The Rise of Darwinism

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The Rise of Darwinism

• And Its Implications for Society

Monarch Creation Ministry
August 2006
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Evolutionist Richard Dawkins

• Innocent children are being saddled with
  demonstrable falsehoods. Its time to question
  the abuse of childhood innocence with
  superstitious ideas of hellfire and damnation.

BBC TV Special
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1981 Resolution of the National Academy of
Sciences

• Religion and science are separate and mutually
  exclusive realms of thought whose presentation in
  the same context leads to misunderstanding of
  both scientific and religious belief.

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Evolution ScienceCreation Religion
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The Basis of Modern Science

• Materialism the view that the material world is
  all there is there is no existence beyond this
  present life
• Naturalism the view that all things have a
  natural cause, especially the origin of the
  universe and nature

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Evolutionist Richard Lewontin

• We scientists have a prior commitment to
  materialism and we are forced by our a priori
  adherence to material causes to create an
  apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts
  that produce material explanations. Moreover,
  that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow
  a Divine Foot in the door.

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Evolutionist Michael Ruse

• Either humankind is in a state of original sin
  or it is not. If it is, then there was reason
  for Jesus to die on the cross. If it is not,
  Calvary has as much relevance as a gladiator's
  death in the Colosseum.

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Romans 122

• Although they claimed to be wise, they became
  fools

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How did we get to this state of affairs?

• Early Signs of the Religion vs. Science Conflict

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The Renaissance (Early 14th to 16th Centuries)
Two Streams of Thought

• An attempt to return to Biblical Christianity
  The Reformation.

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The Reformers

• Martin Luther, Germany
• John Wycliffe, England
• John Huss, Germany
• G. Savonarola, Italy
• H. Zwingli, Switzerland
• John Calvin, Switzerland
• John Knox, Scotland

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The Renaissance (Early 14th to 16th Centuries)
Two Streams of Thought

• An attempt to return to Biblical Christianity
  The Reformation.
• The humanistic side The Age of Rationalism or
  The Age of Reason.

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The Age of Reason

• Emphasis on humanism rather than on God.
• Thinking modeled after ancient Greece Rome.
• Renaissance philosophers believed society could
  turn people away from evil.
• Humanistic thinking even affected theologians of
  the time.

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REBIRTH OF LEARNING
RENAISSANCE
RETURN TO BIBLICAL CONCEPTS
REFORMATION
SCIENCE FOUNDED UPON BIBLICAL CONCEPTS
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
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Some Christian Scientists

• Lord Kelvin Thermodynamics
• Louis Pasteur Immunization
• Robert Boyle Chemistry
• James Clerk Maxwell Electrodynamics
• Isaac Newton Laws of Motion, Calculus
• Gregor Mendel Genetics
• Michael Faraday Electromagnetics

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Some Christian Scientists

• Georges Cuvier Anatomy, Paleontology
• Matthew Maury Oceanography
• Blaise Pascal Hydrostatics, Barometer
• James Joule Thermodynamics
• Leonardo da Vinci Hydraulics
• Francis Bacon The Scientific Method
• Johann Kepler Astronomy

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William of Occam (14th Century)

• Beginning of the division between science and
  theology
• Natural knowledge (science) vs. revealed truth
  (theology)

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RENAISSANCE
SPLIT BETWEEN SCIENCE THEOLOGY
REFORMATION
SCIENCE FOUNDED UPON BIBLICAL CONCEPTS
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
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Rationalism17th Late 18th Centuries

• Everything can be explained by mathematical laws
• Yet its not possible to be certain of anything
• To become rational only requires education

Rene Descartes
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Rationalism17th Late 18th Centuries

• Knowledge is power.
• Reason vs. ignorance, superstition, uncritical
  acceptance of authority.
• Worship of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Rise of Materialism(17th century)

• All is material.
• Everything can be explained by scientific laws.
• Humans dont have a spiritual nature.

Thomas Hobbes
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RENAISSANCE
HUMANISM
MATERIALISM RATIONALISM
SPLIT BETWEEN SCIENCE THEOLOGY
REFORMATION
ALL IS MATERIAL WORSHIP OF REASON
SCIENCE FOUNDED UPON BIBLICAL CONCEPTS
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
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Empiricism17th Century - Present

• Experience is the most important source of
  knowledge
• Cannot base decisions on other sources, such as
  the Bible or governmental authority

David Hume
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RENAISSANCE
MATERIALISM RATIONALISM
SPLIT BETWEEN SCIENCE THEOLOGY
REFORMATION
BIBLICAL BASIS OF SCIENCE BEGINS TO ERODE
EMPIRICISM
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
EXPERIENCE IS SOURCE OF KNOWLEDGE
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The Enlightenment18th Century

• An emancipation from superstition and prejudices
  of earlier times
• The achievement of concordance with fact and
  reason
• New theories to explain heaven and earth
• Once people became enlightened societys
  problems would be solved.

