Dominionist crankery: Objective Ministries, Hovind, In God We Trust, Chuck Norris

I’m still in semi-hiatus mode at the moment. I move a heap of my furniture next Monday and my ADSL should be connected later in the same week (although it may be delayed to the following week). Still have a bunch a paperwork to go though (AEC, automatic rent payment etc). I’d rather be blogging.

In the interim, I’ll give you some rolled gold from dominionist theology of a few years past.

Objective Ministries! The people who brought you sociological thought along the lines of…

“The Internet was created by the United States of America - a Christian nation - and should not be used to spread anti-Christian, secular, or non-Christian propaganda and hatespeech. This is our Internet, and we should exercise our position as its owners and as the guardians of civilization to stop its misuse.”

(Jim Carlson, 2000)

That’s right. If you call a nation with secular origins a Christian Nation^tm, then anything invented in that secular Christian Nation is property of Christians. That’s right! If it came from America and you aren’t a Christian, the Ned Flanders of the world can just come along and take it.

Take that democracy!

Apparently we are subject to greater peril than we realise.

“Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called… Darwin! That’s right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While they currently don’t advertise this fact to consumers, it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans. Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an “Open Source” license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, “lickable” buttons, but the truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism.”

(“Dr.” Richard Paley, 2001)

I guess that the Apache web server is indicative of native American pagan belief and therefore is also a threat to civilization. One problem. The development of the Internet, particularly the World Wide Web, has been dependent heavily of the open source (and therefore apparently communist) Apache web server, said webserver powering the majority of websites ever in existence.

Objective Ministries, meet cognitive dissonance!

So how are we going to be saved from all of this pervasive “evolutionism”?

“The goal of Project Pterosaur is to mount an expedition to locate and bring back to the United States living specimens of pterosaurs or their fertile eggs, which will be displayed in a Pterosaur Rookery that will be the center piece of the planned Fellowship Creation Science Museum and Research Institute (FCSMRI). Furthermore, the rookery facility will establish a breeding colony of pterosaurs in order to produce specimens that could then be put on display by other regional institutions or church groups.

By doing all this, we hope to accomplish three goals:

1. Support Creation Theory by showing the incorrectness of the philosophy of Evolutionism.

2. Educate the population about Creation Science.

3. Create excitement about Creation and the Bible in the public.”

(“Dr.” Richard Paley, 2005)

Well, finding a pterosaur would create a degree of difficulty for “evolutionists”, although if Paley wanted to have a real go at it I’d stick to the fossil record. Evolution does not say that any one species must be extinct hence the discovery of a supposedly extinct species wouldn’t falsify it. On the other hand, the discovery of a rabbit fossil in Devonian rock would falsify evolution.

At the very least, though his attempt to falsify evolution (or “evolutionism”) he is admitting that the theory is falsifiable and therfore a scientific theory, rather than just a philosophy. This is a massive self-contradiction and to anyone who is science literate, a clear mark of dishonesty.

This guy is Objective Ministries’ science liason with the public, so one can expect that he is trying to dupe the usual crowd who wouldn’t know the criteria for a scientific theory from naval maneuvers in the South Atlantic.

Not surprising considering that from their front page they are lobbying for the release of Kent Hovind, support the dishonest “Why do Atheists Hate America?” campaign run by Council Nedd II, and subscribe to lies peddled by Chuck Norris.

“Once upon a time, years ago, it seemed that the only major fire for atheism burned from the anti-Christian work of Madelyn Murray O’Hair and the American Atheist organization, whose claim to fame was the banning of prayer and Bible reading in public schools in 1963.“

(Chuck Norris, 2008 - Emphasis added)

Neither the reading of Bibles, nor prayer were ever banned in school. You can read part II and part III of Norris’ ludicrous and hysterical conspiracy theory about Atheists taking over here.

What a sordid lot.

~ Bruce

Update: A correction to this post has been made here.