Can America Survive Evolutionary Humanism?

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.

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

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)

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)

“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)

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.

“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)

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

One final note: the possibility of ‘standard’ references cannot exist within a worldview based in chance and continuous change. Situational ethics (impulses of the moment)——that’s all you have.

Then none of the sources referenced can be taken as anything other than singular instances. You're arguing that they're establishing a "logical consistency" based on "chance and continuous change".

We're being asked to accept the proposition that America cannot survive Evolutionary Humanism, without any clear definition of exactly what that is. It appears that the only "safe" conclusion to be reached is that it is a matter of national security that we get rid of all the evolutionists.

spirited irish claims 'tenets:

Furthermore, your talk of 'rights' is likewise inconsistent with the tenets of evolutionary humanism for the same reason as above. All you have is whatever 'privileges' the higher evolved deign to allow you as per their 'impulses' of the moment.

Where can we find a standard reference on theology or philosophy that lists these "tenets of evolutinary humanism" you keep talking about? Are you just making all of this up as you go?
tacticalogic

All you may have is whatever 'privileges' the highly evolved deign to allow you according to what their impulses of the moment intuit.
All of which will eventually lead to the recreation of the hellish nightmare within which millions of Russians suffered and died.
One final note: the possibility of 'standard' references cannot exist within a worldview based in chance and continuous change. Situational ethics (impulses of the moment) that's all you have.

One final note, - he's making it all up. That's all he has.

I have a friend who knows Hebrew, really knows it, and he told me the same thing some 25 years ago; that there's a difference in the use of the words between verse one in Gen 1 and verse two.

The word in the first verse is to make something new, or for the first time.

The word in the second verse is to remake or recreate.

His thinking was that God had created the world and when Satan fell, Satan destroyed it, as he does with everything. (vs 2. He told me the Hebrew indicates the earth became formless and void)

Then God had to make it fit for human habitation.

He also told me that it was believed that the earth as it was in verse one was a place of great mineral wealth and beauty, based on verses in Ezekial (I believe) that talk about the fall of Satan and the king of Tyre.

I thought it was pretty interesting, FWIW.

[.. His thinking was that God had created the world and when Satan fell, Satan destroyed it, as he does with everything. (vs 2. He told me the Hebrew indicates the earth became formless and void) ..]

Not only THAT but some kind of "civilization" must have existed, even if only of fallen angels.. You know before the angels or whoever they were destroyed everything.. For how long? Who knows?..

But it is an interesting possibility that this happened.. PROOF? of course there is none.. Except maybe the Dino's all of them and MORE.. Strata in soil, geology and noticed in mountains.. When God REMODELED the place, maybe AGAIN(this time)..

The bible don't go into this but then this info could be on a need to know basis.. spiritually.. Anyway it is an interesting prospect.. Whether true or not effects Jesus work not a wit.. but would/could explain where Satan and the fallen angels came from..

[.. Thank you both for the background information to that interpretation of Genesis. ..]

Interesting discussion.. Boopie thinks I've off my meds no doubt on this.. Also if this "previous civilization of angels " is true.. Then the subject why was man created in the first place comes to mind.. Even WHAT IS man.. This is WHY I came up with the possiblity that mankinds "spirit" is in reality a repentant fallen angel getting a second chance and humans are really "Prodigal ANGELS(spirits)".. being TESTED as Humans.. TESTED to prove their mettle.. This would be a wondrous example of the prodigal son..

Of course the "queue" of fallen angels standing in line, getting human bodies after humans conceive them(those bodies) would/could be long for when the spirit is added to them(bodies)..

Science/Spiritual FICTION?... maybe... MAYBE NOT...
Welcome to my sandbox child of god..
Lets play UNIVERSE.... You be the fallen angel, I'll be a good angel... O.K..

mankinds "spirit" is in reality a repentant fallen angel getting a second chance and humans are really "Prodigal ANGELS(spirits)".. being TESTED as Humans..

Personally, I reject the interpretation out-of-hand.

It is very close to the vision of Edgar Cayce's linked below - and also very close to a discussion being held on a different thread which I decline to engage any further.

The Past Lives of Jesus According to Edgar Cayce

sigh...

Thanks AlamoGirl, I won’t ping you to the other. Back in the day, when I read everything, I read a lot of Edgar Cayce. Finally I was struck by the realization that new publications of his work were coming out all the time. With a little research, I saw that different people were writing them and they were being published through the EC Foundation. Well, follow the money trail. Most of what’s out now, he never said or wrote, lol. Reminds me of all the lost writings of another “messiah”, one that used to write science fiction. There’s a new revelation everytime they need to go up a degree. Plus not to mention how right they are on all those prophesies that have come to pass

Most of what’s out now, he never said or wrote, lol. Reminds me of all the lost writings of another “messiah”, one that used to write science fiction. There’s a new revelation everytime they need to go up a degree. Plus not to mention how right they are on all those prophesies that have come to pass

I am not surprised at all.

For one thing, it seems as if the New Age mystics have hijacked everything they can get their hands on. Enoch is a respectable ancient manuscript but it becomes discredited because they have put their own "spin" on it to fit their mysticism. sigh...

Ditto for the Kaballah – the oral tradition of the Jewish mystics – which was not to be put in writing. But since someone recorded a part of it, the new agers have picked it up as well, “spinning” it to fit their presuppositions. The result is that many people erroneously equate Jewish mysticism to New Age mysticism

No surprise then that they would do the same with anything Edgar Cayce or any other other documented mystic did or wrote (Nostradamus et al) - or myriad serious attempts among the sciences to explore the pysche and strange phenomenon.

Likewise with some of the bizarre confessions.

BTW, I read somewhere that it used to be rather customary to backdate a prophesy to disclose a current event and declare it as “proof” of God's anointing of a political leader’s authority.

As in water face [answereth] to face, so the heart of man to man. – Proverbs 27:19

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. – Psalms 44:20-21

Then it is redundant to say you have neither.

I think it was brilliant. Not only does it make the status of the earth very clear, but the use of such clear philosophical logic makes the notion that Genesis was invented by ignorant bronze age goat herders all the more absurd

We're going to have to agree to disagree, on this, and many other points...

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