The blood-stained ‘century of evolution’
Editorial
by Carl Wieland
Those attacking Christianity sometimes point to the many religious wars and atrocities
perpetrated in the name of Christ and the Church. They forget that not everyone
self-labeled ‘Christian’ truly follows Christ. Also, that many times
more people have been killed this century, most by their own governments,
than in all religious conflicts, ever.1 And
this slaughter happened because of philosophies openly hostile to biblical Christianity,
and flowing directly from evolutionary belief.
Nazism openly proclaimed its dependence on Darwin.2
It was right and moral for the strongest race to survive; to have pity for the weak
was to defy nature’s laws. It is doubtful whether this brutal ideology would
have so captivated the nation that gave us Bach and Luther if not for the ‘scientific’
underpinning of evolution.
Communism also took evolution to its logical conclusion. If everything just evolved
from ‘natural law,’ then man’s opinion, not God’s Word,
determines what is right and wrong. If the working class can take power by armed
struggle, then this is ‘right,’ regardless of how many must die to bring
in the socialist paradise. Communism’s death toll far outranks the Nazis’—probably
more than 90 million worldwide.3
Some have suggested that the bloodthirsty deeds of Stalin were an ‘aberration’
from the revolution’s ideals. However, it was Lenin, the ‘father’
of the Russian revolution, who ‘perfected the science of mass killings,’
and total, merciless brutality as the ultimate method of political control.4 Evolution was the chief tool used to brainwash communism’s
masses into ‘scientific atheism.’ If everything just evolved, then everything
is at the whim of the most powerful, and there is no Maker to whom to be answerable.
Hence Stalin’s belief that killing millions of people was no worse than mowing
your lawn (grass is our cousin in evolutionary doctrine).
Mao’s reign of terror and lies resulted in the deaths of tens of millions.
It is no coincidence that his two favorite books were by the evolutionists Darwin
and Huxley. With millions dying from his forced famine, his physician records that
Mao said, ‘We have so many people we can afford to lose a few.’5 His successors have since persecuted and killed hundreds
of thousands more.
Such overt ‘state’ evil makes it easy to forget what the Bible teaches
about the evil within all of fallen mankind. Despite communism’s
decline, the basic philosophy of evolutionism (i.e. man’s opinion, not God’s,
is the ultimate authority) remains securely in control. They’re not shooting
people scrambling over the Berlin Wall anymore, but millions of people are being
torn apart in their mother’s womb in ‘democratic’ countries.
Today, the ideology of the ultra-free market, directly related to Darwinian ‘might
is right,’ is on the rise. The Bible of course affirms private property, and
the free and fair exchange of goods. However, at the same time it endorses civil
government as a necessary restraint upon the sinful nature of mankind. Even the
billionaire speculator George Soros has warned against unfettered ‘survival
of the fittest’ capitalism. He says ‘What used to be a medium of exchange
has usurped the place of fundamental values. Being successful is not identical with
being right.’6
Soros’s comments make sense only if there are such things as immutable values
and inalienable rights. But these cannot exist unless there is a Creator God Who
has revealed such truths infallibly to His creation.
Thus, the creation/evolution issue is not just about origins; it is the key to which
authority source will be seen as foundational in human affairs—God, through
His revealed Word, or man’s opinion. May God be pleased to keep on using Creation magazine widely in spreading these
vital, foundational gospel truths.
Further reading
References and notes
- About 130 million (not including the hundreds of millions killed
by abortion) were slaughtered this century in the name of atheism, whereas all those
killed in ‘the name of Christ’ in all of recorded history was at most
around 17 million. See James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe, What if Jesus had never
been born?, Thomas Nelson, Nashville, 1994. Return to text.
- Evolutionist Sir Arthur Keith wrote: ‘The German Führer,
as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought
to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.’ Evolution
and Ethics, Putnam, New York, p. 230, 1947. Return to text.
- Black Book of Communism, The Courier-Mail Weekend, Brisbane,
p. 8, 13 December 1997. Return to text.
- Men who taught the world to hate, The Sunday Mail, Brisbane,
p. 67, 6 July 1997. Return to text.
- The Great Dying, The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, pp. 59–60,
2 February 1997. Return to text.
- G. Soros, in News Weekly, p. 24, 8 February 1997. Return to text.
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