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.
