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Darwin's Deadly Legacy, as originally
broadcast nationwide.

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What have Charles Darwin and his theory of
evolution contributed to humanity?

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Coming up, the true legacy of Darwinism.

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Your morality is whatever you want to make
it to be.

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That's really Darwin's legacy.

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Perhaps the most pernicious and
destructive manifestation of Darwinism was

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in what happened in Nazi Germany.

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Ironically, there is no concrete evidence
for evolution.

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I think we can say that quite
emphatically.

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It's more in the minds of men than it is
actually, in fact, out there in nature.

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We keep hearing about gaps in the theory
of evolution.

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The whole theory is a gap.

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Coral Ridge Ministries presents Darwin's
Deadly Legacy, a shocking look at the

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historical impact of the theory of
evolution and the shaky scientific ground

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on which it rests.

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In 1859, Charles Darwin published his
bombshell book entitled On the Origins of

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the Species, in which he laid out the
foundation for the view that mankind and

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all other species evolved through a purely
random physical process.

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The world has never been the same since.

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This view is now mandated as the official
view in all public education institutions.

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But have you ever thought about the social
impact of Darwin's theory of evolution?

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It has been enormous.

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Evolution permeates virtually every aspect
of our culture.

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Pick up a book or read a magazine or watch
a television program or a movie and you

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will see the assumption of evolution.

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Here's a sampling.

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Evolution is supported by the entire
scientific community.

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Intelligent design is supported by guys
online to see the Dukes of Hazzard.

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Sometimes it seems hard to avoid being
indoctrinated about evolution,

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whether on TV or the radio.

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Among scientists, Darwin's theory of
evolution is the accepted understanding,

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grounded now in many years of research and
deep evidence, of how the multitude of

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living things came to be.

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The idea is promoted in newspapers and
magazines and books.

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Everywhere, evolution is just assumed.

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Creation scientist Ian Taylor.

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Evolution permeates our entire society.

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Not surprisingly, because it's taught in
the public schools.

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And most children in North America go to a
public school.

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And evolution is promoted in Hollywood
films.

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I think Darwinism is popular as a story
because it allows atheists not to have to

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explain why we're here.

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Ann Coulter, author of the New York Times'
number one book, Godless.

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There's no such thing as morality,
there's no such thing as our consciousness

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of our mortality.

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We're about one step above a porpoise,
although many of them seem to believe

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we're below a porpoise, because we have
nukes and we pollute and have hate crimes

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and don't recycle.

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So we are below a porpoise, but it's just
a matter of, it's just random mutation,

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this bloody battle of survival,
which exists no place in the fossil

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record.

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The late Dr. Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard
said,

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It has been said that ideas have
consequences.

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That is so true, as we'll see in this
program.

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We're being told today that life is just
the product of time and chance and random

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forces.

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Well, if we've just evolved from the
primeval slime, then humanity sinks in

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significance.

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Darwin's second major book was rightly
titled The Descent of Man, where man was

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no longer viewed as a little lower than
the angels, but rather a little higher

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than the apes.

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What Darwin theorized about biology was
applied by later thinkers to society,

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economics and government, with devastating
consequences.

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Prior to Darwin, people had believed on
the basis of revelation, that human beings

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were the product of God's creation.

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But they also believed that human reason
could figure that out.

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That the great order that we see in
nature, and especially the unique

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capacities for free will and reason that
you see in human beings, pointed to a

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source above nature as the origin of
nature, and especially the origin of man.

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And Darwin's argument seemed to be that we
really don't need to have recourse to

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those kinds of explanations anymore.

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Dr. Carson Holloway, author of The Right
Darwin, professor at the University of

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Nebraska, recently taught for a year at
Princeton.

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To the extent that Darwin's theory tended
to give intellectual force to atheism,

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the belief there is no transcendent good,
and what follows from that, the belief

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there can't be any transcendent dignity to
every human being, would have contributed,

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at least indirectly, to a kind of
obliteration of the old and firm basis for

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the moral decency that tended to prevent
organized mass bureaucratic slaughter,

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which is what you got in the 20th century.

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The acceptance of evolution brought in a
totally new way of looking at life on

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earth, and especially humankind,
and our place in the cosmos.

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As evolution began to be accepted in
intellectual circles, one of their own,

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British philosopher Herbert Spencer coined
the phrase, survival of the fittest.

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That phrase caught on as the essence of
Darwinism.

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Social Darwinism is the idea that human
beings will evolve, and social systems

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will evolve, and social institutions will
evolve, and the fit ones will survive and

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overcome the weak ones, and go on to
become stronger.

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It is a survival of the fittest sort of
system.

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It is a dog-eat-dog, top-dog-win-out kind
of system that flies in the face of the

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Judeo-Christian tradition.

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Dr. Earl Tilford, Jr. is a professor of
history at Grove City College in

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Pennsylvania.

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So, with survival of the fittest,
it was okay to exploit people.

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After all, they were weak, and they should
go by the wayside.

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It was for the betterment of the race,
of the human race, that they should.

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Intellectually deficient, those who are
physically deficient, those who are

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morally deficient, would fall away.

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Evolution had implications for virtually
every discipline it touched, including

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labor.

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Ian Taylor, author of In the Minds of Men,
Darwin, and the New World Order,

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mentions the so-called robber barons,
a handful of industrialists who became

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inordinately wealthy by unethical means in
the early stages of capitalism.

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They were enthusiastic Darwinists.

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There was a lot of misuse of labor in
England at that time, and it was all

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justified by the robber barons,
by Darwin's argument, by survival of the

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fittest.

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Well, the elite said, we are the fittest,
and we're surviving.

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And it's perfectly all right, it's for the
benefit of the country, isn't it?

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In America, it was the late 1800s,
early 1900s, when you found the robber

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barons.

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Andrew Carnegie and others believed that
this was all justified.

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The idea of encouraging unemployment,
so that the wages could be kept low,

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and the working hours could be kept long,
and so that they could make maximum profit

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on these things.

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That was survival of the fittest,
and of course, he would have been one of

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the fittest to survive.

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Evolution also has had implications on
racism.

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It gave it a scientific rationale.

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The biblical view is that racism is wrong,
not that all followers of the Bible have

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lived up to its teaching.

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Specifically, the book of Acts,
in chapter 17, verse 26, teaches that from

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one man came all men.

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Thus, we are all ultimately related.

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There is no basis for racism.

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But here again, Darwinism is at odds with
the Bible.

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Now, a lot of people might not connect
Darwinian evolution with racism,

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but as the late Dr. Stephen Jay Gould
said, that racist attitudes were common

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before Darwin, but what Darwin did was
fuel racism.

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And the reason is, because when you
popularize a philosophy that man is just

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an animal, and we evolve from ape-like
ancestors, and there are different races

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that evolved at different levels,
and some are more advanced than others,

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you can see how people can then develop
racist attitudes towards those they

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thought were more primitive than
themselves, or inferior to themselves.

