DARWIN NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS - WITH  THOUGHTS ON THE RECENT ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CHARLES DARWIN - FEB. 12th. A few weeks ago - Feb. 12th, 2009 - was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin who wrote The Origin of Species, the blockbuster analysis of life with the theory of evolution. Students of Theology and Evolutionists have been battling over it ever since, and probably will keep on battling for years to come. Your writer likes to look at both sides of the scholarly coin. And, in so doing, I have my own viewpoint of the situation. I believe that all "sides" need to sit down and take a deep breath. I believe that there is much more involved than material viewpoints - studies of life (with a small "l" not capital "L" Life of the Scriptures. This gets into a vast area of Spiritual "metaphysics"  that I believe is the "new" frontier. And, these spiritual things are so powerful that if harnessed by the human mind, humans will be aided in fantastic ways. So, definitely, no one should put down anything spiritual. Every little biblical clue will be important - a treasure in learning and harnassing this powerful force.  I believe that the big problem is that we can't see the spiritual....it is invisible, however, it God can be proven to exist by results - results of applied Scripture.  Jesus knew this.  He delt with all kinds of problems using Scripture and solved them.  But, I must tell you, I truly believe that Darwin has done some great work in the realm of the material biological analysis and high powered thinking. It is highly significant and will echo down through the halls of history, although there are some points that will undergo criticism ad infinitum. I still believe that the Spiritual is more powerful and significant.  The big problem I believe is how one looks at the overall situation....either in a material way or a spiritual way. Darwin and his goupies of that time were locked into a material way of thinking. Darwin and other devotees of Darwinism would mention God sometimes, but, still, the material viewpoint "pseudo-religion" was all powerful. The other way of looking at things is in a Spiritual way...the Spirit is all powerful and rules the material world. Many materialists have a problem dealing with this world of the spirit...ultimate Life studies. Much of it looks silly to them. 2000 years ago Jesus knew about this problem. Many of the authorities and others then questioned; "Are you really of the Spirit?" Even John the Baptist questioned Him, John the other leading cutting edge theologian of the time. So, what did Jesus do to prove the all powerfullness of the spirit? He used good God Spirit (Love) to heal. He healed the masses of every known illness, most of each day, and sometimes into the night...and He did this for nearly three years. He clearly demonstrated that there truly is this "unknown" quantity that is more than atomic powerful. He even told His followers that they could even do greater things! And such spiritual healing is being done today! The study of biblical spiritual possibilities is just in its infancy! This is all fascinating. How exciting! But, I should tell you that, strangely, Jesus' great work in the spiritual realm just made the Pharisees furious. They couldn't do what He did! And, they can't do it today! So, we have this vast unlimited (God is unlimited) world of the Spirit out there, all around us, and in us - in every cell - the most powerful ingredient for good there is...and the materialist devotees of Darwinism as a religion have passed right on by it...as two great ships passing by in the night, although one of the ships the Spiritual ship is all lighted up with light...the Light of which Jesus spoke.  Yet, those in the other ship have dark glasses on and can't see it!  Paul spoke of looking through a glass darkly. Some do look at both sides, but some don't. I have a hunch that someday, when it dawns on Darwinians what is really going on, they are going to hate themselves in the morning. Real evolving is where Man has evolved to the point where he can see these things. It's spiritual evolution that is the most important. This spiritual evolution realization is going on all the time. It's really the survival of the spiritually fittest!  It's spiritual selection...if one reaches out to it. It's always there, but has to be recognized. By going the material route totally and condeming the spiritual,, one sets him or herself up against the great old Inspired characters of the Scriptures, Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, Paul and all the others. Also critics must watch it because if they make Darwinism a religion they break the First Commandment "thou shall have no other Gods before Me".  