Outspoken atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins takes a back seat to no one when it comes to defending Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, but heaven forbid — presuming of course, there is a heaven — he be asked to live by what he preaches.
Dawkins, appearing at a recent event at Georgia’s Kennesaw State University, took a radical departure from what many earlier Darwinists saw as the logical social implications of evolution.
“I don’t care what’s against the evolution principle. I’m all for going against the evolution principle,” Dawkins replied, when asked if same-sex marriage violated “the evolution principle.”
“Evolution by natural selection is the explanation for why we exist. It is not something to guide our lives in our own society. If we were to be guided by the evolution principle, then we would be living in a kind of ultra-Thatcherite, Reaganite society,” he said.
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To his implicit defense of homosexual marriage, Dawkins also came out strongly supportive of feminism, Raw Story reported.
“Study your Darwinism for two reasons,” Dawkins said, “because it explains why you’re here, and the second reason is, study your Darwinism in order to learn what to avoid in setting up society.
“What we need is a truly anti-Darwinian society. Anti-Darwinian in the sense that we don’t wish to live in a society where the weakest go to the wall, where the strongest suppress the weak, and even kill the weak. We – I, at least – do not wish to live in that kind of society. I want to live in the sort of society where we take care of the sick, where we take care of the weak, take care of the oppressed, which is a very anti-Darwinian society.”
While Dawkins failed to explain how materialistic evolution could give rise to such lofty universal norms, the atheist’s own preferred sort of society mirrors precisely that announced by Jesus Christ at the beginning of his ministry, as recorded in Luke 4.
So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
This is not the first time the avowed atheist has backslid into the Anglican upbringing of his youth — a faith he left in his teens after learning about Darwin’s theory of evolution. In May, Dawkins admitted he still hankers after the nostalgia and traditions of the church.
“I would describe myself as a secular Christian in the same sense as secular Jews have a feeling for nostalgia and ceremonies,” Dawkins said.
Unfortunately, the legacy of Charles Darwin has not been marked by nostalgia for ceremonies of the Christian or Jewish faith.
The powerful and critically acclaimed video documentary on Darwinism – “Darwin’s Deadly Legacy” – documents the blame the evolutionary theory’s founder should share with Adolph Hitler for the Holocaust, as well as for the more than 50 million American lives lost to abortion.
Darwinian theory, “which is scientifically bankrupt, has probably been responsible for more bloodshed than anything else in the history of humanity,” said Jerry Newcomb, one of the program’s two co-producers.
Before the advent of Darwinian beliefs, said Newcombe, the Western world’s basic concept was that man was made in the image of God, and was therefore valuable. But Darwin changed all that.
“Karl Marx wouldn’t embrace all (Darwin’s) tenets, but said, ‘This is a scientific theory on which we can base our theory of man,'” Newcomb told WND.
The program also addresses eugenics, a term coined by Darwin’s own cousin, Francis Galton, who campaigned for using human genetics as a means to breed superior beings.
“We talk about the link between Darwin and Hitler, and in the middle ground, eugenics,” said Newcomb. “Darwin led to eugenics, which led directly to Hitler.”
“I was just shocked about a week ago, (when a news report) talked about a designer clinic where you could design your own baby. They said everybody seems to want perfect Aryans. Where have we heard that?” asked Newcomb.
“To put it simply – no Darwin, no Hitler,” said the late Rev. D. James Kennedy, who hosted the special. “Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.”
In the United States, nearly three dozen states at one point mandated sterilization programs to prevent the “feebleminded” and other “defectives” from reproducing.
A direct result of that concept is today’s Planned Parenthood, as the production documents, whose founder Margaret Sanger believed in removing what she called the “dead weight of human waste.”
