Predictions January 6, 2008
Posted by John A. Davison in general.trackback
I thought it might be fun to have a thread where I and others can make predictions. After all, isn’t that what scientists often do? They examine the data, produce an hypothesis and as part of the verification procedure they make predictions. If the predictions prove to be accurate, the hypothesis receives support, and with enough support it will be elevated to the status of a true theory. That is precisely how all scientific hypotheses are verified. Actually I feel the Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis has already reached the status of theory, but that is just me!
I hope that others will offer their predictions and I do not mean to limit our predictions to only evolutionary matters. One can make predictions on any subject one chooses.
Let me start the ball rolling with a couple of my own.
1. Before the end of this decade those who deny an anthropogenic global warming will be scarce as hen’s teeth.
2. Al Gore will be the Democratic nominee for the 2008 election and he will probably win! Now I am really out on a limb with this one but I am trying to evoke a little more interest in this blog!
Now let’s hear from others what their predictions are. You don’t even have to use your right names but it would be nice if you did. How else can you be rewarded for being right?
”A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Here is another one. The atheist Darwinians will continue to ignore me, my Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis and my sources that made it possible for as long as possible. Here is some current evidence in support of that prediction. It takes the form of an email I just received from my friend Martin which I will now quote verbatim.
“Dear John,
I mentioned your page at AtBC and I received a menace that my bannishment is imminent.
I’ve also mentioned your page at Pharyngula. The message was there for 20 minutes and doctor Myers deleted it.
with best regards
Martin”
Here is my response to Martin.
“That is wonderful news Martin. It means we have them on the run. I think I will quote your email on my blog with your permission of course. May I?”
It doesn’t get any better than this.
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Well come on folks. As I used to say over at EvC before Percy, whoever that is, couldn’t stand it any more and banned me -
Who Is next?
I love it so!
Than you John for mentioning my post. AtBC are now under the charge of new administrators and so threatening of banisment are on everyday programme there and it is only matter of time when it will be executed. Oddly enough you can write there nonsense and babbling there all day long lunatic visions you will not be banned as long as you are a neodarwinist.
I am afraid the same is valid for EvC. I have defied their neodarwinian admins who started to chicane me there when I tried to introduce a new thread. I am afraid the whole discussions with neodarwinian admins and their helpers are only wasting a time. Neverthneless it is also masquerade par excellence.
http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?action=msg&f=25&t=3393&m=11&sst=true#11
Finally my thread will be not released at EvC. The neodarwinian admins thought they could chicane me ad nausea with their advice “change this and this and this and this”. At last they send there some tom-cat who is admin-judge having probably no notion what testicles means. He reccomended me the same what the neodarwinian admin ordered me. So I submited myself to their decision and the interesting stuff will not be discussed. You know the main cause of the chicane was they have no plausible answer to it. Their babbling about “cooling” spermatozoa is untestable, they admited it themselves. It’s fine that on venue like this the truth about AtBC, Pharyngula and EvC could be unveiled.
http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?action=msg&f=25&t=3393&m=1
I read your linked thread at EvC, Martin, and I think you are being a bit paranoid. You chose a topic which was science-based, and you were asked to present a summary of your argument with some supporting evidence. The door is left open for you to pursue it if you want. You might ask yourself if your strategy of sneering at bona fide scientists while never presenting any real alternative explanations or evidence is ultimately very successful.
Martin is one of my most valued sources of a literature with which I was not acquainted as well a courageous seeker for unvarnished truth.
I have no idea who the participants are at After The Bar Closes or EvC or Pharyngula that are “bona fide scientists.” The vast majority have silly aliases and I know of not one of them that has ever published a word on the only issue that has ever been in question – the mechanism of a long past evolution. What kind of “bona fide scientist” has ever presented anything of significance at either After The Bar Closes, EvC or Pharyngula? That includes not only the participants but the sponsors of those blogs, Wesley Elsberry, P.Z. Myers and whoever it is that runs EvC.. All three are nothing but gossip factories and magnets for like minded “born that way” ideologues, run by atheist Darwinian zealots all stone deaf to what Einstein called the “music of the spheres.”
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
“Birds of a feather flock together,”
Cervantes
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Alan, you inspired me to write again to EvC my opinion who is really paranoid. First you should take into consideration that EvC advertises itself with these words:
The Creation/Evolution Debate :
Dedicated to helping develop a better understanding of both sides of the issue, the EvC Forum plays host to the ongoing debate.
Isn’t it really weird that the whole section “Biological evolution” is run by neodarwinian administrators exclusively? It’s a masquarade, don’t you think so? My opinion about their unprejudiced “administration” and my paranoia you can find here, post nr 15:
http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?action=msg&f=25&t=3393&m=15&sst=true#15
Debates are for high school debating clubs. I defy anyone to produce a single scientific issue that was ever resolved through debate. You have 24 hours.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Hi Martin
I followed your link and you may have a point. I cannot see the problem in letting you have your thread. But I totally agree with John when he says
Science is limited to what can be observed, measured and tested. As someone remarked, Science is to Religion as fact is to opinion. Personally, I find philosophy, which seems to consist of various expressed opinions, rather boring and pointless, but, perhaps that’s just me.
Alan
For some reason the link you provide is both unreadable and inoperative. Incidentally, Darwinism is the most tested and failed hypothesis in the history of science. The Darwinians don’t even want to talk about it any more. They are now dedicating all their energies against those that believe in a guided evolution, the only alternative to an evolution determined by chance. They seem to be omitting me from their targets which I take to be a good sign.
“Conscience doth make cowards of THEM all.”
after Shakespeare
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
John,
Alan uses some kind of ciphred code. One have to highlit parts of his message which are otherwise invisible. This time it was your sentence “I defy anyone to produce a single scientific issue that was ever resolved through debate.”
Alan, but we are here not at AtBC, here is no any danger to be banned because quouting John.
Martin
Poor old naive me hadn’t the foggiest idea of what was going on. I guess that is the way it is supposed to be, “prescribed” to be. I see what you mean now that you have explained it.
Alan
You don’t have to resort to such means here. Like Martin has explained, this is not “After The Bar Closes” and it isn’t “Pharyngula” or “Uncommon Descent” either. This is a real forum for real people to freely express themselves without fear of retribution, something woefully lacking in the wonderful world of cyberdumb. So far I am very pleased.
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
EvC has released my thread for free discussion finally. They tolerated even my mentioning John Davison’s name in the first sentences. There were some problems doing so last time as far as I remember. But now I have made there a great ado and neodarwinian admins were overruled by some guy who is responsible for other sections there. No one of neodarwinian “good advice” were accepted into my opening post and John name was added instead.
Neodarwinists started babbling about “best solution” and their atheistic fantasy is running full steam.
http://www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/dm.cgi?action=msg&f=5&t=805&m=1
Thank you Martin. There are definite cracks appearing in the Darwinian dike and it is people like you and Daniel Smith that are largely reponsible. I envy you but of course I am persona non grata just about everywhere. Keep up the good work and remind us often of your progress.
The times they are a changin’
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I am using HTML code to bockquote. All the usual HTML codes are enabled. In Winter skin I see the blockquote as black and quite readable.but in Summer skin it is almost illegible in a sort of dark red. I will see if I can spot the relevant colour code and change it to something more visible.
PS. See, Martin, there is no atheist Darwinian conspiracy at EvC. You even got a bit of interest in your thread.
EvC, like Pharygula and Panda’s Thumb, is just another bastion of Darwinian mysticism, destined for ignominity, ridicule and intellectual disgrace. That is why nearly all the participants at all three blogs are anonymous cowards. A man certain of his convictions would never choose to remain anonymous.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I find it fascinating that no one else is willing to make predictions of any sort. What other blog offers such an opportunity? To predict on the basis of present knowledge is the essence of the scientific method. An hypothesis that cannot predict is useless. Am I the only scientist here? Is no one else willing to stake his reputation on his convictions? You anonymous ones, having no reputation anyway, have nothing to lose, or gain for that matter! Or is it that no one has any convictions he is willing to share with others? That is my preferred explanation and it will stand until I am given sound reason to assume otherwise.
“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
Shakespeare
I say nonsense to the Bard of Avon. Not Einstein, not Newton, not any scientist worthy of the name would shrink from making predictions. That is why we know that Darwinians are not scientists and never will be. What can be predicted about a “random walk” or what can be expected from a man like Stephen Jay Gould who compared evolution to a “drunk reeling back and forth between the gutter and the bar room door” and who described intelligence as an “evolutionary accident?” Or how about “blind watchmakers climbing improbable mountains” ala Richard Dawkins or “random biological ejaculations” by his New World surrogate P.Z. Myers? These people are not scientists. They are congenital ,”born that way” atheists, not only stone deaf to Einstein’s “music of the spheres” but also blind as bats to the real world which surrounds them. They are “sensorily disadvantaged,” “prescribed” losers! And yes -
I love it so!
So “come out” you lazy, lily livered blowhards. Leave the security of your intellectual ghettos where you are protected by legions of like minded losers and make predictions based on your credos, credos you don’t even mention any more because you know they are without foundation. You are left with nothing but hate and denigration for your adversaries which is all that emanates from such citadels of Darwinian mysticism as Pharyngula, Panda’s Thumb, EvC and RichardDawkins.net.
“Science commits suicide when she adopts a creed.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
Darwinism is the most protracted yet certain form of suicide ever attempted in the intellectual history of the world. It works!
Which leads me to another prediction. The heads and sponsors of these enclaves of atheism, these intellectual cesspools, will never show here. Instead, cowards that they all are, they will send forth their faithful “goon squads” to confront the enemy which I represent. They may not even do that. They may choose to continue the tradition of pretending that they have never had any critics, real scientists like Richard B, Goldschmidt, Otto Schindewolf, Pierre Grasse, Robert Broom, Leo Berg, and William Bateson each one who, like many other true scientists, had rejected the Darwinian atheist paradigm as an intellectual and scientific disaster, the most tested and failed hypothesis in the history of the scientific method.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I wonder what it would take to flush the atheist worshippers of the Great God Chance out of the cages in which they have confined themselves to acknowledge that I am calling them cowardly wimps, insulting them every way I know how and in general responding to them exactly as they once responded to me in the past. They don’t even mention my name any more. They are now afraid to!
“Davison is the Darwinians’ worst nightmare.”
Terry Trainor
My friends, assuming I have some, we are engaged in a war between the forces of evil as represented by atheist Darwinism and the forces of good represented by the vast majority who believe in some sort of higher power without which the world both animate and inanimate could never have existed. It is only in the details that rational observers may understandably differ. This war is every bit as significant as the war we are now waging against world wide Islamic terrorism, perhaps even more so as it is a war for the capture of our very souls.
Most disturbing to me is the evidence that the forces of evil are winning this war. It shows in our popular music if it can be called that, our literature much of which is degrading and, most frghtening, even in our politics as we now have our first elected atheist congressman. We now have an atheist Political Action Committee pushing atheist agendas in Washington D.C. The Myers/Dawkins dynamic duo are now peddling Tshirts, bumper stickers and coffee mugs emblazoned with the scarlet A in a frantic, overt attempt to acquire converts to Universal Atheism. Soon there may be an Atheist Political Party, possibly with the same pair as candidates for our highest office! The reason they must do this is because godless Darwinism has completely failed even as a working hypothesis. Unable to accept this failure, probably for genetic reasons, they have no other recourse than to attack any form of theism which is exactly all that they are now doing. Atheism has become a Crusade led by pseudo scientists who have abandoned any semblance of objectivity, the sine qua non of all real scientific inquiry.
I submit that no scientist of any significance, past or present, ever dreamed of being a declared atheist, and I now offer this opportunity for any atheist (ergo Darwinian) to produce such a person with his credentials. I especially challenge our current atheist leaders, P.Z. Myers, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens to respond to this opportunity here or anywhere else. They sure can’t offer themselves as examples as they have contributed absolutely nothing of signicance to any aspect of the science they so arrogantly pretend to understand.
It is only the “mechanism” of a long past evolution that has ever been in question and chance had absolutely nothing to do with any of it.
I would be delighted to be wrong in my prediction that they will never show.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
http://www.iscid.org/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=6&t=000370&p=75#001115
I recommend this thread and my comments this morning as a further explanation for the role and purpose of atheism in contemporary society.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Here are a couple of more predictions.
I am disappointed that no one else chooses to make predictions. Successful prediction is the heart of the scientific process. It is the sine qua non for the elevation of hypothesis to theory. The following are not scientifc predictions but I offer them anyway in the hope that they might evoke some sort of response, something that is still woefully absent from this blog.
I predict that neither party will have a candidate by the time of their respectives conventions. I repeat my view that Al Gore will emerge from a deadlocked Democratic convention as their candidate. I also predict that neither John McCain nor Mitt Romney will be the Republican candidate. My own preference is for Fred Thompson who is the only true conservative in the whole bunch. I don’t trust any of the others, Democrat or Republican. I hope he hangs in there.
“The only true liberal is the true conservative.”
William F. Buckley
My Prediction: Scientists of the Intelligent Design bent will demonstrate that the reason the amount of
chimpanzee DNA is 12% larger than what it is in humans is because this extra amount is needed to encode instinctive behavior allowing the chimpanzee to surivive.
Humans do not need as much DNA as chimpanzees because our brains permit us to think and reason without needing instinctive behavior to think for us.
Beancan5000 whoever that is.
The amoint of DNA per cell is virtually identical in chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and humans. That has been known for a very long time.
Thanks for commenting.
Dr. Davison:
True, the amount of DNA is similar. However, chimps do have more DNA. I stand by the prediction that the extra amount of DNA includes coding for instinctive behavior, something humans do not need due to our brain capabilities.
Thank you for letting me comment.
+ Humans possess 46 chromosomes. Chimpanzees have 48.
If we consider the absolute amount of genetic material when comparing primates and humans, the 1-2% difference in DNA represents approximately 80 million different nucleotides (compared to the 3-4 billion nucleotides that make up the entire human genome). [”Do Human and Chimpanzee DNA Indicate an Evolutionary Relationship? by Brad Harrub, Ph.D. and Bert Thompson, Ph.D. http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2070
“For almost 30 years, researchers have asserted that the DNA of humans and chimps is at least 98.5% identical. Now research reported here last week at the American Society for Human Genetics meeting suggests that the two primate genomes might not be quite as similar after all”
[Pennisi, Elizabeth (2002), “Jumbled DNA Separates Chimps and Humans,” Science, 298:719-721, October 25.