What a lost cause! I can think of at least three things I would rather do than think I was superior to these characters and violate the First Commandment. . Just think, students aren't learning about Spiritual Evolution!!! The greatest aid for Mankind! The humanist, Darwinian, religion devotees have done a slick job promoting their "religion." (the above thoughts were completed May 11th, 2009 - Ron Miller) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Following is Darwin Not Taught in Schools. This commenced with a series of weekly newspaper columns some years ago. DARWIN NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS. Yes, the old guy still lives on. There are many good things about Darwin and his work, yet, there are still problems, some of them gigantic. There is fighting, and unresolved conflicts, and much of his theory is working against society this very day, e.g. killer, jungle instinct in business "survival of the fittest corporate theory" (far above usual hardball business). Darwinism "justifies" and "dignifies" the vicious jungle approach. As you know, the biological theories jumped over into social theory (very strange when you stop and think about it!). Then, there is the horrendous example of Eugenics created by Darwin's cousin Galton. Eugenicists want to speed up natural selection. With Eugenics, humans can play "god." Eugenics was picked up by the Nazis and resulted in the extermination camps of WWII. This is the biggest scientific backfire of all time. Science must be watched carefully by ethics or better yet ultimate ethics metaphysics...or still better ultimate metaphysics The Scriptures (or whatever one's belief). Coming up in this space, when re-written a bit more, will be an analysis of Darwinism today. I hope you will stay tuned. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The main body of the manuscript is still moving along on the assembly line, but I do have some more preliminary thoughts with regards to our special fields of interest, archaeology/anthropology. The field of anthropology and its many branches are loaded with Darwinism, perhaps moreso than any other field. Students must be cautioned it is like walking through a mine field. Anthropology is divided into two primary branches - biology and culture. Evolution and natural selection explains a lot for many devotees in anthropology, but students must remember that we are dealing here with the material (seen) world. There is another world, the world of Paul's powerful "quickening spirit" (unseen except in results). Of course, not all, but quite a few of the devotees of Darwinism are anti-religious, but, strangely, pursue Darwinism religiously. This is part of the problem - a conflict of religions. Biology and culture are great. Science is great, theories are great and to be encouraged, natural science is wonderful...but, yes, all can easily become pseudo-religions if a person isn't sufficiently innoculated with ultimate ethics, metaphysics and ultimate metaphysics, the Scriptures. This is the big trap. Of course, it is a free world and people can believe what they want, however, the other side of the coin should be examined and students must know the complete scientific picture. Darwin himself was a self-proclaimed agnostic (on the fence) and a number of his associates as Huxley were anti-religion. I have a hunch that most of these non-believers were really bonafied atheists, but that would have been just too strong a word in families, especially in the Darwin household where Mom was a strong Christian. And, turns out that Mom, a keen student of the Scriptures, was the greatest scholar/scientist/biologist/anthropologist of them all...as you will see later on. Never underestimate Moms. Many in atheistic scholarship in Victorian England were looking for a saviour and a gospel and rejoiced when they found "their promised land" Darwinism. But they didn't examine the entire Bible closely enough. They would have had to study the entire Scriptures as much as their biological/cultural studies in order to see the Light. They didn't get the depth of the Scriptures...and Darwin even had a bachelors from Cambridge associated with the Church of England. They were as Lemings heading unwaverling toward the cliffs and ocean of materialism. And, few know that the great old scholars of the Church of England were brilliant scholars and saw the problems of Darwinism for society immediately...as you will also see later. Our hats are off to the Church of England scholars; they were very sharp and far ahead of their time. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - P.S. Here is another footnote before commencing. I am soooo thankful that I am able to study on my own and am presently not connected with a university or college for a paycheck....and can explore anything I want to here at the WAS. I don't have to worry about department members or an administration frowning or lifting eyebrows about this or that thinking...but can look at all sides of a problem...and try and get to the truth. It's beautiful. And I can look at any religious denomination I want. I am not afraid to look at evolution theory and see if there is something there that is helpful. I can study Genesis - a great study. Have you read the many commentaries and expositions of this famous book? The Anchor Commentaries edited by the great biblical archaeologist William Foxwell Albright is one. By the way, this particular translation/commentary is pretty revolutionary. There are things that bother me about it, but I like to look at other sides of the coin. Then, there is Adam Clarke's Commentary written way back in the early 1800s. What a monumental effort? I tire after writing a single article, yet, Clarke created a big multi-volumne work. He was a genius of Latin, Greek, Aramaic, English and Arabic. It's stupendous. You will be amazed at this vast body of work every bit as monumental as the work of Darwin. And look at the monumental work of St. Jerome's translation of the Latin Bible...working away for years in the Holy Land...and Origin's vast body of work including the Hexapala. And not only a scholar but a minister to victims of persecution awaiting lions of the arean in their cold stone