Page 113 - The Intellectual Struggle Against Darwinism

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Ken Ham, author of The Lie: Evolution, draws attention to the
irreligiousness to which Darwinism leads: "If you reject God and
replace Him with another belief that puts chance, random
processes in the place of God, there is no basis for right or wrong.

Rules become whatever you want to make them. There are no ab-
solutes–no principles that must be adhered to. People will write
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their own rules..." Some people may think that moral values can
be preserved with the rules they themselves set, and that social
order can thus be established. Yet this is not a correct diagnosis.
Of course there must be laws and rules to make social order pos-
sible, and these help preserve moral values. However, these laws
can be abided by fully and order acceptable to everyone be main-
tained, only through the moral virtues that a belief in God and the
Day of Judgment brings with it.
Theodious Dobzhansky is one of those Darwinists who ad-
mit that Darwinism prepares the foundations for moral degener-
ation. He describes how the idea of natural selection, the basis of
Darwinism, weakens a society's moral values:
Natural selection can favor egotism, hedonism, cowardice in-
stead of bravery, cheating and exploitation, while group ethics
in virtually all societies tend to counteract or forbid such "nat-
ural" behavior, and to glorify their opposites: kindness, gen-
erosity, and even self-sacrifice for the good of others of one's
tribe or nation and finally of mankind. 36

Dobzhansky draws our attention to a very significant fact:
the Darwinist mindset can never accept proper moral virtues
such as generosity, self-sacrifice, loyalty, faithfulness and helpful-
ness. Darwinism regards them as elements that retard the sup-
posed evolutionary process. According to Darwinism, in order for
the fictitious process of evolution to continue, people have to be

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