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Aristotle (384-322 B. C.) carried on in
Greek philosophical thought in the wake of his teacher, Plato. When he was eighteen years
old, Aristotle entered Plato's Academy and remained there for about twenty years. Plato
acknowledged Aristotle as the school's prized student and dubbed him the
"intelligence of the school" and the "reader".
At around 343-342 B. C., Aristotle was
solicited by Phillip II, king of Macedonia to supervise the education of his young son
Alexander. This young man eventually grew up to become Alexander the Great who built the
third great kingdom seen in Nebuchadnezzar's dream concerning the end of time. Therefore
the link between humanism and the kingdoms of the world, that would herald the coming of
the kingdom of God, had been established. At that point in history, the die was cast for
humanism, as it assumed its allotted position in world history as the philosophy of the
world kingdoms. It was destined to become a cornerstone in the formulation of the kingdoms
whose existence will one day usher in the knew age when Christ returns to reclaim the
world for His own. The emergence of Aristotle marked the beginning of the end.
Crito was one of the young men who
followed Socrates around. "What will people think or say?" was primary on his
mind. He recorded the Socrates theory of law. This theory stated that though there is bad
law as well as good law, even bad law is better than no law at all. Even the law of a
tyranny is better than no law at all. To break one law is to undermine all law and invite
anarchy.
Hobbes proclaimed that anarchy is worse
than any tyranny. It is better to have one tyrant than many. Law is what defrays anarchy,
which is the tyranny of a populace out of control. Again we see the ultimate end in a
democratic system governed by people who will not submit themselves to the higher law of
God. For if that ultimate law is not obeyed, then who will govern those who rule.
We see in our society today that the
Constitution is now being subjected to the mind of individualistic man in its
interpretation. That is why we see decisions made in our national community that defy the
intentions of its founders. Remember, Hitler gained his power under the shelter of a
constitution. Likewise Satan will find fertile ground for establishing his tyranny in the
life of one who does not submit his life to the higher law. So you see, it is the
rebellion of individualistic man against external law that will usher in the final kingdom
of this world which will be ruled under the hand of the world's last tyrant, the
antichrist.
Aristotle dealt with the ultimate cause
of all motion. Centuries later, Thomas Aquinas dealt with the same issue to resolve that
all movement was initially instituted by a Divine Mover. But this was not the direction of
Aristotle's thinking.
". . .since that which is
moved," Aristotle wrote, "which is moved must be moved by something, and the
first mover must be in itself unmovable, and eternal movement must be produced by
something eternal and a single movement by a single thing. . ."
Aristotle, though, did not assign
God-like characteristics to his original mover. Borrowing from Plato's theory of forms, he
proposed that there are forms behind the movements that we see in the world. Noticing, for
example, the movement of heavenly bodies, Aristotle concluded, ". . . there must be
substances which are of the same number as the movements of the stars, and in their nature
eternal, and in themselves unmovable, and without magnitude, for the reasons before
mentioned."
Those forms behind the movement of
heavenly bodies he designated as "spheres". For each movement in a planet, for
example, there is a "sphere" which created the movement. Therefore, according to
Aristotle, there is a sphere that causes a planet to rotate, another that causes it to
circle the earth, and so on.
As a result of this contention,
Aristotle presented a Godless notion of the universe that was moved by
"substances" rather than the hand of Divinity.
Aristotle explained that reality is
encompassed in working towards some goal; reaching ultimate good. He developed the
position of Teleology which explains the present in terms of the future.
So a fish developed eyes because he
wanted to see. I suppose the gills came because he felt the need to breath. How
convenient! I suppose that's where his mysterious evolutionary legs came from. He wanted
to climb a mountain, or at least take a stroll on the beach with his date.
All jesting aside, it is unnerving to
realize how this type of thinking has effected how so many have come to interpret the
empirical evidence in the world. Throughout history the philosopher has stood out as the
creator of thought that has governed man's actions. Their method of reasoning has given us
the theory of man's goodness resting in evolution.
