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Plenty of cults exist - every cult has its 'religious dogma', its idols, its 'prophets', its 'science', its 'proof' and its intolerant liturgy of demands. Cults everywhere: Corona, 'The Science' or Scientism, Islam, the State, the cult of Gender Fascism, Marxism, Darwin and Evolution, Globaloneywarming, Changing Climate, Abortion...
Tempus Fugit Memento Mori - Time Flies Remember Death
Two years ago, Dr Charles Everett Koop who served as the Surgeon General of the United States from 1982 to 1989, passed away. For most of his career he was Surgeon-in-Chief at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Pediatric Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He wrote the textbook in his field and, thanks mostly to his work, some procedures that carried a 95% mortality rate when Koop began his work have improved to a 95% survival rate. For his exemplary scholarly work, he received a total of 35 honorary doctorates. He wrote over 200 articles and books on the practice of medicine and surgery, biomedical ethics, and health policy. In 1991 he was honored with an Emmy Award for his five-part film series on health care reform.
An accomplished professional and academic, he converted to Christianity after the birth of his 3rd child; and he knew after years of study, that Darwinism was a laughingstock, a mendacity of naturalism, covered with 'scientific' jargon. Indeed it is:
“ …There are problems, even if these are not commonly realized or discussed. The primary point we are interested in, however, is … the illusion of [evolutionary] ‘progress … . By chance, this amazing complexity called ‘man’ has been generated out of the slime. So, of course, there is progress! By this argument people are led into imagining that the whole of reality does have purpose even if, as we have said, there is no way that it really can have purpose within the humanistic world-view. Evolution makes men and women feel superior … but in the materialistic framework, the whole of reality is [ultimately] meaningless … Even if, within the humanist world-view, people are more complex than plants and animals … . We are left with everything being sad and absurd.”
As a metaphysical exercise Darwinism truly is sad and absurd. It is also unscientific.
As Koop wrote, 2 of Darwinism's main contentions have been completely eradicated by real science, namely, vestigial organs and recapitulation of phylogeny [the rhetoric is superb, even if the idea is completely idiotic]:
“ … have now been almost totally abandoned by evolutionists. The first involves vestigial organs, which (it was supposed) had served useful functions in an earlier stage of man’s evolutionary development, but which later became literally useless by the changes brought about through natural selection … Certain organs were said to be ‘vestiges’, that is, leftovers from a previous stage in evolution. The simple problem with the argument is that as medical science has developed, most of these organs have been found to serve useful functions in the body.”
He added that the second major
“ … argument for Darwin … is the dictum that ‘ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny’. This idea is that the human embryo goes through the stages of evolution inside the mother’s womb, resembling at one stage the fish and so on. The better we understand the embryo, however, the more dubious this argument is seen to be.”
Human embryos do not recapitulate anything other than human DNA software, inherited or donated by a human man and woman. There is no journey from slime to lemur, during the embryological process.
But there is more lies about the authentic 'scienticity' of the Darwin metaphysical project which Koop also noted:
“ …..First, the more fossil evidence we find, the more apparent it becomes that there have always been distinct breaks in the fossil record. Darwin admitted that the paleontological evidence in his day was slender, but, he said, as more is discovered the new evidence will support the hypothesis. This just has not happened.”
Pre-historical man, was as Koop contends, still a modern man, and no missing link has, or will be found connecting the modern Homo Sapiens with the chimps:
“ … evidence of pre-man is sketchy, and recent discoveries in Africa and elsewhere have generated some difficult new problems in this area. But it is not just the so-called missing links between man and pre-man that constitute the problem, but all the missing links, right down the whole line. Not only are links missing; the chains themselves are missing. If one removes the speculative guesses, rather than links of different chains leading from simple to more complex organisms, one finds virtual explosions of mature life forms at different periods in geological time and many simple forms of life [in the fossil record] that remain unchanged [evolutionists claim] for several millions of years up to their extinction or even to today.”