Beancan5000
If humans are not related to other Primates, that has not yet been established. If true it raises an interesting question as to our origins. I am not prepared on the basis of the present evidence to accept the notion that we do not have ancestors. On the basis of chromosome morphology, DNA content and karyotype homologies it would seem that all Primates share a common ancestor. When only genetic evidence is considered it should be remembered that certain genes active in some species may be turned off in others and vice versa.
Also the two ape chromosomes have fused to form a single human chromosome.
When one compares larger taxonomic categories like Classes and even Orders within the Class Amphibia, very different cellular DNA levels appear and these gaps have yet to be explained.
Leo Berg postulated “tens of thousands of primary forms.” As far as I know there is no evidence at present to prove he was wrong. There is very little concrete evidence in support of a monophyletic evolution and much evidence against it. We will just have to wait and see. Nothing would surprise me any more.
Thanks for commenting.
On January 6 I opened this discussion by predicting that this blog would be ignored by my adversaries and repeated that prediction on January 13. As of today, January 30 this blog continues to be largely ignored by all factions in the so-called “debate” about our origins, a debate that should never have begun. We can thank the ID crowd for that.
Now why is this so? I will tell you why. It is for the same reason that the sources which provided the material for my Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis were also ignored in their day and still are today. To publicly recognize the existence of this weblog will be the equivalent of opening Pandora’s Box of Troubles for both the ID crowd and for the atheist Darwinians. They both have always pretended that they have never had any adversaries except one another, when the truth is that both factions have had powerful adversaries for decades in the persons of, among others, in alphabetical order, Bateson, Berg, Broom, Goldschmidt, Grasse, and Schindewolf, not a Darwinian atheist or a religious fanatic in the lot. Now they have John A. Davison, the champion of his distinguished predecessors, to Ignore as well.
And so my prediction that they cannot and will not recognize me and my science stands and for exactly the reasons I have put forth. They are afraid to! I love making predictions. They are the “sine qua non” of all significant progress, especially when they prove to be true.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Harking back to my opening statement, I stand by my prediction that The Democratic Convention will not have chosen a candidate and Al Gore may emerge as their candidate. Their convention is very late however so Gore better make his play fairly soon. I still think he will.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I predict that within one year of this date, Pharyngula, Panda’s Thumb, EvC, RichardDawkins.net and Uncommon Descent will all have so completely degenerated as to become nothing but embarrassing footnotes in the history of internet communication. I also predict that P.Z. Myers and Richard Dawkins will have so embarrassed their home institutions that overt attempts will have been initiated to have their tenures revoked on the grounds of moral turpitude and seeking to overthrow the government. Public institutions like the University of Minnesota and Oxford cannot continue much longer to tolerate representatives so lacking in moral and ethical fiber as these two pathetic products of a “prescribed” and now terminated organic evolution. They make Ward Churchill look like Shirley Temple. Unlike Churchill who was never a threat to anyone, these two actively seek to destroy Western Civilization. I also predict there will soon be an Atheist Political Party. We already have an Atheist Political Action Committee (APAC) and a professed atheist member of the House of Representatives.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Fortunately for them, by that date, February 9, 2009, the physical destruction of our civilization will have proceeded to such a degree that thinking people will no longer be concerned about intellectual trash like Richard Dawkins and P.Z. Myers.
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
It looks like my prediction about Al Gore will not come true, but there is still time.
Thank God, the Republicans are going to have John McCain as their candidate.
It looks like it will be John McCain versus Barak Hussein Obama. If the Democrats take the White House and retain control of both houses, I plan to move to Australia, which is as far away from this country as possible.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Well, I must admit I was at least partly wrong about the political predictions I put forth in # 20. John McCain will apparently be the Republican nominee. He is a fine man and certainly a couple of cuts above anything the Democrats have to offer. McCain will make the tax cuts permanent, cut spending, win the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, preserve Israel, and neutralize Iran, none of which will ever take place if the Democrats win the White House. He is also on record as understanding the great threat of global warming. He has my support.
I hope McCain will begin right now exposing Obama as a rabble rouser, offering nothing of substance. Obama is by far the most liberal member of the Senate and has the voting record to prove it. In my opinion he is a danger to the Republic.
Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are acting like a couple of spoiled children who didn’t get their way. They should both be given a good whipping. I am fed up with both of them. The responses to Coulter’s current column (to which I contributed) show that I am not alone in that appraisal. I also used my real name and address. Comments from anonymous, cowardly blowhards mean absolutely nothing but that is another story, isn’t it!
It looks like Barak Hussein Obama will represent the Democrats, although a deadlocked convention is not out of the question, in which case Al Gore might emerge as their candidate. God knows he would be better than either Obama or Clinton. He might even win. Neither of them will. I notice he isn’t endorsing anyone.
So that’s all the news from Lake Champlain, the sixth Great Lake and now the most polluted. Small lakes pollute faster than big ones. The ocean takes longer still, but we are getting there.
“Mankind fiddles while earth burns.”
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
My 5 year predictions: Gore will never run for office again. Obama will be elected and will be the best thing to happen to politics in this country in the last 50 years (McCain is unelectable, any fool can see that). Richard Dawkins will be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in eliminating religion from political and public discourse. Jeb Bush will run for president in 2012 and be soundly defeated. George Bush will move to South America to avoid prosecution. Ann Coulter will finally come out as transgendered. Every one of your predictions will be wrong.
I predict in 50-100 years that religion will become a quaint artifact of history in first-world countries and will become the dominant force in keeping third-world countries poor, uneducated, and murderous. First world, humanistic, secular countries will progress dramatically in all measurable aspects, whereas religionist societies will regress to something that resembles the so-called Dark Ages.
The rationale for my prediction is straightforward. As science has progressed over the past 500-600 years, religion has lost each and every battle it has fought, including the heliocentric solar system, the bacterial origin of disease, the vitalist force theory, etc. The remaining battle against the theory of evolution will be the biggest and most bitterly fought because so much is at stake. It is the only battle remaining, and once religion has lost this battle, as is slowly but surely happening, it will fade away among educated people and reside only in the ignorant, uneducated populace.
The problem with my prediction is that poor uneducated people reproduce more rapidly than well-off educated people. Thus, simple population dynamics may be the source of failure of my prediction. Poor uneducated people are superstitious and as education increases, superstition decreases, although this maxim does not hold with complete fidelity, case in point, the editor or owner of this blog.
Thank you Mark and Rob too, whoever either of you are. You leave little to the imagination. It is unfortunate that you alone know who you are so everything you proclaim is meaningless.
It is incorrect to claim that religion is always at odds with science. The Pontifical Academy of Science has Nobel Laurates in it membership. Even in Galileo’s day the Catholic Church was the friend of science. Considering his arrogance, Galileo got off lightly. I recommend you both read the recent book – “How The Catholic Church Built Western Civilization,” by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Thanks for commenting.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
“I submit that no scientist of any significance, past or present, ever dreamed of being a declared atheist”
Wrong. Most nobel prize winning scientists have been a self declared atheists. Need I mention Richard Feynmann, Linus Pauling , Steven Weinberg or James D Watson? All of them are self-professed atheists. In fact, even most brilliant computer scientists are atheist, such as the founders of linux, Richard Stallman and Linus Trovalds. Basically, you should know that the most brilliant of minds are godless, not the other way around. All of the intellectuals are on the atheist side. That’s why they are winning. Even though people who believe in magic and spirits are in the majority, they cannot win, because atheists control every aspect of society. They are the people at the top. The people who had the brains to study and climb the ladder of success. They also are the people who think with enough complexity to understand the true state of reality and see through human shenanigans, such as human-created stories …..believe by some to be true…. ie religion.
peace prof davidson!
Crap! I’m sorry. That post was rife with grammatical errors. It’s been a long day. I’m sure you can just ignore them.
BrainyBiotch, another cowardly alias I see.
I do not regard Richard P. Feynman as an atheist. He once compared scientific discovery to a religious experience. I agree. I have had the same experience. I also do not recall that Pauling or the others you mentioned ever described themselves as atheists. When you make such an assertion you should be prepared to document your statements. I am not prepared to accept your claims without documentation. None of my heros ever described themselves as atheists. They include Albert Einstein, Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Antoine Lavoisier, Louis Pasteur and every one of the six main scientists that have provided me with the materials for the Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis. None of them were religious fanatic either. Only fools would insist on publicly describing themselves as atheists, fools like Richard “blind watchmaking mountaineer” Dawkins, P.Z. “godlesss liberal” Myers and Christopher “hiccup” Hitchens. While these three command a big following, none of them or any of their followers, mostly cowardly anonymous nothings, have ever contributed a scintilla to the dogma they no longer even defend. All they can do now is denigate the only alternative, a guided planned evolution.
Your notion that atheists control every aspect of society is absurd. I know of not a single aspect of society that is yet controlled by an atheist. There is only one declared atheist, Pete Stark, Democrat from Califiornia, in the whole House of Representatives, not one in the Senate, not a single Governor and there never (to my knowledge) has been an atheist member of the Supreme Court. These are the people that control society so it is clear that you don’t know what you are talking about. Your entire commentary is undocumented and without foundation. Accordingly I reject it.
Thanks for commenting and with your own words characterizing yourself perfectly.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
If you would have looked at my profile, you would have discovered that I am a Full Professor of Chemistry at a top-20 research university. If you want to provide me with a private email, I’ll send you my CV. I don’t feel the need to proclaim my academic qualifications as a scientist. Pick a large research university such as UCLA, Texas, Colorado, Ohio State, Penn State, et al., and you should be able to immediately judge what I have done intellectually and academically to rise to this position. What my IQ score too?
So why don’t you address my prediction?
Ever wondered why intelligence, measured by some metric such as election to the National Academy of Sciences, or winning the Nobel Prize is directly correlated with rational thought and its direct descendent atheism?
To address your comment about scientists dreaming of being a declared atheist, I don’t know what you mean by “declared.” As in a declaration or profession of faith in something? You know well enough that atheism is the absence of belief, which is not a belief in any form. We simply find that there is no plausible, observable evidence for the supernatural. Period. That does necessarily mean that we don’t find God or Gods plausible or believable, but lacking evidence for God is not a belief. However, I’m sure you also know that the vast majority of highly accomplished scientists are atheists or lack a belief in a higher being. Do a simple sociological experiment. Go to a rural county in South Carolina and ask what percentage of the population believe in God. Then go to the National Academy of Sciences or to the Fellows of the American Physical Society or any other august body and ask the same question. The numbers would probably be 90% and 10% respectively. Why? Education.
Now, about my prediction. Care to comment?
Rob, whoever that is and I guess we will never know. Why must you hide your identity here? Are you that insecure?
I see no evidence for a God or Gods either but that does not make me an atheist. There is no need for a living God to understand the order we see everywhere in both the living and the non living world. What cannot be denied is that such entities must have once existed. That is my position and I stand by it. The notion that a living creature could ever have been produced even once through the chance encounter of prebiotic molecules is transparently absurd and I reject it without hesitation or qualification. A godless evolution is the position that every atheist is forced to take. They really can’t help it as they were apparently “born that way” as Wiliam Wright’s book by that title so clearly documents. They are to be pitied but it won’t be my me. I was destined to know better! I am not alone.
“Let us not invoke God in realities in which He NO LONGER HAS TO INTERVENE. The single absolute act of creation was enough for Him.”
Pierre Grasse, Evolution of Living Organisms, page 166, his emphasis, original in italics.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I don’t understand why you are obsessed with precisely who I am. You ought to be able to figure it out using the internet. It isn’t hard to figure out who you are or where you taught and that you are a biologist by training. Would you more carefully read my posts and address my questions if you knew more about me? I hide my identity because I don’t want crackpots spamming me when they figure out who I am and where I teach. That is also why I use a dummy email. It’s called being careful. Crazy people do crazy things to people they disagree with. People let fly with guns in churches, universities, and shopping malls. It isn’t insecurity, it’s security.
If you see no evidence for a God or Gods, then why do you believe there is a God? Before you answer, please do me a favor, humor me, and provide a concise, self-consistent, and reasonable definition of your God. At that point, it will be reasonable to discuss whether there is or is not a God. I don’t want to change your position of unreason. I would just like you to discuss it intelligently. We cannot discuss something that is undefined.
Also, please accurately use the English language. Evolution has nothing whatsoever to do with chance. It is called random selection. The words random (i.e., occurring without definite aim or purpose) and chance (i.e., the absence of cause) are not synonymous. You know this and are deliberately misusing this. You also know very well that evolution and abiogenesis are unrelated fields of scientific study. One studies where life came from and the other studies how it evolved in a manner so that I can type this sentence.
So, back to my original prediction. This is a blog about predictions, and you bemoan the fact that too few posters make predictions. I made a carefully considered prediction and you haven’t written one word about it. That’s why I’m here. Let’s have it.
By the way, if the Church was such a friend of science, then why did Copernicus fear publication or dissemination of his ideas? GaIileo was arrogant because he was right and the Church was wrong. I can provide you with dozens of quotes from leading figures in the Christian religion that deny the value of rational thought. The Church is based on fundamental opposition to learning and education. Reason dictates lack of belief in irrational things such as supernatural beings. I’ll believe the documentation in William Wright’s book when you believe that in Thomas Paine’s books.
Rob, whoever you are.
I dont believe there IS a God and if you didn ‘t have a reading comprehension problem you would realize that. I have clearly stated that I see no evidence for a living God. Neither does anyone else. They just think they do. Gods are like that don’t you know. That hardly makes me an atheist.
Was Nietzche an atheist when he said God is dead? I don’t thinks so. Only having lived can one die.
Your prediction is only that and I won’t be around in 50 to 100 years anyway. Neither will you. Are your reasoning powers so impaired that you can’t realize how idiotic your prediction is and how it is quite impossible to comment on it? Predictions are only valid when realized which, in your case, will be in 50 to 100 years! My predictions, right or wrong, will be realized within a decade or less. I have already failed in one prediction, since McCain will be the Republican Candidate. I predicted he wouldn’t be. My other predictions still stand. If you are going to make predictions please make ones that can be tested before we are all gone. Thank you very much.
The Catholic Church is far more a friend of science than are its Protestant offshoots. It always has been. I recommend the book I mentioned in # 32. It was Catholic monks that kept Greek scence alive all through the Dark Ages. We also owe much of modern agricultural methods to the self sufficient Monasteries of Europe. Furthermore, I know of no great scientist that ever let his views about religion have any influence on his science. Neither do you or anyone else. Why even mention it? I recommend you join with P.Z. Myers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, atheists all, and not a scientist in the lot.
