Scientism and the Militant Atheist: The Masked Religion of this Age.

It's no secret that the Christian religion has been--and continues to be--responsible for much human suffering throughout history; however, what is not so broadly publicized, therefore, overlooked by many, including Atheists, themselves, is the human suffering brought about--albeit, more recent history-- by another form of religion: Atheism (see video below)--not to be confused with Agnosticism, the view that the existence or non-existence of any deity is unknown and possibly unknowable--which claims to be anti-religious, despite it's passionate belief system.  I mean, one must ask why was the bloodiest century in history, the most secular century in human history?    That is, of course, the 20th century.

Of course, Atheists, like Richard Dawkins, argue that it wasn't militant atheism that was responsible for so much death and destruction; it was the result of communist leaders such as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Ceausescu, etc. Yet, the enforcement of atheism was a critical requirement for the success of communism, and thus it had to be implemented at all costs. Not to mention, if you're going to argue that millions were killed due to the insanity of a few men, the same argument could be used for all of the human suffering caused by Christianity. An even viscous leader like Hitler only feigned Christian belief, until it was no longer necessary. Hitler's acceptance of the ideas of Nietzsche and Darwin shaped his ideology and allowed him to justify his atrocities in the minds of Nazis and their supporters. In other words, his initial identification with Christianity was strictly a utilitarian move. The same might even hold true for Constantine the Great, well known for being the first Roman emperor to be converted to Christianity, the question remaining, "was his conversion, authentic, or purely political?” Moreover, conversion to Christianity had to be understood in the context of that time. Many early Christians were still polytheists, including Constantine, accepting a Christian God together with their old gods, and that Constantine was seen as a god, and saw himself as a god, and people revered gods not because they were gods, but because gods were "useful". In other words, it's more complex than the black and white issue portrayed.

“The crimes of atheism have generally been perpetrated through a hubristic ideology that sees man, not God, as the creator of values. Using the latest techniques of science and technology, man seeks to displace God and create a secular utopia here on earth. Of course if some people - the Jews, the landowners, the unfit, or the handicapped - have to be eliminated in order to achieve this utopia, this is a price the atheist tyrants and their apologists have shown themselves quite willing to pay. Thus they confirm the truth of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's dictum, "If God is not, everything is permitted." -- Dinesh D'Souza

Like many religious people, there are many atheists who want the world to believe as they do, that all life is an unintended consequence of coincidence, that life exists by mere chance.  This belief  is unsupported by scientific fact, thus, 100% faith based.  Therefore, militant atheism is the orthodox rejection of intelligence in the creation of life, and in physical reality.  Science, or some would say pseudo-science, is their god, because there is no scientific proof that life evolved from nothing, by chance.  Skeptics who advocate a materialistic or atheistic viewpoint can be just as militantly intolerant, authoritarian, and dangerous to society, as any fundamentalist religious zealot of any persuasion.

Some might say, yeah but, unlike Christianity, atheism lacks the organization necessary to exert any kind of influence or power.  Well, on the surface, that might seem to be true, but dig a little deeper and you will find a very well organized group of people, whose arsenal of persuasion and strategic influence is that much stronger due to its apparent non-existence.

On the surface, this might sound preposterous.  How could a few people do battle against the power and wealth of the Christian church?  Well, besides infiltrating the Church and the schools dating back to at least the 1950s, which senate hearing testimony proves,  today, advances in information technology and the proliferation of electronic media have, more or less, leveled the playing field between these two "religions" in the "war of ideas" After all, critics of Darwinian evolution-- Atheist doctrine--are labeled raving lunatics, fundamentalist Creationists or Right-wing zealots, despite the fact that Darwin's theory is based on post-hoc explanation. In fact, the addition of extraneous hypotheses to a theory to save it from being falsified is what saves the Big Bang theory from complete abandonment. Without the creation of black holes, dark matter, dark energy, the Big Bang theory would've died out long ago. Yet, this is what the public schools and mainstream media promote and teach.

The League of Militant Atheists or Goddless was the organization founded by the Bolshevik's regime in 1925 to spearhead its efforts to promote atheism and he presents the League's propaganda, activities, and personnel at both the central and the provincial levels.  Although this organization no longer officially exists, its ideological  followers are very influential and powerful in mainstream academia, and to a large extent control the public's understanding of  science through suppression of alternative theories, and censorship in the name of science dogma. Countless numbers of scientists have paid a heavy price for the heresy of opposing orthodox interpretations of the cosmos, of how life began...for going against the established paradigms, such as the "Big Bang" theory, and/or the doctrine of Darwinian evolution...

Take TED Talk, a nonprofit supposedly devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading", and its recent censorship of Rodger Sheldrake and Graham Hancock because a few militant atheists declared that they were spreading pseudoscience. Not only that, they admit to having a number of dedicated activists working on the most popular online encyclopedic resource, Wikipedia--that advertises itself as a the democratic information editing platform--amongst other popular platforms of information dissemination that aren't always what they seem.  They admitted to it in The Skeptical Inquirer. , one of their publications as well as its British counterpart, the Skeptic.

