Why do we believe in evolution? Even evolutionists express
startling doubts. Paleontologist and emeritus curator of the American Museum of
Natural History, Ian Tattersall, confessed:
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Even allowing for the poor record we have of our
close extinct kin, Homo sapiens appears as distinctive and
unprecedented...there is certainly no evidence to support the notion that we
gradually became who we inherently are over an extended period, in either the
physical or the intellectual sense. (“Masters of the Planet: The Search for our
Human Origins,” Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 206, 2012)
Why then do we believe in evolution? We refuse to believe in
the alternative - God - as many have confessed. Atheist Aldous Huxley had
confided:
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I had motives for not wanting the world to have
meaning; consequently, assumed it had none, and was able without any difficulty
to find reasons for this assumption.... For myself, as no doubt for most of my
contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument
of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a
certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of
morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual
freedom. (Ends and Means, 1937, pp. 270, 273, emp. added).
Sexual behavior is a choice. So too the acknowledgement of
God!
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