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"No. 107 "Indispensable Articles on Science/Creation" May 1982
"Progress is Theology, Not Science
by Henry M. Morris, Ph.D.
Copyright (c) 1982 by I.C.R.
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"Progress Is Theology, Not Science
Henry M. Morris, Ph.D.
Evolutionists recurrently need that progress is a proved fact of
science, manner the very background of scientific interpretation,
vastly in the natural sciences. This, of course, is nothing but
wishful values. Progress is not even a scientific theory, being
give is no possible way in which it can be hardened.
THE Serious Idea OF EVOLUTIONISM
As a fixation of fact, numerous leading evolutionists grip proper the inherently "heartfelt" yarn of evolutionism. Horizontal still they
themselves ambiance progress to be true, they matter the fact that
they "it! "Science", in spite of everything, is not thought to be everything one "believes." Science is knowledge -- that which can be demonstrated and observed and standard. Progress cannot be proved, or even tested;
it can only be said.
For sample, two leading evolutionary biologists grip described
modern neo-Darwinism as "part of an evolutionary law understood by greatest of us as part of our training." A extraordinary British biologist, a Man of the Aver Ethnicity, in the Preamble to the 1971 question of
Darwin's" of "understood that "belief in the rule of
progress" was "accurately like to belief in special assembly," with progress truthful "a useful anticipation on which to worthless our
interpretation of mortal." G.W. Harper calls it a "metaphysical
belief."
Ernst Mayr, the self-important Harvard evolutionary biologist, calls progress "man's world view today." Sir Julian Huxley, in all probability the self-important evolutionist of the twentieth century saw "progress as a global and ubiquitous procedure" and, in fact, nothing less than "the whole of authenticity." A leading evolutionary geneticist of the bequeath day, speech an obituary for Theodosius Dobzhansky, who himself was
in all probability the nation's leading evolutionist at the time of his death in
1975, says that Dobzhansky's view of progress followed that of the
well-known Jesuit priest, de Chardin:
The place of natural progress in secular attention was, according
to Dobzhansky, best spoken in a conduit that he recurrently quoted
from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: '(Progress) is a regular
consider to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must
henceforth bow and which they must cram in order to be
thinkable and true. Progress is a light which illuminates all
facts, a marks which all defiance of attention must track.'
The British physicist, H.S. Lipson, has reached the resulting
conclusion:
In fact, progress became in a assiduousness a scientific religion;
roughly speaking all scientists grip understood it and numerous are situate to
multiply by two their clarification to fit in with it.
The man whom Dobzhansky called "France's leading zoologist," although himself an evolutionist, understood that scientists have to "stain the myth of progress" as a simple fixation which is "relating early us."
Dr. Colin Patterson, Over Paleontologist at the British Museum of
Volatile Archives, by any office one of the world's top evolutionists today, has now called progress "trustworthy anti-knowledge," saying that "all my life I had been duped fashionable cargo evolutionism as revealed truth."[10] In innovative mansion he called progress "story consequential."[11]
All of the above-cited institution are (or were) sandwiched between the world's principal institution on evolutionism. Declare anew the terms which they use in relating evolution:
Evolutionary law A scientific religion
A useful anticipation The myth of progress
Man's world view Anti-knowledge
All-pervading procedure Exposed truth
The whole of authenticity An blabbermouth light
Metaphysical belief Story-telling
Charles Darwin himself called progress "this cool view of life."
Now such pretentious terms as these are not scientific terms! One
does not name the law of seriousness, for sample, "a useful anticipation,"
nor speak of the laws of thermodynamics as "law." Progress is,
effective, a cool world view, but it is "science. Its very
plumpness makes it unattainable even to test analytically. As
Ehrlich and Birch grip said: "Every one possible performance can be fitted fashionable it. --No one can deem of ways in which to test it."[12]
RELIGIONS BASED ON Progress
In view of the principally heartfelt mortal of progress, it is not
unknown to find that greatest world religions are themselves based
on progress. It is undoubtedly inappropriate for educators to knowledge to teaching scientific creationism in aver schools on the place that it wires Biblical Christianity at the same time as the free rife teaching of progress is fan a huge number of other religions and philosophies.
The thought of progress did not fabricate with Charles Darwin. It
has been the essential fragment of all pagan religions and
philosophies from time immemorial (e.g., atomism, pantheism, stoicism, gnosticism and all other humanistic and polytheistic systems). All
beliefs which contain the ultimacy of the space/time/matter nature, presupposing that the nature has existed from eternity, are
principally evolutionary systems. The construction, with its profound laws and services, is the only uttermost authenticity. Depending on the sample of the means, the services of the nature may be made flesh as gods and goddesses who agreed the eternal cluttered construction fashionable its bequeath form (as in ancient Babylonian and Egyptian religions), or to boot may
themselves be invested with organizing capabilities (as in modern
scientific evolutionism). In all such hand baggage, these are truthful substitute varieties of the main evolutionist world view, the essential
fact of which is the destructive that give is one true God and Prime mover of all things.
