eh7 said:
Do Christians believe in Darwin's evolution theory? And should Christians believe it? Do christians deny the evolution theory totally?
Just look at the fruit of Darwin's theories . . .
Darwin's theories resulted in the growth of the eugenics movement all over Europe and America after Darwin . . .
Hi "natural selection" extends to the social and moral realms, where he saw our social structure and morals as something that evolved, and not inherent in or to man's nature. Human conscience arose as an accident of natural selection which provides an apparently scientific foundation for moral relativism.
"Since," according to Darwin, "human conscience arose as an accident of natural selection, it need not have arisen in any particular form. . . and since evolution continues, many new variations of conscience shall continue to occur. Consequently, no particular variety of conscience can be judged any better or worse than any other.
" . . . evolutionary superiority (including sympathy) was gained only by the brutal struggle of survival between races, a struggle that was far from completed.
Thus moral progres entailed the extermination of the "less fit" races by the more favored, or advanced, races.
The inevitability of
racial extermination was derived directly frm Darwin's evolutionary arguments in the
Origin (the full title of which was
The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life)
the forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most. And . . it is the most closely-allied fotrms, - varieties of the same species, and species of teh same genus or of related genera, -which, from having nearly teh same structure, constitution, an d habits, generally come into the severest competition with each other; consequently, each new variety of species, during the progress of its formation, will generally press hardest on its nearest kindred,
and tend to exterminate them.
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species (New York:Mentor, 1958), chao 4, Extinction Caused . . . ", p. 112
This argument translated directly to his assessment of the evolutionary history of human races and the necessary and
beneficial extinction of
the least "Favoured Races":
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries,
the civilized races of man will almost certainly
exterminate and replace throughout the world
the savage reaces. At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes [that is, the ones which look most like the savages in structure] . .. will no douobt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope . . the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.
Dariwn, Descent of Man, pt. 1, chap. 6, p 201
Above we see that Darwin equated the negro or Australian with the savage races he had just referred to . .
According to Darwin, because the sympathy of the advanced races allowed the weak and infirm to survive as oppsed to the more savage races which held to no such sympathy, and though he recognized that we could not
"check our sympathy, if urged by hard reason, without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature . . Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind"
Dariwn, Descent of Man, pt. 1, chap. 5, p 168-169
there was good reason to fear evolutionary backsliding. He wrote if we
"do not prevent the reckless, the vicious and otherwise inferior members of society from increasing at a quicker rate than the better class of men, the nation will retrograde, as has occured too often in the history of the world.' "We must remember that progress is no invariable rule . .. We can only say that it depends on an increase in the actual number of the population, on the number of men endowed with high intellectual and moral facutlies, as well as on their standard of excellence."
Dariwn, Descent of Man, pt. 1, chap. 5, p 177
The quoted sections above are from Donal De Marco and Benjamin Wiker Architects of the Culture of Death Ignatius Press, copyright 2004 section on
The question of Darwinisim goes way beyond the application of Darwin's natural selection to mere physical evolution . . . it goes to the very heart of who we are . . . and stands against the NATURAL Law God has put in place in our universe, which includes MORAL law . . .
Darwinism denies all that . . makes morality relative . . supports and promotes the growth of eugenics, the surpression and even extinction of the 'lessor races' and the unfit . . .
Should Chrsitians believe this?
Peace