Don't get me wrong. It's not that atheists aren't entitled to the same rights to free speech as everyone else.  Of course they are.  What I find objectionable is their intellectual conceit...that thay actually think they aren't involved in a religion, and their insidious effort to censor and suppress on the grounds that it denies scientific evidence, especially when they know these resources are used by the majority of young and non-skeptical readers.

Today, everyone has been indoctrinated taught to believe that enlightened modern man's knowledge is based on objective science and dispassionate secular reasoning, freed from religious superstitions.  But true science does not affirm nor reject any theory out of hand, but, instead, first carefully, and impartially, examines all available evidence before jumping to conclusion.  True science does not suppress or censor  dissenting viewpoints and voices.

That said, the establishment paradigm has conquered the physical sciences of astronomy, physics and biology, and has dug its heels in universities and lower schools everywhere. Questioning and/or non-acceptance of these paradigms is equivalent to career death for scientists.  So, it appears mainstream science is merely a veneer that masks a very powerful religion.

Martyred in the USSR is a documentary about militant atheism in the former Soviet Union. It tells the personal, emotional and horrific story of what people went through simply because they chose to cling to their faith, even at the risk of death. It did not matter what religion you practiced, if you believed in God in the USSR you were persecuted, and persecuted brutally. From 1917 to 1990 people of faith were shot, executed, thrown in the gulag and left to die because the Soviet Government hated religion. What makes this story extremely important is that the new generation in Russia knows nothing about their past and will deny that the brutality ever happened.

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U.S. Ruling Class and the Expendable Class

Whether it's Paul Ryan showing up uninvited to clean already clean pots and pans at a homeless shelter, or the military and/or SWAT teams hunting the homeless for target practice, or the extensive toxic experimenting on the homeless, African Americans, and the lower-income, inner-city folks , revealed recently, or the overwhelming percentages of people from the lower socioeconomic strata behind bars for non-violent offenses, or the overwhelming number of minority poor awaiting execution,  it's clear how America's "naturally selected" cultural, political and socioeconomic ruling class regard  the lower class: expendable, disposable, nonessential, replaceable, unimportant, and only useful insofar as they function as lab rats to further their own interests...to quench their insatiable appetite for profit, power and privilege.

Just recently, it was reported that potentially deadly human experimentation is taking place this very day – sanctioned by the U.S. government! That's right. Illegal human experimentation by the EPA for the purposes of determining the effect of poisons is taking place right now. And let's not forget that 40-49% of homeless men are veterans. That's the thanks they get for fighting the wars that  line the already lined pockets of the rich and powerful.  That is, those who survive bloody combat.

The aforementioned examples are only a drop in the bucket.   Dig deep enough and one could fill an encyclopedia with cases illustrating the attempt by the "naturally selected" to dehumanize the portion of the population who were not born into, or have not "achieved" worldly success.  In other words, those "unfortunates", who were not naturally selected to become gods upon the earth. Because that is exactly how the ruling class see  themselves--as gods, or emerging gods. 

"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.” -- Albert Einstein

Of course, none of this is new. Not at all. However, there is no doubt that as the wealth becomes more concentrated in the hands of the few, and technology continues to replace human beings in the workplace, and elites have no allegiance to anything but chasing the highest returns and cheapest labor around the globe, an ever-increasing number of us join the ranks of the easily sacrificed.

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Darwinism: A Theory to Justify the Exploitative Crimes of the Ruling Class?

Believe it or not, The Origins of Species By Means of Natural Selection or Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, by Charles Darwin was not the first time a proposal for the diversity of life included an evolutionary explanation. In fact, evolutionary concepts about life date as far back as 5,000 years ago. 

According to the 4,000 year old Babylonian text, Enuma-Elish, life first appeared spontaneously in water and then evolved  one species from one another. Many years later, the myth of evolution found fertile ground in  Ancient Greece. Some Greek philosophers, calling themselves "materialists", accepted only the existence of matter and counted matter as the original source of life. Consequently, they resorted to the myth of evolution, inherited from the Sumerians, to explain how living beings came into existence.

Much later, in 1803, Jean Baptiste Lamarck gave a detailed account of the theory of evolution. From there, in 1859, Darwin published his theory of evolution which is basically a more detailed account of the Sumerian myth. Nevertheless, his theory gained political momentum because it provided a "scientific" basis for the ruling class to this very day.

The fossil record revealed that things did not under go an evolutionary process from primitive to the complex. Even things that lived hundreds of millions of years ago possessed the same complex structure of their counterparts living today.  There was no trace of transitional forms that Darwin assumed to have existed, and were supposed to link one species to another. Biochemistry revealed that life was too complex to have emerged by chance.

According to Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box:

"Highly sophisticated molecular machines control every molecular process. Thus the details of life are finely calibrated and the machinery of life enormously complex... The simplest self-sufficient cell has the capacity to produce thousands of different proteins and other molecules…synthesis, degradation, energy generation, replication, maintenance of cell architecture mobility, regulation, repair, communication…All of these functions take place in virtually every cell, and each function itself requires the interaction of numerous parts.”
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A child can die because of a single defect in one of the many machines needed for taking protein to the lysosome. A single flaw in the cell’s… protein transport pathway is fatal. Unless the entire system were immediately in place, our ancestors would have died. Attempts at a gradual evolution are a recipe for extinction”.

