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Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is the pivot on which the secular world orbits. The evolution patriarch levelled hammer blows against the foundations of faith with his seminal publication “The Origins of Species” 155 years ago. “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life” remains the principal template for everyone with a lawsuit against God.
In clerical language, it is would be the Atheist Mosaic, the Sceptics’ Creed and the Agnostic Talmud.

Darwin is credited with outfoxing the traditional account of creation which points to God as the intelligent cause behind the universe.
The implications are unsettling. Whether one considers the claim horizontally or vertically, evolution – cosmological, biological and human – is a revolution of monumental proportions. It questions the existence of God and diminishes the purpose of man.

Creationist author and filmmaker Ray Comfort observes that evolution is a bogus science whose popularity borders not on its inherent merit but its mortification of moral accountability.

“This is because the conviction that Darwin was right gives them an open door to guilt-free fornication, pornography, homosexuality, adultery, blasphemy and whatever their heart desires.

“If there’s no God, then there’s no absolute morality, and that means there’s no Judgment Day and definitely no hell. Evolution says that fornication is simply primates seeking to procreate their own species,” Comfort says.

It is pertinent to underscore why creation and evolution, as diametrically antithetical worldviews, are central to the debate for or against the existence of God.

Science arrives at conclusions by observable evidence. To this end nature is believed to point to a Creator, the same way a product points to a manufacturer.

The scientific case for the existence of God, according to the Apostle Paul, is that “the invisible attributes of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made”. The world is the handiwork of God, hence irrefutable evidence for His existence.

Darwin threw the gauntlet via an alternative theory for our origins by purely natural means, sidelining the concepts of creation and intelligent design.

Sceptics and naturalists in Darwin’s camp gleefully propagate that “God is out of a job”, fetishising the theory as the definitive death-knell to theism.

Darwinians are perched on a self-aggrandising pedestal from whence they rough up laities and “pliables” into submission. A perception has fermented in their circles that reality can be arrived at only when religion has been cropped out.

Evolution has permeated critical social engines including education and religion.
Rudimentary graphics of evolution, chiefly Stanley Miller’s experiment, Ernst Haeckel’s drawing of embryos, Darwin’s tree of life and the discovery of the “missing link” have swept many students over from faith to incredulity.

Locally, students who do not get to major with sciences get a feel of evolution in the Junior Certificate History curriculum where the theory is presented as the normative explanation for the origins of the universe.

Mainstream denominations have been arm-twisted into settling for a fair balance between creation and evolution, draping vast stacks of scripture with the sell-by date “Best Before 1859” in the process.

On the 150th anniversary of “Origins of Species,” president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi said evolution was not incompatible with the teachings of the Church and, in actual fact, has never been condemned.

Such laxity on fundamentals explains why major churches were complicit with colonialism and related atrocities. As it were, ecclesial conscience was supplanted with bogus science.

Racism, slavery, colonialism, genocide, forced sterilisation, targeted abortion have been furnished scientific legitimacy by Darwinism and eugenics.

Darwin writes in “The Descent of Man” that the European stands at the summit of civilisation, poised to wipe out its “former savage progenitors”.
“The civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races through the world,” Darwin said.

Felix ID Kotonuh-Ahulu related in New African magazine some of the crimes rubber-stamped by evolution.
Aborigines were regarded as “wild beasts whom it is lawful to exterminate” and ethnically cleansed by Europeans, with the last full-blooded Tasmian dying in the 1870s.

Planned Parenthood founder Mary Sanger told the Ku Klux Klan that the brain of the Aborigine evolved only one step more than chimpanzees, blacks, Jews and Italians; while a Congolese man was displayed in a New York zoo in 1906.

Darwinist Thomas Huxley wrote in 1871: “No rational man, cognisant of the facts believes that the average Negro is equal, still less the superior of the white man.”

Darwin has a distinguished circle of disciples: Adolf Hitler, Cecil John Rhodes and the pope of atheism, Richard Dawkins.
Some of their views would pass for comical if the overall dynamic was not justifying murder for sectarian interests.

“With regards to the meanings of ‘human’ which are relevant to the morality of abortion, any foetus is less human than an adult pig,” claims Dawkins.

Riding on such “scientific” pro-choice justifications, abortion is big business in the US and the butchers behind it are powerful enough to bankroll presidential campaigns.

The Guttmacher Institute places the feticide at 53 380 843 in the first 32 years of the Roe vs Wade decision, and1 212 400 between 2009 and 2010.

Rhodes was persuaded that Anglo-Saxons as “best, most human and most honourable race” had a mandate to displace “lesser races”.
Repudiations of Darwinism are found in the works of investigative journalist and former legal editor Lee Strobel  (“The Case for a Creator”) Carl Wieland (“One Human Race  – The Bible, Science, Race and Culture”), Comfort’s introduction to “Origins”, and his recent documentary “Evolution vs God.”

One of the loose ends in evolution is the information problem.
According to Comfort, the amount of information in the three billion base pairs in the DNA in every human cell is equivalent to that in 1 000 books of encyclopaedia size.

He challenges the reader to imagine evolution this way: There is nothing, then paper appears, ink falls from nowhere and shapes itself into an unintelligible passage which, by mindless chance, passes various stages of transmutation to become a coherent book.

If the world happened by accident and evolved over time then the complex functionality of the four-layered DNA would be an unanswered question as would be the fact of consciousness, the soul and free-will; human attributes that cannot have emanated and evolved from dead matter.
Darwinians use the similarities in DNA, in particular an estimated 98-99 percent similarity between humans and chimpanzees to suggest a common ancestry between human and apes.

Critics, however, fault the assumption that similar DNA indicates a common ancestor. For example, a biplane and a jet share common features of wings, body, tyres, engine and controls without necessitating the evolution of one from the other.

“We also share about 50 percent of our DNA with bananas and that doesn’t make us half bananas,” argues Steve Jones.
Invocation of naturalistic origins, argues Wieland, poses the stalemate for evolutionists because there is no nature to invoke before the existence of nature. Time, space, matter, energy and the laws of nature had a definite beginning hence cannot be invoked, hence the case for intelligent design.