Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin is that guy who sailed in the HMS Beagle to the Galapagos and wrote a book titled, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. It's a long book title, shortened for ease to, " The Origin of Species."  The titles alone says a lot, but the book has spoken volumes and for centuries.  It has given people ideas regarding racism, religion and scientific study over the years.

The book, published in 1859, basically rocked the western world because it offered a whole "new and improved" systematic way of looking at the origin of man and the history of life on earth..  It was Darwin who gave the world terms like "species," and "survival of the fittest."  It was Darwin's work that became the calcified bedrock of something known as the Theory of Evolution.

Darwin is noted as the "father" of such evolutionary theory, which some people believed was a giant step for mankind in understanding what they could see with their own eyes and Darwin's work was "a miracle" for many.   His miracle,- giving the world a new way to reject God.  Darwin's book and his theories would rejct all the biblical foundations that had been laid for understanding human origins in Genesis, dead things like fossils, and random things like "change" were on display as a means of how life began; and the big picture of it all was no credit given to an unseen, living entity, called "God."

In Darwinian philosophy, everything could be thought of in the natural, and as such there would no longer be a need for crediting the divine hand of the biblical God in the act of creation.  Death... was just part of the normal natural process.... fossils being our example of life ending in nothing but death.  Out went the now deemed, "unscientific" bible, replaced with Darwins textbook on human origins.  Man was no longer considered anything more than an evolved ape.  Spacecraft Darwin had landed with a thump in the annuals of time, and it was a giant step for mankind, but unfortunately it was a giant step in the direction of dismissing belief in a supernatural and creator God, particularly in Christian America. It brought about a paradigm shift in thinking.

THe biblical tree of life, replaced with Darwin's diagram...Darwin gave us a new tree of life to look upon. In a time when slavery was embraced as a means of production, communities learned that man was not above the animals, he came down from the trees, tired apparently of monkeying around.  Being mere brute beasts, a neighbor was now no more valuable than a beast, nothing more than an animal with animalistic tendacies.... war, hates, survival of the fittest... became the name of the human game. Yes, thanks to Darwin, man could understand and teach his children too, that life on earth, all of life, was merely a product of chance and happenstance, that is... if  they would simply believe Darwin's highly sophisticated, long winded and  "scientific" conclusions. 

But Darwin was not the first person to come up with the notion of evolution, he was just one who got a lot of publicity when he came up with a grand schema and wrote a book that got a lot of attention in the media, and had it reproduced. It was as if his publication would become a lever of the mind.  If properly applied it had the potential to move mankind into what some considered higher thinking... after all, only the foolish believed in God, the foolish, the simple and the weak.  Those who were well "above average" and could understand this high minded "scientific" stuff, those who listened to all that the papers published, would have to agree that Darwin knew what he was talking about.  If you were smart like him, then you knew better than to believe the simplistic notion that Earth and all the life forms here began by the creative work of an entity known as God..


Two main philosophical camps arose in America, one made up of those who believed Darwin’s theory-- of how man had "evolved" from lower life forms, since the beginning of time,  and those who believed in God and that God created man from the dust of the earth (separate from the apes) and that he had his ancestry in coming from the first man and woman created at the beginning of human time.  These camps were polarized. Even to this day, the matter of origins remains controversial.  Evolution and how it could have happened if it did, to this day remains accepted as fact by some, disputed by some others, and this goes on dispite the fact that the theory has not been proven nor is it demonstrable.  evolutionary thought is like a religion, believed in by those who skirt religion and walk the path of unbelief laid out so "scientifically" for them by Charles Darwin.

But Darwin was not alone.  In 1998, a man named Ernst Mayr, (1904- 2005) a biologist from Harvard who was a  Professor and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, took Darwin’s thoughts on origins a step further when he published a book titled, “The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology."  Bewcause there were so many holes in Darwin's theory, Mayr attempted to give the world a more “modern version" of the "theory of evolution."

