Yesterday, in "Comrade Darwin," http://www.usmessageboard.com/science-and-technology/326273-comrade-darwin.html, the reason why Darwin's theory of evolution, unsupported by evidence, is so immensely popular in academia and accepted by the mass of less than informed in society, was established.
The reason is that it was seen immediately by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx as the 'hook' on which to hang their theory of history, and the final cudgel with which to attack religion and morality.
So Darwin's theory, the idea that there is no design or direction in nature, no plan, was "proven" based on the speculation that an accumulation of random mutations would result in one species emerging as a new one.
It cannot be overstated that this has never been shown to be true.
In fact, after more than 150 years of trying to prove same, one would have to believe that the preponderance of evidence shows Darwin's theory to be untrue.
Except in those precincts where Marxism, nihilism, and secularism hold sway. There, any questioning of the theory is meet with hostility, even aggression, and the loss of careers!
What is interesting, if not dispositive, is a careful look at the political philosophy of some of the major paleontologists and evolutionary biologists who are defenders of Darwin.
1. " Stephen Jay Gould ultimately may not have been an atheist or a Marxist, but nearly his whole life argues in favor of both positions.
2. Gould, who taught biology, paleontology, and geology at Harvard University, made the following statement:
"Hegel's dialectical laws, translated into a materialist context, have become the official 'state philosophy' of many socialist nations. These laws of change are explicitly punctuational, as befits a theory of revolutionary transformation in human society. In the light of this official philosophy, it is not at all surprising that a punctuational view of speciation [the evolutionary process by which new species are formed] much like our own . . . has long been favored by many Russian paleontologists. It may also not be irrelevant to our personal preferences that one of us [Gould] learned his Marxism, literally at his daddy's knee."
3. One could nearly assume that Gould was telling the world he was indeed a Marxist. And by definition the theology of Marxism is atheism.
4. And fellow evolutionist Michael Ruse opined, "Quite openly, one of the leading punctuated equilibrists, Stephen Jay Gould, admits to his marxism, and lauds the way in which his science is informed by his beliefs."
5. Two of Gould's fellow Harvard biological "revolutionaries" (Lewontin and Levin) co-authored a book on Marxist biology entitled The Dialectical Biologist, published by Harvard University Press in 1986. In a review of this textbook in Nature magazine, its author, David L. Hull, said, "Richard Levin and Richard Lewontin are two of the most knowledgeable and innovative evolutionary biologists working today. They also view themselves as Marxist revolutionaries. As Marxists, Levin and Lewontin insist that the economic substructure of a society strongly influences its ideational superstructure, including science"
6. Gould, along with Lewontin, Levin, Jonathan Beckwith, Ruth Hubbard, and Herb Fox, founded an organization entitled "Science for the People." Wikipedia begins its discussion of this organization as follows: "Science for the People is a leftwing organization ....
7. .... Wilson labeled the organization "American Marxists." Not insignificantly, the cover of its magazine contains the Communist clinched fist!
8. ...everything Gould touched over his lifetime would force most neutral onlookers to the conclusion that he was indeed a Marxist and by implication an atheist.
9. The new edition of "Science for the People" has been reestablished since 2002 with an endorsement from one of the founders of the original Science for the People — Herb Fox. In its working papers we are told "a few of us decided to start a magazine for Working Scientists active in the Anti-Capitalist Movement, as part of the European Social Forum." Let me make a prediction — this new leftwing "science" organization will be heavily involved in the global warming controversy on the side of big government and the "greening" of America.
10. ...the "upper class" greens are the new Communists of our era, and they have already decided that "science" is on their side and Western capitalism must be destroyed in order to save the planet from too much capitalistically produced carbon dioxide."
Stephen Jay Gould - David A. Noebel | The President's Desk - Summit Ministries
So...any who believe that evolutionary science is objective must be considered.....'child-like.'
Of course one can be an atheist, a Marxist, a Darwinian....as long as one recognizes the underpinnings of one's beliefs. Recognize the result of the French Revolution's attempts to replace religion with science and reason resulted in 600,000 slaughtered. Accept Marx's theory of history and economics, but realize that, in the last century, the result of such acceptance was another 100 million human beings slaughtered.
