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arwinism, maintaining that all
life and the universe are the work
of blind chance, is the most dangerous
ideology facing us today. It has served as the suppos-
edly scientific foundation for all the damaging move-
ments based on ideological concerns—particularly material-
ism, communism and fascism—that have wreaked such terri-
ble harm on mankind for the last 150 years.
However, people with an insufficient knowledge of
Darwinism or who fail to reflect sufficiently deeply on its mate-
rialist ideology may still be unaware of the danger that it poses.
Since they are not aware of what terrible social and moral disas-
ters the theory of evolution has led to since it was first put for-
ward, they may be unable to comprehend the vital importance
of the intellectual struggle against Darwinism, which denies
the existence and oneness of God and the fact that human be-
ings have a responsibility towards our Lord.
The fact is, though, that Darwinist ideology pre-
pares the groundwork for terrible ruin by suggesting
that human beings are the products of blind
chance and merely a
species of animal. It re-
gards life as a battle-