Love affairs and supergerms
Love affairs and supergerms
[Love affairs and supergerms by Robert Doolan] "Love is
blind, the old saying goes. Love is kind, the Bible says. Love is unkind,
unfaithful, devious, adulterous, and treacherous ... but it's supposedly all OK
because, according to an article in TIME magazine, evolution has made people
that way (TIME Australia, August 15, 1994).
In a deplorable example of where belief in evolution can lead, author Robert
Wright has turned wrong into right by mustering 'evolutionary psychology' to
explain infidelity, polygamy, dumping your spouse, promiscuity, and lechery. We
have simply 'evolved' to be that way, he says...
Tragically, the unfaithfulness which Wright's 'evolutionary psychology' seems to
condone brings heartbreak and agonizing emotional distress. Lying to, and
cheating on, your partner involves more than just self-centredness and lack of
self-control. It wrecks lives, punishes innocent children, produces illegitimate
babies, costs millions of dollars in counselling, legal and other fees, and
allows sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS to flourish.
The Bible has admirably superior advice. Marriage is to be monogamous, faithful,
loving and kind. The children are to be loved, taught right from wrong,
disciplined when necessary, and taught to be godly, so they too will eventually
raise loving and godly children. If the Bible's injunction of one man for one
woman was followed by all, sexually transmitted diseases would be virtually
wiped out (you can't spread them if you don't get them).
Continuing its wearisome and predictable promotion of evolution, TIME ran a
story a few weeks later about deadly bacteria, viruses and 'supergerms'
(September 12, 1994). It told readers that the nine most deadly diseases kill
more than 15 million people each year. This 'killer germs' article said older
diseases like tuberculosis are 'rapidly evolving into forms that are resistant
to antibiotics.' The article specifically challenged 'anti-evolutionists' to
note that microbes' resistance to antibiotics 'is a textbook case of Darwin's
theory in action...'
...The problem with this 'evolving resistance' idea is that it is scientifically
wrong...
Most such 'textbook' cases involve an antibiotic's killing all but a few
microbes. It doesn't kill those few because they already have resistance to the
antibiotic—so when they breed, the next generation of microbes inherits this
resistance, and a whole population of resistant microbes arises. A new drug is
needed to knock these out. A few may again be resistant, so the cycle continues.
No evolution has taken place, because the microbes were resistant before they
encountered the antibiotic.
The occasional case in which a mutation causes such resistance to arise does not
prove microbe-to-man evolution. Mutations do not give a microbe more information
to build itself into something else. Such accidental copying mistakes tend to
cause defects, which can occasionally cause resistance. For example, a bacterium
with a defective cell wall pump may not be able to absorb a poison easily.
Past-President of the French Academy of Sciences, Pierre-Paul Grassé, has
pointed out that 'mutations do not coincide with evolution.'
Microbes can reproduce so quickly that the equivalent of millions of years of
evolution should have been observed in, say, Staphylococcus and Escherichia coli
bacteria—yet they are the same today as when first described by Robert Koch last
century. No evolution has taken place. In fact, some species of microbes are
recognizable as microfossils from rocks claimed to be billions of years old.
Evolutionists can't have it both ways—claiming rapid evolution where resistance
to antibiotic drugs is concerned, yet remaining unchanged over vast time-spans
where fossils are concerned.
Huge amounts of money are being squandered on useless evolutionary research,
such as studying apes' reproductive organs and using a leap of logic to claim,
erroneously, that this somehow means humans are programmed to be unfaithful. If
this money were used on basic medical research, minus the evolutionary
assumptions, perhaps science would be further advanced in treating those major
killer diseases TIME."
Love affairs and supergerms Doolan.
Response to comment [from an atheist]: "Are you posting all these articles from AiG for any particular reason, or do you just want to share?"
Laura Ingraham spoke about "supergerms" (which are not super at all) on her program yesterday. I thought the message was timely even though this is an older story. TOLers have not discussed this subject specifically to my understanding.
I like these bite sized reminders that old-earth and evolutionary ideas are a house of cards. Dr. Gary Parker said: "after three years of trying to 'prove evolution' to skeptical professors in his science department...[he] finally realized that the scientific evidence we see in God's world agrees with what we read in God's word."
They say repetition is the mother of learning. I've read so many of these creation books that I'm starting to get it. :idea:
We live in a culture that thinks like the Greeks. Do you know that they boasted about infanticide? We believe that we are intellectually superior but we've lost the foundations of faith. I believe those foundations can be restored by reading and understanding the book of Genesis.
"Are they paying you to spread the word, or are you doing it out of the kindness of your heart?"
Paying me?! It cost God everything to save me. I could never repay that debt (Ro 5:8). Our labor is one of love and most of us aren't too good at it. The cultists do more for a lie than we do for the truth.
"...or are you doing it out of the kindness of your heart?"
I wouldn't trust my heart as far as I could throw it (Jer 17:9). I bet you like that image.
"...And give me a straight answer for once in your worthless life!"
Right, but for some reason God still loves us (Job 7:17; Ps 8:4).
Response to comment [from a Satanist]: [Granite quote 10:42am, deleted] "Hey, SD: Why don't you try having a love affair some time? You'll be a lot happier."
By love you mean lust no doubt, Satanist. :vomit: You've got no raw materials of your own. You must pervert and invert the real deal (Rom. 1:24–32).
Response to comment [from an atheist]: "Yes, God loves you and everyone else thinks you're a tremendous pain-in-the-neck."
"...There is much of Him [Christ] that millions and millions of 'little Christs', all different, will still be too few to express Him fully. He made them all. He invented--as an author invents characters in a novel--all the different men that you and I were intended to be. In that sense our real selves are all waiting for him (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity pg. 225)."