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And there's no doubt that Darwinian
evolution has certainly influenced

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cultures around the world.

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Creationist educator Ken Ham, founder and
director of Answers in Genesis,

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saw what Darwinism did to the Aborigines
in his native country of Australia.

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Darwin taught in his book The Descent of
Man, for instance, Australian Aborigines

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were basically closest to the ape-like
ancestors.

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Australian Aborigines were looked on as
the missing links in history.

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In the very early 1900s, they were even
listed as animals in a Sydney museum

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booklet.

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And there were scientists from Germany and
England who sent people to Australia with

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instructions on how to kill the
Aborigines, how to skin them, how to boil

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up their skulls for specimens for museums
around the world.

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It was because they thought these were not
quite human yet.

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It was all laid down with the idea of they
were evolving, and they had not yet

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evolved into the white man's idea of what
is being human.

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Another man who shared some key tenets of
Darwin's theory in particular,

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its implications about God and its
implications about man, was Karl Marx,

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the father of communism.

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Marx also embraced Darwinism as the
scientific version of his political

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philosophy.

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He saw the struggle as among classes.

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When you take God out of the equation,
whether it is in social Darwinism or in

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Marxism, all of your attempts to do noble
things, and certainly what they had in

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mind in the Soviet Union was the most
ambitious endeavor that mankind has ever

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tried in terms of social engineering,
and it fell flat and cost millions of

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lives.

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Because proponents of evolution believed
that man was not made in the image of God,

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they felt free to remove those who got in
the way of their social engineering.

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Karl Marx wrote to his collaborator
Friedrich Engels in reference to Darwin's

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On the Origin of Species, This is the book
that contains the foundation in natural

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history for our view.

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That view, of course, was communism.

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No one can deny that communism was based
upon atheism.

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The communist leaders explicitly said so.

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While Karl Marx did not like the Darwinian
concept of every man for himself,

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he found Darwin's theory useful for
removing God from the equation and

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substituting the almighty state as he
envisioned it.

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In communism, the state was God,
and literally tens of millions of people

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have died because of this false belief.

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In his book Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler said,
The purity of the racial blood should be

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guarded so that the best types of human
beings may be preserved and that thus we

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should render possible a more noble
evolution of humanity itself.

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Adolf Hitler relied on evolutionary
concepts in his chilling treatise Mein

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Kampf.

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What was the real connection between the
horrors of Nazism and the theories of

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Darwin?

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The following contain some graphic scenes.

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Parental discretion is advised.

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Perhaps the most evil figure ever is Adolf
Hitler.

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He and the Nazis committed unspeakable
actions, crimes against humanity.

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What link, if any, is there to the theory
of Charles Darwin?

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Dr. Richard Weikart heads the Department
of History at the University of California

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Stanislaus in Turlock, California.

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He has written the important new book From
Darwin to Hitler.

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Hitler was taking ideas of Darwinism in a
certain kind of direction.

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An important point of Darwinism was that
there is no distinction between humans and

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animals, at least no qualitative
distinction.

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Darwin, in fact, termed it this way,
there is a quantitative but not a

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qualitative distinction between humans and
animals.

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There was also a sea change with the
acceptance of Darwin in how humanity was

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to view human death itself.

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One of the most important ways that
Darwinism revolutionized thinking about

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morality, especially relating to bioethics
and medical ethics, was by introducing a

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new idea of what death is.

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The Judeo-Christian conception of death is
that death is an enemy that is to be

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overcome, and ultimately will be overcome
through Christ.

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But the Darwinian vision is that death is
a positive force that brings progress.

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And in fact, the more death, the more
progress.

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The more people are born, the more
variation you have.

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This gives more possibilities for good
variations.

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Charles Darwin's theory was not accepted
widely at first, but he noticed it began

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to gain a foothold in Germany some 50
years before Hitler.

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And so Darwin wrote, The support which I
received from Germany is my chief ground

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for hoping that our views will ultimately
prevail.

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They prevailed in ways unimaginable.

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To truly understand the atrocities of the
Holocaust, one must first understand the

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major movement which paved the way for it.

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One of the major influences on Darwin's
work was the thought of British economist

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Thomas Malthus.

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Thomas Malthus was an earlier philosopher
and thinker who came up with a number of

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theories about population and population
control that Darwin actually built on in

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his work.

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Dr. George Grant is the author of many
books, including Grand Illusions,

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the Legacy of Planned Parenthood.

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What Malthus argued was that it was a good
thing to allow the poor and the

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undesirable aspects of populations to
essentially kill themselves off through

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ill health and so forth.

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In fact, he actually argued that
philanthropy and charity to the poor was

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bad for the human race because it allowed
the breeding of what he called human

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weeds.

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In Malthusian theory, the world human
population would quickly outgrow the

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available food supply, and so population
needed to be limited.

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Combined with Darwin's theory of
evolution, it resulted in a dangerous

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movement.

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When Darwin and also other Darwinists,
such as Ernst Haeckel, who was Darwin's

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chief disciple in Germany, looked around
the world at different races, they saw the

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American Indians being exterminated by the
whites.

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They saw the Australian Aborigines being
exterminated by the Europeans.

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And their conclusion was, that's part of
the struggle for existence.

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And because these inferior races are not
as intellectually sound, then they're

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going to be decimated by the Europeans,
and that's just a natural process.

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Charles Darwin had a cousin by the name of
Francis Galton, who took the ideas of

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Darwin and began to apply them to the
realm of genetics.

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Galton wondered, is there a possible way
to actually steer evolution through

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scientific methods, so that we actually
create a race of thoroughbreds?

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Galton assumed that there were certain
good genes and certain bad genes in the

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human gene pool.

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The movement Galton spawned became known
as the eugenics movement.

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The word eugenics literally means good
birth.

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The eugenics movement resulted in
restrictions on who could and could not

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marry, involuntary sterilization,
and even forced abortions in many cases.

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In America, tens of thousands of those
deemed unfit were forcibly sterilized by

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the state.

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Even the U.S.

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Supreme Court declared the practice
constitutional in 1927, a decision in

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which Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
famously declared, three generations of

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imbeciles are enough, thus clearing the
way for a Virginia woman to be sterilized

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against her will.

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Eugenics essentially argued that there
were certain population centers that were

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so polluted with bad human genomes that
they simply needed to be eliminated.

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Though it is frequently ignored now,
Planned Parenthood is a direct result of

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the eugenics movement in America.

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Its founder, Margaret Sanger, believed in
removing what she called, quote,

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the dead weight of human waste,
unquote.

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That's why Margaret Sanger would say
things like, our purpose is to raise up a

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new race of thoroughbreds.

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She's talked about eliminating human
weeds.

