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SCIENTISTS: THE NEW PRIESTHOOD

Exclusive: Joseph Farah proclaims 'the death of National Geographic'

National Geographic was one of my favorite magazines as a child.

Heck, it was young George Bailey’s favorite magazine. He was proud, like me, to be a part of “the National Geographic Society,” which he took to mean a society of future explorers and adventurers.

Well, it was a wonderful life for National Geographic while it lasted.

May it rest in peace like so many other once-great institutions.

Why am I proclaiming the death of National Geographic?

Because of its latest cover story: “The War on Science: Climate Change Does not Exist, Evolution Never Happened, The Moon Landing Was a Fake, Vaccinations Can Lead to Autism, Genetically Modified Food Is Evil.”

Sadly, I don’t have the time or space to refute and rebut every aspect of this full-throated endorsement of modern “science” as the new priesthood, whose conclusions are questioned at the threat of excommunication, not to mention humiliation in rational circles.

In short, if you doubt any conclusions of the modern scientific establishment, you’re not only a rube, but you are dangerous.

Apparently, in the 20th or 21st centuries, “science” finally worked out all the bugs of the past and is now certain about all the big and little questions of life. There are no more mysteries. There is no more ambiguity. There are no more unknowns. There are no more doubts about matters like man-made catastrophic climate change, that evolution explains everything we need to know about the origins and diversity of life on the planet, vaccinations, genetically modified food and just about everything else.

Science is the final arbiter. Even though science has made innumerable blunders in the past, today science has it 100 percent right and there is no room for skepticism, this National Geographic opus concludes. If you question anything about science’s conclusions (as if all scientists are united on any of these matters), you might as well join the Flat Earth Society.

There are no nuances. There are no big questions left to answer. The new priesthood has spoken.

It never occurs to National Geographic that what they call “science” is actually a government-science complex with immense power, money and influence that is merely frustrated with its inability to coercively persuade everyone of their infinite wisdom even with control of the schools, the colleges, the universities, the major media, the museums, the zoos, the observatories, the medical schools, etc.

Does this not remind everyone of another time, when the state church knew better than everyone else? Is there a more precise historical parallel?

I don’t know about the moon landing, but I do know that the kind of man-made, catastrophic climate change the scientific-government complex is selling is a total hoax – a not-so-clever ruse to sell doom-and-gloom for more control of the people and their purses. It’s akin to selling indulgences for sin much like the powerful church once did.

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And evolution is a theory in crisis. Charles Darwin and his followers are still trying to sell the idea that our world consists of only matter and energy. There is no room for a spiritual world and no explanation offered about the origin of the complex coded information programmed into our genes. The fossil record, in which Darwin himself placed so much faith, is a shambles – unable to explain why life literally exploded into existence during the Cambrian period. Indeed, science is nearly unified on one major point – that the universe itself had a beginning. There are only two explanations for that – one is that nothing exploded and created everything, or it was actually created, designed.

As for me and my house, we reject fluoride. It’s getting harder and harder when the government adds this poison, which accumulates in your body, to your water supply. But we manage. I’m old enough to remember thalidomide. It was my generation’s science establishment that deemed it wise to administer this immunomodulatory drug to treat nausea and to alleviate morning sickness in pregnant women. As a result, 10,000 infants used as guinea pigs were born with phocomelia (malformation of the limbs). Only 40 percent of these children survived. The survivors were born without certain limbs, with deformed eyes and hearts, deformed alimentary and urinary tracts, blindness and deafness.

The National Geographic came out just in time to be proved wrong on one of its scientific conclusions: “Should we be afraid that the Ebola virus, which is spread only by direct contact with bodily fluids, will mutate into an airborne superplague? The scientific consensus says that’s extremely unlikely: No virus has ever been observed to completely change its mode of transmission in humans, and there’s zero evidence that the latest strain of Ebola is any different. But type ‘airborne Ebola’ into an Internet search engine, and you’ll enter a dystopia where this virus has almost supernatural powers, including the power to kill us all.”

This just in – from the Washington Post: “A team of prominent researchers suggested Thursday that limited airborne transmission of the Ebola virus is ‘very likely,’ a hypothesis that could reignite the debate that started last fall after one of the scientists offered the same opinion.” The peer-reviewed analysis was published in mBio, a journal of the American Society of Microbiology. Thank goodness the journal didn’t listen to the “consensus” and censor the new research, as is often done on matters like “climate change” and “evolution.”

There’s much more to say on this subject, but I’ll leave it there to give the faithful acolytes a good chuckle.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/scientists-the-new-priesthood/#tY6ICeQ0mVVitcE1.99

My comments: Science has become a part of the godless, Socialist, Secular Humanist RELIGION. Part of the New Priesthood of that RELIGION. Man's finite knowledge compared to the INFINITE KNOWLEDGE of God is ridiculous. So man will go his not so merry way to the not so merry ending Scripture has foretold.