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Uniformitarianism19th Century - Present

• All geologic processes took vast amounts of time.
• The present is the key to the past.
• No Genesis Flood.

James Hutton
Charles Lyell
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RENAISSANCE
MATERIALISM RATIONALISM
SPLIT BETWEEN SCIENCE THEOLOGY
REFORMATION
BIBLICAL BASIS OF SCIENCE ERODING
EMPIRICISM
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
UNIFORM- ITARIANISM
PRESENT IS KEY TO PAST NO GENESIS FLOOD
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Darwinism1859 - Present

• All plant and animal life evolved gradually from
  a few common ancestors
• Natural selection
• Vast amounts of time required.

Charles Darwin
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RENAISSANCE
MATERIALISM RATIONALISM
SPLIT BETWEEN SCIENCE THEOLOGY
REFORMATION
EMPIRICISM
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
UNIFORM- ITARIANISM
SCIENCE FOUNDED UPON EVOLUTION
NO NEED FOR A CREATOR
DARWINISM
NATURAL SELECTION
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Naturalism1890s - Present

• Knowledge is acquired through the senses
• Everything people do is determined by heredity or
  the environment
• Physical world emphasized supernatural excluded

Jack London
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RENAISSANCE
MATERIALISM RATIONALISM
SPLIT BETWEEN SCIENCE THEOLOGY
REFORMATION
EMPIRICISM
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
NO GOD
NATURALISM
UNIFORM- ITARIANISM
SCIENCE FOUNDED UPON EVOLUTION
DARWINISM
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RomanticismLate 18th Mid 19th Centuries

• Feeling emphasized over reason
• Individuality impulse preferred over self
  discipline
• Individual rights
• Nature viewed as living.

Edgar Allen Poe
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EVOLUTION BY RANDOM PROCESSES
NO GOD
FEELINGS
ROMANTICISM
NATURALISM
DARWINISM
MORAL RELATIVISM
NO ABSOLUTES
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Moral Relativism
(Existentialism)

• No absolutes truth relative
• Each person operates by his/her own moral code
  Whats right for one person isnt necessarily
  right for another.

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80)
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A man who has no assured and ever present belief
in the existence of a personal God or of a future
existence with retribution and reward, can have
for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only
to follow those impulses and instincts which are
the strongest or which seem to him the best
ones. The autobiography of Charles Darwin
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Judges 2125

• In those days there was no king in Israel
  everyone did what was right in his own
  eyes. NAS

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The Lie

• Humanism, with evolutionism as its platform.
• 2 Thessalonians 210b-11
• They perish because they refused to love the
  truth and so be saved.
• For this reason God sends them a powerful
  delusion so that they will believe the lie.

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• Is evolution a theory, system, or hypothesis?
  It is much more . Evolution is a light
  illuminating all facts, a trajectory that all
  lines of thought must follow.
• Teilhard de Chardin

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Modern Spokesmen

• Carl Sagan
• Isaac Asimov
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Richard Dawkins
• Michael Ruse

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Carl Sagan (1934-96)

• The cosmosthe physical universe"is all that is
  or ever was or ever will be."

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Isaac Asimov (1920-92)

• I am an atheist, out and out.... I do not have
  the evidence to prove that God does not exist,
  but I so strongly suspect he does not that I do
  not want to waste my time.

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Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)

• Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact.

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Richard Dawkins (1941-)

• "It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet
  somebody who claims not to believe in evolution,
  that person is ignorant, stupid, or insane...."

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Michael Ruse (1940-)

• I am sorry to be so rude about this (not that
  sorry!), I really want to believe. I find the
  goodies offered by Christianity extremely
  attractive. But I am d---d (again!) if I am
  going to sell my evolutionary birthright for a
  mess of religious pottage.

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Isaiah 520

• Woe to those who call evil good
• and good evil,
• who put darkness for light
• and light for darkness,
• who put bitter for sweet
• and sweet for bitter.

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Results of Evolutionism

• The Fallout on Modern Culture

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The Church

• Abandonment of Scripture as final authority
• Theistic evolution replaces Biblical creationism
• Divinity of Jesus questioned
• Focus on social justice rather than sin
• Foundational doctrines laid aside
• Result a subtle form of moral relativism has
  found its way into our thinking.

