Category Archives: Darwinism

The Dark, Logical Conclusion of Atheism That Elites Won’t Admit

What happens when the foundational ideas of modern society are proven to be completely fraudulent? Eric Metaxas exposes how highly influential figures like Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, and Alfred Kinsey pumped fundamentally flawed and harmful ideas about human nature into the mainstream. Even though their research has been thoroughly discredited by subsequent scholarship, the corporate media and modern textbook publishers actively protect their legacy because the narrative aligns with what secular culture wants to believe.

10-minute video here.

Dr Hugh Ross: Clear answers to difficult Bible questions

Video here. (1 h 4 m.)

Summary by Grok:

Summary of Hugh Ross Q&A Transcript (Reasons to Believe Event)

Dr. Hugh Ross fields audience questions on science-faith intersections, defending an old-earth creationist view (progressive creation with long creation “days”) that integrates biblical theology with scientific evidence. Key points:

Creation, Evolution, and the Gospel

  • Death before Adam: Romans 5:12-19 addresses human death through sin (spiritual then physical). The Bible is largely silent on animal/plant death pre-Fall. Psalm 104 portrays God filling Earth with diverse life over time to build biodeposits (e.g., coal, oil, metals—totaling vast resources) benefiting humanity. Thermodynamics and decay (Romans 8) make death a property of all life.
  • Origin of Life: Instantaneous supernatural miracle, no primordial soup. Isotope evidence shows only post-biotic carbon/nitrogen signatures. Oxygen-UV paradox makes naturalistic prebiotic chemistry impossible.
  • Hominids/Fossils: Pre-human bipedal primates (e.g., Neanderthals, Homo erectus, australopithecines) prepared Earth for civilization (low extinction rates in Africa vs. elsewhere). They show no significant evolution (stable DNA/skeletons over long periods), consistent with Psalm 104’s extinction-recreation cycles. Cambrian Explosion and punctuated speciation events produced immediate optimized ecologies, matching changing solar/planetary conditions (brighter Sun, etc.). Mass extinctions/speciations ~every 27 million years.
  • Mutations & Darwinian Limits: Harmful mutations vastly outnumber beneficial (10,000:1 or worse). Long-term E. coli experiments (e.g., Lenski) show microevolution only, with non-repeatable outcomes—contrasting repeated designs in nature and supporting biblical creation over macroevolution.

Biblical Interpretation & Theology

  • Creation Days: Hebrew yom means long finite periods (one of four literal senses). Genesis 1 describes six consecutive long epochs of creation; we are still in the seventh (no evening/morning). Day 6 events (Adam naming animals, loneliness, Eve) took significant time.
  • Noah’s Flood: Worldwide (affecting all humanity and associated “soulish” animals) but not fully global. Supported by archaeology/DNA migration patterns. Genealogical “gaps” (father/son can mean ancestors/descendants) and theological focus explain short timelines; pre-Flood murder rates were extremely high.
  • Predestination & Free Will: Reconciled in “Beyond the Cosmos” via extra dimensions (9 space + 2 time) from physics/space-time theorems—avoiding contradiction in 3D+1D. Organization allows diversity on non-essentials; critiques hyper-Calvinism.
  • Genealogies: Selective/theological (highlighting redemption themes, key figures, patterns like 14 generations), not exhaustive chronologies.

Other Scientific Topics

  • Moon Formation: Rare, highly fine-tuned collision (Theia-like impactor) with precise conditions for plate tectonics, magnetic field, resources—strong evidence of design. Recent models increase the required fine-tuning.
  • Universe Age & Constants: ~13.8 billion years. Speed of light is constant (fine-tuned; changes would destroy life). Critiques young-earth variable-c theories.
  • Radiometric Dating: Reliable within appropriate ranges (e.g., C-14 for recent organics). Calibrated via ice cores; different methods suit different timescales.
  • Global Warming: Occurring amid natural cycles; human contribution uncertain (20-80%). Job 37-39 offers “win-win” solutions (ethical + economic), e.g., shrinking Sahara/Gobi deserts via reforestation and fuel alternatives.
  • Universe from Nothing: Critiques Lawrence Krauss—physics “nothings” (quantum fluctuations, etc.) are actually somethings. Virtual particles revert too quickly; space-time theorems require a transcendent cause.

Overall Tone: Ross emphasizes harmony between Scripture (“book of revelation”) and nature (“book of creation”), God’s purposeful design, and resources (books like Navigating Genesis, More Than a Theory, Hidden Treasures in the Book of Job). He encourages evangelism, notes scientific confirmation of biblical patterns, and stresses humanity’s role in managing Earth. The session promotes thoughtful integration over conflict, with plugs for RTB materials.

The Year 2100 and All That

Article by Gary North.

Excerpt:

We look around us and see trends. Some of these trends seem irreversible. But are they? They seem comprehensive. But are they? How much reliance should we place in them? Will they really shape our lives and the world we live in?

Almost 50 years ago, my professor Robert Nisbet wrote a classic article: “The Year 2000 and All That.” It was published in the Jewish intellectual magazine, Commentary, although it was in no way Jewish. 

Continue reading here.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY deleted opening scene / scientist interviews. Part One

37-minute video here.

See also this 3-hour podcast ‘EXPOSED: Hollywood Intentionally Destroys Spiritual Themes in Modern Films | Rob Ager’

Where the interviewee says that the vision many of the scientists interviewed for ‘2001’ seemed to have is that a god-like entity will emerge from the intelligent beings evolving in the universe. It won’t be a God that created the universe, but a God that takes control of the universe.

Which is more or less exactly how Gary North interprets the materialistic-evolutionary mindset: Out of chaos came order (despite entropy) and as soon as intelligence emerged, it ‘legitimately’ starts ‘guiding’ and ‘controlling’ evolution to serve its purposes.

No different from the ‘might makes right’ attitude actually.