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And the eugenics movement of the 19th and
20th centuries had an enormous influence

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on the policies of Adolf Hitler's Third
Reich.

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I mean, Goebbels sounds like Margaret
Sanger and today's Planned Parenthood and

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NARAL people when Goebbels talks about
useless eaters.

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Well, that's, I mean, it's about the
ugliest term I've ever heard, useless

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eaters, human beings with the spark of the
divinity in them.

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They don't see humans that way.

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They don't see humans as an engine of
creation.

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They see them as, you know, depriving the
earth of resources, useless eaters or

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unwanted babies.

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Adolf Hitler was clearly trying to speed
evolution along, and he wasn't the only

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one.

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He was drawing on what many other
scholars, biologists, geneticists in

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Germany were also preaching and teaching
in the early 20th century.

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Natural selection was a guiding idea for
Hitler and the Nazis.

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In Mein Kampf, he talks a good deal about
the struggle for existence and how humans

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are struggling.

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Especially races is mainly where he's
focusing there.

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But in other places, too, he talks about
even within German society, there's a

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struggle for existence going on,
which brings about natural selection.

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They used the word selection quite freely.

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And in fact, if you read just about any
books about the Holocaust, you'll come

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across the word selection, because in the
camps, that's exactly what they did.

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And they used the term, and the term was
related directly to Darwinian terminology,

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that when you went to the camps,
you went through a selection process.

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They were selecting this person to survive
and this person to go to the gas chambers.

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Hitler's Mein Kampf refers to evolution
quite a bit.

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But the English translator of the book
uses the word development instead of

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evolution.

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Neither Charles Darwin nor his immediate
followers were anti-Semitic per se,

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but their ideas just made the whole thing
possible.

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He saw races locked in competition,
and in The Descent of Man, he explains

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this, and that because of that,
different races will be exterminated.

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Now, he didn't necessarily believe the
Jewish race was one of those inferior

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races that would be exterminated,
but Hitler, of course, did, and he began

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applying that to Jews.

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Anti-Semitism had existed for centuries
before Hitler came along, but no one tried

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to exterminate the Jews.

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For Hitler, extermination was necessary
because it's the only way to rid the

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Jewish blood from the gene pool.

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Adolf Hitler fancied himself an
intellectual.

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He was always referring to Darwin and to
the science of Darwinism as a reason and

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as a support for his racist theories.

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And in that you bring in science,
and the Nazis loved science, then this

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sort of gave it the blessing of modern
liberal thinking, of scientific thinking.

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And so Darwinism and the idea that you had
superior races, that you had the fittest

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surviving, certainly underlay the Nazis
and their thinking.

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Before the systematic destruction of Jews
and Gypsies and Slavs and other supposedly

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inferior races, the Nazis killed off tens
of thousands of the chronically ill.

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The Nazis began a so-called euthanasia
program in 1939 when World War II began,

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and they carried these out by setting up
six killing centers.

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It was to get rid of people who had
congenital illnesses of various sorts.

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Most of these were institutionalized
people who were shipped from various

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institutions of Germany, then to these six
killing centers.

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The total numbers the Nazis killed are
difficult to pin down for a number of

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reasons.

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It depends on who you're counting.

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The numbers of Jews killed were about 6
million, Gypsies 6 to 800,000,

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the euthanasia program about 200,000,
but then there were also several million

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Soviet POWs.

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I mean, we're talking about in the
neighborhood of 10 to 15 million,

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though, likely.

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Once the killing began, it never stopped.

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A private meeting was held at the Wannsee
Conference Center where they decided on

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the final solution, as in the final
solution to the Jewish problem,

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the decision to exterminate the Jewish
people.

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They did refer to Darwin.

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At the Wannsee Conference, Reinhard
Heydrich commented at the end,

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Darwin would be astounded at the progress
we're going to make in one year as we move

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the human race forward.

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The reason that the Nazis killed the Jews
was because they believed that they had

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bad heredity, didn't want it to infiltrate
the German gene pool, and they believed

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that they were a threat to the Aryan race
and to Western culture in general.

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The Nazis believed that many races were
inferior.

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In fact, they didn't think the Jews were
the most inferior, but they were the most

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threatening to them, precisely because
they were cunning and sly.

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That's basically how they portrayed them.

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In other words, the Jewish victims of the
Holocaust were slated for destruction

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simply for who they were.

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It was pure racism.

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The Nazis systematically tried to remove
all Jews.

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Hitler declared the Jews formed a subhuman
counter race predestined by their

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biological heritage to evil, just as the
Nordic race was destined for nobility.

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The Nazis thought they were doing humanity
a favor.

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Hitler actually thought that what he was
doing was good for humanity.

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He thought he was going to produce a
better human, that ultimately he was going

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to produce this master race that was going
to be more highly cultured, more moral,

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more civilized, was going to take things
to a higher level of creativity,

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and was going to get rid of these immoral
and inferior races, other races.

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Again, what the Nazis did was to take the
eugenics program inspired by Darwinism to

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the next step.

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Eugenics is applied Darwinism,
and it sticks out like a sore thumb that

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all of these German eugenicists preceding
the Nazi regime were enthusiastic

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Darwinists.

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Margaret Sanger, of course, in this
country of Planned Parenthood,

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enthusiastic Darwinist.

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Hitler.

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That is the most amazing of all that I
could get through 12 years of government

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schools here in the United States,
Cornell and Michigan Law School,

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and with all of the chitchat about what
led to the Nazi regime, I never knew about

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the link between Darwin and Hitler until
reading Richard Weikart's book.

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And once you see it, it's one of those
things you see that the truth has an

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inherent appeal.

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The moment you hear it, suddenly it all
makes sense.

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I mean, how is it that Hitler could
simultaneously seem to be anti-abortion,

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but be slaughtering six million Jews?

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Well, that's because he wasn't against
abortion for Jews.

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He was applying Darwinism.

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He thought the Aryans were the fittest,
and he was just hurrying natural selection

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along.

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I mean, Mein Kampf means Mein Struggle,
which he described in explicitly Darwinian

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terms, the struggle among races.

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World War II in particular, I think,
was based even more strongly on social

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Darwinist ideology, because Hitler,
I mean, that was a central aspect of his

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worldview, and it drove pretty much
everything that he did.

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It was not just a peripheral part of his
ideology.

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If we think of anti-Semitism as being sort
of the core idea of Nazis, which many

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people do think, I think that's erroneous.

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It is a central part.

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I'm not denying that.

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But even more fundamental, I think,
in his worldview was the social Darwinist

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ideas.

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The great lesson of the Holocaust is what
happens when man tries to decide who

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should live and who should die.

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When man tries to, quote, clean up the
gene pool from those viewed as

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undesirable.

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To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler.

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Certainly, Darwin could never have
foreseen the rise of someone like Adolf

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Hitler and the Nazis, nor presumably
desired it.

