Charles Darwin on the mystery of life

"The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
Charles Darwin

On this one I agree with him.

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Scientist meets the evolution

Let us look at creationists and evolutionists.

Creationists' dogma:

"All humans are created equal."

If this dogma is practiced then it will bring a fairly egalitarian society. But easier said than done. More often than not they don't and society in general does not. So we live in the mess that we quite often do, including wars.

Evolutionist's dogma:

"Screw you it is the survival of the fittest."

This dogma is troublesome to start with. Put in practice it brings disasterous results. Bush and Cheney wanted to show Iraq and Afghanistan that they are the fittest. They don't necessarily admit to being evolutionist but monkey is what monkey does – the origin of species.

Is it possible that the West was jealous; that all the prophets are from the Middle East – Abraham, Moses, Christ and Mohammed? Buddha, who did not claim to be a prophet or son of God (I don't think Christ did either but that is the way the story was developed at a later date). However, Buddha did present an extraordinarily good philosophy to live by. You can check out his philosophy yourself. Try Internet. So the West said bye bye prophets we have one of our own and his name is Charles Darwin. He knows all about creation. It is all monkey business and nothing more.

Here is a quote from Buddha:

"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true." - Buddha

Besides being a holy man Buddha sounds like a bit of scientist. But I like his teachings.
Update:To evolutionists and to other know-it-alls
read this carefully.
Science has come a long way but it is still in its infancy. If it is any consolation to you I equally question the creationists. I question all fanatics equally.
Also lighten up and have some sense of humour.

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Dangers of Fanaticism

We all know about religious fanatics and the damage they can cause. If you disagree with them they declare you a disbeliever, your views as heresy, and you an infidel. They may even kill people.

Now a new kind of fanaticism is cropping up. They call themselves evolutionists and if you disagree with them on any issue they go ballistic. I do not see much difference between the two types. Evolution must be your new religion or else.
A self-proclaimed scientist/scholar/intellectual (some crap like that) commented on my blog:

'...oh, and by the way: "survivial (sic)of the fittest" was something Darwin never wrote..'

Oh Yeah! Really! Here is a quote from none other than Darwin himself:

"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)

Here is another one and how he adopted this term in his revised edition of The Origin of Species:

"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient" - Charles Darwin

Darwin was so taken with Spencer's catchy phrase that he did, in fact, use it in a later (1869) edition of his The Origin of Species."

The sad part is that Darwin was anything but fanatic. Little did he know that his followers would be. He must be turning in his grave.

UPDATE: This mentalmegalomaniac (It is not my style to give publicity to kooks like him, but after all his hard work at buffoonery he deserves some) keeps saying he will not waste his time anymore on someone who dares to say anything blasphemous(in his mind) about evolution; yet he is consumed by it. He keeps writing comments to himself here vilifying me and seeking the help of Jesus or Jesus 900ft. My, an evolutionist seeking help from Jesus. Now he has written a whole post on this here. I wonder who is having a meltdown. I got more laughs out of this guy and his fanaticism than any comedy show I have seen in recent days – if that is melting down then be it.

Now he is reprimanding Progressive Bloggers about why they include my posts and those who vote for my posts. Maybe I should inform Jon Stewart about this guy and he may have field day with it, but then Jon Stewart goes after significant people generally, not kooks.

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Charles Darwin: Theory of Evolution

Charles Darwin was a very troubled man. His daughter was very ill and he and his wife constantly prayed to God for her recovery but she died anyway. That is when he became a very angry man and became firm in his earlier thinking that it is all about the selection of nature that regarding who survives and who dies God has nothing to do with it. Maybe, maybe not. He was indeed an ambitious man who wanted to be famous and wanted to sell his books just like Sarah Palin. Only difference was that he could write and Sarah Palin could not.

Don't get me wrong, as I am not anti-science. Quite the contrary. Galileo put forward the theory that the planet Earth is round and not flat and that it revolves around the sun. At the time the church condemned him. However, today we have no doubt about his theory as we can go up high on a satellite and see our globe as being round. Likewise Newton proposed the theory of gravity and now we can go in space and feel the weightlessness and have no doubt about gravity. However, Darwin's theory does not fall into the same category. A lot of it is just theory. As he showed how a pigeon can be changed by humans by using different breeding techniques. But that does not put any light on how humans evolved from a single cell into a fish, monkey etc. All a theory. Today a human body has trillions of cells and is put together in a manner that a human can think, love, hate, have children all at the same time. Did all that happened by coincidence? I find the human body a mystery, an extraordinary machine, a miracle. Then there is the mind part and spiritualism part which cannot be explained by modern science and good scientists admit that, including well-known brain surgeon late Dr. Wilder Penfield of Montreal.

Then there is Dr. Deepak Chopra who once indicated that we, in the west, are so obsessed with the physical part of our lives that we forget there is a spiritual part. He comments on how medical science in the west has advanced, how it can replace an ailing heart, lungs, kidneys, knee-caps etc, but that we still know very little about the spiritual part of human lives and how spiritual healing is equally important in order to live a full life.

The most dangerous part of Darwin's theory is "survival of the fittest". I call it dangerous because it negates all ethics and moral humans have to follow. Under the "survival of the fittest" we should let nature take its course and if the weak die, too bad or kill them off. Only thing, theories cannot work in practice. Consider the Soviets who tried to put Karl Marx's theory on communism into practice; we know it is a big failure now. Likewise Hitler tried the "The Survival of the Fittest" theory.

Hitler thought that the Aryan nation was superior and the rest of the minorities in Germany - disabled, Jews and gays - must die as they don't fit the mold of the fittest. We know what disastrous results that brought – concentration camps and genocide.

Even Bush and Cheney can justify mass killing in Iraq under the "survival of the fittest" as they had superior firepower and if Iraqis got killed then they were not the fittest and let them die. Likewise can we object to genocide in Darfur as Sudanese can say it is all the game of the survival of the fittest. Let the nature take its course.

As humans we can do better than that and follow ethics and morals which will stop us from cruelty and genocide. I don't know how life started and I don't pretend to know. Pretty well all religions do teach brotherhood, sisterhood and love but we have effectively rendered them useless by exploiting religions for political purposes and have justified the most brutal of brutal actions using religion. I believe what needs to be done is follow religions in their spirit and learn to live in peace as religions do teach us that. I don't read religious books so I cannot quote from holy books but they do teach us how to be better humans such as "love thy neighbour" and "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" and "the meek shall rule the world". If we follow these principles then life on our planet could be much better.

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