I take it that you deny the documentation derived from monozygotic twin studies? If that is so you are no scientist. One of those unexpected findings was that whether or not one believes in a Creator has a strong heritable basis. The presumed battle between Nature and Nurture has been won hands down by Nature. I thought everybody knew that by now.
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control..”
Albert Einstein
I don’t see this discussion continuing any further myself. I recommend you just declare victory and go away as I sense we are going nowhere.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
http://www.youngcosmos.com/blog/archives/202#comment-811
This will present my views on God so why repeat them here?
Typical selective misquoting and use of information.
John,
If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is there except the tree, does it make a sound?
If a scientist publishes papers, and nobody cites them except for self-citations, does effect the thinking of other scientists?
The books and papers by Berg, Goldschmidt, Schindewolf, Grasse, Bateson, Osborn, Broom, Lovtrup and many other critics of the Darwinian hoax have also been deliberately and cynically ignored by the atheist establishment with which you so obviously identify. I am proud to join with my predecessors and sources in continuing to expose the Godless Darwinian fairy tale as the most failed hypothesis in the history of descriptive and experimental science. I am not in the least interested in trying to convince anyone of anything. I learned long ago that is a hopeless venture. Scientists don’t need to convince as revealed truth speaks for itself.
I suggest you edit your comments before presenting them. Your last sentence is a grammatical disaster. # 41 is not even a sentence.
Better yet, stop coming here as you offer absolutely nothing of value. Join your fellow mystics at Pharyngula, Panda’s Thumb or RichardDawkins.net all of which venues have baned me from participation. I can’t even view the Dawkins fan club from this computer. If you persist in being entirely negative, I will remove you from the user list.. This weblog is not a flame pit. Got that? Write that down.
“Birds of a feather flock together.”
Cervantes
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/02/a_transition_at_oxford.php#comments
and from Dawkins himself -
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2246,n,n
I have a prediction to make.
P.Z. Myers has announced the retirement of his atheist friend from Oxford, effective next September. It must be with a great sigh of relief that the Oxford faculty will lose such a distinguished member who held the title “Professor for the Public Understanding of Science,” a man who abandoned science long ago to convince that same “Public” that everything we see around us has been the product of random events filtered only by natural selection, that there was never a purpose or goal in the evolution of life on this planet, and who is now peddling Tshirts, bumper stickers and coffee mugs all adorned with the big red A for ATHEISM!
How much longer can this madness last?
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
My prediction is that his successor will not be an atheist.
“To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.”
Pierre Grasse, Evolution of Living Organisms, page 107.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I take that prediction back. The way Western Civilization is decaying, Dawkins’ successor may very well be another atheist!
Aren’t predictions fun? I think every blog should have a predictions section where everyone can make predictions. Predictions are essential to the scientific method. They, when realized, are what elevate hypothesis to theory. What other blog has a Predictions thread? None that I know of.
So far, most of my predictions have held up. One apparently has failed. I predicted neither party would have a candidate by convention time. Apprenty John McCain will be the Republican candidate. Don’t misundertand me. I like McCain. Like myself he is a maverick and tells it like he sees it, a rare feature in politicians. Furthermore I trust him. He is a great American and I will vote for him especially if he follows my suggestions with respect to a running mate. He should pick Condoleeza Rice. If he does he will immediately neutralize both the race card and the woman card and ensure a Republican victory in November! The only problem is I am not sure she would accept the nomination. So with that condition I predict a Republican White House in 09 and probably recontrol of the House and Senate as well.
Neither Obama nor Clinton are fit to be President. They are both only slightly to the right of Karl Marx. Obama is the most liberal member of the Senate and would be a danger to the Republic if elected. The Clintons are as Judge Bork, who taught them both in Yale Law School, once described them -
“They were socialists then, they are socialists now.”
I still stand by my prediction that Al Gore may emerge as the Democratic candidate. It must be very painful for him to stand by and watch his party destroy itself this way. He would be a vasty superior candidate than either Obama or Clinton. He hates the Clintons for good reasons. Furthermore I think he could win. Neither Obama nor Clinton have a chance in my opinion which I also offer as a prediction. Gore pioneered Global Warming which is very much to his credit and God knows he is an astute politician. I will stick with my prediction until I hear him endorse some one which I predict he will not do in any event. I don’t see how he in good conscience could endorse either Clinton or Obama. So far he hasn’t. So far, so good!
Let me say that I am sick and tired of both Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. They are both behaving like spoiled brats and should be given a darn good whipping if you ask me. They had better get behind McCain darn soon if they expect any respect from me in future. Not that anyone gives me any respect anyway. That suits me just fine. That is obviously the way it was “prescribed” to be, just like everything else.
“EVERYTHING is determined… by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein, my emphasis.
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
John,
Write this down: you are a crackpot. No one listens to you or reads what you write (based on citations), because your ideas are loopy. Your mind is so decayed that you can’t even respond to what people write. You make statements with nothing to back them up. Who wants to read that Obama is “a danger to the Republic”? Does that make sense? How is he a danger. Use your wisdom to enlighten us. You’re just venting nonsense.
“Diarrhea of the mouth (or keyboard in this case) and constipation of ideas.” Sort of characterizes your science career, don’t you think? No wonder you never got promoted to Full Professor. Too loopy.
Don’t waste your time kicking me off the board. I won’t be back.
Rob
Promises promises. Thanks for exposing yourself. Your comments will remain. I have removed Rob from the user list. His user name was Rob Coleman but his real name apparently is Rob Coeman, or so he says. The most revealing feature of Rob’s character and political perspective is given by the first characters of the special email address he uses for his cowardly, anonymous internet comments. Here they are -
bush_is_poopy@ etc.etc
Isn’t that charming?
I love it so!
It doesn’t get any better than this.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Incidentally, Rob Coleman aka Coeman has provided direct evidence supporting my contention that political ultra-liberalism is closely linked to Darwinian atheism and that they may be pleiotropic expressions of the same genetic condition. After all, Barak Hussein Obama is the most liberal member of the Senate is he not? Thank you Rob for supporting my Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis.
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein
I love it so!
It doesn’t get any better than this.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I sure know how to attract the scum of the ethical earth. I wish I could do the same with their cowardly leaders, egomaniacal zeros like “Pharyngula” “Zed” Myers, Christopher “hiccup” Hitchens, and by far the most “deluded” of them all, Richard “selfish gene” Dawkins. I can’t even manage to get the biggest, nastiest bully in the history of the internet, DaveScot/David Springer to show up here. I’ve got to try harder I guess.
“Their absence makes my heart grow fonder.”
John A. Davison
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Rob in #47 really went ballistic didn’t he.
I have that wonderful capacity to evoke the real nature of my adversaries.
As for my characterization of Barak Hussein Obama, I meant every word of it. He won’t even wear the flag on his lapel as we are it war! His wife just today made a devastating revealing statement to which McCain’s wife made the perfect rejoinder. Neither Obama nor Clnton are fit to occupy the White House and I predict they won’t. There is only one person that can save the Democratic party from political suicide and that is Al Gore. I can’t believe he will endorse either of these two losers. I also can’t believe that sooner or later he won’t declare himself a candidate. He is the only hope for a Democratic White House in 2009 and I believe he could win.
Meanwhile the Republicans are rubbing their hands with glee as the Democrats have dived head first into the shallow far left end of the pool by offering up their two most ultra-liberal members, Barak Hussein Obama and Hillary “It takes a village” Clinton.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
“Mankind fiddles while earth burns.”
John A. Davison
http://www.draftgore.com/
As you can see above, I am not alone in endorsing a Gore candidacy.
The draft Gore movement failed but this is what Gore said to his supporters some time ago -
“If I do get back involved in the political system at some point in the future – well, keep that energy stored up and let’s have a go at it then.”
Maybe Al is employing Salvador Dali’s strategy -
“Let my enemies destroy each other.”
That seems to be what is happening and it sounds good for me as well. I recommend it!
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I have another prediction. Hillary will probably drop out soon, apparently handing the nomination to Obama. Obama will not be the nominee. The powers that be in the Democratic party know he cannot be elected and someone else, most likely Al Gore, will eventually emerge as the Democratic nominee. If she doesn’t drop out and can manage to last, there will be a deadlocked convention with the same result. If not Gore, it will be someone else not left of Karl Marx, of that I am certain.
I hope this will provoke another rabid response like the one produced by Rob. I’m bored!
“I’m an old campaigner and I love a good fight.”
FDR
SOCKITTOME.
I love it so!
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
This is of little consequence in any event because -
“Mankind fiddles as earth burns.”
John A. Davison
http://richarddawkins.net/calendar
I predict that Richard Dawkins’ tour of the USA will be a crashing success as thousands of “prescribed,” “born that way,” “dyed-in-the-wool,” like minded atheists will pay to hear the most “deluded” atheist of all time tell us that not only there IS no God, but that there never WAS one!
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
“We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.”
Montaigne
Not all of us Miguel.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
In comment # 20 I predicted that neither party would have a candidate by convention time. I was half wrong as McCain will be the Republican candidate, but it sure looks like a deadlocked convention for the Democrats as Hillary (with the help of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter) has staged a remarkable comeback. Now the question becomes – will the rest of my prediction hold up? Will Al Gore rescue the Democratic party from certain defeat? I am still betting he will. Neither Hillary Radham Clinton nor Barack Hussein Obama are fit to be President of the United States. I am certain that Al Gore would agree with me.
The endorsements of Hillary Clinton by Limbaugh and Coulter was one of the most calculated and cynical moves in the history of American politics, without which Obama would have swept all of today’s primaries. Sooner or later they will join forces and endorse John McCain without qualification. Trust me.
I love it so!
Here is my latest fantasy and prediction.
We are at the Democratic Convention in Denver next August. The polling of the delegates has just begun. The representative of the delegation from Alabama rises to say -
“The great State of Alabama proudly casts all of its votes for the next President of the United States – Albert Gore.”
Mark my words.
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable, …Mankind fiddles while earth burns.”
John A. Davison
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25385&page=1&cp=1#hec147696
I am #5.
Well folks,
It looks like Senator Obama has just eliminated himself as a candidate for President of the United States. There is no way that his long association with Reverend Jeremiah Wright will escape the scrutiny of the American electorate. The conservative talk radio hosts will make sure of that. He should have disavowed Wright long ago. It is now too late. It is unfortunate that a promising politician should become a victim of his own past. I doubt if he can survive these recent revelations. I imagine the Clintons are rubbing their hands with glee. I no longer anticipate a brokered Democratic convention. I still hold out hope that Al Gore will step into the race to save the Democratic party from a disaster in November. A McCain / Gore race would at least not be a rout. This is Gore’s opportunity and I hope he will take it. We will soon know.
I must confess that I was wrong in my prediction that Hillary would drop out. It looks now like the two most liberal members of the Senate, Barack Hussein Obama, aka Osama Obama, and Hillary Radham (it takes a village) Clinton will spend the rest of the season doing their level best to destroy each other. It must be very disappointing to both the America haters and the Muslim extremists. Al Gore – where are you when your party needs you?
“Let my enemies destroy each other.”
Salvador Dali
It really doesn’t even matter since -
“Mankind fiddled while earth burned.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25634
Here is Pat Buchanan’s response to Barack Hussein Obama’s recent lecture on race relationships. I have lost all respect for Obama and those with whom he has associated and continues to defend. He is as much a menace to the Republic as is Osama bin Laden. Henceforth I will refer to him as Osama Obama.
Sorry about that!
http://www.theotherrussia.org/2008/03/26/russian-military-officers-quitting-in-protest-of-reforms/
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a military coup in Russia in response to the tyranny of Putin and his cronies.
Thank you for this fascinating (multi-part) essay!
In my book FAR FROM EQUILIBRIUM I tried to deal with the controversy between freedom and predestination roughly along the following lines:
I proposed that there are two kinds of “objectivity”, depending on the referent subject. If we are talking about “objectivity” from the point-of-view of a being OUTSIDE the universe who can perceive (and possibly control) the universe with a precision out to an INFINITE number of decimals, then everything is predestined from the point-of-view of such a being.
On the other hand, if we talk about “objectivity” from the point-of-view of a generic being WITHIN the universe who can perceive (and control) with a precision out to only a FINITE number of decimals, then there are many points of “absolute chance” within the universe as perceived by such a being. If we then switch from a “bracket out the subject” stance (science) to a “bracket out the object” stance (religion, ethics, etc.), then those points of “absolute chance” are seen to be moments of “decision” and “free will”.
Only by distinguishing and regarding as (in some sense) valid BOTH of these two types of “objectivity” can any progress be made in resolving this controversy. The Jesuits (favoring free will) and the Dominicans (favoring predestination) argued before some Pope or other for TEN YEARS without resolving the issue! And, of course, the Calvinists “resolved” the issue by coming down 100% on the side of predestination, with disastrous results for Christian ethics.
Just my 2-cents worth.
Thank you Phil.
I don’t expect many or even any to agree with my views on Free Will. I made my position transparent in the Welcome to my weblog thread. The studies with separated identical twins reinforce for me the convictions I share with Albert Einstein -
“Our actions should be based on the ever-present awareness that human beings in their thinking, feeling, and acting ARE NOT FREE but are just as causally bound as the stars in their motion,”
and
“EVERYTHING is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
and
“Then there are the fanatical atheists whose INTOLERANCE is the same as that of the religious fanatics, and it springs from the same source…..They are creatures who CAN’T HEAR the music of the spheres.”
my emphases added.
I do not agree with your – “with disastrous results for Christian ethics.” Christian ethics remain the greatest model for human behavior ever conceived.
Thanks for commenting.
How can you have any “responsibilities” if everything is determined? Responsibilities belong to the category of internal requirements that belong to the choice to do well or ill. Freedom is a very deep mystery, partly because it has to have limits. If you were free to turn into a dog, then, as a dog, you could never choose to be a man again, because dogs don’t have that level of consciousness. In many other ways, freedom is a one-way street. You can choose whether to get hooked on drugs, but once you are hooked, your freedom to unhook is much more limited.
The strange thing is that social responsibility, — unlike drug addiction — is a freedom that you have more of the more you exercise it, at least if you exercise it in a disciplined manner. Each step leads to the next, but the inner experience of freedom becomes enlarged.
Well, I belong to this lovely community of people who are generous and honest — and are having children. So I have a lot of hope for the future. But actually, I think you belong to that community also.
Thank you Hedgemaker.
I am preparing an essay as a follow up to the Age of Denial which I hope will clarify my position. I am sorry you are unable to accept Einstein’s lifelong determinism. I hope to show that there is no conflict beween a determined evolution and the Christian ethic.