cells. There is some wonderful, brilliant Theological scholarship out there totally missed by the Darwinians and public. Why doesn't the public and all the students hear about these great studies? It is because most people are very material and must have something they can see and touch physically...as the golden calf and idols of Baal. And Yahweh cautione emphatically with the 1st Commandment: Thou shall have no other gods before me." Humanity is going backward! I can also study the rest of the Bible and see what might apply to Genesis and the whole problem of life. As always, one has to be very careful taking things out of the overall context. Jesus spoke of true Life and said that it is eternal at that. This is the opposite of organic life or anything seen under the microscope. I can study "intelligent design" also...and creationism. I wouldn't miss all this for the world. Most of the Darwinians are locked in what can be seen. However, their microscopes just aren't fast enough to catch Paul's "quickening spirit." While I am having fun with all this, most are missing out. Most students walk around with vises on their heads. It's a shame. Darwin and Huxley didn't even begin to go far enough with life. They totally missed the Life revealed by Jesus. Duh! Actually, they can't go too far. The whole subject of God is too vast. They haven't even made it to nursery school in life studies and never will even achieve that. Now, what are teachers and students to do in classrooms just scratching the surface on various biological and life issues? They are actually stuck...or "forked" as the old checker-players say when they get the opponent in the corner and all he or she can do is move back and forth getting nowhere. It's a dilemma. Old Aristotle the father of science himself saw the problems of dilemmas. Classrooms are stuck; they can't go to theology (within the classroom, the research lab), blocked by the humanist-atheist movement in America that has worked its way into control and trying mightily to invalidate God. A more hopeless project there has never been. And most of the leaders in this humanist movement are Darwinians. Odd, they must have a religion! On the other hand, many theologians (not all of course) can't go to Darwin's theories for possible answers to this or that biological question. What is one to do? I would hope that classrooms can be true scholars and look at all sides of the question (within the classroom), but this doesn't look too promising to be honest. So, limited scholarship will probably continue to be the norm. The Darwinians have met the enemy and it's not the Creationists or Intelligent Design proponents...but themselves, as the greatest biologist/natural scientist/anthropologist/Theologian Pogo said. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Following is Part I of "Some Darwinism Not Taught in Schools" that appeared in the Tues. Oct. 19th, 2004 issue of the Branson(MO) Daily News (the Opinion Page). There are some good things about Charles Darwin that I hope are taught in schools. He was a very hard worker, a fine creative scientist, and he loved the natural world about him. After a two year attempt at Edinburg's Medical School, he switched schools and obtained a BA degree in divinity from Cambridge. He was kindly to struggling townsfolk and scholar friends. He was very ill most of his life. It's a miracle that he did voluminous research (thanks mostly to Herculean support from his wife Emma a Christian). After his famous voyage on the Beagle when he was young, he married, and being born into a wealthy family, and his wife also, was able to be a gentleman scholar. His home was his main lab. His wife was Emma Wedgwood, grandaughter of Josiah Wedgwood, the famous potter. Darwin contributed much to science, which included his theory of evolutionary natural selection, presented to the world in "The Origin of Species," and also did exhaustive studies of barnacles, research in geology/paleontology, beetles, earth worms, humans in "The Descent of Man", and he also wrote about the "Voyage of the Beagle" and much more. His most famous, earth-shaking work though was Origin of the Species wherein he outlined his theory of natural selection that says life evolved from crude forms in the sea, up the ladder, changing-adapting here and there to various situations. Vast numbers of unfit organisms would fall by the wayside in favor of higher forms that did adapt. A bird may have flown from the mainland of South America to an isolated little island of the Gallapagos and there adapted and evolved different beak forms. Apelike forms after eons would also eventually, lo and behold, evolve into Man. This shocked the Victorian world and the Church of England and everyone else who knew from the Bible that Man and other life forms had been created by God in a specified time and all life was/is good (Genesis). But Darwin said that natural forces created various forms of life over a vast period; the superior organisms adapted "survived"; the weak perished. The debate rages this very day The other side of the coin. There are PhDs in biology who shoot holes in the theory. There is a lot of research going on disproving Darwinism. However, devotees of Darwinism scoff at the poor "dummy" critics...and the battle continues to rage as I speak. Darwin by his own admission was an Agnostic, one on the fence...looking for proof. There was a lot of atheism at the time in not-so-merry old England. There were many poor, but some as himself