What would you think of someone who wrote a publication called, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life? If you think he might be an upper class, white guy you’d be right. In fact, this is the subtitle of Charles Darwin’s famous book, On the Origen of Species by Means of Natural Selection, better known simply as Origen of Species. Interestingly, Darwin doesn’t specifically address human evolution in this volume, but does so in a subsequent tome called The Descent of Man, where he states that aboriginal and negro races were the earliest to arise in the path of human development because they were closest to apes and monkeys!

Not surprisingly, the general adoption of Darwinian evolutionary principles by the scientific community following the latter 19^th and early 20^th centuries led to the eugenics movement whose goal was to perfect the human race by selective breeding and eliminating inferior groups of people (guess who those might be). This evolution-based philosophy contributed significantly to Hitler’s idea of a master race and to the gassing of millions of “undesirables,” like Jews and gypsies in Nazi Germany. It also led to blacks in the U.S. being used as human guinea pigs for medical experimentation, and as a justification for abortion by groups like Planned Parenthood, which has resulted in the deaths of nearly 50 million unborn children. Somehow, much like the liberal media’s mass embrace and virtual deification of Barack Obama, in their love of Darwin our scientific elites (most of whom are atheists), not to mention the popular media, have neglected sharing these truths about him and the deadly worldview he spawned.

But, why bother with trivial facts? Especially when February 12, 2009 marks the 200^th anniversary of Darwin’s birth. Indeed, having reached demigod status among his worshippers in the science community, for anyone to point to anything negative about Darwin is considered highly UNpolitically correct. No, Darwin is to be celebrated, feted, praised and honored, and his theory is not to be questioned. You see, according to groups like the National Academy of Sciences and the National Center for Science Education, it’s really not a theory at all; it is a FACT—and beyond that has become THE UNIFYING PRINCIPLE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE! Didn’t you know? 

Apparently you don’t. In fact, recent polls have shown that Americans remain stubbornly unconvinced about evolution. As reported by a USA Today/Gallup poll taken in 2007, “66%—two thirds—of Americans believe that ‘God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.’” And a 2006 Zogby International survey showed that close to 70% of Americans believe public school teachers should present both the evidence for and against Darwinian evolution, while only 21% thought that only Darwin’s theory of evolution should be taught. Miffed by these results, evolutionists have devised a strategy to overcome religious objections to the FACT. Called the Clergy Letter Project, it describes itself as “an endeavor designed to demonstrate that religion and science can be compatible.” Signed on to by over 11,000 ministers (mostly from mainline denominations), this Sunday hundreds of churches they represent around the country and overseas will be celebrating “Darwin Day” or “Evolution Weekend.” 

However, leading evolutionist and author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, reveals the evolutionary community’s true attitude toward those (mostly Americans) who believe in a divine Creator. At the Atheist Alliance International Conference in 2005, Dawkins said, “You won’t find any opposition to the idea of evolution among the sophisticated, educated theologians. It comes from an exceedingly retarded, primitive version of religion, which unfortunately is at present undergoing an epidemic in the United States. Not in Europe, not in Britain, but in the United States.”

Dawkins, who dismissively equates religious faith with fairy tales or more ominously with a virulent disease, honestly acknowledges that there is no room for combining faith and science if one understands what evolutionary theory really means. In Ben Stein’s recent movie, Expelled, the renowned scientist frankly admits that many evolutionists oppose his forthright acknowledgment that evolution inexorably leads to godlessness. To Dawkins’ chagrin, Stein’s film also revealed his belief that life on earth was probably planted by a superior race of aliens from outer space—who themselves had arisen through evolution. It would appear that, even for the likes of Dawkins, accounting for the complexity of everything from the simplest cell to the human brain requires an intelligent agent of some kind. If not God, then aliens! This from a man who belongs to a self-styled group called “The Brights,” and who is part of a movement of “New Atheists” that aggressively seeks to stamp out belief in a Creator.

As Expelled also revealed, censorship and discrimination are routinely employed in our educational system against those who dare to question the credibility of evolution. As the film shows, scientists with PhD’s consistently fired from our colleges and universities if they write or say anything that merely raises questions about the “theory,” or suggest that it is anything other than an unassailable FACT. And, despite Americans’ overwhelming support for a more balanced approach to the subject of origins, evolution is taught almost exclusively in our public schools. The National Center for Science Education, a group that promotes “Darwin Day,” uses scare tactics against any school board that considers such an even-handed approach. The NCSE even opposes teaching “the strengths and weaknesses” of Darwinism. Following a recent case in Texas, NCSE executive director Eugenie Scott was quoted as stating, “There are no weaknesses of evolution.” So much for academic freedom and critical thinking.

While Darwin couldn’t possibly have foreseen all the negative consequences of his theory, he certainly understood that the system for which he was advocating would provide a rationale for “creation” to those utterly hostile to faith in God. His theory has since led to the deaths of millions upon millions of men, women and unborn children, and has been used to justify some of the most horrific and inhumane treatment ever conducted by man against man, as well as to promote discrimination against “lesser” races—and those who dare to question its validity as absolute truth. In view of these realities, perhaps instead of “Darwin Day,” the celebration of Darwin’s birth should be called “Discrimination Day.”