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This review is from: The Mythology of Science (Paperback)
This author who was reared in evolutionary thinking and once regarded it as one of life`s certainties, found his confidence in it destroyed in his university days, not only because it lacked any evidence, but also because he recognized that evolutionary thinking is mythological thinking, that the theory is a cultural myth. And this is what the author wants to show here.This is not a book on science in the empirical sense of observation and quantification. Its purpose is in fact to point out the fraud of the empirical claims of much modern science since Darwin. This book is about the religious nature of evolutionary thought and how these religions presuppositions underlay our modern intellectual paradigm, and are deferred to as sacrosanct by institutions and disciplines far removed from the empirical sciences. This book was first published 1967, but its analyses are not outdated. Vice versa it is actual and sometimes even with astonishing prophetic qualities! Why is this so? The author`s analysis in the midst of a virtual cult of science is more penetrating for its prescient understanding of the direction of science divorced from the reality of an omnipotent God. Very courageous in the face of the deferential awe of science and scientific claims in our days! In evolution, man is the highest expression of intelligence and reason, and such thinking will not yield itself to submission to a God. The author is ruthless in his statements: Evolutionary faith cannot tolerate another faith, such as the Christian belief in a sovereign causative God. "Darwin therefore met," says the author, "not a scientific need, but a religious hunger." Darwin supported man with an ostensibly scientific justification for man`s rebellion against God. He put men at the top of the evolutionary ladder, allowing them to believe they had realized Satan`s lure to Adam and Eve and become "as gods, knowing good and evil". For many the auspicious lack of proofs for evolution and the constant negation of that matter fit perfectly in that idea. In evolution theory regularly a new "scientific" explanation merely replaces the old. Evolution, the author says, is popular because it is such a useful paradigm to sinful men; it dispenses with God as a prerequisite of all things. The author says that evolution is a myth. And part of the mythology of modern evolutionary science is its failure to admit that it is a faith-based paradigm. In his view a myth is the attempt of a culture to overcome history, to negate the forces and ravages of time, and to make the universe amenable and subject to man. Thy myth reveals a hatred of history. History shows the continuing conflict between good an evil and the fallenness of man. This is what man hates. Therefore he has to replace history with myths. The means used by man to accomplish the goal of his myth is magic. The purpose of magic is the total control by man over man, nature and the supernatural. Under the influence of Christianity science of old escaped the constraints of magic. It were Kepler and Kopernikus, Christians, who found out that the world was round, in accordance with the Bible. Science wanted to exercise the dominion over the Earth under God. The purpose of modern science has become increasingly those of magic, the exercise of total control. Thus magic has again triumphed! Science has become magic and is governed by myth. Strange ideas! But something to chew over! The author makes clear, God is an inescapable premise of human thought. Man either faces a world of total chance and brute factuality, a world in which no fact has meaning and no fact has any relationship to any other fact, or else he accepts the world of God`s creation and sovereign law. Man cannot escape God as a premise of his thinking, but he can refuse to accept him as God. His science operates on borrowed premises, and his hypothesis conceals a hidden und utterly irrational miraculous power. Evolution requires chance whereas science normally should rest on absolutely determined factors and on casuality. The doctrine of evolution is thus interestingly basically hostile to science. What the doctrine of evolution has done, the author says, is to destroy man, not God. The evolution doctrine has affected the mind and welfare of man. How has it done so? 1. man is no longer viewed as created in the image of God. Now man is in captivity to his own nature and to forces around him. Both he will not be able to master. As a result liberty rapidly declines when Biblical Christianity declines. Where men are not ruled by God, they are ruled by tyrants. And the rise of evolutionary thinking has produced a world-wide rise of totalitarianism. Man is becoming a creature of the total state and the total state is determined to remake man in its own image. 2. man is no longer responsible, if there is no God. He is not a sinner, but a victim. Education does lose the impetus for moral regenerating and is becoming brainwashing and conditioning. For that matter Darwin was a prophet when he said: "Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world." Communists and Nazis believed in Darwinism. 3. evolutionary thinking has given man a new religion, as C.F. Weizsäcker said: science today is the only thing in which men as a whole believe: it is the only universal religion of our time. Its champions advocate evolution because they want to escape God and creationism 4. morality is like man a product of evolution, it represents not ultimate and absolute truth, there is no real difference between good and evil, here was Freud the apologetic prophet. He knew that the total breakdown of all law and order could follow the widespread adoption of unbelief. When the masses become as atheistic as their leaders, they would certainly kill without hesitation, he feared. This is no doubt an outstanding book. The author brings so many examples of statements of experts from the fifties and sixties, as if he would have known, which have turned out to be perfect prophecies of the situation we have now, as far as they were pessimistic. And he could not know it, but the statements of those who believed in the triumph of the human reason, turned out to be mostly unrealistic. Artficial creation of life till the end of the century! I remember a school teacher who promised me so. I am still waiting for better news! But the news are not improving! Likewise is the human society not improving to a brave new world or "evolutionizing" to a spiritual Eden, it is deteriorating and degradating
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(Evolutionary)science acts like a cult? While i had suspected that here and there over the years, now i believe. Why? Because Rousas John Rushdoony (God rest his soul) was obviously well educated AND took Scripture seriously - creation is six twenty-four hour days. Look out bible-bashers, Mr. Rushdoony and (oh yeah, there ARE) other top-shelf scholars believe in the Bible as-is (as opposed to pan-pagan evolution); perhaps the less-erudite rest of us would do well to upgrade our study habits. Creation and evolution, mutually exclusive, pick one! Praise the Lord!
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What we call science today often is just hidden philosophy. Rushdoony understood this. What shall I say: GREAT!Pushing the Antithesis: The Apologetic Methodology of Greg L. Bahnsen
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