Darwinian Fairytales

From Christianworldviewnetwork.com January '07

Darwinian Fairytales
By David A. Noebel

Every so often I read a book that just blows me away. A book written by a non-Christian who happens to fall right into line with my way of thinking even though I try to line up my ideas with the motto “how would Jesus think about this.” A few years ago it was a book by Richard Milton entitled Shattering The Myths of Darwinism. Today it is a book by David Stove entitled Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution. When I say both books are a hilarious read and will split your sides that is an understatement! You will be rolling on the floor, trust me!

And both claim to be non-religious. Both claim they are merely students of Darwinian evolution and have found it wanting in truth and full of errors i.e., a false theory. Their case will make any intelligent creationist take note.

In fact, Richard Milton is so bold as to take on the age of the universe and finds the universe a lot younger than the stated 13.5 billion years. Milton says, “using Libby’s own data, the age of the atmosphere is around 10,000 years.”

But listen to this from Milton: “In one of the most recent cases of anomalous dating, rock paintings found in the South African bush in 1991 were analyzed by Oxford University’s radiocarbon accelerator unit which dated them as being around 1,200 years old. This finding was significant because it meant the paintings would have been the first bushman painting found in open country. However, publicity of the find attracted the attention of Joan Ahrens, a Capetown resident, who recognized the paintings as being produced by her in art classes and later stolen from her garden by vandals.”
The 1,200-year-old rock painting should have been dated closer to 1975 A.D., a minor difference of 1,170 years!

But Stove, a professional philosopher from Australia who died in 1994, takes on Charles Darwin and his Origin of Species point after point until even an honest Darwinianist would have to ponder the evidence once again for the theory of evolution.

Stove makes it clear that before Darwin could publish his theory he had to distance it from the French free thinkers who were parading evolution around and about the French Enlightenment and French Revolution period. Darwin could not afford to awaken the hostility of the “religious” elements in England and therefore had to make sure that French atheism was not tattooed to his theory. It reality the religious elements in England swallowed his theory before the scientific community.

With Darwin marrying his theory of survival of the fittest (“the battle for life”) and natural selection to the theories of Thomas Malthus in Essay on Population (1798) (population rises or falls according to the food source) Stove has a field day. None of Malthus’ theory survives today and in fact, the present falling population of Europe has nothing to do with the availability of food. Stove wants to know why Darwin’s theory still hangs around since Malthus’ theories have been deep-sixed.

Stove also wants to know why few are noting the relationship between Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest and the robber-baron capitalists who “scientifically” justified their ruthless acquisitiveness. He also wants to know why hardly anyone is pointing out the relationship between Darwin, Hitler and Stalin. Nazi and Communist crimes can all be traced directly to Darwin’s theory. In fact, Hitler criticized Christianity because it was in rebellion against nature! Nature being Darwin’s theory of natural selection, which works every hour of every day to bring about earth’s “favored races.”

Thomas Jefferson Quote

A interesting thought...

"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Letter to James Madison, Paris, January 30, 1787. THE POLITICAL WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 67 (Dumbauld Ed. 1955).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.C9F7

Womanly Dominion

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Saturday, November 07, 2009

As I Prepare....
...for speaking this next week, I have come across such great Scripture and inspiration in the book, Womanly Dominion by Mark Chanski. It is a great book! Here's a great quote:"I know that some jobs don't really count, don't make much of a difference, don't actually matter that much, don't have much lasting significance. Not so with mothering. I know that in some jobs the worker is only handling cleaning equipment, or car parts, or computer keyboards, or insurance policies, or court cases, or political legislation, or stockholders' funds. Not so with mothering. A mother is handling things of a far greater magnitude. She's handling never-dying souls. She's daily conducting heart surgery on eternal spirits whose forever destinies are influenced most profoundly by the hands that rock their cradles, wipe their noses, spank their fannies, open their Bibles, prepare their after-school snacks, and turn off their bedroom lights. Those motherly hands are molding characters which will become men and women who will turn the world upside down either for good or for evil. Now that's a job that counts. " Womanly Dominion, page 108-109

What do you think? If you are a mother, do you feel like it counts this much?