CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy)

Paul Fordyce
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Paul spent 38 yrs as a partner of a boutique commercial litigation firm in the Sydney, Australia, CBD. He frequently appeared before the NSW Supreme Court & the Federal Court of Australia, inc having a major flaw in the Corporations Act amended by the Australian parliament. Retired, his forensic skills are now turned to the major issues in our society. Exposing the errors, or worse still, lies in behind beliefs commonly held, even taught to our children, that are seriously and dangerously wrong. The Truth is always quiet. It is lies that are loud. CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy).

  1. 1d ago

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 61. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – The Benefits of Eugenics – James Watson – Africans Have Lower IQs

    … there's a difference on the average between blacks and whites on I.Q. tests. I would say the difference is, it's genetic." James Watson in an interview in the PBS American Masters Series in 2018. Tag words: James Watson; PBS American Masters Series; Walter Isaacson; Jennifer Doudna; The Code Breaker; DNA; human nature; intelligence; Avoid Boring People; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; somehow genetically inferior; Eric Lander; Rufus Watson; Human Genome Project;

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 61. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – The Benefits of Eugenics – James Watson – Africans Have Lower IQs

  2. Oct 26

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 60. And Christ Rose Yet Again – Sudden Death of Atheism – Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Benefits of Eugenics–James Watson–Africans Are Not As Intelligent as Caucasians

    [James Watson, the legendary discoverer of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick in 1953] says that he is "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really, and I know that this hot potato is going to be difficult to address." His hope is that everyone is equal, but he counters that "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true." Quote from an interview by Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe of the Sunday Times of London in 2007. Tag words: James Watson; Francis Crick; DNA; Jennifer Doudna; Walter Isaacson; The Code Breaker; The Double Helix; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory research centre; Human Genome Project; The Biology of Genomes; Rufus Watson; RNA molecules; abortion;

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 60. And Christ Rose Yet Again – Sudden Death of Atheism – Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Benefits of Eugenics–James Watson–Africans Are Not As Intelligent as Caucasians

  3. Oct 19

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 59. CYKIAE And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – The Benefits of Eugenics – James Watson and the Double Helix.

    Eugenics – all those years ago. A mistaken road that science had turned down. But is that true? Walter Isaacson in his book, The Code Breaker, about Nobel Prize winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, wrote the surprising story of one of the greatest scientists of all times, who only died on 6 November 2025 – James Watson – one of the discoverers of the DNA double helix who had played a vital role in the human genome project. Isaacson wrote: One of the many roots of the Human Genome Project involved Doudna's childhood hero James Watson and his son Rufus. The provocative author of The Double Helix was the director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a haven for biomedical research and seminars on a 110-acre wooded campus on the north shore of Long Island. Founded in 1890, it has a history of important research. It was there in the 1940s that Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück led a study group on phages that included the young Watson. But it is also haunted by more controversial ghosts. From 1904 until 1939, under director Charles Davenport, it served as a center for eugenics, producing studies asserting that different races and ethnic groups had genetic differences in such traits as intelligence and criminality. By the end of Watson's tenure as director there from 1968 to 2007, his own pronouncements on race and genetics would revive these ghosts. So let’s pick up from where I left off in the last part of the story of eugenics. By the way, Isaacson tells us that eugenics means “good genes”. Sounds harmless enough. So what’s the fuss? Tag words: Eugenics; Walter Isaacson; The Code Breaker; Jennifer Doudna; James Watson; DNA double helix; Human Genome Project; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; that Salvador Luria; Max Delbrück; Charles Davenport; Richard Weikart; From Darwin to Hitler; Darwin’s Theory of Evolution; psychiatry; born criminal; The Descent of Man; Darwinism; Thomas Malthus; On Populations; Daniel Boorstin; The Discovers; Karl Marx; John Maynard Keynes; Origin of Species; Eugenicists; Judeo-Christian; God;

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 59. CYKIAE And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – The Benefits of Eugenics – James Watson and the Double Helix.

  4. Oct 12

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 58. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – The Benefits of Eugenics – Human Behaviour Is Like Ants.

    In The Descent of Man [Darwin] asserted, "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races." In 1881 Darwin warned W. Graham against underestimating the efficacy of natural selection in advancing human civilization, since "The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilised races throughout the world." Darwin once wrote a note that "natural selection is now acting on the inferior races when put into competition with the New Zealanders." -       Richard Weikart From Darwin to Hitler. Henry Drummond, the Clarence Darrow character in the movie Inherit the Wind spoke these words: Darwin took us forward to a hilltop from where we could look back and see the way from which we came. But for this insight and for this knowledge we must abandon our faith in the pleasant poetry of Genesis He also showed us how, unlike the Judaeo/Christian belief that taught us that all men were created equal in the image of God, Darwin taught us that all men weren’t equal. Some were superior to others and deserving of life. Others were inferior and deserving of death. Darwinism turned racism into valid science. Better still, it was possible, thanks to evolution, to breed men who were even more superior still to all other existing men just like we’d been doing for some time with the selective breeding of animals. This belief was the science of eugenics. What’s eugenics? I’m about to tell you.

