Charles Darwin zealots have made science a substitute religion

As councils ran out of the grit they had failed to stockpile because they fell for the Government line that climate change made it unnecessary, Britain was last week doubly-carpeted, partly by snow, partly by a blizzard of tributes to Charles Darwin. What did these have in common? In contrast to the centenary of Darwin’s death 26 years ago, what has been noticeable about this homage, not least on the BBC, is how relentlessly reverential it has been.

One would never have guessed from the adulation heaped on the great man by the likes of Sir David Attenborough that there is something very odd about Darwin’s theory. He did not, of course, originate the idea that life on earth had evolved. This notion went back to the ancient Greeks, and was accepted by many of Darwin’s predecessors, including his own grandfather Erasmus. The novelty of Darwin’s thesis was his claim that evolution could be explained solely by the process of natural selection, whereby an infinite series of minute variations gradually turned one form of life into another.

One great stumbling block to his argument is that evolution has repeatedly taken place in leaps forward so sudden and so complex that they could not possibly have been accounted for by the gradual process he suggested - “the Cambrian explosion" of new life forms, the complexities of the eye, the post-Cretaceous explosion of mammals. Again and again some new development emerged which required a whole mass of interdependent changes to take place simultaneously, such as the transformation of reptiles into feathered, hollow-boned and warm-blooded birds.

"None of which have anything whatsoever to do with what CHARLES Darwin contributed to science."

What did CHARLES Darwin actually contribute?

A sloppy journal rushed to print because his "friend" Al Wallace was going to publish his own works first?

Darwin was a pure Scientist. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Darwin was an opportunist who somehow succeeded in getting his name associated with an apostasy that has completely overwhelmed free thinking members of civilization.

I can’t help but see evolution as part of God’s tool set where the less successful and promising experiments are weeded out. Who’s to say what amount of time make’s for one of God’s days when He brought forth time and space? When looking at the vastness of His cosmic creation how can one believe we’re the sole inheritors of intelligence and free will when He has such a larger palette? Presumptuousness and sense of self-importance are the earmarks of mankind.

There are also positions that propose we’ve been “jump started” by alien means while our simian and ocean-bound relatives were left behind. Others propose that we’re a highly evolved virus run amuck that guarantees this planet’s doom.

I presume none of these things. I DO believe in God because I survived and saw too much weird stuff that defies explanation. Either I’ve experienced things on the far fringes of chance (illogical) or God is real and proactive.

I’ve cogitated on this for thirty years now and believe my explanation viable. Most Biblical events have been found true or possible through archaeological discoveries while the time lines remain suffering.

Be they differences of cultural standards or scientific mistakes - most of these events remain valid in and of themselves through dint of other recordings, links from non-Christian cultures and recent findings from the latest technology. There has been more than one “dark age” where critical information was lost, yet the “flood” remains a continual thread as does the conflict between God and rebelling angels. It goes back to Zoroastrianism.

"A sloppy journal rushed to print because his "friend" Al Wallace was going to publish his own works first?"

Won't be the first time that the guy who did the actual field work was about to be scooped, and rushed into publication.

"Darwin was a pure Scientist. Yeah, that's the ticket."

Yup, as much as there were in those days. And recognized by his peers as such. Learn some history.

"Darwin was an opportunist who somehow succeeded in getting his name associated with an apostasy that has completely overwhelmed free thinking members of civilization.

Typical ranting of a knuckle-dragging creationist Luddite. Precisely what "free-thinking members of civilization" were overwhelmed?? The morons who claim that the universe 4000 yrars old???

> I can’t help but see evolution as part of God’s tool set
> where the less successful and promising experiments are
> weeded out.

That’s fine if you’re not a Christian.

The belief that Evolution was used by God to develop the variety and abundance of life forms obviates the need for a Savior.

If we are just the results of a “Divine Experiment”, and this experiment uses Death as its enforcer for change, so that Death was an integral part of all that which is deemed “very good” by God at the beginning, then why do we need Christ to deliver us from Death?

How can there be “Sin”, if we are just acting out vestigial behavioral instincts of our bestial past? Why, then, are there any consequences for Sin, and why do we need Christ to deliver us from the bondage of Sin?

The fanatical adulation of Darwin by his own mind-numbed cult of personality is the best demonstration of Darwinism’s status as a religion.

Have a look at this:

Darwin, Saint of Science

Here are a few quotes:

Nothing unworthy must be found in these pages; no unfair passage should be left within these covers; only pure thoughts belong to a book consecrated to an unsullied light-bringer. I have written with careful hands and clean; for I have sat near the altar of the Temple of Truth. The many shortcomings and imperfections of this volume are due to my limitations alone; the best that I could do, I have done.
What is it all for? Nature, is this the secret: that thou wipest out a type to bring a higher in? Show us then, the Perfect Man. Thou hast worked long enough for him. Thru countless epochs the process has gone on. Show us, Nature, the best you have produced. We wish to see your favorite and pride.
And if you show to us a savant whose wisdom was vast, but who fawned at the feet of degenerate aristocracy, we want him not. And if you show to us a writer whose style was sweet, but who bartered his brain for gold, we want him not. And if you show to us a scientist who studied the laws of the universe, but paid toll to theologic superstitions, we want him not. And if you show to us a bishop who preached in favor of the poor, but evicted his tenants on a wintry day, we want him not. And if you show to us a poet who vehemently sang of love, but deserted his trusting wife, we want him not. And if you show to us a philosopher who wrote on the responsibilities of parenthood, but neglected his little children, we want him not.
But Nature answers: What of him, my warmest lover, my humblest servant? What of the gentle hand that placed the radiant crown on the undecked brow of Truth? And Nature has redeemed herself. She may have blundered, and she surely has effaced, but she has evolved the Perfect Man. She has unfolded Darwin the Great and Good.
Look at this; here is the Origin of Species, the book that changed the world, by causing its intellectual channels to flow in different courses than it had hitherto followed. The works of Darwin! You stand before the accumulated knowledge of all the ages. A thousand discoveries are within these covers. Think how deep and often that noble brow has been contracted with thought. Is the topic too vast? Does its immensity balk the mind? Then think of this one theme: From a chattering ape of the forest, swinging from branch to branch by its prehensile tail, to the scientific Darwin in his studio, writing on the Geological Succession of Organic Beings!
Succeeding generations have continued the worthy and welcome task, and to-day on his centenary, his grave is the greenest in all the world. Tall men from the ends of the earth have garlanded him with wreaths that do not fade, and laurels that never die.
Among these glorious bay-trees I cast this little chaplet. It is small, and its merit scant, but every leaf of it was interwoven with veneration. It will not bloom like other coronals, tho it was love that brought it forth. Accept, accept it, O Saint of Science, for I too know thee as the wonder and the glory of the universe!

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