Archive for April, 2010

Darwin on Trial Ch. 12: Science and Pseudoscience

April 27th, 2010 by kevin 0

Is evolutionary theory science or is it a pseudoscience?  In the final chapter of the book, Johnson points out how evolutionary theory has been evaluated by leading philosophers of science who claim that Darwinism is riddled with incongruities that signify its eventual downfall.  Karl Popper, a philosopher noted earlier, compares Darwinism with Marxism and Freudianism.

Darwin on Trial Ch. 11: Darwinist Education

April 26th, 2010 by kevin 0

In chapter 11, Johnson brings his readers to the means by which Darwinists hope to indoctrinate the masses with their view of the world.  Museums present exhibits that have the effect of cementing the ideas of evolutionary origins of life into the minds of the general public without question.  In this, science serves as an [...]

Darwin on Trial Ch. 10: Darwinist Religion

April 25th, 2010 by kevin 0

While Darwinists like to make statements accommodating religion, and perhaps equivocally allaying the fears of those who accept a mingling of theistic involvement and evolution by natural processes, the logical implications of their “findings” tell another tale.  Johnson cites William Provine, a historian of science, who insists that the conflict between science and religion is [...]

Darwin on Trial Ch. 9: The Rules of Science

April 24th, 2010 by kevin 0

This leads us to the chapter in Johnson’s book wherein he demonstrates that evolutionists have the benefit of established rules of science that are tilted in their favor.  For example, a judge in a case in Arkansas declared five essential characteristics of science, which are essentially the principles held to by Darwinists in their stance [...]

Darwin on Trial Ch. 8: Prebiological Evolution

April 23rd, 2010 by kevin 0

How did life actually originate?  Where did the “stuff” come from on which natural selection could begin its work?  Prebiological evolution is the subject of chapter 8.  Evolution is the study of how life changes after it already exists and natural selection can only begin its work when it has something living to work on.  [...]