Darwin’s
Deadly Deception and the Devil’s Gospel, Part 1
By Clint Bishard
Jesus Created Ministries
Currently,
Charles Darwin is celebrated
throughout the world, by both religious and non-religious, by the scientific
community as well as by many of the non-scientifically minded. Some of the churches
(liberal churches, I will add) throughout our land recently celebrated a day in
honor of Darwin. Even the Catholic Church has expressed public support of
Darwinian evolution (common decent). So what did Darwin do that has made his
name synonymous with what many consider to be a true understanding of the origin
of all of life on earth today (Darwinism)? Did he invent the concept of
evolution? Did he prove evolution to be a scientific fact?
In this series of articles,
I want us to look at what Darwin did that was right. Then, I want us to look at
what Darwin did that was wrong and has resulted in a deadly deception that has
moved many away from the true gospel of Jesus Christ as Creator and Savior. As
a result, many have now bought into the Devil’s gospel of naturalism (more on
the use of this term later) and turned away from their only hope of salvation,
Jesus Christ.
First, did Darwin invent the concept of evolution? Clearly, no. People familiar with the development
of the evolutionary hypothesis know that the concept of all current life forms developing
from previous and simpler life forms existed long before Darwin. As “Darwin’s Bulldog,” Professor Thomas H. Huxley stated in his tribute on the acceptance of Darwin’s views:
“The oldest of all philosophies, that
of Evolution, was bound hand and foot and cast into utter darkness during the
millennium of theological scholasticism [Authors note: I assume Huxley is
speaking of the time of Christian influence]. But Darwin poured new life-blood
into the ancient frame; the bonds burst, and the revivified thought of ancient Greece has proved itself to be a more adequate expression of the universal order of things
than any of the schemes which have been accepted by the credulity and welcomed
by the superstition of seventy later generations of men.”
Additionally, Darwin himself
gave a historical sketch in the beginning of his book on ‘origins’ of the
different people before him who had discussed the concept of the origin of
species. In this sketch he even noted those who had touched on his same
concept without having fully detailing what he had discovered and clearly
explained. Darwin’s own Grandfather before him was a promoter of the hypothesis
of evolution. So, although the name Darwin is now synonymous with evolution,
he is not the inventor of the hypothesis.
I hope you will
join me next time as we look at what it was that Darwin did that has so tied
him to the hypothesis of evolution.
