Screwtape's "Age of Darwinian Scientism"

The Daley Times-Post ^ | Jan. 27, 2006 | Linda Kimball

[Lindykim]

Greek mythology tells the tale of Prometheus, a Titan who envied Zeus his godlike powers. Driven by his covetousness, he stole some of Zeus's power, then was caught and punished by being tied to a rock. The underlying assumption of this myth is that man and God are antagonists. Man covets godlike powers, but since God refuses to share any of his power, man must take it---or steal it.

In ancient pagan civilizations, Promethean men were able to give free reign to the dark impulses that urged them to become as 'gods.' Although they lacked the ability to create life, they exercised complete control over all matters of life and death. They could dictate who was a free-man with rights and who was a lesser being—an animated tool or animated sex toy—with no rights whatsoever. Promethean man was absolute sovereign and lawmaker. His lusts, jealousies, dark impulses---all became law if he so chose them to be.

It was Biblical religion, and more specifically the Genesis account of creation, that overthrew the classic pagan worldview model with its all-powerful State controlled by totalitarian god-like Promethean men. All of this was repugnant to the Biblical model wherein the Genesis account proclaimed God as Sovereign and Lawmaker. It was He who had created all men and no one was to enslave other men or to treat them as 'lesser beings." Neither were His children to be 'subsumed' into nature, for He had given all of His children dominion over the earth, and they could own land and make use of the earth's resources. In America's founding documents, all statements about equality and freedom as inalienable and inherent rights of all human persons have their basis in the Genesis account. Similarly, because our lives are precious to our Creator, we have the right to keep and bear arms in order to protect our lives and those of our loved ones. This view of man and the world was totally alien to the ancient pagan way of doing things.

However, not everyone was pleased with the Biblical model. While all of the former 'lesser beings' were delighted to be free of their oppressors, Promethean men were not happy campers. Thus it was that a group of Enlightenment conspirators, two of whom were Frederick Engel's and Karl Marx, who by temperament was Promethean, devised an ideology based on ancient communal living (communism). Their scheme was to overthrow Western Christian-Judeo civilization and to reconstitute society on the basis of their ideology. What they needed, but lacked, to make their system into a bona-fide worldview was a creation account.

All major civilizations throughout the history of the world began with a creation account which told man where he came from, how he got here, why he is here, and what's wrong with man and the world. The creation account is the authoritative foundation which animates and supports the divine orders (natural laws) that lay down the law for both human and natural order.

Perhaps it was at this point that Screwtape began to choreograph events by steering Marx to Darwin's book. For it was in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that the conspirators happily discovered the black magic key that would allow them to believe they could steal God's power. After Marx read Darwin's book, he wrote to Engel's and said, "…although it is developed in the crude English style, this is the book which contains the basis in natural history for our view." (Source: "Gods that Fail: Peter Singer and the Darwinian Left," review by Eric Jones).

Marx and Engel's incorporated Darwin's theory into their communist ideology. The synthesized version became 'scientific dialectical materialism." It was in this manner that the two conspirators transformed their ideology into 'absolute scientific truth."

The creation story they gained, and by which they declared the 'death of God,' must have been authored by Screwtape thus for obvious reasons, they preferred to keep it out of the limelight. It essentially states: "In the beginning was non-life bearing, non-intelligence bearing matter which, with neither rhyme nor reason, accidentally self-created by virtue of an accidentally caused quantum fluctuation, which had likewise mysteriously self-created for no purpose nor reason." The moral of this story is: Never make deals with Screwtape---he has a devilish sense of humor.

Trumpeting the death of God, Promethean's calling themselves "Darwinian scientists' immediately set about the business of abolishing mankind. With glee born of darkest envy, they stripped him of his soul, free will and conscience, and then declared that he was but a mechanistic monkey-man. Or in Herr Scientist Frederick Engel's words: "Darwin has given us an approximate description of these ancestors of ours. They were completely covered with hair…had beards…pointed ears and they lived in bands in trees." (www.newyouth.com)

Thus was the world forcefully thrust into Screwtape's "Age of Scientism," wherein Darwinian communists—the animated tools of Screwtape and his hellish minions-- unleashed rivers of human blood on a planetary dimension---all in pursuit of producing scientifically engineered Un-man and a Promethean Utopia.

