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November 2015
Fall is here and we are experiencing a wealth of “El Nino” rains for which we thank God.
This month’s Communiqué contains an article dealing with the wide-ranging effects foisted upon our society by the unscientific theory of evolution.. We have become so accustomed to many of these that we do not recognize them as evolutionary effects, but they are. This insidiously evil concept has wound its way into every fabric of our society and our everyday thoughts, actions and conversations.
We also have an article detailing some recent finds underscoring what Bruce Malone showed us at last month’s meeting that ancient man was not the brutish, un-evolved cave man, but a “brilliant” creation of God!
Finally, of course, we have a rundown of the many creation teaching opportunities coming to you in the San Antonio area in the near future. We pray that you and yours have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving this month!
Evolution’s Far-Reaching Effects on Society
We hear the term “evolution” everyday. A sportscaster talks about the evolution of a young player into a mature one. A commercial advertises this vacuum cleaner is the “next evolution” of the vacuum! A government official explains how a law or policy has changed over time and refers to it as the policy’s evolution. You go to a movie and “X-Men” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” teach our kids this fallacy as fact.
The word in its simplest form means “change over time” and in many things this can be observed. However, when referring to biological organisms it is a hoax. What actually occurs with them over time is variation, mutation and adaptation, but never the changing of a complete body form into another complete type of form. Tigers produce tigers and not elephants. This is not only what the Bible says, but it is what we observe in nature. Nevertheless, the term evolution is used universally and its universal use implies its being true.
Good science shows that evolution is not the truth in the biological world, but as pointed out before, it is not only the biological sciences where this concept has been espoused and applied. The concept of evolution has had deleterious effects for more than 150 years on our societies. What evolutionists don’t talk about is what Darwin talked about extensively in his first two books. Evolution’s hidden secret is that if we are evolving, then by definition some of us are superior and some inferior to one another. Even after the Civil War this rationalization was used to keep down blacks and “inferior’” classed groups all over the world since they are looked on as a subspecies of humanity by evolutionary advocates.
It is not widely advertised, but both England and the U.S. saw a “eugenics movement” in the first four decades of the twentieth century. In those four decades the United Statessaw over 70,000 individuals classified as “feeble minded,” “unfit,” or “inferior” were euthanized, sterilized, institutionalized or castrated in this country. This practice was even upheld by the Supreme Court in its 1927 ruling siding with a Virginia law which forced a young woman classified as “feeble minded” named Carrie Buck to be sterilized due to her “probability of producing socially inadequate offspring.” It was later shown that Buck had average intelligence.
These court ruling supported laws in 31 states in the 1930’s which had such “eugenics” laws aimed to selectively promote “fitter,” the “well born” and “good races.” Eugenics was supported at this time by the “marriage registry” in the U. S. Eugenics Record Office in Cold Harbor, New York, from 1910 till 1939,meant to help us choose “fit” mates from a list of individuals deemed to have “desirable inheritable characteristics.” It also helped to identify for states and localities the criteria by which to sterilize the “unfit.”
In fact, such practices did not stop in this country until the 1974 Supreme Court decision in the case of Relf vs. Weinberger tested an Alabama case were a federal community action program, which was an anti-poverty program for minorities, took three Relf family girls, Katie age 16, Mary Alice age 14, and Minnie age 12 to a doctor who inserted an IUD into Katie and sterilized Minnie and Mary Alice.This is in lock step with the views of famed feminist Margaret Sanger who was an avowed eugenist and her ideals have now come to fruition with what we see happening with Planned Parenthood. (For more on the eugenics movement in this country, go to the November, 2015 issue of Acts & Facts, pp. 10-12.)
What is amazing is that all of this foolishness was not eradicated immediately after World War II when Hitler’s horrific application of evolution was exposed. Hitler took Darwin to heart and believed that the “Arian race” (blond haired, blue eyed, whites) were superior genetically to all other races. To cleanse his country of inferior races he had Jews, gypsies and blacks (considered inferior) rounded up, interned in concentration camps and millions of them exterminated in the holocaust. While eugenics was slowed in this country because of this horrific example of the misapplication of this incorrect philosophy (not science), it did not stop it in this country until the 1974 supreme Court decision.
That however is not the end of the dreadful story of evolution’s effects. Since the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, almost 60 million babies have been killed via abortion. The rationale is that they are not living beings, but just tissue within the mother’s womb and can be discarded by her at her whim. This concept is a direct extrapolation of evolutionary reasoning. Evolution teaches that we’re all just evolved animals. We kill animals all of the time. Further we have surgery to excise diseased tissue all of the time. So if there is no God and no “divine spark” within every individual as the Bible says, then we are free to discard excess tissue or kill these “animals” at our discretion. For those who missed it, Roe vs. Wade was a historical marker showing how our country had devolved from our Christian roots.
