Tuesday, February 17, 2009

reEvolutionary Thinking

The last few weeks on the Bible Forum, folks have commented on evolution. Generally those who favor Darwinian Evolution are a) uninformed as to what evolution is, and b) rude in their effort to communicate what they DO know.

Take, for example, the most common comment regarding the criticism of evolution: "Everyone knows that animals evolve!" "They adapt to their surroundings and needs."

Okay. That's true, but it's not a discussion of evolution. It's a discussion of adaptation of the species, which everyone accepts.

The second most common comment is that science supports evolution in the fossil record or in the geologic column or by carbon dating. This one is so thoroughly ingrained that any criticism of the concept is received as proof that the critic is an idiot.

If it were possible to keep a Darwinianist 'on subject' for more than 30 seconds, it might also be possible to enlighten them. But alas.

In it's simplest and most fundamental form, Darwinian Evolutionary Theory is the effort to explain what we see in nature without considering God. It is a completely naturalistic and therefore materialistic hypothesis. The logical conclusion of which is to subvert known science and exalt the human spirit.

If life began in some primordal ooze and evolved upward to become a human being, where will it end? Since this life came from non-life, it exists completely on it's own and is answerable to no one and to nothing but the all-knowing and all-sufficient self.

What this means is every society is free to craft the governing system that best suits their goals and needs. Each one being just as good as the other and capable of providing for the people it serves.

There is no superior system. There is no system that fails. And, as societal needs change, we are free to alter our system to satisfy these new needs.

Enter the destruction of the American System! The Constitutional Republic that brought the strongest, most productive and creative culture the world has ever known has given way to the selfishness and greed of the human spirit.

Perhaps this will expose Evolution for what it is: regressive. Having come this far, giving honor and submission to God, we have thrown Him over in favor of a god more to our liking. One that has greater promise. Not for morally upward progress, but for self-gratification.

Perhaps, when all this is firmly in place, people will begin to see the fallacies in Darwinian thought.