| Specious reasoning and clever crafting of | | | | another (transmutate) all the way up from a |
| definitions can make about anything appear to | | | | single-celled organism. Since nobody has |
| come true. As John Mackay (1852) observed, | | | | ever seen one type of organism transmutate |
| "When men wish to construct or support a | | | | into another, he would have had a much harder |
| theory, how they torture facts into their | | | | sell. On the other hand, saying that |
| service!" Mackay, J. (1852). Extraordinary | | | | "change" is the same thing as biological |
| Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. | | | | evolution makes anyone who does not accept |
| Some words are innocently created to straight | | | | Darwin's evolution, someone who rejects |
| forwardly describe a particular thing but can | | | | change. In other words, stupid. Please |
| insidiously take on a life all their own. | | | | note that evolution normally implies |
| Our language is filled with words that have | | | | progressive change. But nothing evolves in |
| departed from their original definitions and | | | | that sense without intelligent manipulation. |
| are now widely misconstrued and abused. | | | | Corn kernels get bigger, evolve, because of |
| Examples include truth, religion, | | | | intelligent horticulture, home architecture |
| supernatural, morality, liberal, capitalism, | | | | evolves because of intelligent engineering, |
| freedom, love…basically all the hot | | | | and mathematics evolves because of |
| button words and subjects people consider to | | | | mathematicians. That little fact -- that |
| be their little sacred domains of private | | | | intelligence is needed for things to |
| belief and interpretation. Evolution is | | | | progressively evolve -- just happened to be |
| another example of such a word. In the | | | | left out when Darwin's evolution was attached |
| dictionary, evolution's first definition is: | | | | to dictionary evolution. A word was |
| the process by which something develops into | | | | stolen from our vocabulary, a word everyone |
| a different form. The word and this meaning | | | | can agree to. Cleverly then, a new footnote |
| predated Darwin's concept of biological | | | | about a whole new mechanism was attached to |
| evolution. Here's how that fact has proven | | | | it without really alerting anyone. By that I |
| useful in helping to make his case. Most | | | | mean biological evolution is not mere change. |
| certainly, things do evolve in the | | | | In overview (cell to human sense) it is |
| dictionary's pre-Darwinian sense of the word. | | | | gross change, more like a skipping or |
| We evolve as individuals, society evolves, | | | | gigantic hopping. It is about transmutations |
| technology evolves, education evolves, the | | | | in the absence of any intelligent force to |
| automobile evolves and agriculture evolves. | | | | make them happen. It would be like me |
| To the uncritical eye, evolution, taken as | | | | coming up with a new theory of commerce. I |
| being synonymous with change, seems to fit | | | | scan the dictionary and decide to call my |
| well with what all of us experience every | | | | theory, "possession". Everyone possesses |
| day: Homes get built beginning with simple | | | | things and possession is nine tenths of the |
| blocks and 2 X 4s, our bank account balance | | | | law. My "possession" theory is a process by |
| grows slowly, our bodies begin small and get | | | | which one goes into a store, loads up bags |
| bigger, babies begin with one cell that | | | | and carts with whatever they want and takes |
| multiplies into a whole body and anthills | | | | it all home. The stuff is possessed. What a |
| grow one grain of dirt at a time. Since | | | | cool theory. Now when the police show up at |
| everything changes, everything can be said to | | | | your door and take you to court, you just |
| evolve. How convenient for Darwin's | | | | take your dictionary. You say to the judge, |
| "evolution." He could not have chosen a | | | | "Looky here judge, the dictionary says |
| better word. The case was closed before he | | | | possession is to have things and that's all I |
| ever got into court. Since everything | | | | did." Do you think the prosecutor might make |
| evolves it is not too much of a leap to | | | | the argument that you have left out an |
| accept that life evolved. The word itself is | | | | important part of the definition, namely that |
| tendentious, creating in and of itself reason | | | | to possess something legally requires a |
| to believe the theory. If he had chosen | | | | mechanism called paying for it? Possession |
| the word transmutation instead of evolution, | | | | means having something, according to the |
| things might be entirely different. Although | | | | dictionary, but that does not legitimize any |
| transmutation would be a better description | | | | form of possession. Evolution means change, |
| of the theory, the unfamiliarity of the word | | | | according to the dictionary, but that does |
| would force people to determine meaning and | | | | not legitimize any theory of change. For |
| evaluate that against their own experience. | | | | further reading, or for more information |
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