I appreciate but do not share your optimism concerning the future as you will gather from my thread on global warming.
Thanks for commenting.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I have read some of the twins stuff. The most striking one, from my point of view, was the one where twins grew up and both built circular benches around the trees on their property. If this is evidence of genetic dominance, the sky is green. To me it seems obvious that there was a circular bench where their mother sat while she meditated on her motherhood and the loss she was trying to accept since she could not raise the children. How does such memory get into the kid? I don’t know. We don’t know anything much about memory anyway. Someone has suggested that it’s held in the junk DNA; that would work. Regardless, there’s no gene for circular bench design, so we must reflect that all these nature-nurture twin studies have neglected pre-natal life. Until that is taken into account, everything is up for grabs.
What I like about the semi-meiotic hypothesis is that you have provided a natural way to proceed from one species to another, which is what I presume to be the vocation of a natural scientist — to investigate the natural causes of natural events.
Now, having found a possible natural cause, I find new freedom in my understanding of faith and reason — I hate to find you “dismal” when I am so happy.
By the way, did I tell you that I’m on the home page of the Kolbe Center website, for a negative book review that I wrote 6 or 8 years ago.
Mary
Mary
I am not dismal at all. It is only my forecast that is very dismal indeed! Those who insist on ignoring the present state of the planet and its cause were probably “prescribed” to remain ignorant and misguided.
“We have met the enemy and it is us.”
Pogo
“Everything is determined… by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I have a new prediction to make.
I predict that a succesful cross can and should be made between a chimpanzee and a human being. I further predict that the hybrid would prove to be sterile. I do not regard this in any way to present an “ethical” problem. Such a cross if successful could be enormously important in undertanding our own position in the evolutionary picture.
It is important to establish that Homo sapiens is, above all, an animal. I cannot imagine a better proof than the production of a hybrid with our closest living relative. We apparently differ from the chimp no more than does the horse differ from the donkey. In that case the hybrid is produced spontaneously. It might prove necessary to perform the chimp/human cross in vitro but that it should be attempted, there is no question in my mind.
I welcome any reactions this may evoke.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I have some more predictions to offer.
There is no conceivable way that Barack Hussein Obama can possibly be elected President of the United States of America. His past associations with Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, alone, serve to disqualify him from that office. I am confident that the powers that be in the Democratic Party are not so far out of touch with reality that they will continue to endorse his candidacy. If they do he will most certainly lose and I believe they will not let that happen. Of course I could be wrong! I do not see Hillary Radham Clinton as a successful candidate either. Neither of them are even remotely fit for the most powerful position in the world.
Accordingly, I remain confident that some other candidate will represent the Democratic Party in November. I stick with my earlier prediction that it will be Al Gore but any of several other Democratic candidiates would be vastly superior to the two most liberal members of the present government.
Specifically, I predict a deadlocked convention in August with a third candidate emerging to represent the Democats in November.
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I also will take this opportunity to predict that with my blog now averaging 9 visits per day, no matter what I say or predict, I will continue to be ignored. That suits me just fine as my purpose is not to convince others. I learned long ago that is quite impossible. It is only to record my convictions on matters which I feel are of great importance.
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With the latter in mind, I will also use this message to list what I regard as the three most significant books of the recent past. I can only hope that they will influence others as they have influenced me, which is to an enormous extent. They are, in no particular order -
“Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline,” by Robert J. Bork, Regan Books, 1993.
“Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality,” by William Wright, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
“The Weather Makers: How man is changing the climate and what it means for earth,” by Tim Flannery, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005.
I welcome any responses these comments might evoke, confident from long experience that none will appear.
It is easy to believe isn’t it?
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I see that Barack Hussein Obama has another admirer in Michael Pfleger, this one a rabid ultraliberal Catholic priest of all things. The mystery is why Pfleger hasn’t been defrocked by the Church. And why oh why does Obama fail to denounce his church and everything it has always represented?
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
John McCain has just offered Obama the opportunity to join with him in a weekly series of twelve town hall meetings. I predict that Obama will have none of it because his stance on matters of security is unacceptable to the American electorate and he knows it. He also has little that is constructive to offer on the economy, taxes or any other matter of concern to the American electorate.
This was a stroke of genius on McCain’s part and is in the best tradition of political discourse, reminiscent of the Lincoln / Douglas debates of the 19th century. It is also exactly what Newt Gingrich proposed long ago. I am confident that McCain will be alone in his weekly town hall meetings. Obama is not fit to be President of the greatest nation on earth, while John McCain most certainly is!
Well I was dead wrong about Al Gore. I can’t believe he is endorsing Obama. I still do not believe Obama will be the Democratic nominee. It won’t be Hillary either. There are dozens of Democratics better qualified than either of them. Denver in August will be interesting.
At this point I think Obama has clinched it. I suppose the superdelegates could change their minds, but I think that would be disastrous for the Democratic party in November.
If Obama becomes president, it will be disastrous for the United States. The most liberal, least experienced member of the Senate, a man with past associations with bomb-throwing insurrectionists like William Ayers and America-hating ultraliberal religious figures of the genre represented by Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger should never represent the Democratic or any other political party. The only hope for the Democratic party is a deadlocked convention which I still predict will be the situation in Denver in August. I also don’t think Obama is very bright and contrary to majority opinion I do not regard him as an effective public speaker. He is also terrified of going one on one with John McCain in an unstructured format. In my opinion he is a loser who just hasn’t lost yet.
Of course that is just my opinion and everyone knows that means absolutely nothing.
I think Obama will be good for the US, for many of the same reasons you say will be disastrous. But, if as you predict, the DNC will be dead-locked I wouldn’t mind Al Gore stepping in. But I would have a hard time choosing between Gore and Obama. Its time for the US to go a different direction. Obama has the ability to get people involved like nobody else, despite his lack of experience. If we’re going to do something as a nation, then he’s the one to get it started.
Brian Caserto
I regard Barack Hussein Obama as a clear and present threat to the Republic and I have no further interest in discussing the matter with you or with anyone else. If you bring him up again I will remove you from the user list. I am also not in the least bit interested in your personal life. This is a serious forum and not a venue for personal anecdotes. Got that? write that down! You may interpret my position as you choose. I couldn’t care less.
I do not understand why you despise Obama so much. On the crucial issue that you have identified – global warming – he stands significantly ahead of McCain and has the personality and drive to effect change. Is a liberal voting record really that important? On which issues has he voted “incorrectly”?? Is his greater commitment to global warming not more important, given that climate change threatens to destroy us (unlike say, a marginal increase in welfare/health spending or a reduced troop commitment to Iraq).
Olly, whoever that is,
Yes, a liberal voting record, the most liberal in the Senate, is very important. As for global warming, all Obama suggests is that we should all be riding bicycles. He offers nothing but unspecified “change.” He is against nuclear energy which is the ONLY viable alternative to fossil fuel. He is also against offshore drilling, onshore drilling, any form of drilling. He is a joke!
It is his past associations that trouble me the most. When you have associated with the likes of Michael Pfleger, William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, you have forfeited your eligbility for the Presidency. To imagine such a creature in the Oval Office is unthinkable and I am convinced it will not happen.
Since when has “personality” and “drive” ever accomplished anything?
I don’t despise Obama. I fear him as the muddleheaded whacko that I recognize him to be. He is a two dimensional coward who has refused town hall meetings with McCain. He is a loser who hasn’t lost yet, but will. I don’t even believe he will be the Democratic nominee. He sure isn’t now. That is what Conventions are for. The scariest thing about him is the way the ultraliberal press has embraced him. As the summer progresses it will become even more obvious that this man has no credentials for the most powerful position in the world.
“There is many a slip twixt the lip and the cup.”
Edward Lytton
As for global warming, I have made it abundantly clear that I am convinced it is too late to do anything about it anyway.
“Mankind fiddled while earth burned.”
Thanks for the comments whoever you are!
“As for global warming, I have made it abundantly clear that I am convinced it is too late to do anything about it anyway”.
Really? Anything? It seems to me that there is quite a substantial difference between quite big catastrophe and extremely big catastrophe. But if Obama is against nuclear power then I agree that that is a major problem. I cannot not see any real alternative to a major nuclear power expansion to bring western emissions down at the present time.
As for Obama being a coward…well, he has shown great courage thus far in taking on the Clinton machine and exposing himself to the scrutiny and attacks of the republicans. You have only had to deal with the thuggish aggression and bullying of one Dave Springer…imagine what Obama puts up with daily! I don’t think you can call him a coward, whatever his other failings.
Wrong Olly, whoever that is.
I have been taking crap from both sides of this idiotic debate, neither faction of which has a leg to stand on. I recommend you visit #71 on the “Why Banishment” thread.
Nuclear production of electricity WAS the only solution to the devastation we have wreaked on the planet. It is far too late to do anything about it now. That is my position and I see no reason to think otherwise. Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have steadily increased every year since they were first accurately determined in the 1950’s. Those records tell it all. They will continue to rise accompanied by increasingly violent weaher, a slowing of the Gulf stream and a rise in sea level as both poles will continue to melt.
Even if we were abruptly to reduce our emissions, does anyone seriously think the Chinese would? It is not going to happen.
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”
Grouch Marx
Obama lives in a fantasy world. He is dangerous and naive with nothing substantial to offer. So far the Republicans have been treating him with kid gloves mostly because he is black. I still predict he will not be the Democratic nominee. In fact, I just bet a liberal pinko 10 bucks to that effect. More scandals will emerge prior to the Denver Convention in August. He is a radical menace – “prescribed” to lose. Also don’t underestimate the Clintons. They are capable of anything! Trust me or not. I couldn’t care less.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
“Mankind fiddled while earth burned.”
I see that Barack Hussein Obama still insists that the war in Iraq was a “gigantic blunder.” The war in Iraq and its aftermath was one of the greatest achivements of recent history because it established a working democracy in the heart of the middle east. Its success is due almost entirely to the will and steadfast dedication of a single man, George W. Bush. There is no question that Bush will go down in history as one of the greatest Presidents in the history of the Republic. He kept us safe too, no mean feat. This creep Obama has no business even being considered as a nominee for the Presidency which, incidentally he still is not. That is what conventions are all about. I still predict he will not be the Democrat’s nominee. If he is, I can only pray that he will be soundly defeated by someone vastly better prepared to lead this nation in these critical times – John McCain.
I wish Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter would stop behaving like spoiled little egomaniacs and dedicate their considerable talents to exposing Obama as the cheap little ward healing, community organizing, left wing radical his history so indelibly establishes him to be. It is also past time for them to get behind John McCain in earnest. They both should be ashamed of themselves.
There now, I feel somewhat better.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25696726/
I call your attention to this revealing poll conducted, believe it or not, by The New York Times, especially to the last sentence in the third paragraph -
“More than 80 percent of black voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mr. Obama; about 30 percent of white voters said they had a favorable opinion of him.”
If only 30 percent of white voters have a favorable opinion of Mr. Obama, I think the Democrats better give serious consideration to finding another candidate to represent their party in November.
I still predict he will not be their candidate after the convention in August. It won’t be Hillary either.
http://www.theotherrussia.org/2008/07/29/kasparov-obama-should-stand-up-to-russias-regime/
Gary Kasparov has Obama’s number as this piece clearly shows. Obama is a disaster!
I can’t imagine a more hideous prospect than a Democratic controlled Congress coupled with an Obama Presidency. If that happens I am moving to Greenland which is, thanks to global warming, finally living up to its name.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
“Mankind fiddled while earth burned.”
I am not sure Greenland is a safe bet if the ice sheet melts. The central basin descends to around 1,000 feet below sea level and sea levels would rise by around 100 feet, leaving Greenland as a small archipeligo. The population is nearly 90% ethnically Inuit or mixed Inuit and Scandinavian. Are you sure you would fit in? I see you dislike Obama’s politics, but Greenland is, in comparison, more radically socialist, with a good social welfare system, based on the Skandinavian model.
Alan
The Greenland ice sheet IS melting.
I was only kidding. I am too damn old to go anywhere. Obama is just another cheap South Chicago politician. I don’t think he will be the nominee considering the rate he is goofing up. He is obviously terrified at the prospect of debating McCain in an open forum. I am sure the lefty press will continue to do their level best to get him elected.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
In my opinion there is no such thing as a GOOD social welfare system. Apparently Sarkozy doesn’t think so either. Neither does Merkel. It is about time.
Thanks for posting.
I have a proposal as to how to deal with the Iran/Syria problem, both representing serious threats to the survival of Israel and the integrity of Iraq as a bastion of democracy in the Middle East. It is based on the reality that the best way for any regime to be replaced is from within. Isn’t that how we replaced Great Britain as our master in the revolutionary war?
Here is my proposal. I would announce to the citizens of Iran and Syria that they have one year to set in motion forces to replace the present regimes with nonthreatening ones. Failure to do so will require the same means that brought Imperial Japan to its knees, terminating World War II. Just as millions of lives were saved then, so millions of lives might be saved in the future by implementing this plan.
I welcome any responses this suggestion might evoke, here or elsewhere.
The invasion of Georgia by Putin has hurt Russia far more than Georgia. Sooner or later the Russian people will revolt against its corrupt government.
As we approach the Democratic Convention, Obama is fading fast. I revise my earlier prediction that neither he nor Hillary will be the nominee although that still remains a strong possibility. The only other possible outcome is for both to be nominated with Hillary as Obama’s Vice President. I expect Obama to pick her as his running mate out of desperation. The Clintons have given him no other choice if he expects to survive at the Convention. Either way McCain (and I predict Romney) will prevail in November.
Aren’t predictions fun? Who cares whether one is right or not? Unlike David Springer, I don’t “love being right.” Real scientists never have.
I love it so!
It is 4:00 PM, two days before the Democratic convention begins and Obama still hasn’t picked a running mate. If he is smart he will pick Hillary because if he doesn’t the Clintons will split the convention asunder and neither he nor Hillary will emerge as the candidate. On the other hand if he does pick Hillary he will have to worry about what he eats until Inauguration Day and after if they should win.
Finally Barack Hussein Obama has picked a running mate – a Wahington insider and a great friend of John McCain, whose record on Iraq he shares. Obama must have been out of his Muslim mind. Joe Biden has publicly characterized Obama as politically naive and not ready for the Presidency. I’m surprised Biden accepted. I wonder how many others declined. We’ll probably never know.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
This must really inflame the Clintons who weren’t even consulted. I predict a fractured Convention with a dark horse final candidate. Biden should have declined. If he had it might have been Joe Biden as the Democrat’s nominee. I wouldn’t miss this fiasco for the world. Would anyone? Hillary’s supporters will screw this thing up royally. Trust me.
