Jim Phillips is temporarily off of the list. He's having trouble with his
email and the list is bouncing all of his posts, so he sent this to me
because he thought that I would enjoy it, and perhaps to repost, given the
recent conversations. Although it's not in my nature to post controversial
material to the list, in this case, I'll make an exception.

The following is from Bob Lewis's today's July 24 column in Infoworld:

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> DARWINIAN LOGIC
>
> Posted July 19, 2002 01:01 PM  Pacific Time
>
>
> MANAGEMENTSPEAK: Our mission, vision, and values guide
> our daily business activities.
>
> TRANSLATION: Our mission, vision, and values guide our
> daily business activities unless they interfere with
> my stock options.
>
> -- IS Survivalist Jeff Cadieux's mission, vision, and
> values led him to this submission.
>
> WHY IS TENSION between IT and business executives so common?
>
> No less an authority than Dr. Richard Paley, teacher of
> divinity and theobiology at Fellowship University
> reveals the answer (
> http://objectiveministries.tripod.com/propaganda.html ).
>
> "The real operating system hiding under the newest
> version of the Macintosh ... (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. ... The
> truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote
> Godless Darwinism and Communism."
>
> Our secret, I'm afraid, is out: We all believe in
> either no gods at all or lots of them. Is it any
> wonder we're closely watched by the God-fearing,
> non-Darwinian capitalists who run the show?
>
> Believe it or not, Dr. Paley has something even more
> useful to teach than the source of tension between
> business and IT.
>
> As a leader, two of your most important
> responsibilities are making good decisions and
> persuading those you lead to embrace them.
>
> The evident success of Dr. Paley and his ilk
> demonstrates an important principle: Given a choice
> between a complex, difficult-to-understand,
> disconcerting explanation and a simplistic, comforting
> one, many prefer simplistic comfort if it's remotely
> plausible, especially if it involves blaming someone
> else for their problems.
>
> Making good decisions requires that you recognize and
> eschew simplistic, comforting explanations. Even the
> best decision-makers constantly guard against this
> very natural tendency. That's one obvious lesson to
> learn. The other?
>
> Persuasion is difficult, especially when you have to
> present a hard, painful choice. The easiest way is to
> pander to your audience with a simplistic, comforting
> explanation that blames someone else ("clueless
> managers who just don't get it" would be a common
> example among IT professionals). Don't write this off
> too quickly: It has the advantage of working nearly
> every time.
>
> It is, however, manipulative and dishonest. That
> doesn't mean the right approach is to present your
> logic in cool, painstaking detail.
>
> To persuade, keep your arguments simple if not
> simplistic and phrase them in terms relevant to your
> audience if you can't make them comforting.
>
> There is, after all, a difference between pandering to
> your audience and caring about it.

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I originally thought that the reference above to Dr. Richard Paley's webite
at:

    http://objectiveministries.tripod.com/propaganda.html

would be a joke, possibly some sort of take-off on Dr. William Paley, the
theological philosopher who first made the case for an Intelligent Designer.
But, unfortunately, it's not. This Latter-Day Paley is a devout believer that
all users of Macintoshes are tools of the Devil, but what the heck, a lot of
us have said that :-).

The newer Paley is also cheap. He has a Tripod account that's constantly
overbudget on bandwidth, so I had to wait half a day to see his page. Given
that you will probably run into the same problem due to Paley's recent fame,
I've copied the complete text of the referenced page below:

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OBJECTIVE: Creation Education

Article by Dr. Richard Paley

Evolutionism Propaganda:

The subject of Evolutionism's use of propaganda to spread its false doctrines
is a broad one that would require many pages to deal with in full. That they
resort to propaganda is just evidence that they have no honest arguments in
favor of their position. The paucity of pro-Evolutionistic arguments has been
widely documented and I won't go into it here.

What I would like to discuss are some prominent and current instances of
Evolutionism propaganda: The PBS's series Evolution, the use of subliminal
Evolutionism, and Evolutionism's place in the computing industry.


PBS's "Evolution":

PBS (supposedly the "Public Broadcasting Company" although one has to wonder
which public they serve with all the anti-Christian junk they put on) is
currently airing a new series called simply Evolution. This series (running
for eight nights, at two hours a night) is nothing but a commercial for
Secular Humanistic pseudo-science.

Thus far, the first episode (called "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" -- at least
they are honest in the title) was a melodramatization of Charles Darwin's
life. Darwin is portrayed as a sympathetic character who is attacked by
ignorant Christians for his "revolutionary thought" which he is shown
likening to "confessing a murder" (again, another slip of honesty). All those
who historically questioned and pointed out flaws in Darwin's ideas are
portrayed as villains: Richard Owen, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, Captain
Robert Fitzroy of the HMS Beagle -- all are made into unrecognizable cartoons
whose only purpose is to act as foils for the noble Darwin and his crusade
against Christianity. Even God himself is turned into a villain; at one point
in the episode they had the audacity to blame Him for killing Darwin's
daughter!

