Darwinday

Karl Marx welcomed Darwin's book, and Russian dictator Stalin
became an atheist after reading it. Under his brutal rule tens of millions
of people were killed and imprisoned. Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung
and Pol Pot, the butcher of Cambodia, also had a world-view based in
atheistic evolution. So the Nazi gas chambers, Siberian death camps,
and the Tiananmen Square massacre, were all evils which sprang from
evolution’s roots —part of Darwin's legacy. In the 21st century,
Darwin's legacy is no less in evidence. The belief that humans are
simply evolved animals has led to a cheapening of human life and the

On June 4th 1989 Chinese
troops crushed a protest in
Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
Hundreds died after being shot
or crushed by tanks,and
thousands were injured.

promotion of "animal rights" to the
extent that some evolutionists believe
that apes — which they regard as our
close relatives — should be granted the

same rights as humans (See The Great Ape Project). Taken to its
logical conclusion, would this mean old age pensions for elderly gorillas,
free education for young chimps, and a National Health Service for all
primates? And where would it end? If apes were given similar rights to
ourselves, why not monkeys — and so on down the line? Before long,
rats would be given the same status as humans. We may well ask what
kind of world unbridled Darwinism would create. —G. C.