I love it so.
“How sweet it is.”
Jackie Gleason
I’m wrong again. That should please my adversaries. I hope McCain will pick a woman to absorb the pro-Clinton segment.
As of 10:40 AM it is official – Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and a stroke of genius on McCains part!
I can now predict that Obama will never be President. If I prove to wrong about that I plan on leaving the country.
I recomemend Jerome Corsi’s book – “The Obama Nation” for a fully documented history of Obama’s political life. It is unacceptable that such a person might be considered for the Presidency.
I realize I have a lousy track record with my predictions. Nevertheless, based on Palin’s performance last night, I predict a McCain/Palin victory in November. I further predict that Palin will succeed McCain to become the first woman President of the United States. The only question is when that will occur. That it will seems certain and of course -
I love it so!
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=28443
I love it so!
Obama just committed political suicide with that “lipstick on a pig” remark.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
I predict economic disaster and as evidence of my convictions, Monday I went to the bank to withraw $20,000 in cash and had to wait until this morning to get it. This morning I wanted to convert a $30,000 CD to cash and was told I will have to wait until next Thursay, 9/25/08, to get it. The trouble is that by next Thursday they may not have the money. I wish I was kidding but I am deadly serious.
What say others?
Notice that I have added Jerome Corsi’s “The Obama Nation” to the list of important books where it will remain until after the election in November. This book, more than any other, exposes Obama as a danger to the Republic. 304 pages of text are followed by 34 pages of documentaion, the latter in smaller font than the former.
These are times of crisis and, as usual, McCain puts country first. I hope he leaves Obama alone on the stage in Mississippi so he can spew his socialism unimpaired and unanswered. That way the electorate can see him for what he really is, a cheap, thoroughly corrupted, South Chicago politician. As someone recently noted, the C in Chicago stands for corruption.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/09/chicken.php#comments
Note how Myers displays his rabid leftist politics for all to see, complete with insults directed against both McCain and Palin.
I love it so!
Now here this!
I predict that Barack Obama will be lucky if he carries New York in November. Upstate New York is Republican anyway and the city is Jewish. This clown is a pro Arab anti-semite as his past associations with Jeremiah Wright and, through Wright, Louis Farrakhan testify. His past associations with Tony Ezko, a Syrian hood also betray a pro Arab posture. Obama is just another South Chicago politician. That is the same general area that spawned Al Capone. Why the Republicans haven’t exposed this creep is what I can’t understand. I am sure they will.
I further predict that he will lose his Senate seat when that comes up.
How do you like them apples?
I love it so!
Here is my prediction. Barack “Osama” Obama will carry only Vermont, California and, if he is lucky, Massachusetts. That is all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/lynn-forester-de-rothschi_n_127047.html
I see that Lynn Forester De Rothchild. a chief fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, is endorsing John McCain. A life long Democrat is voting for the first time for a Republican because the Democratic party has gone “too far to the left.”
Barack Hussein Obama is left of Lenin!
I hope McCain declines to debate Obama today, leaving Obama holding an empty bag. As is typical, McCain has placed his country first.
Today, September 30, 2008, may prove to be another black Tuesday to rival the black Tuesday of October 29, 1929 that launched the Great Depression. There is one person who is primarily responsible for the failure of Congress to deal with this crisis. That person is Nancy Pelosi. Her disgraceful posture will one day install her as one of the most miserably incompetent figures in the history of American politics. She gives the word BITCH a whole new meaning.
It is easy to believe isn’t it?
This stalling on the part of Congress is dangerous. The fact that the stock market partially recovered should not restore confidence in what is a very fragile sytem.
“The one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.”
anonymous?
Hi John,
have you read Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin? I would be curious on what you think about it?
Thank John
Sorry John,
For the poor grammar I need to get smaller finger or bigger keys.
Dublin
I have not. There are so many books these days that it is literally impossibe to keep up with them all. One thing I learned though. Don’t ever believe a book revue as it is invariably written by an ideologue with an axe to grind. I’ll read it when I find the time.
Right now I am very busy exposing Darwinian mystics (with their own words) which I believe was my “prescribed” destiny.
“EVERYTHING is determined… by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein, my emphasis.
I only wish he had used the past tense. I believe everything WAS determined: millions of years ago and very possibly on more than one occasion.
Thanks for the comment. I hope more will do the same.
The Palin / Biden debate is now history and I am happy to concur with the majority that Sarah Palin won it hands down. Gaffe a day Biden misrepresented the facts a dozen times so it is hard for me not to call him a flaming liar. I won’t of course. I will leave that for others. A gaffe is a social error. A lie is a lie.
I love it so!
Hey John,
Loved how you and Martin slammed woot, I wondered if he ran to Meyer’s crying? Why John? Why must they hide behind their pawns. Why doesn’t Meyer’s just give you a challenge to PEH? Or for that matter Dawkins?
Dublin,
The answer is very simple. They are terrified of me and especially of the sources on which my own science is so firmly based. None of us were atheists and none of us were religious fanatics. That is the basic reason I am unacceptable to both camps. That suits me just fine.
It is I who has offered the challenges here and elsewhere. They fall on ears stone deaf to what Einstein called the “music of the spheres.”
As Terry Trainor put it -
“Davison is the Darwinians’ worst nightmare.”
Apparently I give indigestion to the Fundamentalists also.
We don’t exist. That has always been the Darwinian way.
“The main source of the present-day conflicts between the spheres of religion and science lies in the concept of a personal God.”
Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, 1954
That is just as true today as it was 54 years ago.
Thanks for the comment.
Dublin
I just linked your question and my response to Myers via his one way communication system. I encourage others to take advantage of this feature of Pharyngula. What you say will never appear but may give him the thundering apoplexy he so richly deserves. The man is fundamentally evil.
http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/
I recommend this site in order to keep up with Obama’s friends and associates and how they disqualify him for the presidency.
Hey John,
I had several Atheist/Dawkin followers try to pry me away from your evil clutches hahaha. Really John this is just funny now, why do they persist with attacks on you behind your back? Why don’t they just come here to your blog and challenge your theories? For that matter why is Dawkins and Meyers so fearful?
Thanks for the link John.
Dublin
It is fear that prevents them from even mentioning my name and Martin’s too. The Myers/Dawkins/Hitchens atheist triumvirate is terrified of the great biologists I and others have resurrected from the past. These clowns have contributed absolutely nothing of substance themselves. They know that the Darwinian model is a miserable failure but they are congenitally unable to accept the only alternative which is a planned evolution. They are committing intellectual and ethical suicide but are so far out of touch with reality that they don’t even realize it. It has become a spectator sport.
Dawkins, especially, lives in a fantasy world entirely of his own creation. He has become the laughing stock of the intellectual community. Myers is a nasty, miserable, malcontent who hates everything and everybody. Hitchens apparently has a serious drinking problem. They deserve one another. Elsewhere I have described them as the Three Stooges of evolutionary science.
The scary part is these “prescribed” losers (I don’t know how else to describe them) have enormous followings, cheering their leaders on with blind devotion. Hitler had that same capacity to inspire and look at what happened to Germany. If you want to see them at their hilarious best, go to Pharyngula and click on that big red A.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
It doesn’t get any better than this.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
1dublinevans asks:
<blockquoteWhy don’t they just come here to your blog and challenge your theories?
Because John feels compelled to delete all but the most sycophantic comments on his blog. Also there is no theory to challenge, just John’s PEH which is too content free to be worth challenging.
@ John
I know you will delete this, too, John. I just wanted to remind you what an unbridled hypocrite you are.
BTW alanfoxfromfrance is Alan Fox
Wrong again Alan. I do not delete revealing comments from garbage sources. You have once again successfully exposed yourself. However, if you add one more comment I will delete that one and all subsequent ones. Got that you cowardly little turd? The two you just got away with will remain just as I have always done with degenerate pigs like alanfoxfromfrance.
My friend Martin has informed me that you are denigrating me at richarddawkins.net as well. I have asked Martin to send me those comments and when he does I will reprint them here. Of course if you choose to send them here, he won’t have to will he? Trust me; I will let them stand as your terminal contribution to this weblog.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I love it so!
It doesn’t get any better than this.
Try this link (click on the phrase). It should be the last page of the thread VMartin is telling you about. It may not display correctly in other browsers than Firefox
Thank you Alan. It is the comment posted Tuesday, October 07, 7:13 AM on the Descent of testacles thread. It displays perfectly.
For the record I have banished only three people, “woot” who I dropped several times as he kept coming back under new email addresses, Rob who would have quit anyway and a third creep whose name I forget. They were all cowardly anonymous blowhards and their several comments still remain as any fool can see. I wouldn’t dream of deleting anything that David “I love being right” Springer might say or Paul Zachary “randomly ejaculating” Myers might offer or comments from any other bully of whatever persuasion. It is also mendacious to claim that I complain about being banished from the weblogs of my many adversaries. I wear my banishment badges with consummate pride. My chest grows heavy with them. I love it so!
Now Alan, you may contort yourself, insert your individuality and suck man suck. Blow is a figure of speech.
Hi Professor Davison
You may remember me. I am interested in global warming and was posting for a while at Uncommon Descent but DaveScot disagreed with some of my comments, and I can’t post there anymore. I have been reading your blog, especially your comments on the climate issue and I applaud your stand.
Just getting to the end of this thread and wondering where these comments are that you are referring to?
Maurice Caldwell
Thank you.
I am counting the number of messages by Alan Fox that I am deleting after he has refused to stop polluting this blog with his nasty drivel. You see I can’t stop him from making a fool of himself and wouldn’t even if I could. If you read back a few entries you will understand what I am doing and why I must do it.
DaveScot aka David “I love being right” Springer has banished more people than any other bully in the history of internet communication. You should consider it a compliment. His motto is -
“The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.”
King James version.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Martin
Fox has submitted 11 comments all of which I have deleted. I deleted yours as well as I have no intention of letting this blog become a flame pit like After The Bar Closes, EvC, richarddawkins.net and Pharyngula.
Nevertheless I will present this response to Alan’s claim that I was “delusional” when I said that Myers is afraid of me.
Alan
You crawl over to Pharyngula and tell your Lord and master that John A. Davison has the following message for him -
“You are a living miracle with neither brains nor guts.”
That is what Harry S. Truman had to say to one of his enemies more than a half century ago.
Actually that is quite unecessary because I will see to it that the “random ejaculator” gets the whole thread. Besides, I am supremely confident that the warped little fart regularly visits this blog anyway.
Incidentally my number of daily visits has doubled lately which I take to be a good sign.
I love it so!
Hey John,
I have seen Martin’s responses is he a colleague of yours? I just think it is awful that you cannot even challenge the Darwinian society with a scientific paper like (PEH) and instead of intellectual debating they attack not just you but your friends. Martin you are a inspiration as John is.
Dublin
Martin is a loyal friend. He is not a professional biologist but he knows a great deal about the history of evolutionary science, far more than all the Darwinians together. As they say down south -
“I’d go bear hunting with a switch with Martin.”
John, thank you for your kind words.
Dublin:
Professor Davison’s Manifesto is the best antidarwinian work I’ve ever read. I have tried to back up antidarwinian ideas outlined there at various forums. There are some other prominent antidarwinian scientists – mainly from German speaking milieu – ideas of which I’ve tried to put back on the light. Among them are professor Wilhelm Troll, professor Adolf Portmann, professor Zdenek Neubauer and many others.
Darwinists pretend they works are refuted and outdated. They have never bothered to translate them into English.
The another neodarwinian beloved child is so called “mimicry”. There are many resemblances due to pure chance. It is more than dubiuos to assume that “natural selection” was the evolutionary source behind the origin of “mimicry”. I discussed many problems elsewhere.
As John has written already, I am not a biologist. I gratuated at University from physics.
Thank you Martin & John,
I appreciate your words gentlemen, you both are tremendous people and I thank you the opportunity to talk and converse with both of you in this forum. I really believe this is needed as I think Darwinians have been to secure in their position in the academic world. I hope that the both of you are instrumental in opening the eyes and minds of those who question there fairy tale.
Thank you both.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/10/what_are_we_lepers.php#comments
Here is another example of the “random ejaculator” plying his trade.
I Iove it so!
Hi John,
Since this is your predictions thread I was wondering if, since your last prediction didn’t pan out, you have any new prediction about how long my tenure at Uncommon Descent is going to last.
Sure, not that I care.
You will last forever at Uncommon Descent. They are all terrified of you. Of course I might be wrong. I often am. Dembski might screw up his courage and get rid of you. He might even then invite me back but I wouldn’t bet on it.
The happiest day of my life would be the day you would be forced to have your own weblog as I have had to do, largely due to intellectual trash like P.Z. Myers, Wesley Elsberry, Richard Dawkins and David ” I love being right” Springer, arrogant, insecure, egomaniacal, “prescribed” tyrants all.
“It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character….Everything is determined… by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein
Speaking of trash -
http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr09-03-08.html
I hope all will continue to follow my comments at “brainstorms” and Overwhelming Evidence for as long as I am allowed to hold forth there.
I been getting in a debate with a British biologist over evolution, anyway John he thought I was a hard core discovery institute follower which I admit they bring up very good arguments. But I informed him I really value your views and Martins, he told me he would show me how easily it would be to tear down your logic and destroy “PEH”. I communicated with him over e-mail almost three times a day it’s been about three weeks haven’t heard from him. I wonder if he’s crying on Dawkin’s shoulder John? Keep up the good work John and Martin!
Dublin
You might tell him that the truth doesn’t have to be logical. Who is this clown or is he just another anonymous blowhard?
Dawkins, like Myers, is an intellectual joke, a cowardly wimp and a homozygous loser.
I love it so!
Furthermore, I am unaware of any reference to any of my papers in the refereed literature, which is the only one that counts.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
http://www.uncommondescent.com/legal/phillip-j-berg-and-the-october-surprise/#comments
As you can see from this link, David “I love being right” Springer is now running the whole show at Uncommon Descent, controlling all commentary and treating the membership with naked contempt.
I feel sorry for Dembski and O’Leary but they should have seen it coming. Apparently they are powerless.
“The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.”
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
http://www.iscid.org/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=6&t=000370&p=97#001460
Just posted.
http://www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-get_topic-f-6-t-000370-p-97.html
Just posted.
Hello John,
Austin on the state board of education have appointed three evolution critics to a six member committee that will review proposed curriculum standards for science courses in Texas schoolbooks. John I wish you would contact these people and get on board, you are the best hope to get them thinking of a alternative to Darwinism?
