The Gospel Truth

The Big Amen | January 19, 2012

It must be my age because I have been getting more confused lately.

For a long time, I have referred to the book and both  movies,derived from the late Swedish author Stieg Larssons, as The Girl with the Butterfly Tattoo.

Of course everyone knows it is “dragon,” instead of “butterfly.”

If I had butterflies on the brain six months ago, I think my whole body must be permeated with them after viewing Lad Allen’s DVD Metamorphosis: The Beauty &Design of Butterflies.   (Illustra Media Series)  You can get it at: 

www.amazon.com or http://www.metamorphosisthefilm.com/

No, I haven’t developed a sudden interest in entomology.

I had to review it for an interview with the producer for Phyllis Schlafly‘s hour-long syndicated radio program.

It is always an honor for me to sit in for this prominent woman, conservative author and political activist when she is speaking before some large assembly around the country.

The video was marvelous but I had to admit it was a tough sell for a radio program.

From the very beginning I thought this would be a tough interview because the pure natural beauty of the Monarch has to be seen to be appreciated.

How can I show pictures on the radio?

Allen would have been better served on television.

But persevere we did!

I was deeply impressed by the deep and varied complexity of the flittering  creature.

But of course Allen did not appear on our program just to discuss the butterfly by itself but he wanted to talk about it in terms of its scientific and metaphysical relationship with an Intelligent Designer.

I asked him why the Monarch?

He said there were lots of different species to choose from but they had to choose one that they could videotape easily and could track through all of its habits and routines.

They would never have attempted this with the  species that I think is an even better choice than the Monarch and that is the Bengal Tiger.

Allen said they did not want to be eaten by their subject before finishing the DVD.

When you compare the Bengal Tiger and the Monarch butterfly with the sketchy fossil record of Darwinian biologists I think one need conclude that what the left is selling in not scientific truth but a politicized agenda that defines another sector of the centuries-long culture war.

For such a tiny being to have that much detail, both inside and outside, is a visible proof of the invisible God that thousands of scientists have so much trouble in accepting.

The navigational system of the Monarch’s eyes allows them to traverse 2500 miles during their annual migration from the warm climates of the Unites States to the milkweed plants which they need for breeding in temperate Mexico.

This alone is enough to make me wonder aloud how supposedly learned and highly educated scientists cannot not see the handiwork of God or at least some Intelligent Designer at work.

For anyone to say or argue that the Monarch butterfly just evolved randomly is so silly an idea one would be tempted to laugh in the collective faces of this highly educated scientific elite.

The whole notion of Darwinian evolutionary is an insult to our human intelligence.

Why students fail to question it in school or when they are free of the propaganda force of our schools and the power of the grade, they don’t renounce it, is way beyond my understanding.

I told Allen during the program that according to my historical understanding, until the Renaissance, the idea of God, as the creator of the world and the center of the universe, was the central feature in Western Civilization.

It was the humanistic ideas of the Renaissance that relegated God to the periphery of intellectual and cultural pursuits.

This picked up even greater steam during the French Revolution and its aftermath.

The Deism of that period preached a passive God who did not seem very interested in His creatures’ lives.

Like some sort of  sadistic voyeur, He just watches.

As the intellectual elite grew more godlike in its own self estimation, they conspired to get rid of God on earth by killing His servants—His priests and nuns and destroying His houses of worship.

Still He persisted.

One divine faculty they never could explain away was His powers of creation.

His creation was the last stumbling block.

In what might be called supply side biology, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution provided the elite with a scientific lever with which they could remove the creation boulder.

He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, overcoming scientific rejection of earlier concepts of transmutation of species.

By the 1870s the scientific community and much of the general public accepted evolution as a fact.

Even though it was a mere theory, and violated the scientific method that includes observation and experimentation, it is accepted as the absolute gospel truth, and fast became the false idol of the new religion that thousands of skeptical scientists genuflect before.

God was finally, after many centuries eliminated.

He was proven as a non-Person, who need not apply on Christmas and Easter, feast days that are slowly slipping from the American cultural consciousness.

Does that mean there is no God?

Of course not.

All scientists know that nature abhors a vacuum.

As a result millions of their egos are lining up to collectively file as the new god of the universe.

The boundless ego of man is ready and willing to be worshiped and deified.

Millions will bow before them in the public arena and will never question their heterodoxy.

I can hear their Big Amen resounding in college and university classrooms all over America, while God’s statues, relics and icons are being removed like those of a fallen dictator after a revolution.

To me it is nothing more than a discordant choir, clamoring the empty verses of a decaying philosophy that signifies nothing and has been filled with the wet dreams of god-deniers throughout history.

When they have all passed from the earth, God will still be sitting in His architectural seat and taking joy in those who still love Him.

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