were rich. How could this be? The population was growing and a scholar named Malthus was predicting gloomy things...many poor souls obviously wouldn't make it. Then, too, Britannia ruled a great empire. The English must be superior people over their poor subjects. It had been "the survival of the fittest." The British had been "selected." So, into the Darwinian pot of stew went many social factors as well as biological and natural science ingredients. The secular humanist (atheist) scholars - and there were many at the time desperately starving for a savior and gospel - found their man and dogma. An old rule prevailed - everyone has to have a religion...and some are very strange. Darwinism was very popular in Germany - right from the beginning - and became fertile ground later for the Nazis who loved this food for egoism. The theories helped justify their sick "Super Race" thinking. Fortunately, the Nazis got unselected. (See: Albright's From the Stone Age to Christianity). The humanist atheist movement today loves Darwinism as it did in his day. Darwinism contains economic, social, anthropological theory. This movement/religion has made great headway into our once "Under God government." Been downsized lately? Lost your job to merging? Look deeply; you may give thanks to Darwin. Many use to justify. Been outsourced lately? Look for Darwinism. Lost stock in Enron? You may be just an unsuccessful "organism" in the life of the annointed selectors. Examine university departments of economics, sociology, anthropology, biology...full of many more "superior" selectors. A lot of departments and even entire ivy walled enclaves are saturated with Darwinism, and have become majestic Darwin's cathedrals rivaling any, grand, Gothic churches of the Medieval age or modern time for that matter. Devotees, kneeling at the foot of Darwin just as adoring as any priest of ancient Thebes with Isis, can easily become wrapped up in materiality as Darwinism and miss spirituality, which is all powerful. Moses had to constantly get after his followers for worshipping objects. Moses had to finally go up Mt. Sinai and get some stone tablets with rules his people could understand "thou shall have no other gods before me( No. 1). The "religiously" devoted Darwinians have been conned by the biggest liar of all time. All these fields, biology, etc., are wonderful fields, but not true religions. And there are some great Christian biologists. But students today have got to study Sunday School things to control the material. As far as the days of the creation, I believe that there is something so unique about Man that when God created the first true Man, he did create something spiritually special. Man finally was able to see and comprehend much of God - with help from His Son Jesus who he sent. Man can't see and comprehend all about God for He is so vast, and there are mysteries and always will be mysteries. The Bible tells about this. It's seen that there is more to Man than Homo Sapien Sapien; there is Homo Sapien Sapien Spiritualensis. Now, we are getting into the real study of Man and true Life, Spiritual Anthropology. This takes the study of Man to a higher plateau. The inspired Bible writers - Bible Anthropologists - all brilliant in God, figured it all out and tell all about it - true everlasting Life...the Truth... and much more. I just read an article in the Feb. '05 issue of Discover Magazine that tells of Michigan scientists using computers, and it is said that they have proved that the theory of evolution is correct. The only thing they can possibly prove is that God's great original plan is just fine and perfect. They could have been saved all of that effort and research money. We could have used all that money in archaeology for saving the antiquities most of which are being destroyed by human, jungle, slam bam, bulldozer trying- to- be- the- Natural- Selectees. Eventually, some day, God only knows, the Darwinian researchers will work materialism to death, looking for the lowest common denominator in the micron microscope and using the latest computer methods...and finally re-discover and come to the conclusion that there really is something beyond...something called "the Spiritual" or in other words God. Should we hold our breath while they search and search and try and prove and prove that materialism is the ultimate order of things,and become devoured by limited materialism? They are not even scratching the surface of the infinite. Darwin was laid to rest beside the great astronomer Herschel in Westminster. Herschel had called Darwin's natural selection theory, "higgledy piggledy science." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thanks much to the biography "The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist Darwin" by Desmond and Moore, Warner Books, 1991. