should die with it.
       “Far from finished”
       Scientists have a huge job ahead to work out what specifically
       all this active DNA does. Much will undoubtedly be very
       important, other parts less so. It presents an enormous task.
       Geneticist Rick Myers remarked, “We are far from finished. You
       might argue that this could go on forever.”6
       Related Articles
       DNA: marvellous messages or mostly mess?
       Astonishing DNA complexity update
       Large scale function for ‘endogenous retroviruses’
       The slow, painful death of junk DNA
       Further Reading
       What about ‘Vestigial’ (‘junk’) DNA that evolutionists claim is
       a useless leftover of evolution?
       References and notes
       1.See, Williams, A., Astonishing DNA complexity update, July
       2007; creation.com/astonishing-dna-complexity-update. Return to
       text.
       2.See overview papers in Nature 489, 6 September 2012. Return to
       text.
       3.Yong, E., ENCODE: the rough guide to the human genome, in the
       ‘Not Exactly Rocket Science’ blog;
       blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/09/05/encode-th
       e-rough-guide-to-the-human-genome/
       Return to text.
       4.Wieland, C., Junk moves up in the world, Journal of Creation
       8(2):125, 1994. Return to text.
       5.Jogalekar, A., Three reasons why junk DNA makes evolutionary
       sense;
       blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2012/09/13
       /three-reasons-to-like-junk-dna,
       13 September, 2012. Return to text.
       6.Nature 489, p.48. Return to text.
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       Re: Darwin
       By: AGelbert Date: January 27, 2014, 2:57 pm
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       Excellent hard boiled, detailed scientific evidence ONLY article
       on the anomalies in Homology that refute the Theory of
       Evolution:
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       C.S. Lewis on materialistic thoughts
       By: AGelbert Date: February 6, 2014, 7:09 pm
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       [quote][font=times new roman]C.S. Lewis on materialistic
       thoughts
       ‘If the solar system was brought about by an accidental
       collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet
       was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an
       accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere
       accidents—the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms.
       And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and
       astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their
       thoughts—i.e. of materialism and astronomy—are merely accidental
       by-products, why should we believe them to be true?
       I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able
       to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s
       like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash
       when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of
       how the jug was made and why it was upset.’
       C.S. Lewis (1898–1963), The Business of Heaven, Fount
       Paperbacks, U.K., p. 97, 1984.
       [/font][/quote]
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       Atheistic DELUSIONS commonly assumed as truth by those ignorant 
       of History
       By: AGelbert Date: April 26, 2014, 7:15 pm
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       “Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its
       Fashionable
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       Enemies”
       Agelbert Note: Memes taken apart here (and at the link) are
       quite common on liberal forums attacking Christianity and VERY
       MUCH part of RE's mistaken view of history at the DD  >:(  I
       always new RE's childish tantrums about religion and
       Christianity being total failures was BS. This book sets the
       record straight; not that people like RE will listen, however.
       :(
       Book Review
       Anthony Kenny on ‘Atheist Delusions’
       Posted on May 13, 2010
       This review originally appeared in The TLS, whose website is
       www.the-tls.co.uk, and is reposted with permission.
       In the ongoing suit of Secularism vs God, David Bentley Hart is
       the most able counsel for the defence in recent years. Though
       confident in the strength of his case, he does not hesitate to
       abuse the plaintiff’s attorneys, and he does so in grand style.
       Richard Dawkins is guilty of “rhetorical recklessness”.
       Christopher Hitchens’s text “careens drunkenly across the pages”
       of a book “that raises the wild non sequitur almost to the level
       of a dialectical method”. Daniel Dennett’s theses are “sustained
       by classifications that are entirely arbitrary and fortified by
       arguments that any attentive reader should notice are wholly
       circular”.
       Hart (in his book “Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution
       and Its Fashionable Enemies”) has the gifts of a good advocate.
       He writes with clarity and force, and he drives his points home
       again and again. He exposes his opponents’ errors of fact or
       logic with ruthless precision. He is generous in making
       concessions on his own side, provided they leave intact his
       overarching claims. Above all, he has ensured that his brief is
       modest and manageable.