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But the fact is, Hitler and the Nazis
thought they were doing humanity a favor

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by weeding out supposedly inferiors and
breeding only the supposedly superior

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race.

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So, who are you, asked Hitler,
to question the marvels of evolution?

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Hitler tried to speed up evolution,
to help it along, and millions suffered

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and died in unspeakable ways because of
it.

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Columbine shooter Eric Harris wrote on his
website, You know what I love?

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Natural selection.

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It's the best thing that ever happened to
the earth.

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Getting rid of all the stupid and weak
organisms.

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If you think that the shedding of human
blood by those who embrace evolution ended

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with the Nazi death camps, think again.

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As Darwinism becomes more and more
accepted in our culture, our young people

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are becoming both the perpetrators and the
victims.

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I started screaming and crying and telling
them not to shoot me.

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Tuesday, April 20th, 1999, 11.19 a.m.,
Columbine High School, near Littleton,

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Colorado, just outside Denver.

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In a hail of gunfire, 11 students and one
teacher are killed, and 24 others are

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wounded, before the shooters, Eric Harris
and Dylan Klebold, both students at the

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school, turn their guns on themselves.

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It is the deadliest school shooting in U
.S.

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history, in a decade that saw school
shootings sharply increase overall.

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We're reaping the consequences right now
in this culture of generations that have

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been taken through a public education
system and taught a Darwinian view,

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taught that you can explain life by
natural processes, and therefore,

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ultimately, your morality is whatever you
want to make it to be.

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That's really Darwin's legacy.

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If you don't accept real truth,
then all other things can creep in there,

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and social Darwinism will creep in there
and become one of the cornerstones of your

29:40.960 --> 29:41.420
worldview.

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In fact, it becomes an underpinning of
your worldview.

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This can lead to violence.

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It can lead to kids killing kids,
as they did at Columbine.

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Debbie Phillips' niece, Rachel Scott,
was one of the students killed at

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Columbine.

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The killers, Eric and Dylan, badgered the
kids over and over that they were killing

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that day.

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Do you believe in God?

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Why do you believe in God?

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You believe in God?

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Well, there, and they would kill them,
as if they had more power than God.

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Foolishly, they thought they were
controlling people's lives at that point,

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and they wanted that power.

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They wanted to play God during that whole
scene.

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While there were presumably many factors
that led to the shootings at Columbine,

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the notion of Darwinian evolution clearly
played a major role.

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Indeed, the autopsy report for shooter
Eric Harris revealed that on the day of

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the attack, which would intentionally be
the last day of his life, he had chosen to

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wear a T-shirt emblazoned with the words,
Natural Selection.

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Denver Area High School teacher,
Ken Poppe.

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To me, that would signify that if natural
selection is the person's point of view,

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that it is a fight for survival,
and the people who are the strongest are

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going to rule.

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And on that day, I believe their armaments
gave them the impression that they were

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the stronger, and they had the right to
deprive the lives of their students.

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The killers had been planning the rampage
for about a year.

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They chose April 20th to honor the
birthday of one of their heroes,

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Adolf Hitler, who also took many of his
ideas from Darwinism.

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They set bombs up that never went off.

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Their intention to slay over 500 victims
that day fell short by 485.

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While Columbine was the most dramatic
example of such incidents, there have been

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more than a dozen school shootings in the
United States since then.

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And there's no telling how many young
people have been involved in serious,

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less publicized crimes outside of schools.

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Ken Ham summarizes a pervasive view among
many young people today, a view which has

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had devastating consequences.

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Life is just meaningless.

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Life is just purposelessness.

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So therefore, you know, why shouldn't
students say, no, just go and kill a few

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students at my school?

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We're just animals anyway.

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There's no God.

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Why shouldn't I do that?

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And when I die, that's going to be the end
of me anyway.

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I'm told that everything's just a result
of natural processes.

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So what does it matter when I die?

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And what does it matter when others die?

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Why shouldn't I do whatever I want to do?

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You see, that's really the philosophy
that's pervading the culture.

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John Phillips, uncle of Columbine victim
Rachel Scott.

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That's why 16 kids will kill themselves
today.

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16 did yesterday.

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16 will tomorrow.

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1,400 will attempt suicide today in
America.

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16 will succeed.

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Why?

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Because they feel no worth, no value.

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I don't matter.

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No hope.

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Critics point to the removal of any notion
of God from public schools and its

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replacement with Darwinism as leading
America down a slope of increasing

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violence.

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And yet, it's the biblical, theistic view
which gives hope and significance to human

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beings.

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Look at how ordinary Christian Ashley
Smith responded to a brutal killer who had

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just killed four people escaping from the
Atlantic Courthouse.

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She is not a spectacular woman.

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I mean, God bless her.

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She's in God's image.

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And look, she accomplished a miracle with
God working through her.

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She reads from the Bible.

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She reads from the purpose-driven life.

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And it touched him.

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It transformed his soul.

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What if someone had said that to the
Columbine killers?

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What if they had ever been told that they
were in God's image and that we're all

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sinners?

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Yet naturalistic evolution is still the
only officially allowed view.

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In fact, after Columbine, they were
putting up tiles that the students were

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making, and one of the tiles was Jesus
wept.

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From the Bible, it does kind of grab you
after what happened out there.

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No, that tile was prohibited.

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That tile could not be put up.

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Tragic, isn't it?

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But is it all that surprising?

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If you teach children that they're no more
than trousered apes and that life has no

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purpose or meaning, then why are we
shocked when they act like that?

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Evolutionist George Du Maurier called man
a fungus on the surface of one of the

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minor planets.

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Arnold Schoenberg referred to man as a
hairless ape.

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And Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes said, I see no reason for

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attributing to man a significant
difference in kind from that which belongs

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to a grain of sand.

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Well, the fungus just got demoted.

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And we wonder why our young people are
killing themselves and others.

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Writing in the New York Times,
evolutionist Richard Dawkins penned,

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It is absolutely safe to say that if you
meet someone who claims not to believe in

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evolution, that person is ignorant,
stupid, or insane, or wicked.

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But I'd rather not consider that.

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Is that true?

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Is evolution a fact?

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We've already seen the devastating
consequences of the acceptance of the

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theory of evolution.

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But it's simply scientific fact.

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And we're stuck with it.

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At least, so we're told.

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Well, actually, not quite so fast.

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Let's take a closer look.

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I think on the surface, you can build a
scientific case for Darwinism.

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In reality, though, the more you examine
it, the more its pillars rot under

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scrutiny.

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The so-called fact of evolution is not a
fact at all.

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It, too, is a hypothesis still looking for
evidence.

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The missing links to me are missing
everywhere.

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No evidence will ever be accepted to
disprove Darwinism, because they must

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believe in Darwinism.

