Posted on 02/11/2009 5:26:59 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
by Tas Walker
The 12th February 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and evolutionists around the world want us to make it into a big celebration.
Unlike when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, most evolutionists are not open and up-front about what they are on about, or how they feel.
They tell us it’s about the impact of Darwin’s great ideas. But when we ask about the way his ideas underpinned the blood-stained policies of Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Pol Pot they change their tune. Richard Dawkins, Darwin’s famous promoter, put it like this, “I’m a passionate Darwinian when it comes to science, when it comes to explaining the world, but I’m a passionate anti-Darwinian when it comes to morality and politics.”1 They want it both ways.
They pretend it is all about science but when do they make a similar fuss over other scientists, such as Newton, Kepler, Pasteur, or Maxwell? It seems that Darwin is an excuse to banish God. As Dawkins said, “ … Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”2
They pretend it is all about science but when do they make a similar fuss over other scientists, such as Newton, Kepler, Pasteur, or Maxwell?
They pretend that Darwin is about natural selection, but it was a creationist who first came up with the idea. Furthermore, natural selection is a simple part of the biblical Creation/Fall/Flood/Dispersion model, as a culling rather than a creative force.
What they really mean is that bacteria changed into bananas and butchers all by themselves over billions of years. It’s about removing the need for the Creator, but they won’t usually spell that out, or admit that they have no explanation for how it could possibly happen.
They claim Darwin’s idea of evolution was a great intellectual achievement, but don’t explain that the idea destroys reason itself. It certainly worried Darwin, who wrote, “But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of the lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey’s mind, if there are any convictions in such a mind?”3
They ask us to join in their celebrations but don’t give any reason for joy. How can we celebrate a Darwinian universe that has, as Dawkins described it, “no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference”?4
Darryl Scott, whose teenage daughter was gunned down in the school library by a killer with Natural Selection emblazoned on his tee-shirt, found no comfort in Darwin. He said, “If children are taught that they came from slime, that they evolved from a lower form of life, and that there’s no future after death, then their views of life are affected by that … life really doesn’t have the meaning that it does to children who believe they are created in God’s image and that they have not only this life but a future life as well.”5
Nothing could be more uncaring than the entire process of organic evolution—William Provine, Professor of Biological Science, Cornell University.
William Provine, the son of a (liberal) minister, lost his professed faith to Darwin under the teaching of his evolutionary professor at university. He asks, “How can we have meaning in life? When we die we are really dead; nothing of us survives. Natural selection is a process leading every species almost certainly to extinction and ‘cares’ as much for the HIV virus as for humans. Nothing could be more uncaring than the entire process of organic evolution.”6
What is the sense of celebrating the uncaring process of evolution? C.S. Lewis wondered about this too, and whether there was a hidden agenda: “Does the whole vast structure of modern naturalism depend not on positive evidence but simply on an a priori metaphysical prejudice? Was it devised not to get in facts but to keep out God?”7
Keeping God out has consequences. Serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 people before he was captured, said when interviewed in prison, “If a person doesn’t think 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? 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 died, you know, that was it, there is nothing … ”8
No, I find all this hoo-ha about the Darwin celebrations a bit contrived. So do lots of other people, according to the UK Guardian and UK Telegraph.9 Commenting on the latest polls the Telegraph said, “More than half of the public believe that the theory of evolution cannot explain the full complexity of life on Earth, and a ‘designer’ must have lent a hand.”
So, on the occasion of Darwin’s birthday in 2009, the Darwinists themselves would likely feel a bit unhappy about that result. Rather than celebrate, they must feel frustrated at not being able to convince the public after 150 years of continual indoctrination.
Darwin is one of the greats. Newton and Einstein are right up there with him.
If God is an architect, Darwin is his general contractor.
Good evening ping!
Good evening. I’d think you’d be happy to celebrate his birthday. Just think how bored you’d be if he’d never been born.
And what idea underpinned the Crusades, the Inquisition, the French Wars of Religion, the 30 Years War, etc., etc., etc.?
I hope they don’t intend to celebrate in the public square...otherwise, I demand equal representation to erect my creationist display.
Unfortunately for the Temple of Darwinistic Materialism, the HMS Beagle is going down, and the Evos who put their faith in Darwin’s fanciful creation myth are abandoning ship. Indeed, have you seen what the evidence is forcing the Evos to give Darwin for his bicentennial birthday celebration?:
http://creationsafaris.com/crev200901.htm#20090122a
Needless to say, creation scientists have been predicting this eventuality all along.
LOL
I’m a lot more concerned about Obamadan.
And well you should.
He is also worm food or his body is. As to his soul....
==And what idea underpinned the Crusades, the Inquisition, the French Wars of Religion, the 30 Years War, etc., etc., etc.?
Do you disagree with the West’s war against Islamic imperialism? I totally disagree with the Inquisition, and as far as I know the Catholic Church has apologized for the same. Have Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Pol Pot apologized for their wars (against humanity itself)? As for the 30 years war:
“The origins of the conflict and goals of the participants were complex and no one cause can accurately be described as the main reason for the fighting. Initially the war was fought largely as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire, although disputes over the internal politics and balance of power within the Empire played a significant part. Gradually the war developed into a more general conflict involving most of the European powers.[10][11][12] In this general phase the war became more a continuation of the Bourbon-Habsburg rivalry for European political pre-eminence, and in turn led to further warfare between France and the Habsburg powers, and less specifically about religion.[13]”
LOL!
I believe they are all dead, so it's hard to get them to apologize for anything, any more than it would be possible for the leaders of the Crusades or the 30 Years War to apoligize. But Germany has certainly apologized for Hiter, China has criticized Mao's policies like the Great Leap Forward, and Cambodia has repudiated Pol Pot. But if you want to link Darwin to bloody history then one has to link the church to the same. And that's just Christianity. Don't even start on the Muslims, the Hindus, or the ancient Israelites.
Darwin is the antidote to the biblical concept that all men are created equal.
At the very least, one can celebrate the daring to question and to seek new answers, even if one doesn’t like what he has to say. He was a hero for the scientific method.
So was Newton. So was Pasteur. Let me know when their birthdays receive as much attention as Darwin’s has.
For the most part, the conflicts that you refer to are underpinned by struggles for land, power and wealth…with a veneer of religiosity. ‘The Crusades,’ at least the ones you’re likely referring to were a series of defensive wars fought to combat Islamic imperialism, the French Wars of Religion were a proxy war between England and Spain and their client nobility, and again about power as much as religion, the 30 Years War is a quagmire of competing interests, but comes down to another conflict between ruling dynasties – the Bourbons and the Hapsburgs. The strongest case you make is for the Inquisition, and some of it was genuinely religiously motivated, but as with most of these so-called religious struggles, it is really about power, and in this instance it was the Popes’ and the Roman Catholic Church’s way of maintaining power. In any event, all of these conflicts combined don’t hold a candle to the unmitigated slaughter of literally over a hundred million people wrought by the communist philosophies cited, though I think it’s a dubious claim at best to suggest that Darwin’s natural selection theory is responsible.
Darwin didn’t build crap. If God is an architect, Darwin isn’t even a general laborer picking up trash, if he is even allowed on the work site.
The missed his 200th birthday by one year. His FIRST birthday was the day he was born.
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