Interspersed with the costume drama were talking heads explaining to us why
Evolutionism is the One True Way. These included some doctors and biologists
-- one of whom openly expressed the religious nature of his belief in
Evolutionism -- whose names I can't remember as they were unnotable persons
in the scientific community. Daniel Dennet, a philosopher who wrote a polemic
also called Darwin's Dangerous Idea, was on hand to tell us in no uncertain
terms that Darwin's ideas excluded the need for God. Needless to say Stephen
Jay Gould made an appearance, although he did thankfully refrain from talking
about baseball this time.

The episode also included "real life examples" of Evolutionism to try and
convince us that it is a real science. One of these was -- and I am not
making this up -- a primatologist who taught some chimpanzees to "count".
Supposedly this proves that we are a monkey's uncle. Another example used was
AIDS. They argued that AIDS is constantly evolving and if it weren't for
Darwin we wouldn't understand why and thus would be helpless in treating the
disease (they conveniently neglect to point out that Darwinistic propaganda
equating us with animals might have helped to spread the disease in the first
place). This is a common false argument made by Evolutionists; the random
variations of AIDS is not the same as the transmutation of species that
Darwin wrote about and that is the basis of Secular Humanism. All those
little changes aside, AIDS is still AIDS. Show us AIDS evolving into a cat --
which is essentially the Evolutionistic position of common ancestry for all
lifeforms -- and then you'll have something worth noting.

Remember, this was all in only the first episode! We still have seven more to
go -- or fourteen more hours of this (PBS doesn't even allow us commercial
breaks to help us regain our sanity!). One can only imagine what other
nonsense will be presented in the rest of this propaganda tour de force. But
you can be certain that I for one won't be sporting a PBS tote bag any time
soon.

Subliminal Propaganda:

[Image caption]: Chained to Evolutionism: Pokemon's pro-Darwinism propaganda
is inescapable

Besides the direct assault on reason and faith that the PBS series
represents, Evolutionism propagandists often times try to sneak their false
doctrine into popular culture via oblique references whose constant
reiteration is designed to inculcate acceptance of their unacceptable
message. As noted German Evolutionist Joseph Goebbels was fond of saying, if
you repeat a lie often enough, people will start to believe it. Ardent
Atheistic Darwinist Richard Dawkins even wrote a book1 about how to spread
ideology as a type of "biological weapon" using jingles and pop-culture.

Some of the most popular vehicles for this subliminal propaganda are
children's television shows, books, and toys. By getting their ideas into the
minds of the young, they hope to be able to do the most damage to traditional
values and belief. Shows like Pokemon, which features animals "evolving" into
new forms, and movies like Jurassic Park provide a continuous cultural fog of
Evolutionism that is impossible for innocent children to escape from.

Apple Macintosh:

[Image caption]: Hypnotically encased iMacs trick unsuspecting computer users
into accepting Darwinism

However, these propagandists aren't just targeting the young. 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.

But is this really such a shock? Lets look for a moment at Apple Computers.
Founded by long haired hippies, this company has consistently supported 60's
counter-cultural "values"2. But there are even darker undertones to this
company than most are aware of. Consider the name of the company and its
logo: an apple with a bite taken out of it. This is clearly a reference to
the Fall, when Adam and Eve were tempted with an apple3 by the serpent. It is
now Apple Computers offering us temptation, thereby aligning themselves with
the forces of darkness4.

This company is well known for its cult-like following. It isn't much of a
stretch to say that it is a cult. Consider co-founder and leader Steve Jobs'
constant exhortation through advertising (i.e. mind control) that its
followers should "think different". We have to ask ourselves: "think
different than whom or what?" The disturbing answer is that they want us to
think different than our Christian upbringing, to reject all the values that
we have been taught and to heed not the message of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Given the now obvious anti-Christian and cultish nature of Apple Computers,
is it any wonder that they have decided to base their newest operating system
on Darwinism? This just reaffirms the position that Darwinism is an
inherently anti-Christian philosophy spread through propaganda and subliminal
trickery, not a science as its brainwashed followers would have us believe.


[Image caption]: A Satanic, unevolvable chimera compells you to submit to
Darwinism!


ADDENDUM: It has been brought to my attention that the Darwin OS mentioned
above now has a cartoon mascot (no doubt to influence children) named Hexley
(pictured above) -- a platypus dressed as a devil who performs occult magic,
i.e. hexes. They're not doing a very good job keeping their ties to the
forces of darkness a secret, are they?

ADDENDUM II (4/20/2002): A reader has also brought to my attention that the
aforementioned Atheist and anti-Christian Evolutionist Richard Dawkins -- who
likes to compare religion to a virus -- has used Apple's Macintosh computers
since they were introduced. In fact, his infamous anti-Creation polemic The
Blind Watchmaker relied heavily on an argument based on software that he
wrote using a Mac. He purported to have proved Evolutionism by making his
Macintosh draw little squiggles -- or "biomorphs" as he called them -- that
changed over "generations". (This of course begs the question: if it took a
created machine running created software to make these squiggles, how then
does that refute Creation?)

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Wirt Atmar

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