Another Line of Argument Against Evolution

I don't want to keep writing about the political situation.  A bunch of crazy or at least misguided people wreacked havoc in the Capitol building, for which they should be fully prosecuted, and the hypocritical Left thta all summer supported and defended rioters and murderers on their side of the political divide,  is blaming it on all Trump supporters.  Shows how crazy and misguided the Left is as usual, and how dangerous to everything American, but I need a break.  Since there's nothing much I can do about it and it's such a gigantic headache, I need a rest from it, 

So I stopped thinking about the political mess and have been watching the film "Darwin's Dilemma" rentable at Amazon for $2.  I'm not attracted to Intelligent Design which is where this film leads in the end, but it's got a lot of interesting information about the Cambrian Explosion and nice animations of many of the bizarre creatures found in the Cambrian rocks.  .  

Intelligent Design accepts the basic time frame of evolutionary theory and I don't.  I start out from a biblical framework thinking about evolution so I'm not looking to prove that there is an Intelligent Designer, rather I'm thinking about how biological systems actually work to defy the Darwinian idea of the evolution of all life from an ancient origin.  The biblical account describes the separate creation of particular animals, after which they reproduce their own kind with variations within that kind but never anything other than that kind.  So the objective is to discover the biological facts that demonstrate that.  

The film does go to great lengths to show that each creature stands alone without transitional forms leading to 8it or from it to somethihng else, which is of coruse in line with my arguments.  . The Cambrian Explosion is their evidence, billions of creatures found in rocks at the very bottom of the geological column with its fossil record that climbs up from there through all the named "time periods" from Cambrian through Devonian through Permian through Jurassic etc etc etc., to Recent time.  The existence of those billions of complex creatures which are mostly insects and sea creatures is a problem for evolution because they seem to appear out of nowhere with no evolutionary precursors.  Th3e absence of such precursors in the lower Precambrian rocks is astonishing given the assumptions of the theory of evolution.  In that frame of reerence they appear in time, as all the fossils up the geololgical column appear in time, millions of years per sedimentary layer or "time period."   The creationist idea is that it's not about time at all, the strata with their fossil contents are the result of the great Flood of Noah, all laid down within months.  This is not the framework of the film, however, which seems to accept the time periods of evolutionary theory and Old Earth geology.  

It's rather fun watching the computer animations of these odd creatures, and the scientific issues discussed are also interetsing.  Of course since this is a film out to prove Intelligent Design there are plenty of debunkers in the Amazon comments though my cursory look through them didn't yield any very substantive arguments, mostly a lot of complaining that the film violates science without showing that it does.  But then as I say my look-through was cursory and maybe I missed it.

The film answsered a question I've had for some time:  where in the DNA is the genetic material that determines the structure of the animal itself.   This question comes up because I got into trying to define the Kind apart from my argument about the reducton of genetic diversity.  I looked at the Linnaean classification of animals and eventually concluded that the Kind must be definable by its morphology of basic physial structure but that the Linnaean system used some other criteria than I would. 

I had to take a look at the skeletons of all kinds of birds in order to decide that "Bird" itself has to be a Kind or Species.  The particular kinds of birds are then Subspecies.  I don't see the point of the groupings such as Order, Genera etc.  But then Linnaeus wasn't trying to deal with evolution.  It has some aesthetic and lobical appeal to class things as Vertegrates and the like though so I guess I shouldn't object to that, it just has nothing to do with the question of evolution or descent.  

If my eyesight were better I'd like to take a look at many more animal groupings to try to identify the structure I think must define the Kind or Species. Dog, Cat, Bird, and I think Rodent are all I've really thought about.  I also figure that the genome of each Kind or Species should show itself to be specific to that Kind or Species in some identifiable way but of course I can't do that kind of research, it would take a geneticist for that.  Oh Trilobite, I think Trilobite is a Kind or Species. Biology breaks up all these categories into separate species.  But they they are using the term in a different way.

I'm not going to get to sort all this out in this life but the film answered that question I've had for some time:  where is the genetic material located in the genome that codes for the body plan?  Well, it's not located in the DNA at all according to the scientists in this film.  It's located somewhere else in the cell.  In the fertilized original cell it contains instructions for the differentiation of all the cells.  No particular location was identified, nothing in particular about how this agency within the cell functions, just the statement that it's not in the DNA (though one participant added "as far as we know")  and they agree that it is part of the cell itself.  

