In the News

Bill Robinson, of The State, reports that the SC state Board of Education today reaffirmed its stance in support of changes to high school biology standards that includes compromise language for teaching about the origins of life.

The unanimous vote clears the way for the Education Oversight Committee to take up the issue at its June 12 meeting. By law, the oversight panel has the final say in approving all instructional standards teachers follow in delivering day-to-day lessons that the school board develops.

Dr. Jean Lightner writes on the fact that evolutionists point to mutations as providing the raw material necessary for the onward, upward change they believe has occurred since life began. Mutations which affect an organism are often categorized into two basic types: loss-of-function mutations and gain-of-function mutations.

The majority of mutations are loss-of-function, and non-heritable.

Our thanks to Tom Graffagnino for passing on this fascinating news report and inspirational poem to commemorate this "breaking" news story on a great scientific discovery:

Recently, a team of geo-microbiologists at Penn State University discovered that the origin of life on Earth may not have dropped out of the blue via some sort of extra-terrestrial panspermian planting, or accidentally (magically?) popped into existence when lifeless primordial goo was zapped by a purposeless and random prehistoric lightning strike.

While experimenting in the lab, the Penn State scientists discovered that a lifeless microbe (Methanosarcina acetevorans) actually passed gas which conceivably ...(no pun intended!)....could have somehow attracted enough randomly available DNA/RNA-type molecules to itself to have produced real, self-replicating life on planet Earth!

According to this theory... (hold on to your "whoopie-cushion", folks)..., we are basically nothing more than the accidental (and unintelligently designed) offspring of tiny, dead microbial 'flatulence'.

(You may read about it here.)

Of course, you and I may chuckle at this latest "scientific" foray into the land of bizarre spiritual speculation and metaphysics, but apparently this is Fundamentalist Scientism's most recent chapter in her religious gospel Creation Myth.

The problem is, unlike most of us....the High Priests of Scientism don't appear to be laughing. In fact, they seem to be quite deadly serious.

Presumably, this latest "scientific" revelation and Creation Story will be discussed and batted around in our children's classrooms everywhere as if it were actually a plausible theory of the beginning of life.

New Age Scientism (aka, Macro-cadabra Evolutionism), meet your Metaphysical Mama: neo-pagan Alchemy.

How the "magik arts" have evolved!
(Idolatry warmed over and served yet again...)*

What a gas!

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"Past Gas-R-Us!"
(Eerie Theory...Breaking Wind)

by Tom Graffagnino

Some say Time 'n' Space erupted
In a past gas incident...
But now Scientists inform us
Of a new passed-gas event!

Shocking news!
Simply explosive!
Guess where mankind got its start.....?!
Little microbes in deep water...
Tiny bubbles in the dark!

Something smells here...
Something's fishy!
Something odoriferous!
(This is Science!
Stop complaining!
You should know.....
Past Gas-R-Us!)

Gassy-Passion was in fashion,
Life emerged right then 'n' there!
Jet propulsion!
Fierce expulsion!
Rocket Science clears the air!

Mama Methane...
Poppa Carbon
Found an outlet, if you please...!
Life emerged from microbe gashes!
Thermal vent.....
Ol' factories!

Meat-Man's Laboratory Logos...
(Oh my Word!...It's Heaven-Scent!)
So, breath free, Ye True Believers...
Evo-Gas-God's Accident!

Holy Moses!
Hold yer noses!
Did you hear that "Missing Link"!?
Alchemy has come full circle,
And she's puttin' up a stink!

Please observe.....
There!....
Hot-Air-Rising!
Right from under Darwin's.... spell!
Praise Pollutin'-Tootin' Microbes!
(This shell-game's still selling well!)

Quite a neo-pagan hat-trick...
Like witchcraft we all thought dead!
Sacred life transformed from gasses,
Man! Like gold is made from lead!

Mumbo-jumbo speculation!
Conjured up idolatries;
Scientific wands-a-wavin'
Serving Mephistopheles!

PhD's.... inflatuated!
It's an Evo-Love Affair!
Darwin's brought 'em all together...
Cheek to cheek...
Without a care!

Holy Smoke!
They're on emission!
Gospel-spreading far and wide!
"Life's Creator was a microbe!"
(Mama-Gas, meet Human Pride.)

Give 'em all a huge ovation!
Here's your Nobel Prize, my friend...
For this strange Creation Story,
Eerie Theory....
Breaking Wind!

You deserve this lofty honor!
Yes, Ol' Bean, you should be proud!
You've been under lots of pressure....
Now we've heard you....
Clear and loud!

We admire your Nosey-Gnosis!
We applaud your expertise!
And your Gospel Vapor-Paper
Has us gasping on our knees!

***

There you have it, Lord.....
Have mercy!
Man's "intelligent design".
Yes, the "Brights" are out of theories...
And they're running out of time.

Lord, we love to worship Reason,
Because Reason starts with "ME"...
And a microbe-gas "creator"
Insures our Autonomy!

Accidental gas can't judge us...
And we like it just that way!
So we stick with Darwin's Dogma...
Then our Faith blows You away!

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Many Darwinists and critics of ID would have you believe that intelligent design is a political invention of a few religiously motivated fundamentalists in the U.S. A recent Internet tool called ClustrMap helps to clarify this issue. It provides a pictorial map of accesses to a particular website. Take a look at who has been accessing the ARN website recently.

While this map reveals a worldwide interest in this topic, keep in mind it is only being accessed by an English reading audience. Now add to that the ClustrMap of this Brazilian ID website in Portuguese and you begin to see interest in ID is clearling "taking over the world." It would be fun to have a mega ClustrMap of the major ID websites in all the major languages. Our guess is the world would turn in to one giant red cluster.