| In 1931, a science-fiction film about a Dr. Frankenstein | | | | researcher have already created a human embryo - |
| hit the theaters with the impact of a horror-thriller, a | | | | both saying they destroyed it. |
| scientist building a somewhat larger-than-life | | | | There seems to be a fair degree of "brain-washing" |
| "monster" from the bodies and brains of deceased | | | | with the conventional wisdom about |
| humans. Based on an 1818 nightmarish gothic tale, | | | | Darwin-Evolutionism being proven fact: intellectuals, |
| protruding bolt heads gave the man-creature a | | | | columnists, reporters, Judges - essentially the |
| quasi-robot, mechanical (sci-fi-satisfactory) | | | | intellectual elite and lay folk of our society. However, |
| appearance. Somewhat similarly, and equally | | | | the words of pro-Darwin scientists admit the |
| entertaining to seekers of horror- based thrills, the | | | | "mysteries" in their research - they cannot prove the |
| movie "Fly" dealt with a human-fly combination, the | | | | claims of their advocates. There is also the litany of |
| scientist himself becoming the experimental subject | | | | astronomical improbabilities to Darwin-Evolutionism by |
| when a fruit-fly accidentally enters his | | | | scientists in every field (Reference Ezine articles: The |
| "matter-transformation" chamber. | | | | Pajaro Dunes Conference - Scientists Challenging |
| "Modern biologists aim to convince us that man is just | | | | Darwinism!; From Darwin - Evolutionism to Intelligent |
| another animal" says Eric Cohen, author of an article, | | | | Design - Inevitably!; Elitist World, "Brain-Washed" by |
| "The Human Difference", which appeared in | | | | Darwinism - Would Darwin Approve?; |
| Commentary magazine. Thus, if - as Darwinists argue | | | | Darwin-Evolutionism - Undeniable Astronomic |
| - man is but an accident of nature with no higher | | | | Improbabilities Despite Secular Claims of Proven Fact!) |
| authority for morality and ethics, no supreme being | | | | Thus, there is no basis for the assumed premise for |
| to thank or blame for his existence, then he surely | | | | such experiments - that there is no higher authority |
| has unfettered freedom for experimentations in | | | | re ethics or morality - thus man is free to conduct |
| bio-technology, such as man-animal combinations. | | | | whatever experiments with "life" that his curiosity (or |
| Although, perhaps below the radar screen of general | | | | financial incentive) arouses. Although neither |
| public awareness, such experiments are presently | | | | Darwin-Evolutionism nor Intelligent Design can be truly |
| underway in China, Britain, the Caribbean and even at | | | | proved or disproved, by whatever rationality 21st |
| the Mayo clinic in the US - the ostensible forcing | | | | century science can muster, the probability odds |
| function being "holding out the promise of useful | | | | favor an "intelligent designer" by trillions to one. |
| results .. therapies for Parkinson's disease or for | | | | There is, however, tremendous zeal with which |
| mass-producing designer stem cells." | | | | contemporary, Evolution-advocate scientists defend |
| That Americans enjoy such imaginative flights of | | | | Darwinian theory, such as Richard Dawkins or Daniel |
| "scarification" is unquestionable. However, is there a | | | | Dennett - "evolution is a kind of liberation, a proof |
| reality potential in today's medical technology and | | | | that God is dead or there cannot be a God, proof |
| adventurism, a potential that is perhaps a bit more | | | | that we are free to impose our own moral order on |
| scary - and realistic - than people may be | | | | a world governed only by amoral chance." |
| comfortable with? | | | | However, modern theorists like Demski, Behe and |
| Take some "for instances": | | | | Meyer then enter the fray with the weapons of |
| - Animal cloning was first achieved in 1996, in | | | | logic, reformulating the watchmaker metaphor (the |
| Scotland, a sheep named Dolly - which subsequently | | | | complexity of a watch is proof of a watchmaker), |
| died prematurely of lung disease. | | | | and in mathematical and biochemical terms, focusing |
| - Clonings of many animals have followed: a few | | | | primarily on the inadequacy of Darwinism for the |
| years ago a dog owner payed handsomely for a | | | | emergence of complex life. The foundation of |
| clone of her pet who had died. | | | | Darwinism is further weakened by the fact that |
| - In China and Britain, scientists are creating cloned | | | | those who seem loudest in claiming factuality and |
| man-animal embryos using rabbit eggs and human | | | | proven science for their belief seem to ignore the |
| DNA. In the Caribbean, human neural cells have been | | | | mathematics and probabilities - and the arguments of |
| inserted into monkey brains. At the Mayo clinic, | | | | the hard science of physics, e.g. the Big Bang (from |
| researchers have produced pigs with hybrid | | | | where did the enormous amount of energy come - |
| pig-human blood cells. | | | | that was transformed into all the "matter" comprising |
| - Octuplets were recently born in Los Angeles, from | | | | our universe?). |
| the implantation of eight embryos in a woman. The | | | | The stem-cell debate appears to be the slippery |
| same doctor has implanted another woman with | | | | slope, what the political advocacy of full-out stem cell |
| seven. | | | | research will probably lead to. The Dr. Frankenstein |
| - Both an American doctor and a South Korean | | | | monster concept is becoming steadily more realizable. |