Ideas come with a price-tag; so too, theories. Darwinism
came at the cost of many lives. How? At its core, it is inseparable from
racism. The original title of Darwin’s class gives us some indication of its
costs: The Origin of Species by Means of
Natural Selection or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.
This understanding served to legitimate war and racism. In it Darwin wrote:
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At some future period, not very distant as
measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly
exterminate, and replace, the savage races through the world…
This was more than Darwin’s prediction, but his hope:
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The anthropomorphous apes [man-like apes], as
Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break
between man and his nearest allies [the man-like apes] will then be wider, for
it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope… (521)
This “hope” then became a strategy among evolutionists. In Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and
Believe in Evolution, evolutionist and former co-head of the Biologos
Foundation, Karl Giberson, explained that:
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[Evolutionist] Ernst Haeckel nudged the racism
of the Third Reich along its malignant road by suggesting that …”You must draw
[a line] between the most highly developed civilized people on the one hand and
the crudest primitive people on the other and unite the latter with animals.” (76)
For the evolutionist, some humans were closer to apes and
should be regarded as such. This “hope” then became an actuality. Giberson
admitted:
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“How shocking it is today to acknowledge that
virtually every educated person in the Western culture at the time…shared
Haeckel’s ideas. Countless atrocities around the globe were rationalized by the
belief that superior races were improving the planet by exterminating defective
elements…there can be little doubt that such viewpoints muted voices that would
otherwise have been raised in protest.”
Nevertheless, today evolutionists attempt to distance
themselves from anything that smacks of racism and their racist past. However,
racism is endemic to their theory no matter how much they might deny this. If
we had evolved from ape-like pre-humans, it is inevitable that some humans will
be more evolved than others and others will be closer to their pre-human
ancestors.
Meanwhile, the Bible never regards humanity as a part of the
animal kingdom, merely separated from other animals by degree. Instead, we are
created in the likeness of God, totally distinct from the animal kingdom, all
part of the one family of man.
The theory of evolution (TOE) also has other costs. Because
of TOEs belief that we have many leftover and useless (vestigial) organs from
our pre-human past, they have argued that these leftovers could be eliminated
without cost. In Have You Considered,
Bruce Malone wrote:
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In misguided preventive measures, infants were exposed
to x-rays in order to reduce the size of this “unnecessary evolutionary
leftover” [the thymus gland] from the past. Follow-up studies found that
infants who received the radiation treatment had abnormal growth and higher
rates of infections…resulting in the death of many of these children from
thyroid cancer some 10-15 years later.
Meanwhile, the many organs that had once been considered
leftovers are now regarded as functional and necessary. However, the costs
remain.
Nevertheless, many evolutionists will argue that “TOE is not
a question of costs but of truth.” But does it represent truth? Malone claims
that Sir Julian Huxley, who had been known as the “ambassador for evolution,” conjectured
why TOE caught on so quickly:
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[I suppose the reason] we all jumped at Origins
[TOE] was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.
…if the truth be told.
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