Since the 1870’s, Western societies have the seen the advance of the concept of Social Darwinism. Economically, Social Darwinists argue that the strong should see their wealth and power increase while the weak should see their wealth and power decrease. Such thinking was credited with the excesses of our early industrial revolution in the West where poor workers were reduced to animals of burden as the wealthy industrialists got rich on their backs.
Such Social Darwinist views went hand-in-hand with Marxism which rebelled against Economic Darwinism and propelled the socialist movements across Europe we see today and the Communist states we have seen over the last century in Russia, China, and throughout the world. Marx adapted Darwin’s ideas to the social classes of his day. The results have been frightening not only in the spread of totalitarian regimes all over the world, but also in light of the atrocities committed as a result of this philosophy.
Between 1934 -1938 Joseph Stalin in Russia “purged” hundreds of thousands of people who were expelled, imprisoned or executed, since they were then deemed socially and philosophically “inferior!”
When Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia between 1975-1979, more than 2 million people were killed as and city dwellers were forced into labor camps, all to fulfill their Social Darwinist agenda.
Throughout the early 20th century, Germany held what was termed a, “Peoples Show,” orVölkerschau. Africans were brought in as carnival or zoo exhibits for passers-by to gawk at.
Throughout the late 19th century, and well into the 1950′s, Africans, Aborigines and in some cases Native Americans were kept as exhibits in zoos. Far from a relic from an unenlightened past, remnants of such exhibits have continued in Europe as late as the 2000′s.
This photograph is from Brussels, Belgium in 1958.
Only decades before, in the late 1800′s, Europe had been filled with, “human zoos,” in cities likeParis, Hamburg, Antwerp, Barcelona, London, Milan, and Warsaw. New York too saw these popular exhibits continue into the 20th century. There was an average of 200,000 to 300,000 visitors who attended each exhibition in each city.
Carl Hagenbeck of Germany ran exhibits of what he called, “purely natural,” populations, usually East Asian Islanders, but in 1876, he also sent a collaborator to the Sudan to bring back, “wild beasts and Nubians.” The traveling Nubian exhibit was a huge success in the cities of Paris, London, and Berlin.
The Paris Exposition of 1889 was visited by 28 million people, who lined up to see 400 indigenous people as the major attraction. The 1900 World’s Fair followed suit, as did the Colonial Exhibitions in Marseilles (1906 and 1922) and in Paris (1907 and 1931) which displayed naked or semi-naked humans in cages. Paris saw 34 million people attend their exhibition in six months alone.
Just four years shy of the 20th century, the Cincinnati Zoo kept one hundred Sioux Native Americans in a mock village at the zoo for three months.
Ota Benga at Bronx Zoo
In 1906, the amateur anthropologist Madison Grant, who was the head of the New York Zoological Society, put a Congolese pygmy Ota Benga, on display at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. The display was in the primate exhibit, and Ota was often made to carry around chimpanzees and other apes. Eugenicist and zoo director William Hornaday labeled Ota, “The Missing Link.” The public flocked to see the display.
Benga shot targets with a bow and arrow, wove twine, and wrestled with an orangutan. Although, according to the New York Times, “few expressed audible objection to the sight of a human being in a cage with monkeys as companions,” controversy erupted as black clergymen in the city took great offense. “Our race, we think, is depressed enough, without exhibiting one of us with the apes,” said the Reverend James H. Gordon, superintendent of the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn. “We think we are worthy of being considered human beings, with souls.”
In 1906, the Bronx Zoo kept Ota Benga on a human exhibit. The sign outside of his fenced in area of the primate exhibit read, “Age, 23 years. Height, 4 feet 11 inches. Weight, 103 pounds. Brought from the Kasai River, Congo Free State, South Central Africa, by Dr. Samuel P. Verner. Exhibited each afternoon during September.”
These sorts of, “human zoos,” continued even later. Even as late as April 1994, an Ivory Coast village was kept as part of an African safari in Port-Saint-Père (Planète Sauvage), near Nantes, France.
In Germany, as late as 2005, Augsburg’s zoo in Germany had similar exhibits. In August 2005, the London Zoo displayed humans wearing fig leaves, and in 2007, the Adelaide Zoo housed people in a former ape enclosure by day. They were, of course, allowed to return home at night, unlike many of the earlier incarnations of these racist displays. (excerpts from
The bottom line of all of this nonsense is a deep belief in evolution which teaches that we are all animals. This is underscored by animal rights movements today which go far beyond just trying to head off cruelty to animals, but which strive for legal rights to be given to animals equivalent to humans. If you believe that is all that we are then expect to be treated as one.