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In the public school classroom,
in the mainstream media, and in natural

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history museums, Darwinism is pushed
everywhere, even to dogmatic degrees.

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Darwin theorized that all life could have
originated from a common, one-celled

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ancestor over long periods of time,
and that natural selection retained the

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random changes that were most helpful to
the organism's survival.

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And this was the origin of all of life,
in all of its variety.

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But how accurate is the theory on closer
examination?

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Now, in science, we scientists propose
theories.

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Some are true and some are false.

36:34.370 --> 36:39.670
Dr. Jonathan Wells has earned two PhDs,
one at Yale and one at Berkeley,

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in science.

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He is the author of the groundbreaking
book, Icons of Evolution.

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Darwin proposed a good theory,
which I think has turned out to be largely

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false.

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That's not to reflect on Darwin,
but I do think it reflects on people who

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nowadays teach his theory as though it
were an established fact.

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Though Darwinian evolution is being
attacked on many scientific fronts,

37:05.110 --> 37:07.790
we will look at three major areas where it
falls short.

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First, there is the fossil record.

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I came to see that this wasn't really a
scientific question.

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At bottom, it was a philosophical
question.

37:21.810 --> 37:26.110
Retired Berkeley law professor Philip
Johnson is widely regarded as the father

37:26.110 --> 37:27.810
of the intelligent design movement.

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He is the author of Darwin on Trial.

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Far from having proof, they were
constantly fighting against the evidence

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to explain away the evidence.

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The fossil record did not record the kind
of evolution that they believed in.

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The genetic experiments simply showed that
you can get a limited variation within the

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type.

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And I saw that in area after area,
the evidence was in fact at war with the

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theory.

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One type of animal changing into a
completely different type of animal over

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time.

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That is the essence of Darwinism.

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But is that what we find in the fossil
record and in what is observed today?

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The evidence of fossils disproves and
works against the case for Darwinism.

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It does not support Darwinism.

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Lee Strobel is a former investigative
reporter for the Chicago Tribune and

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graduate from Yale Law School.

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He is the author of The Case for a
Creator.

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You can take examples of ancient
creatures, apes that once walked the

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earth, and you can take an example of a
human being, fossils from a human being,

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and you can look at those two side by
side, and I'll say, where is the evidence

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that one became the other?

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There is no evidence.

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What we see is two different, similar
maybe in some ways, fossils that represent

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two different kinds of animals.

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Did life arise, as evolutionists say,
gradually?

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Or did it arise abruptly?

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If you look at the fossil record,
you will see that organisms appear

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abruptly without transitional forms,
and these are found in the oldest rocks

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from the Cambrian Period.

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They suddenly appear in the fossils in
what is called the Cambrian Explosion.

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There is no progression.

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Ann Coulter is the author of the number
one New York Times bestseller,

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Godless.

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One third of her book is devoted to
exposing Darwinism.

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What Darwin expected to find was all sorts
of interlocking fossils.

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Slowly you have the mutation, the bloody
battle for survival, and a new species

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arises from that.

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The fossil record looked nothing like that
when Darwin promoted his theory.

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But he said, just keep looking,
keep digging.

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I'm sure the evidence will turn up to the
contrary.

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The evidence has come in showing quite the
opposite, and the Cambrian Explosion is a

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big part of that.

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We have all animal phyla right there
appearing in the blink of an eye during

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the Cambrian Explosion.

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Is there any evidence for evolution?

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Well, when you look in the biology books,
the textbooks, fossils are usually given

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as evidence.

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Creation scientist and author Ian Taylor
from Canada hosts Creation Moments on more

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than 800 radio stations.

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And transition fossils would be wonderful.

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You know, if you had some transition
creature halfway between one and another,

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that would be wonderful.

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If you could see that, and if hundreds of
them could be found, as they should be

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found.

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But actually, there is not one that's ever
been found that would stand up as a

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transition fossil in a court of law.

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And I didn't say that, that was Patterson.

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Dr. Patterson said that, who was head of
the British Natural History Museum in

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London, just before he retired.

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But what about the prehistoric ape men we
see in the museums and textbooks that are

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supposedly based on the fossil evidence?

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Dr. Ken Poppe, author of the new book,
Reclaiming Science from Darwinism,

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is a 30-year veteran of teaching science
in public schools in Colorado.

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What Darwinists are awful good at is
taking like a single jaw bone and

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constructing an entire creature.

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In one case, one of the famous mistakes of
science, the Nebraska man, they dug up a

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pig's tooth and took that tooth that they
suddenly assumed was of a prehistoric

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human, and they built an entire race of
people.

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Pictures that appeared in London
newspapers, showing them walking in a

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prehistoric setting.

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And later, they finally gave the tooth to
somebody who knew their dental work,

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and they realized it was a pig's tooth,
and the whole thing collapsed.

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The lack of transitional forms in the
fossil record has not gone unnoticed by

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evolutionists.

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The leading evolutionist of our day up
until his death a few years ago was the

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paleontologist Stephen J.

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Gould of Harvard.

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Long before he died, Gould actually
admitted that Darwinian evolution,

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gradual change in species over eons of
time, was nowhere to be found in the

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fossil record, much to the consternation
of his colleagues.

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He said, quote, the fossil record doesn't
show gradual change, and every

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paleontologist has known that ever since
Cuvier, end quote.

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In reality, Gould admitted that the fossil
record showed sudden explosions of life,

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as seen, for instance, in the Cambrian
explosion.

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So did Gould reject evolution?

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No.

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He postulated the theory that evolution
simply occurred so quickly, it could never

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be seen in the fossil record.

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For a while, Darwinists explained that
there were no preceding the transitional

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fossils, preceding that because their
evidence failed to fossilize.

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He started to detect a pattern in their
miracles.

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Oops, the evidence that would support our
theory just isn't there, it didn't

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fossilize.

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The second area in which Darwinism
crumbles is in its attempt to blur the

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important distinction between
microevolution, small changes within

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species, and macroevolution, one major
kind evolving into a completely new kind

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of creature.

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The evidence for microevolution is
abundant.

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We see minor changes within species
everywhere we look.

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The evidence for macroevolution is
missing.

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The interesting thing here is that before
Darwin, microevolution wasn't called

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evolution at all.

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It's just minor changes within existing
species.

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Darwin didn't call his book, How Existing
Species Change Over Time.

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He called his book, The Origin of Species.

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And for that, there's just about no good
evidence at all.

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But evolutionists take evidence for
microevolution, which can be found in

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abundance, and use it as proof of
macroevolution, for which there is

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virtually no evidence.

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What Darwin proposed was that any creature
given enough time and in different

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circumstances would grow into another
creature.

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That's macroevolution.

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There's never been any evidence for it.

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Microevolution is nothing more than just
variation within the species.

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The third area in which Darwinian
evolution fails is in explaining the

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enormous complexity of biological
structures, even at the microscopic level.