       Thus, no attempt is made to plead in defence of religion as
       such. “Religion in the abstract”, Hart says, “does not actually
       exist, and almost no one (apart from politicians) would profess
       any allegiance to it”. This is a sound and fundamental point.
       The creeds of the major religions are mutually contradictory, so
       that the one thing we know for certain about religion is that if
       any religion is true then most religions are false. Hart’s
       client is not religion in general—it is traditional
       Christianity. It is this, he claims, that has been misunderstood
       and slandered by its cultured despisers.
       Again, Hart concentrates on issues of history rather than
       philosophy. True, he claims that Dawkins’s philosophical
       arguments are ones that “a college freshman midway through his
       first logic course could dismantle in a trice”. However, the
       claim that Dawkins is philosophically illiterate is based on an
       ontology that would be rejected by many a seasoned professor of
       philosophy. Hart’s own strengths lie elsewhere, so he is wise to
       concentrate on narrative and invective.
       The aim of the first half of the book is to demolish “the
       mythology of a secularist age”. Secularists invite us to believe
       the following story. (RE's MISTAKEN View of History Pushed
       NONSTOP at the DD) In the medieval ages of faith, culture
       stagnated, science languished, wars of religion were routinely
       waged, witches were burned by inquisitors, and Western humanity
       was enslaved to superstition. The literary remains of antiquity
       had been consigned to the flames, and the achievements of Greek
       science lay forgotten until Islam restored them to the West. The
       age of faith was succeeded by an age of reason and
       enlightenment, which gave us the riches of scientific
       achievement and political liberty, and a new and revolutionary
       sense of human dignity. The modern separation of Church and
       State has put an end to the blood-steeped intolerance of
       religion. Western humanity has at last left its nonage and
       attained to its majority in science, politics and ethics.
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       />is”, Hart says, “a simple and enchanting tale ... its sole
       defect is that it happens to be false in every identifiable
       detail.”
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       Six
       chapters demolish detailed elements of this secularist myth.
       Chapter Four refutes the allegations that the ancient library of
       Alexandria was destroyed by Christians and that the pagan
       philosopher Hypatia was murdered out of hatred for women and
       learning. Chapter Five shows that far from burning Classical
       texts, Christian monastic librarians preserved them from decay.
       Chapter Six argues that Greek science had become sterile long
       before the Christianization of the Roman Empire. The only
       innovative physicist of late antiquity, we are told, was the
       Christian John Philoponus. During the four and a half centuries
       of its scientific pre-eminence, Islam made “no more progress
       than a moderately clever undergraduate today could assimilate in
       less than a single academic year”. Paying tribute to the Oxford
       calculators of the fourteenth century, Hart illustrates the
       continuity between medieval and Renaissance science. Pope Urban
       VIII’s condemnation of Galileo, he claims, was not an index of
       inherent ecclesiastical hostility to science, but a clash of
       arrogant personalities.
       The seventh and eighth chapters defend Christianity from the
       charges of intolerance and cruelty. The persecution of witches,
       Hart points out, was an early modern rather than a medieval
       phenomenon, and the inquisitors of the time did their best to
       suppress witchhunts.
       To see long excerpts from “Atheist Delusions,” click here. (at
       link)
       
       The rise of modern science and the obsession with sorcery “were
       two closely allied manifestations of the development of a new
       post-Christian sense of human mastery over the world”. In
       exculpation of the use of torture and the burning of heretics,
       it can be said that the Church was merely following a fashion
       which was originated by the State.
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       During the so-called Dark Ages, the only penalty for misbelief
       was excommunication, whereas in the heyday of the Holy Roman
       Empire heresy became a capital crime. “Violence”, Hart says,
       “increased in proportion to the degree of sovereignty claimed by
       the state, and whenever the medieval church surrendered moral
       authority to secular power, injustice and cruelty flourished.”
       Addressing the responsibility of the Church for warfare, Hart
       briskly gets the Crusades out of the way. Admitting that they
       were “holy wars”—the only ones in Christian history, he
       maintains—he dismisses them as “the last gaudy flourish of
       Western barbarian culture, embellished by the winsome ceremonies
       of chivalry”.
