Can America Survive Evolutionary Humanism?

Mens News Daily ^ | June 19, 2007 | Linda Kimball

[spirited irish]

In addition to original Darwinism, today there are two other versions of evolutionary theory: punctuated equilibrium and neo-Darwinism, a revamped version of the original Darwinism. No matter the variant though, evolution serves as the creation myth for the theological and philosophical worldview of Evolutionary Humanism (Naturalism).

“Evolution is a religion,” declared evolutionary Humanist Michael Ruse. “This was true of evolution in the beginning and it is true still today…One of the most popular books of the era was ‘Religion Without Revelation,’ by Julian Huxley, grandson of Thomas Huxley…As always evolution was doing everything expected of religion and more.” (National Post, Canadian Edition, 5/13/2000)

“Humanism is a philosophical, religious, and moral point of view.” (Humanist Manifestos I & II, 1980, Introduction, Paul Kurtz)

The primary denominations of Evolutionary Humanism are Cultural Marxism/Communism, Secular Humanism, Postmodernism, and Spiritual Communism. The offshoots of these are among others, New Age/green environmentalism/Gaia, socialism, progressivism, liberalism, multiculturalism, and atheism. Individually and collectively, these are modernized versions of pre-Biblical naturalism (paganism).

All worldviews begin with a religious declaration. The Biblical worldview begins with, “In the beginning God…” Cosmic Humanism begins, “In the beginning Divine Matter.” Communism, Postmodernism, and Secular Humanism begin with, “In the beginning Matter.” Matter is all there is, and it not only thinks, but is Divine:

“…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)

In explicitly religious language, the following religionists offer all praise, honor, and glory to their Creator:

“We may regard the material and cosmic world as the supreme being, as the cause of all causes, as the creator of heaven and earth.” (Vladimir Lenin quoted in Communism versus Creation, Francis Nigel Lee, 1969, p. 28)

“The Cosmos is all that is or ever will be.” (Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980, p. 4)

Evolutionary Humanism has demonstrated itself to be an extremely dangerous worldview. In just the first eighty-seven years of the twentieth century, the evolutionist project of radically transforming the world and mankind through the power of evolutionism has led to the extermination of between 100-170 million ‘subhuman’ men, women, and children.

Deadly Problems

First, in order that materialist ethics be consistent with the idea that life evolved by chance and continues to evolve over time, ethics must be built on human social instincts that are in a continuous process of change over evolutionary time. This view demolishes both moral ethics and social taboos, thereby liberating man to do as he pleases. Over time this results in a lawless climate haunted by bullies, predators, despots, psychopaths, and other unsavory elements.

Perhaps Darwin could not envision the evil unleashed by his ideas. Nonetheless, he did have some inkling, for he wrote in his “Autobiography” that one who rejects God,

“…can have for his rule of life…those impulses and instincts which are strongest or…seem to him the best ones.” (Fatal Fruit, Tom DeRosa, p.7)

Humanist Max Hocutt realizes that materialist ethics are hugely problematical, but offers no solution. An absolute moral code cannot exist without God, however God does not exist, says Hocutt. Therefore,

“…if there were a morality written up in the sky somewhere but no God to enforce it, I see no reason why we should obey it. Human beings may, and do, make up their own rules.” (Understanding the Times, David Noebel, p. 138-139)

Jeffrey Dahmer, a psychopath who cannibalized his victims, acted on Darwin’s advice. In an interview he said,

“If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then…what is the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That’s how I thought…I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime.” (Dahmer in an interview with Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC, 11/29/1994)

With clearly religious overtones, atheist philosopher Bertrand Russell summarizes the amoral materialist ethic:

“Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way.” (Russell, “Why I am not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects,” 1957, p. 115)

Next, materialist epistemology and metaphysics dispossesses man of soul, free will, conscience, mind, and reason, thereby dehumanizing (animalizing) man and totally destroying not only the worth, dignity, and meaning of human life, but the possibility of freedom. The essence of this annihilation is captured in the following quotes:

Man is “but fish made over…” declared biologist William Etkin (Pushing the Antithesis, Greg L. Bahnsen, p. 224). And his life is but a “partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and continually interactive, self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states,” explained J.D. Bernal (1901-1971), past Professor of Physics at the University of London (The Origin of Life, Bernal, 1967, xv). Furthermore, “The universe cares nothing for us,” trumpets William Provine, Cornell University Professor of Biology, “and we have no ultimate meaning in life.” (Scientists, Face It! Science and Religion are Incompatible,” The Scientist, Sept. 1988)

