Mind Slaves of Our Time - International Social Equality/Unity

It is simply impossible that every individual would arrive at similar views regarding being or existence. If there is one constant on this planet it is diversity and peculiarity; not a single leaf or grain of sand is exactly the same as another! If a ‘divine’ law/rule existed it would be distinction and uniqueness; the antithesis would be uniformity!

It follows that if a divine being created the earth/universe and set it in motion with enduring ‘laws,’ forces of opposition to those laws would be contrary, ‘evil’ and destructive.

Religion seeks to stamp a uniform set of beliefs and behaviours on every unique human being; religion therefore equates with the unnatural. Furthermore, if creation is Life then forces that oppose it are clearly forces of death and destruction -- as history clearly confirms in the case of religion!

It becomes clear that today’s religionists are in need of treatment; their sovereign freedom has been hijacked by liars and terrorists. The first step to personal freedom is identifying that which enslaves.

Religion is a social disease, pure and simple. If society is to survive in any tenable sense then it must address its ills and apply remedies. If no other options are available then it must surgically remove the cancer lest the whole body is lost! Either the human race matures and emerges from its infantilism or continues on its nihilistic course to certain destruction.

There is nothing conservative in the natural world – radical is beautiful!

[In a nation where the majority of people and the Congress oppose a President who disregards democracy and his representative obligations -- a return to the dark ages is underway. Ed]

In the United States the old but bitter debate between evolution and creationism is heating up again.

Three of the Republican presidential candidates do not believe in evolution and a high-tech creation museum recently opened in Kentucky.

Much of the debate has been fuelled by a book claiming the Grand Canyon, one of America's most well-known landmarks, was carved by Noah's flood rather than erosion.

Every national park has at least one gift shop - usually more - selling t-shirts, snow domes, mugs, postcards and books.

At the Grand Canyon you will find books on the canyon's history, the canyon's animals and even the canyon's deaths.

One book, Grand Canyon: A Different View, contains the following excerpt:

"Grand Canyon is not just an icon of beauty. It is a solemn witness to the mighty power of God who is not only the omnipotent creator of all things but also the avenging defender of his own holiness."

It is amazing to think a humble river was able to carve such a mighty canyon. Of course, a geologist will tell you that reflects the power of time rather than the power of the river - the canyon is millions of years old.

But Grand Canyon: A Different View presents a different perspective.

The book is compiled by Tom Vail, who has been guiding rafting trips down the Colorado River for 25 years.

He says for the first 15 years he was an evolutionist.

"In 1994 I became a Christian and started looking at the canyon as my book says, from a different view, and I started exploring the creationist model of the formation of the canyon," he said.

"What I found was all those little questions I had as an evolutionist had answers, and pretty logical answers as I looked at it."

Mr Vail's book is not some cheap pamphlet. It is a full colour coffee-table book, featuring expensive paper, sophisticated layout, spectacular photos, scientific language and lots of quotes from the Old Testament.

Not surprisingly, it is generating debate.

The gulf between creationists and mainstream scientists is as wide as the canyon itself.

The American Geological Institute and other groups demanded the book be removed from the national park.

The debate only fuelled sales of the book and Tom Vail says there is plenty of evidence inside the canyon to back his belief.

"We see some very large folding in the canyon where sedimentary layers, which are laid down horizontally, have been curved or carved in big bends, some of them 300 feet tall, and this is done without cracking the rock. How do you do that with hard rock?" he said.

"I'm definitely going against the tide here, but when you look at the evidence, there are major flaws in the dating methods, for example.

Much to the horror of mainstream scientists, creationism seems to be making a comeback in the United States.

A multi-million dollar creation museum recently opened, at least three of the Republicans running for President do not believe in evolution and Tom Vail's rafting trips are welcoming customers from as far away as Australia.

Opinion polls suggest 43 per cent of Americans believe God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years. Only 14 per cent believe humans evolved without divine involvement.

© 2007 ABC

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