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The evos responses in this thread give evidence of the crippling effects of pride. For in essence, all of their arguments against the article and its author can be boiled down to this: "Rather than accept our Creator, we (evos) prefer to be soulless pointy-eared anthropoids---sans free will and conscience." And they seem to be oblivious to the entirety of implications contained within their "feely-chosen" position.

Ah well, Screwtape certainly knows his business, which is why he always holds his lures out to conceit.

Actually, we found the articles link between evolution and Marxism to be laughably ignorant. Anybody who could make such a claim is just regurgitating creationist dross and has never actually read anything on the subject themselves. Nobody used an argument even remotely close to, "Rather than accept our Creator, we (evos) prefer to be soulless pointy-eared anthropoids---sans free will and conscience.".

The author of this hasn't a clue what evolution is or how different Marxism is. Vanity posts often turn out poorly, but this is a new low. A classic of self-righteous stupidity.

LOLOL, Lindykim! So very true. And then they say this is "evolution." (Looks like "devolution" to me.)

Indeed, Screwtape knows exactly what he's doing. His most effective tactics always involve an appeal to conceit, pride, arrogance, narcissism.

Does your edition of The Screwtape Letters contain the appendix added around 1968, "Screwtape Proposes a Toast?" I highly recommend this particular reading to our evo friends.

But they will probably hold it in contempt anyway, as they do all aspects and insights of human culture that cannot be reduced to what they take to be The Scientific Method. Notwithstanding, they will have been warned.... And I guess maybe that's the best we can do; beyond that, all we can do is pray for their souls and hope they come to their senses in time.

Thanks so much for writing, Lindykim. And thanks again for your wonderful article.

”they seem to be oblivious to the entirety of implications contained within their "feely-[sic] chosen" position.” (“They” being those Masters of the Universe sometimes identified as Scientists, or, more commonly, Evolutionists - ‘evos’)

Perhaps it is pride which motivates evos. But, for example, in the chicken/egg issue over Darwin/Marx - which came first, pride seems hardly adequate to explain why evos refuse to acknowledge that the Marxist era stands astride the Darwin era (that is, the time when each produced their major works). While quick to point out (vehemently) that Marx’s Manifesto was published well before Darwin’s Origins, Evolutionists are entirely silent on the subject of Das Kapital, Marx’s most signal work, which was published some several years after Origins. This attitude is particularly hard to fathom since the proposed intellectual association of Darwin/Marx seems to have emanated entirely from the Marxist side. Darwin’s reaction to Marxist overtures appears to have been somewhat similar to what it would have been had he encountered a skunk under his front porch; respectful, but keeping a very considerable distance.

Obliviousness seems to offer no better prospects as an explanation than does pride.

Still, I choose not to regard evos as ‘pointy-eared anthropoids’ without free will or conscience. But maybe that’s just a personal disposition.