By Dr. Henry Morris
It really is quite often assumed that evolution originated with Charles Darwin, the one-time-divinity-student-turned-naturalist atheist. That this assumption is fake will surprise and shock many.
Considered to be a vintage paintings, The lengthy warfare opposed to God via the past due Dr. Henry Morris, lengthy an opponent of Christian Compromise with evolution, provides in riveting aspect the very previous plan to undermine God's be aware. Drawing from the textual content of the Greeks, Babylonians, and different historical philosophers, Dr. Morris indicates the trail that has ended in today?s neo-Darwinists, and the way evolution - the philosophy of demise - is in itself dying.
Millions of Christians have visible their religion decreased and left fragile via competitive arguments for evolution, yet few understand the genuine tale of a trust process that seeks to finally cast off God. Dr. Morris unearths inside of those pages this compelling tale, and reiterates the facility of scriptural fact. become aware of why God could not have used the inefficient, merciless approach to evolution to create learn the way the Sermon at the Mount illustrates how God has not anything to do with "survival of the fittest." Has technology confirmed evolution? the place are the entire transitional fossils? What approximately "vestigial" organs? study the solutions to those questions and more.
Henry Morris, Ph.D. , (deceased) earned the identify, "The Father of contemporary Creationism," via along with his a variety of writings concerning the creation/evolution debate. He used to be a revered scientist and author, textbook writer and the founding father of the Institute for construction learn in California.
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Anything hinting at biblical and/or Christian values—especially the foundational doctrine of supernatural creation—is systematically ex cluded, under continuing pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Humanist Association, the National Educational Association, and the intellectual and educational establishments in gen eral. This trend is firmly supported by the radical-liberal news media everywhere. A. magazine, The Humanist: Humanism does not include the idea of a God and as such is considered a philosophy rather than a religion.
Breggin has also commented on this: "At annual and regional meetings of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, we are more likely to find yoga sessions and Sufi dancing than psychotherapy seminars. ”41 In summary, modem psychology and other behavioral sciences are firmly based in evolutionary humanism. A growing number of its practi tioners are involved in New Age pantheism, although most are evidently still committed to old-fashioned evolutionary atheism. In either case, evo lutionism provides the pseudo-scientific base and framework of inter pretation.
Kai Nielsen, "Religiosity and Powerlessness,” The Humanist 37 (May/June 1977): 46. Nielsen is professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary. 37. Wendell W. / Dec. 1987): 5. Watters is clinical professor of psychiatry at McMaster University. 38. Peter R. /Dec. 1987): 13. 36 * The Long War Against God and is evidently a humanist himself, so his opinion carries special weight. If he is right, anyone who would go to get psychological or psychiatric counseling, as the cliche puts it, "ought to have his head examined”!