Evolution as Religion

Let us first recall the points of Lemoine, as noted last time.

Of interest is Paul Lemoine, Past President of the Geological Society of France, a chief Editor of the Encyclopédie Française, 1937, who proclaimed - as Morris noted - evidently without contradiction: "Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for the people." Quite simply, he said that - "The theory of evolution is impossible."


The priests in his parallel are of course metaphorical as office holders, being those who maintain what is, in definable aspects, tantamount to 'religion', in the case of some scientists. This statement has since been confirmed to a significant degree with the explosions, expostulations or satire coming from growing numbers of outraged scientists: caught in the forms and philosophical formulae that banish thought, or merely declamatory in negativing the theme, the theory or the attendant follies that create fiascos that make it like a sort of Mardi Gras.

It is however no festival in its setting. Amongst such are: Nilsson, Løvtrup, Denton, Hoyle and in one lurid flash of candour, Stephen Jay Gould. Some like Pierre de Grassé, Past President of the French Academy of Sciences, and Schützenberger, Mathematics Professor of Paris University, have untangled particular follies; some like the notable Dewar, have gone further and perceiving the necessity of creationism, have crusaded accordingly, which was also the practice of Agassiz and Cuvier in their day. Some practitioners piously, if you will, cling to the memory of the form; some detest it; numbers do not find the arena ravishing any longer.

As anodyne available for religiously inclined scientists without the God of their creation, the fantasy of organic evolutionism appears for many to be becoming more painful than the pain of being adrift from God.

The Culture and De-cultivation of Cults
Therefore it is important to the religion of evolutionism that steps be taken to prevent loss of disciples. There is to be a Conference on Cults in May in Adelaide, and de-programming looms large in it. Here would be a spectacular case for investigation. Meanwhile, let us consider :

Evolution's Impressive Claims to be a Religion.
It abundantly qualifies.

The Priests ?

Of course.

Professors who demean their arch-enemy, the God of fiat creation (He spoke, the designs were executed, like a draftsman), the God to whom they will answer, who distort, deviate, indoctrinate, diversify their own teachings over the years like the wind, consistent in one thing only: their rejection of Him. These are the priests.

No Jesuit is likely to excel them in sheer dedication to the protection of their pope, the exalted transubstantiationist, evolution, which can make things that are not, by means that are not, in contradiction of what is, as may clearly be seen (cf. Matthew 24:26-27). The sheer invisibility of the means, the methods and the results of this grand transubstantiation of the evidential reality, the facts, this is one of the greatest tests of faith of the chosen.

Here are the priests. There can be laymen too, who take up the challenge, factory worker priests who can take it as they work, to extend the kingdom and the domain..

Lecturers who lord it over students, trampling on the evidence, sidestepping scientific method: these too are the priests, in lower orders, for there is a hierarchy of bishops and lesser ones. As in all superstition, mysticism is magnified, here the goddess 'NATURE' is glorified as in the days of Aphrodite. Some of these imparters may become cardinals, if they are careful about the Goddess, the Law (see later) and the prescribed practices of the cult.

The Praise ? the salvation ?

the sanctification ?

Praise is the salutation of the goddess of Nature, evolution her power, racism her product, superiority her clique, hell the terrestrial place accorded to her rejects, scorned and derided with all the shame this world can find to spare: salvation is her progress, sanctification is to love to have it so. (Cf. Jeremiah 5:30-31, 2:27-33.)

The congregation ?
Wait for it. So effective is the Educational Line in the Professional Schools, that this is large. Its devotion is often unquestionable. It tends to stick together in one thing, that those who do not hold to the contemplations of the cult are outré, to be despised and avoided like the plague, derided, slandered as was the Truth and Life Club Inc. at Adelaide University, though none ever found a reason with which to answer it where it could be found for years; and its offers, its challenges, its demonstrations still stand as on the first day they were made.

After all, the process of educational conformism is extraordinarily effective in programming the minds of the neo-religious, and it is doubtless felt to be imperative that these be protected from unsettling influences, which hence must be avoided, as the only safe way of ensuring stability amongst the chosen. The DISCIPLINE which can be achieved in pursuit of these goals is a highly noteworthy aspect of this faith; as with any cult, its members can stick closely together, their minds closed to all evidence, any logic.

Further, de-programming work is much to be feared where facts are already adverse, and a certain sensitivity for those in the evolutionary faith is perfectly understandable. Thus the de-programming procedures of "FREE MIND" or others may here have outstanding opportunity. It is all psychic manipulation; and in it, where is any truth to be found! It may be searched for, but it cannot be found.

Offers may be multiplied to come and show how it can stand, in open style, as at Adelaide University. Yet, though some tried, in the end, none prevailed, and all contenders departed. Truth is expensive, certainly. That is always the case when there is no fiction. When sin meets truth, there is payment required, as in any other disease. The marvel is that the doctor who has the evidence, Jesus Christ, has been willing to make that payment, to reconstitute, regenerate the distorted, the departed, those who have deviated from righteousness; as have all now on this earth.

Yet for all the evidence, and for all the wonder, and all the witness, and all its own idolatrous failure, this delusion so abounds that we shall look at the neo-religious schooling procedures next. (Continues Here:http://webwitness.org.au/youth3.html )

Same old, same old...

Does it ever occur to the people who complain that their arguments aren't being considered that the possible reason for that is that they have been presenting the same arguments for decades on decades and that they have already been considered, answered, and found to be moot?