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References: (1) Nancy Pearcey, a fellow of the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and author of several books including “Total Truth,” “Finding Truth,” and “The Toxic War on Masculinity.” (2) Bassett Maguire, a biology professor at the University of Texas, “admits that the (peppered) moths were STAGED, and the embryos were EXAGGERATED. Maguire told a reporter: “But the examples DON’T REALLY MATTER SO MUCH as the CONCEPTS THEY TEACH! The icons represent FLAWED but nevertheless HISTORIC MOMENTS in science,” he said, “and the concepts they ILLUSTRATE REMAIN VALID.” (3) I do not understand what Professor Maquire meant by what fraudulent concepts teach. If they are fraudulent then they are FALSE, and it is best that you ELIMINATE THESE TOXIC THOUGHTS from your mind because it can lead you down the wrong path. (4) Dr. Caroline Leaf in her book “Who Switched Off My Brain?” said, “Remember, our BEHAVIOR follows our THOUGHTS, not the other way around. Analyzing and addressing our thoughts are KEY COMPONENTS of conquering the habits and behaviors that seem to hold us HOSTAGE. (5) Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was an English writer and philosopher and author of “Brave New World.” (6) Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), was an English biologist and anthropologist renowned for his work in comparative anatomy and his relentless and public defense of Darwin’s theory of evolution. (7) Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and the son of Leonard Huxley and Julia Arnold, with siblings and descendants who also achieved prominence in science and literature. (8) Thomas Henry Huxley’s MOST FAMOUS MOMENT came during the 1860 Oxford debate with the Christian Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, the son of William Wilberforce, the man who ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY got Great Britain to dismantle chattel slavery in Great Britain’s empire. (9) Even if you lose a debate to someone who defends a FALSE SYSTEM, that doesn’t make the false system TRUE. (10) Few statements about MODERN UNBELIEF are as REVEALING as what philosopher Thomas Nagel’s famous confession about God in his book “The Last Word: “I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that.” (11) But despite of his atheism, Nagle writes in his powerful book “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception Of Nature Is Almost Certainly False” saying that the modern MATERIALISTIC APPROACH to LIFE has conspicuously FAILED TO EXPLAIN such central mind-related features of our world as CONSCIOUSNESS, INTENTIONALITY, MEANING, and VALUE. (12) Since we are discussing Darwinian evolution, we need to get an idea what Darwin thought about evolution. There are at least 6 factors that show how the process of Darwinian evolutionary system works. a. Common descent with modifications. b. Spontaneous generation. This is episode 278.