Darwin,Britain's Hero,Is Still Controversial In U.S.

NPR citing what “Britons think” is only intended to encourage a feeling of liberal shamefulness “oh those intelligent europeans like darwin, why don’t dumb americans”

europe has a much more water-tight leftist propaganda machine than America, THAT’S WHY.

That is a great graphic! You made my morning. Thanks.

Anyway, who cares what British people think?

That would be you, with your original plaintive whine that Darwin was not Britain's hero.

Here, read this: Darwin, Saint of Science.

Nothing unworthy must be found in these pages; no unfair passage should be left within these covers; only pure thoughts belong to a book consecrated to an unsullied light-bringer. I have written with careful hands and clean; for I have sat near the altar of the Temple of Truth. The many shortcomings and imperfections of this volume are due to my limitations alone; the best that I could do, I have done.
Fear, fear, fear, -- everywhere is fear. Nothing is safe. All is murder. Nature is the eternal veteran, all are her enemies, and she never accepts the flag of truce. She makes a type and then she kills it. For the individual she has not the slightest regard. She cares nothing for the life which comes continually from her teeming womb.
Nature, thy mandate is chiseled on the rocks, it is echoed from the swamps to the snows, it resounds from the marshes to the mountains, the prairies know it, and the pampas tell it; it is writ across the sky, and our planet moans beneath the stern decree: flesh shall feed on flesh, and life must take life.
You destroy what you create, O Blunderer! Nature, where is thy justification? In the beginning, this earth swept thru space, formless and void. Darkness was upon its face, -- except when the lightnings flashed and the volcanoes glowed. But the black veil lifted, the golden sun poured its warming rays on the desolate globe, and lo! -- Mother Earth was pregnant. A tiny speck lay in the primitive waters, and this was life. And Nature watched our ultimate ancestor, and from that time on, her heavy hand has smitten and slaughtered.
What is it all for? Nature, is this the secret: that thou wipest out a type to bring a higher in? Show us then, the Perfect Man. Thou hast worked long enough for him. Thru countless epochs the process has gone on. Show us, Nature, the best you have produced. We wish to see your favorite and pride.
But Nature answers: What of him, my warmest lover, my humblest servant? What of the gentle hand that placed the radiant crown on the undecked brow of Truth? And Nature has redeemed herself. She may have blundered, and she surely has effaced, but she has evolved the Perfect Man. She has unfolded Darwin the Great and Good.
The works of Darwin! You stand before the accumulated knowledge of all the ages. A thousand discoveries are within these covers. Think how deep and often that noble brow has been contracted with thought. Is the topic too vast? Does its immensity balk the mind? Then think of this one theme: From a chattering ape of the forest, swinging from branch to branch by its prehensile tail, to the scientific Darwin in his studio, writing on the Geological Succession of Organic Beings!
Among these glorious bay-trees I cast this little chaplet. It is small, and its merit scant, but every leaf of it was interwoven with veneration. It will not bloom like other coronals, tho it was love that brought it forth. Accept, accept it, O Saint of Science, for I too know thee as the wonder and the glory of the universe!

More stuff like that here: Inbredscience

"The human race is an enormous agglomeration of bubbles which are continually bursting and ceasing to be. No one made it or knows anything worth knowing about it. Love it dearly, O ye bubbles." J. F. Stephen.

No problem with evolution. Escaping nihilism is the trick.

It's called responding to the premises in the story. That's sort of the point of this forum, you know?

"plaintive whine"

yes yes, ignore the many issues raised and pull out the random slurs when you are frustrated that you don't have anything interesting to say. We are supposed to have grown out of that by about age 14.

Learn to engage the other children productively..

I really think that Darwinian evolution has been the biggest enemy of Christianity in the last two hundred years.

Jesus literally believed in Genesis 1 through 11. Genesis 1 through 11 is where all of the important doctrines of Christianity come from. Where does marriage between one man and one woman come from? Adam and Eve. Where does death and suffering come from? Adam and Eve's original sin. Why does man have a sin nature? Adam and Eve poisoned the whole human race at the beginning. Jesus literally believed in Adam and Eve, and Noah and the Flood.

If you are a Christian, you need to go to the Institute for Creation Research and read their material. It is very scientifically documented. Learn to be a defender of the Biblical account of creation. Evolution is wrong, wicked, and sinful. There are holes big enough in evolution to drive trucks through. If you can keep an open mind, you will be able to see them.

Good one!

Sorry I missed your post earlier ...I was at church.

Back to the shadows with your false teachings!

Here is the TRUTH!

(Monkius Eatalotis has, in your diagram, been substituted for the Golden Crested Bananaraptor. Repent, heretic!)

I really think that Darwinian evolution has been the biggest enemy of Christianity in the last two hundred years... Where does death and suffering come from? Adam and Eve's original sin. Why does man have a sin nature? Adam and Eve poisoned the whole human race at the beginning.

It's interesting to read, first-hand, the full grotesque anti-Christiany of famous evolutionists such as this by Ernst Haeckel. And here's an example of the issue you point out in your comment:

First, as to Adam and the Fall and inherited sin. Evolution, historical research, and scientific criticism have disposed of Adam. Adam was a myth. Hardly any educated Christians now regard him as an historic person. But -- no Adam, no Fall; no Fall, no Atonement; no Atonement, no Saviour. Accepting Evolution, how can we believe in a Fall? When did man fall? Was it before he ceased to be a monkey, or after? Was it when he was a tree man, or later? Was it in the Stone Age, or the Bronze Age, or in the Age of Iron? There never was any "Fall." Evolution proves a long, slow rise. And if there never was a Fall, why should there be any Atonement? Christians accepting the theory of evolution have to believe that God allowed the sun to form out of the nebula, and the earth to form from the sun. That He allowed man to develop slowly from the speck of protoplasm in the sea. That at some period of man's gradual evolution from the brute, God found man guilty of some sin, and cursed him. That some thousands of years later God sent His only Son down upon the earth to save man from Hell. But Evolution shows man to be, even now, an imperfect creature, an unfinished work, a building still undergoing alterations, an animal still evolving... (pg. 124)
Are we to believe that the God who created all this boundless universe got so angry with the children of the apes that He condemned them all to Hell for two score centuries, and then could only appease His rage by sending His own Son to be nailed upon a cross ? Do you believe that? Can you believe it? No. As I said before, if the theory of evolution be true, there was nothing to atone for, and nobody to atone. Man has never sifined against God. In fact, the whole of this old Christian doctrine is a mass of error. There was no creation. There was no Fall. There was no Atonement. There was no Adam, and no Eve, and no Eden, and no Devil, and no Hell. (pg. 125)
For whereas the Christian theory of free will and personal responsibility results in established ignorance and injustice, with no visible remedies beyond personal denunciation, the prison, and a few coals and blankets, the Determinist method would result in the abolition of lords and burglars, of slums and palaces, of caste and snobbery. There would be no ignorance and no poverty left in the world. That is because the Determinist understands human nature, and the Christian does not. It is because the Determinist understands morality, and the Christian does not. For the Determinist looks for the cause of wrong-doing in the environment of the wrong-doer. While the Christian puts all the wrongs which society perpetrates against the individual, and all the wrongs which the individual perpetrates against his fellows down to an imaginary "free will." (pg. 142--144)
--Robert Blatchford