Robert Morley is a columnist for The Trumpet, and a notoriously dense creationist. Short story:
Morley does not have the faintest clue about how science work or what
scientific evidence means. So for instance, with respect to the 2010 neanderthal
genome sequencing, Morley concluded:
“What did the scientists find? Simply put: Neanderthals are human. There was
virtually no difference between the two codes […] The data suggests Neanderthals
are as closely related to humans as Chinese are to Germans, or French to
Javanese.” That, of course, was not quite what the scientists found. It is
unlikely that Morley actually read the paper, but then again, it is doubtful
that it would have mattered – one suspects he would have come to the same conclusion no matter what the paper had said,
and no matter how carefully the scientists had stated their conclusion.
From there on, it is the standard slide to absurdity: “It is
a startling admission for evolutionists because it throws a monkey wrench into
conventional evolutionary theory,” to the conclusion that “science proves the
Bible correct”, and that the Neandertals were actually the pre-Flood Nephilim – you know, the bad guys who provoked God to kill everyone except Noah and his
family. Morley didn’t try to back up the last claim with citations from the
paper he was discussion.
You can probably predict the tenor of the rest of his
Trumpet columns. The correct response to the Sandy Hook massacre, for instance?
Discussion about gun control is a “false dilemma”; we need to return to God.
In fact, Morley’s level of crazy goes quite a bit deeper. In
this one (coauthored with one Andrew Miller) he laments Britain’s loss of its colonies
and the fact that the US and Britain no longer control two-thirds of the world.
How did it happen? Well, the US and Britain originally ascended to power
beginning “with a promise made to the ancient patriarch Abraham in which God
promised to give his descendants control of the ‘gates’ of their enemies. God
gave Britain and America these commercial gates.” And why did they lose the
control? Well, “God also warned that if America and Britain did not obey Him,
then not only would those sea gates be taken away, but they would be used
against these nations.” Precisely. And woe the situation of today. “Malta is
now a member of the European Union and the eurozone. Germany is dominating the
EU, and Malta is swiftly becoming a German vassal state.” Clearly a sign of the
endtimes (Germany is a recurring villain (together with China) in Morley’s
writings, and it is a bit unclear why). Not only is the loss of colonial
imperialism a sad thing – it is, according to Morley and Miller, also a
fulfillment of the prophecies of Herbert Armstrong.
Yes, that Herbert Armstrong.
Diagnosis: And so it goes.
Thanks very much; a small correction: in the Biblical story of Noakh, it was the wickedness of _humanity_ that provoked the Flood, there is no mention made of the moral character of the Nephilim.
ReplyDeleteHe sounds as if he's a British Israelitist, a movement which is notable for starting intensely philo-semitic (funding missions to convert the Jews so that the cousin tribes might be reunited) but is now almost entirely anti-semitic (basically, 'Death to the imposters!'), though Armstrong was an exception so far as I know.