Evolution – a Theory in Crisis Part 2 of 3 The Philosophical Bankruptcy of Darwinian Evolution Also available: Part 1 of 3 – The Scientific Bankruptcy of Darwinian Evolution Part 3 of 3 – The Biblical Creation Alternative & Its Implications

Philosophy “ A set of beliefs reached by investigation & contemplation of the cause and nature of being and reality .” Your ‘take’ on life Socrates Logical Positivism – Existentialism – Relativism Pragmatism – Utilitarianism – Postmodernism

James Dewey Watson (Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA) “ Charles Darwin will eventually be seen as a far more influential figure in the history of human thought than either Jesus Christ or Mohammed .”

‘‘ It was because Darwinian theory broke man’s link with God and set him adrift in a cosmos without purpose or end that its impact was so fundamental. No other intellectual revolution in modern times…so profoundly affected the way men viewed themselves and their place in the universe. ’’

The philosophical direction of Darwinism? Naturalism “ The cosmos is all there is.” =

1 st Panel in ‘Origin of Species’ exhibit @ Natural History Museum

“… light came as in a flood and all was clear. Not only had I got rid of theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution .” Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

“ I have done a great deal of work on Darwin and can say with some assurance that Darwin did not derive his theory from nature but rather superimposed a certain philosophical world-view on nature and then spent 20 years trying to gather facts to make it stick .” George Grinnell

LENIN (1870-1924) MARX (1818-1883) HITLER (1889-1945) STALIN (1879-1953) NIETZSCHE (1844-1900) MAO (1893-1976) HAECKEL (1834-1919) FREUD (1856-1939)

The ‘Darwin’ statue Lenin kept on his desk in the Kremlin

Frontispiece from Ernst Haeckel’s 1868 book The Natural History of Creation

“ Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism, especially in its social Darwinist and eugenics permutations, neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the world’s greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy .” Richard Weikart - associate professor of modern European history at California State University. From Darwin to Hitler

An illogical outworking of the teachings of Christ

A logical outworking of atheistic evolutionary ideology

1904 “ The new world view actually rests on the theory of evolution. On it we have to construct a new ethics…All values will have to be revalued ” Darwinian biologist Arnold Dodel

“ Not all atheists are immoral, but morality as goodness cannot be justified with atheistic presuppositions… He may have personal moral values, but he cannot have any sense of compelling and universal moral obligation. Moral duty cannot logically operate without a moral law; and there is not moral law in an amoral world .”