The pithy take-away is that the Swiss-cheese known as Darwin's theory, wholly unsupported by evidence, is important, not as science....but as the necessary ingredient for a theory to prove that that there is no God, or reason for morality, but that only Leftist governing will lead mankind to Utopia here on earth.
The reason is that it was seen immediately by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx as the 'hook' on which to hang their theory of history, and the final cudgel with which to attack religion and morality.
So Darwin's theory, the idea that there is no design or direction in nature, no plan, was "proven" based on the speculation that an accumulation of random mutations would result in one species emerging as a new one.
It cannot be overstated that this has never been shown to be true.
In fact, after more than 150 years of trying to prove same, one would have to believe that the preponderance of evidence shows Darwin's theory to be untrue.
Except in those precincts where Marxism, nihilism, and secularism hold sway. There, any questioning of the theory is meet with hostility, even aggression, and the loss of careers!
What is interesting, if not dispositive, is a careful look at the political philosophy of some of the major paleontologists and evolutionary biologists who are defenders of Darwin.
1. " Stephen Jay Gould ultimately may not have been an atheist or a Marxist, but nearly his whole life argues in favor of both positions.
2. Gould, who taught biology, paleontology, and geology at Harvard University, made the following statement:
"Hegel's dialectical laws, translated into a materialist context, have become the official 'state philosophy' of many socialist nations. These laws of change are explicitly punctuational, as befits a theory of revolutionary transformation in human society. In the light of this official philosophy, it is not at all surprising that a punctuational view of speciation [the evolutionary process by which new species are formed] much like our own . . . has long been favored by many Russian paleontologists. It may also not be irrelevant to our personal preferences that one of us [Gould] learned his Marxism, literally at his daddy's knee."
3. One could nearly assume that Gould was telling the world he was indeed a Marxist. And by definition the theology of Marxism is atheism.
4. And fellow evolutionist Michael Ruse opined, "Quite openly, one of the leading punctuated equilibrists, Stephen Jay Gould, admits to his marxism, and lauds the way in which his science is informed by his beliefs."
5. Two of Gould's fellow Harvard biological "revolutionaries" (Lewontin and Levin) co-authored a book on Marxist biology entitled The Dialectical Biologist, published by Harvard University Press in 1986. In a review of this textbook in Nature magazine, its author, David L. Hull, said, "Richard Levin and Richard Lewontin are two of the most knowledgeable and innovative evolutionary biologists working today. They also view themselves as Marxist revolutionaries. As Marxists, Levin and Lewontin insist that the economic substructure of a society strongly influences its ideational superstructure, including science"
6. Gould, along with Lewontin, Levin, Jonathan Beckwith, Ruth Hubbard, and Herb Fox, founded an organization entitled "Science for the People." Wikipedia begins its discussion of this organization as follows: "Science for the People is a leftwing organization ....
7. .... Wilson labeled the organization "American Marxists." Not insignificantly, the cover of its magazine contains the Communist clinched fist!
8. ...everything Gould touched over his lifetime would force most neutral onlookers to the conclusion that he was indeed a Marxist and by implication an atheist.
9. The new edition of "Science for the People" has been reestablished since 2002 with an endorsement from one of the founders of the original Science for the People — Herb Fox. In its working papers we are told "a few of us decided to start a magazine for Working Scientists active in the Anti-Capitalist Movement, as part of the European Social Forum." Let me make a prediction — this new leftwing "science" organization will be heavily involved in the global warming controversy on the side of big government and the "greening" of America.
10. ...the "upper class" greens are the new Communists of our era, and they have already decided that "science" is on their side and Western capitalism must be destroyed in order to save the planet from too much capitalistically produced carbon dioxide."
Stephen Jay Gould - David A. Noebel | The President's Desk - Summit Ministries
So...any who believe that evolutionary science is objective must be considered.....'child-like.'
Of course one can be an atheist, a Marxist, a Darwinian....as long as one recognizes the underpinnings of one's beliefs. Recognize the result of the French Revolution's attempts to replace religion with science and reason resulted in 600,000 slaughtered. Accept Marx's theory of history and economics, but realize that, in the last century, the result of such acceptance was another 100 million human beings slaughtered.
The pithy take-away is that the Swiss-cheese known as Darwin's theory, wholly unsupported by evidence, is important, not as science....but as the necessary ingredient for a theory to prove that that there is no God, or reason for morality, but that only Leftist governing will lead mankind to Utopia here on earth.
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