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       />The European wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a
       re
       treated at greater length. Here, we learn, “no prince of the
       time waged war against another simply on account of his faith”.
       In its bloodiest days the Thirty Years War was not a war of
       religion, but a struggle between two Catholic houses, the
       Bourbons and the Habsburgs. Hart is at his most convincing when
       he argues that for the sheer scale of its violence, the modern
       period trumps any of the ages of Christian faith. “The Thirty
       Years War, with its appalling toll of civilian casualties, was a
       scandal to the consciences of the nations of Europe; but midway
       through the twentieth century ... even liberal democracies did
       not scruple to bomb open cities from the air, or to use
       incendiary or nuclear devices to incinerate tens of thousands of
       civilians.”
       In the second part of the book, Hart seeks to replace the
       secularist myth with a positive account of what he calls “the
       Christian revolution”—“perhaps the only true revolution in the
       history of the West”. Many of the values prized by modern
       secularists are inheritances from the early days of
       Christianity.
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       />PreChristian society despised the poor and weak and tolerated
       infanticide; it enjoyed gladiatorial combat, and it was built on
       slavery.  [img width=30
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       Only Christianity fostered the concept of a dignity intrinsic to
       every human soul. Only the Church built hospitals and
       almshouses, and taught that charity was the highest virtue.
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       Agelbert NOTE:THIS IS WHERE HE TEARS TO BITS THE ATHEIST'S
       RELIGION! (Many worshippers at the DD, by the way, with RE as
       the high priest).
       "There is also, however, a negative side to my argument.  It is
       what I suppose I should call my rejection of modernity — or,
       rather, my rejection of the ideology of "the modern" and my
       rejection, especially, of the myth of "the Enlightenment."  By
       modernity, I should explain, I certainly do not mean modern
       medicine or air travel or space exploration or any of the
       genuinely useful or estimable aspects of life today;  I do not
       even mean modern philosophical method or social ideology or
       political thought.  Rather, I mean the modern age's grand
       narrative of itself: its story of the triumph of critical reason
       over "irrational" faith, of the progress of social morality
       toward greater justice and freedom, of the "tolerance" of the
       secular state, and of the unquestioned ethical primacy of either
       individualism or collectivism (as the case may be).  Indeed, I
       want in part to argue that what many of us are still in the
       habit of calling the "Age of Reason" was in many significant
       ways the beginning of the eclipse of reason's authority as a
       cultural value;  that the modern age is notable in large measure
       for the triumph of inflexible and unthinking dogmatism in every
       sphere of human endeavor (including the sciences) and for a
       flight from rationality to any number of soothing
       fundamentalisms, religious and secular;  that the Enlightenment
       ideology of modernity as such does not even deserve any
       particular credit for the advance of modern science;  that the
       modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the
       evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not solely
       by virtue of the superior technology at its disposal, but by its
       very nature;  that among the chief accomplishments of modern
       culture have been a massive retreat to superstition and the
       gestation of especially pitiless forms of nihilism;  and that,
       by comparison to the Christian revolution it succeeded,
       modernity is little more than an aftereffect, or even a
       counterrevolution — a reactionary flight back toward a
       comfortable, but dehumanizing, mental and moral servitude to
       elemental nature."
       
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       >:(
       Agelbert NOTE: YEP; Modernity claims that IF YOU CAN'T MEASURE
       IT, IT DOESN'T EXIST so you are a fool to believe in God or
       Christianity or tie yourself in "neurotic" knots by attempting
       to live a moral life. After all, Freud "proved" that freeing
       yourself from moral behavior and any moral restrainst is good
       for your mental health, right?
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       What about bad things done by the Church?
       By: AGelbert Date: April 28, 2014, 6:37 pm
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       What about bad things  :P done by the Church?  >:(
       by Jonathan Sarfati
       Professing Christians who committed atrocities were acting
       inconsistently with the teachings of Christianity. Conversely,
       evolutionists who committed atrocities were acting consistently
       with evolution.
