Sunday, September 30, 2007

Darwin: Foundation of Liberal-Socialism by Thomas Brewton

Commenting on Scientific Snake-Oil, ryan wrote:

"Darwinian evolution [was] concocted originally to discredit the Bible and to support the philosophical materialism of the socialist religion.”

This statement is completely absurd. Can you supply any facts whatsoever to support this claim?

My answer:

There is abundant evidence that Charles Darwin was, as early as his voyage on the Beagle, interested in some hypothesis, any hypothesis other than that offered in the Bible, to explain the fantastic varieties of animal and plant life. Darwin's works, the outgrowth of similar studies in geology by Charles Lyell, were rebuttals aimed directly at Judeo-Christian doctrine found in the Bible.

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