I want you to join me in saying, 'Praise Darwin!'

By William Rameau, BREATHEcast News Reporter. Published on 26 April 2014.

Just like Kevin Sorbo's character (Professor Jeffery Radisson) from the Christian film "God's Not Dead," a real life Atheist college professor went berserk on Christians for expressing their faith recently on the UConn campus.

On April 22, UConn Anthropology Professor James Boster was infuriated when street preacher Don Karns and other Christians were holding signs that stated "Evolution is a Lie" and "Sin Awareness Day."

Outraged at what he saw, Boster couldn't hold himself back and began his rant. Video here.

"He says that evolution is a lie! Have you read the 'Origin of Species'?" yelled Boster to Karns in a video of the incident. "I have read the New Testament and the Old Testament!"

Boster further insulted the street evangelist in front of college students.

"Bull****! Bull****! You are full of ignorance and lies!" said Boster to Karns. "I want you to feel ashamed that you are willing to call something a lie that you have never actually read."

Boster then exhorted his views on evolution, and testified his love for Charles Darwin to college students.

"I want you to join me in saying, 'Praise Darwin!," said Boster to the students, with some joining in his chant. "We are all bonded together in that great spiritual web, because the divine saturates nature the way gravy saturates cornbread."

The rant sparked widespread rebuke online as the video went rival, and the University of Connecticut issued the following statement to condemn the professor's aggressive behavior:

"Everyone has the right to exercise free speech on our campuses. At the same time, we expect our faculty to act in a way that promotes civil discourse and to express themselves respectfully. The use of abusive language and the confrontational posture seen here are inconsistent with UConn's values."

This is not the first time that UConn has been plunged into religious freedom controversy. Previously former UConn assistant football coach Ernest Jones was forced to resign after he was criticized by the University President Susan Herbst for saying that "Jesus Christ should be in the center of our huddle."

"It should go without saying that our employees cannot appear to endorse or advocate for a particular religion or spiritual philosophy as part of their work at the university, or in their interactions with our students," said Herbst in a statement. "This applies to work-related activity anywhere on or off campus, including on the football field."

Evangelist Don Karns talked about his experience with Boster at UConn in recent interview.

"He asked me if I had accepted Darwin as my lord and savior," said Karns, according to the Christian News Network. "He was very agitated, very demonstrative. ... It was very unbecoming of a professor."

Link: http://www.breathecast.com/articles/atheist-uconn-professor-curses-rants-at-christian-evangelists-full-of-ignorance-lies-praise-darwin-video-15310/

Good News! Ladies Can Start Stabbing

I have been very concerned for a while after reading a male chauvinist's article entitled, “Sex Work” from www.

Loyarburok.com (where else?) Note: the fact that I am addicted to this site does not mean that I approve of all their nonsense.

Being concerned is to put it mildly, the truth is I was shocked. Not because the discussion was on prostitution.

Shocked because the author has put forward that-

1) sex is, according to the author, nothing more than "a biological drive manufactured by your brain to get you to reproduce and keep the species thriving", and

2) any attempt on the suppression of this biological drive will unleash the rapist and/or molester from within a person.

Where did the author get these findings from? The advanced theory of evolution? Even Charles Darwin did not propose them (see The Origin Of Species). Darwin was a smart man, knew that a man should not make this kind of senseless and baseless statements where his wife could read them. Now, this is the kind of man to command my respect. Obviously, the author is the other kind of man.

Anyway, I am not going to condemn the author to the deepest hell. In fact, he may receive my sympathy. He was conceived, as he thought, due to his parents' biological urge. Nothing more, nothing less. I will be depressed if I were him.

My parents fell in love and married. My mother gave birth to me because my parents were taught and agree till today that children are descendants. Not quite the author's sense of "keep the species thriving" but children are the product of the love and commitment of a man and a woman. The evidence of the couples' existence and a legacy to leave behind.

Having sex without having a commitment to love and cherish each other is having "pleasure without conscience" (see my posting, Eight Blunders of the World).

The truth is the truth. It does not matter if it comes from a donkey's mouth. A religious and self-righteous man may have sinned against God and another person, but that does not change/alter the truth. Hating the deed of such man does not mean we can do as we please.

I believe in a Creator and human beings are created instead of evolved from a pool of primordial soup. My life is not the product of a series of accidents. This entails a sense of value in life. However, I agree with Darwin in relation to natural selection (micro-evolution). All organisms are constantly evolving to compete for survival after creation. In my belief, since we are so wonderfully created, hence, all of us must be precious in the Creator's eyes. The argument to put the entire human race at the same level of animals or even beasts is not only simplistic but insulting.

My point is: How can we advocate for human rights, justice and equality for all when we use each other to satisfy our "biological drive"? Even in consensual sex other than in marriage, are we not using each other for own selfish desires? Where is the human dignity?

Today, I found hope when I read an article and that lifted my spirit, see “Angry Chinese Rally Behind ‘No. 1 Heroine’”. It states that, "Hotel pedicurist Deng Yujiao, accused of fatally stabbing a government official who allegedly tried to rape her, has become China’s latest folk hero — triggering what some commentators say is one of the country’s largest civil rights movements in recent years."

Well, since men cannot be depend on to have self-control, women now have another option. This is what I call justice and equality for all. Ladies, get your weapons ready.