A Darwinist Religious Experience Described

CEH ^ | April 11, 2009

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A Darwinist Religious Experience Described

April 11, 2009 — As millions of Jews just completed Passover, and as millions of Christians gather to celebrate Easter, a Darwinist reporter was experiencing “existential vertigo” – a sweeping sense of dizziness as her imagination zoomed in and out of the implications of her faith. It may be the closest thing that a secular materialist can call a religious experience. And religious experience is an accurate description: it was the outworking of an all-encompassing world view, with ultimate causes, ultimate destinies, moral imperatives, and heavy doses of faith.

Amanda Gefter (see her previous attack on creationism in the 02/26/2009 entry), attended a four-day Origins Symposium at the University of Arizona and wrote up her impressions for New Scientist...

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[Darwinism] seems simple, because you do not at first realize all that it involves. But when its whole significance dawns on you, your heart sinks into a heap of sand within you. There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration.

—George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah (1921)

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Yep, even the atheists get it...first they reject Jesus Christ, then they accept Darwinistic materialism, and then go into despair.

[stormer]

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a communist.

-George Bernard Shaw

[shibumi]

Shaw was a selective reader of the Bible.

He missed the part in Paul’s Thessalonian letter where he says “Let him will not work, not eat.”

[shibumi]

Sorry! I owe you something.

“who”

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