The Evil of Science
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Straight to the Cross
COLUMN: Understanding the Times
The Evil of Science
By Emmett Smith
An article titled, "The science of evil", in
Thursday's Baltimore Sun presented an interesting
history of the "science" of eugenics. The article
was written to coincide with the opening of an
exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in
Washington, D.C. This discussion of eugenics,
"raises frightening issues", and, "The essential
question is the same now as it was then: How will
the science be used?", according to author Michael
Ollove.
The exhibit examines the coining of the term
eugenics by Sir Francis Galton in 19th-century
Britain. Galton was Charles Darwin's cousin, and
undoubtedly embraced Darwin's racial theories.
Most people these days are probably unaware that
the title to Darwin's original printing was The
Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection —
or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the
Struggle for Life. Actually, there was great
excitement among the so-called "favoured races"
during those early years of Darwinism.
Many prominent eugenicists lobbied for various
government actions dictated by eugenics. Forced
sterilization laws had been on the books of some
U.S. states as early as 1907 (35 states had such
laws by 1933), and were enforced into the 1970s.
"Racial hygienists" proposed their theories about
which cranial characteristics and skin colors
represented the human ideal. The Nazis' policies
were modeled on eugenics. Infanticide and
euthanasia were intermediate steps leading to the
infamous "final solution". And it should be lost
on none of us that these policies were merely the
logical end product of eugenics.
The article warns that the history of eugenics
should inform the current discussions of genetic
advancements and increasing medical costs. I would
add that the current debates about abortion,
cloning and stem cell research should also be so
informed.
That eugenics is demonstrably false from a
Biblical perspective is easy to establish. Paul
told the learned crowd at Mar's Hill that God "...
hath made of one blood all nations of men for to
dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before appointed, and the
bounds of their habitation" (Acts 17:26). The KJV
rendering of "one blood" simply reinforces the
medical fact that, so long as the types are
compatible, any of us could receive a transfusion
from anyone of any "race".
Actually, a few unfortunately eugenics-tainted
translations notwithstanding, the concept of race
is not Biblical. The Bible is clear that all
humankind sprang from one original pair, named
Adam and Eve. Further, today's humanity all came
from those "eight souls" who were "saved by water"
(1 Peter 3:20). It's bad enough that so many non-
Christians were taken in by Darwin's fraud. What's
even worse are all the "Christians" who abdicated
their belief in scripture because of perceived
conflicts with "science"!
True science and scripture always agree. Science
literally means knowledge.
"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction"
(Proverbs 1:7).
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