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 58. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – The Benefits of Eugenics – Human Behaviour Is Like Ants.

  5. Oct 5

    CYKIAE Season 15. Part 57. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Not the Religion of Peace - Atheism.

    In early June 1926 John Scopes was in New York where the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU, was trying, without success, to dissuade him from having Clarence Darrow as one of his attorneys.   The ACLU’s prospects in this regard were probably not overly bright. For one thing, by way of a fundraiser, the ACLU held a dinner for Scopes at the prestigious City Club. Scopes, a young inexperienced teacher, who had casually taken on the role of defendant in the forthcoming trial when asked during a break in his tennis game, was unused to being a public speaker. The case that he was the accidental defendant in was supposed to test Tennessee’s law against teaching that man had descended from lower forms of life as Darwin had claimed. Scopes was perhaps someone worth gawping at, but he wasn’t worth the hefty price being charged to attend that important fund raising dinner. The man that everyone went to that dinner, and forked out large amounts of money to hear the legendary Clarence Darrow speak. His speech that night didn’t disappoint. He appealed to the higher principles of his audience. His words had their souls (well they were mostly non believers but they had souls even if they didn’t know they did) soaring to lofty heights. He assured them that thanks to Charles Darwin the socialist Utopia was now finally within reach – that Darwin’s ideas were leading the world to a better place – but that wasn’t true was it? Tag words: John Scopes; American Civil Liberties Union; tACLU; Clarence Darrow; Charles Darwin;Theory of Evolution; John Farrell; Clarence Darrow – the Attorney for the Damned; Spencer Tracy; Inherit the Wind; Richard Weikart; Darwinian Racism; Eric Harris; Dylan Klebold; Columbine High School; Hitler; Nazis; neo-Nazis; white nationalists; Darwinism; lower races; Ernst Haeckel; ontogeny; ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny; Jonathon Wells; Icons of Evolution; Stephen Jay Gould;

    CYKIAE Season 15. Part 57. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Not the Religion of Peace - Atheism.

  6. Sep 28

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 56. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – I propose to present an outline of the great, sacred struggle for the liberty of science.

    By the turn of the century, secular historians and essayists rather than theologians and scientists were largely responsible for keeping alive the public perception of hostility between Christians and evolutionists. During the last third of the nineteenth century, two academicians from New York, John William Draper and Andrew Dickson White, wrote enormously popular but highly biased histories of the relationship between science and religion. Draper described his History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science as "a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive force of the human intellect on one side, and the compression arising from traditionary faith and human interests on the other." White opened his Warfare of Science with the sentence, "I propose to present an outline of the great, sacred struggle for the liberty of science — a struggle which has lasted for so many centuries, and which yet continues." He later fleshed out this brief book into a massive, two-volume A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. These books recounted Roman Catholic attacks on Copernican astronomy, including the seventeenth-century trial of Galileo and execution of Giordano Bruno, and fostered the impression that religious critics of Darwinism threatened to rekindle the Inquisition. They neither reported the growing harmony between theologians and evolutionists nor noted that most great physical scientists of the period, from John Dalton and Michael Faraday to Lord Kelvin and James Clerk Maxwell, were devout Christians. Instead, as James Orr complained in The Fundamentals about these books, "Science and Christianity are pitted against each other. Their interests are held to be antagonistic." So wrote Edward Larson in his book Summer for the Gods. It’s a book about the famous 1925 Tennessee Monkey Trial between the formidable atheist lawyer, Clarence Darrow and the highly respected Williams Jenning Bryan who was oddly, a left wing Christian apologist. The public perception of those who know about the trial is that it was a trial over freedom of expression. Whether the Theory of Evolution should be allowed to be taught in public schools in Tennessee. But that wasn’t the point. It wasn’t science against Religion  … oh no, no, no. It was a far more important fight than that. Tag words: Theory of Evolution; Charles Darwin; History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science; Warfare of Science;  John William Draper; Andrew Dickson White; A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom; Edward Larson; Summer for the Gods; Tennessee Monkey Trial; Clarence Darrow; Williams Jenning Bryan; Christians; ACLU; American Civil Liberties Union; Auguste Comte; Lovejoy; American Association of University Professors; John Scopes; Harry F Ward; Stephen Meyer; The Return of the God Hypothesis; materialist worldview; Glen Scrivener; The Air We Breathe; John Lennox; Peter Singer; The Origin of Species; atheism; Augusto Zimmermann; Christian Foundations of the Common Law, Volume 3 Australia; Brendan Sweetman; Nelson QScience Biology;

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 56. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – I propose to present an outline of the great, sacred struggle for the liberty of science.

  7. Sep 21

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 55. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – 3.85-Billion-Years Is Not Enough.

