| Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) is firmly ensconced in | | | | on Earth are "Expelled" (recent Documentary film). |
| the pantheon of scientific giants by his major | | | | Attempts to Create Life in the Laboratory |
| discoveries and brilliant theories about evolution, | | | | In 1953, Stanley Miller, a graduate student at the |
| mutations and survival of the fittest. However | | | | University of Chicago, experimented with the creation |
| muted, controversy exists over Darwin-Evolutionism | | | | of life in his laboratory by simulating the Earth's |
| theory, as well as evidence of "brainwashing" of | | | | atmosphere of 3.8 billion years ago (ammonia, |
| those most educated in our society, dramatically | | | | methane, hydrogen and water vapor) and using |
| manifest in the histories attending two outstanding | | | | electric sparks in lieu of lightning. His experiment |
| scientific events, their coverage in the media, and | | | | produced a reddish "slime" - a synthesizing of amino |
| their present world mind-set status. They are the | | | | acids (building blocks of protein) by non-biological |
| Burgess Pass fossils discovery and attempts to | | | | reactions among simple inorganic compounds that are |
| create life in the laboratory. | | | | found throughout the universe. Miller's experiment |
| Burgess Pass Fossils | | | | was widely and excitedly reported - and initially |
| Sixty thousand fossils, the greatest paleontology find | | | | (erroneously) interpreted as proof that life could have |
| ever, were discovered in the Burgess Pass of the | | | | started in similar fashion - chance random reactions, a |
| Canadian Rockies exactly a century ago by Dr. | | | | bolt of lightning sparking a pre-biotic pool of inanimate |
| Charles Walcott, Director of the Smithsonian Institute. | | | | chemicals - it was a tremendous boost to anti-religion |
| The area had been under a tropical sea 530 million | | | | advocates. |
| years ago, the sand so fine that even soft tissue | | | | However, while Miller showed that amino acids could |
| was preserved. Walcott, however, did not publish his | | | | be the product of random reactions to natural |
| discovery, or give to the world his findings of | | | | phenomena, they "were far from being alive." There |
| extremely significant scientific data, or even the | | | | was no continued growth and mutation, no |
| fossils themselves. Instead he re-buried them in the | | | | evolutionary developments into more complex living |
| Smithsonian's basement lockers (re-discovered by a | | | | organisms. It took twenty-five years for the |
| graduate-student only recently - they had been | | | | scientific community to admit its error and retract the |
| hidden from the world for about eighty years.) | | | | conclusion. However, like the initial erroneous |
| The cause of such unseemly behavior for any | | | | interpretation of Miller's experiment, and despite the |
| scientist, much less by an outstanding paleontologist | | | | denials and withdrawals of support by knowledgeable |
| and Director of the world-famous Smithsonian | | | | scientists, in the minds of the educated elite of the |
| Institute, casts significant light on his perception of | | | | world today, in popular writings, the Darwin theory of |
| the world's attitude regarding Darwinism. The Darwin | | | | evolution and the claimed success of this experiment |
| theory of evolution, brilliant science, had enabled the | | | | continue to live on. |
| secular elite of the world, generally agnostic to | | | | Humankind - through its science and endeavor and |
| atheistic in their religious convictions, to emphatically | | | | mind-power has walked the moon and probed the |
| proclaim, for all educated mankind, the shedding of | | | | stars. A jesting exaggeration that everyone has |
| religious belief in a Creator for our life on earth. | | | | heard is, "Don't confuse me with facts - my mind is |
| Beginning with Darwin himself, paleontologists the | | | | made up." However, is this statement sometimes also |
| world over had been reassuring each other for a | | | | true, even for intellectuals? Are these incidents of |
| half-century that future discoveries would fill the | | | | present-day Darwin-Evolutionism mind-sets evidence |
| numerous "missing link" gaps in the fossil record. Dr. | | | | of "brain-washing" at its most-successful best - of |