Man... “must be degraded from a spiritual being to an animalistic pattern. He must think of himself as an animal, capable of only animalistic reactions. He must no longer think of himself…as capable of ‘spiritual endurance,’ or nobility.” By animalizing man his “state of mind…can be ordered and enslaved.” (Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics, “Degradation and Shock,” Chapter viii)

Finally, Evolutionary Humanism posits the notion that despite the fact that man is “but fish made over…” there are in fact, some exceptions to this rule. For it happens---by chance of course---that some lucky ‘species’ and ‘races’ of the human animal are more highly evolved (superior) and therefore enlightened than the others, who are---unluckily for them---less evolved and as a consequence, subhuman. Paired to this view is the idea that if a species or race does not continue to evolve (progress up the evolutionary ladder), it will become extinct. Together, these ideas lead logically to the deadly conclusion that in order to preserve the fittest of the species---or the spiritually evolved, as is the case with Spiritual Communism--- it is morally incumbent upon the superior to replace (via the science of eugenics and population control) and/or liquidate the subhumans. In his book, “The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex,” (1871) Charles Darwin foresaw this eventuality:

“At some future period…the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world…the anthropomorphous apes…will no doubt be exterminated.” (Descent, 2nd ed., p. 183)

In practice, the materialist worldview is a hellish recipe for catastrophe, as was amply demonstrated by the 20th century’s two most blood-soaked political movements--- pagan Nazism and atheist Communism. Both rejected God, and both were animated by Darwinism

Nazi Germany

Hitler’s murderous philosophy was built on Darwinian evolution and preservation of favored species. In his book, “Evolution and Ethics, British evolutionist Sir Arthur Keith notes,

“The leader of Germany is an evolutionist not only in theory, but, as millions know to their cost, in the rigor of its practice.” (1947, p.230)

It was Darwinism that inspired Hitler to try to create---by way of eugenics--- a superior race, the Aryan Man. In pursuit of his ambition, Hitler eliminated what he considered were inferior human animals, among which were for example, Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, and Christians.

Evolutionism in Nazi Germany resulted in gas chambers, ovens, and the liquidation of eleven million “useless eaters” and other undesirables. Evolutionist Niles Eldridge, author of “Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life,” reluctantly concurs. Darwin’s theory, he acknowledges,

“has given us the eugenics movement and some of its darker outgrowths, such as the genocidal practices of the Nazis.” (2005, p. 13)

The Soviet Union

Even though Karl Marx wrote his Communist Manifesto before Darwin published his “On the Species,” the roots of Communism are nonetheless found in Darwinism. Karl Marx wrote Fredrich Engels that Darwin’s ‘Origin’,

“is the book which contains the basis in natural science for our view.” (Marxian Biology and the Social Scene, Conway Zirkle, 1959)

Stephane Courtois, one of the authors of The Black Book of Communism, relates that,

“In Communism there exists a sociopolitical eugenics, a form of Social Darwinism.” (p. 752)

Vladimir Lenin exulted that,

“Darwin put an end to the belief that the animal and vegetable species bear no relation to one another (and) that they were created by God, and hence immutable.” (Fatal Fruit, Tom DeRosa, p. 9)

Lenin exercised godlike power over life and death. He saw himself as, “the master of the knowledge of the evolution of social species.” It was Lenin who “decided who should disappear by virtue of having been condemned to the dustbin of history.” From the moment Lenin made the “scientific” decision that the bourgeoisie represented a stage of humanity that evolution had surpassed, “its liquidation as a class and the liquidation of the individuals who actually or supposedly belonged to it could be justified.” (The Black Book of Communism, p. 752)

Alain Brossat draws the following conclusions about the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, and the ties that bind them:

“The ‘liquidation’ of the Muscovite executioners, a close relative of the ‘treatment’ carried out by Nazi assassins, is a linguistic microcosm of an irreparable mental and cultural catastrophe that was in full view on the Soviet Stage. The value of human life collapsed, and thinking in categories replaced ethical thought…In the discourse and practice of the Nazi exterminators, the animalization of Other…was closely linked to the ideology of race. It was conceived in the implacably hierarchical racial terms of “subhumans” and “supermen”…but in Moscow in 1937, what mattered…was the total animalization of the Other, so that a policy under which absolutely anything was possible could come into practice.” (ibid, p. 751)