       This article mainly addresses point 2. In the past, we have
       frequently supported this point by showing that Christianity has
       been the most powerful force for good in history.1
       This includes motivating charity, education, abolition of
       slavery,2 and science.3 The evidence is so strong that even some
       high-profile atheists have conceded that biblical Christianity
       drove the Salvation Army’s charity and one even proclaimed, “As
       an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God.”&#8197;4
       Similarly, T.H. Huxley (1825–1895), the famous agnostic known as
       ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’, advocated teaching the Bible to children for
       its great morality, and insisted on this for his own children.5
       The vital difference
       About the only response that anti-Christians can give is that
       the history of the church has not always been good. The most
       important issue in reply is this:[font=times new roman]
       Atrocities in the name of Christ are inconsistent with real
       Christianity, which is revealed in the Bible; atrocities in the
       name of atheism are consistent with it.[/font]
       Note that we are NOT claiming that all atheists are always
       ‘evil’ or can never do good things, but that atheism provides no
       basis for judging right from wrong.
       Evolutionist Jaron Lanier showed the problem, saying, “There’s a
       large group of people who simply are uncomfortable with
       accepting evolution because it leads to what they perceive as a
       moral vacuum, in which their best impulses have no basis in
       nature.”
       In reply, the leading atheist and evolutionist Richard Dawkins
       affirmed, “All I can say is, That’s just tough. We have to face
       up to the truth.”6
       So here we have a leading atheist admitting that evolution
       provides no basis for morality. Instead, he and his fellow
       atheists have needed to borrow from Christian concepts of
       sanctity of life and charity. Similarly, the Jewish libertarian
       columnist Jeff Jacoby gave a lucid summary of the argument:
       “Can people be decent and moral without believing in a God who
       commands us to be good? Sure. There have always been kind and
       ethical nonbelievers. But how many of them reason their way to
       kindness and ethics, and how many simply reflect the moral
       expectations of the society in which they were raised?
       “In our culture, even the most passionate atheist cannot help
       having been influenced by the Judeo-Christian worldview that
       shaped Western civilization. …
       “For in a world without God, there is no obvious difference
       between good and evil. There is no way to prove that murder is
       wrong if there is no Creator who decrees ‘Thou shalt not
       murder.’ It certainly cannot be proved wrong by reason alone.
       One might reason instead—as Lenin and Stalin and Mao
       reasoned—that there is nothing wrong with murdering human beings
       by the millions if doing so advances the Marxist cause. Or one
       might reason from observing nature that the way of the world is
       for the strong to devour the weak—or that natural selection
       favors the survival of the fittest by any means necessary,
       including the killing of the less fit.
       “It may seem obvious to us today that human life is precious and
       that the weakest among us deserve special protection. Would we
       think so absent a moral tradition stretching back to Sinai? It
       seemed obvious in classical antiquity that sickly babies should
       be killed. …
       “Reason is not enough. Only if there is a God who forbids murder
       is murder definitively evil.”7
       Therefore, the corrective for faulty application of Christianity
       is not atheism but correct (biblical) application of
       Christianity.
       Given the reasoning above, it should be no surprise that the
       atrocities committed in the name of Christ are not only an
       aberration, but pale compared to the monstrous atrocities
       committed by atheists for atheistic reasons. Some specific
       well-known cases in each category will now be addressed.
       Christian atrocities?
       Inquisition
       The Inquisition is certainly a black spot; biblical
       Christianity, from a human standpoint, tells people to come
       freely to Christ, not be forced to profess Christ because of
       threats. But the Inquisition also must be put into perspective,
       both compared with the numbers and the culture of the time.
       Spanish Inquisition (1478–1834): historians such as Henry Kamen
       estimate between 1,500 and 4,000 people were executed for
       heresy,8 out of Spain’s 6–10 million total population. So at
       most 0.05% of Spain’s population was killed. While this is
       nevertheless deplorable, it means that the Inquisition’s rate of
       executing people was lower than that of the state of Texas
       today, while atheist Stalin often killed that many before
       breakfast (so to speak). Furthermore, Inquisition trials were
       often fairer and more lenient than their secular
       counterparts—indeed, some criminals uttered heresies precisely
       so they would be transferred to the Inquisition courts.
