M King - God vs. Darwin: The Logical Supremacy of Intelligent Design Creationism Over Evolution

GOD vs DARWIN

The Logical Supremacy of Intelligent Design

Creationism over Evolution

By M S King 2015

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

M. S. King is a private investigative journalist and researcher based in the New York City area. A 1987 Graduate of Rutgers University, Kings subsequent 30 year career in Marketing & Advertising has equipped him with a unique perspective when it comes to understanding how public opinion is indeed scientifically manufactured.

Madison Ave marketing acumen combines with City Boy instincts to make Michael S. King one of the most tenacious detectors of things that dont add up in the world today. Says King of his admitted quirks, irreverent disdain for conventional wisdom and uncanny ability to ferret out and weave together important data points that others miss: Had Sherlock Holmes been an actual historical personage, I would have been his reincarnation.

In God vs. Darwin, King utilizes the basic rules of Socratic reason and logic to inquisitively press upon the multiple weak spots and classic logical fallacies which keep Unscientific Atheism standing.

Kings other interests include the animal kingdom, philosophy, chess, cooking literature, history, (with emphasis on events of the late 19th through the 20th century).

INTRODUCTION

Your humble authors very first foray into the vast realm of theology / philosophy occurred at the wise old age of 6, during 1st grade religion class at St. Josephs Elementary School in Newark, NJ. Sister Carmela was recounting the Old Testament story about a defiant Jonah being swallowed by a whale, which was acting under Gods orders. After 3 days of praying, the repentant Jonah was finally vomited out by the great fish (mammal actually).

Not understanding the mechanism which blocks the ocean from flooding into the beasts massive stomach, your precocious little author-to-be had the inadvertent impertinence to ask, Sister. Wouldnt Jonah have drowned to death when he was inside the whales stomach?

Evidently, Sister Carmela (God rest her soul) knew as little about Marine Biology as I did. Nonetheless, a simple With God, all things are possible would have satisfied my respectful curiosity. Instead, Sister mocked me simply for asking a plausible question, Michael the showoff here thinks he knows more than God! Following her lead, Sister Carmelas captive groupies joined in her laughter, at my expense.

For a 6 year old child this was a memorable, perhaps even mildly traumatic life event. Though I could not define the logical fallacies at play at the time, I instinctively sensed, and loathed, the dangerous dynamic of what I now refer to as AGR (Authority Groupthink Ridicule). Whatever the Authority says must not be questioned, the Group obediently conforms, and the free thinker is ridiculed - perhaps even hated. For teaching me that life lesson at such an early age, albeit accidentally, Sister Carmela ranks as among the greatest teachers that I ever had.

Now the event did not shake my faith and I proceeded through Elementary and High School as a Cafeteria Catholic; dropping by Church on holidays, and earnestly praying whenever I got into trouble (which was often) or wanted something (also often). Then came University.

Although a Marketing Major, I was still compelled to take a few basic courses in various scientific disciplines. The Science professors were all Atheistic Big Banger-Evolutionists with Phd after their name. The various Political Science Professors all held the same view as well. These intellectual giants wouldnt be teaching at the University level if they didnt know what they were talking about, or so I reasoned.

By the close of freshman year I was an Agnostic; and by the end of sophomore year, an Atheist. Though never one to blindly worship authority, I was intellectually lazy in this regard. Science had spoken and decreed that there is no Intelligent Designer. Who was I as a B student party boy to question it? Now free of any higher obligations, I could, without reservation, indulge in the debauchery that is modern college life.

During senior year, there came an incident that would rattle my 2 year old faith in the religion of Atheism. No, it wasnt a near death experience or a personal trauma. It was something far more subtle, and it happened during a course on Astronomy.

Professor Melski was a cleaned up hippie straight out of the Woodstock Era; smart as heck and very engrossing in his presentation. At the end of each class (which met twice weekly) the unconventional Melski would issue a brief take home Quiz. These mini assignments were voluntary, anonymous, and not graded. At the end of these Quizzes, there always appeared a comment section in which the anonymous student was free to submit to the quirky Professor any question he wanted about any topic; science, politics, sports, pop culture etc.

At the beginning of each class, Melski would address two or three of the questions which he found most interesting. It was his forum for waxing eloquent on his love for Marxism, Baseball, Current Events and whatever else tickled his fancy. One day, the self absorbed Professor picked out a question someone had anonymously submitted about Evolution. It went something like this:

Which evolved first; the eye-ball or the eye-socket? Without the skeletal eye sockets, there is nothing to hold the eyeball in place. So if eye sockets evolved many years ahead of the eyeballs, how could blind and random Evolution have anticipated the future development of the actual eyeball? Doesnt the inter connectedness of these two separate systems suggest an Intelligent Design?

A few of the Atheists in the class snickered, but not this one. It struck me as a very valid question and I was eager to hear Melskis answer. Though I could never quite stomach Melskis Marxism and love of Fidel Castro, his grasp of the stars, planets, orbits and so on was impressive; as was his ability to explain matters of astronomy to his students. I figured that Melski the Magnificent would easily hit this softball out of the park. Why else would he have chosen the question?

To my surprise and disappointment, in spite of my own Atheistic pre-disposition and bias, Melskis explanation came off as convoluted, insecure and unsatisfying. It amounted to unintelligible gibberish about the systems evolving together and things happening on a molecular level, blah, blah, blah. Most telling of all was his descent into the classic logical fallacies of the ad hominem attack (ridiculing the anonymous questioner) and the Straw Man Trick (invoking the claim of a 6000 year old Earth and the talking snake of Eden). Why the condescending mockery from Melski? And who said anything about the Earths age or the story of Adam & Eve?

Soon, most of the class was laughing; feeding the Professors bloated ego while no doubt causing the anonymous questioner to bear his humiliation in private. In that moment, I immediately recognized the phenomenon of AGR (Authority-Groupthink-Ridicule) at work. OMD! (Oh My Darwin!). It was Sister Carmelas 1st Grade Class all over again! Thankfully, someone else was being roasted alive this time, albeit anonymously.