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No evolutionist has been able to propose a
plausible way such structures could have

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arisen randomly.

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In other words, random chance alone could
not have created life.

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Certainly before Darwin's day,
most scientists had no trouble seeing

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design in the biological world.

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Dr. Michael Behe, Lehigh professor and
author of Darwin's Black Box, elaborates

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further on the complexity of the human
body, even down to the trillions of cells

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that make up our bodies.

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In Darwin's day, scientists were vaguely
aware that there were things such as

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cells, but most of them thought that they
were like little pieces of jello,

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little microscopic pieces of protoplasm.

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But in the past hundred years,
especially the last 50 years, we've seen

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that cells are enormously complex.

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How complex?

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Dr. Behe says that if you converted the
DNA information from the simplest cell of

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the human body into volumes of the
Encyclopedia Britannica, it would

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translate to two to three dozen volumes,
just in one cell.

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Our bodies contain about 100 trillion
cells, each containing tiny little

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machines, if you will, with interacting
parts.

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There are molecular machines which
actually occur inside of cells,

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so they are really smaller than cells
themselves.

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A good example of a molecular machine is
the little molecular trucks which shuttle

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supplies from one part of a cell to
another.

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No one has been able to fit these
molecular machines into a Darwinian

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framework.

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This is why Dr. Behe and other scientists
talk about intelligent design.

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I consider myself right now to be what I
call an intelligent design theorist.

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And that means that from what I can see in
biology, a lot of systems have

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intelligence behind them.

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They were not produced by random
processes.

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Can you get a dictionary from an explosion
in a printing press?

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Can you get a 747 from a catastrophe in an
airplane parts warehouse?

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Can you get the works of Shakespeare from
the flying pen and pages at a printing

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press or something like that?

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We keep hearing about gaps in the theory
of evolution.

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The whole theory is a gap.

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They've got nothing.

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Nothing.

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We've been looking for 170 years through
the fossil record or in the laboratory,

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mutilating, torturing fruit flies.

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We've never seen one species come from
another in the wild, in the laboratory,

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looking for the fossil evidence.

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And to the contrary, the fossil evidence
not only is what should be there not

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there, but what shouldn't be there is
there.

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Ironically, Charles Darwin himself said,
If it could be demonstrated that any

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complex organ existed which could not
possibly have been formed by numerous

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successive slight modifications,
my theory would absolutely break down.

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Nearly 150 years after Darwin wrote The
Origin of the Species, after more than 100

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million fossils have been cataloged in
museums around the world, Darwin's theory

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has indeed broken down.

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As one prestigious French scientist put
it, Evolution is a fairy tale for adults.

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Evolutionist Eugenie Scott of the National
Center for Science Education declared,

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It is not fair to mislead students by
pretending that discarded ideas are still

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viable.

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We only confuse students by presenting
special creation and evolution as if both

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were equally scientific and as if
scientists were still trying to decide

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between them.

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Despite the crumbling of its support in
the science lab, evolution is still the

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only game in town in the public school
classroom.

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The famous film Inherit the Wind is a
highly fictionalized account of the famous

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Scopes Trial of 1925, in which a teacher
was prosecuted for supposedly teaching

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Darwinian evolution in the classroom.

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Though the facts of the movie are far from
the actual facts of the Scopes case,

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which itself was something of a publicity
stunt, the movie is best remembered for

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its caricature of the Christian
townspeople who only wanted biblical

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creationism taught in schools.

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How ironic, then, that it is now Darwin's
theory of evolution that is protected by

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law, with all other views being excluded.

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If you can look at Darwin as a theory,
it is a theory that should be taught in

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our schools.

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But it is just a theory.

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However, in our society, in our culture,
and in this nation, it has been accepted

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as fact, and it has been enforced in the
schools.

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We are forced to look at one viewpoint,
and that is Darwin's theory of human

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development out of lower species,
and neglect others.

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And it is illegal in many places to even
propose that there may be a different

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viewpoint here, that we may be creatures
of a sovereign God.

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Naturalistic evolution has been enshrined
in the nation's public schools as the only

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acceptable theory of human origins.

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It is protected by the courts to such a
degree that one judge ruled that a school

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district in Dover, Pennsylvania,
could not even inform students that there

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were scientific challenges to evolution,
or direct them to critiques of the theory.

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All the Dover School Board actually did,
they really didn't mandate the teaching of

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intelligent design in biology class.

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What they said was, there are criticisms
of evolution from a scientific standpoint,

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one of which is something called
intelligent design, and if you'd like to

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read more about this, there's a book in
the library that we have provided that you

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can read.

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That's all it did.

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Frank Mannion is an attorney for the
American Center for Law and Justice,

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which defends the First Amendment rights
of Christians around the country.

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Both in my own experience, and in the
experience of other attorneys,

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teachers who attempt to present scientific
criticisms of evolution find themselves,

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more often than not, on the receiving end
of a threat, either from their superiors

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within the school district, or from the
ACLU, or Americans United for Separation,

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or similar groups.

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But though the Dover case was widely
hailed as a landmark defeat for

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intelligent design theory, in reality,
the results of the case have no actual

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effect beyond the case itself.

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To put too much weight on the Dover
decision is a mistake.

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It's only courts of appeals and Supreme
Court decisions that really carry any kind

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of significant precedential weight.

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But why is the Darwinian view so zealously
protected against all questions in public

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schools by groups such as the ACLU,
Americans United for the Separation of

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Church and State, and the National Center
for Science Education, led by Eugenie

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Scott, which took part in the Dover case?

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The ACLU has a stake in the argument over
Darwinism, simply because the ACLU has a

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very distinctive religious and political
agenda, rooted in a revolutionary

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worldview, that comes from Darwinism.

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The whole intent of the ACLU is to change
our society, to make it into something

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new, something that the old Christian
foundations of America could never allow.

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Einstein would not be allowed to teach in
a public school, a government school

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today, because he referred to God.

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He said, I am trying to discover God in
the universe.

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Can you imagine?

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He'd be driven out of a public school
today.

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All the great scientists saw their work as
finding God in the universe, as finding

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the design.

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And to have these hacks like Eugenie Scott
come in and say, oh, that's not real

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science, unless you keep God out,
it's not real science, it's preposterous.

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Proponents of evolution have argued that
their view should be the only one taught

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in schools, because their view is science,
while other views are theology.

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But critics note that evolution itself
proceeds from religious assumptions.

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Darwinism is essentially a theory of the
universe, a theory of origins.

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Therefore, Darwinism is a study of
ultimate things.

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Darwinism really is an alternate theology.

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If you teach that all of life is simply
matter, that everything is simply matter,

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that it just has always existed,
that it has no purpose, it has no reason,

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there is nothing guiding it or no one
guiding it, those obviously are

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philosophical statements.