Evolution embraces the law of natural
selection proposing that the species have established themselves through a random system
governed by the law of survival of the fittest. Yet some how the evolutionists suppose
that this randomness will lead to ultimate good as the species continue to evolve to
perfection. Man himself is involved in the evolutionary process being transformed into a
higher state that will eventually begat a race of improved beings.
In spite of the overwhelming evidence to
the contrary, evolutionists contend over-and-over again that their unsubstantiated theory
if fact. Therefore, Carl Sagan proclaimed, "Evolution is a fact not a theory."
This claim was echoed by Julian Huxley
who insisted, "The first point to make about Darwin's theory is that it is no longer
a theory but a fact. . . Darwinianism has come of age so to speak. We are no longer having
to bother with establishing the fact of evolution."
Isaac Asimov assured, "Today,
although many educators play it safe by calling evolutionary ideas 'theory' instead of
'fact,' there is no reputable biologist who doubts that species, including Homo Sapiens,
have developed with time, and that they are continually, though slowly, changing."
Comments such as these not only ignore
the empirical evidence, but they are outright lies. The very fact that the evolutionists
would dare to deliberately distribute falsehood clearly demonstrates that their motives
are untrustworthy. Indeed, one becomes aware of the "fact" that evolutionists
have motives behind the propagation of their belief other than the furtherance of science.
One also becomes cognizant of the fact
that evolution is necessary for the continuance of their world view. The theory of
evolution is necessarily the foundation of communism. "Engles," wrote David A.
Noebel in Understanding the Times, "saw history likewise evolving from its
original state of primitive communism (thesis) to private property (antithesis or
negation) to a new type of communism or common ownership of property (synthesis or
negation of the negation). Since the dialectical process is eternal, it follows (and
should be noted) that there is never a resolution, even after the establishment of a
worldwide classless society."
Therefore, the historical dialectic
process of communism never ends, just as the historical evolutionary process never ends.
According to the communist, society will evolve from capitalism to communism to something
unknown just as evolution sees the progression of the species toward some unknown.
Without evolution, the entire
communistic system falls. Communism is genuinely dependent upon the claims of Charles
Darwin. Obviously those who avidly promote evolution in spite of the fact that the theory
is scientifically groundless have too much to loose if they back away from their position.
They would have to sacrifice their materialistic world-view and the communist system that
view sustains.
Yet Soren Lovtrup commented, "I
believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history
of science."
It is preposterous to think that such a
system founded in the belief of transformation through death and destruction of the weak
could lead to improvement of any kind. The realm of Hitler stares in the face of such
declarations, and surely the present state of the world testifies against this belief as
well. Anyone who will be honest in his evaluation has to conclude that reality isn't
encompassed in reaching towards the hope of the future in the goodness of mankind. Indeed,
man appears to be heading towards an unfruitful end in his continued rebellion against
God.
The concept of the atheism embraced by
the evolutionary theory had its beginnings way back in ancient history. Epicurus believed
that the universe is static and will never change. ". . .The universe," he
proclaimed, "always was such as it is now, and will always be the same. For there is
nothing into which it changes: for outside the universe there is nothing which could come
into it and bring about change." He was, in fact, proposing the notion of materialism
to contend against the surety of the absolute God, Who changes His creation as He pleases.
Epicurus reduced the explanation of the
nature of the universe to the existence of atoms. Atoms, he defined, are "indivisible
and unalterable" compounds which form all bodies of mass. He wrote, ". . . they
are completely solid in nature, and can by no means be dissolved in any part. So it must
needs be that the first-beginnings are indivisible corporeal existences."
In the mind of Epicurus the beginnings
of the universe could be found in these unchanging and undividable Atoms. Because he
assigned to Atoms the characteristics of eternity, he had granted them the attributes of
God, for God is unchanging and undividable. Therefore, Epicurus asserted that "the
atoms and the void (between them) are the cause" of all existence. He felt that an
understanding of the nature of atoms "afford a sufficient outline for our
understanding of the nature of existing things" because "the atoms do not change
at all."