Body Plan is their term but it's a good one and I'll use it.  Locating the instructions for the body plan within the cell but not in the DNA means that you could never get from one species to another as the theory of evolut8ion has it.  That was argued in a paper by Stephen Meyer that became controversial because in his conclusion he attributed the formation of the body plan to Design by a Designer.  

That's all very interesting but there's a way he talks about it that makes me think it doesn't fit the biblical description of a one-time Creattion from which all the different Kinds reproduced in great variety, but something more like individual creative acts as new forms develop out of earlier populations.  I'm not sure but that's what it sounds like.

In any case it answered my question.  The body plan isn't in the DNA, it's a separate set of instructions built into the organism from its original fertilized cell.   ( By the way I had prayed fairly recently for an answer to this question, and I have to say that I hardly ever fail to get answers to that kind of question.  It doesn't particularly help me with the project of identifying the original Kinds but at least it seems to establish that there is definitely something immutable about the structure of each creature, which is how it appears.  Cats are cats, they have an immutable catness to their form which exists in every kind of cat you'll ever see.  That's the idea.  When they try to tell me that we have the same body structure as the ape family, I'm very certain that no we don't.  The proportions are entirely different.  yes if I had another life I'd love to spend time trying to demonstrate all this.  

Anyway that's another trend I pursue in arguments against evolution and for biblical creation.  the main one remains the argument that evolutionary processes themselves inevitably rduce genetic diversity which defeats the whole idea of evolution beyond the boundary of the species, for which my evidence is pretty much limited to the known genetic reductiont o fixed loci in purebreds and in bottlenecked creatures such as the cheetah.  But the fact that a whole new population can evolve very rapidly, over a matter of years, is also important evidence against evolution, examples being the Poe Mrcaru lizards and the Jutland cattle.  

Then I just look around the world and everywhere I see evidence of the Flood.  A wrecked planet, a tumble-down planet, the result of a great upheaval that destroyed the original perfect Creation.   the strata for sure but just the tossed and tumbled look in general.

Now I like the implications of this immutable Body Plan.  Just another reason you could never get from a reptile to a mammal, though the mathematics of incremental change defeat that one anyway.

Drat.  I hope I'm not doomed to go back to politics now that I've come to an ending with this one.

Just Another Lament About the Vast Political Divide

 One of the greatest Presidents we've ever had, or the Worst President ever?  How can there be such a drastic difference of views of Donal Trump?  A lawyer from George Mason Univesity was interviewed on an early morning radio show talking about standards for impeachment which he says should be less restrictive in order to make it easier to impeach a malevolent, dangerous and incompetent President.  He used a fourth word I wish I could remember.   

I can identify the ideology on the Left as inimical to everthing I understand to be fundamentally definitive of America, but I can't understand this poisoned judgment of Trump.  I can't make it fit into the ideology although I have to assume it does derive from it in a way I can't recognize.  Just as a judgment of the man's personality it makes no sense at all.  To his supporters he's an honest pattriot who has worked tirelessly to reinstate the traditional America lost to alien Marxist policies over the  last few decades.  There is nothing more standard American conservative than Donald Trump's platform which is why we voted for him.  And although there are personality issues even his supporters may find objectionable, none of it rises anywhere near the level of "melvolent, dangerous and incompetent."   It's not even in the ballpark.  

We're aware of the double standard every day that falsely accuses Trump of doing what the Democrats have in fact been doing, encouraging violence, insurrection, using fascist tactics.  None of it is even remotely true of Trump but it's all out there in the open on the Left.   

But it makes no difference.  The lies and corruption have won, there is really no recourse any more for truth and sanity, even if there are still a few voices on the right side.  They'll just be purged, silenced.  Amazine how this could happen in America, but it's happened.

That's all.  It's happened.  It's over.  The true dangerous malevolent forces are now in charge.  God help us.

The Great Political Divide Again, Showing that One Side is Pure Corruption

 Mark Levin comments on the left's deceit, double standard against conservatives, hypocrisy, corruption, and so on and so forth.   Most of it probably hasn't even been heard by most people through the usual news channels.   