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And yet that sort of language has appeared
and probably continues to appear in

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standard high school biology textbooks in
this country.

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And then you've got to get all the
modifications that go along with this

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skull to this skull.

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Dr. Ken Poppe has taught science in public
high schools for over 30 years.

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He has encountered firsthand the
stranglehold evolutionists have on the

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curriculum.

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And so after faithfully teaching what the
standards have you teach, like in public

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schools there are standards that you are
supposed to follow and you are obligated

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to teach the evolutionary theory.

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It's probably in every state standard ever
written for science education.

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And yet after that I would always take the
time to bring up some objections that

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maybe the monkey to man theory does have
some problems with it.

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But like many teachers, Dr. Poppe found
that there is almost no room in today's

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classroom for scientific objections to
protected scientific theories.

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I had a forced transfer last year from a
job because just the mention of

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intelligent design in an elective class
was all it took for a couple parents to

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start.

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Well first they sent a message straight to
the superintendent.

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And then it worked its way back to my
principal and he said, Okay, what's going

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on in your science class?

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And even though there were many Christian
parents who really supported what I was

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doing, all it took was the voice of a
couple Darwinists to make the system get

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all nervous and say we ought to remove
this problem rather than deal with it.

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Dr. Poppe was reassigned to teach in
another school within the same district,

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thankfully with a principal that was more
objective on the subject.

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The principal that I was working with just
really didn't want to take on the problems

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because if the media suspects that you're
changing the mold of science education,

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they will start investigating.

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There are groups like the ACLU that are
very afraid of such movements and it often

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can become a political firestorm that some
people just don't want to take on.

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The ACLU has been the principal means of
guarding the sanctity of the theology of

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Darwinism.

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They are, in a sense, the palace guards.

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They are the royal priesthood to protect
the idol of Darwinism.

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I fully believe that still today if you
talk too much about anti-Darwinism,

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you're going to get in trouble with the
establishment.

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They don't want to release their
stranglehold.

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Well in modern America, we no longer have
blasphemy laws regarding God, but

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Darwinism is one of those things that is
now protected against any kind of attack

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by a kind of blasphemy law system.

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And so in the schools, Darwinism simply
cannot be questioned.

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Evolutionists today have an absolute
conniption at the very thought of both

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sides of the origins debate being
presented in school.

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They want evolution alone taught,
and that dogmatically.

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They think that it is terrible that anyone
would suggest such a thing as presenting

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both sides.

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One man has said, quote, A fair result can
only be obtained by fully stating and

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balancing the facts and arguments on both
sides of each question.

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To present both sides of this argument is
the only way, he said, to come to a fair

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result.

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Well that's certainly contrary to what the
evolutionists want to happen today.

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Where did I get that quote?

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Well, right out of this book entitled The
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.

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To hear many evolutionists speak,
you would think that the evidence for the

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theory is absolutely unassailable.

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But that is simply not the case.

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And as you're about to see, when an
evolutionist dares to examine the

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scientific proofs with an open mind,
the results can be astonishing.

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To the late Dr. Richard Lumsden,
former professor of biology at Tulane

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University and Medical School and the
former dean of the graduate school,

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evolution was science, whereas creation
was merely religion, and he taught as much

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to his students.

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What I would try to get across is that
science is science, science deals with the

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real world with real phenomena.

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We don't bring into such discussions
inferences of supernatural.

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Dr. Lumsden, who studied at Tulane,
Harvard and Rice, couldn't believe it when

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the Louisiana State Legislature passed a
law that if evolution were taught in the

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public school classroom, then equal time
had to be made for creation science.

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My reaction to that was just total
consternation.

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Who are these people telling us,
Ph.D.

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level scientists, how to teach and what to
teach regarding science?

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So I just thought the whole thing was just
absolutely absurd.

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But it was not the energy of a
supernatural nature.

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I was prompted at that point to give a
lecture on the origin of life,

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giving creation its due with as much
mockery as I could summon.

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Truly, in the beginning was the word,
but the word was hydrogen.

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After that class, one of his graduate
students came up to him and said,

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Great lecture, Doc.

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Well, that got my attention.

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Flattery always did.

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And she said, but I have some questions.

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And indeed she did.

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She had a legal pad and I could see line
after line after line after line.

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So they had an appointment, which ended up
lasting longer than anticipated.

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The appointment also ended up changing Dr.
Lumsden's life.

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Now, I'm not trying to challenge anything.

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I just want to get my science straight.

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That's fair enough.

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That's fair enough.

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Last month you taught how mutations were
genetic disasters.

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How by natural selection can they randomly
produce new and better structures?

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That's a good question.

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Good question.

01:00:01.410 --> 01:00:03.570
I'll probably have to think more about
that.

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Okay, well, aren't the odds of the random
assembly of genes mathematically

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impossible?

01:00:09.150 --> 01:00:11.450
You've had your share of mathematics.

01:00:11.570 --> 01:00:13.490
Let's see if we can't figure that out.

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Not only were we talking about a
mathematical impossibility, we were

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talking about a physical and chemical
impossibility, which gave me pause.

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10,000 genes, that might be 10 to the
200th, 10 to the...

01:00:30.130 --> 01:00:33.630
Those are pretty formidable odds,
aren't they?

01:00:34.470 --> 01:00:37.890
But the fact remains is that we're here.

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And in reality, the only way we could have
gotten here is through the evolutionary

01:00:44.810 --> 01:00:45.510
process.

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So the fact that we're here really proves
evolution, doesn't it?

01:00:49.310 --> 01:00:55.850
I could buffalo a student when I felt
myself get a little bit in trouble,

01:00:56.030 --> 01:00:56.190
okay?

01:00:56.270 --> 01:00:58.830
I'd had a few years' experience at this,
okay?

01:00:58.950 --> 01:00:59.970
It's a trade secret.

01:01:01.090 --> 01:01:07.190
But for the first time maybe in my life in
explaining various facets of evolution

01:01:07.190 --> 01:01:10.830
theory, I began to listen to what I was
saying.

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And what I was saying wasn't making very
good scientific sense.

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Where exactly in the fossil record is the
evidence for progressive evolution?

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The transitional forms between the major
groups?

01:01:23.310 --> 01:01:29.110
You know, most of them, come to think of
it, are fully formed kinds in their own

01:01:29.110 --> 01:01:29.590
right.

01:01:29.990 --> 01:01:35.830
This conversation with the young lady went
on for approximately three hours,

01:01:37.350 --> 01:01:40.690
during which time, again, we entertained
these questions.

01:01:40.690 --> 01:01:46.650
And the whole time I'm answering,
I'm listening to my own responses and

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trying not to betray this to the student.

01:01:50.650 --> 01:01:56.230
I was rapidly concluding that this is not
making good scientific sense.

01:01:56.910 --> 01:02:02.170
What I'm telling this young lady and what
I told the students this morning is not

01:02:02.170 --> 01:02:03.730
good science.