| Walcott, after analyzing his find and realizing its | | | | our brightest and most educated minds and in today's |
| significance, then took unusual pains to re-hide them. | | | | world of incomparable scientific achievement? |
| He did so, undoubtedly, because of personal fears of | | | | Note 1. While Darwin's theories are challenged for the |
| the world's reaction to his highly significant | | | | basic organism or creature level by many scientists, all |
| paleontological discovery - the sixty-thousand | | | | acknowledge applicability after the original has |
| first-ever fossils showed fully-formed creatures of all | | | | (somehow) come into existence - at the sub-phyla |
| extant life forms - not a single missing-link or | | | | level - evident in the famous finch beak-shapes, and |
| inter-step creature . The Burgess Pass fossils, | | | | also for the different skin colorings of bears and |
| remnants from the extremely important Cambrian | | | | humans (reacting, over generations, to optimize the |
| period, showed the fossil record to be non-supportive | | | | absorption of sunlight in various areas of the world), |
| of Darwinian theory, in fact, being a challenge to it. | | | | etc. |
| Obviously, Dr. Walcott felt that - notwithstanding the | | | | Note 2. Regarding the fossil record and "gaps", |
| immense significance in scientific value of all this fossil | | | | Darwin himself famously said: "Why then, is not |
| evidence - as the human instrument of its disclosure | | | | every geological formation and every stratum filled |
| that would impact the mind-set of unquestioned | | | | with such intermediate links? This, perhaps, is the |
| belief in Darwin-Evolutionism - and atheism versus | | | | most obvious and serious objection to the theory |
| theoism - the world-wide negative, disappointed | | | | (his own) .. the so-called missing links are still missing! |
| reaction could put his own reputation and career at | | | | However, if it could be demonstrated that any |
| risk. | | | | complex organism existed which could not have been |
| Was Walcott's fear justified? The rediscovery of the | | | | formed by numerous successive slight modifications, |
| Burgess Pass fossils twenty years ago initially and | | | | my theory would absolutely break down." (Emphasis |
| dramatically shocked the scientific concept of | | | | added.) Considering the above, he, as a true scientist, |
| evolution. The effect was immediate the most | | | | would hardly approve the stubborn retention of a |
| widely-read science journals in the world in the early | | | | mind-set which honors his theories, but primarily to |
| nineteen-nineties: Scientific American, National | | | | thwart religious belief. |
| Geographic, Time, many major newspapers, e.g. the | | | | Note 3. Two other Ezine articles present different |
| New York Times, etc., featured articles questioning | | | | aspects of Darwin-Evolutionism: "From |
| evolution. However, that was more than a decade | | | | Darwin-Evolutionism to Intelligent Design - Inevitably!", |
| ago - apparently all those articles in so many | | | | is a summary of quoted observations of the secular |
| newspapers and scientific journals have now faded | | | | elite; admissions of pro-Darwin scientists and |
| away, seemingly, there remains no effect on the | | | | scientists who challenge Darwinism, highlighting the |
| cultural wisdom of the intellectual leaders of the world | | | | mathematical improbabilities which argue against |
| of today - all such writings have apparently been | | | | Darwin-Evolutionism and favor Intelligent Design; also |
| forgotten or are ignored. Today, judges and | | | | "Darwin-Evolutionism - Undeniable Astronomic |
| columnists still proclaim what they were taught in | | | | Improbabilities Despite Secular Claims of Proven Fact!" |
| their youth - that teaching Intelligent Design is but an | | | | presents a litany of scores of quotes from scientists |
| attempt to bring religion into the classroom; high | | | | both pro-Darwin and challengers, solidly demolishing |
| school textbooks and college biology courses still | | | | any claim that Darwin-Evolutionism is proven fact. |
| teach that invertebrates gradually evolved into | | | | The instant article deals only with the evidence of |
| vertebrates;and teachers who dare teach an | | | | "brain-washing" in the pro-Darwin mind-set of the |
| alternate theory for the genisis and existence of life | | | | secular elite. |