Life, Liberty & Levin 8PM 1/10/21 FULL | FOX BREAKING TRUMP NEWS January 10,21 - YouTube

Interesting interview on the subject of the two different views on right and left of American institutions, the Constitution, elections etc.  Basically an analysis of how the Left is destroying the foundations of America.  With them in power we'll soon become a one-party system like any fascist state.

They Finally Got that Coup They've been Working on for Four Years.

Oh good grief.   I like Douglass Murray, usually, but he's missing the point in this interview.  He thinks that being ahead in the election at night but waking up to a loss the next morning is just standard in elections and in normal situations it would be.  But there are too many things that were abnormal about this election in certain key states and stopping the election count when Trump was ahead on election night was one of them.  Sydney Powell is no doubt right that it was necessary because they hadn't anticipated his winning by such a big margin so they had to regroup to improve their methods of fraud.  Can't be proved but stopping the count is not normal.  It happened, however, in all the states that had changed their laws in ways that would make fraud more likely, and enterained a whole host of other "irregularities" that came out after election day.  These are all "blue" states.  The rest of the country had no such problems.  They got their votes counted on election night and had their totals by the morning after without having to stop and without any other problems.   Yes it's all circumstantial but it's brazenly irregular.  

Plus of course the sworn testimony of many withnesses in these same states to all those irregularities.  Including the delivery of truckloads of ballots in the middle of the night.  This ONLY happens in those particularly questionable states.  Or really the big cities in those states.   The many witnesses reported on all kinds of strange doings, the changing of postmarks, the changing of dates on the ballots, the feeding of the same ballot into the counting machine over and over and over again.  We saw the suitcases full of ballots pulled out from under the furniture after the Republicans had been sent home.  And we all heard of the armloads of ballots found in wastebaskets and dumpsters that were for Trump.

And then we also heard about how the voting machines could be easily rigged to add votes for one candiate and subtract them from the other,.   

None of this is proof, but there's an awful lot of suspicious activity that should have been investigated or brought to trial and wasn't.  Courts dismissed the suits though under the circumstances it just makes the courts look complicit in hiding whatever fraud is there.  \

There is plenty of evidence.  No it wasn't a normal election in which later votes just happened to overturn earlier results.  No.  There was enough evidence early on to make the loud objections from the Democrats clearly part of the corruption.  When their candidates contest an election they cupport it completely.  Not when Trump contests it.  

The vast majority of Trump supporters share this view.  But thr Trump haters have won by fraud and by shutting us up.

This is not politics as usual any more and there is something very irritating about the way it gets talked about as if it wree.   America is on the brink of being absolutely destroyed as the America it once was, and besides that on the brink of being absorbed into the global government that is going to strip us of our wealth and pretty much enslave us and yet people go on talking about the election as if it were just another normal election.  

The Great Marxist Takeover of America, the Great Global Plandemic, the Great Tribulation Global Government "Reset"

I'm only too aware lately that everything I write is written into the fanged open jaws of a dragon waiting to devour me and all those who agree with me.  Strange position to be in at the end of life after growing up in a fairly free and secure American environment.  Of course looking back I can see the dragon taking shape decades ago, but he wasn't fully formed until very recently.  

I'm not really worried about myself but as usual worried about people who have no clue about any of this and are likely to dismiss anything said about it as a "conspiracy theory" and the like.  Well there are conspiracies galore underway these days, it's no mere theory it's happening, but a lot of good it does to say so.   As I've said before though, I'm looking at a future scenario when it can't be denied any more and hoping that I can say some things to prepare those people who have no clue at least to have some knowledge of what's going on even if they can't escape it.  Of course I hope there will be ways to escape it and I know for those who put their trust in God there will be protection and strength for whatever is happening.  But that's the condition of course.  This is God's judgment of the planet that is coming.  It may start out fairly peacefully, lulling people into a false sense of security, but then war, famine, diseases such as COVID and others, as well as totalitarian control of everybody is prophesied to follow.  Yes, the Great Tribulation, or the Day of the LORD, after the Christians have been removed from the Earth.  

So I write from between the fangs of the dragon or whatever beast this is, I hope, I pray, there's not much else I can do.  .