       Salem witch trials
       This was a travesty of paranoia and mass hysteria in colonial
       Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. However, they
       killed fewer than 25 people, far short of the “perhaps hundreds
       of thousands, perhaps millions” that the late antitheist Carl
       Sagan (1934–1996) claimed. Further, they were stopped when
       Christians protested at the travesty of justice in the unfair
       trials and how they violated all biblical standards of
       evidence.9 Even a trial proponent, the Puritan minister Increase
       Mather (1639–1723), opposed the ‘spectral evidence’, i.e. from
       dreams and visions, instead of the biblically required plurality
       of eyewitnesses (Deuteronomy 17:6, 19:15; Matthew 18:16; 2
       Corinthians 13:1). He also made the statement that has now
       become a vital part of Western justice, “It were better that Ten
       Suspected Witches should escape, than that One Innocent Person
       should be Condemned.”10
       Crusades
       While many people attack Christianity for the Crusades, an
       increasing number of historians regard them as a belated
       response to four centuries of Islamic aggression that had
       conquered two-thirds of the Christian world.11
       The Muslims quickly conquered the Iberian Peninsula (now Spain
       and Portugal) well before the Crusades. They would have almost
       certainly conquered Europe were it not for the King of the
       Franks, Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne. In the
       Battle of Tours (ad 732), Martel’s infantry army stood firm
       against Muslim cavalry, and repulsed their repeated charges
       while inflicting enormous casualties. The Muslim leader Abd-er
       Rahman was killed. Afterwards, the remains of the shattered army
       retreated back across the Pyrenées, and never returned.
       Also, just think about the historic centers of Christianity,
       such as Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria and the rest of North
       Africa—they are now Muslim lands, converted at the point of the
       sword. And after the crusades, the Muslim Turks conquered the
       ancient land of Asia Minor, the birthplace of the Apostle Paul,
       the site of many of his missionary journeys and home of the
       Seven Churches of the book of Revelation. Furthermore, when they
       conquered Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453, some 800 years
       after its founding, they turned Hagia Sophia (‘Holy Wisdom’),
       the world’s biggest Christian church at the time, and the center
       of Eastern Orthodoxy, into a mosque.
       In this, they were following the example of Muhammad himself.
       Evangelist Lowell Lundstrom (1939–2012) observed, “During
       Muhammad’s ten years in Medina, he planned 65 military campaigns
       and raids, and he personally led 27 of them.”12 In Sura 66:9,
       the Koran affirms, “O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers
       and the hypocrites and be stern with them. Hell will be their
       home, a hapless journey’s end.” Historian Sir Steven Runciman
       notes, “Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it
       never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with the sword.”13
       Even Richard Dawkins recently admitted:
       “There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up
       buildings. I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am
       not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the
       penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the
       decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a
       bulwark against something worse.”14
       So, in a similar note to the main teaching of this article,
       while atrocities committed in the name of Christ, such as during
       the Crusades, were inconsistent with the teachings of Christ
       (such as “Do not murder”), the atrocities committed by Muslims
       are consistent with Muhammad’s teachings and actions.15
       Religious wars?
       It’s important to note that religion had nothing to do with the
       vast majority of wars, e.g. Hutu–Tutsi war in Rwanda, Falklands
       War, Vietnam and Korean Wars, WW2, WW1, Gran Chaco War in South
       America, Russo-Japanese War, Spanish-American War,
       Prussian-French War, Crimean War, US Civil War, Napoleonic wars,
       Wars of the Roses, Mongol wars, Gallic War, Punic wars,
       Peloponnesian War, Assyrian wars …
       Christian terrorists?
       When Islamic or atheistic atrocities are announced, the secular
       media almost invariably resort to moral equivalence with claimed
       Christian terrorists. Let’s address a few of them.
