Posted on 10/03/2011 5:29:32 AM PDT by spirited irish
Karl Popper (1902-1994) was a British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. Because he is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, what Popper had to say about Darwinism is of utmost importance to the desperate political struggle fought between creationists and methodological and ontological naturalists. This is because the America of the Founding generation is firmly grounded in the Genesis account of creation, Old and New Testament morality and Christian theism, yet the original meaning and intent of U.S. law — as now controlled and defined by anti-God naturalism — has been radically changed so that it now reflects the doctrinal decrees of imperialist atheist evolutionary naturalism.
Whereas the Founding generation esteemed the Bible and used it to teach their children to read, comprehend and think logically as well as to properly train them in morality and self-discipline, in contemporary America, God, Bible, and moral absolutes have been banned in favor of evolutionary science, atheism, moral relativism, and self-gratification. The still-unfolding consequences of all of this are destructive and terrible, adversely affecting every level of society from the individual to the family, community, and cultural institutions to local and national politics.
In post-Christian America atheist evolutionism is taken for granted throughout the college curriculum, just as it is in all aspects of modern thought and experience, especially within the progressive liberal community. Evolution not only undergirds biological and earth sciences, but also Freudian and Jungian psychology, anthropology, law, sociology, politics, economics, the media, arts, medicine, and all other academic disciplines as well.
Evolution-believers range from atheists and scientists to esoteric Free Masonry, Hollywood insiders, occult New Age spiritists, Satanists, powerful Transnational Progressives, and large numbers of people who call themselves Christian. Among this last group are Liberal Christians, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Emergent Church leaders Brian McLaren and Rob Bell, growing numbers of the Evangelical contemporary Church, and an increasingly vocal community of Christian scholars and scientists such as Dennis Venema. Venema is a senior fellow at BioLogos Foundation, a Christian group that tries to reconcile the Bible with evolutionary science, and as a consequence teach that humans emerged from apes.
Evolutionary naturalism is poisoning and destroying America's traditional foundations, and when the foundations have finally been destroyed, all that is built upon them will be destroyed as well.
Americans have been deceived, and are needful of learning the truth about Darwinism — and all other evolutionary theories, by whatever name they are called.
Evolutionism: Spiritual...not Empirical
Though Popper esteemed evolutionary theory and natural selection, he also forthrightly stated that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory but rather a metaphysical research program. By this he means that not only is Darwinism metaphysical (spiritual), but so are its' two most important foundations, classical empiricism and the observationalist philosophy of science that grew out of it.
Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that contradicts itself by asserting that human knowledge comes only or primarily via sensory experience rather than the mind while observationalism asserts that human knowledge and theories must be based on empirical observations....instead of the mind. For this reason, Popper argued strongly against empiricism and observationalism, saying that scientific theories and human knowledge generally, is conjectural or hypothetical and is generated by the creative imagination.
In other words, all three theories originated in the mind, a power of which is imagination. As mind is a power of soul, then Darwinism, empiricism, and observationalism are spiritual. In short, all three theories are frauds. They claim to be what they are not in order to obtain an advantage over the Genesis account of creation by imposition of immoral means.
In Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828, soul and imagination are respectively defined as:
1. Soul: "The spiritual, rational and immortal substance in man, which distinguishes him from brutes; that part of man which enables him to think and reason."
The Founding generation knew that mind is a power of soul, and imagination the power by which mind conceives:
2. Imagination: "...the power or faculty of the mind by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the senses....The business of conception (and the) power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones so as to form new wholes of our own creation...(imagination) selects the parts of different conceptions, or objects of memory, to form a whole more pleasing, more terrible, or more awful, than has ever been presented in the ordinary course of nature."
In conclusion, evolutionism is an invention of imagination, an invention more terrible and more destructive than has ever been presented in the ordinary course of nature. It imagines that God is dead, that life somehow emerged out of nonlife, that man is not created in the spiritual image of God the Father but is rather a soulless, mindless ex-ape of evolution. It imagines there is no sin, no "hell below us, and above us only sky."
Evolutionism is an invention of imagination, and it has taken the post-Christian West by storm.
copyright 2011 Linda Kimball
Ref Romans 1:18-32
Notice that all of the things we see in society are evidence of God’s Wrath on a nation, not the cause of God’s Wrath on a nation.
Agreed. Evolutionism is pride disguised as science, for it is man’s finite mind over the infinite mind of God the Father.
As the first victim of pride is truth, for pride hates truth, ought we be surprised that evolutionism is fraudulent? That it is spiritual rather than empirical?
Agreed. Evolutionism is pride disguised as science, for it is man’s finite mind over the infinite mind of God the Father.
As the first victim of pride is truth, for pride hates truth, ought we be surprised that evolutionism is fraudulent? That it is spiritual rather than empirical?
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God speaks to us through the Bible and through His natural world. If the literal interpretation of Genesis is true then He is lying to us through his World.
Although I do not believe that God used evolution to create man, your position on evolution is at least reasonable. It blows my mind when people actually think that a series of unguided genetic oopsies brought the myriad of lifeforms into being.
He didn't go with the random thingy, nor does evolution.
Agreed. Plus, if the Genesis account is not true, if He did not speak, then man is free to imagine his own god, or gods and goddesses. In this light, evolution is an idol of the imagination.
Good example.
“...then He is lying to us through his World.”
Please explain your claim.
He made ADAPTATION operational, and this is why species/kinds can adapt to various environments on this earth.
This ability was ORIGINAL in the created kinds,
and was NOT added later, gradually.
To put it another way, the adaptibility that evos would credit to mutation is/was actually already in the information in each creature at creation.
Imagine that there’s BOTH- He started and controls it.
The evidence from studying the Earth testifies to its great
age.
But what is time to God? Just another of his inventions. 7 days to one observer can be 4 billion years to another observer.
Then your understanding of evolution is lacking. Evolution involves random mutations, minute changes over time to the benefit of some organism, which is dubious at best because an organism would have to experiment with change in order to find which is best and then adopt only that specific mutation, this implies intelligence and the ability to develop mutations spontaneously. Mutations themselves are probematic as they tend to be detrimental to the life of the organism (>70%).
Not so. Variation within species is God's way.
Evolution is a construct of man's anti-God thinking designed to eliminate the need of Him in our world. It's based on nothing but forensic evidence and lots of extrapolation.
It's a philosophical construct, not science.
Lying to us through the natural world?
Perhaps the more correct statement, is that it ‘appears to be so, based on our own faulty understanding of what we see and find’.
God does not lie, either in His Word, nor in the world. We see here through a glass darkly, we’ll understand it ALL later.
Very insightful.
Selective pressure bias from the environment: and there goes randomness. Mutation is not the sole driver of evolution, nor is randomness.
And "God is a construct by which we measure our pain."
Then I suggest you re-read the statement.
The theory of evolution and God as creator are polar opposites. Evolution involves random mutation whereas the Creator is specific and designs His creation. Nothing caught Him by surprise. To suggest otherwise strips the Creator of omniscience.
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