Koop also added that the:
“ … second major difficulty for today’s evolutionists is that there is no sufficient mechanism to explain how lower life forms can be transformed into higher ones, no matter how much time is allowed. Natural selection cannot bear this weight. Current genetic theories seem even to point to natural selection as working against the direction of evolution. Despite the unlikely possibility of mutations that are advantageous, natural selection seems to simplify the genetic endowment of any group rather than lead it to higher orders of complexity.”
No fossil, genetic, embryonic, or bio-chemical science supports Darwinism. The Tree of Life, is more like a field of grass, with each phylogenetic blade as distinct from each other, as each human is unique in comparison with other humans. Software systems of complexity, do not arise from random chance. 100 trillion cells did not evolve from bacteria or algae. Such a belief system is not scientific but profoundly irrational and devastatingly insipid.
Roughly 1600 human bone fragments were recently discovered, in what the secular 'science' media, calls a 'missing link' discovery. The only problem is that the bones are unlikely to be those of humans; and they are not missing links. Other than those two objections the media is spot on as usual. But as one would expect, the media, the 'science' industry, the evolution cult, put their propaganda into high gear, long before proof, analysis, or even common sense is applied to this or indeed any other 'discovery'. The list of evolutionary frauds regarding a missing link is running deep and long [see here]. You would think that the cult of Darwin might be more circumspect before mendacious claims are offered, and fools are again revealed to be charlatans and quacks.
“Berger’s team believes the bones paint a mosaic picture of a species mixing human-like “Homo” and australopithecine ape features. Composites constructed from four partial skulls in the assemblage have small brain capacities—560 cc and 465 cc—that overlap the usual brain capacities of australopithecines. Such braincases are much smaller than those seen in most archaic humans and less than half the average for modern humans. Nevertheless, despite a sloped lower face and—based on the published photographs—no visible evidence of the protruding nasal bones typical of all humans, Berger has identified the fossils as a new species of human ancestor, Homo naledi.”
Berger terms his bone find a 'mosaic'? A mosaic or composite accumulation of what ? Is he suggesting that these bones are half human, half ape ? We have seen that movie and lie before in the guise of various Australo frauds, including the mother of them all, Saint Lucy, she of the virgin birth circa 2 million years ago.
“Likewise, while Homo naledi’s thumb is a little longer than that of Australopithecus afarensis, the authors make no claim that it matches that of humans, indicating instead that it differs from all known hominins. Australopithecine finger-thumb proportions reveal diversity among apes, not evolutionary progress in grip engineering. Nothing about Homo naledi’s hand indicates it belonged to a human.”
So the cranium and appendages have nothing to do with hominids. Ergo this must be the missing link. So spaketh Darwinian theology. As one ardent cult devotee of Darwin stated in relation to the finds:
“Stringer says, “What we are seeing is more and more species of creatures that suggests that nature was experimenting with how to evolve humans, thus giving rise to several different types of human-like creatures originating in parallel in different parts of Africa. Only one line eventually survived to give rise to us.”
What hyperbole. Nature experiments ? How ? Is there a Lab I can go to and see the experimentation in process ? Are apes doing the gene shuffle today to 'become' human ? Or is it all 'natural selection', 'competitive advantage', allele rearrangement over 'deep time', and other rhetoric. What exactly would I, as a primitive chimp, be selecting from and why? Why would chimps or apes 'need to evolve' ?
How would I know as a 3 foot high Bonobo chimp that one my future progeny would indeed want to be Barry Obama, a famous cricketer, or perhaps the first evolved chimp on the moon ? What cloud based software domain do I access for this mythical natural selection ? Are there menu options ? How in fact could I change my embryology to allow 'gene shuffling' and other Darwinian verbiage ? Or do these genetic software 'mutations' just magically appear ? And why are mutations destructive 99.99% of the time? How do I get from an ape or chimp to Barry Obama if mutations are negative ?
Conclusion. Naledi posing as a missing link is just another big fraud. It is an ape, or maybe a chimp. It is not a human.
