The Gigantic Conspiracy of "Intelligent Design"

What would you say if I said that “Thom Hartman is more psychologically disposed to be a creationist than I am”.   One thing about me is that- - I look at something and like most people go for the immediate explanation.  For instance if I see a lot of right wing hysteria in the country my initial impulse is to say “Well there must be some issue or issues that is pushing or driving the public opinion on this one”.   But Thom Hartman says “This is not some adaption of some (politically) environmental issue that is in some way “reactive” to some stimulus.  As a scientist, this is the way they reason.  But Hartman sees “Intelligent design” in the current prevalence of the tea party and points to some unseen “master architect”.   That is this hysteria - - like creation - - did not just spontiously arise- - it was the result of some “Intelligent design process”.   So Hartman points to Jude Waninsky and Paul Warwick, and Lewis Powell - - as forerunners from 35 years ago - - .    If you look at an outboard motor you see intelligent design.  FORM of matter shows - - intelligence of design in many cases.  Some would argue that things were “created” in a form for a said “function”.   It helps if you have something created in a certain FORM that this form is that way to fulfill a function.  I have told you how you have causality in Citizens United leading to a 2010 congressional republican victory- - leading in turn to gerrymandering.   This in turn makes democratic recaptures of the House more difficult.  You see intelligent design in rich donors going after local offices like district attorneys and AG’s and you also see how criminal involvement such as Chris Christie and Scott Walker are involved with - - spurs their election which insures a further entrenchment of tea party power- - and packing the court with right wing Justices insures that if you DO cheat in a political campaign, you won’t have to account for it.  You see intelligent design in putting right wing talk show hosts irrespective of whether or not they are popular or advertisers flee these shows in droves.  Hence you see a situation on right wing stations like Clear channel that is immune to the normal market forces that would serve as a check to power of anyone else.  And - - many times you need a lot of things to take place simotaniously for something to work, like a well executed criminal conspiracy.  You need some Force to call the shots and to communicate with each of the component parts - - like a coach on a baseball team.  But suppose you have all the key links in an operation save for one.  Randy Rhodes has said “A military unit is only as strong as its weakest link”.  Suppose one decides they “Want to be a Christian”.  We aren’t debating the merits- but I’m just using this as an example.  Now hypothetically the guy could say “OK- - I’ve read Evidence that Demands a Verdict” on the Bible, I’ve cut out booze, I’ve cut out cigarettes- - - Sex?  Well - - I’m still praying about that one, but I accept Creationism- - and I’m ready to be a Christian.  I’m not doing it out of any false motive or purpose to manipulate”.    This guy - - still lacks one thing.  This is “Having been chosen by God to begin with”.  You can have all the right “design specifications” but the trouble is - - even if in your eyes you see no reason why you’re not qualified- - - if God has not also provided some Function - - for you - - as a Christian - - all you have is a design without a function - -  .  And I might remind you that cell DNA is not psychic.  Once you have a living cell – or “Once you have confirmation from God that yes you belong in the Christian church” then you can build on THAT.  But if you have no Cell to begin with- - there is no means of “replicating success”.   Because the first replication has not occurred yet.   So it’s not a question of “survival of the fittest” because there is not yet Life to begin with to either have a successful or unsuccessful “mutation” to carry on the analogy about God’s intervention in your life is some sort of “positive mutation” and if it’s truly from God, God will honor you for that.

I now have to be back solidly in the creationist camp, not that I was ever out of that camp.  But that “Cosmos” thing had raised a few doubts.  These issues were the first ones addressed in the movie.  Sure you can have natural selection, and survival of the fittest.  Darwin noted it with the many types of finches on the island, and different length beaks for various types of seeds, but most of Darwin’s work (time) was spent theorizing, and only four or so years were spent in actual research- - and he never returned to that island off the coast of Ecuador.  But there is this basic property called “Irreducable complexity” where they talked about flagellum - - and this mechanism that enables it- - and how so many cellular mechanisms - - like rhibosones used to replicate DNA are like machines or factories- - and so the machine design analogy- - so successful employed in the last movie- - was also employed in this one.  Of course the RNA kind of unzips the DNA and is the messenger that helps form the new DNA cell.  But the DNA is only instructions for the protein and not the protein itself.  Of course there are twenty two amino acids and each of these are highly complex.  It’s like its own alphabet and shaking out scrabble letters to form lines in Shakspherian plays like “To be or not to be - that is the question, whether it is nobler to - - “ ect.  It would be equivalent to hundreds and hundred pages of text to get the right building blocks to form these amino acids.  These chemical components don’t just come together spontaneously as though some “Chemical attraction” process is at work, any more than a woman has a magic vagina that can tell if the sex was from rape or from an ordinary encounter.  Clearly the DNA are instructions to build the amino acids and from thence, the highly complex proteins.  And in the construction of these complex protien, the cell searches out specific amino acids to be used at each step.  Keep in mind you can have all of the parts for something - like something as simple as a mouse trap.  But you still have to have at least some ability to be able to put the component parts together.  It must be done in steps, and in the right order.  The foundation must be secure before you construct the rest of the house.  You put in the electrical wiring in and such, before you slap on the plaster and seal up the walls.  But I wanted to talk about this idea of irreducible complexity.  To me this concept of "irreducable conplexity" is something Evolutionists can't get around.  Even Darwin foresaw a possibility that "If in the future things proved so complex - where my theory could not apply, than obviously my whole premise on evolution would be wrong".  Darwin said this himself.  Even a mouse trap has irreducable complexity- - of a certain small number of essential components necessary for it to work.  This flagellum motor has a minimum of fourteen components, and if any one component is missing, the flagellum won’t work, and it would be of no advantage for these bacteria to develop tails, that just hung limp.  The whole conceptual leap needs to be made all at once, and this takes intelligent design.  They said that information was like its own entity having neither mass nor energy.  People can intuitively tell which things are artifacts of man, done with intelligent design, and those processes of nature, following strict erosion laws or something.  Mt Rushmore was not created, we all can agree, by processes of erosion but lots of hard work.  Computer operating systems are not coded by mere chance, but lots of thought and planning.  And yet it’s considered “unscientific” to encounter anything in nature that appears to have been done by intelligent forces- - since Darwin came out with his publication.  It’s almost like it’s not “PC” to even broach the theory of some outside intelligent force.  After the movie and the questions it was nine o clock, and Paul took me home.