Dublin
Nobody pays any attention to me which is the way it was “prescribed” to be. That suits me fine. I am sure that anything I might suggest would prove to be counterproductive.
Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein
“Meine Zeit wird schon kommen!
Gregor Mendel
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
It’s a damn shame John,
I support you fully and will continue to do so. I would love to see PEH taught over Darwin!!
John,
How are your political predictions working out?
Samuel Cohen
Samuel Cohen
Terrible, as anyone who has followed this thread would know. Is that why you ask?
I still think Osama Hussein Obama is a loser. The man is a flaming socialist and a danger to the republic. His mother was a tramp and his father a drunken pig. Everything has a genetic basis and -
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein
Thanks for commenting.
http://www.iscid.org/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=6&t=000370&p=98#001466
Just posted.
Joe “botox, hairplug, gaffe a day” Biden has become John McCain’s best ally. It is no wonder that Osama Hussein Obama is screaming for his supporters to “vote early, vote often.” The tide is turning folks. I don’t think Obama will carry New York!
I love it so!
It doesn’t get any better than this.
There is still much that we do not know about Obama. His years at Columbia where he used cocaine are shrouded in mystery. His medical records are incomplete as are Biden’s. There is even a serious question as to his eligibility for the highest office in the land.
There is another matter which, as a geneticist, I feel must be given consideration. Obama’s father was a notorious alcoholic and womanizer who abandoned Obama’s mother. His mother’s history is not much better. I suggest Googling “Obama’s mama” for an analysis by a black minister of her position in the world of the 1950’s.
Compare Obama’s geneology with McCain’s, generation after generation of devoted service to his country. The medical and personal records of of both Palin and McCain are an open book.
EVERYTHING has a genetic basis and to that extent is “determined” as Einstein has reminded us -
“by forces over which we have no control.”
I realize that by raising the subject of Eugenics I will probably be labeled a bigot but I remind all that I am not the first to emphasize the role of good breeding in the fortunes of the world.
“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.”
Arnold Toynbee
“Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.”
Harry Truman
“Cream rises – most turds sink.”
John A. Davison
Here is the worst case scenario if Barack Hussein Obama happens to win the presidency.
It is possible he will be assassinated by one of those “gun-loving,” “bible-clutching” “rednecks” that Obama managed to alienate when he was holding forth in San Francisco in which case Joe “hair plug,” “botex,” “gaffe-a-day” Biden would become President. Imagine what would happen if Biden were institutionalized, certainly not out of the question judging from his recent behavior. Nancy “save-the-planet” Pelosi would become President of the United States of America.
How does that grab you?
I say vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin, the most popular Governor in history and a future President of the United States.
I love it so!
There are many similarities between Paul Zachary Myers and another flaming left wing liberal – William Ayers. They both hate the United States and all its institutions. The bombs thrown by unrepentant terrorist Ayers are eerily similar to those thrown by Myers. They both have no respect for the unborn, the Christian Church, the Constitution and the rule of law generally. They are each associated with an institution of higher learning, The University of Illinois at Chicago and the Morris branch of the University of Minnesota. They are both using their academic affiliation to promote their hideous agendas. I am certain that Ayers, like Myers, also has thousands of devoted fans.
I would especially like to know about the early associations of Myers as we now know about the early associations of his hero Barack Hussein Obama. Perhaps someone who is adept in such matters would investigate Myers’ early associations and communicate his discoveries here.
I am confident that Myers did not arrive at his present condition through intellectual means. It is much more likely that he was “born that way,” destined, “prescribed,” like everything else, to be the hate filled moral terrorist that he continues, day after day, countless thread after thread, to be.
“EVERYTHING is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein, my emphasis.
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
Having gone this far, I might as well let it all hang out.
As I have have earlier stated, I favor two Gods, one benevolent, the other malevolent, one Christlike, the other Satanic. This dualism also characterizes the Christian dogma which has served us well in fostering and regulating Western Civilization over the last two thousand years, a role now profoundly weakened as anyone can plainly see.
It becomes a simple task to sort out figures into these two categories and so I would like to take this opportunity to bring the Satanic category up to date. It must be understood of course that this is a highly personal list with which others may not agree.
These then are some of the “Anti-Christs” as I perceive them to be.
William Ayers
Tony Rezko
Reverend Jeremiah Wright
Barack Hussein Obama
Saddam Hussein (deceased)
Louis Farakkhan
Paul Zachary Myers
Richard Dawkins
Wesley Ellsberry
The first four constitute a natural assemblage based on their intimate past associations and purposes as do the last three.
I love it so!
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein
http://www.overwhelmingevidence.com/oe/node/613#comment-2207
This little hummer is just for DaveScot aka David “I love being right” Springer, boy blogczar and egomaniacal Machiavellian extraordinaire.
I love it so!
http://www.iscid.org/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=6&t=000370&p=98#001473
just posted.
It doesn’t get any better than this.
Yesterday was Halloween and I came to my hangout, Price Chopper’s coffee shop, dressed as a Friar. There was a reason for this which I will now explain. You may not know this but Friar Tuck of Robin Hood fame was actually a thief just like Robin Hood and all the rest of his Merry Men. You see they robbed from the rich and gave it to the poor just like Barack Hussein Obama plans to do.
The reasons that thieves often dressed as Priests was to avoid detection just like Barack Hussein Obama.
Do you know how Friar Tuck got his name? Of course you don’t so I’ll tell you how. Many thieves rode around on horseback in those days just like Barack Hussein Obama. Their priestly garments got in the way so they reached down betwen their legs, grasped the rear hem, brought it forward and upward and tucked it into their belt just like Barack Hussein Obama.
You may not realize this but I am not the first one to identify Robin Hood and his Merry Men as Communist thieves. George Wallace once aptly described Fidel Castro as “The Robin Hood of the Caribbean.”
Today we have a new Communist Robin Hood, poised to become the President of the United States. His Merry Men include Nancy “save the planet” Pelosi, Harry Reid, Joe “botox, hair plug, gaffe a day” Biden, Barney Frank and a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress.
If you thought “Nightmare on Elm Street” was scary, contemplate this nightmare In Washington D.C.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
If Obama is defeated now, I predict he will be unable to hold his Senate seat because, by that time, his hideous past will have finally caught up with him to establish with absolute certainty that he is unfit to hold public office of any kind.
If you have any respect for the rule of law, the dignity of human life and any kind of a future for this great nation, you must vote with me for the McCain/Palin ticket on Tuesday.
Hey John,
This is making me sick, this guy we don’t even know his real name how many alias does he have? I love their policy of trying to make to ransack Palin’s private records but don’t tell anybody about Obam’as past. Hey John what did you think of Ron Howards commercial to support Obama? As you say John “GENETIC TRASH”. People don’t understand these celebrities don’t give a damn about our country or people they are little God’s in their own minds. I turned my cable off seven years ago. Their hasn’t been a descent acted movie since this new Hollywood came to town. People re doing hit movies because they can’t finds anyone who can write a original idea. John/Martin this country needs a do over!!
forgive grammar typing in dark don’t want to wake the little lady.
If Obama can be defeated Tuesday, I predict he will not be able to hold his Senate seat when that comes up because by then his sordid past will have finally caught up with him despite the efforts of the left wing press to supress that history. The man hates this nation just as do two of his mentors, Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers. He is the perfect anti-Christ with no respect for human life or the rule of law. Imagine the executive, the legislature and the judicial branches of our goverenment all at the mercy of Barack Hussein Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Barney Frank and Bernie Saunders, the most radical, powerful and vocal elements of the Democratic party. It will be a nightmare.
Lawrence Eagleburger, George H. W. Bush’s Secretary of State yesterday, in an interview on Fox News, described Barack Hussein Obama as a “charlatan.”
I love it so!
Once again my pedictions have failed.
The American people have placed their future in the hands of the most liberal, the most socialist and the most unAmerican president in the history of the Republic, a man who has no respect for the dignity of life and a man who I believe will ensure our demise as a world power and will preside over our darkest days.
I am unable to trust our future to this man and his ultraliberal colleagues Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Harry Reid and Barney Frank. Imagine what will happen to the Supreme Court as all three branches of government will now succumb to rampant Godless socialism. We are now irreversibly well on our way to what Robert Bork called “Slouching Towards Gomorrah.”
Barack Hussein Obama came to power mentored, abetted and profoundly influenced by three of the most despicable humans ever to walk this earth, Tony Rezko, a Syrian national, slum lord and convicted felon, William Ayers, a flag-stomping, bomb-throwing, unrepentant domestic terrorist and a rabid America-damning, black theology extremist, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, all four denizens of South Chicago, living within a stone’s throw of one another not far from where another “Public Enemy” flourished – Al Capone. As someone so aptly put it, the C in Chicago stands for Corruption!
I do not regard Obama’s associations conducive to preparation for the Presidency. The American people have blindly rejected a great American, John McCain and placed their fate in the hands of a man who has no credentials whatever to qualify him for the most powerful position in the world. I have always regarded him as a danger to the Republic.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
All great civilizations have flourished only then to decay as a result of the affluence that ultimately invariably becomes their greatest enemy. We have already exceeded the two centuries that typify the life spans of most great civilizations of the past.
Unlike David Springer who “loves being right,” I sincerely hope I am wrong. I “hate being right” even as I am convinced, as I am, about our unfettered drive towards our own extinction through the way we have destroyed our physical environment.
Barack Hussein Obama is now on trial. Now we will see the real Obama. I fear he will strip us of our power as an international force for good and, through unbridled centralization of power, plunge us into our darkest days, days from which this once great nation may never recover. I am of the opinion that our best days are far behind us. From here on it is all down hill.
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein
“I hate being right” and pray that I am wrong. We will soon find out.
Don’t be surprized to see Barack Hussein Obama name William Ayers his Secretary of Education. Ayers is a Professor of Education right there in South Chicago at the Chicago branch of the University of Illinois. It is payback time don’t you know.
How about Louis Farrakhan for Secretary of State, Jeremiah Wright for Homeland Security and Tony Rezko for Secretery of the Interior?
I see the Stock Market is already starting its death spiral as Inauguration Day approaches. Merry Christmas!
I recommend that Israel remove Iran’s nuclear capacity before she is abandoned to Obama’s Muslim brethren and secret fund raisers. I don’t believe Obama would raise a finger to protect Israel in a Mideast crisis. When Israel is attacked and she will be, he will urge “restraint” just as he did when Putin invaded Georgia. The man is a menace to this nation.
Welcome to the Great Depression of the twenty-first century, our last. Obama will make the same mistake that Herbert Hoover made. His misguided attempt to save the economy by taxing the source of its strength will surely plunge us into a world wide Depression. If suicidal climate change and violent weather doesn’t destroy us first, the most liberal regime in American history surely will. The combination will be a self induced Hell.
The American electorate has been conned by a man Lawrence Eagleburger had the wisdom and courage to label a “charlatan.” Don’t take my word for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt0FrgAA0cw
Note Eagleburger’s reference to the “Chicago mob.”
As for Obama’s genetic heritage, both his father and his mother, I recommend -
http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr09-03-08.html
Welcome to the end of Western Civilization.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
“I hate being right” and pray that I am wrong.
Incidentally, Obama was elected by a left wing adoring press which has even infiltrated Fox News in the persons of Mort Kondrake and Geraldo Rivera, closet liberals both and both thoroughly enjoying the success of their efforts. Fox news had better stop being “fair, balanced and unafraid” and start doing what I have always done with the Darwinians by being -
“unfair, unbalanced and scared to death of the great big toothless, atheist inspired Darwinian tiger,” the biggest joke in the history of science.
I love it so!
Now just what is anybody going to do about it?
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
I am getting sick and tired of everyone saying we must get behind our new President. I am still trying to find out if he is a natural born American citizen. What we need right now is a rip roaring Constitutional crisis if you ask me. This guy is bad news!
I am delighted to be behind him to kick his ass all the way back to Kenya where his socialist roots originated. He hates this nation and everything it represents just like his sponsor William Ayers and his wife Bernadette Dohrn both do. That is why he willfully absorbed Jeremiah Wright’s hate mongering for twenty years. That became his inspiration to become our President. Obama’s wife is no better. She hates this nation too and has said as much.
As evil as Obama is, God protect him because the prospect of a deranged Biden Presidency, then a heartbeat away from Nancy Pelosi, the “Wicked Witch of the West,” is even worse if that is conceivable. The real horror is what is about to happen to the Supreme Court.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
“I hate being right.”
Since when have lawyers ever made great Presidents? They are trained in deception. What say others?
There is, in George Wallaces’s words, “not a dimes worth of difference” between a Darwinian and a typical Democrat. They are both atheists with little or no regard for human life. They prefer “relativism” to “virtue” and look down on all those who disagree. Liberalism is obviously, like Darwinism, a “born that way,” “prescribed” congenital defect for which there is no present cure and probably never will be. They don’t want to be cured anyway.
“The only true liberal is the true conservative.”
William F. Buckley
Just a thought.
Hi John,
I totally agree with your statement.
Dublin
Keep a gun handy. I do.
I am now wandering around South Burlington dressed as a medieval Friar as a reminder to others that most Friars were criminals who dressed as priests to avoid identification – just like Barack Hussein Obama. He is now the Robin Hood (emphasis on Hood) of this once great nation, dedicated to robbing the rich and giving it to the poor. If the way we have abused our physical environment doesn’t do us in first, “The One” surely will. Welcome to the death of a nation that for two hundred years was a symbol of hope to the rest of the world but never will be again.
I hope I am wrong but doubt it very much.
Barack Hussein Obama’s first priority, in his own words, is to give a “stimulus package” to the middle class, a class he has every intention of eliminating forever. We will soon be a classless society with a Supreme Court dedicated to that same proposition. It is already too late. “Stimulus packages” are like pouring sand down a rat hole as all previous attempts have proven beyond any doubt.
How about a Military Coup led by a great American, General David Petraeus? Sounds good to me! What say others?
http://theautopsy.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/what-will-obamas-socialist-package-be-called/#comment-1688
Just posted at the Autopsy.
http://www.iscid.org/boards/ubb-get_topic-f-6-t-000370-p-100.html
This is especially for David “I love being right” Springer who has nothing but contempt for the environmentalists. Who and what movement does “the one” not treat with contempt?
I love it so!
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_5398.shtml
Louis Farrakhan’s letter congratulating Obama is one of the scariest developments of the post-election period. Can you imagine such a letter addressed to John McCain?
Hang on to your seats and your wallets folks. This is the beginning of the end of the Republic. We will soon be the U.S.S.A., the United Socialist States of America, and the Supreme Court and the Constitution will become useless instruments of the past.