“Despite all the media articles and Berger’s implication that Homo naledi is a glorious mosaic of incipient humanity superimposed on an australopithecine base, the data presented in the study reveals what is most likely an ape.”
A discovery of ape bones paraded by the media as evolution, does not make Darwin's acolytes, smart or scientific. It just makes them look very desperate and irrational.
In an op-ed in the WSJ, a bastion of what I would call Keynesian-elitist theology [the WSJ usually accepts such distorted theologies as open borders, illegal immigration is mandatory, Islam-is-peace, and governmental spending is part of the economy]; Peggy Noonan reflects on the Moslem invasion of Europe, categorized by the elites and Mandarins [even the Church], as a 'refugee problem', or a 'human rights' conundrum.
She writes: "But in this crisis talk of “the elites” is pertinent. The gap between those who run governments and those who are governed has now grown huge and portends nothing good." This gap has been obvious for a few generations. It will only get worse.
“...[due to the Moslem migration] Welfare systems will be strained. Youth unemployment is already high. In Britain the crisis could contribute to a vote to leave the EU outright. There are fears, which the elites take lightly, that floods of displaced people will “alter the cultural balance of the country for ever,” as the columnist Melanie Phillips put it in the Times of London. The Gulf states have not offered a home to their Arab and Muslim cousins. Dutch right-wing leader Geert Wilders this week called the wave of migrants an “Islamic invasion” in parliamentary debate, “an invasion that threatens our prosperity, our security, our culture and identity.” A recent poll showed 54% of Dutch voters opposed to welcoming more than the roughly 2,000 refugees previously agreed to. Hungary is building a fence.
Reading the popular press of Europe you see the questions. Do we not have a right to control our borders? Isn’t the refugee wave a security threat? ISIS is nothing if not committed to its intentions. Why would they not be funneling jihadists onto those boats?”
Rights to security, border control and cultural maintenance are obvious to any sentient person who respects civilization.
Noonan might likely be fired for linking Islam with the implosion of the Near East and an invasion of Marxist Europa. Islam is a failure. Now it wishes to export its 7th century pagan fascism to every single developed country, not to assimilate, but to eradicate.
These obvious facts are denied by the elites. In fact the political-media elite do their best to propagandize the ideal of 'refugees', women and children searching for a better life; just like 'you or I' would do. The problem with this narrative is that it is wholly false. Most of the millions heading into Europe, are young Moslem males. Even the Useless Nations has admitted that fact.
The media canard of picking out the crying wife #3, with her downs child, in a sea of young Moslem men, wears thin. Likewise, the drowned baby in Turkey canard has been debunked a thousand times. The father should be in jail for murder. He sold his family to human traffickers and their boat floundered. He desired new teeth and was selling his kin to be the 'anchor family' in Europe or Canada, where he would join them. But the peasant never hears of this from the mainstream-political media establishment.
The problem is obvious, and Noonan makes it a polite contention. The elites, the political-media Mandarin class, have no common interests with the peasant. None. They view Moslems as cheap labor and an antidote to demographic issues. People with brains view the Moslem fascism as inimical to civilization and progress. Most sane people also know that in England for eg. 80% of Moslems are on some sort of welfare, with 50% unemployment, and sex gangs ravaging young white girls that the media and elite call 'Asian gangs'.
Is it any wonder the average thinking man hates the elite? Why would you believe these elitists with their own selfish agendas, when your own lying eyes, can reveal the truth.
But the issue runs even deeper. We are defenseless.
Unarmed peasants - most of us are just that - do not, cannot, will never, upset the divine-right rule of the elites. Unfettered state power leads to destruction and an implosion. History has no exceptions to this rule. When the secular state takes over everything, and imposes its secular theology on everything, and coerces the peasant into submission, it always ended with blood and war. At least it did in times past. No medieval serf would put up with the current state of affairs - including an invasion by Moslems into their country. But we do.