01:02:03.730 --> 01:02:11.970
So far, I guess, we just haven't been
lucky enough to pick up the critical

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evidence.

01:02:17.180 --> 01:02:25.260
It dawned on me right then and there that
evolution was bankrupt as a scientific

01:02:25.260 --> 01:02:25.820
theory.

01:02:27.520 --> 01:02:34.080
Well, if that were so, if life did not
originate by a naturalistic,

01:02:34.160 --> 01:02:38.520
materialistic, spontaneous process,
what was the alternative explanation?

01:02:39.960 --> 01:02:41.200
Oh, my God.

01:02:42.360 --> 01:02:46.200
And I said it then, not in blasphemy,
but in awe.

01:02:48.920 --> 01:02:57.880
What happened that afternoon was,
first of all, a mortal embarrassment to me

01:02:57.880 --> 01:02:58.740
as a professor.

01:02:59.620 --> 01:03:03.940
Professing to be wise, the professor was
made a fool.

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And then, secondly, with the realization
that, hey, God exists and God created,

01:03:15.600 --> 01:03:18.160
was that experience of fear.

01:03:19.900 --> 01:03:22.520
Now, that's enough to turn a corner in
anyone's life.

01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:28.400
After much study and soul-searching,
Dr. Lumsden became a creationist first and

01:03:28.400 --> 01:03:29.360
then a Christian.

01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:38.560
One event led to the other, and the
culmination was finding myself before a

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saving altar, on my knees, that stiff neck
broken, in obedience, asking Jesus to come

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into my life to be my Lord and personal
Savior.

01:03:55.160 --> 01:04:00.140
Dr. Lumsden, former evolutionary
professor, went on to become a committed

01:04:00.140 --> 01:04:00.980
creationist.

01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:04.840
Unfortunately, this champion of creation
science has died.

01:04:05.360 --> 01:04:09.620
But not without leaving us his important
conclusion that in light of the great

01:04:09.620 --> 01:04:13.560
recent advances in science, evolution is
no longer tenable.

01:04:14.140 --> 01:04:18.960
The evidence of science, the best in
paleontology, the best in biochemistry,

01:04:19.160 --> 01:04:23.260
the best in genetics and so on,
is all compelling for creation.

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Creation theory does not rest on some
purely metaphysical principles.

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It rests on the same science that
evolution theory would rest on,

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except that the better explanation is
creation, not naturalistic, materialistic,

01:04:41.720 --> 01:04:45.960
stochastic, or random evolutionary
process.

01:04:45.960 --> 01:04:52.400
What an incredible story of a transformed
life!

01:04:52.900 --> 01:04:58.320
I challenge anyone who believes in
evolution to study the facts for himself.

01:04:58.700 --> 01:05:04.660
Unless his mind is already made up and he
doesn't want to be confused by the facts,

01:05:05.120 --> 01:05:11.300
I believe anyone with an open mind who
looks at the data will see, just as Dr.

01:05:11.380 --> 01:05:16.960
Lumsden did, that evolution is indeed
scientifically bankrupt.

01:05:17.860 --> 01:05:22.460
If one were to ask how much blood has
actually been shed in the name of

01:05:22.460 --> 01:05:26.700
Darwinism, I think for most people it
would be a total surprise.

01:05:27.680 --> 01:05:31.480
Because you could start off with Darwin
and his little theory, and I'm sure Darwin

01:05:31.480 --> 01:05:34.460
never had a clue of where it would lead
to.

01:05:34.880 --> 01:05:38.020
But if we were not made in the image of
God, but rather in the image of man,

01:05:38.060 --> 01:05:39.560
then you could get rid of the
undesirables.

01:05:39.560 --> 01:05:44.500
Well, this went along, and it certainly
went along in America as much as Europe,

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where they sterilized what they called the
feeble-minded.

01:05:49.400 --> 01:05:54.920
We see vestiges of social Darwinism even
today, particularly among those who would

01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:59.060
say, we're better off if we don't bring
children into the world when they're

01:05:59.060 --> 01:06:02.040
coming in under disadvantageous
circumstances.

01:06:02.040 --> 01:06:09.200
Whether that's economic, or whether
perhaps they don't fit in the plans of a

01:06:09.200 --> 01:06:14.940
family because you don't want to get too
large, or maybe it's not exactly the child

01:06:14.940 --> 01:06:21.740
you wanted, there may be a risk here in
that child, and so we terminate

01:06:21.740 --> 01:06:22.280
pregnancies.

01:06:23.100 --> 01:06:24.820
And that is a form of social Darwinism.

01:06:24.820 --> 01:06:31.700
I had a child that was born with juvenile
rheumatoid arthritis, and that child was a

01:06:31.700 --> 01:06:33.700
magnificent human being.

01:06:34.360 --> 01:06:37.380
And I wouldn't have done without that
child for anything in the world.

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When you have a biology teacher mentioning
scientific facts, like the Cambrian

01:06:46.060 --> 01:06:48.900
explosion, he's out of work.

01:06:48.900 --> 01:06:53.520
Lawsuits are brought to prevent facts from
being told about Darwinism because

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children must be baptized in the religion
of Darwinism to prepare them for the

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coming belief in atheism.

01:07:00.660 --> 01:07:04.820
And ordinary people are constantly on the
defensive on this separation of church and

01:07:04.820 --> 01:07:06.040
state, separation of church and state.

01:07:06.100 --> 01:07:08.900
Well, that means separation of your church
and state.

01:07:09.300 --> 01:07:11.140
Their church is the state.

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Dear friend, we have had nearly 150 years
of the theory of Darwinian evolution.

01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:22.620
And what has it brought us?

01:07:23.300 --> 01:07:27.580
Whether Darwin intended it or not,
millions of deaths.

01:07:28.160 --> 01:07:31.200
The destruction of those deemed inferior.

01:07:32.200 --> 01:07:34.400
The devaluing of human life.

01:07:35.040 --> 01:07:37.000
Increasing hopelessness.

01:07:37.000 --> 01:07:41.820
Darwin's legacy has been deadly indeed.

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Ironically, many of the scientific
foundations on which evolution is based

01:07:48.340 --> 01:07:49.780
are crumbling.

01:07:50.100 --> 01:07:57.680
Yet, the ACLU and their friends on the
courts make sure that there's only one

01:07:57.680 --> 01:08:00.580
view of science taught in our schools.

01:08:00.620 --> 01:08:03.700
A godless one at that.

01:08:04.460 --> 01:08:09.740
The time has come to recognize that
evolution is a bad idea and should be,

01:08:10.160 --> 01:08:15.320
frankly, discarded into the dustbin of
history.

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Thank you for joining me today,
dear friend, for this special broadcast.

01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:28.300
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all life, bless you and yours.

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