21st Century America

Ronald Reagan loved God and America. America he said is, “the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul into bondage.” (Republican National Convention, Houston TX, 8/17/1992)

Even though he was optimistic about America’s future he nevertheless cautioned that America must maintain her reliance on God and her commitment to righteousness and morality. He liked quoting Alexis de Tocqueville’s insightful analysis of the source of America’s greatness:

“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret and genius of her power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.” (In the Words of Ronald Reagan, by Michael Reagan)

As America moves into the 21st century, we have yet to admit a shameful, dark secret. Evolutionism…the creation myth, that empowered Nazism and Communism, is being taught to America’s youth in our government-controlled schools. The animalization of Americans is well advanced and coupled to a corresponding slow collapse of human worth. Already we hear of human life spoken of in dehumanizing categories such as ‘vegetable,’ “non-persons,” and ‘uterine content.’

Ominously, Evolutionary Humanism has also outstripped Judeo-Christian precepts in our universities, judiciary, federal bureaucracy, corporations, medicine, law, psychology, sociology, entertainment, news media and halls of Congress. As Biocentrism it fuels the nonhuman animal rights project, the gay rights movement, radical feminism, and the increasingly powerful and influential green environmentalist program, which demands that America submit to the draconian mandates of the Kyoto Treaty.

America, the “moral force that defeated communism” is on the verge of completely rejecting God, the natural order, and moral absolutes and instead, embracing the godless religion of evolution, amorality, and the unnatural.

Evolutionary Humanism is the most dangerous delusion thus far in history. It begins with the ‘animalization of Other,’ in tandem with the elevation of the ‘superior,’ for whom this serves as a license to make up their own rules, abuse power, and force their will onto the citizens. This is accompanied by a downward spiraling process that pathologizes the natural order, moral ethics, virtue, and social taboos while simultaneously elevating narcissism, tyranny, cruelty, nihilism, confusion, perversion, sadism, theft, and lying to positions of politically correct “new morality,” which is then enforced through sensitivity training, speech codes, hate crime laws, and other intimidation tactics. If not stopped, as history warns us, this rapidly escalating downward process leads inevitably to totalitarianism, enslavement, and eventually mass murder.

In a portent of things to come, evolutionist B.F. Skinner said:

“A scientific analysis of behavior dispossesses autonomous man and turns the control he has been said to exert over to the environment. The individual…is henceforth to be controlled…in large part by other men.” (Understanding the Times, David Noebel, p. 232)

Copyright Linda Kimball 2007 www.patriotsandliberty.com/

Linda is the author of many published essays on culture, worldview, and politics. Her essays are published both nationally and internationally. She is a member of MoveOff.org

[tacticalogic]

Irish-—In other words, you believe that you’re just an animal with an animals instincts.

Are you submitting that is a necessary consequence of being corporeal? That is the context of what you're replying to.

[RightWhale]

The very fact that you have freely chosen (free will)

That's not free will. Not even close. Judgement and choice is the department two doors down the hall.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!

[Stultis]

Jeffrey Dahmer, a psychopath who cannibalized his victims, acted on Darwin’s advice.

OOOOPS! Jeffrey Dahmer's father, Lionel, was (is?) a CREATIONIST activist and speaker, who taught little Jeffrey creationism, and morality, and how to interpret the Bible. AiG even lists him among some modern scientists who have accepted the biblical account of creation.

[Stultis]

It was Darwinism that inspired Hitler to try to create---by way of eugenics--- a superior race

Hardly. The Nazis believed the human races were primeval, NOT evolved, and that each race was originally CREATED with it's distinctive features, or "race soul" as the Nazi's premier philosopher of race, Alfred Rosenberg, put it.

From Wikipedia's entry on Rosenberg's book (emphasis added):

Rosenberg was inspired by Meister Eckhart, the racist theories of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Richard Wagner's romanticism and also by Aryanism. He believed that God created man as separate races, not as individuals or mankind as a whole, and that only the race has a soul. [Rosenberg's] The Myth of the Twentieth Century was conceived of as a sequel to Chamberlain's The Foundation of the Nineteenth Century (Yahil, 1991, p. 41).

