The walking fish is a spoof of the fish icon used to identify Christians. But
the joke is on the walking fish crowd because the cherished, atheistic religion
of the liberal intelligentsia is a myth. The proof is in a new and controversial
book called Why Evolution is a Fraud: A Secular and Common-Sense
Deconstruction by Tom Sutcliff.
Of course you’d never know that Darwinism was bogus from the old media.
The left and their press department— the mainstream media—love evolution
because they believe that man has replaced God. To them, this means no
more judgment by those ‘bigoted, bible-thumping, hayseeds’ who believe in
God. This means that feelings are more important than thoughts and
principles. Politics, not the search for objective truth, drives science. This is
what I call "agenda science."
Evolution has survived for nearly 150 years because it fits nicely into the
liberal paradigm: a bumper-sticker mantra that is light on facts and heavy on
hate. An example is the common theme of evolution that says ‘similarity
equals ancestry.’ Monkeys and apes resemble humans so we must share a
common ancestor. End of story. Class dismissed.
That’s the leftist line. Shallow mantras. No questioning or deep thinking
allowed. If Christopher Columbus thought that way, we might still believe
that the earth is flat! There were plenty of naysayers in his day, mocking him
for claiming that the earth was not flat and warning him about sailing off the
edge of the earth.
Evolutionists demand the same blind adherence to their racist pseudoscience.
They demonize anyone who dares to question their religion of evolution as in-
bred, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging hicks who are just too dumb to
realize that science has replaced God. Since liberals see themselves as too
intelligent to believe in God, they deem those who disagree with them as ‘less
equal.’ This group, according to liberal groupthink, feels that people of faith
are a threat and must be silenced. To paraphrase Animal Farm, some people
are less equal than others.
You see the same Stalinist-style tactic with the embryonic stem cell issue. If
you disagree with using an embryo for spare parts, you are standing in the
way of legitimate science. Despite the fact that embryonic stem cells are far
more prone to tumor formation than adult or cord-blood stem cells, liberals
claim that stem cells from embryos would cure Michael J. Fox of his
Parkinson’s disease and would have allowed the late Christopher Reeve to
walk again. Like evolution, there is no proof but plenty of rhetoric.
In this case, liberals are pushing for federal funding for embryonic stem cell
research. Research on existing embryonic stem cell lines is not illegal. In fact,
if embryonic stem cells are so promising why aren’t drug companies using
more of them in their research? It’s because embryonic stem cells have
yielded few results. Adult stem cells and cord-blood stem cells have delivered
much better results.
But just as details don’t matter to the embryonic stem cell advocates,
distortion and delusion form the foundation of evolutionists. They discard the
fact that the fossil record does not show any valid transition from one species
to another. Instead they deflect away from scrutiny of evolution and
demonize questioners are stupid, anti-science zealots. As long as they can
claim evolution as a science and bash people of faith in the process, it’s all
good. But facts are pesky things. They are objective and don’t change with
the latest opinion poll or politically-correct feeling.
Until now, the evolution debate usually stalls into a ‘religion versus science’
stalemate. Why? It’s because evolutionists must deflect away from their fact-
deficient philosophy. They dare not unveil the lack of science that plagues
evolution. Common-sense and the most fundamental, everyday facts of
science—not theistic faith—are evolution’s worst enemies. For example, a
basic overview genetics—that anyone could understand—destroys one of the
pillars that held up the Darwinian house of cards.
The pillar in question is called Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny, which is a
fancy way of saying that a human fetus goes through a fish and a frog stage
before birth. Created by German doctor Ernst Haeckel, ORP was a bogus
theory based on the idea that similarity equals ancestry. The theory asserted
that at a certain stage, part of the human embryo resembles fish gills. At
another stage, the theory suggests, the human fetus resembles a frog.
Like any good con artist, Haeckel provided doctored images to attempt to
prove his scientifically-invalid assertion. His peers were not convinced and in
1911 they exposed his bogus work of science fiction. You’d think that would
be the end of it, but since we’re talking about the agenda-driven ‘science’ of
evolution, truth is secondary to promoting an atheistic agenda. The doctored
images that were debunked nearly 100 years ago have appeared in countless
biology text books for the last several decades.
The same holds true to the phony images of the Birmingham moths. These
photos, taken in the 1950s by British physician H.B.D. Kettlewell, allegedly
show that tree-dwelling moths became darker as a response to the increasing
amount of air pollution from nearby factories. According to the theory, the
light-colored moths became darker so they could blend in with the tree bark
and be less noticeable to predators. Kettlewell glued dead moths to the bark
of soot-stained trees and photographed them to show the before and after
effects of the moths adapting to air pollution.
The problem, which was chronicled in Judith Hooper’s best-selling book Of
Moths and Men: the Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moths, is that
the moths in question do not naturally appear on tree bark. They only appear
in the leaves at the foot of the trees. Nevertheless, this blatant deception—
which would have demonstrated adaptation, not evolution—has appeared in
countless biology text books as scientific fact.
History serves another crippling blow to evolution. It’s not just the Dan
Rather-style rationalizations of ‘discoveries’ that later turned out to be
hoaxes; Piltdown man, Java man and Peking man are a few examples.
It’s that the bedrock of evolution is cemented in the devaluation of certain
ethnic groups. Specifically, the leaders of the evolutionary and eugenic
movements in the latter half of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th
century believed that blacks, Jews and Australian Aborigines were closer to
apes and/or a hominid ancestor than whites from Northern Europe.
Adolf Hitler, along with thousands of like-minded Nazis, tried to synthesize
evolution. They deemed Jews as unfit and murdered six million innocent
lives as a way of making evolution happen on a human level.
If you need a more recent example, look no further than the 1999 Columbine
High School massacre. Eric Harris, who was one of the murderers, was an
avid evolutionist. His words, prior to the mass murder, showed a disdain for
those he felt were weak. They, according to Harris, needed to be evolved away
immediately.
On April 20th, 1999, wearing a t-shirt with the words “natural selection” on
the front, he enforced natural selection numerous times at the barrel of his
shotgun. Harris viewed his victims as weak, thus deserving to be eliminated.
Like Hitler, his ardent devotion to discarding the ‘weak’ was his way
ensuring the survival of the fittest.
Invariably, some knee-jerk reactionary will accuse me of wanting to ban ideas
like evolution or harmless symbols like the walking fish ornament. This is
absurd. Evolution does not need to be banned any more than we need to ban
the flat-earth theory. Dopey trunk lid ornaments don’t need to be outlawed
either. Ideas did not kill six million Jews in Germany. The evil acts of men
did. Natural selection did not pull the triggers of Harris and Klebold’s
firearms. The blame for these evil acts rests with the actors.
Edmund Burke once said that “the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is
for good men to do nothing.” When we stand by and allow the truth to be
perverted by politically-correct, God-hating socialists, we bear some
responsibility for the poisoned fruits that ripen as we sat idle.