Wherein we continue our series about evolutionary propaganda. Propaganda is a lot like advertising. You can’t expect a car commercial, for instance, to inform you about the sleek new design and wonderful optional features of a certain model AND give you the details of their poor review in Consumer Reports and their dismal results in federal crash tests. That ain’t gonna happen. In a similar vein, you have propaganda like the following:
According to this graphic’s creator, anyone who believes in God is scientifically ignorant and believes in “fairy tales.”
The irony is that, while evolutionists mock those who believe in creation (see above: “…you’re overwhelmed by questions for which you have no answers”) they have no answers for many of the background questions in grey, posed by ignorant creationists.* Even the most ardent proponents of evolution cannot answer the most fundamental question of them all: how life originated. There are a number of theories, and the proponents of each theory ardently support their own views, but in the scientific community there is no consensus and much disagreement about how life began. If this is news to you, you’re a victim of propaganda. And this lack of foundational science is nothing new: Darwin’s landmark book of 1859 was entitled “The Origin of Species,” yet the one thing it didn’t address was the origin of species. It discussed evolutionary changes in existing life forms. The situation hasn’t changed: scientists feel convinced that evolution is a fact. It’s the beginnings of life that they have no explanation for. They’re like a team who wants to begin the game in the 9th inning, and they want you to believe they’re leading by 10 runs. That situation is quite a conundrum, given the scientific agreement about one thing: there are no simple life forms. Even individual cells are astonishingly sophisticated and complex. From the micro to the macro, biologists are in awe of the intricate and ingenious designs of living things.
It’s a fair point for debate: if someone is convinced of something – to the point of ridiculing those who disagree – yet has no solid explanation proving the most fundamental basis for their belief, how solid is their science and therefore their belief? Remember the math teachers in school who said, “Show me your work”? They meant, I have to see how you arrived at this conclusion, at this answer. The same need applies here.
A massive edifice has been built around the teaching of evolution, yet its builders don’t know what the building’s foundation is made of. If that sounds shaky, it’s because it is.
* Let us here stipulate that some of the background questions in grey are, indeed, idiotic, and any proponent of creation who asks them is just begging to be ridiculed.