Essay: Switzerland, Britain, road maintenance skills, economics, evolutionism, creation science and yodeling

Charles Darwin was born in Britain.

Britain is the birthplace of Darwinism and Charles Darwin.

A Eurobarometer poll in 2010 reported that 37% of United Kingdom (UK) citizens "believed there is a God", 33% believe there is "some sort of spirit or life force" and 25% answered "I don't believe there is any sort of spirit, God or life force". In 2014, The Telegraph reported: "The British are among the most sceptical in the world about religion, a global study has found. Just over a third of people in the UK believe religion has a positive role to play in our daily lives, compared to a global average of 59 per cent." See also: British atheism

Since World War II a majority of the most prominent and vocal defenders of the evolutionary position which employs methodological naturalism have been atheists and agnostics. In 2007, "Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture...announced that over 700 scientists from around the world have now signed a statement expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution."

The Guardian is a leading British newspaper.

On June 28, 2022, The Guardian published an article entitled Do we need a new theory of evolution? which indicated: "A new wave of scientists argues that mainstream evolutionary theory needs an urgent overhaul... Strange as it sounds, scientists still do not know the answers to some of the most basic questions about how life on Earth evolved. Take eyes, for instance. Where do they come from, exactly? The usual explanation of how we got these stupendously complex organs rests upon the theory of natural selection."

Dr. Walter Bradley said about the notion that the origin of life developed naturally instead of supernaturally: "The optimism of the 1950's is gone. The mood at the 1999 international conference of the origin of life was described as grim - full of frustration, pessimism, and desperation." In 1996, John Horgan wrote in Scientific American: "The origin of life is a science writer's dream. It abounds with exotic scientists and exotic theories, which are never entirely abandoned or accepted, but merely go in and out of fashion." Even Stanley Miller of the famous Miller-Urey experiment, wrote in Scientific American that the "problem of the origin of life has turned out to be much more difficult than I, and most other people, envisioned." Horgan also wrote that Stanley Miller had referred to current proposals of the origin of life as "nonsense" and "paper chemistry".

In 2007, the Christian Post reported: "But proponents of creationism contend that most Swiss want creationism taught alongside evolution in biology class. A survey commissioned by the Christian organization Pro Genesis earlier this year found 80 percent of Swiss want creationism taught in schools, according to swissinfo. Meanwhile, an international survey last year found 30 percent of Swiss reject evolution – one of the highest rates in Europe."

Question: Is Switzerland or Britain a more advanced society that is better able to understand the complexities involved in the origin of life and the origin of the plants and animals?

Motorways of Switzerland are among the world's finest roadways

See also: Motorways of Switzerland

Europe’s best roads, those found in the Netherlands and Switzerland, are also among the world’s finest. The Global Competitiveness Report 2019, published by the World Economic Forum ranked 141 countries based on their performance in a variety of different categories. Switzerland was ranked as having the second best roads in Europe and the Netherlands was ranked as having the best roads in Europe.

Motorist on a road in the Grimselpass of Switzerland

Road in Switzerland

United Kingdom's road repair crisis

See also: United Kingdom's road repair crisis

In 2013, the breakdown service Britannia Rescue reported that potholes now “take up a total area of 295 square miles (764 square km) in Britain – more than twice the size of the Isle of Wight”.

The United Kingdom (UK) website Fife Today reported in on July 27, 2022 on UK's road repair crisis: "Over 1.5 million potholes were reported across the country, but the AA says the actual number is likely to be much higher as the figure does not include pothole on motorways and major roads, and many go unreported."

In 2022, Sky News published a news article entitled Heatwave: Melting roads, buckling tracks, productivity loss - Britain needs to adapt to more soaring temperatures which indicated:

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Britain isn't built for this heat. Our rail network is only engineered for temperatures up to 30C (86F). Only half our strategic roads are surfaced in heat-resistant material... Road repairs following the 2003 heatwave cost £41m; damage and delays on the railways cost another £2.5m.