Mayr, categorized ways various branches of science use the theory of evolution.  He wrote about how he believed Darwin was correct and why.  In an interview at edge.org, Mayr is quoted saying, “Evolution is so clearly a fact that you need to be committed to something like a belief in the supernatural if you are at all in disagreement with evolution. It is a fact and we don't need to prove it anymore. Nonetheless we must explain why it happened and how it happens.” 

Has evolution been proven that it does not need to be proven any more?  It has never been proven.  There are those who say it has been proven, but it have not been proven.... just believed in.   Evolution says birds evolved from reptiles, but no fossil has ever been found of such an animal in transition. Evolutionists routinely scientifically study the highly organized cell and complicated strands of DNA and BELIEVE it all came about by random chance.

Mayr, convinced that there is no such thing as the supernatural, maybe even convinced that there is no such thing as God... is now like Darwin, like all the fossils that give us clues to life....buried under ground.   Mayr and friends my be convinced, they may want others to be convinced that they knew exactly what they were talking about, and that they were right and that people should listen to them....because they have this thing called life all figured out.  Some may follow Darwin and friends to the grave with Darwinian thinking, but others are not so quick to dismiss religion.  And then, there are those who follow Jesus, who himself was raised from death to life.  Jesus, unlike Darwin, was well acquainted with the concept of  an Almighty "God."


It seems to be mostly Bible believing Christians and orthodox Jews that are outspoken about their disagreements with these assertions made by presumed "atheists," but according to a National Geographic magazine, (Nov. 2004) Christians and Jews are not the only ones who take alarm at the theory of human evolution. Islamic creationists like author Harun Yahya, (a.k.a. Adnan Oktar,) considers the theory of evolution "nothing but a deception imposed on us by the dominators of the world system." (aka AMericans.)

The article also cites that Srila Prabhupada, of the Hare Krishna organization, saying that he believed that God created "the 8,400,000 species of life from the very beginning." It may seem that there are a lot of people believing "evolution" but in reality there are a lot more people who believe in some form of God and the supernatural.

Dismissing the supernatural and embracing evolutionary thought is at it's core, a matter of "faith." It is something you cannot see occur before your yes... something for which there is not proof or visible, repeatable process, scientifically speaking.  It is something you look at little tiny pieces of "evidence" for, and consequently believe without undeniable proof of the conclusions that are made,  and yet people put their hope and trust in it, much like a religion.

Evolution is such a religion that  Mayr, for example, is often referred to as an “apostle” of Darwin. In fact, in the same National Geographic article, a man, Philip D. Gingerich, a paleontologist, says that in the last 30 years of digging up and comparing fossil evidence, he has seen enough to be convinced that evolution is true and then he calls this work of proving "the truth" of evolution, a “spiritual experience.” (Spiritual?)  He adds, “The evidence is there. It's buried in the rocks of ages."

"Rock of Ages" (incidentally?)  is a well-known biblical reference to Jesus Christ. 

 These men, Mayr and Darwin,an all men like then in their thinking, work really hard to solve the mystery of life.  They want to prove themselves so right in their thinking.

Darwin's work in helping mankind find his roots, his beginnings... the ""Origin of Species" to be more exact, was to lay our for humanity the answer to who man was, and where he came from, how he got to be what he is today, to help man know where he was going.  That was in 1859!  But then, as now, his ideas are jut that, ideas, and his beliefs about human origins, a theory. Unfortunately it is a theory that has a beginning for man without God involved at all, and it leads one to a life where God's good wisdom and his miracuolus intervention is obscured by human  pride.

All mankind, even thoughtful, prestigeous, adventurous and fatherly men like Darwin, end up one day in the grave. Noe mastter how great they were, how much they knew, like fossils in the earth they will remain and turn to dust one day.   But hose who recieve, not reject, God and the one he sent, JEsus Christ, these will be saved, and raised to eternal life. 

Life, is a miracle indeed, and God the creator of life, gives both the wisdom of God, and  life.