Bonnie Alba
Deadly mix: Darwin and Hitler
By Bonnie Alba
This weekend, Dr. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries is showing a documentary called "Darwin's Deadly Legacy." It purports that what one believes can lead to a deadly mixture as in the case of Adolf Hitler and the evils of the Holocaust.
Already the internet is ablaze with bloggers and forums attacking Dr. Kennedy as if he is the devil himself. That is Good! Attack without proving a thing except the willingness and desire to belittle and besmirch a person, a religion, specifically Christianity and God the Creator.
Add to that mixture the denunciation by the Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham H. Foxman that "This is an outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust." I would say to him, at least we believe it happened unlike the Iranian Islamic leaders who deny it.
According to a recently released Michigan State University study covering 32 countries, John Miller found that in the U.S., only 40 percent of citizens wholeheartedly accepted Darwin's theory of evolution while 39 percent believed it "absolutely false." The acceptance percentages are higher amongst European countries and Japan, 80 percent in Iceland.
Besides other conclusions from this study, Miller falls back on the religious beliefs of U.S. citizens for their lower acceptance rates. As reported by Mary Rettig, Agape Press, Miller "attributes his findings, in part, to the influence of what he calls 'fundamentalist religious beliefs on attitude toward evolution [and] pro-life attitudes.' He observes that '...individuals who hold a strong belief in a personal God — and who pray frequently — were significantly less likely to view evolution as probably or definitely true than adults with less conservative religious views.'" The implication is that conservative Christians have something wrong with them — they're uneducated and are suffering from what Miller calls a "lack of genetic literacy."
He points out that humans and chimps share 99 percent of their genes. While it has been obvious to the so-called uneducated fundamentalists for centuries that monkeys, chimps, and apes decidedly resemble humans, it took science to deliver a decided observation by decoding the genes. Fortunately we didn't know we shared 35 percent of the gene code with the daffodil. We might have been waiting to see if our babies were born looking like a flower, or with flower petals for ears.
One thing: To fit Darwin's theory, you would think that evolutionists would be totally pro-life in order for the most fit to survive. So you would conclude Darwinists would want as many born as possible to ensure the human species will survive and improve. This is not proven out by the adherence of extreme evolutionists to humanism, to abortion, to eugenics.
True to form and Neo-Darwinian beliefs, evolutionary scientists tend to want to manipulate and further accelerate human evolution by tampering with the natural. Our future as a species looks more and more like one that will be artificially devised and changed by manipulation of "natural selection" by scientists who have no inclination to allow the so-called evolution of our species to occur naturally. Something evil in the genes which drives some men to tinker to improve? Explain that one please.
As we all know, or should know, anything that man invents-develops-makes has polar uses, good and evil. Many times, as proven by mankind's history, man's intentions for behavior, actions and inventions are for good, but other mens' intentions may use an invention and carry it out to evil ends.
It is just so with all ideas, philosophies and religions. But the core of all of those is man himself. So what makes man so vulnerable and gullible to do great good and gross evil? Natural selection cannot explain it nor can the genes.
Maybe this is one reason why Christianity remains strong and viable as a belief system. This worldview explains mankind's predicament, the beginning and the ending, and all the in-between, simply and clearly so that any child can understand it.
Ten little words at the start: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) At the end: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea." (Revelation. 21:1)
Whatever you believe now — the end will prove the beginning.
I recommend the "Darwin's Deadly Legacy" program for Christian families who want to teach their children how a belief system may be used in an evil way. Consult your TV guides for channels and times or purchase the DVD.
© Bonnie Alba
This weekend, Dr. D. James Kennedy of Coral Ridge Ministries is showing a documentary called "Darwin's Deadly Legacy." It purports that what one believes can lead to a deadly mixture as in the case of Adolf Hitler and the evils of the Holocaust.
Already the internet is ablaze with bloggers and forums attacking Dr. Kennedy as if he is the devil himself. That is Good! Attack without proving a thing except the willingness and desire to belittle and besmirch a person, a religion, specifically Christianity and God the Creator.
Add to that mixture the denunciation by the Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham H. Foxman that "This is an outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust." I would say to him, at least we believe it happened unlike the Iranian Islamic leaders who deny it.
According to a recently released Michigan State University study covering 32 countries, John Miller found that in the U.S., only 40 percent of citizens wholeheartedly accepted Darwin's theory of evolution while 39 percent believed it "absolutely false." The acceptance percentages are higher amongst European countries and Japan, 80 percent in Iceland.
Besides other conclusions from this study, Miller falls back on the religious beliefs of U.S. citizens for their lower acceptance rates. As reported by Mary Rettig, Agape Press, Miller "attributes his findings, in part, to the influence of what he calls 'fundamentalist religious beliefs on attitude toward evolution [and] pro-life attitudes.' He observes that '...individuals who hold a strong belief in a personal God — and who pray frequently — were significantly less likely to view evolution as probably or definitely true than adults with less conservative religious views.'" The implication is that conservative Christians have something wrong with them — they're uneducated and are suffering from what Miller calls a "lack of genetic literacy."
He points out that humans and chimps share 99 percent of their genes. While it has been obvious to the so-called uneducated fundamentalists for centuries that monkeys, chimps, and apes decidedly resemble humans, it took science to deliver a decided observation by decoding the genes. Fortunately we didn't know we shared 35 percent of the gene code with the daffodil. We might have been waiting to see if our babies were born looking like a flower, or with flower petals for ears.
One thing: To fit Darwin's theory, you would think that evolutionists would be totally pro-life in order for the most fit to survive. So you would conclude Darwinists would want as many born as possible to ensure the human species will survive and improve. This is not proven out by the adherence of extreme evolutionists to humanism, to abortion, to eugenics.
True to form and Neo-Darwinian beliefs, evolutionary scientists tend to want to manipulate and further accelerate human evolution by tampering with the natural. Our future as a species looks more and more like one that will be artificially devised and changed by manipulation of "natural selection" by scientists who have no inclination to allow the so-called evolution of our species to occur naturally. Something evil in the genes which drives some men to tinker to improve? Explain that one please.
As we all know, or should know, anything that man invents-develops-makes has polar uses, good and evil. Many times, as proven by mankind's history, man's intentions for behavior, actions and inventions are for good, but other mens' intentions may use an invention and carry it out to evil ends.
It is just so with all ideas, philosophies and religions. But the core of all of those is man himself. So what makes man so vulnerable and gullible to do great good and gross evil? Natural selection cannot explain it nor can the genes.
Maybe this is one reason why Christianity remains strong and viable as a belief system. This worldview explains mankind's predicament, the beginning and the ending, and all the in-between, simply and clearly so that any child can understand it.
Ten little words at the start: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) At the end: "Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea." (Revelation. 21:1)
Whatever you believe now — the end will prove the beginning.
I recommend the "Darwin's Deadly Legacy" program for Christian families who want to teach their children how a belief system may be used in an evil way. Consult your TV guides for channels and times or purchase the DVD.
© Bonnie Alba
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