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.
That didn't stop you from trying to deny the links between the Bible and the bloodshed I mentioned. There is at least as solid connection with that as there is with the despots mentioned.
How so?
God WAS the creator. Darwin was nothing. He created NOTHING. He had opinions. Nothing else. Something we all have, opinions. God had the answers to all questions. God created this world. I did not come from some damned monkey. I was created by a man and a woman, whom came from God.
And of course the Christian leaders were all paragons of democracy themselves.
Thank you ex-hippie. I don’t understand why if you believe in evolution you are by definition Godless?
This may (or may not) be so. But it has no bearing on whether evolutionary theory is true.
Darwin’s theory is natural selection, not theistic selection.
Hitler was no Chirstian, as Hitler himself attests.
The only thing that the leaders of the crusades should apoplgize for is leaving a single muslam terrorist alive. Had they cleansed the Earth of islam then, hundreds of millions of productive people would have lived.
Agreed, but it is a dangerous theory when in the hands of evil people. The bible on the other hand has to be perverted in order for evil people to abuse it for power while natural selection is useful for evil in its original form.
Big time chuckles from GGG! LOL again!
All the best to you and yours—GGG
He was no such thing. He was a lazy, inobservant, invidious fool.
If Islam were removed, the devil would reintroduce it with another name. It is simply the oldest lie redressed.
“I guess that puts neither evolutionists nor creationists in a position to criticize each other for relying on faith.”
No, it merely points out that it takes faith to believe in either one.
That is a total lie, BTW. Hitler was an occultist, and a kabbalist.
We should all celebrate God’s having sent His servant, Charles Darwin, to help overturn the errors of fundamentalism and improve our knowledge and understanding of the natural world.
Every dangerous take on Darwin I have seen represents a total perversion of his views. He was opposed to eugenics, opposed to abortion, adamantly opposed to slavery. A lot of people do not know this, as he is routinely misrepresented.
In terms of evolutionary theory as we know it today, I see your point that knowledge can be dangerous. But I think in the final analysis, ignorance is worse!
“He was a hero for the scientific method.”
No, he is the destroyer of the scientific method.
Darwinism has almost destroyed the scientific method because the ability to test under controlled conditions has been left behind when discussing the TOE.
Adaptation can be demonstrated under controlled conditions and there is no significant argument about whether it takes place or not because it can be tested. Not so with the TOE, it can’t be tested according to the scientific method.
I imagine theirs would if they had received as much negative press.
“We should all celebrate God’s having sent His servant, Charles Darwin”
It’s odd that you should say that about Darwin, since he didn’t consider himself God’s servant to bring truth to the world.
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