Though Popper esteemed evolutionary theory and natural selection, he also forthrightly stated that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory but rather a metaphysical research program. By this he means that not only is Darwinism spiritual, but so are its' two most important foundations, classical empiricism and the observationalist philosophy of science that grew out of it.
Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that contradicts itself by asserting that human knowledge comes only or primarily via sensory experience rather than the mind (spirit) while observationalism asserts that human knowledge and theories must be based on empirical observations....instead of the mind. For this reason, Popper argued strongly against empiricism and observationalism, saying that scientific theories and human knowledge generally, is conjectural or hypothetical and is generated by the creative imagination.
In other words, all three theories originated in the unseen mind, a power of which is imagination. As mind is a power of soul, then Darwinism, empiricism, and observationalism are spiritual. In short, all three theories are frauds. They claim to be what they are not in order to obtain an advantage over the Genesis account of creation ex nihilo by imposition of immoral means.
Nevertheless, today this fraudulent hypothetical system of the creative imagination and the ancient occult pagan lore undergirding it are promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion,
"...a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint – and Mr [sic] Gish is but one of many to make it – the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.... Evolution therefore came into being as a kind of secular ideology, an explicit substitute for Christianity." Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse was professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph, Canada. He was the leading anti-creationist philosopher whose fraudulent conjectures and flawed arguments convinced a biased judge to rule against the 'balanced treatment' of creation and evolution in an Arkansas school bill proposed in 1981. At the trial, he and other anti-creationists loftily dismissed the claim that evolution was an anti-god religion. (creation.com)
As Ruse admits, evolution is an anti-creation religion, a "full-fledged alternative to Christianity." It is promulgated by contemporary Western heirs of a rebellion against our Heavenly Father, Creator and Sustainer of all that exists, that emerged out of the Renaissance giving birth to an occult intelligentsia, open intercourse with fallen angels, out-of-body astral plane travels, and Illuminism (enlightenment via spirits), an occult nature religion that teaches that man,
"...can evolve, through initiatory steps, into a god state himself." (New World Order: The Ancient Plan of Secret Societies," William Still, p. 27)
"The figure of the Renaissance man is not complete if the place of the Magician is forgotten. Ficino was scholar, priest, and magician." (The Occult Underground, James Webb, p. 222)
In the heart of Christendom during the time of the Renaissance the "alternative" originally took the form of occult pantheist humanism bespeaking evolution and reincarnation of divine spark or spirit to higher and higher states of god-consciousness. Later on another form arose: evolutionary secular (materialist) humanism. While the former was blatantly occult and spiritually pagan, the latter was essentially a de-spiritualized but nevertheless arcane version of the former falsely presenting itself as demonstrable empirical science to masses of hopeless people:
"Reason had died sometime before 1865," wrote Webb. "After the Age of Reason came the Age of the Irrational...." Bereft of assurances of immortality after so great an attack on biblical revelation masses of hopeless people were, "begging for a revelation which was scientifically demonstrable."
Karl Marx's Illuminist-inspired messianic Communism was advertised as the longed-for "scientifically demonstrable" revelation. However, Marx's dialectical-materialism (evolutionary theory) is merely a de-spiritualized version of Hegel's occult dialectic system. Master-magician G.W.F. Hegel was an important member of the occult intelligentsia. He closely studied ancient wisdom traditions including Egyptian Hermetic magic and Babylonian Kabala as well as mesmerism, psychic phenomena, dowsing, precognition, and sorcery. He professed belief in a pantheistic Earth Spirit, and informally aligned himself with Hermetic societies, anti-Christian God Freemasons, and the pantheist Rosicrucian's. (Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition, Glenn Alexander Magee, 2001)
Enrico Ferri (1856-1926) provides another example of occult magic science parading as empirical science. A prominent socialist of his day and an Italian criminologist who for many years was the editor of Avanti, a socialist daily, Ferri wrote of the divine miracle-producing energies animating natural causation in "Socialism and Religious Beliefs." Ferri confessed:
"....modern positive science...has substituted the conception of natural causality for the conception of miracles and divinity....I add that not only is Darwinism not contrary to socialism, but that it forms one of its fundamental scientific premises. As Virchow justly remarked, socialism is nothing else than the logical and vital outcome partly of Darwinism and partly of Spencerian evolution." (Marxists.org)
In another example of occult magic disguised as empirical science, Gustav Wetter expounds on the magical 'mental' and 'divine' properties animating and informing nonliving matter and dialectic: "...matter itself continually attains to higher perfection under its own power, thanks to indwelling dialectic...the dialectical materialists attribution of 'dialectic' to matter confers on it, not mental attributes only, but even divine ones." (Dialectical Materialism, Gustav A. Wetter, 1977, p. 58)
As you might guess, I am neither awestruck nor mystified by empirical gnosis---an irrational, fruitless worldview that in its’ modern, de-spiritualized form emerged out of an evolutionary occult pantheism whose roots stretch back to the plain of Shinar.
The Christian Truth which has been undermined and displaced by an irrational, fruitless, pagan, pantheist occult gnosis is no mere philosophical truth but the Truth of Life and salvation: "..... I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life..." Deuteronomy 30:19-20
The Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Word become Flesh, Jesus Christ the Physician came to heal the spiritually sick. But whoever rejects the Physician, whether through indifference or outright denial, rejects His prescriptio
Ezek 28:11-13
11 The word of the Lord came to me: 12 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says:
"'You were the model of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
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Or:
Gen 3:23-24
23 So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove the man out, he placed on the east sidee of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.
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>>But whoever rejects the Physician,
Observing the self-evident facts regarding Natural Law does not constitute rejecting the Physician.
Got anymore straw stuffed in that vociferously vapid fallible, uninspiring, dominion-assuming opinion of yourn?
Creationists continue, nevertheless, to haul out these [mis-]quotes long after they've been refuted hundreds or thousands of times. If there was any value to Creationism, creationists would not need to lie so transparently, or so often.
As for all of the rest, it is nonsense. These are simply regurgitations of various heresies -- both religious and scientific -- that have been circulating since the beginning of civilization. They were summarized a great deal more succinctly by George Berkeley, to be sure, but they are nonsense all the same.
The human condition has materially improved tremendously since The Resurrection, and nearly all of that improvement can be attributed to science; almost none of it to religion. The reason for that success is that despite your tl;dr mumbo-jumbo, scientific investigation makes sense of the world and produces useful results, which leads to more investigation, and more useful results, and so on...
In contrast, the argument you are advancing, that scientific knowledge is merely an illusion of the mind, was best refuted by Ben Johnson, who, was asked how he could possibly refute Bishop Berkeley's claim that the world was nothing more than a creation of the imagination replied: "I refute it by putting my boot in his ass."
Science will continue to improve the human condition without your approval, and your literalist interpretation of Scripture will continue to go nowhere.