High
Stakes in the Evolution Debate
On Friday,
July 15th Mr. John H. Calvert, co-founder of Intelligent
Design Network, gave an audiovisual presentation to around
30 TFP supporters in Topeka, KS, titled: "Are We Designs
Or Occurrences? Why Is This Question So Important?"
The event was held at the house of TFP local coordinator
Francis Slobodnik.
Mr. Calvert recently defended Intelligent
Design before the Kansas State Board of Education, along
with over twenty other witnesses. He has traveled across
the United States exposing the fallacies of Evolution, by
uncovering important truths that are seldom heard. The evidence
he presented, clearly implied that the creation of life
was not due to random chance, but rather the fruit of an
Intelligent Designer.
Mr. Calvert explained the immense
complexity of the cell structure of living organisms. This
complexity makes it statistically impossible that chance
could have caused its development. For example: the statistical
possibility of randomly pulling letters out of a bag to
spell-out the word DESIGN are 165,765,600 to 1. How much
more incomprehensible is the chance altering of complex
cells, let alone developing them?
Mr. Calvert recounted horror stories
in which members of the scientific community suffer persecution,
even for questioning evolution. He spoke of Ph.D. candidates
risking their degrees and professors endangering the renewal
of their contracts, simply because they question evolution.
Nevertheless, evidence of Intelligent Design manages slowly
but surely to make it through the politically correct filters
in academia.
Perhaps, Mr. Calvert's most important
point was that the influence of evolution has reached far
beyond the borders of science. It has fashioned government
and morality to its own likeness. For Catholics this is
especially close to home. The Modernist heresy, condemned
by Pope St. Pius X, could be summed up in the belief that
dogma evolves.
Mr. Calvert warned that this issue
is going to snowball into a monumental national debate.
Kansas is currently becoming the center of this debate.
Recently, school board members voted to slightly improve
the state's science standard. In the next couple of years,
four seats on the board will be up for re-election. A lot
of money from across the nation is expected to be poured
into this normally ignored election.
Indeed, the stakes are high for
evolution adherents. As authentic science continues to gather
facts that unmistakably point to an intelligent designer,
evolutionists see their entire worldview crashing down upon
them.
This far-reaching effect of evolution
is one of the main reasons that evolutionists fight so tenaciously.
Indeed, their whole outlook on life is at stake.
For more information please visit
www.IntelligentDesignnetwork.org
