"Bully Pulpit-Priests of Bio"
(In Darwin's Metaphysics Class)
or
("Zalmunna* Storms the Pastureland")
"O God, do not keep silent;
be not quiet, O God, be not still.
See how your enemies are astir,
how your foes rear their heads.....
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and
Zalmunna,
who said, 'Let us take possesion
of the pasturelands of God.' "
(Psalm 83:
1,2....11,12)
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"The universe cares nothing for us. Humans are nothing even in
the evolutionary process on earth. There is no ultimate meaning for humans."
--William B. Provine, Prof. of Biological Sciences, Cornell University
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"Secular education really means that everybody shall make a point of
looking down at the pavement, lest by some fatal chance somebody should look
up at the lamp. The lamp of faith that did in fact illuminate the street for
the mass of mankind...was not only a wandering fire seen floating in the air
by visionaries, it was also for most people the explanation for the post. If
a low cloud like a London fog must indeed cover that flame, then it is an
objective fact that the object will remain chiefly as an object to be bumped
into. I am not blaming anybody who can only manage to regard the world in
that highly objective light, even if the lamp-post appears as a post without
a lamp, and therefore a post without a purpose, it may be possible to take
different views of it. The stoic, like the tramp, may lean on it, the
optimist, like the drunkard may embrace it, the progressive may attempt to
climb it, and so on. So it is with those who merely bump into a headless
world as into a lampless post, to whom the world is a large objective
obstacle. I only say that there is difference, between those who know and
those who do not know what the post is for." ---GK Chesterton
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"Dogmatic defenders of Darwinian evolution rely on distorted
evidence and theological arguments to promote an anti-religious philosophy,
yet they claim that theirs is the only viewpoint that can be legitimately
taught---at taxpayer expense---in science classrooms."--Jonathan Wells
"Bully Pulpit-Priests of Bio"
(In Darwin's Metaphysics Class)
or
("Zalmunna* Storms the Pastureland")
The school has punished Johnny
For the T-Shirt that he wore.
It read: "Jesus Saves the Sinner!"
And that made some people sore.....!
Johnny's shirt was too offensive.
They expelled him for a week.
He abused the tender psyches,
Of "The Naturalism Clique"
So they sent him to "The Office"....
Then "The Office" sent him home,
Where he did "The Gulag Grovel"
To adjust his chromosomes.
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Little Johnny learned his lesson;
He repented of his crime;
Seven days in isolation....
In his room while serving time.
But he's back now in the classroom,
Taking notes most rev'rently,
And in cowering submission...
Learning truth to set him free
He's aware of his transgression...
The awful Sin his shirt expressed;
(Johnny's 'type' we must watch closely
to be
sure they do confess...)
He apologized profusely
For his impropriety;
And he begged to be forgiven
By those of High Authority.
Still Johnny's on 'probation'...
(Re-education here's the key.)
He must renounce his error...
And perverse insanity.
His rehab won't be easy...
(Washing brains is quite a chore!)
But Naturalism's "Cleansing Methods"
Are improving more and more!
Now he listens to his Teachers,
Priests of Bio-101....
Entry-level Metaphysics
To undo the damage done.
Bully "Pulpit-Priests of Bio"
Impart the "Macro-Evo-Mass";
Johnny's paying close attention,
In Darwin's Metaphysics Class.
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Johnny learns he's former "pond scum",
He learns his family swung in trees,
He's learning nothing really
matters....,
And there is no God to please.
He
learns life is just a crap shoot,
With no meaning in the end...
That we're Fancy Flukes of Nature...
And there's no such thing as "Sin".
He learns that baby
seals are sacred,
But baby humans may be trash,
That there's no "higher purpose",
And that life's a mindless dash.
Johnny's learned there is no reason
Why we're all just waiting here;
And he's learned it doesn't matter...
"Bio-Priests" have made that clear!
Yes, Johnny's learned his lesson....
And he's learned it
very well.
Now he's super-educated
With this knowledge....
Straight from hell.
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Johnny's got another T-shirt,
Issued to him just today!
It's the "State-Approved" edition.
Johnny's old one?....Thrown away.
Johnny wears the new one
proudly!
With Nietzsche-Knowledge in his head....
On the front....the bust of Darwin,
And the back says:
"God is Dead."
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Lord, your pastureland we've conquered**.....
Ha!...We've claimed it as our own!
(Faithless Fools of Humanism,
Wand'ring sheep without a home.)
But, Lord, you are the Shepherd!
Help us heed the Truth we've heard!
Remind us that This Pasture
Was created by your
Word!
Please forgive us, Lord...Have mercy!
Rebel sheep are up in arms!
We all fell for The Temptation
....and the world's beguiling charms.
"Human reason is a wonderful instrument if it is grounded in reality,
but the instrument is just as good for rationalizing as it is for
reasoning. Reason cannot provide its own premises because its main tool is
logic. Logic tells us how to get from premises to conclusions but not how to
know which premises to rely on. If we try to derive our ultimate premises by
reasoning from other premises we make ourselves captive to circular
reasoning. If reason is to be a reliable guide, it must be grounded on a
foundation that is more fundamental than logic and that provides a basis for
reasoning to true conclusions about ends. Instrumental reason is not enough.
That is why the fear of the Lord is not the beginninng of superstition but
the beginning of wisdom." --Phillip Johnson
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"Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. He said:
'Who is this that darkens my counsel with words
without knowledge?......
'Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation?
Tell me if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions?
Surely you know!......' " (Job 38:
1...4,5...)
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"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' "
(Psalm 14:1a)
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* "Zalmunna" in the Hebrew means
"shade denied". He was one of the
Midianite leaders destroyed by Gideon ("feller of trees")
in Judges Chapter 8. "....In the end, those who insist upon "taking
possession of the pasturelands of God"....no matter what the period of history
may be...will always be exposed to the glaring light of truth and eventually be
defeated."
** Psalm 83: 11,12
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