In observation of the scientifically-induced hellish madness unleashed onto the world, "The Black Book of Communism" offers the following insights and indictments:

"…the roots of Marxist-Leninism are…not to be found in Marx at all, but in a deviant version of Darwinism…Crimes against humanity are the product of an ideology that reduces people…to a…condition, be it ideological, racial, or sociohistorical." (pg. 752)

"…transformation of ideology and politics into absolute 'scientific' truth is the basis of the totalitarianism dimension of Communism. The party answered only to science. Science…justified the terror by requiring that all aspects of social and individual life be transformed." (pg. 739)

"This biological or zoological strain of thinking enables us to understand…why so many crimes of Communism were crimes against humanity and how Marxist-Leninist ideology managed to justify these crimes to its followers." (pg. 751)

On page 4, are these grim statistics:

USSR: 20 million deaths China: 65 million deaths Vietnam: 1 million deaths N. Korea: 2 million deaths E. Europe: 1 million deaths Latin America: 150,000 Africa: 1.7 million deaths

The total approaches 100 million 'animalized' humans shot, gassed, burned, electrocuted, starved, gunned down, beaten to death, impaled, beheaded or otherwise murdered under the authority of 'absolute science.'

The soul and life destroying "biological and zoological strain" of madness is at this very moment poisoning and warping the minds of Americans and being force-fed to our children. Our children are being made to view themselves through Lucifer's "burning eye of envy" in Darwinist textbooks. "You are an animal and share a common heritage with earthworms." (Source: Johnson, "Biology" as quoted in Norris Anderson "Education or Indoctrination? Analysis of Textbooks in Alabama, 1995, pg. 6)

The anti-human totalitarianism and Promethean megalomania comes through loud and clear in Thomas C. Clark's odious assertions in "Crime and Causality: Do Killers Deserve to Die?" Keep in mind that Clark, who doesn't view himself as an ape, is obnoxiously lecturing all of the lesser beings whom he believes to be mechanistic monkeys. What he's saying in his pompous gasbag manner is that since "God is dead" and we are but human apes, it's time we accept our fate to become subsumed (embedded) into nature. Naturally his Darwinian-induced thimble-wittedness is hee-hawed under the authority of absolute science: "Many have resisted, and will continue to resist, the epistemic authority of science, since it requires we abandon those beloved conceptions of freedom, dignity, and moral agency and responsibility in which persons are understood to be causally privileged over the rest of nature…science proposes naturalized…conceptions of freedom, and responsibility which embed persons…fully within the causal network" (www.naturalism.org) If Darwinian scientism was a road atlas, it would ever lead to but one destination…Hell. If it was a multipurpose set of building instructions, they would ever build but one thing…Hell.

Dr. T. N. Tahmision (Atomic Energy Commission USA) pegged Darwinian evolutionists as 'con men." He commented, "Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact." ('The Fresno Bee," Aug. 20, 1959, as quoted by N.J. Mitchell, "Evolution and the Emperor's New Clothes," 1983, title page)

Even after the passage of more than two thousand years, we can see that Prometheus has yet to grow up. Still ruled by Narcissus and the dark passions of envy, covetousness, hatred and vengeance-seeking which she so adroitly keeps aflame, Prometheus remains doomed as a result to serve as Screwtape's 'animated tool."

[bvw]

There are midgets and giants amoung us.

[peyton randolph]

However, not everyone was pleased with the Biblical model.

I agree with this statement. I'll pass on the rest.

[orionblamblam]

> It was Biblical religion, and more specifically the Genesis account of creation, that overthrew the classic pagan worldview model with its all-powerful State controlled by totalitarian god-like Promethean men.

Actually, it was Biblical religion which overthrew the democratic republican worldview that held sway in the Icelandinc republic and replaced it with an impoverish theocracy with the King's (you know, he of Divine Right) boot on the peoples throats.