“I hate being right” and pray that I am not. We will soon find out.
Get this folks.
B. Hussein Obama is going to lay a wreath today in honor of our veterans. A man who hates this nation is going to honor those who loved it and died for it.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
There are several similarities between B. Hussein Obama and David “I love being right” Springer. They have both achieved their present position by treating their adversaries and hosts with contempt. They each imagine themselves to be “The One.” Neither has anything remotely resembling a principle. The search for absolute power has been their only goal and in each case they have been successful. Springer now owns Uncommon Descent which began as a decent God fearing weblog. Obama is about to assume the mantle of the Presidency while calling for more “stimulus packages” and further centralization of power in the federal Government. Springer sneers at the notion of supernatural intervention just as Obama sneers at the sanctity of human life. Obama will, as one of his first acts, revoke the ban on embryonic cell research when it is now perfectly clear that is quite unnecessary. If it were entirely up to Springer and perhaps it now is, the word God will never again appear at Uncommon Descent. He even warns his victims to that effect. It is Obama’s purpose to remove God from every aspect of government just as it was removed from every other Marxist regime that ever existed.
They are each power mad atheist ideologues convinced that they and only they are fit to rule their domains. Each is a Godless egomaniacal parasite who has invaded our most treasured institutions with only one goal, unfettered naked power. Each has been remarkably successful.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like hell it is!
http://forums.signonsandiego.com/showthread.php?t=90240
and
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=2392
Paul Broun, Republican Congressman from Georgia, is no crackpot.
I am not alone in my skepticism of B. Hussein Obama’s motives.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=80299
Notice that Mahoud Ahmadinejad has joined Louis Farrakhan in congratulating Obama on his victory. They make a lovely trio don’t you think?
http://theautopsy.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/obama-the-illuminated/#comment-1696
Just posted.
Welcome to the end of a once great nation.
Hey John ,
I thought you would enjoy this, it’s a letter from Chuck Norris to your favorite Obama.
Dear President-elect Obama:
First, congratulations on your victory. The historical magnitude of your presidential win is nothing short of stupendous and a colossal fulfillment of the American dream (an achievement embedded long ago in the equality clauses of the Declaration of Independence).
It’s likely no big surprise that I don’t see eye to eye with you politically. Actually, I stand in stark opposition to most of your politics. Still, I realize that we must learn to work together if we are to see our country get back on track. After Election Day, I asked myself, “How can I work for our new president to help better America?” Then a thought occurred to me. The first question that should be answered is: How will you work for me? After all, “We the People” of the United States employ you, correct?
So here are a few ways you might begin to gain the respect of those who oppose you and to show that your campaign pledges to bridge the divides were not empty promises to get you into office. And these requests I make are based upon the inaugural oath you will make Jan. 20, “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” No doubt these won’t be my only requests through the years, but they serve as a good beginning:
– Use and cite the Constitution. If that constitutional oath (”preserve, protect and defend”) is the central duty of your job description, then I assume we will be hearing often from you about exactly how you are doing just that. There is no replacement for strict adherence, application and defense of the Constitution. And it’s high time that presidents quit reciting the presidential oath tritely and then abandoning its tenets when they enter the Oval Office. You should be quoting from the Constitution publicly as often as a preacher quotes the Bible to his congregation — at least weekly. If you take this oath and challenge seriously, you will limit the powers of federal government, reduce taxes (for everyone), encourage the freedom of religion and expression (even in the public square), and stand up for such things as our right to bear arms. The American public and the government have lost their grip on the content and role of the Constitution, but if you daily choose, you can help to re-educate and model its usage for them.
– Protect American life. Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1809, “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” Those are powerful and enlightening words. Of course, such a role was created and secured in the very fabric of our nation — in the Declaration of Independence. The commitment to protect life should serve as the basis for all you do, even as a foundation for your national defense strategy. I’m sure the first of your secret briefings this past week on our global security threats have opened your eyes to the extensive onslaught of our enemies. Don’t allow your pride, partisanship, personal bias or political abilities to jeopardize the safety of Americans lives. As commander in chief, you are called to preserve American life. Quite frankly, that is why I’m surprised that a man such as you, who professes to fight for minorities, would not recognize the clear value of a human life in a womb. Federal law should not decree the sacrifice of one human life for the preference of another. Both lives should be protected. Otherwise, what do Jefferson’s 1809 words mean? As president, you are called to protect (not destroy) human life; it is the “first and only legitimate object of good government.”
– Lead more from the center. It’s been pointed out by countless pundits, and your track record is clear: You have one of the most liberal records in the Senate. You’ve had the liberty of voting and fighting for an agenda “from the left” as you’ve tried to persuade state and federal lawmakers to do the same. But if you continue to lead our country down a more liberal road, you will follow the peril of Bill Clinton, who stepped into office and initially tried to lift the ban on gays in the military and extend abortion rights, only to prompt the creation of a more balanced and strong Republican Congress in the 1990s. Don’t underestimate the resurrecting power of the conservative voice. You observed in last week’s election how three states across this union voted to protect marriage in their constitutions (the 28th, 29th and 30th states to do so — California, Arizona and Florida).
We will be watching who you choose to be in your Cabinet. We will discern how you lead Pelosi and Reid. We will be observing those you select as candidates for Supreme Court justices. The election is over. No more promises. No more words. You might work well in a team, but this time, you don’t have congressional members to hide behind. You’re on your own — leading the pack — and the whole country is watching. I, especially, am watching. So make sure you lead more from the center.
One of your 300 million bosses,
Chuck Norris
Thank you Dublin.
B. Hussein Obama has no respect for the Constitution, no respect for human life, no respect for the secret ballot and no respect for the rule of law generally. He seeks only one thing – unlimited power for himself. He owes his present position to three of the most despicable creatures ever to walk the earth – Tony Rezko, William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, America haters all.
Long before he entered politics he was profoundly influenced by Communist radicals such as the poet Frank Marshall Davis, close friend of the singer Paul Robeson, who was a strong advocate of the Soviet Union and a member of the Communist Party USA.
His genetic heritage is no better. His mother was an avowed atheist, probably a congenital condition. His father, Barack senior, was a bitter, Harvard educated, alcoholic, polygamist womanizer who, after surviving his first alcohol produced auto accident in which he lost both his legs, finally did himself in with a second attempt.
After Barack senior abandoned his mother, his mother married another loser, another alcoholic who died at 51 from liver disease. He too abandoned Obama’s mother after he sired Obama’s half sister Maya.
With a cultural and genetic heritage like this, what can one expect? Has there ever been such a history for any person who sought and won the Presidency? Not that I can recall.
I have always regarded Barack Hussein Obama as a menace to this once great nation and see nothing in his present behavior to make me change my mind. If I live long enough I will probably end up in one of his concentration camps!
It is no accident that I include Jerome Corsi’s “The Obama Nation” on my list of important books on the side bar. It will remain there.
Just remember -
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein
That includes the forces that made Barack Hussein Obama the President of the United States.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Let us pray.
The healthiest single move that mght reverse our economic woes would be to let Ford and General Motors go bankrupt, be forced to reorganize and this time do it without a union. The Union Movement in this country is now and always was thinly veiled Communism. Their foreign competitors are not unionized are they? Of course that will not happen so long as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Hussein Obama, Communist sympathizers all, especially Obama, control this goverment.
Welcome to the U.S.S.A, the Union of Socialist States of America.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like Hell it is!
http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/lighter-moment-why-richard-dawkinss-anti-god-bus-ad-campaign-would-tank-in-australia/#comments
Here is an hilarious commentary on “There is no God,” which still dominates poor Richard Dawkins fertile imagination. What poor Richard Dawkins will never be able to understand is that it quite unecessary for God to exist. All that is mandatory is that one or more Gods once did. Nobody, including poor Richard Dawkins, knows feces from Farina about Gods anyway. Gods are like that don’t you know.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
like Hell it is!
It doesn’t get any better than this.
I love it so!
I predict that Israel will smack Iran’s nuclear capacity before Bush leaves office. Once Obama is in power, Iran will go after Israel and Obama will urge Israel to practice “restraint” just as he did when Putin invaded Georgia. With his ties to Louis Farrakhan through Reverend Jeremiah Wright, I do not believe Obama is a friend of Israel. I think Obama’s only real friend is himself, a feature he shares with David Springer. That is why Obama’s choice for Secretary of State is very important. I don’t believe it will be Hillary as she is very much a friend of Israel and altogether too rational to represent Obama’s insidious goals in any capacity. If Hillary has any hopes for 2012 she will have nothing further to do with B. Hussein Obama. Of course I could be wrong. I often am.
Another mystery is the role of Rahm Emanuel in Obama’s retinue. Is he really an orthodox Jew? If he is, what is he doing in Obama’s inner circle?
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Hi John,
What are your predictions on Ted Kennedy? Will he confess that he actually pre mediated murdered (Chappaquiddick ) or will he go on living the lie that he just passed out drunk.
Ted Kennedy has enough problems.
Obama’s present position is eerily similar to Hitler’s in the early 1930s. Both were faced with a severely depressed economy and both had convinced the electorate that they had the answers. I am unable to trust this man to lead us out of the present mess in which we find ourselves. We have been conned by a master who learned at the feet of some of the most despicable characters in the history of this nation.
I hope that if Obama asks Hillary Cilnton to be his Secretary of the State, that she turns him down flat. If she has any hopes for 2012 that is exactly what she will do. Obama has no respect for human life, the Constitution or any of the ideals that in the past have made this nation a force for good. He seeks only naked power for himself and will use every means at his disposal to reach that end. I am unable to believe that a person with his genetic and chronological history can be a force for good.
I still believe that if we had defeated him that he would be unable to defend his Senate seat when that time came. He reached his goal with the help of an ultraliberal press that diligently protected the electorate from the truth about a man who I believe hates this nation exactly as did all his mentors. So obviously does his wife who has said as much. I hope that true conservatives will continue to explore and expose his sordid past, especially now that he occupies the most powerful position in the world.
I remain with Albert Einstein a convinced determinist and do not like what I see as determined for the immediate future. I see the end of the United States as a world power and the end of a once great civilization. I see the terminus of what Judge Robert Bork called
“Slouching Towards Gomorrah.” I believe that Barack Hussein Obama will play a key role in that demise.
I “hate being right” and pray that I am wrong.
Here is better suggestion for Hillary. Resign her senate seat, run for the House of Representatives and then replace Nancy “save the planet” Pelosi as Speaker of the House. That would place her just one cocktail party and a couple of Polonium tablets away from the Presidency – a piece of cake!
I love it so!
http://theautopsy.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/obama-lies-broken-promises/#comment-1703
Sounds good to me!
Even Fox News has been conned by B. Hussein Obama. The only person there who has his number is Sean Hannity. That is why Hannity persists in exposing this “charlatan” as Lawrence Eagleburger so wisely characterized him. I have encouraged Hannity to continue his one man crusade. I hope others will do the same. There is no point in trying to communicate with blowhard pansies like Bill O’Reilly, Chris Wallace, Mort Kondracke and Charles Krautzhammer. They don’t have a clue and are only interested in their own egos anyway.
Obama is the most dangerous figure ever to reach the Presidency. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could spit upwind in a hurricane. He has one goal only, to convert this nation to a socialist state, to the U.S.S.A. His present position is very much like Hitler’s in the early 1930s and we all know what happened to Germany.
“The one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.”
anonymous?
http://theautopsy.wordpress.com/the-running-obama-liebroken-promise-list/#comment-1713
my message posted November 17, 2008, 2:55 PM
Obama is already proposing stimulus packages and bailouts both of which are counterproductive. They not only delay the inevitable, they ensure it. His goal is to nationalize everything whatever it takes. He will continue to support the union movement because he knows that will help destroy the economy. A nation with a feeble economy is vulnerable to socialism, his only goal. He is already promising to do these things and he isn’t even President yet. This guy is bad news. The only person at Fox News, the most conservative of the networks, that has Obama’s number is Sean Hannity. The rest of the blowhards there like Mort Kondracke, Bill O’Reilly and Charles Krauthammer still don’t get it about Obama. They are too busy inflating their individual egos with their silly pontifications to realize what is happening.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Tonight Obama repeated his intention to close Guantanamo without explaining where he planned to put the inmates. At the same time he said he will put a stop to all torture, negelecting to define what torture was.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like Hell it is!
If Hillary Clinton becomes Obama’s Secretary of State, she will have committed political suicide. The Clintons should wash their hands of the Obama Presidency if they expect to have any future in politics. They are finished anyway whatever they do. I don’t believe Obama will offer it anyway but with my track record – ??? Who really cares?
I love it so!
Hello John,
I know Martin might have a site but i can’t locate any book in the library on Otto Schindewolf or Leo Berg? Can you point me somewhere?
You can buy both books used and very inexpensive through Amazon.com
Thanks John,
I was on young Cosmos and noticed Barry Arrington’s promotion on UD. Dembski further stated (stay tuned at http://www.EvoInfo.org for a formal announcement). He basically stated he would be putting his papers on this site. John I looked on this site their are only two papers 1. Eytan H. Suchard, “Genetic Algorithms and Irreduciblity,” and 2. P. Borger, “Solving the RNA virus paradox” John why don’t they have yours? Have they just not asked you? Have you dealt with them before.
It doesn’t matter.
I would like to go on the record and say that I totally disagree with these people. I think Dembski and others especially from the Discovery Institute should apologize to you (in writing ) you have been a great source for myself and people like me.
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Thanks.
I don’t want an apology from them. I just want to be able to participate in their proceedings which seems to be quite impossible. The truth is that most weblogs are isolationist, protectionist, intellectual fortresses headed by insecure ideologues and their faithful, “born that way,” servants and followers.
“Birds of a feather flock together.”
Cervantes
That is not all that they do together. They waste most of their time denigrating their enemies, real and imagined, while contributing very little of substance themselves to the ends they claim to seek.
By way of contrast, they are all welcome here but fail to appear. That is what separates this weblog from most of the others. The fact that they fail to appear is the best evidence that they have nothing new to contribute. Isn’t that revealing?
The major difference between Hitler and Obama is that Germany’s economy was already a shambles for Hitler. Obama will have to destroy ours before he can acheive his end which is to destroy our democracy and convert us into a socialist state.
I hate being right and pray I am wrong. We will soon see.
Barney Frank, Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel are already all calling for “stimulus packages” and bail outs, the sure fire kiss of death for an already weak economy.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
“I hate being right and pray that I am wrong.”