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In 2018, it was reported that the United Kingdom's pothole epidemic could cost £9bn and a decade to solve. In December 2018, it was reported that potholes recently increased by third to half a million in UK and there may be as many as 674,000 potholes in the UK.

A 2016 UK Automobile Association study found that 32% of UK drivers have experienced vehicle damage caused by potholes in the last two years.

In 2018, UK roads ranked were ranked 27th in the world which was a ranking below Chile and Cyprus.

Britain's road repair crisis

The Week reported in 2018: "The AA’s insurance chief, Janet Connor, has described Britain’s broken roads as “nothing short of a national disgrace.”

Britain's pothole crisis is costing drivers and insurance firms at least £1m per month.

In 2013, Britain had one pothole in every mile of road. In 2013, the breakdown service Britannia Rescue reported that potholes now “take up a total area of 295 square miles (764 square km) in Britain – more than twice the size of the Isle of Wight”.

The creationism-loving United States has faster roads than the Darwinism-loving UK according to the International Monetary Fund. God bless America!

See also: United Kingdom's road repair crisis

The United States has faster roads than the UK according to the International Monetary Fund.

The social science of economics: The British economy vs. the Swiss economy. Which is the prosperous economy and which is the sick man of the G7 countries?

The G7 countries is an informal group of eight major developed countries: the United States, Canada, Japan, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy (plus the EU who has observer status), and between 1998 and 2014 Russia. The G7 heads of state have met annually since 1976 in summit meetings to discuss economic and political issues.

The Swiss economy: The Swiss are greatly blessed by God Almighty

According to Wikipedia, a website founded by an atheist and agnostic, "The economy of Switzerland is one of the world's most advanced and highly-developed free-market economies. The service sector has come to play a significant economic role, particularly the Swiss banking industry and tourism."

According to the 2022 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report, the Swiss are comfortably the wealthiest population in the world when measuring the average (mean) level of wealth per person ($696,600, or CHF652,890 in 2021).

As noted above, in 2007, the Christian Post reported: "But proponents of creationism contend that most Swiss want creationism taught alongside evolution in biology class. A survey commissioned by the Christian organization Pro Genesis earlier this year found 80 percent of Swiss want creationism taught in schools, according to swissinfo. Meanwhile, an international survey last year found 30 percent of Swiss reject evolution – one of the highest rates in Europe."

According to the 2022 Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report, the Swiss are comfortably the wealthiest population in the world when measuring the average (mean) level of wealth per person ($696,600, or CHF652,890 in 2021).

The British economy: Smited by God

Reuters: UK economy to shrink in 2023. Confederation of Business Industry forecast indicates that the UK risks a 'lost decade'.

The Economist, November 18, 2022: Britain is the sick man of Europe once again

• The UK has become the sick man of Europe again, Britain’s economy is forecast to perform worse than any other in Europe next year, New Statesman, November 17, 2022

In 2022, The Economist also published the article Britain’s productivity problem is long-standing and getting worse. The Economist states: "But even if the frontier is slowing, there is no iron law that says Britain cannot move closer to it. Catching up with America’s level of labour productivity would mean that Britain’s gdp per person would be £6,600 higher, for example. And even if it is hard to pin down the exact sources of the productivity slowdown in the 2010s, it is easier to identify areas where Britain has to do better in future. They fall into three big categories: investment, people and the spread of knowledge."

Protestantism: The Protestant work ethic and economic prosperity and economic development

See also: Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Protestant cultural legacies

The Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson declared: "Through a mixture of hard work and thrift the Protestant societies of the North and West Atlantic achieved the most rapid economic growth in history."

The Harvard University historian Niall Ferguson declared: "Through a mixture of hard work and thrift the Protestant societies of the North and West Atlantic achieved the most rapid economic growth in history."

