For some reason a main topic of conversation recently is atheism vs. Christianity. And us religious types are pretty much blamed for everything from The Inquisition to 9-11. And atheists are portrayed as peace-niks without original sin who simply believe humanity is an accidental speck on a floating rock in a vast nothingness.
While impugning us, they never discuss the obvious effects of their own creed upon us accidental specks like Hitler (who was a big Darwinist), and Marx actually wrote to his commie buddy Engels about Darwin’s “Origins of the Species.” He wrote:
Although it is developed in the crude English style, this is a book which contains the basis of natural history for our views.
Marx was so moved by Darwin he even sent Darwin a personally inscribed copy of the recently published second edition of Das Kapital in 1873. Sounds a little stalkery to me but whatever.
The funny thing is that whenever we bring up the effects that a God-less philosophy like Darwinism may have, secularists act as if this was the first time they’d ever heard of anything so absurd. They act as if this were just made up by Jerry Falwell and Ralph Reed in a closed door meeting about the sexuality of Teletubbies.
But I believe anyone can see clearly the damaging effects of secularism in hindsight. But one man saw its effects clearly from the get. Famed geologist Adam Sedgwick, was a scientific mentor to a young Charles Darwin. Upon reading Darwin’s book he wrote to his pupil:
This view of nature you have stated admirably; tho’ admitted by all naturalists & denied by no one of common sense. We all admit development as a fact of history; but how came it about? Here, in language, & still more in logic, we are point blank at issue– There is a moral or metaphysical part of nature as well as a physical. A man who denies this is deep in the mire of folly. Tis the crown & glory of organic science that it does thro’ final cause, link material to moral. . . You have ignored this link; &, if I do not mistake your meaning, you have done your best in one or two pregnant cases to break it. Were it possible (which thank God it is not) to break it, humanity in my mind, would suffer a damage that might brutalize it–& sink the human race into a lower grade of degradation than any into which it has fallen since its written records tell us of its history.
Hmmm. Sounds vaguely like the 20th century under Communism and fascism, doesn’t it? That’s some darn prescient writing.
June 11, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Atheists never want to accept that their ideology has any consequences. They still won’t admit that Communism ends in mass slaughter all the time. They just say that “True Commmunism” hasn’t been tried yet which is an excuse to keep repeating their mistakes.
June 11, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Dude, where’d you find that letter? I really want a copy of the entire thing. It would be extremely helpful.
Can you link me? 😀
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June 11, 2008 at 4:50 pm
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/sedgwick.html
I don’t know where he got the letter but I just googled it and think that would be a good start for you. Do you not know how to Google?
June 11, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I would think that sending someone a copy of Das Kapital would count as attempted MURDER, not an act of admiration….
If Marx hadn’t had Engels to help popularize his ideas and make them fun to read, the world would probably just remember him as a very angry grad student with bad facial hair.
June 12, 2008 at 4:08 am
Wow…
June 13, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I will have to write a rollicking adventure story with a hero named Adam Sedgwick.