Bible Science... |
The Darwinian Myth |
by Benjamin Wiker |
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| We are still caught in the lie that Darwinism is the only respectable scientific position -- and much of this pseudoscientific dogmatism rests on myths surrounding the enigmatic figure of Charles Darwin himself. Darwin would change the world with his theory -- but the popular perception of him as a disinterested scientist who arrived at this theory after painstaking and meticulous examination of the natural world is dead wrong. As Benjamin Wiker proves in The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin, Darwin did not originate the theory of evolution. Darwin's singular achievement was to dress it up with enough scientific trappings to make it plausible -- a goal which he pursued out of a fanatical desire to strike a blow at Christianity and eradicate the idea that human beings were created in the image of God. Wiker shows that Darwinism, despite the shrill denials of many of its supporters, does indeed lead to atheism -- because Darwin designed it to do so. Wiker tells the whole story from Darwin's youth: He traces the development of Darwin's thinking and the influence of his family members who were already exploring evolution as an explanation for the origin of life. He reveals what really happened during Darwin's celebrated voyage on the Beagle, demonstrating that Darwin did not discover evidence of evolution on the Galapagos Islands; He traces the illnesses and tumult in the Darwin household as Darwin and his wife wrestled with the relationship between evolutionary theory and Christian faith; He explains how Darwin's two most notorious and influential works, The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, are two parts of the same argument, with the first laying out his argument for evolution through natural selection, and the second applying the theory to human beings; and much more. Darwin a Saint? Many have tried to make Darwin a secular saint, whose every fault is politely left unmentioned or hastily excused. Some have tried to make him a demon, and fiercely ignore his virtues. The Darwin Myth portrays him as he really was. It's provocative conclusion? "I have no doubt that if somehow Darwin could have lived to see what became of Darwinism," says Wiker, "he would have been absolutely mortified. But would Darwin have been sufficiently shocked to question Darwinism itself?" Whether or not he would have been, in The Darwin Myth, Wiker gives you ample ammunition to do just that, and to prevail over the mindless and Darwin-inspired atheist dogma that surrounds us everywhere today. |
