WHAT CENTURY IS THIS? © stevenn beck
Hi Friends!
I happened to be searching for one of the monologues from the movie "Inherit The Wind" to use for an audition - and the article below (questioning Darwin's Theory of Evolution) came up among the results. The writer of this particular article attempts to construct a serious anti-Darwiniist argument by using modern technology to make his point. WHAT CENTURY IS THIS? No matter how well the argument is constructed, years of concrete scientific data - substantiated again and again and again - evidence from many different fields of science - complied and reviewed by many different scientists (and including theologians) over a period of many years - people holding varied opinions and beliefs - leads to the incontrovertible fact that Darwin's Theory is true.
Those on the other side…look...they want to believe….what they want to believe. You know….like my daughter, who was three or so and kept insisting that there was a "middle" level on the Verrazano Bridge no matter how many times we drove over the damn thing (allowing her to see for herself that there was no mythical "third" level).
The sad thing is that there will be people out there - who will take this article and run with it ("see….we were right all the time").
FIRST: The following is the big dramatic exchange between Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) and Mathew Harrison Brady (Frederick March). The play dates the fifties, the movie came out in 1960. And the events - a fictional recounting of the real life "Scopes" trial - took place in the TWENTIES.
From: "Inherit The Wind" written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee…
Drummond: Look, Mr. Brady. These are the fossil remains of a marine prehistoric creature found in this very county, and which lived here millions of years ago when these very mountain ranges were submerged in water.
Brady: I know. The Bible gives a fine account of the flood. But your Professor's a little mixed up in his dates. That rock is not more than six thousand years old.
Drummond: How do ya know?
Brady: A fine biblical scholar, Bishop Usher, has determined for us the exact date and hour of the Creation. It occurred in the year 4004 B.C.
Drummond: Well, that's Bishop Usher's opinion.
Brady: It's not an opinion. It's a literal fact -- which the good Bishop arrived at through careful computation of the ages of the prophets, as set down in the Old Testament. In fact, he determined that the Lord began the Creation on the 23rd of October, 4004 B.C. at, uh, 9:00am.
Drummond: [Is] that Eastern Standard Time? Or Rocky Mountain Time? It wasn't Daylight Saving Time, was it, because the Lord didn't make the sun until the fourth day.
Brady: That is correct.
Drummond: That first day, what do you think, it was 24 hours long?
Brady: [The] Bible says it was a day.
Drummond: Well, there was no sun out. How do you know how long it was?
Brady: The Bible says it was a day!
Drummond: Well, was it a normal day, a literal day, 24 hour day?
Brady: I don't know.
Drummond: What do you think?
Brady: I do not think about things that I do not think about.
Drummond: Do you ever think about things that you do thing about?! Isn't it possible that it could have been 25 hours? There's no way to measure it; no way to tell. Could it have been 25 hours?!
Brady: It's possible.
Drummond: Then you interpret that the first day as recorded in the Book of Genesis could've been a day of indeterminate length.
Brady: I mean to state that it is not necessarily a 24 hour day.
Drummond: It could've been 30 hours, could've been a week, could've been a month, could've been a year, could've been a hundred years, or it could've been 10 million years!!
Brady: It is the revealed Word of the Almighty God spake to the men who wrote the Bible.
Drummond: How do you know that God didn't spake to Charles Darwin?
Brady: I know because God tells me to oppose the evil teachings of that man!
Drummond: Oh, God speaks to you?
Brady: Yes!
Drummond: He tells you what is right and wrong?
Brady: Yes!
Drummond: And you act accordingly?!
Brady: Yes!!
Drummond: So, you, Matthew Harrison Brady, through oratory or legislature or whatever, you pass on God's orders to the rest of the world! Well, meet the Prophet from Nebraska! Is that the way of things?! Is that the way of things?! God tells Brady what is good! To be against Brady is to be against God!
Brady: NO!!! Each man is a free agent!!
SECOND: See the article below. Once more I am moved to ask "WHAT CENTURY IS THIS?"
http://www.christianpost.com/news/technology-proves-darwins-evolution-theory-is-flawed-100851/
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