The Long War Against God by Henry Morris

Author:Henry Morris
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Evolution, Creationism
ISBN: 9780890512913
Publisher: Master Books
Published: 2000-04-01T05:00:00+00:00

The Conflict of the Ages

Before we carry our history of evolutionary thought back into the so-called Dark Ages before the Renaissance, it will be good to pause for a brief review. There were many strange currents that converged on Charles Darwin, producing through this most unlikely confluence a surging flood of naturalistic and humanistic pollution that eventually inundated the whole world. Every discipline of modern thought is now contaminated and controlled by evolutionism. The schools and colleges are everywhere dominated not only by evolutionary thought but also by evolutionary methodology. Furthermore, all the devastating politico-economic movements of the past century, including the great wars, have been motivated by evolutionary philosophy. The moral decay and the widespread religious apostasy of these latter days are also founded squarely on evolutionary rationalizations.

Such a remarkable complex of baleful effects must somehow have an equally notable complex of causes. The very unremarkable studies and publications of Charles Darwin could not possibly be a sufficient explanation.

Those who specialize in conspiracy theories could no doubt make at least a circumstantial case here. We have already noted the semi-revolutionary Lunar Society founded by Erasmus Darwin and others who sympathized with the French revolutionaries, not to mention the closely associated Revolutionary Society itself, whose membership overlapped with that of the Lunar Society. Both of these seem to have been involved to some degree with the Jacobin clubs in France, or even with the Illuminati. The latter society was founded in 1776, although there had already been other secret societies with similar names in various places for two centuries or more. It was connected with certain Masonic lodges in France and is alleged by many students of such things to have been the actual nerve center of the French Revolution, and then later of the so-called League of the Just, under whose auspices Marx and Engels published their original Communist Manifesto.

The Freemasons themselves have long constituted a notable complex of secret societies whose influence has surely been profound, in the politics and economies of many nations. Then there are the Jesuits, associated by many writers, both Catholic and Protestant, with a wide range of conspiratorial activities. The founder of the Illuminati, Dr. Adam Weishaupt, was an ex-Jesuit, with a number of notable friends in America and England, as well as France and Germany.

All the above facts are well known, but how much they may have had to do with the promotion of Darwin and Darwinism is not so clear. Many of these secret societies were (and are) pantheistic in philosophy and thus favorable to evolutionism in one form or another. Charles Darwin's own personal background was in this social environment. His father and grandfather (Erasmus) were Freemasons, as well as anti-biblical; his wife and most of her relatives were Unitarians.

There is also the enigmatic role of Charles Lyell, whose uniformitarianism was all-important to Darwin. Lyell seemed to oppose evolution for a long while even while giving full support, advice, and encouragement to his young protege, Darwin, in developing and publishing his naturalistic evolutionary theories.

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