So here are a couple of my usual favorite conspiracy theorists as it were.  The first one is the second part of Jan Markell's "The Great Reset" program, the first part of which I posted last week, and the second is Chris Pinto's New Year's Day program.  I'm sure he'll be coming out with another update soon, responding to the January 6th events with some even more dire warnings.  I'm sure some who read this will do it only to get a sense of the craziness on the other side of their political view, but in case anyone takes any of it seriously, all I can say is Please learn to pray and belive there is a God who cares and who sent His Son to die for your sins so that you can have a happy eternal life.  Please.  Whoever you are.  Please.  

(Edit:  I hadn't heard the first one from Jan Markell and after hearing it I think it's not really what I thought it was, an investigation into the Great Reset, it's more a message to Christians.  There is nevertheless some information about this global movement so I'll leave it up.  As for Chris Pinto of course he's also talking to Christians but his information is usually something I haven't heard anywhere else so I think anyone could benefit from it.)

Antichrist Kingdom Rising (Part 2) – Pastor Brandon Holthaus and Pastor Billy Crone - YouTube

NOTR - INTO THE NEW YEAR - 1.02.2021 - Noise of Thunder Radio Show - Noise of Thunder Radio with Chris Pinto

Added later:  Here's a portrait of the Antichrist who is to be the global leader during the Great Tribulation.  This is a teaching by John Macarthur about a month ago.  He gives the biblical desription of this figure, some biblical examples of earlier types of the Antichrist, and the most recent Antichrist figure Hitler.   He quotes from a book about Hitler showing his fascination with the world of Satan and the demons, and the testimony of people around him that he was in fact demon possessed.   This is what is to be expected of the final Antichrist, that he will be literally possessed by Satan himself, which will confer great powers on him.   I've been arguing for the final Anticrhrist to be a Pope and I have lots of good reasons for that pick but I have to admit that there are ways he is an unlikely candidate.  I haven't given up on him, possession by Satan coudl certainly work an amazing transformation, but as I've said I could be wrong and he cojuld be more of a political figure than the Pope is.  I personally think Obama with his Messianic aura, that was very strong at the beginning of his Presidency, is at least a perfect type for the position.  This isn't a prediction but he's a perfect type.  Whoever it is has to be a messianic type, a usurper of the place of God.    Anyway, here's the link to MacArthur's talk:   

The Final AntiChrist - John MacArthur - YouTube 

The Political Chasm and Why It's Unbridgeable

Sometimes I find myself in a discussion with a liberal about how we might bridge the political divide that separates us, which seems to start out hopeful but soon degenerates as the divide turns out not to be bridgeable by any methods we are able to entertain.  We may start out with a generosity of spirit toward one another, honestly dedicated to making the effort to understand the other's point of view and modify our own in relation to it.   So far it has never worked.  If we started out friends we usually have to decide to end the discussion for the sake of our friendship, and if it's not with a friend but say, someone met on the internet, then it may continue or stop but always without resolution and often some bad feeling.

‎In my latest such experience I was obliquely accused of being a "white nationalist" for which as far as I know there isn't a hint of a shred of a clue that I deserve it.    I was finally able by prayer to transcend it by saying that although I'm not a white nationalist or white supremacist or anything of the kind, I probably have faults as bad or worse, such as taking offense at slights and accusations, so that I could forgive my accuser, But it hurts, and it seems to show a reason this gap is so unbridgeable , a reason from the left, this incessant focus on pointing the finger at individuals rather than offering coherent political analyses. It's the mindset of Political Correctness that originated in Communist circles as a way to control the population, that's it's only point. You can't form an argument against political correctness, all you can do is defy it at your own risk or cower in fear.‎

That's been pretty much the whole objection to Trump, that he's run afoul of their categories of proper attitude.  He actually hasn't, it's all a weird paranoid misreading of ordinary speech and behavior that happens to be conservative in aim, and really that's all.  The man is a simple patriot but he's made into some kind of monster by some kind of word magic it's hard to get to the bottom of.   

He said nothing at his D.C. rally to provoke any kind of violence -- which ought to be clear from the fact that there were hundreds of thousands there completely peacefully, and only a few hundred that broke into the Capitol building, and they did it before he'd finished speaking too.  

I'm being generous to assume they actually believe what they say against Trump although it's very hard to think anyone could.  I've been amazed from the beginning and am still amazed that anyoe could call him the names they call him, let alone impeach him for "abuse of power" that hardly rises to the level of such abuses by many other Presidents, and in fact isn't abuse of power at all but completely within the President's powers aimed at defending the country.  But the paranoia reigns.  If that's what it is.  At the very top it probably isn't an honest misreading but a political strategy though I'll given the average liberal the benefit of the doubt.