We are just unarmed knaves, watching TV, getting fat, screaming about world cups this and that; with no moral compass, no theology, no worldview. Just a tingling that the theology of the elites, is really, really messed up. But weak, cowardly, egotistical, we don't do much about it. Except moan, vote for the same party we did last time, listen to the mainstream media and remaining clueless about the vast bureaucracy which seeks to undermine freedom.
Mark Steyn's A Disgrace to the Profession is a must read. He renders the Hockey Stick of Micheal E Mann, and the entire team who ardently defends it, even after 11 years of it being revealed as a nonsense, and a deceitful fraud, a laughingstock. According to the Warm Cult, the Middle Ages did not experience a warming epoch in which High Middle Age culture flourished [900-1300]; nor did it experience an Ice Age in which death, famine, wars, struggles and social discord prevailed [1350-1750]. Climate never changed until the 20th century, when thanks to plant food emission increases, Gaia became feverishly ill.
If you believe that climatology is about science, truth, or saving the Goddess Gaia, you are either mentally unfit, naive, or have had a lobotomy [or perhaps all 3]. You need to read this book, to get better.
Steyn pens a compendium of over 100 Phds [appeal to authority], researchers and 'scientists', involved in climatology, or the metaphysical theological enterprise called 'Climate Change'. Since humans have a very poor understanding of climate, its factors, its causation's, its complexity and many-to-many-variable relationships, its convection flow, or even cosmic influences on the 'changing climate'; it stands to reason that a small cabal of climate theologians, committing data fraud, statistical fraud, and scientific fraud, are and would be, a disgrace to their metaphysical profession.
Even worse, this small group of self-interested money and fame seekers, who are used by the UN IPCC and Western governments to further their fear mongering over globaloneywarming; are pilloried by these 100 Phds and scientists, due to the obvious unscientific methods, data manipulation, data errors, incongruencies and outright immorality, embedded in their Hockey Stick. Many of these Phds badly state that Mann et al are a disgrace and should be disbarred from any further investigations into science, using 'paleo climatology', or the use of tree rings, ice cores and other artifacts which supposedly tell us about climate 1000 or more years ago [they don't].
“...global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS [American Physics Society] before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.
....Roman and Medieval Warm Periods were both warmer than the Current Warm Period has been to date, (2) the “beginning of the end” of the Little Ice Age was somewhere in the vicinity of 1830, and (3) the Current Warm Period peaked somewhere in the vicinity of1940.
.....studies by over 750 scientists from over 450 research institutions in over 40 countries that have found a Medieval Warm Period of between 0.1° and 3.2°C warmer than today in every corner of the globe245 - from Alaska to South Africa, Morocco to New Zealand, Bolivia to China, Egypt to New Guinea… Everywhere they look for it, they find it. But when it’s all processed into Mike’s worldwide paleoproxypalooza, it vanishes every time - and don’t you dare question it, because Mike’s whole is always greater than the sum of everybody else’s parts.”
Steyn is in a court case with King Mann the Hockey Stick promoter. All the judge has to do is to read this book, and the next volume due later this year, to understand that there is no science involved in the Hockey Stick, or the lurid claims of the warm cult. Just propaganda, lies, bad software code, statistical fraud and the fact that as Steyn states, Mann's entire premise of the blade of the 20th century showing a rise in temperatures after 1000 years of flat temperatures, is based on 2 bristlecone pine trees in the Western US, and 1 cedar in Quebec Canada. Steyn relates why tree rings do not correlate with Co2 [plant food], and why you can't build a climate picture from them. Mann et al know this, but ignore the obvious difficulties with tree rings. Hence Steyn's moniker 'Tree Ring Circus'. It is not science, whatever it is.
“Mann’s work is junk science, bad science, pseudo science, pathological science - or “brazen fraud”. But there’s not a lot of people willing to defend it as “good climatescience”.
No kidding. No one defends Mann, except the media and political establishment, invested as they are in catastrophic man-caused globaloneywarming.
Mann et al should be in jail.