The night dews of affliction and disappointment may fall thickly upon it – the storms of sorrow may beat heavily against it – the winds of adversity may howl fearfully around it – but, like those fabled lamps of which we read, that, century after century, illumined the sepulchers of the east – burning with calm and steady light, amid the desolation of all earthly things – unchanged and unextinguishable; so does this joy – this living spark struck off from the great source of light and life – outlive all deaths, all changes, until it accompanies the freed spirit of the believer in whom it dwells, back to those abodes of joy from whence it came.
John MacDuff

Great Myths Of Evolution 7

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series GREAT MYTHS OF EVOLUTION

GREAT MYTHS OF EVOLUTION

Great Myths Of Evolution 7 GREAT MYTHS OF EVOLUTION #7 by David N Menton

PROFESSIONAL EVOLUTIONISTS ARE OPEN TO ACTIVE HELP FROM GOD REALIZING THAT THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS WOULD NOT HAVE WORKED WITHOUT DIVINE INTERVENTION

Creationism was ruled to be “unscientific” by Judge Overton in the recent Arkansas Creation-Evolution trial precisely because it “involves Divine intervention.”

Evolutionists are not about to open evolutionism to the same criticism, though some evolutionists tolerate “theistic evolution” as a sop for those who they see as too weak to entirely abandon their belief in the supernatural.

But what do leading
evolutionists really think about the role of God in evolution? Dr. Carl Sagan, perhaps the single most important voice of evolutionism, confidently claimed in his book COSMOS (p. 177) “the world was not made by the gods, but instead was the work of material forces interacting in nature.”

Sagan’s former teacher, the famous evolutionary astronomer Harlow Shapely, once said “Some piously record, ‘In the beginning God’, but I say, ‘In the beginning hydrogen’.”

The famous Harvard evolutionist
Dr. Steven J. Gould insists in his book EVER SINCE DARWIN, that “Matter is the ground of all existence; mind, spirit, and God as well, are just words that express the wondrous results of neuronal (brain cell) complexity.”

The distinguished evolutionist Dr. George Gaylord Simpson in his book THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION (951 P.135) claimed that “There is neither need nor excuse for postulation of nonmaterial intervention in the origin of life, the rise of man or any other part of the material cosmos.”

In like manner, Sir Julian Huxley explained that “in the evolutionary pattern of thought there is no longer either need or room for the supernatural. The earth was not created; it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves mind, and soul as well” (EVOLUTION AFTER DARWIN, 1960, p.252).

And finally, what did Charles Darwin himself believe about the role of God in evolution? Darwin expert Neal Gillespie, in his book CHARLES DARWIN AND THE PROBLEM OF CREATION (1974, p. 141), said that “Darwin clearly rejected Christianity and virtually all conventional arguments in defense of the existence of God and human immortality.”

In his own autobiography, Darwin admitted that his evolutionary beliefs gradually made the Bible unbelievable to him and said “Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct. I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true.”

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