"Christians believed that science could be done and should be done."
"This event illustrates the fact that eugenic ideas are still flourishing and influential in some areas of society and are, likewise, still very destructive."
"It's part of a pattern. There is basically a war on anyone who dissents from Darwin and we've seen that for several years." — John West
All atheists aren’t Darwinists, but nearly all Darwinists are atheists. Why? Ben Stein’s film. With Polish subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 38 minutes 5 seconds.
The so-called “Progressive Era” of the last century — a time of virtually unlimited governmental intervention in the private lives of America’s citizens conducted by legions of do-gooders imbued with only the best of intentions — has never really gone away, sad to say: According to the received account of the Progressive Era, an enlightened government swept in and regulated markets for goods, labor, and capital, thereby protecting the hapless masses from the vicissitudes of unrestrained laissez-faire capitalism. The Progressives had faith that experts would…
By Mike Gray Climate change is a foregone conclusion. The amount of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere from two centuries-worth of fossil fuel burning (and, apparently, with decades more worth to come, given the glacial pace of efforts to slow said emissions) is enough to substantially warm global average temperatures. And that leaves so-called geoengineering—the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of planetary processes, in the words of the Royal Society—as the leading candidate for a techno-fix of the global warming problem, a fix the U.N. Intergovernmental…
By Mike Gray For now, of course, we all live under a suffocating blanket of materialism. Many fight to breathe fresh air. Others seem strangely content and smug about being able to endure it and even urge us to give up the struggle and join those brave New Atheists as they revel in the foul, close atmosphere, boasting of its superiority to any alternative. This condition of our culture probably explains the pervasive ugliness of modern media life . . . . — David Klinghoffer…
There is no evidence that [C. S.] Lewis ever read the Genesis account of creation literally. Repeatedly and publicly he described it as a folk tale or myth. In The Problem of Pain, published in 1940, four years before his first surviving letter to Acworth, Lewis constructed his own “myth” of human origins, which he described as “an account of what may have been the historical fact.” Professing no objection to the notion that “man is physically descended from animals,” he suggested that over time…
By Mike Gray Clearly, this fellow—Paul Root Wolpe, the chief bioethicist at NASA—is having second thoughts about all these developments. Is he justified? What system of morality can he raise to oppose them? Darwinian ethics? But didn’t Darwin insist that there’s no purpose to blind, randomized evolution—and that being so, how can one product of those blind processes—that is, we human beings—possibly object to such experimentation? How can there be love or pity in Darwin’s unplanned cosmos, where design by a moral agent is ruled…
By Mike Gray Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose. — Richard Dawkins You know your theory’s in trouble when you have to change the way you talk about it: To help address public misunderstanding of evolution, we must find alternatives to anthropomorphic terminology, and I have some suggestions. In this issue [of Bioessays] Jacques Dubochet asserts that a major reason for the lack of public acceptance of evolution is a fundamental misunderstanding of…
By Mike Gray The embedding of words, skills, or sequences in melody and meter is uniquely human. — Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain It would be altogether opposed to the principle of evolution, if we were to admit that man’s musical capacity has been developed from the tones used in impassioned speech. — Charles Darwin, Descent of Man Our susceptibility to musical imagery indeed requires exceedingly sensitive and refined systems for perceiving and remembering music, systems far beyond anything in any…
By Mike Gray “It being one chief project of the old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures … it is therefore ordered … [to] appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read …” — From the “Old Deluder Satan Act” (1647) Everyone seems to be saying these days that, morally speaking, America—indeed, Western culture in general—is on the skids, supporting this assertion with increased rates of crime, abortion, out-of-wedlock…
by Mike Gray In a Human Events article, David Klinghoffer says the “era of good feeling” which the science establishment has enjoyed with the culture at large is rapidly coming to an end, principally because the scientists themselves have proven to be as unreliable and susceptible to human failings as the rest of us: President Obama echoed an often-heard lament when he complained recently that, among Americans, “facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day.” According to distressed cultural observers,…
by Mike Gray Just in time! Darwinian psychologists are now absolving us of our sins: In these heady post-modern days, it has become fashionable for Darwinian aficionados to ascribe human traits, both good and bad, to our alleged animal heritage. Of course, once God has been scrubbed from the picture of origins, everything is up for grabs—our aesthetic pleasures, highest aspirations, kindest gestures, and noblest actions are no more than a firing of neurons or the interactions of chemicals. This, claim the modernists, is a…
by Mike Gray A new book, God and Evolution edited by Jay Richards, has just appeared that deals with the ever popular notion of “theistic evolution.” According to Anika Smith: The book is a response to growing efforts by some Darwinists to enlist the support of the faith community by downplaying Darwinism’s core principles. Chapters of the book detail the failures of theistic evolution, address the problem of evil, and explain how intelligent design is consonant with orthodox belief. “Our main focus remains on the…
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