In 1871, Darwin went on to write The Descent of Man, claiming man evolved from apes without evidence to back it up. Moreover, he claimed certain races of human beings - Caucasians - were more evolved than others, suggesting further, that the less evolved races would eventually be totally annihilated.  After all, life was based on a bloody struggle between the weak and the strong.

The Piltdown Man Fake: The Greatest Forgery of the 20th Century

In 1912, Charles Dawson discovered Eoanthropus dawsoni, the "Piltdown man" giving credence to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Of Dawson's discoveries, 38 were found to be fakes.  In 1953, a scientist named Kenneth Oakley examined the Piltdown man and discovered the jaw of an ape had been attached to a human skull.  One of his partners was none other than Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who in turn, really pushed evolution on the Catholic Church.  Teilhard would go on to work in China and take part in the Peking man discovery, a collection of would be missing links – 175 fossil fragments - that mysteriously disappeared in 1941 before anyone could fully examine them.

Darwin's theory provided the foundation for a ruthless ideology (Communism, Nazism), that humanity could be exalted through struggle and violence, to leaders and thinkers, such as Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Tse Tung, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.

Engels, after finishing Darwin's book, wrote to Marx: "Darwin, whom I am just now reading is splendid." In response, Marx replied: "This is the book which contains the basis in natural history for our view."

In a nut shell, Darwin's theory lacking a scientific basis has generated nothing more than a dark legacy to humanity.

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The DNA Enigma

As the evolution war rages on 200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin, it's important to note that the media has confused a fundamental issue, according to Dr. Stephen Meyers, author of Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, and that is, Intelligence Design (ID) theory is not based on theistic belief. Rather, just like evolution, ID is also based on science.

"They’ve confused the evidence of the Intelligence Design (ID) theory with the implications of the ID theory. The theory may well have implications that are supportive of theistic belief, but the theory is not based on theistic belief. It’s based on the discovery of digital code in cells, miniature machines in cells, the fine-tuning of the laws of physics and chemistry and standard ways of scientific reasoning about the remote past and the history of life."

Both theories are based on what we know about the cause and effect structure of the world, on Darwin's own method, and applying that method to evidence that Darwin did not yet know about, which reaffirms the case for design based on the discoveries of modern biology.

Why is this important?

Because the knowledge landscape has changed considerably since Darwin, as the information age has come to biology. This has illuminated the complexities of DNA - "double helix" structure of DNA which carries our genetic code - which has raised questions that scientists and evolutionary theory cannot begin to answer. For example, explaining the origins of the information and the amazing depth of digital technology found in each and every living cell: "nested coding of information, digital processing, distributive retrieval and storage systems, hierarchical filing system, design patterns or design logic executed with engineering elegance, and genomic operating systems." Not to mention the calculation of the probability of a protein assembling itself from its units is infinitesimally small.

And most importantly, pre-biotic natural selection presupposes information, but where did that information come from? Darwin did not address this question.

We know that proteins (peptides, enzymes, hormones, transmitters, etc.) are analog. It is a digital to analog conversion as the digital information on the genome is read as words to provide the instructions to make a particular protein.

On the other hand, DNA is digital, in that the genetic instructions in a biological cell, are coded as a language using the four nucleotide bases or characters (A, T, G and C) as an alphabet. This four-letter alphabet is used to make sentences of three letter words. which are called codons. DNA can form digital strings of information because the four nucleotides can be linked to each other in any order.

What is DNA enigma? Or the origin of the biological information necessary to build the first living cell?

What, who, how is/are the characters sequentially ordered?

Claude Shannon an engineer and mathematician, known as "the father of information theory"defines information in statistical terms as a measure of improbability, the more improbable a sequence is, the more information it conveys. The top string of characters in the image (left) illustrates complexity, and conveys more information, however the bottom string, is an example of what William Dembski called specified complexity, which enables that sequence to carry or convey functional information.

The specificity of shape in the protein derives from specificity of sequence in amino acids which in turn derives from specificity of sequence of information, the instructions, the digital code stored along the spine of the DNA molecule. In other words, the arrangement of characters matter.

Dr. Meyers uses magnetic letters on a magnetic chalk board as an analogy to what's going on in the DNA molecule. The backbone of the DNA molecule corresponds to the magnetic chalkboard, the nucleotide bases or characters correspond to the magnetic letters. The magnetic forces of attraction at work that bond the letters to the chalkboard operate much the same way when nucleotide bases stick to the backbone in a DNA molecule. However, the magnetic forces of attraction do not explain the sequential order or arrangement of the characters in both the DNA molecule and the magnetic chalkboard.

In other words, it's not the chemistry or physics that produces the sequences that conveys the instructions, it something extraneous to the physics and chemistry of the system, and that extraneous something remains a mystery.

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