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Essays

"Ashtar's Lucky Mudders"
             
or
("Macro-cadabra Fantasy")

"Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and cut down their Asherah poles. Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is jealous, is a jealous God."  ---(Exodus 34: 12-14)   


"When she heard the news that the ark of God had been captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she went into labor and gave birth....She named the boy Ichabod saying, 'The glory of God has departed'..." (1 Samuel 4: 19b...21a) 

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"The concept of a Creator God interferes with our sexual mores. Thus we have rationalized God out of existence. To us, he has become nothing more than the faint and disappearing smile of the cosmic Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland." --Sir Julian Huxley

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     "You first see the Tree when you come through the Oasis and you know it has to be The Tree..." --Mary Rolfe ( self-proclaimed "Pansophist" describing the wonder of seeing Disney World's tribute to Macro-Evolutionary Theory, The Animal Kindom's "Tree of Life")


"Ashtar's Lucky Mudders"
             
or
("Macro-cadabra Fantasy")


Remove your shoes, son....
    Show some reverence.
Shhh!...
    This is where it all began!
Bow your head and tip-toe softly
Around this "Tree of Life", young man.


Take a deep breath, ...
   It's just Awesome!
Behold! Life's Holy Sacred Tree!
'Twas rediscovered, lad, by Darwin,
(But looks like Ashtar's Pole, to me!)


Today it's catalogued and studied,
Poked and stroked now endlessly....
Mother Oak of All Creation,
For Rising Saps! .....Fertility!


Today we call it Flawless Science,
'Cause Science like this can't be wrong!
If you're smart, son, you'll keep quiet...
If you're wise, ...
     Just play along.


Way down here...
     See, at the bottom?
Where the Trunk springs from the Earth,
Science-Priests call that "Ground Zero",
Where by Chance The Zoo was birthed.


Just one Itsy-Bitsy Microbe,
An Eentsy-Teentsy Protoplast,
That appeared...Alive! ....from nowhere!
It's Mama?....
Random Natural Gas.

They're not sure how that all happened,
But they're convinced that it's all true!
Maybe lightning struck a puddle?
BIG BANG! plus Time.....
     Turned into you!"

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They figured that out when they studied
Peppered Moths well-camouflaged,
That some guy glued to a tree trunk...
A Priestly Science Decoupage.

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Ashtar's now been Resurrected!
Come dance around her Sacred Pole!
Bough before her.....
   What's your pleasure?
Ahhh! ...Pagan Rites from days of old!


See Lab Dancers in High Places,
The Sacred Groves of Evo-Priests,
Conjure up their Evo-Magik...
Macro-cadabra !.........
Evo-Beasts!


Son, ...We're truly Lucky Mudders!
Watching Priests wish clay to life!
(Kinda sounds like an Old Story
About a Man... and Eve, his wife.)

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Yes, that's Darwin's "Tree of Life", son.
Disney World's the place to be!
Sacred Grove of Mick and Minnie...
The Magik Kingdom's Fantasy!


Look more closely in those branches...
Look way up high...most carefully.
See!? There's Goofy chasing Pluto!
And Tinker toying now with Smee!

But never mind those odd distractions!
It's really REAL, son,...
  It's all true!
This Disney-Darwin Tree's fantastic!
(And meanwhile.....
    Ashtar beckons you!)


Look!!  My Word!
......The Headless Horseman!
Did you see him wink and nod?
He's no Airhead!...
......He loves Darwin!..
And right behind him?....
Ichabod!

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There! Voila!...... Your Science Lesson!
Ain't Macro-Evolution neat!?
Magik Kingdom's Lucky Mudders!
By Time and Chance...
...We're made complete!

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So, God's Glory's now departed...
Sunk deep beneath the sediment.
Mankind's really nothing special ...
Fortuit-US...
Mere accidents!


There's no Plan, Design or Purpose...
Darwin's Creation Myth still stands.
See that Grin up in the branches?.....
.......The Cheshire Cat in Wonderland.

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Lord, when hearts are born in darkness,
Should we really be surprised...
That we would hide from our Creator,
And shun your Word for Ashtar-Lies?


Lord , we thank you for Your Mercy,
Your Tree of Life... the Rugged Cross,
And the Grace You shed upon us...
Forgiveness at such awe-full cost!


    "Since scientists can never prove a particular scenario of human evolution...All these trees of life with their branches of our ancestors, that's a lot of nonsense." --Mary Leakey


     "[evolutionary naturalists]...have not a well-supported scientific theory but a form of magic that masquerades as scientific theory...This form of magic is the view that something can be gotten from nothing...The transformation of nothing into something may involve minor expenditures of effort. For instance, the magician may need to utter 'abracadabra' or 'hocus pocus', likewise the Darwinian just-so stories that attempt to account for complex, information-rich biological structures are incantations that give the illusion of solving a problem but in fact merely cloak ignorance....We have become so accustomed to this something for nothing way of thinking that we no longer appreciate just how deeply magical it is." --Prof. William Dembski (mathematician/ philosopher, Baylor University)

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    "It is absurd for the evolutionist to complain it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything."--GK Chesterton

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     "In the beginning God...." --(Genesis 1: 1a...)

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