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Darwin expressed this distorted view in one of his letters,
wondering whether human beings' ideas could be of any value,

based on the falsehood that they evolved from animals:
With me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions
of man's mind, which has been developed from the minds of the
lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy. Would any-
one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind, if there are any
convictions in such a mind? 169
Darwin's words neatly summarize evolutionists' terrifying
view of humanity. This grave error of Darwin's came to pervade
a large part of the Western world, and the idea that human be-
ings are animals is still propagated in many countries today,
even in school textbooks. For example, Biology: Visualizing Life,
published in 1994, says:

You are an animal, and share a common heritage with earth-
worms and dinosaurs, butterflies and sea stars. 170
Benjamin Wiker, a university lecturer in science and theol-
ogy and author of Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists,
states how, after Darwin there came an enormous deviation in
the way man was regarded. He describes how the error of con-
sidering human beings to be the same as animals spread, ignor-
ing the differences between them:

… most if not all of "traditional" morality is based on the assump-
tion that human beings are a distinct species. Thus, the prohibi-
tion against murder is defined in terms of human nature. Don't
murder! Don't murder what? Aphids? Anteaters? Orangutans?
No, don't kill another innocent human being. With Darwinism,
however, that species distinction between human beings and
other animals is completely blurred. There is no longer any moral
line to be drawn because the species line has been erased.
Darwinists like Richard Dawkins and Peter Singer understand
this perfectly. ... Once we see ourselves as just one more animal on

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