[bvw]

Point the first. It's obvious, that if there were radical steps of development within a species or into a new sepcies, say reptile egg to hatchling bird, turtle egg to chicken, that those would come about during the process of forimg the zygote. Yet we don't have any chickens or repitles in observed natural history that break out of an egg into novel species-hood, tmk. And that includes observed periods and populations in extreme stress. Does that raise any alarm-bells to you?

Point the second. If some Jungian-like super-consicousness of the group was savvy enough to intuit that birds popped out of reptile eggs at some point in natural history what do you think the possibility is that that super-consciousness would encode that finding into a creation legend of turtle upon turtle upon turtle "all the way down", eh?

[Jack Black]

Cool. What's a good one volume history of Iceland?

[AMHN]

"Both religious and secular "authorities" are used by them and it's unwise to mistake the cause from the effect."

Your bolts are a bit tight, Spinestein. Just because your experience with gold has been tainted with alloy does not mean that pure gold does not exist.

But, it does bring up a very good point. To what depth has Screwtape influenced those whom God "So loved that He sent His only begotten Son" to save. And Why?

Jealousy, the sister of envy is the why.

"Let Us create man in Our image and after Our likeness" Gen 1:26

What God is by nature, man shall become by grace. A message, not only of salvation, but one of purpose. Man, a partaker of the Divine gift has what Screwtape can never obtain. Therefore, misery loves company. The irony...by man's own free will.

The depth however, I must concede, does include all the counterfeit religions found in the world today. Gold tinted with worthless alloys. Tinted to the point of being unrecognizable. Tinted to the point where again by man's free will, and lack of searching from a shipwrecked heart, he becomes as far off course as those purporting evolution.

Worse, two ships, hopelessly off course and destined for doom, collide in the courts of human pride and foolish wisdom, while Screwtape looks on from the Emperors chair in the arena, satisfied that his outcome will prevail.

TRUTH does exist and can be found if one searches for it with all their heart. Not accepting counterfeits along the way. With a willingness to bend and flow where TRUTH leads them.

For those truly searching for TRUTH, may I suggest the following link:

http://www.orthodoxpress.org/parish/river_of_fire.htm

For all others, it will just be a river of fire.

[RedBeaconNY]

bump for later

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

There are midgets and giants amoung us.

Acutally, there are whole communities of midgets (pygmy) and giants (watusi) among us.

But, the relevent and revealing question is; have they always had this form with no changes to their physiology whatsoever from the time they were created until now?

It's a simple "yes" or "no" question.

[orionblamblam]

> What's a good one volume history of Iceland?

Here's a brief introduction to this *particular* issue:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/long1.html

[bvw]

Well answer it then.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

It's obvious, that if there were radical steps of development within a species or into a new sepcies, say reptile egg to hatchling bird, turtle egg to chicken, that those would come about during the process of forimg the zygote. Yet we don't have any chickens or repitles in observed natural history that break out of an egg into novel species-hood, tmk. And that includes observed periods and populations in extreme stress. Does that raise any alarm-bells to you?

The question was: Were all animals created in their present form with no changes whatsoever to their physiology from the time they were created until now?

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

Well answer it then.

I can answer for myself, but do not presume to speak for you.

That's why I asked for your opinion.

[bvw]

I avoid opinions to the extent I can and still be polite in society.

[bvw]

Don't hold back, be coy, etc. What is the answer?

[Siena Dreaming]

Very interesting post. I find it fascinating that Marx and Engels may have gotten their theories from a study of Darwin.

USSR: 20 million deaths China: 65 million deaths Vietnam: 1 million deaths N. Korea: 2 million deaths

Suggestion...you may want to add 3 million deaths in Cambodia to that list.

[mlc9852]

I believe God created the heavens and the earth. However, I think this article gives Darwin a little too much credit for all that is wrong in the world.

Why can't science remain separate from philosophy and politics?