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - More Darwinism Not Taught in Schools, Part II Darwinism has proven a disaster in the laboratory of civilization. In Darwin's day, the scholars, and some interested lay people also, felt that they finally had their humanist religion for solving problems with Charles Darwin's explanations for life and his natural selection, evolutionary theories. These theories involve some supposed superior organic forms and features winning out over the masses of inferior organisms over a long period of time. Note: material answers. It was a very gloomy time for Darwin and his like-minded colleagues. Malthus, the guru of population disaster studies, felt that the growing population couldn't be fed. Ideas on evolution had been around for a long time as Darwin pointed out himself. Pretty violent and depressing stuff when you get into it, whereas the Bible offers great hope, Love and harmony. But in Darwin's world many poor souls won't evolve - crushed by the jungle. The British themselves had a massive ego mania. They ruled masses of "inferior beings" around the world. One can read old books of the empire with many words of superiority. Now, of course, anthropologists know that many of the so-called primitive cultures are very complicated. The British shouldn't have thrown cultural, evolutionary stones. Another dismal factor of Darwin's age is that even though there was an industrial revolution there were many poor. Things needed explaining. Darwin and his colleagues took the ego-material route. They missed the point that the Creator of all Life - all the vastness of the Heavens and earth really should at least have a little bit to say about it. But, no, we are dealing with massive industrial strength man ego and arrogance. If all the humanist, atheist, agnostic gurus of that era had spent as much time studying spiritual answers - Loving truths - in the Bible they would have been much better off. We would all be infinitely better off today. It would have prevented millions of deaths and horrible suffering. Keep the Tums handy as I explain. One of the biggest disasters of Darwinism was an offshoot field called 'eugenics." I dare not call it a science because it is a total bust in the laboratory, but, incredibly it still has adherents. Eugenics was created in 1880 by a cousin of Darwin's named Galton. He and his followers believed that evolution and natural selection could be speeded along by Man. Superior beings should take on this necessary task using evolutionary principals (outlined by Darwin). Horror of horrors, yes, the Nazis picked up on eugenics in a big way, and this led to the extermination camps of WWII. Six million Jews died in these terrible camps because of eugenics, a branch of Darwinism. The Nazi Aryans were "superior" to the Jews. Darwin knew all about his cousins work and approved, although I do believe he would be sick if he could have seen where all the theorizing led. He should have placed a skull and crossbones after each paragraph of his work. After this catastrophe for humanity, the eugenicists kept a very low profile, but according to one of the present watch dog groups, Eugenics Watch, they are still around. Members of eugenics organizations show up as officers in abortion rights movements. Get rid of those little material organisms that are of no use. The Catholic church has done a lot to battle eugenics and abortion. Besides the spiritual problem, they know about the terrible history of the movement. There are many other churches that battle abortion, but I don't know if they know about the behind-the-scenes eugenics history. One of the big problems with Darwinism as a religion is that it takes a material tack. It is in denial re. the spiritual...the unseen. It has to have the visible...the material. And as with all secular humanism, Man is arrogantly going to take on problems himself, without God. As a result, the movement is like the Titanic that keeps hitting those unseen spiritual icebergs. The ship is sinking, and the crew is all staying with the ship even though God has provided plenty of life-boats and life-preservers. (Thanks to a cover story in Time, Cursed by Eugenics by Paul Gray, Jan. 11, '99...and Eugenics Watch). To be continued. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part III - Mrs. Darwin, the Real Story of Life I predict that someday the heroine of the Darwinian story - a bright star shining through the material, human, biological debris - will be Mrs. Emma Wedgwood Darwin, wife of Charles. If it hadn't been for Emma, a faithful Christian, I seriously doubt that Charles could have ever written most of his works and espoused all of his theories or even have lived for that matter. Most of his life he was so ill that he required constant nursing, encouraging, pampering, and his wife supplied most of this. When they got married she knew that he had problems with Christianity, and he knew that she was a faithful follower of the Bible; she knew the Scriptures very well. Not only was Emma the faithful nurse of Charles but she bore 10 children, supervised the household staff, went to the water cure clinics with him (he tried every method known to alleviate his illneses) and was the loving mother and wife. Here, right between Darwin's agnostic eyes was the very proof he proclaimed he needed that there was really a God. She followed the Scriptures and it worked. He could see this proof every day in their own scientific lab. There must have been a gigantic conflict in his subconscious. His close friends, the anti-religion Huxley and other non-believers were over at the Darwin house often. How could they have missed the shining light of Emma? It was the Industrial age alright -the Industrial age of ego and denial. However, if Charles had acknowledged this proof of God and the Bible was right, it would have destroyed much of his theories. One can begin to see that a lot of Darwin's mission was really to prove the Bible wrong....the entire Bible...the entire idea of the Bible. He and his associates were really hammering away on "the Old Anvil" as the minister Henry Halley called it. Halley said in his handbook that many a hammer of criticism