Sunday School BF&M section III Man

What if I got up here today and said - girls genetically, inherently you are “scientifically” inferior to me because I’m a man and men are proven better and smarter than girls by nature? What if I said to my best friend hey Michael for the overall good of society I’m going to murder you because you’re black and are unworthy of life? What if I said to a Native American or Australian Aborigine I’m going to enslave you and this is what’s best for mankind and for the world? What if, instead of green technology and recycling, I recommended the genocide of entire people groups so that whites could have more natural resources? What kind of monster would you think I was?

Today we’re going to start by looking at the beliefs and teaching of Charles Darwin and how that differs with the BF&M doctrine of Man.

Darwin’s common ancestry of life theory really comes into its own when it is applied to human origins. While he scarcely mentions the topic in The Origin of Species, Darwin later wrote extensively about it in The Descent of Man. “My objective,” he explained, “is to show that there is no fundamental difference between man and the higher animals in their mental faculties” - even in morality and religion. According to Darwin, a dog’s tendency to imagine a hidden agency in things moved by the wind “would easily pass into the belief in the existence of one or more gods.” Like materialistic philosophers since ancient Greece, Darwin believed that human beings were nothing more than animals.

Darwin was pro-slavery and is commonly quoted by evolutionists denying that He would apply his theory to human beings. But in Origin of Species, he extrapolated laws of insect behavior for the benefit of all organic beings. Why beings? By his reasoning, all animals should be more commonly referred to as organisms or beings (not distinguishing between man and animals). For Darwin wrote, "[I]t is far more satisfactory to look at such natural instincts as... ants making slaves... not as being specially endowed or created instincts, but as small consequences of the one general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely: multiply, vary, and let the strongest live and the weakest die."

Originally entitled: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races (that’s whites btw) in the Struggle for Life, if read by parents they might have gained some inkling of the inherent racism propagated by this controversial theorist. Had they actually read Origin, they likely would be shocked to learn that among Darwin's scientifically based proposals was the elimination of "the negro and Australian peoples," which he considered savage races whose continued survival was hindering the progress of actual civilization.

In his next book, The Descent of Man (1871), Darwin ranked races in terms of what he believed was their nearness and likeness to gorillas. Then he went on to propose the extermination of races he "scientifically" defined as inferior. If this were not done, he claimed, those races, with their much higher birthrates than "superior" races, would exhaust the natural resources needed for the survival of better people (white Europeans) and eventually dragging down all of actual civilization.

Darwin even argued that advanced societies should not waste time and money on caring for the mentally ill, or those with birth defects. To him, these unfit members of our species “ought not to survive”, as they violated Darwin’s Golden Rule: multiply, vary and eliminate the competition.

In later editions of Darwin's Origin of Species editors dropped the phrase "Favored Races" from the book's title. But consider this quote from another book by Darwin: "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man (so whites) will almost certainly exterminate and then replace, throughout the world, the savage races (blacks and Aborigines). At the same time the anthropomorphous apes (part man/part apes), as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will also no doubt be exterminated.” Darwin dreamed of a day when the present small gap between “the negro or Australian [aboriginal] and the gorilla” was widened to the gap from the Caucasian to the baboon, thinking that modern man in a desire to eliminate the human competition would eliminate all lesser versions of mankind and all of the higher versions of ape.

-Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, p. 156.

Darwin on Women

"The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man's ability to attain to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman—whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands. If two lists were made of the most eminent men and women in poetry, painting, sculpture, music (inclusive both of composition and performance), history, science, and philosophy, with half-a-dozen names under each subject, the two lists would not bear comparison. We may also infer then, from the law of the deviation from averages, so well illustrated by Dr. Galton, in his work on 'Hereditary Genius,' that if men are capable of a decided pre-eminence over women in so many subjects, then the average of mental powers in man must be above that of woman."

-Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, p. 564.

This is what has replaced a Christian worldview in the Marketplace of ideas in America, Racist-Sexist-Naturalistic Macro-Evolution. And with the bases of Naturalistic Macro-Evolution being that there isn’t a God and that Nature is continuingly evolving upward and is just getting better and better, let’s read the BF&M’s doctrine on Man…

BF&M 2000 section III on Man (referring to Mankind not just dudes)

1 - Man is the special creation of God, made in His own image.

2 - He created them male and female as the crowning work of His creation.

3 - The gift of gender is thus part of the goodness of God's creation.

4 - In the beginning man was innocent of sin and was endowed by his Creator with freedom of choice.

5 - By his free choice man sinned against God and brought sin into the human race. Through the temptation of Satan man transgressed the command of God, and fell from his original innocence whereby his posterity inherit a nature and an environment inclined toward sin.

6 - Therefore, as soon as they are capable of moral action, they become transgressors and are under condemnation.

7 - Only the grace of God can bring man into His holy fellowship and enable man to fulfill the creative purpose of God.

8 - The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love.

Quotes from leading evolutionary minds:

James Watson – Nobel Prize winning scientist and co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA strands, states that Charles Darwin will eventually be seen as a far more significant figure in human history & thought than Jesus Christ.

Richard Dawkins – said in the Wall Street Journal that evolution proves God never existed and if you meet someone who still claims to not believe in evolution that person is ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked!

Early Church Fathers on Abortion

Mathetes, A.D. 80 - 160

[Christians] marry, as do all. They beget children, but they do not destroy their offspring. (ch. 5)

Letter of Barnabas, A.D. 80 - 130

You shall not slay a child by procuring an abortion, nor shall you destroy it after it is born. (ch. 19)

[In the way of darkness] are people ... who are murderers of children and destroyers of the workmanship of God. (ch. 21)

Early Church Fathers on Creation:

Mathetes, AD 80-160

God has loved mankind. He made the world on his account. He made all the things that are, in it subject to Man. He gave him reason and understanding. To mankind alone God imparted the privilege of looking upwards to Himself [a reference to the fact that man alone is capable of relationship with God]. He formed Man after his own image. He sent Man His only-begotten Son, has promised Man a kingdom in heaven, and will give it to those who have loved Him. (ch. 10)

Augustine, c. A.D. 400

In the case of a narrative of events, the question arises as to whether everything must be taken according too a figurative sense only, or whether it must be expounded and defended also as a faithful record of what happened. No Christian will dare say that the narrative must not be taken in a figurative sense; but is it also literal? (The Literal Meaning of Genesis ch. 1, as found in Ancient Christian Writers, vol. 41)

For further study I’d suggest

Lee Strobel’s A Case for a Creator

Ben Stein’s Expelled: no intelligence allowed DVD

Darwin’s Dilemma – on the Cambrian explosion (fossil record)

The Deniable Darwin by PHD David Berlinski

Signiture in the Cell – on DNA and the evidence for ID by PHD Stephen C Meyer

Website: Dissent from Darwin - 20 pages of top PHD scientists and professors who either strongly doubt or no longer believe that random mutation or natural selection can account for the complexity of life found on our planet.