The Nazis' eugenics campaign was not about creating a new superior race, but rather about recovering the blood purity of the ancient Aryan race. They were by no means attempting to advance evolution, but rather to reverse it: To restore the original CREATED order which had been marred by "race mixing".

[tacticalogic]

Judging by the responses, it appears that the question cannot be answered because it was blasphemy to ask in the first place.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

There is no philosophy of evolution

Of course there is. Or, rather, there is no science of evolution, there is only the philosophy of evolution.

For, whatever be the ultimate verdict of posterity upon this or that opinion which Mr. Darwin has propounded; whatever adumbrations or anticipations of his doctrines may be found in the writings of his predecessors; the broad fact remains that, since the publication and by reason of the publication, of "The Origin of Species" the fundamental conceptions and the aims of the students of living Nature have been completely changed... But the impulse thus given to scientific thought rapidly spread beyond the ordinarily recognised limits of biology. Psychology, Ethics, Cosmology were stirred to their foundations, and the "Origin of Species" proved itself to be the fixed point which the general doctrine of evolution needed in order to move the world. - T.H. Huxley, Darwin Memorial Essay, 1885.

In addition to the truth of the doctrine of evolution, indeed, one of its greatest merits in my eyes, is the fact that it occupies a position of complete and irreconcilable antagonism to that vigorous and consistent enemy of the highest intellectual, moral, and social life of mankind – the Catholic Church. - T.H. Huxley, Darwin's Critics, 1871.

[OriginalIntent]

Stultis, your entire post is utter nonsense though you did try to hide it with a grain of truth. But I know you understand your post was nothing but a silly attempt at propaganda.

I don't know if you just don't think before you type (we all make this mistake at times), or you are ignorant of the facts, or if you were intentionally dishonest because you saw this as a way to take a cheap shot at creationists and you just could not restrain yourself. (Afterall, there is no God watching you anyway?)

While Jeffrey Dahmer's father Lionel is a creationist, the creationist father is not the one who is guilty of murder, instead he is a fine man from all accounts.

The homosexual EVOLUTIONIST Jeffery Dahmer rejected the Creator God of his father and instead Jeffrey Dahmer embraced the philosophy of godless EVOLUTION.

So as you can clearly see the only murderer here is the homosexual EVOLUTIONIST Jeffrey Dahmer.

While you intended to blame the creationism of Lionel Dahmer for Jeffrey Dahmer's sins, the fact is if there is a philosophy to blame it would be that of godless EVOLUTION which little Jeffrey embraced in place of the belief in a Creator God that his father taught him.

Instead of listening to his father, Jeffrey Dahmer listened to the anti-Christian humanists whose propaganda has poisoned the culture and undermined belief in the Creator.

Jeffrey Dahmer is ultimately responsible for his own sins, however, those who helped remove Dahmer's belief in a righteous God who says murder is absolutely wrong will be held responsible for their part on judgement day.

Since you obviously do not have the facts, let me sum it up for you.

Jeffrey Dahmer basically felt this way, according to his own father -- "If you - if a person doesn't think that there is a God to be accountable to, then - then what's - what's the point of - of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges?"

Here is Dahmer's own confession not long before he died: " That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we - when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing....."

You got it backwards Stultis,------- can you say OOOOPS?

[BuckeyeForever]

Some maniacal killers and/or despots have been atheists. Some maniacal killers and/or despots have been theists. Some maniacal killers and/or despots have thought their dog was giving instructions. Who cares? What does that have to do with whether there is a God, and if so, what is the “true” religion?

Religion is not simply a strong belief in something or anything. Religion is a belief in a supernatural creator who interacts with this physical reality, demands worship from humans, and metes out rewards and punishments to our “souls” which survive death. Evolution does not take a position on whether there is a supernatural creator or being. It simply says that organisms evolve. It is not a religion. It is not a philosophy. It is a scientific theory, and a damn good one at that.

[tacticalogic]

Of course there is. Or, rather, there is no science of evolution, there is only the philosophy of evolution.

You're awfully willing to grant Huxley absolute authority in the matter.

[Stultis]

" That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we - when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing....."

But both that belief -- that if evolution is true there is no God -- and what follows from that belief -- that if there is no God then there is no basis for morality and anything goes -- those are both CREATIONIST beliefs, not "evolutionist" ones. They were likely taught to Jeffrey by his father, and are frequently asserted by creationists in these threads.

