Posted on 06/20/2007 5:24:39 AM PDT by 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
That would be a historical event, not a process. It would be more interesting to ask when all people began to believe the same things abut God.
“Name one physical process required by evolution that has not been observed...”
I could do that, if I were into playing by the rules of engagement posted at my kids’ school playground.
When you’re ready to come in off the playground and start having a rational discussion with me instead of lacing your comments with insults intended to serve as bait, I think a more interesting approach to the issue would be for you to tell me what natural processes you think are involved in evolution. I suspect you have a pretty interesting understanding of what evolution is and how it operates.
So, come on. How does evolution happen?
And you just wouldn't consider that the problem isn't with the three of us, now would you? I hadn't seen those posts when I posted mine. I was rather surprised to see them after I hit the post button.
If your point wasn't to paint creationists as irrational, murdering, Islamic terrorists, then why constantly use them as an example of what a creationist is? Why harp on that?
You could have easily used people like the Amish, Mother Theresa, Billy Graham, Jesus, Himself. Could we not paint creationists in the light of people who show love and compassion and self-sacrifice, and made the world a better place to live?
Heck, even Newton and Einstein believed that there was enough evidence to point to a creator. Are you going to paint them as Islamic terrorists, too?
It was submitted by someone else on this thread (csense, I believe) that Satan is a Creationist, and caused not a ripple.
This is off the top of my head. If I am in error, it’s just me being ignorant.
Evolution is sometimes defined as change in allele frequency in populations. This can be due to selection, or it can be due to genetic drift.
There are other, related processes involved. There are a dozen or so ways that genes can be altered. They can also be duplicated or be inserted by viral infection. Genes can migrate form one chromosome to another. Chromosomes can also undergo duplication and various kinds of changes.
Evolutionary change always involves a change to the genome in a reproducing individual. The change must be carried forward to offspring. Changes to genes may or may not produce somatic changes, but if they have a statistical influence on the probability of surviving and reproducing, they will be subject to selection. If their effect is neutral, they can still diffuse through a population.
Traits that are visible and present in nearly all individuals in a population, over thousands of generations, are presumed to be stabilized by selection. Individuals lacking the trait are statistically less likely to survive and produce offspring. Selection is not simply a matter of which individuals are stronger. Female choice is a well documented mode of selection. Selective breeding by humans is another. Both of these produce change in a population faster than other known kinds of selection.
To summarize: evolution is an iterative process that involves genetic change in individuals, and differential reproductive success.
Wrong.. No animal past ot present, has ever wondered about a God.. ever..
It is not an event it is an evolution of species.. That is, if it ever happened at all..
Which is point of the question.. Darwin and Dawkins missed that.. pity..
And your evidence supporting this statement is....?
Common sense... opposed to Instinct and Law of the Jungle....
Common sense asks where did the third human on earth come from..
Instinct and the Law of the Jungle could care less..
metmom, you say it better than I did (at #151 below).
Perhaps Stultis does not see the distinction being raised....
Thank you so much!
And your evidence supporting this statement is....?
Precisely, which is why I'm in agreement with others that such a comparison between Christians and Muslims, absent a moral equivalence, is irrelevant and meaningless.
I'll it up to the the readers, then, to decide for themselves what the motive is for proposing such a comparison.
That the third human on earth came from the first two unless something really really strange happened.. Where did the first two come from?.. Yeah!... really..
And your evidence supporting this statement is...?
I agree with you. Other than that, there is no significance to be extended beyond the statement itself.
Goto 366...
It also seems to be a characteristic of Platonic thought. See the Myth of the Demiurge (in Timaeus), where he "persuades" the Chora [pure nothingness, yet at the same time pure potentiality, before the Demiurge gets there to provide a "guide to the system," via peithos, persuasion. I.e., the Demiurge leaves the system "free," but points it in the direction of divine beauty and truth. He is engaging the Chora "on a divine mission," so to speak...]. From his activity, the "becoming things" that make our Cosmos are produced.
I do not think anyone has ever supposed that Plato was a "monotheist," at least not in the modern sense of that word. He continued to pay his respects to the cultic gods of his beloved polis, Athens; though it is sure he felt the "tugs" and "pulls" of the divinity, the "One God" Beyond the Cosmos [methinks the "Unknown God" of Acts], in his own psychic life on a regular personal basis....
Then again, as Alamo-Girl astutely noted earlier today, Panspermia Theory -- the theory that biological life was seeded here on Earth by "space aliens" -- is a creation myth also.
We've got all kinds of "creation" theories/myths going on out there in human Reality (abiogenesis would be one); and this sort of thing has been going on as long as human beings have; or at least, from the very beginning of humanly recorded time (history).
And so you propose to classify them all according to the same system that you propose as suitable for Islamofascists?
Why would you want to do that? It seems so unreasonable to me.... FWIW.
I'll it up to the the readers, then, to decide for themselves what the motive is for proposing such a comparison.
Sorry I missed responding late, I missed the reply earlier.
I've reviewed the posts, and it appears that the motive was simply to supply a rhetorical couterpoint to the proposal that belief in evolution is a moral indicator.
Have you taken a look at Congress and the Courts recently?
betty boop
Bondserv:
By blatantly disregarding the Foundation of our Nation:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Congress and the Courts are "blatantly disregarding" our Constitution.
The fact that they are also ignoring who created what, - while an interesting religious question, - will never affect our survival as a Republic, because they are duty bound by the Law of the Land to ignore such divisive religious issues.
[See article VI - 'No religious Test']
RE: that post #151 reference. Sorry...another thread I guess. I’ve been “busy” today.... :^)
Great post, js1138. Thanks!
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