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The Devaluation of LifeA Culture of Death

• Abortion
• Euthanasia
• Eugenics

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Embryonic Recapitulation

• The Gill Slit Theory
• Haeckel claimed human embryo has gill slits, a
  remnant of evolution

Ernst Haeckel
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Embryonic Recapitulation

• The fundamental law of biology.
• Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

Ernst Haeckel
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Haeckels Drawings
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Haeckels Law and Abortion

• The message of Haeckels embryos persists the
  fetus isnt human yet, so aborting it is
  justified.
• Birth control was nothing more or less than the
  facilitation of weeding out the unfit.

Margaret Sanger
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Euthanasia

• Survival of the fittest?
• Helping the evolutionary process by not burdening
  those who are most fit?

Jack Kevorkian
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Eugenics

• Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle
  for Life

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Eugenics

• Helping the evolutionary process?
• Giving the more suitable races or strains of
  blood a better chance of prevailing speedily over
  the less suitable.

Francis Galton
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Animal Rights and Evolution

• There is no fundamental difference between man
  and the higher mammals in their mental
  faculties.... The difference in mind between man
  and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly
  is one of degree and not of kind.
• Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

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If were not created in the image of God

• Man has no special status, but is just a little
  higher on the evolutionary ladder than animals
• Therefore animals should have many of the same
  legal protections as humans.

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Animal Rights Advocates

• Legal rights for higher animals, including legal
  personhood
• The right to have lawsuits filed on their behalf
• Compensatory damages for medical expenses
• Provision for a comfortable retirement
• Constitutional rights.

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Animal Rights Advocate Steven M. Wise

• the universe was not designed at all, much
  less designed for humans.
• Rattling the Cage

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Outlook on life If the universe is without
design or purpose

• Man is an accident in space.
• Hopelessness, depression, suicide If we came
  from nowhere and are going nowhere, whats there
  to live for?
• Life then has no meaning. Drugs offer a sort of
  substitute religion for people looking for some
  meaning in life.

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• It was because Darwinian theory broke mans link
  with God and set him adrift in a cosmos without
  purpose or end that its impact was so
  fundamental.
• Michael Denton, Evolution A Theory in Crisis

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Its Not My FaultIf evolution is true then
were just helpless products of random processes,
and we arent responsible for our actions.

• Homosexualitya product of evolution
• Alcoholbad genes
• CrimeViolence, then, is natural to man, a
  product of evolution. P.J. Darlington

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Environmentalism and Evolution

• If God is not the Creator, we owe our allegiance
  to Mother Earth.

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Environmentalism and Evolution

• Gaia hypothesis the earth is our Mother and is a
  living entity which should be revered.
• Global warming the earth-atmosphere system
  evolved over millions of years and is fragile we
  need to pass laws to restore it.

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Romans 125

• They exchanged the truth of God for a lie Gr.
  the lie, and worshiped and served created things
  rather than the Creatorwho is forever praised.

What is the lie? Humanism, with evolutionism
as its platform.
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The Three Great isms of the Twentieth Century
Darwin
Nietzsche
Marx
Hitler Nazism
Mussolini Fascism
Stalin Mao Communism
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The Basis of Our Thinking
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Dr. Henry Morris

• Evolution is not merely a biological theory of
  little significance. It is a world viewthe
  world view diametrically opposing the Christian
  world view. Therefore Christians ignore it or
  compromise with it at great peril!

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Michael Ruse

• Evolution is a full-fledged alternative to
  Christianity.

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What constitutes a religion?

• A set of beliefs (materialism, naturalism)
• Holy writings (The Origin of Species)
• A prophet (Darwin)
• A promise of reward to the faithful (sexual
  freedom humanistic utopia)
• Faith (in the power of random processes)
• Proselytizing (media universities).

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It takes faith to believe that

• A cosmic egg suddenly materialized out of
  nowhere caused a Big Bang
• Evolution happened in spite of impossible odds
• Somehow evolution circumvented the second law of
  thermodynamics
• The creation has the appearance of design without
  a Designer
• Conditions just happened by chance to be right
  for life on earth.

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Evolution is a Religion
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Darwinism (Evolution) is a Religion

• It takes a lot more faith to be an evolutionist
  than a creationist. Evolutionists must believe
  that everything somehow created itself out of
  nothing, and for no apparent reason.

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Genesis 35

• For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes
  will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing
  good and evil.

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The Challenge

• It is our responsibility as parents to teach our
  children to follow GodTeach them to your
  children and to their children after them.
  (Deut. 49)
• Part of this responsibility involves showing them
  how God is Creator, and the fallaciousness of the
  religion of evolution.

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THE END
Monarch Creation Ministry
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RENAISSANCE
MATERIALISM RATIONALISM
REFORMATION
SPLIT BETWEEN SCIENCE THEOLOGY
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
EMPIRICISM
NATURALISM
UNIFORM- ITARIANISM
SCIENCE FOUNDED UPON EVOLUTION
DARWINISM