       Regarding the IRA (Irish Republican Army), Rev. Dr Mark Durie, a
       fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, points out
       the truth:
       “The example of the IRA, so often cited as Christian terrorists,
       illustrates the Christian position, because the IRA’s ideology
       was predominantly Marxist and atheistic. IRA terrorists found no
       inspiration in the teachings of Christ.”16
       Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber who killed 168 people
       and wounded over 680, has often been called a “Christian
       terrorist”. But he was an agnostic to the end. In fact, his
       final pre-execution public statement was William Ernest Henley’s
       strongly humanist poem Invictus (1875). This starts, “I thank
       whatever gods may be/ for my unconquerable soul,” and finishes,
       “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”17
       Such defiant rejection of his Creator is hardly the mark of any
       Christian, good or otherwise.
       Also, the news media were quick to label the Norwegian
       mass-murderer Anders Breivik as a Christian. But Breivik
       specifically denied that he was a religious Christian, caring
       nothing for God and Christ:
       “If you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and God
       then you are a religious Christian. Myself and many more like me
       do not necessarily have a personal relationship with Jesus
       Christ and God. We do however believe in Christianity as a
       cultural, social, identity and moral platform. This makes us
       Christian.”18
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       He could not be more wrong.
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       Hypocrites in the Church
       [move]Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue. [/move]
       Jesus reserved some of his strongest criticism for the hypocrisy
       of the Pharisees. But He in no way condemned the righteousness
       that they stood for in public. Matthew 23:1–3 records:
       Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes
       and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so practice and observe
       whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach,
       but do not practice.”
       Thus the charge of hypocrisy was not an attack on the morality
       they preached but on their failure to live up to it. He actually
       told His followers to be even more righteous than the Pharisees
       (Matthew 5:20).
       We are upset by hypocrisy precisely because we recognize that
       something intrinsically good has been debased and let down by
       the hypocrite’s failure to meet the very standard he proclaimed.
       Hence the saying, “Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to
       virtue.”
       This atheist criticism amounts to preferring that we both say
       and do the wrong thing rather than say the right thing but do
       the wrong thing.19
       Atheistic atrocities
       Atrocities committed in Christ’s name pale in comparison to the
       record-breaking tens of millions killed by atheistic regimes
       just last century. This was thoroughly documented by Rudolph
       Rummel (b. 1932), Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the
       University of Hawaii, who coined the term democide, meaning
       ‘murder of a people by their government’:20 77 million in
       Communist China, 62 million in the Soviet Gulag State, 21
       million non-battle killings by the Nazis (including 6 million
       Jews, &#8531; of all Jews in Europe), 2 million murdered in the
       Khmer Rouge killing fields. This is many times more deaths than
       all ‘religious’ wars put together in all centuries of human
       history, and this is just for the 20th century!
       We have previously documented the evolutionary basis for the
       Holocaust.21 This included eugenics, which was so Darwinian that
       non-creationist Denis Sewell documented:
       Atrocities committed in Christ’s name pale to the
       record-breaking tens of millions killed by atheistic regimes
       just last century: 77 million in Communist China, 62 million in
       the Soviet Gulag State, 21 million non-battle killings by the
       Nazis, 2 million murdered in the Khmer Rouge killing fields.
       “[In the] years leading up to the First World War, The eugenics
       movement looked like a Darwin family business. … Darwin’s son
       Leonard replaced his cousin Galton as chairman of the national
       Eugenics Society in 1911. In the same year an offshoot of the
       society was formed in Cambridge. Among its leading members were
       three more of Charles Darwin’s sons, Horace, Francis and
       George.”22
       Summary
       Professing Christians who committed atrocities were acting
       inconsistently with the teachings of Christianity. Conversely,
       evolutionists who committed atrocities were acting consistently
       with evolution.
       The term ‘atrocity’ has meaning only under a Judeo-Christian
       worldview; it has no meaning in an evolutionary philosophy.
       Agelbert NOTE: Yep! the only "morality" for an atheist is
       CALORIC INTAKE EFFICENCY = MORALITY, STARVATION = IMMORARLITY.
       As stated in the book "the Brothers Karamazov,". "If God does
       not exist, then ALL THINGS ARE PERMITTED".
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       The
       horrors of atheistic atrocities in the 20th century alone dwarf
       all the ‘Christian’ atrocities in all centuries combined.