The article "The Surprising Discovery About Those Colonialist, Proselytizing Missionaries" published in Christianity Today notes:

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In his fifth year of graduate school, Woodberry created a statistical model that could test the connection between missionary work and the health of nations. He and a few research assistants spent two years coding data and refining their methods. They hoped to compute the lasting effect of missionaries, on average, worldwide... One morning, in a windowless, dusty computer lab lit by fluorescent bulbs, Woodberry ran the first big test. After he finished prepping the statistical program on his computer, he clicked "Enter" and then leaned forward to read the results. "I was shocked," says Woodberry. "It was like an atomic bomb. The impact of missions on global democracy was huge. I kept adding variables to the model—factors that people had been studying and writing about for the past 40 years—and they all got wiped out. It was amazing. I knew, then, I was on to something really important." Woodberry already had historical proof that missionaries had educated women and the poor, promoted widespread printing, led nationalist movements that empowered ordinary citizens, and fueled other key elements of democracy. Now the statistics were backing it up: Missionaries weren't just part of the picture. They were central to it... Areas where Protestant missionaries had a significant presence in the past are on average more economically developed today, with comparatively better health, lower infant mortality, lower corruption, greater literacy, higher educational attainment (especially for women), and more robust membership in nongovernmental associations. In short: Want a blossoming democracy today? The solution is simple—if you have a time machine: Send a 19th-century missionary." ...at a conference presentation in 2002, Woodberry got a break. In the room sat Charles Harper Jr., then a vice president at the John Templeton Foundation, which was actively funding research on religion and social change. (Its grant recipients have included Christianity Today.) Three years later, Woodberry received half a million dollars from the foundation's Spiritual Capital Project, hired almost 50 research assistants, and set up a huge database project at the University of Texas, where he had taken a position in the sociology department. The team spent years amassing more statistical data and doing more historical analyses, further confirming his theory. ...Woodberry's historical and statistical work has finally captured glowing attention. A summation of his 14 years of research—published in 2012 in the American Political Science Review, the discipline's top journal—has won four major awards, including the prestigious Luebbert Article Award for best article in comparative politics. Its startling title: "The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy." ...over a dozen studies have confirmed Woodberry's findings. The growing body of research is beginning to change the way scholars, aid workers, and economists think about democracy and development.

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Evolution as a secular origins myth

See also: Evolution as a secular origins myth

Evolution is a secular origins myth of atheists, agnostics and members of other theologically liberal religious sects (theologically liberal religious sects often dismiss out of hand various supernatural events in history due to their hostility towards God and the supernatural). See also: Atheism is a religion

Paul Gosselin

The atheist philosopher of science Michael Ruse said "Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today."

The Canadian anthropologist Paul Gosselin wrote:

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In the world of myth, miracles are commonplace and occur regularly. Much the same could be said of evolutionary myths of origins. Just like in the Aboriginal Dreamtime stories and the Wolverine stories from the First Nations of North America, in the evolutionary origins myth one regularly encounters phenomena that are contrary to natural law and which have never been observed by any human. And the first of these miracles is abiogenesis, the transition from inert matter to living organisms, capable of reproducing themselves. But that is just the beginning. From there we go on to the transition from invertebrates to vertebrates, then there’s the transition from marine organisms, such as fish, to terrestrial organisms, the transition from reptiles to mammals, the transition from land mammals to marine mammals and then the transition from crawling reptiles to flying birds. But the greatest miracle of all? This is undoubtedly the appearance of functional genetic code and its chemical basis, DNA, and all this without the intervention of a Programmer. It is clear that miracles abound in the evolutionary origins myth. The faith of evolutionary believers is great, but for my part I have to admit lacking enough faith to believe in such miracles.

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High-profile evolutionists P.Z. Myers and Nick Matzke, agree that the origin of life is part of the evolutionary paradigm, as does Richard Dawkins. The naturalistic hypothesis of the origin of life is called abiogenesis and the evidence strongly points against such an idea (see: Origin of life).

