ID and Astrology
Because I suffer from hubris, as all scientists seem to do, I sometimes imagine that I'm a clever, creative person with an inventive mind. Then, suddenly, my fortress of personal fiction crumbles when I am faced with creative invention that zooms light-years past any of my own paltry attempts.
Thanks to Steve Reuland at The Panda's Thumb ("When the Moon is in the 7th House…"), I have spent several perplexed, if not unpleasant, moments looking over the incredibly inventive material at Benevolent Design, the official home of The Christian Guardians. They have two goals for their website:
- One of the purposes of this website is to offer our help to anyone dedicated to disproving Darwinism and/or proving that the Shroud of Turin is the true burial cloth of our Savior, Jesus of Nazareth.
- The second purpose of this website is to provide and disseminate facts that will help Christians to better defend and keep their faith against the many enemies of Christianity.
They see their work as built on the shoulders of giants: i.e., those who invented "Intelligent Design" as a "scientific" creationist's answer to [boo, hiss] Darwinism.
The breakthrough claimed by the Christian Guardians is their discovery of what they call "Magi Astronomy". As they point out, "Magi Astronomy" is good astronomy:
We know there are many Christians who believe that astrology is forbidden but we assure you that is not the case. If astrology were forbidden by Christ’s true teachings, why would the Gospels tell us this story about the Star of Bethlehem?
In fact, there are over 600 references to astrology in the Bible and none of the references condemn astrology. (See footnote 1.)
At the Christian Guardians, we believe that astrology is much like most other things. Just as there is good and bad in almost everything else, there is bad astrology and there is good astrology.
You must be wondering what has any of this to do with Intelligent Design?
We talk about all this because we have discovered a way to disprove Darwinism by using good astrology, and we have improved Intelligent Design by using good astrology…
This "Magi Astronomy" is pretty powerful stuff, too. The main thrust is to void "neo-Darwinism", but another link on the Christian Guardians' website will lead you to their stock-market forecasting software.
Here's a quick excerpt that suggests the direction of their startling new "disproof" of Darwin:
Have you ever wondered why Michael Jordan’s parents were not great athletes?
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The reason any parents can have fabulously talented children is that God designed it that way. God designed the world such that the alignment of the planets on a day someone is born helps the person to have certain talents and abilities.
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The reason any parents can have fabulously talented children is that God designed it that way. God designed the world such that the alignment of the planets on a day someone is born helps the person to have certain talents and abilities.
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If Magi Astrology really works, then Darwinism does not work.
This is obvious a great theory, since it gets all those things in there in one place. Just be clear: God did not invent evolution in order to create species. Instead, He invented astrology so that a few extraordinary children might be born now and again to give their parents hope and faith in the future. Now, if only they could build a Grand Unified Theory of Magi Astronomy that shows how the Shroud of Turin contradicts Darwin — well, that would be quite a feat.
Fascinating.
In: All, Raised Eyebrows Dept., The Art of Conversation