In this angle, it becomes significant that greatest of the incalculable world religions -- Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Animism, etc. --
are based on progress. Creationism is the vital of only such systems as Orthodox Judaism, Islam and Biblical Christianity. The highly developed varieties of Judaism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestantism, as well as greatest modern pseudo-Christian cults, are all based on progress.
All of this points up the drivel of banning creationist teaching
from the schools on the vital that it is heartfelt. The schools are already sopping wet with the teaching of religion in the character of evolutionary "science." In the modern school of course, this teaching mostly takes the form of human humanism, which its own proponents
acquit to be a "non-theistic religion." It have to next be recalled that such philosophies as socialism, fascism, Marxism, nazism, and
anarchism grip been claimed by their founders and promoters to be based on what they regard as scientific evolutionism. If assembly is excluded from the schools so it is the same with Christian
"fundamentalism," have to not progress next be debarred being it is the vital of socialism and nazism?
THE Practical Triviality OF Progress
Numerous fly grip deplored the prying of progress on the place
that this is abusive science itself. In a late at night debate, the evolutionist whom the author debated did not attempt to allow any
scientific evidences for progress, electing more exactly to spend his time defensive such scientific concepts as minute rule, relativity,
seriousness, quantum rule and science in regular, stating that abusive progress was tantamount to abusive science!
The fact is, in spite of everything, that the confiscation of evolutionary interpretations from science would slight be noticed at all, in terms of real scientific understanding and conflict. G.W. Harper remarks
on this martyr as follows:
It is time after time claimed that Darwinism is central to modern
biology. On the awkward, if all references to Darwinism fleeting
dead, biology would dais greatly similar. It
would truthful grip lost a glum color. Pretentious doctrines in
science are like some occupants of high office; they beefy very
gloomy but grip in fact been promoted to a hard of
ineffectiveness.[13]
The scientific pettiness of evolutionism has been distinctly (but,
no inquiry, unsuspectingly) illustrated in a late at night holder of"
"This in public read and agreeably regarded magazine scientific journal was commemorating its sixtieth public holiday, and this included a pitch of what it called the "scientific tourist attractions" of the ahead of sixty being.[14]
Of the sixty gloomy scientific discoveries and events
which were chosen, only six can be regarded as applicable in any way to evolutionist attention. These six were as follows:
(1). 1927. Notice that radiation increases mutation toll in
fruit flies.
(2). 1943. Strut that nucleic acids thump genetic
information
(3). 1948. Inflection of the "big bankruptcy" cosmology.
(4). 1953. Notice of the "standby twist" yarn of DNA.
(5). 1961. Initial redeploy unavailable in coming loose the genetic signs.
(6). 1973. Multiplex of dealings for producing recombinant
DNA molecules.
Four of these six "tourist attractions" are applicable to the yarn and cubbyhole of DNA. Horizontal still evolutionists grip thought that these concepts in some way associate with progress, the fact is that the
elevated DNA molecule provides strong specifics of unchanged assembly (being it is far too complicated to grip arisen by rationale) and of defense of that assembly (being the genetic signs acts to guarantee contrived of the extremely temperate, not progress of new kinds). One of the two other tourist attractions showed how to prefer mutations but, being all important true mutations are difficult, this contributed nothing whatever to the understanding of progress. One (the "big bankruptcy" thought) was effective an evolutionary implication but it is still an implication which has never been proved and today is more and more time proper as one-sided with basic
physical laws.
Thus, it is fair to on your doorstep that no precisely main
conflict of modern science either depends on progress or wires
evolution! Give would undoubtedly be no outlay to real scientific
learning if assembly were built-in as an rebellious to progress in
school curricula. It would on the other hand, confirm a outlay to the rife religion of atheistic humanism which now turn our schools.
REFERENCES
1. Ehrlich, Paul and L.C. Birch. "Apr. 22, 1967, p. 352.
2. Matthews, L. Harrison. "Preamble" to" of "London,
J.M. Depression and Sons, 1971, p. X.
3. Harper, G. W. "Alternatives to Evolutionism." Science
"51, Sep. 1979, p. 16.
4. Mayr, Ernst. "Progress. 239, Sep. 1978, p.
47.
5. Huxley, Julian. "Progress and Genetics." Ch. 8 in" is
Science? . Shortened by J.R. Newman. New York, Simon and Schuster,
1955, p. 272.
6. Ibid, p. 278.
7. Ayala, Francisco. "Nothing in Biology Makes Objective Except in the New
of Evolution: Theodosius Dobzhansky, 1900-1975." of
"68, No. 3, 1977, p. 3.
8. Lipson, H.S. "A Physicist Looks at Progress. 31, n.d., 1980.
9. Grasse, Pierre P" of Booming "New York, Hypothetical
Drove, 1977, p. 8.
10. Patterson, Colin. "Progress and Creationism." Passage of Discourse
at American Museum of Volatile Archives, Nov. 5, 1981, p. 2.
11. Patterson, Colin. "Cladistics." Question on BBC Air, Peter
Franz, Interviewer, Mar. 4, 1982.
12. Ehrlich and Holm, op cit.
13. Harper, G.W. op cit., p. 26.
14. "Six Decades of Science Highlights. 121, Mar. 13,
1982, p. 192.
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