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Michael Denton states that Darwinism brings atheism in its wake and causes great damage to human-

ity's way of looking at itself:
... [Darwin's] new and revolutionary [at the same time unreasonable and unscientific] view of the living world
... implied that all the diversity of life on Earth had resulted from natural and random processes and not, as was

previously believed, from the creative activity of God. [Surely God is beyond that!] The acceptance of this great
claim ... was to play a decisive role in the secularization of western society. ... It was because Darwinian theory
broke man's link with God and set him adrift in a cosmos without purpose or end that its impact was so fun-
damental. No other intellectual revolution in modern times ... so profoundly affected the way men viewed
themselves and their place in the universe. 164

The loss or weakening of belief in God leads to
a society's spiritual collapse. People with

no fear of God, who deny that they will
find their true, eternal lives after death
and will be recompensed for their deeds
in this world with Paradise or Hell, can
be exceedingly unreliable, aggressive,

ruthless and self-interested, and prone
to dangerous criminal behavior. For
someone who has no fear of God, there

are no bounds. As long as that person
thinks that he can somehow avoid be-
ing punished by laws, he may commit
all kinds of immorality and
cause all kinds of disrup-

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