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THE APED CRUSADER

Because though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, or thank Him, but rather became vain in their reasonings, and their heart, lacking understanding, was darkened.

Professing to be wise, they became fools;

And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and reptiles.

Romans 1:2123

H aving given up on proving evolution scientifically, now the Darwiniacs simply assert that it is true and rush ahead to their main point, which is that God does not exist. On one hand, theyre constantly proclaiming that its possible to believe in God and in evolution, and thereby implying that only a religious belief could keep anyone from believing in evolution. And then when no ones looking, they announce that evolution has disproved God.

Of course its possible to believe in God and in evolution. God can wind the clock, however the clock works. But thats not the plan of the Darwiniacs. They hysterically demand that we all pretend their pseudoscience is science and then keep slipping in the fact that evolution shows that belief in God is just a biological compulsion.

Philosophy professor and Darwiniac Daniel Dennett claims to study religion scientifically, saying, Belief can be explained in much the way that cancer can. He wonders why humans have a craving to believe in God. But there is no more scientific evidence for their creation story than for the Biblical creation storyprobably lessso how about explaining their craving to believe in natural selection? Whats that about?

Whether they conceive of themselves as practicing religion as such is irrelevant. Darwiniacs have faith in some biological mutation process that dictates a consistent set of beliefs and faithsamong which is the belief that they are not practicing religion, and therefore government advancement of their beliefs is not prohibited by the Constitution.

Compared with their fanciful story of human consciousness developing by random mutation and a bloody battle for survival, the story of Genesis is quantum physics. Its not merely opposable thumbs and a bipedal gait that make us distinct from the other beasts. It is consciousness of our mortality, a moral sense, language, mathematics, art, beauty, music, love, longings for immortality, a sense of symmetry, the souls ascent, the ability to accessorize, and our fascination with Branson, Missourinone of which make sense in Darwinian terms. Darwiniacs like Dennett avoid explaining the human soul by calling the soul an illusion. As Dennett says, [If] mindless evolution could account for the breathtakingly clever artifacts of the biosphere, how could the products of our own real minds be exempt from an evolutionary explanation?

Genesis posits a simple version of the human story: Adam and Eve are awakened to good and evil by their sin of pride, become aware of their nakedness, and stumble blinking out into the forest. However literal or metaphorical the story is, no one has improved on it in 4,000 years. No Freudian has a clearer image of mans consciousness. We are in Gods image, and were the only ones in Gods image, which is why we eat escargot rather than worship them. Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe we are distinct from the beasts, youre with God.

The Darwiniacs creationism story is that man comes from an apelike ancestor and they will accept no other answer. They cling to Darwinism even as the contrary evidence accumulates, because it allows them to ignore God. Liberal secularists will not admit evolution is a crock until they have concocted a new creation myth that also excludes God.

It used to be that Darwiniacs avoided lucid statements of the significance of their religion. Thats over. Dennett says its time to abandon the taboo against attacking religion, a taboo similar to the PLOs taboo against attacking Israel. Toward the end of increasing attacks on religion, Dennett has written a book called Breaking the Spell, in which he describes religious belief itself as a mere biological quirk in the Darwinian process. In the same book, Dennett attacks religious belief as a malignant force. It seems the miracle mechanism of natural selection has fallen down on the job if it failed to eliminate this harmful mutation. Luckily, Darwinism is a nondisprovable pseudoscience, otherwise, it might be difficult to explain how religion can be an unfit mutation and, at the same time, has won the battle of survival. Everything proves evolution. Good traits, bad traits, inexplicable organs, a tendency to eat poison, half-off sales at Macysanything that happens confirms Darwins theory!

Dennett states as scientific fact that God does not answer prayers: Certainly the idea of a God that can answer prayers and whom you can talk to, and who intervenes in the worldthats a hopeless idea. Theres no such thing. Science has proved it: God is dead.

Richard Dawkins produced a two-part television series for Britains Channel 4 that is nothing but an all-out attack on religion, titled Root of All Evil? He compares Moses to Hitler, says religion is equivalent to child abuse, and calls the New Testament a sadomasochistic doctrine. In the show titled The God Delusion, Dawkins stands outside the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, warning his British audience of Christian fascism and a growing American Taliban. (I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.)

While relentlessly attacking God, the Darwin cult hides behind the claim that they are merely doing science. The New York Times stated unequivocally in an article on evolution that science can say nothing about why we are here or how we should live. (Thats what the New York Times op-ed page is for!) Maybe a real science like quantum physics doesnt speak to why we are here or how we should live, but evolutions devotees pronounce on those questions all the time.

The theory of gravity has never been invoked to justify mass murder, genocide, or eugenics. Darwins theory of evolution has. From Marx to Hitler, the men responsible for the greatest mass murders of the twentieth century were avid Darwinists.

Upon first reading The Origin of Species, Darwins mentor from Cambridge, Adam Sedgwick, wrote a letter warning Darwin that he was deep in the mire of folly if he was trying to remove the idea of morality from nature. If such a separation between the physical and the moral were ever to occur, Sedgwick said, it would sink the human race into a lower grade of degradation than any into which it has fallen since its written records tell us of its history.

As Darwinism gained currency, humanity did sink into greater degradation and brutalization than any since written records of human history began. A generation later, the world would witness the rise of the eugenics movement; racial hygiene societies; the first genocide in recorded history; Nazi Germany; Stalinist gulags; and the slaughter of 70 million Chinese at the hands of their exalted chairman. To be sure, other books were published on the eve of the bloody twentieth century. But Hitler and Marx were not citing Louisa May Alcotts