Christian apologists spend their time proving evolution false. Fair enough, the science deserves every ounce of criticism it receives.
But few stop long enough to ask why the theory needed to exist in the first place, what it hands the men who fight for it hardest.
Not just racism. Everybodyโs already exposed that rot.
Darwin was a racist, not by accident, by design. His writings on human origins ranked whole peoples on a ladderโฆcivilized at the top, savage at the bottom, based on โracialโ differencesโฆa reality of history framed to elevate the strong over the weak.
Eugenicists like Margaret Sanger seized the opening. If some races sat lower on the ladder, removing them counted as tidying up. Spring cleaning. Speeding up evolution to a superior race.
But their experimentation and racism are only side effects. The real problem is far more treacherous.
Something sinister drives theory of evolution that rarely gets addressed, something far more alluring to men who wanted God erased from the picture.
Lack of purpose.
Evolution carries the promise of infinite human progress. No ceiling, no Author, no accountability. And that should scare you.
The Witch Doctorsโ Poison Pill
Socialist circles during the French Revolution, men like Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, chased the promise infinite beneficial progress before Darwin ever put pen to paper.
Erase God, and humans inherit no limitations. Total control becomes a livable delusion instead of a fantasy.
Lamarckโs idea of living things transforming upward tangled itself into hopes for political reform and human perfectibility, nature bending toward improvement with no fixed boundary set by a Higher Cause outside the intervention of man. Which made all the God-haters salivate because they could replace the Almighty as rulers of the cosmos. Or think they could.
In The Atheist Conversion Manual, I call this the delusion of autonomy. The idea that we have absolute power and control over reality as individuals and can make it do what we want.
Control is our obsession.
But the only real autonomy any of us holds is over the choices we make with the cards weโre dealt, and you will end up serving some sort of master, whether you want to or not.
Past the line of personal choice, control runs out. Everybody senses this in their gut, watches it unfold before their very eyes, yet so many deny it outright, because weโve never left the Garden. Weโre still there, trying to usurp Godโs throne.
And the illusion of progress keeps the machine churning.
Road Trip to Nowhere
Why is โprogressโ such a bad word? Shouldnโt humans want to get better? Yes.
But evolution canโt deliver progression toward better. Consider this analogy:
Picture yourself driving from point A to point B. Before the key even turns, 4 things have to be presupposed: (1) Point A has to exist, and you have to trust your own experience of sitting there is real, (2) a road has to connect where youโre sitting to somewhere else, twists and turns included, even if you canโt see the whole stretch ahead, (3) point B has to be worth reaching, a destination possessing enough value to justify the drive, and (4) you need confidence youโre capable of making the drive from A to B. Evade even one of those steps, and youโre in for a world of hurt.
Evolution canโt even meet step 1.
Ask an evolutionist to defend point A and watch him get sucked into a black hole of endless mental gymnastics.
A single cell, supposedly assembled by chance inside some primordial soup. Non-living matter somehow flipped the switch into life. From there, an alleged unbroken chain of never-once-observed slow, stepwise transitions carries you from that first cell to the staggering variety of creatures alive today, yourself included.
Nobody has shown how raw chemical building blocks reliably chain themselves into the long, precisely ordered sequences proteins and genetic material demand under early Earth conditions, let alone how those chains ever learned to sustain or copy themselves. Dead matter and the simplest living cell remain separated by the Grand Canyon of imagination.
Talk about yikes.
But letโs say point A is confirmed. Evolution canโt hand you point B either.
Youโre told youโre in this linear progression of ongoing evolution and that itโs somehow good for you, but where is the progression going? Whatโs the end of the journey?
Big ditch of nothingness. Thatโs what.
Evolutionists demand you accept a winding, dangerous route which will culminate in your death (thatโs guaranteed) with no defined ulterior endpoint, and they just expect you to be happy with that. Some say death itself is the endpoint. But whatโs the value in living just do die and disappear forever? Whereโs the purpose?
Youโll live, youโll die, youโll long for more, youโll never get more (and if you do, you can take nothing with you), but by nature, youโll be glad. If you question the status quo, youโre stupid.
And it gets worse. Evolution canโt tell you if the road is realโฆ
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