[24] God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. [25] Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. [26] And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, [27] so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; [28] for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ [29] Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.1
In The Descent of Man, Darwin wrote: ‘At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. . . . The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro and Australian [Aboriginal] and gorilla.’ . . . Thomas Huxley, an ardent defender of Darwin who garnered the nickname ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’, wrote that ‘No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.’ Huxley described whites as ‘bigger brained and smaller-jawed.’ [Gary DeMar, Darwin’s ‘Yard Apes’]4
Even the late Harvard evolutionist professor Stephen Jay Gould noted, “Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1850, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory.” [Stephen Jay Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny, Belknap-Harvard Press, pp. 127-128, 1977.]5
The most unwelcome conclusion of evolutionary psychology is also the most obvious: If evolutionary psychology is true, some form of genetic determinism must be true as well. Genetic determinism is simply the thesis that the human mind is the expression of its human genes. No slippage is rationally possible. . . . A successful evolutionary theory of the human mind would, after all, annihilate any claim we might make on behalf of human freedom.6
Endnotes:
1. | NKJV, Acts 17:16-23 |
2. | Ref-0485, 1266 [emphasis added] |
3. | AD, pantheism |
4. | Ref-0028, 28(2), March-May 2006, 51 |
5. | PN, 1 |
6. | Ref-1386, paras. 2138-2148 |
7. | Ref-0380, 413 |
8. | See Isa. 6:10 |
Sources:
AD | Apple Dictionary, Version 2.2.2 |
NKJV | Unless indicated otherwise, all Scripture references are from the New King James Version, copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. |
PN | Gary Bates, The false gospel of Darwinism, “Prayer News,” January 2014, Creation Ministries International |
Ref-0028 | Creation Magazine (Creation Ministries International), [www.CreationOnTheWeb.com]. |
Ref-0380 | Friberg, T., Friberg, B., & Miller, N. F. Vol. 4: Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament. Baker's Greek New Testament library. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000). |
Ref-0485 | Orr, J., M.A., D.D. (1999). The International standard Bible encyclopedia : 1915 edition (J. Orr, Ed.). Albany, OR: Ages Software. |
Ref-1386 | David Berlinski, The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2008, 2009). ISBN:978-0-786-75147-1d. |