Fascist?  Racist?  Based on what?  Nothing other than standard conservative politics.   They turn ordinary conservative politics into something Hitlerian.  It's a mass madness in sofar as it's honest, but as I said some of it has to be manipulative and far from honest.  It reminds me of what happened in Rwanda, which was a completely propaganda-driven slaughter of one tribe by another based on nothing but the namecalling of the targeted tribe by a Catholic Bishop over the radio.  He stirred up tribal strife that had not existed before by labeling the targeted tribe as "cockroaches."  I don't think I ever found out why..  

Our current liberal ideology comes out of Marxism.  It's amazing how much straight Marxism is pushed by average Americans.  BLM is Marxist but perhaps thanks to media suppression of such facts average liberals really don't know that.  Antifa is anything but anti-fascist, it's fascism itself, violence against ordinary conservative Americans.  Reagan was right when he said "If fascism ever comes to America it will come in the form of liberalism."  It's here.  It's been growing for some time but this year will probably see it blossom into its full evil murderous form.  

Again I'm happy that some can see through this, such as Georgia H in her walkaway video "I Was Wrong About the Democratic Party" but how many of them are there?  It may be the simple political motivation of just wanting to survive in D.C. that has so many Trump supporters deserting him at this time, but it's a sad proof of the abandonment of true American ism, which Trump has represented for his followers, that it is happening.  It's a sad harbinger of the takeover of America by, yes, fascism, Marxist style.  

Anyway, I'm saying something pretty simple here.  The po9litical divide is unbridgeable because one side isn't grounded in real political analysis, but in emotion fueled by lies.

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Yes I believe that is a fair enough assessment of the divide, but that doesn't mean I'm not aware that there is a great middle ground.  There are liberals who reject Antifa and know that BLM is Marxist and not about justice for blacks.  On eht right however there are anti-Trumpers and I can't put them in that fair innocent middle because I don't consider Trump and his supporters to be extremists but representative of traditional American values.  That makes the anti-Trumpers traitors.  Also those who bailed ship after the assault on the Capitol building.  Yeah, again it has to be said.  Leftists can riot and loot and burn down parts of cities with impunity while a small group of Trump supporters fed up with that sort of thing are subjected to all the legal machinery against them that wasn't employed against the left when it should have been.  No, this is not a conflict between equal sides with or without a more neutral middle.  The hatred of Trump is irrational.  They don't like his hair, they don't like the way he talks, and that with his conservative politics makes him a "fascist."  For his supporters he was the antidote to a Marxist trend that was badmouthing our great Reputlic and doing its best to tear it down, ihe represented traditional American values, hard work, patriotism, traditional morality -- it would have been nice of course if he'd always practice it himself -- Christianity and the like.  He got people off unemployment and built up the economy that had been punishing workers.  NOT some kind of rightwing extremism AT ALL.    Certainly not racism.  These are values shared by many blacks and Hispanics and others.  Certainly not totalitarian tyranny.  That's the tactic of the Left.  We don't censor, they do.    They've stolen elections for years, and they did it this time better than ever.

Oh of Course, It's all Trump's Fault As Usual

 Here we go again, they want to impeach him again, for no reason whatever again, just their own invented causes.  All they have to do is SAY he did this or that, it doesn't have to be real.  And we have no redress, there is nothing we can do about it.  Anyone objecting online to the leftist agenda is shut up.   Unless you go looking for the private sites but you have to know what and where they are to do that, and those sites don't reach enough people anyway.  

He did nothing to incite the attack on the Capitol, just as he didn't pressure the Georgia secretry of state on the phone or the President of Ukraine on the phone.   We all know there was election fraud, we've all seen the evidence, lots and lots of it, except maybe those on the left haven't.  Anyone who follows mainstream news thinks it was a fair election just as they think all the protests in places like Seattle and Portland were "mostly peaceful."  Funny they think the Capitol police should have done a better job of protecting the building though they didn't mind that the police were prevented from doing anything about the rioting in the big cities by BLM supporters.   

Don't they know that lying as they do, in a way that affects an entire nation, is going to earn them some horrible punishment from God?  Guess not. Wrecking the country is apparently enough of a reward for them.