has been worn out on "the Old Anvil", yet the Old Anvil goes right on helping people. Darwin doggedly persevered with his work. By the way, it should be mentioned that Darwin was not the sole creator of natural selection. He had to share the idea with Alfred Russell Wallace one of his friends and correspondents. Their friends knew that there was a major problem, and to face things arranged a co-recognition at a meeting. Darwin didn't realize the harmful effects his work would have on society. The Anglican scholars of the Church of England at that time and others though were very sharp and could see the big picture. They knew that humanity needed hope, and there is not any hope for most of the population with evolutionary theory. In fact, things are very gloomy. Bluntly put, most people just aren't going to make it. However, there is all kinds of hope with Christianty. This is why they call Jesus "the Saviour" Christianity is bright with Light, Life and Love. Truly, Man is special out of all the creatures. Another of Darwin's theories was that beauty was an aid in natural selection. People select good looking partners and "quality" is thus propagated in the species. Horrors, we are back to eugenics and the Nazis who matched what they thought were fine Aryan specimens and married them off . This beauty theory worked its way into American anthropology (Americans are very big on anthropology). Many learned people proclaimed it, and thousands of students studied it. Then, of course, it has been proven that some folks prefer, say, heavier mates. They believe this is beautiful, and it is. Likewise, some men in Africa and Asia prefer women who have the most rings that stretch their necks...or who have the biggest wooden disks in their lips. But, tragically, beauty ideals can be highly destructive. Look at all the kids (and grown-ups too) who are going the wrong Darwinian route starving themselves trying to be Madison Avenue skinny. Think of all the misery this has caused. Note. Thanks again to Desmond and Moore's biography for information about Emma Darwin. (to be continued) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part IV Darwinism, Lop-sided Scholarship One of the strangest things that has ever happened to humanity is the taking of some material theories of Darwin and turning them into a profound global religion. If we got together a bunch of gurus and put them in the nicest executive meeting room in New York City, with a polished mahogany table, and we commissioned them to dream up the most disastrous plan to destroy civilization, they would come up with Darwinism. Darwinism with its many tentacles and culture which has actually seeped into modern culture glorifies the jungle material approach of life. Yet, many are trying to find the way OUT of the jungle. We are trying to latch on to ultimate ethics, the Scriptures. We want to climb the ladder of civilization peacefully, not destroy the other guy with clubs to be the natural selectee. God-Love is the only way. We must not invalidate this in any way. We need to do everything to preserve and glorify this Godly approach, which many inspired characters of the Scriptures have passed along. They have tried the best they and God can to explain things to us...but Duh! Much of the problem is lop-sided scholarship. Darwinism has worked its way as a virus into many fields, textbooks, classrooms, financial thinking, universities and colleges. Scholars who you would think would be scientific and should gladly study the "other side of the scientific coin", which is Biblical Theology, don't. I personally believe that one of the major problems, is that many scientists can see visible, material things, (for after all science is a material tool and great in many ways) but not the invisible, spiritual world. Of course, if they removed their blinders they could see results of Love such as healing of physical and social problems today (Jesus' legacy, spirit and teaching carry on) and also amazingly see the beautiful natural world about them (a God gift right between their eyes)...but they don't choose to put the two together or even research this spiritual world. It's like visiting the Sistine Chapel and not looking up at the ceiling and passing right by the Pieta and saying, "what's the big deal? "I see no Spiritual inspiration and results here. All I see is rock, pigment and a lot of hard man work." In truth, Michaelangelo was inspired by God to do both works of art. This lop-sided scholarship is proving very destructive in the practical lab of civilization. Humans need desperately, and deserve, true religion. Look around and see what a mess the materialists have wrought in education, government and society. Note. the humanists, a large, very well organized movement, will focus on the Genesis account where they wrongly think they have an opening, when, really, it is the entire Bible and all religions in general that they are against. That's an even more important overriding issue for them than Darwinism. Students and parents need to watch carefully and study this movement. When they find out what has happened to them it will be very interesting. Meanwhile, the humanist Darwinism as a religion proponents continue to try desperately to build society with tooth picks, match sticks, playing cards and great faith in their "religion" They can't grasp that the spiritual is the "rock" and "corner of the structure." I'm amazed how many people and institutions are brain-washed by Darwinism. It has really