See also:

• 15 questions for evolutionists

• 21 arguments evolutionists should not use

• Biology (creation vs evolution)

• Origin of life

Although he is not a creationist, the atheist philosopher John Gray admitted in 2008 in The Guardian: "A great deal of modern thought consists of secular myths - hollowed-out religious narratives translated into pseudo-science. Dennett's notion that new communications technologies will fundamentally alter the way human beings think is just such a myth."

Creation science

See also: Creation science

The Creation Research Society is a professional organization of trained scientists and interested laypersons committed to the scientific study of special creation as given in the book of Genesis.

The society publishes a quarterly peer-reviewed creation science journal.

Creation science is branch of science which sets out to show that supernatural creation of the material universe by God is consistent and compatible with the available scientific evidence. Being in the realm of origins science, creation science is a historical science. Most advocates of creation science believe the earth is about 6,000 years old, and they publish scientific evidence supporting this view (See, for example, Counterexamples to an Old Earth). The ongoing discovery of hundreds of living fossils correlates well with creation science but finds no answer in Darwinian theory. In addition, scientists in the discipline of creation science state that the first law of thermodynamics and second law of thermodynamics argue against an eternal universe. They also claim that these laws point to the universe being created by God. Creation scientists also assert that naturalistic processes alone cannot account for the origin of life and that the theory of evolution cannot account for the various kinds of animals and plants. Both evolutionary scientists and young earth creation scientists believe that speciation occurs; however, young earth creation scientists state that speciation generally occurs at a much faster rate than evolutionists believe is the case.

Creation Ministries International, a leading biblical creation science organization, declared:

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Creationist research is having a global effect that is worrying the atheists and secularists of this world. They have had it all their own way for over a century but things are slowly changing. For almost twenty five years now, Journal of Creation has been publishing cutting-edge creationist research that has been fueling the war against evolution, creating little fires all around the world, including Great Britain. Atheist evangelist, Prof Richard Dawkins, speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Science Festival in April 2008, said the rise of creationism in British schools raised a serious problem for science teachers. It is a very worrying trend,’ he said, ‘and I think a lot of it has come over from America and Australia.’

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Creation Science and Genetic Programs and Biological Information

For a more detailed treatment, see Intelligent design.

Dr. Werner Gitt

Scientists in the area of creation science and intelligent design advocates state the genetic code, genetic programs, and biological information argue for an intelligent cause in regards to the origins question.

Dr. Werner Gitt, former director and Professor of Information Systems at the prestigious German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt), wrote that human beings are the most complex information processing systems on earth. Dr. Gitt estimated that the human body processes thousands of times more information than all the world's libraries contain.

Dr. Gitt has written several points regarding the origin of biological information:

1. In his work In the Beginning Was Information Dr. Gitt stated that “There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.”
2. Dr. Gitt argued that the density and complexity of DNA information is millions of times larger than mankind's current technology and this means a supremely intelligent being was the author of this information. Similarly, Dr. Stephen C. Meyer in his 1996 essay The Origin of Life and the Death of Materialism, wrote that "the information storage density of DNA, thanks in part to nucleosome spooling, is several trillion times that of our most advanced computer chips.
3. Gitt stated that the author of the information encoded into the DNA molecule, who constructed the molecular biomachines to encode, decode and run the cells was supremely intelligent.
4. Dr. Gitt asserted that because information is a nonmaterial entity and does not originate from matter, the author of biological information must be nonmaterial (spirit).

How well do British evolutionists understand applied biology?

See also: Godless Britain is the fat man of Europe

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines biology as "a branch of knowledge that deals with organisms and vital processes." According to Newcastle University, "The aim of applied biology is to use basic knowledge of biology for practical purposes. This requires a sound understanding of how organisms function."

Two of the most basic vital processes relating to biology are breathing and eating.

It is readily conceded that British evolutionists have figured out how to breathe, but how intelligent and wise they on the eating/drinking front?