About thirty years ago I was working as a math teacher and was having a conversation with a woman with a doctorate in psychology working for Psychological Corporation. She had just presented a rather ridiculous plan which she and others had sold to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to start pushing the teaching of Algebra I into lower grade levels.
Now, Algebra I is a course which for a hundred years has been reserved for ninth and tenth grade students due to the need for highly developed intellectual skills and knowledge base for it to be successfully mastered. It requires fundamental skills of fraction manipulation, widespread use of the associative, commutative and distributive properties of mathematics, large use of symbolic logic as well as highly developed study skills. It was then normal to teach it to 8th graders only to advanced, gifted or honors classes. The plan presented was to force algebra into the seventh and elementary grades.
I asked this woman why we were trying to do something that it was clear kids were not developmentally ready for and she made the incredible statement that by this plan we are going to “force evolve the species!” I could not believe she made such a statement to me with a straight face, but she and TEA were serious. Today, we see what is called “algebratization” in the elementary grade levels as we push this unscientific notion that we can upwardly force the evolution of human beings.
This is not the first time that evolution has been forced down the throats of our kids to their detriment. The father of American education, John Dewey was a prime advocate for evolution and humanism in our schools.
It is wondered how gun violence and violent crimes seem to be constantly on the rise in America. Why teen pregnancy has spiraled out of control? Again evolution is a main culprit.
In 1957 the Russians launched the first orbital satellite named “Sputnik.” This touched off a huge scare in America that we were behind the Russians in science.
One answer was to infuse into our biology and science textbooks a huge amount of evolutionary teaching which to that point had been minimized in American education, but then to put it at the forefront. Prior to 1963 the average high school science text contained about 2500 words dealing with evolution. After 1963 that amount spiked to an average of more than 33,000 words of evolutionary teaching.
Not coincidentally, prior to 1963 and for the first half of the twentieth century, the amount violent crime in this country was at a low rate and rose consistent with population growth. After 1963, the amount of violent crime in this nation spiked by 995% between 1963 and 1990.
Further, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in this country were at consistently low numbers throughout the first half of the twentieth century and grew only as fast as the population. That is until 1963.Again, with the introduction of widespread evolutionary teaching that we are animals and could ignore biblical prohibitions on premarital sex, we quickly saw the cases of venereal diseases increase by almost 400%!
In fact, after the spread of evolution became prevalent in 1963 and prayer and Bible reading were removed from the public schools in the 1960’s, every indicator of societal decay began to sky rocket! In the two decades after the 1960’s the nation’s divorce rate increased by 100%, drug use increased 500%, unwed pregnancies climbed by 500%, standardized test scores dropped for 18 consecutive years, premarital sex exploded upwards by 1000% and suicide increased by 250% (America: To Pray? Or Not to Pray?, pp. 4-106)
The lessons here are clear. Tell kids they are animals and they will act like animals.
This leads us to a last sad fact that no corner of our culture is unaffected including our churches. Church attendance and surveys of American’s belief in God are both down over the past twenty years. This should not be surprising as these last two generations have been indoctrinated for more than 40 years that science has disproved the Bible (even though it hasn’t) and that theyare just evolved animals and there is no reason for a God in their lives.
What we have done to ourselves with this unscientific theory of evolution we would not have allowed any foreign power to do to us without declaring war! Further, it is amazingly hypocritical of progressives and liberals today to declare every person is a unique and special human being with innate human rights and yet indiscriminately kill 60 million of them via abortion.
We sterilized 70,000 people in this country and did not learn from that folly. Hitler exterminated 11 million Jews and blacks and we did not learn. Communism spread its own version of Social Darwinism across the world, enslaving much of the world and we did not learn. We have killed tens of millions of babies, made our streets more violent, and our kids more sexually active than ever before and we yet we will not see what caused it all. When we threw God out of the schools and our society and invited in the lie of evolution and the idea of humans as gods we ushered in our own destruction.
Pray that we get sick enough of all this to actually wake up and see what we are doing to ourselves by perpetuating this lie of evolution, whose only reason to still be supported is to keep in place the lie that there is no God and therefore man is responsible only to himself and no one else! This humanistic pride is what caused the first sin in Eden and is at the root of our worst problems today.
Ancient finds of Man’s Brilliance are rewriting Human History
Ship wrecks of bygone eras are found all over the world and when found they can reveal the brilliance of ancient man.The following are excerpts from an article from Techrepublic.com.
“When they took to the seas, some of these vessels were the state of the art, laden with some of the most advanced technology of their era. Now, thanks to the most advanced tech of our time, some long-sought wrecks are finally being found and explored for the first time…