    … even taking into account life's 3.85-billion-year history. It follows that the mechanism of random mutation and natural selection has not had enough time to generate or search but a minuscule fraction (one ten trillion trillion trillionth, to be precise) of the total number of possible nucleotide base or amino-acid sequences corresponding to a single protein fold. It is therefore overwhelmingly more likely than not that a random mutational search would have failed to produce even one new functional (information-rich) DNA sequence capable of coding for one new protein fold in the entire history of life on earth. Consequently, the hypothesis that such a random search succeeded is more likely to be false than true. And, of course, building new animals would require the creation of many new proteins and protein folds, not just one. It follows that the standard neo-Darwinism mechanism does not provide an adequate explanation for the origin of the genetic information necessary to produce the major innovations in biological form that have arisen in the history of life on earth. wrote Stephen Meyer in his book The Return of the God Hypothesis. So do Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism run out of time to be able to generate even just one new protein fold, let alone a whole new living form like the Nelson QScience Biology textbook tells Australian high school students is the absolutely proven science. Or have the mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists, not the intelligent design scientists, killed off Darwin’s Theory once and for all? Let’s look at the facts. Tag words: neo-Darwinism; Stephen Meyer; The Return of the God Hypothesis; Nelson QScience Biology; Darwin’s Theory of Evolution; The Origin of Species; Mutations; Robert Wesson; Beyond Natural Selection; microevolution; Fred Hoyle; Jonathon Wells; Zombie Science; Cambrian Explosion; Michael Denton; Evolution: A Theory in Crisis; DNA; Random; Douglas Axe; Dan Tawfik; John Lennox; God’s Undertaker; amino-acid chains; genetic homeostasis; Geraint Lewis; Luke Barnes; A Fortunate Universe; Richard Feynman; Scopes Monkey Trial;

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 55. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – 3.85-Billion-Years Is Not Enough.

  8. Sep 14

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 54. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Some Things You Just Gotta Take on Trust.

    It’s entirely possible that you‘ve never heard of the French nobleman, Alexis de Tocqueville. The editors of the 2000 edition of Alexis’s famous book, Democracy in America, Harvey C Mansfield and Delba Winthrop, wrote: Alexis de Tocqueville was born on July 29, 1805, and died in his fifty-fourth year on April 16, 1859: not a long life, and one often afflicted with ill health. He was born a French aristocrat and lived as one; and he was also a liberal who both rejected the old regime of aristocracy and doubted the revolution that overturned it. An aristocratic liberal he was, and if we knew everything contained in that difficult combination, we could stop here. But since we do not, the formula will serve as a beginning. In thought as in life Tocqueville always held to freedom and to nobility, and his question, his concern was how to keep them together. Tocqueville was born into a very old Norman family named Clérel; one of his ancestors had fought in the company of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. Through marriage, negotiation and action at law, the Clérels acquired the fief of Tocqueville in Normandy, and in 1661 took that name. Alexis's grandfather was a chevalier; his father Hervé became a count in 1820. In 1793 Henré had married the granddaughter of Malesherbes, a great figure late in the Old Regime: botanist, correspondent of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, both minister and critic of Louis XVI, and courageous defender of the king at his trial in 1792-1793. Malesherbes and Hervé de Tocqueville were imprisoned during the Terror, the former guillotined together with a sister, a daughter, a son-in-law, and a granddaughter and her husband. Hervé was spared and released in 1794, his hair having turned snow white at the age of twenty-two. The editors wrote quite simply: “Democracy in America” is at once the best book ever written on democracy and the best book ever written on America. Part of what Tocqueville wrote is vitally important in explaining the crisis in science today, In particular in what passes as the science of Darwin’s Theory of The Origin of Species. Tag words: Alexis de Tocqueville; Democracy in America; Darwin; The Origin of Species; Richard Lewontin; George Klein; Creator; God; Dogmatic beliefs; John Lennox; God’s Undertaker; Anthony Flew; Peter Ridd; Reef Heresy; Just-cause-corruption; CP Snow; Marcia Angell; Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption; The New England Journal of Medicine; R Horton; The Lancet; J Robert Oppenheimer; Jonathon Wells; Icons of Evolution; Nelson QScience Biology;

    CYKIAE Season 15 Part 54. And Christ Rose Yet Again – The Sudden Death of Atheism – The Scopes Monkey Trial – Dayton Tennessee – Some Things You Just Gotta Take on Trust.
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Paul spent 38 yrs as a partner of a boutique commercial litigation firm in the Sydney, Australia, CBD. He frequently appeared before the NSW Supreme Court & the Federal Court of Australia, inc having a major flaw in the Corporations Act amended by the Australian parliament. Retired, his forensic skills are now turned to the major issues in our society. Exposing the errors, or worse still, lies in behind beliefs commonly held, even taught to our children, that are seriously and dangerously wrong. The Truth is always quiet. It is lies that are loud. CYKIAE (Christ You Know It Ain't Easy).

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