James Wong-ethnobotanist and Darwin worshipper, and 'dinosaur feathers'

I return to a theme I keep mentioning here, the systematic misuse of the word 'evolution'. This matters: we cannot falsify a theory if we cannot define it.

Watching the weekly BBC TV farming magazine programme Countryfile last Sunday, James Wong was on a trip to Downe house. What this had to do with agriculture, I don't know. He said that Charles Darwin was his hero. Jesus of Nazareth is mine.

He took a look at the garden where The Greatest Scientist Ever did his nature studies for 40 years, and considered the quadrant in the garden. I read about this in Origin of Species, a decent little experiment in which Darwin sectioned off a square yard of lawn and didn't mow the grass. After a while, the number and kind of plants became different. This was, and is, a good example of natural selection.

Mr Wong said 'what a great example of evolution!'

I will spell this out clearly since many people who claim to be scientific and objective continue to be completley wrong about it. Darwin's experiment with his lawn showed that some plants do better when cut or grazed short, others do better when left to grow long. This is a good example of natural selection, or if you must, adaptation to an environment

BUT

it is not evolution. No genetic change AT ALL has ocurred. Neither does this process have any inherent tendency to bring about ANY genotypic change, over however many years it is repeated. It is a sorting process which CREATES NOTHING NEW.


I went to James Wong's web site to make sure I got his name right. He has posted the following there

>>>>I'm James Wong - a botanist, gardener, broadcaster & natural remedies obsessive, who's passionate about all things botanical.

I'm putting together jameswong.co.uk as an alternative, fresh guide to cool stuff to grow, for committed plant geeks & horticultural virgins alike.

Over the next few months I will be uploading everything I know and everything I do - from recipes for my favourite herbal remedies to my "plant of the week" blog - as well as updates to all my latest TV, books and talks. Come back and watch how it evolves! <<<


'come back and watch how it evolves'. 


I would bet my pension against a round of drinks that Mr Wong's web site is intelligently designed.


This is how 'drip, drip, drip' propaganda works. befuddle, misrepresent, keep repeating SCIENCE, SCIENCE, SCIENCE like a mantra, and suppress and ridicule people who ask the wrong questions.


PS I have been too busy to comment on the dinosaur feathers scam in detail, this has been adressed on Answers in Genesis and elsewhere. Briefly, I heard a scientist interviewed about this ob BBC radio 4 by notorious 'sceptic' (except where evolution is concerned) John Humphrys. The scientist waxed lyrical about the dinosaur feathers preserved in amber while I waited for the obvious question 'how do we know the feathers were from a dinosaur?'. The question never came, understandably since even to ask it woudl imply the blasphemous unthinkability that the scientist was just making this up, whereas obviously the news item was meant to underscore evolutionism as in reptile to bird evolution.

Later on that week, the BBC launched a new CGI animation showing all sorts of dinosaurs with feathers. Its all carefully co-ordinated.

I haven' had time recently due to work commitments to study the whole thing in depth, but I gather that the feathers were NOT attached to a dinosaur, but merely presumed to be dinosaur. In fact, they are pretty much identical to the feathers we see in modern birds. This manipulation and spinning of evidence should come as no surpise to anyone. All it proves is how desperate they are to keep up the indoctrination and at all costs prevent the evidence against the Darwin mythos from being discussed in the media.