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I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I … am … a … man.
(Joseph Merrick)
The 1980 film The Elephant Man chronicled the life of Joseph Merrick, a young Englishman who suffered from the severely disfiguring disease neurofibromatosis. He lived his short adult life as the main attraction in a Victorian freak show that traveled throughout Europe. At one point in the film, he tried to escape the show but was found…..
Admit it. You have committed the evolutionary sin of feeding ducks. Not content to let them forage for their own food you toss them processed bread. Your indiscretion goes even deeper because, annoyed by the bigger, stronger louder ones, you direct your food distribution campaign to the smaller, weaker ducks. Didn’t you get the natural selection memo? You have just violated evolution 101 and showed compassion for a Darwinian invalid. How dare you? You may set the evolution of ducks…..
While atheist-theologian would seem to be a career oxymoron, it is a profession encountered on a surprisingly regular basis amongst the outspoken critics of Christianity. It seems our atheist friends find it necessary to dabble in the “dark art” of theology in order to prove that God doesn’t exist. They believe that by practicing divine psychoanalysis they can help us…..
I am disappointed by the lack of scientific rigor that is applied to Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, a theory that basically states that random mutations (mistakes in genetic replication) are the fuel that drives the evolutionary machine. While proponents claim that it is the natural selection of those mutations that actually makes us winners in this cosmic game of dice, it still…..
I practiced neonatal medicine for 20 years and during that time I noticed that the more I treated disease and saved lives, the more I began to feel like I was a tinkerer in somebody else’s workshop. I didn’t create the factory in which I worked, but I seemed to be reading from its owner’s manual. In medical school,…..
Intensive care medicine heroically rides in on its white stallion to save the day but all too frequently is followed by the callous black horseman of death. The physician who loves the technological toys of neonatal medicine is now confronted with a puddle of toxic emotional mercury they don’t know how to clean up. If evolutionary theory is, “all…..
The gods of Assyria, Babylon, Greece, Egypt, and Rome have all gone under the historical postmortem knife. We have extensive pathology reports documenting their demise. The cause of death – religious natural selection. Interestingly, while these deities decomposed, the one true living God began to take over the world.
Atheists know that religion must be explained so they offer the usual…..
I once heard the great Christian theologian R. C. Sproul quote an atheist friend of his who said, “It is good to be an atheist until it comes time to die.” Atheists feel free during their lifetimes because they’re not beholden to a manipulating deity or a religious institution. The problem is that once they near the ends of their…..
Neo-Darwinian theory tells us that we evolved through a series of random mutations that conferred beneficial traits upon us making us more fit survivors. Unfortunately, the first step in this process is fraught with difficulty. Mutations are mistakes in genetic replication. The cell even recognizes this fact and has mechanisms designed to repair them. This raises two important questions; first,…..
As a neonatologist, I encountered hundreds of babies with developmental abnormalities. The first diagnostic thought that crossed our minds was, “Is this a mutation?” We asked this question because we knew that an abnormality in genetic information processing could be the source of the baby’s malformation. We would then send their blood to the genetics lab to evaluate the DNA for any possible mutations. In my clinical practice, I never saw a good mutation, but I saw plenty of bad…..