[AMHN]

"So, no Christians ever held dominion over another human being and decided their fate? So, no Christian ever owned another human being to be used as an animated tool or animated sex toy? So, no Christian American ever owned slaves or treated those of another race as inferior and the equivilent of animals?"

Answer: NO! They may receive grace as did the thief on the cross; but as for being Christ like...NO! Christ owned no slaves...he set them free (those enslaved to sin)! Christ gave dominion and free will! Christ came in complete humility to all races; as a sheep to the slaughter!

But then one must ask what really is a Christian? One just because they claim to be one...walked to an alter one night 20 years ago and professed Christ as Savior? One that comes in Christ's name and says "Did we not prophesize in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and performed many wonders in Your name?" To which Christ will reply "I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness".

No. A Christian will be known by their fruits. Those of the vine whose fruit resemble those of Christ.

[Siena Dreaming]

So, no Christians ever held dominion over another human being and decided their fate?

The end of the christian worldview is peace and goodness. Many christians fail along the way, but the worldview doesn't lead them there.

However, the other worldview's end is destruction.

[illinoissmith]

Where to start...

The Prometheus story is distorted to fit with your Lewis-inspired noble savage utopianism.

(As far as the myth goes, importantly 'Prometheus' means forethought, and the myth is more honestly taken, not as fodder for Lewis primitivism, as much as artful commentary on the nature of a key capacity which distinguishes humans from animals. As far as reality goes, humans invented technology, from fire to computers, on their own, quite in line with the laws of nature (and thus, nature's God). If you use religion to set up a dichotomy between Good and Technology, you are really advocating an authoritarian return to primitivism; if you mean to do that, at least be overt about it (even the relevant faction of the left is more honest about this than you are here). As far as your insinuations about people striving for absolute power over others - that is not striving for God-like power (God is, if anything, notably hands-off), but animal-like power. That's how chimps act. Don't elevate totalitarianism to divine levels when it is really the most cheap, blunt, animalistic social dynamic in existence.)

You regurgitate a factually incorrect picture of black-and-whie opposition between the ancient Hebrews and the entire rest of ancient mankind. Most every social group of the time thought that it was the best and most favored. One tribe happened to write it down. Not every tribe engaged in cannibalism and the other dark things to which you allude (although most in the area of the Hebrews did engage in human sacrifice, IIRC). Around the world, people had moral codes... some worse, some better than those of the Hebrews (ancient Egyptians, like ancient Hebrews, did not engage in cannibalism or human sacrifice, but further, they allowed women to own land (for example); and yes, both groups allowed the immoral institution of slavery). What you present on this topic is not an argument or evidence, but simply inherited ancient bigotry.

You confuse evolution with communism (which clearly does not work to allow life or human happiness to flourish, very non-mystical sorts of standards, for reasons that could be made clear with reality-based economic analysis; no mysticism needed), and you confuse it, apparently out of ignorance, with the belief that nothing of import differentiates humans with animals. (Sane monists are just as capable as dualists of noticing the fact that humans and animals are importantly different; monists just tend to be honest about what makes them notice the difference; dualists tend to revert to mysticism and dogma).

You confuse evolution with the idea that families should be disarmed to make them easy prey to criminals? You, who believe in a character who *demands* you turn the other cheek when attacked? You, who believe in a character who demands that you abandon family to follow him?

I suppose I should find this disjointed repetition of false connections satisfying, in a way. Non-pacifist Christians are like moderate Muslims. Life's only hope is that they continue to ignore the actual demands of that in which they claim to believe (cf. Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You"), and continue instead, in ignorant defiance of their supposedly-favored text, to follow their inner moral compasses. This particular cognitive dissonance seems to be what keeps the bulk of Conservatives pro-gun and pro-military, and thus keeps us all from takeover from violent Islamofascists and the like... but I'm wary of what the latent wickedness might again spawn, as it has spawned socialism and communism and Nazism before it (ideologies as out of joint with reality as only spin-offs of mysticism can be... go trace the real roots of communism an Nazism; you'll find Hegel and other German mystics inspired by and working in the intellectual framework of... guess what?).