Here is a link to a list of evolutionists who are experiencing or have experienced problems with being overweight and/or obese (see also: Atheism and obesity): Evolutionists who have had problems with being overweight and/or obese

Professor Terence Stephenson in Measuring Up, a report on the nation's obesity crisis by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) called Britain "the fat man of Europe". See: Godless Britain is the fat man of Europe and United Kingdom and obesity and Atheism and obesity

The British atheist Stephen Fry is an evolutionist.

God is smiting British evolutionists. The godless land of fat, heavy drinkers!

Please read: God is smiting Britain. The godless land of fat, heavy drinkers!

Scripture teaches the sovereignty of God. For example, God can: lift up his hedge of protection; actively change ruler's/men's hearts (Proverbs 21:1; Exodus 9:12); allow men to reap the consequences of their own decisions/devices (Proverbs 1:24-32; Romans 1:26-29); or divinely intervene in the affairs of men in a dramatic way.

A thatched pub, the Williams Arms at Wrafton, near Braunton, North Devon, England.

On August 30, 2022, The Guardian reported concerning British pubs: "Thousands of pubs face closure without urgent government support to soften the blow from soaring energy bills, the beer industry has said, putting jobs at risk in a sector still battling to recover from the Covid pandemic."

First, the pestilence of Covid-19 rained down on British pubs and now this! Oh, godless British drunkards, feel the sting!

For more information, please see: God is smiting Britain. The godless land of fat, heavy drinkers!

Attention British evolutionist motorists: I beseech thee, loseth thy weight for the sake of wear and tear on thy roads! The wrath of God has been visited upon thy motorways and upon thy pubs! Thy European brothers in Switzerland are blessed by God Almighty with some of the finest roadways in the world.

Unlike the expert search engine specialists at major Christian websites, internet atheists have great difficulty understanding the complex Google algorithm!

See also: Every internet atheist is a pathetic, uninfluential loser that God Almighty has smited

I have a message for every internet atheist: You're a pathetic, uninfluential loser who has been totally defeated by God Almighty. The facts are undeniable. The data is incontrovertible.

For example, the data given at the link Every internet atheist is a pathetic, uninfluential loser that God Almighty has smited shows that Christendom is very influential on the internet while internet atheists largely preach to the atheist choir and are therefore uninfluential and unimportant. In short, a defeated laughingstock on the internet.

Online atheists, I am laughing at the "superior atheist intellects" who couldn't persuade and market their way out of a wet, paper bag.

And the margin of victory for Christendom over atheists is widening on the internet - not growing smaller. Oh, internet atheists! Feel the sting! You're such pathetic, uninfluential losers!

For more information, please see: Every internet atheist is a pathetic, uninfluential loser that God Almighty has smited

Large list of atheist websites that have lost a substantial portion of their web traffic with supporting data

• Large list of atheist websites that have lost a substantial portion of their web traffic with supporting data (Militant internet atheists, I dare you to click this link)

Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists

See: Internet evangelism: Christians vs. atheists

Conservapedia: The trustworthy, online encycyclopedia that godless, British motorist trust when doing searches at Google UK

See also: Conservapedia: The trustworthy, online encyclopedia that godless, British motorists trust when doing searches at Google UK

Conservapedia's article United Kingdom's road repair crisis ranks #4 at Google UK for a web searcher doing a search for "United Kingdom's road repair crisis" from the UK. The top 5 search results are considered to be favorable search results by search engine optimization specialists.

Google personalizes results depending on what location the searcher performs his search.

Google uses over 200 factors to evaluate the quality and the relevance of a website to various topics.

Conclusion

Besides the British having inferior maintenance skills to the Swiss creationists, they can't yodel as well as the Swiss!

If the British can't master something as rudimentary as road maintenance skills, road technology skills, basic economics, and yodeling, how in the world can they master as something as complex as the origin of life and the origin of plants and animals? They obviously can't!

See also

• Comedy and satires concerning atheism and evolution