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       Darwinian explanations of why we are the way we are:
       By: AGelbert Date: July 21, 2014, 5:23 pm
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       In regard to Darwinian explanations of why we are the way we
       are:   ;D
       [quote]“Darwinian explanations for such things are often too
       supple:
       Natural selection makes humans self-centered and
       aggressive—except when it makes them altruistic and peaceable.
       Or natural selection produces virile men who eagerly spread
       their seed—except when it prefers men who are faithful
       protectors and providers.
       When an explanation is so supple that it can explain any
       behavior, it is difficult to test it experimentally, much less
       use it as a catalyst for scientific discovery.”[/quote]
       Philip Skell (1918–2010), a leading chemist.
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       Re: Darwin
       By: AGelbert Date: July 26, 2014, 11:05 pm
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       G.K. Chesterton had the Nazis down on the Darwinian ethic on
       both counts:
       [quote]
       "Darwinism can be used to back up two mad moralities, but it
       cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and
       competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for
       being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a
       healthy love of animals … That you and a tiger are one may be a
       reason for being tender to a tiger. Or it may be a reason for
       being cruel as the tiger. It is one way to train the tiger to
       imitate you, it is a shorter way to imitate the tiger. But in
       neither case does evolution tell you how to treat a tiger
       reasonably, that is, to admire his stripes while avoiding his
       claws."[/quote]
       The Darwinian core, and fundamentally anti-Christian character,
       of Nazism
       A review of Hitler and the Nazi Darwinian Worldview by Jerry
       Bergman
       Joshua Press, Ontario, 2012
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       If IT feels good, do it!!!!?
       By: AGelbert Date: July 28, 2014, 3:11 pm
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       Ashvin said, [quote]I think it's silly to ignore the connection
       between these core selfless values and Christian belief. It not
       only advocates these values, but provides the regenerative
       framework for incorporating them into all areas of our lives.
       When I look around the world today, I see no similar framework
       in any other ideology or movement, religious or secular. Some
       focus solely on spiritual experience, some on personal
       discipline, some on political activism, some on the environment,
       some on the economy, some on human rights, etc., etc., but, as
       far as I can tell, only Biblical Christianity encompasses all of
       these and more. [/quote]
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       Well said. RE is fond of pointing to the "insufficiency" of the
       actions of Jesus on the environmental, human caloric intake and
       justice against bad guys score. Yet RE (and me too for a large
       part of my life  :() are willing victims of vicious propaganda
       that he refuses to take action on because of his addiction to
       smoking.
       You cannot have it both ways, RE. Your criticism of Christianity
       is based on its perversion by human frailty and evil, not on the
       tenets of Christianity itself.  ;)
       Look at this picture WORTH A LOT MORE THAN A THOUSAND "WORDS"
       (i.e. millions of cancers, severe pollution, biosphere
       degradation and billions of dollars in DIRTY "profits" from
       suckers like you and I - Darwin, Freud and Bernays GIFTED
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       Mr. JRM: Smoking and the rampant use of fossil fuels was/is an
       ENJOYABLE PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE, was it not, Mr. JRM (who believes
       anyone alleging that experience isn't the be all, end all of
       life is talking "tripe" LOL!)?  [img width=40
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       ANYONE that thinks EXPERIENCE trumps all is a perfect sucker
       target for ME FIRST Madison Avenue manipulation that starts with
       pleasure and ends with poison and tyranny.  The doctrine of
       self-denial is not a sadistic exercise in stupidity, it is the
       only proper way for human society to practice sustainability and
       harmony with other human beings and the biosphere. Raising human
       EXPERIENCE TO NUMERO UNO is really SUCKER BAIT pseudo spiritual
       TRIPE!
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       If IT feels good, do it!!!!?
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       Nope.
       #Post#: 1719--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Darwin
       By: AGelbert Date: August 20, 2014, 6:05 pm
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       The 3 Rs of Evolution: Rearrange, Remove, Ruin—in other words,
       no evolution!
       The genetic changes observed in living things today could not
       have turned bacteria into basset hounds—ever
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       Re: Darwin
       By: AGelbert Date: September 9, 2014, 10:46 pm
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       The Modus Operandi of Evolutionary Prevaricators in the Service
       of Darwinian Religion.
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