There have been no real changes at Uncommon Descent. They still have their “elite authors” including DaveScot / David Springer. The “elite authors” not only are the only ones who can introduce threads, but every word they offer on any other thread at Uncommon Descent is presented against the pristine white background reserved just for the “chosen few.” It is so revealing of the isolationist, defensive posture of the oligarchy that has always dominated Uncommon Descent. Uncommon Descent is no more a forum than is Pharyngula, Panda’s Thumb, After the Bar Closes, EvC or ARN. They all use exactly the same tactics of exclusion and mandatory “groupthink.” Those who fail to conform are soon history.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like Hell it is!
I love it so!
“A past evolution is undeniable, a present evolution undemonstrable.”
That mantra is unacceptable to all factions. That suits me just fine.
For those who do not understand who Dave Scott is here is another one of his admires.
DaveScot is one of the biggest ass-hats over at uncommon descent. He currently is having a huge power trip since Dembski has designated him as a blog moderator. Soon his head will explode. DaveScot admits he isn’t a scientist, and from many of his posts, he obviously isn’t much of anything except a blowhard. His tyrannical rule over at UD is hilarious and he is pissing off a lot of the regs over there. Go check it out and try posting stuff there. See how fast DaveScot bans you.
As you can see Prof. Davidson isn’t the only one who has fallen to his knife.
But unlike DS Prof. Davidson has the utmost respect of thousands I would say. Were DS does not.
Dublin
It doesn’t do any good to complain here.
Try to complain at Uncommon Descent and see how far it gets you. I’ll bet you can’t even register and if you do your comments will never appear.
If I have the “respect of thousands” as you claim, they sure are keeping it to themselves! About all I find is stony silence, total rejection, or foul mouthed contempt from intellectual trash like the garbage that hangs out with Alan Fox at After the Bar Closes, Pharyngula and richarddawkins.net
Check this out for some more contempt directed at me and my friend Martin from the world master of vitriol and denigration, the one, the only – Paul Zachary Myers, probably the most despicable human being ever to host an internet blog.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/plonk.php
Try commenting at Pharyngula too. Good luck!
These internet cess pools play music most pleasing to my ancient ears, ears that have always heard Einstein’s “music of the spheres” loud and clear.
I love it so!
It doesn’t get any better than this.
I see that B. Hussein Obama is warning us that millions of jobs may be lost. What he is not telling us is that is exactly what he WANTS to happen. That way he can nationalize EVERYTHING, his goal all along. “Bail outs” and “stimulus packages” will do the trick, both of which he is pushing.
Welcome to the U.S.S.A. – the United Socialist States of America.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I “hate being right” and pray I am wrong.
You seem to have got another prediction right, Professor. Hillary Clinton has agreed to become Secretary of State.
Maurice Caldwell
I never made that prediction and you know it. Or are you just trying to be cute?
Hillary will be completely neutralized as Secretary of State. Obama could sack her whenever he felt like it and probably will. Why else do you suppose he wants her? Besides she hasn’t accepted yet. I can’t believe she is that stupid. Both Clintons are history anyway. Good riddance.
Hillary’s only hope for the Presidency is to resign her Senate seat, run for the House of Representatives, displace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker; and then throw a party for Obama and Biden to serve them each up with a Polonium cocktail.
Bingo, she’s President!
I’ll bet it has crossed the Clintons’ devious minds!
Meanwhile, Obama is performing according to all my predictions and expectations. His goal is to weaken our economy, to centralize all power and thereby destroy this once great nation by converting it to the U.S.S.A. So far he is making all the right moves and he isn’t even President yet!
“I hate being right” and hope I am wrong.
Sorry, Professor, I misread your remark:
“If Hillary Clinton becomes Obama’s Secretary of State, she will have committed political suicide.”
as assuming she would be.
Do you think the US motor industry should be bailed out?
Of course not. All these stimulus packages and bail outs are part of Obama’s plan to destroy our economy. That is why he is all for them.
“I hate being right”
I doubt if I am wrong.
I predict Obama will not wait for Bush’s tax cuts to expire. He will do everything in his power to immediately repeal them and begin socking higher taxes on the entrepeneurial class. He has one goal which is to convert the USA to the USSA. He is really not much different from Cesar Chavez or Vladimir Putin. It is all about power.
I hate being right and hope I am wrong.
Incidentally, Obama did not “win the election.” It was handed to him on a platter by the left wing press and a stupid American electorate who demanded “change.” They should have opted for “reform” as proposed by John McCain and Sarah Palin.
As for Obama’s history both prenatal and postnatal, I recommend Jerome Corsi’s “An Obama Nation.”
On the subject of geneology Arnold Toynbee offered the following -
“We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.”
Just remember -
“EVERYTHING is determined…by forces over which we have no control.”
Albert Einstein, my emphasis.
Obama is performing exactly as I predicted. He is against school vouchers because he is for the Teachers Unions. He wants to bail out Detroit because he is in favor of Labor Unions generally. His “stimulus package” will be an economic disaster. He will do everything he can to reverse Bush’s tax cuts as soon as possible and will not be in favor of letting them expire. His goal is to place every aspect of the economy in the hands of his government. His projected millions of jobs to repair our infrastructure is reminiscent of Roosevelt’s WPA and CCC, neither of which lifted us out of the Great Depression. It took World War II to do that. Obama is deliberately TRYING to produce another Great Depression and thereby convert this once great nation into a socialist state.
In my opinion Obama is a transparent (like his America hating mentors) socialist who is aided and abetted by an atheist left-wing press and a monumentally gullable electorate.
“We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.”
Montaigne
Incidentally, atheist, left-wing and Darwinian are, for all practical purposes, synonyms. All three are perfectly displayed in the persona of Paul Zachary Myers. They are present in the banner which adorns his daily edition of hate-speech -
“…random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal.”
Aren’t all ejaculations biological? What a “jerk” and I use that word deliberately!
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I hate being right and hope I am wrong but doubt it very much.
I see Hillary is to be Obama’s Secretary of State.
Knowing the Clintons, here is a likely scenario. Hillary waits until Obama does something stupid in foreign affairs like urging Israel to show restraint when she is invaded by Iran or Syria. After all, isn’t that exactly what he did when Georgia was invaded by Russia? Then she will resign in protest and use it against Obama in 2012.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like HELL it is!
I love it so!
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/12/give_bill_oreilly_apoplexy.php#comments
As you can see PZ Myers is still slammimg religion. This time he at least let Bill O’Reilly respond. We all know why Myers is so rabidly anti religious. It is because a planned evolution demands one or more Gods. It is as simple as that.
I love it so!
In the meantime, I gave Alan Fox every opportunity to recant and join with me in exposing the foolishness of the Darwinian model. He stubbornly refused and still pursues me with his disgusting methods wherever I appear. I think he secretly loves old men a lot, a rare congenital condition known as androgeriatrophilia. I feel very sorry for his family. It must be awful for them.
Fox or one of his cronies has been posting comments purporting to be from me or one of the users. I have been deleting them as they occur. The man is TRASH.
Alan Fox continues to disrupt this blog any number of ways. If you find it difficult to comment please understand that he is the reason. It looks as though I may have to prevent comments from appearing until I have approved them. I had hoped that would not be necessary.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/12/lets_hope_the_nightmare_ends_s.php#comments
Here is an interesting thread from Pharyngula. Personally I think President Bush’s comments were right on the money myself. What say others?
I am sure that Barack Hussein Obama is rubbing his Marxist hands with glee with the bail-outs and stimulus packages that are being offered even before he takes office. There should be NO concessions to any element of our economy that can’t make it during this economic crisis. The labor unions are the major obstacle and cause of these failures. They are socialist fronts and should be ELIMINATED but they won’t be under an Obama regime. Of that you can be certain.
I hate being right and am now convinced that I am!
I see another one of Obama’s cronies, Rod Blagojevich, is now in trouble and will probably end up in the slammer. Tony Rezko, another Obama crony and mentor, is already in jail.
The C in Chicago stands for CORRUPTION.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like HELL it is!
Here is my solution to the Illinois Senate seat problem. Barack Hussein Obama should resign as President elect and resume his Senate seat thereby making Joe Biden President in January. If Obama continues and becomes President we will be plunged into a Depression that will make the one of the thirties look like a paradise. He will use his executive power to destroy this once great nation. That is why the auto union is holding out until the inauguration because they know that Obama will support them. Obama has only one goal which is to convert this once great nation into the United Socialist States of America, the USSA.
George Wallace once called Fidel Castro “The Robin Hood of the Caribbean.” We now have a new “Robin Hood,” emphasis on Hood as in “Chicago Hood,” who, like the original, seeks to rob the rich and give it to the poor. George Wallace had another favoriote expression which I will put in quotes. “There’s not a dimes worth of difference” between Castro and Obama. Neither has any respect for human life or the rule of law. They both seek power only for themselves, whatever it takes.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Not any more it isn’t!
As you probably know, Bill O’Reilly frequently identifies what he describes as “Pinheads,” a derogatory term reserved for the bottom of the ethical and moral barrel.
I now identify Rick Warren as “Pinhead of the year.” For Warren to accept the role of offering a prayer for Obama on Obama’s Inauguration is one of the most cynical acts imaginable. Obama has no respect for human life or the rule of law both of which lie at the root of the Judeo-Christian ethic on which this once great nation was founded. This acceptance by Warren puts him in the same category as Jimmy Swaggert, just another egomaniacal, greedy, televangelizing phony. I hope the Protestant Christian right and the Catholic Church boycott Warren from that day forth.
There is now only one way that Rick Warren can redeem himself. He MUST include in his Invocation Prayer a plea to Almighty God that Barack Hussein Obama will immediately abandon his transparently evil intentions to convert this nation into a Godless socialist state devoid of any semblance of what our founding fathers intended it always to be.
Now just what do you suppose the chances are of that occurring?
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like HELL it is!
Hello Professor,
I saw Obama’s scientific picks for the cabinet, I loved a line he said let me quote word for word “Because the truth is that promoting science isn’t just about providing resources — it’s about protecting free and open inquiry. It’s about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology,” he said. “I could not have a better team to guide me in this work.” what do you think?
In principle I have to agree of course. However I doubt very much if anyone is going to be guiding Obama. His only goal is to reduce the USA to the USSA. He makes no bones about as he repeatedly reminds us that the buck stops with him. You watch the stimulus packages and the bail outs multiply the day he assumes office.
The atheist Darwinians will go right on, as they always have, pretending that they have no critics and never did have. And the Christian Fundamentalists will go right on pretending evolution never occurred. And clowns like Myers and Dawkins will continue to attack any perspective that assumes a purpose in the design of the universe. And the Darwimps and the Fundies will continue to attack one another. Trust me or better yet trust Albert Einstein -
“…human beings in their thinking, feeling, and acting are not free but are just as causally bound as the stars in their motion.”
We are all victims in the lottery of life. Some of us have been luckier than others. The real losers are “prescribed” TRASH like Christopher “hiccup” Hitchens, Paul Zachary “godless, randomly ejaculating liberal” Myers and Richard ” blind, mountaineering watchmaker” Dawkins who do nothing but peddle hate. That is all they know what to do because they are, like most pure white cats, congenitally deaf to what Einstein called the “music of the spheres.” It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like HELL it is!
Folks – get this headline – OBAMA SETS CHRISTMAS AS DEADLINE FOR BAILOUTS AND STIMULUS PACKAGES.
Who the hell does he think he is? I hope Bush tells him off. Obama can’t wait to destroy this once great nation.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Not any more it isn’t!
http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=832
So much for Obama’s pick for Secretary of Education. All tyrants have always been terrified of education and Obama is no exception!
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Not any more it isn’t!
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83960
I find this essay most gratifying in that it reinforces my convictions about the purposes and character of Barack Hussein Obama. I recommend this site for a running commentary on the activities of the President-elect.
http://www.theotherrussia.org/2008/12/19/russia-is-being-returned-to-totalitarianism-rights-activists/
Russia is becoming a powder keg.
I see that Barack Hussein Obama is asking Congress to pass his stimulus package even before he takes office. He cannot wait to finish off this already weakened nation. No stimulus plan should ever have been passed. It is suicidal to prop up institutions that have failed. Obama will use every device at his disposal to destroy the entrepeneurial, free market class because he knows that is where America’s strength has always resided. His goal is transparent. It is to nationalize every aspect of the economy, to convert this once great nation into the U.S.S.A. He can only achieve this goal if Republicans and rational Democrats allow him to proceed. The only question is – will they and can they stop him? I am not at all sure that they can. He is the most dangerous, indeed the only really dangerous person ever to become the President of the United States.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like HELL it is!
Obama is now threatening to veto something that Congress MAY NOT DO! Congress may decide not to OK the expenditure of the balance of the bail out money. Who does Obama think he is? Such arrogance boggles my mind. He is so anxious to destroy this already weakened nation that the real Obama is becoming transparent even before the inauguration.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like HELL it is!
I hate being right!
Here is a recent comment by political reporter Helen Thomas that is especially significant with respect to the basic posture of this weblog.
“I was born a liberal. I’ll be a liberal ’til I die”
“Everything is determined…by forces over which we have no control… Our actions should be based on the ever-present awareness that human beings in their thinking, feeling, and acting are not free but are just as causally bound as the stars in their motion.”
Albert Einstein
“Every boy and every girl,
That is born into the world alive,
Is either a little liberal,
Or else a little conservative”
Gilbert and Sullivan, Iolanthe, 1882
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
Like HELL it is!
Paul Zachary Myers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins were born atheists and will be atheists until they die. David Springer was born a bully and will be a bully until he dies, etc, etc. We are each a victim in the lotttery of life. Some of us have been luckier than others.
Our fates were determined long ago and there is nothing that can be done for us. Get used to it as I have. Free Will is an illusion. If Free Will were real, atheism would be inconceivable, Darwinism would have disappeared long ago, the world would be free of strife, wars would not occur, and we would never have destroyed our planet. Reason would have prevailed.
B. Hussein Obama just made a serious blunder by referring to Rush Limbaugh. A cardinal rule in politics is never to mention your opponent by name. Can you imagine Vladimir Putin, another tyrant, mentioning Garry Kasparov by name in a press conference or anywhere else for that matter? Obama is showing just how shallow and spiteful he really is. He is a born to lose loser. You watch his approval percentages drop.
It is hard to believe isn’t it?
I predict that there will be riots this summer both here in the USA and and in Russia, both for the same reason. The citizens of both countries are getting fed up with despots dominating their lives with their tyrannical tactics. It is once again time for revolution and if it does not take place soon it will be too late.