The Man Behind the Curtain

Last night, I went to an open lecture on the Purdue University campus that was entitled “Debunking Darwinism.”  It was given by Dr. Gunnar Dieckmann, a Christian chemist who has studied Darwinism and its effects in both historical and scientific contexts.  I went for two reasons.  I work for the student newspaper and I was assigned to cover the event, and I had seen the flyer and was interested in attending anyway.  Interestingly enough, the information that I found most fascinating was not scientific, it was historical.

I should probably mention here that I do not believe in evolution.  If you’ve read very much of my writing, you probably knew that already.  Even so, I had always been under the impression that Darwin’s ideas were very successful even from the start.  I also was under the impression that he was an atheist, since there are very few evolutionists who are not atheists.  Here’s where it gets interesting: neither one of those two facts are true. 

In his book the Non-Darwinian Revolution, Peter Bowler says that Charles Darwin’s ideas were not readily accepted but were even combated by his fellow scientists, and it wasn’t until the 1920s and 1930s, about 80 years afterwards, that his ideas gained the immense popularity that grew to what it is today.  Charles Darwin himself admits that there is controversy over his ideas in On the Origin of Species itself: “For I am aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite those at which I have arrived.” 

Here’s the unfortunate truth: we eat what we’re fed, often with no questions asked.  I myself until recently believed that most Americans accept evolution as a fact.  You would think that were the case, given that it is taught in all of the public schools and state universities, and is treated as an accepted fact by most news media outlets.  However, that also is not true.  The Huffington Post in an article last summer gave the results of an interesting survey.  Participants were asked this question: Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings?
1) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process,
2) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process,
3) God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.

The results are surprising.  Only 15% answered in favor of atheistic evolution.  32% answered in favor of supernatural (God-guided) evolution, and an incredible 46% gave the answer that God created human beings in their present state. 

My friends, we have been lied to.  We have been led to believe that evolution is a scientific fact and, as Richard Dawkins put it, “Anyone who doesn't believe in evolution is stupid, insane or hasn't read Jerry Coyne.”  So would Richard Dawkins be willing to say that nearly half of all Americans are stupid? 

Here’s what happening, folks: the evolutionists are the ones in control.  They are the ones in control of the scientific journals as well as much of the media, so they control the illusion that evolution is an undisputed scientific fact and that Charles Darwin was a hero who was embraced by his contemporaries.  That isn’t the truth.  Don’t eat what you’re fed without asking questions, because the poison will eventually kill you.