His father must have had some impact, since Jeffrey became a Christian in jail after reviewing creationist material from the ICR. (Which, btw, given the nature of such material, could explain his blaming his crimes on evolution.)

[betty boop]

The Islamist terrorists that we are fighting today are creationists - does that mean creationism is responsible for their murderous creed?

Why on earth do you suppose the Islamofascists are "creationists?" Where is your evidence for this?

It seems you regard "creationist" and "creationism" as terms of opprobrium that can be applied willy-nilly to people you dislike. For the record, the creator God of the creationists, and the "god" called Allah, are virtually polar opposites. The former is a God of love, life, light, human flourishing and human freedom; the latter, a god of vengeance who demands nothing from human beings but submission to his murderous, bloody-minded will. Man must surrender his freedom to be in good graces with this ersatz god.

The so-called "religion of peace" espouses the same kind of "peace" that the former Soviet Union did, as denoted by the Russian word, mir: Peace is defined as what follows from the utter subjection or annihilation of all "enemies." As long as there are "enemies," there can be no peace.

[spirited irish]

In expansion of your argument, betty, not only is our Creator all of those things withwhich you pointed out, but He created this world for those whom He made in His image. Therefore, mankind is the apex of the universe and endowed with God-given rights.

Evolutionary Humanism (naturalism)is not only antithetical to all of this, but downright hostile. For just as pre-Biblical pagans believed that man was created by the creation and must therefore live in submission to it, so too does todays neo-pagan Evolutionary Humanism conform to this belief. Seen in the context of history, the communist project is simply a way of forcing man-—who is viewed as an aggressive parasite-— to live in submission and correct conformity to his ‘creator.’ Within this worldview,population control in its many manifestations such as abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, etc., are viewed as morally correct things to do.

[stuartcr]

Didn’t God create Muslims? Knowing how they were going to worship and what they were going to do? Likewise for Christians, Hindus and all others? Doesn’t God know why, when and where or even if, His creations are going to peaceful or not?

[tacticalogic]

For the record, the creator God of the creationists, and the "god" called Allah, are virtually polar opposites.

While the diety inivolved may not be the same, the belief that He created man as he is today, as opposed to the idea that he is the product of a process of evolution is that same. Objectively, Islamic beliefs fit that description. We can arbitrarily declare that only Christians can properly be considered creationist, but that's a tacit admission that we have no intention of having or allowing objectivity in the debate.

[ahayes]

Why on earth do you suppose the Islamofascists are "creationists?"

Because they believe their god made the universe in a miraculous fashion.

the latter, a god of vengeance who demands nothing from human beings but submission to his murderous, bloody-minded will. Man must surrender his freedom to be in good graces with this ersatz god.

Gee, it sounds almost Old Testament!

[betty boop]

We can arbitrarily declare that only Christians can properly be considered creationist, but that's a tacit admission that we have no intention of having or allowing objectivity in the debate.

Not only Christians have a reverence for life. But clearly, Islamists do not. There's a difference here, though it might not be politically correct to draw attention to it.

Creation is a loving act. Beheading people is not. You cannot hide behind an argument of "moral equivalency," or of groundless personal bias here; i.e., my supposed lack of "objectivity." The distinctions I draw are perfectly "objective." Just open your eyes and look at what's going on. Then if you report back and say there's no difference among religious believers, I'd have to conclude that you are the one who is biased, who lacks objectivity.

[tacticalogic]

Creation is a loving act. Beheading people is not. You cannot hide behind an argument of "moral equivalency," or of groundless personal bias here; i.e., my supposed lack of "objectivity." The distinctions I draw are perfectly "objective."

"Moral equivalency" is based on entirely subjective arguments. That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid. Show me a definition of "creationism" from a standard reference that backs up your argument.

[hosepipe]

[.. Show me a definition of "creationism" from a standard reference that backs up your argument ..]

According to Darwinian and Dawkinian logic humans evolved to believe in GOD(seek their source).. No other animal/insect/plant does that.. Salmon do on another level..

[tacticalogic]

According to Darwinian and Dawkinian logic humans evolved to believe in GOD(seek their source).. No other animal/insect/plant does that.. Salmon do on another level..

That's ood. I was told on this same thread that evolution doesn't address the spiritual (metaphysical) aspects of man at all (and that in doing so denies that they exist at all).