The Failures of Charles Darwin
03 Feb 2009 Leave a Comment
The following excerpt is from one of the Christian books that we got from Books for Africa. I almost died laughing when I first read it; so I had to share it with you all. Anyways, this is obviously one of the books that we’re not going to give to the schools here.
“Darwin’s idea of the “survival of the fittest” makes very obvious his inability to reason clearly. One of his chief quarrels with the Bible stemmed from his misunderstanding of God’s holiness, love, and justice. He said that the God of the Bible was a cruel tyrant because he allowed people to suffer. This is not true, of course, but that was Darwin’s thinking. Darwin’s “survival of the fittest,” however, is perhaps the cruelest idea that any man has imagined. According to it, the animals struggled against each other to survive as species, and only the “fittest” – the ones with superior “adaptations” – survived. (Scientists have since found that the “fittest” are not the ones most likely to survive and that variations within species serve to conserve species and keep them from changing rather than to make new kinds of things.) Darwin, who is typical of men throughout history who have not chosen to keep God in their thoughts, ended up by doing the very thing that he erroneously accused God of doing!
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By using the theme of “survival of the fittest” and “favoured races,” Darwin aroused the savage instincts of men to believe that continued existence depended upon man’s strength, both physical and mental. This line of thought exploded into a worldwide philosophy of “kill or be killed” as expressed by Adolf Hitler and the proponents of the religion of Communism. Karl Marx was thrilled with Darwin’s speculations and wanted to dedicate his own book to Darwin.”
From “Evolution: A Retreat from Science” in Biology: God’s Living Creation
Published in 1986 by Pensacola Christian College