I would direct your attention to another intangible, other than "Information" or "intelligence", which has neither mass nor energy.  There is also "potential" or some might call oppertunity.  You used to hear in science class that a ten pound weight held over your head had more "potential" energy than a weight lying on the ground.  But does that weight held in the air really HAVE anything that the other does not?  No.  It has the Potential to fall thus involving kenitic energy.  In checkers you may have the potential a move if you want to take it, of quadruple jumping your opponent.  Or take to people in a small town in Missouri.  One is a brick layer and he will be for all his life.  The other dreams of being a DJ or a talk show host and shows little inclination to be anything else.  Like the two "dumb bells" so to speak,  one does not HAVE any special quality that the other lacks.  What it does HAVE is this intangible called Potential.  Potential is probability- - and one can argue in God's eyes - - he KNOWS the outcome in advance- so in his eyes- - only one of these HAS - - Potentiality - - - which ends up being realized.  But this is where the tea party robs the poor.  They rob the poor of that Potential.  It is said that with two floppy disks- - one is formatted but otherwise blank.  One is filled to the brim with information.  Both floppy disks have identical weight.  But when an electric circuit happens on ONE of them- - a Situation is now apparent.  But that Situation- - did not come about by Accident - - It Was Planned.   Which bits were either "Set" or "Clear" in advance, is how that circuit will react.  There is nothing about electrons running through the empty disk as opposed to the one with information.  The Difference is in the Situation these electrons encountered.  (Selah) 

 In other troubling news- - we heard about it all yesterday and it highlighted the evening news- - that two extremist, terrorist Al Qaeda groups are joining forces to develop some kind of new bomb – explosive device – that could be desguized as every day objects Americans would take on an international flight.  Of course this roomer will be enough to send the airport security people into a new frenzy of precautionary regulations.  Meanwhile the overall situation in the Mideast is only getting worse all the time.  Today the nail was driven in the coffin of any threat of rationalist reasoning for the United States getting involved at all because Meliki has come out and said no way if he going to allow Sunnis into some coalition government - - and seems to have made a choice and chosen affiliation with Iran over any shred of hope of looking to America as a vehicle for extrication from his problems.  Shiite clerics are saying that people need to join the Iraqi army now and defend their country.  Thom Hartman raises an interesting point about - - well if the United States drops a bomb on a Wedding party in Iraq you're going to get maybe five times the number of people Mad at you who were actually there, as the story continues to be retold.  Many Christians, or George Bush and Dick Chaney though,  don't really care about "appearences" or whether something is popular.  They view themselves as so God like that "consequences don't matter" and almost Welcome the idea of being Hated by more people.  This is why I always roll my eyes when I hear of Christians claiming to be victims of "Unreasoned hatred of other people against Christians".   These people DO something to Incite that hatred to begin with, and then feed OFF of that hatred- - as a justification for even more violence against them, often just as lacking in justification as the initial act of agression.  (Selah)

I had C-Span on and watched some of the IRS scandal hearings.  The lead republican spoke, and then democrat Cummings, who is a black, made a speech declaring that the entire committee proceedings were a gigantic waste of time.  They had three witnesses they were calling, a woman and two men, and all three were given a chance to give opening statements.  Then there was the telecommunications hearing.  First you have Time Warner merging with Comcast - - and that hearing was held.  Today it’s A T & T merging with Direct TV, and next week it might be T-Mobile merging with Sprint.  It was pointed out that one advantage of merging would be a more solid capital acquisition base- - and also people tend to like “one stop shopping” to have all their telecommunications services under one roof, and if you call for service, they will be able to have continuity in handling their problems.   Today is June 25, 2014 and it’s the fifth anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death.  His family lost their legal suit against the entertainment company, but Stu-baby is still holding out hope that the LA Dodgers get screwed for everything they’re worth in Brian Stowe’s lawsuit against the Dodger organization.  Of course Bones is a Giants fan.  There seems to be in my judgment, sufficient evidence of lack of security personnel, and also action should have been taken much earlier.  John Fugelsang is on right now live in the studio, and Fugelsang points out that if these Republicans were at all intellectually honest, they would be mad at these right wing political organizations getting tax exemptions (robbing Them of Their tax dollars) because an obviously political group gets an undeserved tax exemption.  But nobody is going to blame Louis Learner for THAT)