The False Fronts of Evolution

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It is often said that someone has a false front or is putting on a façade. That is, presenting an appearance that is not necessarily true. In architecture, a façade would be the front of a building that was given extra treatment. Potemkin villages were mostly fictional, almost entirely false fronts.

Yes, people want to present themselves in a good way, but it should not be for deceptive purposes. Disciples of Darwin have built false fronts for various aspects of the evolution story. News media, scientists, and atheists present these façades with the expectation that they will be believed.

Ironside false front ruins, Flickr / Larry Myhre (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Putting up the fronts was an easier task in the early days of old evolutionism. After all, they did not have nearly the insight into so many things that have been brought by education and technology; the cell is not so simple. DNA was unknown and parts of it were considered "junk" until they were discovered to be important. Interestingly, some of the things presented for evolution are agreed upon by creationists! It is amazing that secularists put so much work into trying to fool themselves and others that there is no Creator.
Headlines about evolution can give you whiplash. “Was Darwin Wrong?” teased a cover of National Geographic in 2004. But turn the page and you’re conked over the head: “NO. The evidence for Evolution is overwhelming”! Now jump to a recent book review in the journal Nature: “A new vision for how evolution works is long overdue…. [it] challenges a dearly held orthodoxy among evolutionary biologists.”

How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy is being challenged?

The short answer is that Darwin’s theory is a mishmash of multiple logically separate ideas. To avoid confusion, those independent notions have to be teased apart. A couple of strands of Darwinian thought are pretty well supported. Others are close to hopeless. Depending on whether a particular magazine article wants to lecture the rubes that science is in charge, or whip up excitement that something new might be in the air, it emphasizes one or the other.

You can read the rest of this Intelligent Design article at "Darwinism Is a Potemkin Theory of Evolution." Also note the back view of a false front in the picture at the top.