{"id":1482,"date":"2009-04-23T05:25:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T13:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2009-04-23T05:25:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T13:25:38","slug":"evolution-the-opium-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/doctrine\/evolution-the-opium-of-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution: The Opium of the People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/expelled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cogwriter.htm\">COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the movie \u201cExpelled: No Intelligence Allowed\u201d, Ben Stein interviewed various scientists who explained that many academic institutions are so unscientific that they will hurt the careers of serious scientists who write papers demonstrating that that the \u201ctheory of evolution\u201d (it is actually a model\/proposed explanation, not a true theory), as commonly understood, cannot be correct.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcg.org\/cgi-bin\/tw\/commentary\/tw-comm.cgi?category=Commentary1&amp;item=1240439462\">latest commentary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/ylcg.htm\">LCG&#8217;s<\/a> Dr. Jeffrey Fall calls evolution the new &#8220;opium of the people&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>The opium of the people<\/h3>\n<div class=\"item_byline\">By Jeffrey Fall | Thursday, April 23, 2009<\/div>\n<div class=\"item_byline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"item_teaser\">The atheistic philosopher Karl Marx, an evolutionist and  a contemporary of Charles Darwin, once called religion the \u201copium of the  people.\u201d\u00a0 In our day, however, Darwin\u2019s theories and their successors have  become the \u201copium of the people\u201d\u2014dulling the mindset of the educated and  uneducated alike.<\/div>\n<div class=\"item_body\">\n<p>Even without any semblance of genuine evidence, countless millions have made  a \u201creligion\u201d out of their blind faith that life originated from lifeless  chemicals and that all living beings today are descended from primitive life  forms\u00a0which emerged from the primordial ooze billions of years ago.\u00a0\u00a0Even  Charles Darwin himself expressed surprise at how readily people adopted his  theories: \u201cI was a young man with unformed ideas. I threw out queries,  suggestions, wondering all the time about everything and to my astonishment the  ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion out of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What did Darwin mean when he stated that \u201cpeople made a religion\u201d out of his  theories? Simply put: the idea that life spontaneously evolved from non-life is  a belief requiring a firm faith in something that has no proof.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpontaneous generation\u201d describes a theory of the origin of life\u2014the living  springing out of the nonliving. Scientists long ago abandoned the simple-minded  assumption that maggots spontaneously generated out of meat left in open-air  meat markets. As soon as it was discovered that flies were laying their eggs in  the meat, \u201cspontaneous generation\u201d was laughed to scorn. The false religion of  evolution, though, still makes the claim that, at some point in history,  spontaneous generation must have occurred. Way back in past eons of  time\u2014somehow, somewhere\u2014the first living organism spontaneously generated from  nonliving matter.<\/p>\n<p>Nobel Prize winner Dr. George Wald, from Harvard University, stated the  following: \u201cOne has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede  that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet, here we  are as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talk about blind faith with absolutely no proof! This was an admission that  spontaneous generation is impossible. But this very educated Nobel Prize winner  still believed!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And Dr. Fall is correct.\u00a0 It rarely fails to astound me how the slightly educated can insist that evolution is scientifically accurate and why they want people to mindlessly accept such a preposterous explanation of the origins of life.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that evolution is a false religion that many cling to so that they do not bother to look into the truth about why they are on this planet nor what their life really is supposed to be about.<\/p>\n<p><em>For some additional information of possibly related interest, please review the following:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style17\"><a href=\"\/god.htm\">Is God\u2019s  Existence Logical?<\/a> Some say it is not logical to believe in God. Is that  true?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/evolution.htm\">Is Evolution Probable  or Impossible or Is God\u2019s Existence Logical? Part II<\/a> This short article  clearly answers what \u2018pseudo-scientists\u2019 refuse to acknowledge.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/godcomefrom.htm\">Where Did God Come From?<\/a> Any  ideas? And how has God been able to exist? Who is God?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/god-omnipotent-omniscient-omnipresent.htm\">How is  God Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient?<\/a> Here is a biblical article by  Wallace Smith which answers what many really wonder about it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/meaningoflife.htm\">What is the Meaning of  Life?<\/a> Who does God say is happy? What is your ultimate destiny? Do you really know? Does God actually have a plan for YOU personally?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomorrowsworld.org\/cgi-bin\/tw\/booklets\/tw-bk.cgi?action=dispbooklets\">The  Bible: Fact or Fiction?<\/a> This is a booklet written by Douglas Winnail that answers if the Bible is just a collection of myths and legends or the inspired word of God.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COGwriter In the movie \u201cExpelled: No Intelligence Allowed\u201d, Ben Stein interviewed various scientists who explained that many academic institutions are so unscientific that they will hurt the careers of serious scientists who write papers demonstrating that that the \u201ctheory of evolution\u201d (it is actually a model\/proposed explanation, not a true theory), as commonly understood, cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cog-news","category-doctrine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1483,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/1483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogwriter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}