From the conclusion of Hayek’s Law, Legislation, and Liberty trilogy (The Political Order of a Free People):

I believe men will look back on our age as an age of superstition, chiefly connected with the names of Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. I believe people will discover that the most widely held ideas which dominated the twentieth century, those of a planned economy with a just distribution, a freeing ourselves from repression and conventional morals, of permissive education as a way to freedom, and the replacement of the market by a rational arrangement of a body with coercive powers, were all based on superstitions in the strict sense of the word. An age of superstition is a time when people imagine that they know more than they do. In this sense, the twentieth century was certainly an outstanding century of superstition, and the cause of this is an overestimation of what science has achieved… (University of Chicago Press, 1979; pp. 175–176)

Of course, Charles Darwin’s name should have appeared here as well. We may therefore supplement this quote with one from Hayek’s contemporary, Malcolm Muggeridge (from The End of Christendom):

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it’s been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.

My good friend James Barham has published an interesting list of religious believers at his online educational website TheBestSchools.org:

www.thebestschools.org/…/50-smartest-people-faith

Here’s a montage with all 50 (see who you can recognize):

TheBestSchools.org has a neat ranking of the best 50 colleges in the U.S.:

http://www.thebestschools.org/blog/2012/12/04/50-best-colleges-united-states/

Some ID-friendly schools are listed.

Anybody who has watched the Ben Stein documentary EXPELLED will know that defenders of ID face some pressure in this western secularized culture. Sometimes, however, when I speak before ID-friendly audiences, I’m asked about the “persecution” of ID defenders. In response, I always make clear that “persecution” is really the wrong term to describe what we’re going through here in the U.S. and in other Western nations.

By “persecution,” we’re not just talking about losing your job or reputation, but being shipped of to the Gulag and tortured. Nothing remotely like that has happened to any ID advocate here in the West, myself included. Yes, I’ve been fired, vilified, and marginalized. But I’ve always managed to find another job and always had supporters to encourage me. This is nothing like what people in Communist countries experienced during the Cold War, and many Christian believers still experience.

I’m fortunate that early in my Christian experience (I became a believer at age 18 in 1979), I was exposed to the witness of Richard Wurmbrand, who had been imprisoned and tortured in Ceausescu’s Romania for 14 years before his release to the West in the 1960s. One of my favorite organizations to support is his Voice of the Martyrs. In their current newsletter, they include the following excerpt from his writings:

Why Suffering?

“…that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer” (2 Thess. 1:5)

When we are sick, we go to a doctor. We know there is such a thing as good health. We don’t ask why we have to take bitter pills or undergo an operation in order to be restored to health. We have faith in the doctor and do what we says.

We know that this world is topsy-turvy, full of darkness. Everyone will die. But Christ told us about a splendid kingdom of love, where He reigns and all His disciples will be eternally happy. Evil powers want to keep others from getting there. Christ taught us by His own example that we should win people for this kingdom, even if we have to suffer and die to do so….

A person will endure suffering of some kind in the USA, too, if he works for God’s kingdom. Instead of posing the vain question of why suffering is needed, embrace it passionately….

Jesus asked on the cross why He was abandoned. He was given no reply in words. His resurrection was the answer. My wife, Sabina, and I suffered in jail. Why? The answer is our mission, which helps thousands of persecuted Christians spiritually and financially. It could not have existed without what went before. Many believers who loved the kingdom and had known other sorrows joined us.

Trust in the value of any suffering for the kingdom. At times you may need to abandon vain human reason to rely only on trust. Then God, the Beloved, “will rejoice over you with singing” (Zeph. 3:17).

Invite God’s silence to surround and fill you. Then you will hear this song. We hear it.

Infographics are increasingly used to clarify numerical data. Here’s one about the consistent failure of green energy to make good on its promises:

Source: Master of Engineering Degrees

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