got hold of them. For all those, and there are many, who don't have a true religion, this is all that they have. I've seen the Smithsonian, which you and I supposedly "own" and support financially flaunt evolutionary thinking in publications for school kids across the country with never a mention of valid scientific criticism and that Spiritual things are much more powerful and that a control of such heady, human, material stuff as science is always needed, or can lead to disaster, and that metaphysics is ultimate ethics and the Scriptures are ultimate metaphysics. We don't want any more eugenics - forced natural selection and cleansing (an off-shoot of Darwinism) - as practiced at the Nazi death camps. Six million jews died and millions of our troops and those of the Allies also died fighting it. Students must know about the evolutionary theory catastrophes. Also, there is another giant evolutionary, Darwinistic problem. Much research is needed. Some of it is in the working theory category, but there are some excellent clues. To what extent has Darwinism influenced Wall Street? There has always been hardball business, but the jungle killer instinct "survival of the fittest" seems worse than ever. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it's a duck. Darwinism dignifies and promotes the killer jungle approach. For good examples of the above, just look at all the big corporate mergers going on. (gobble up the unfit). SBC Communications just merged with AT&T one of the grand old corporations. In the process 13,000 people will lose their jobs. This is pure Darwinism. The poor people losing jobs are "organisms" that just didn't make it in favor of the superior "organism" the most powerful corporate organization. The poor inferior organisms have been "unselected" "naturally." Actually, the natural selection process has been speeded up by Man, which makes the whole merger process really a form of eugenics. Horrors; here we go again! Of course, our government obviously has been so brain-washed throughout many of its individual lives in various school classes and in other ways, they don't have a clue as to what Truth really is, and just go along with it. They don't even know the spiritual basics that humans really are something special - - just like the Scriptures say. So what happens? Society is just allowed to waller in the jungle. Unfortunately, the Darwinianocracy material method spells eventual disaster for society. Another gigantic Darwinian problem for our U.S. civilization is that cold, material, secular, humanism (with Darwin one of its big scientific priests) has taken over schools and much of government. Then, people complain about problems in society. Trying to invalidate God/Love has a dismal destructive future any way one tries it. The study of science is great, and having theories is wonderful, but it all needs to be controlled with Sunday School things...or better yet used as a model or guide. The "Missing link" is really Biblical Spirituality. There are too many scientific, material, Pandora's boxes opened out there such as nuclear physics and Darwinism including Darwinian economics, eugenics (speeded up Natural Selection by Man). There are too many tooth pick, match stick, playing card structures. Following is a little prayer I wrote for those who might want. A Scientific Prayer Dear God, Creator of All, give me the Spiritual wisdom to know that all Your creations are good (as stated in Genesis). there are no "inferior" beings. Even the smallest creature is not inferior. There is only inferior, limited, Man thinking, and that, hopefully, if I should discover any of Your good that I promise to see that it is used in good ways, for Your good world, Your good children and that you are always given credit. God also help me not to worship any field of science or findings, knowing full well that if I do so, I will be breaking your First Commandment ("thou shall have no other Gods before me"). Keep me always humble. I need reminding that the very stones in these ivy walls, and buildings and other research labs and libraries and study places at home, are made by You. The very air I breathe as I work has been created by You. Every tiny cell and element is also a creation of Yours. I give thanks to You for all the good that you have given to me and others, your Spiritual children. Science is the organized approach, but You are the organizer of everything. I am asking these things and to know Your good ways, in the name of Jesus. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "As a very small boy exploring the almost virgin woods of the old Carver place* I had the impression someone had just been there ahead of me...I was practically overwhelmed with the sense of some Great Presence...I knew even then it was the Great Spirit of the universe...Never since have I been without this consciousness of the Creator speaking to me through flowers, rocks, animals, plants and all other aspects of His creations." Dr. George Washington Carver (quote in folder: "George Washington Carver", National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, National Monument, Missouri). * This is the old Moses Carver place, a house now reconstructed by the Natl. Park Service at the Carver National Monument, Diamond, Mo. Idyllic Carver Creek runs right by the house. Also there is a spring nearby. The boy Carver explored every nook and cranny of this creek and the area. It is a great, beautiful place to visit, especially for kids of all ages.