Though Epicurus admitted that the cause
of all things must be "imperishable and should not possess the nature of what
changes," because he defined atoms as having these attributes, there was no need to
insert God into the equation. The supernatural world need not be applied in this
materialistic system that founded its belief upon the so-called eternal existence of
atoms.
Modern science disproved Epicurus'
theory that atoms are both unalterable and are indivisible. This discovery is how atomic
energy has been unleashed. Therefore, there was no person residing in Hiroshima during the
final days of WWII who could call himself an Epicurean. Atoms do not carry within their
nature the attributes of God. They are perishable.
However, in spite of the fact that
modern science contradicts the Atomists' contention, modern materialists have again made
atoms their gods by saying that all reality can be explained through the existence of
these minute particles. Out of this premise, they have devised evolution, which ultimately
reduces the explanation of the existence of all life-forms down to the activity of atoms.
Had Epicurus discovered that atoms are perishable, he would have been forced to abandon
his materialist theory. The materialists today would do well to consider the evidence of
their own findings and admit there is a God.
Lucretius, a follower of Epicurus, was
an early materialists who explained the nature of the universe expounding on the thoughts
of the Greek atomists. To the philosophers of ancient Greece, the atom was not the tiny
particle that we know today. What they were referring to was the ultimate unsplittable
particle of matter, absolutely eternal and solid from which everything is built.
Though believing in the gods, Lucretius
felt they were made of atoms that were designed smooth so that their bond would hold
longer than the rough, craggy ones that made up beings that were less eternal. Yet even
these creatures, though created in a superior way would eventually be extinguished as
well.
To this man the mind and soul are each
made up of this same material, merely illusions formed by these infinitesimal particles in
motion. Since all part of ones existence is made up of these fragments, death is merely
the dispersion of body, soul, and spirit. There is nothing eternal in this system except
for that small speck. Death is a total void. You can't experience it. There is absolutely
no hope in this doctrine, and history has shown that it is one that man cannot live with
for very long.
The Atomists of Rome have shown us there
is nothing new in evolution. "Epicurus in Atoms," wrote Saint Augustine,
"that is, minute indivisible and imperceptible corpuscles. And so the rest, whose
names it is needless to mention, who maintain that bodies, simple or compound, animate or
intimate, but nevertheless material, were the root of all reality.
"The Epicureans, for example,
believed that life could be produced from lifeless matter."
This materialistic error has been
carried on in Western thinking throughout the centuries. For example, people believed that
spoiled meat turned into white worms. That was until a man named Francesco Redi came unto
the scene.
Redi decided to perform an experiment to
determine whether or not the Atomists were right in their contention that life could be
produced through lifeless matter. He placed meat in two jars, one which was left open and
the other covered with a fine cloth. Though the meat in both jars spoiled, only the meat
placed in the jar left completely open developed white worms.
Upon further experimentation, Redi
noticed that there were flies crawling all over the meat that had been left unprotected.
Then he noticed that the flies laid eggs on the spoiled meat. The white worms hatched out
of the eggs and eventually matured into flies.
But people still believed that bacteria
evolved from non-living things. This idea was finally disproved in the 1860s, when Louis
Pasteur demonstrated that bacteria would not appear in a substance if it were sterilized
by boiling and if a filter was placed on top which would not allow bacteria to get in.
This is why we have pasteurized milk.
Therefore, it was proved that
spontaneous generation does not occur in the world today. Indeed, the Greek Atomists were
wrong. Life did not come from lifeless matter.
Therefore, we know that belief in
spontaneous generation is not according to the findings of science. Pure science
demonstrates that spontaneous generation is a myth. Yet the belief in spontaneous
generation is necessary in any materialistic system. However, any belief in this magical
occurrence must be made on faith alone. It is faith, rather than fact that lies underneath
the doctrine of evolution. Since evolution is based on faith rather than fact, it is
religion rather than science.
Originally, humanists admitted that
their materialistic faith founded upon evolution was a religion. However, since the
teaching of religion in our schools has been made illegal, humanists have run for cover,
all the while denying the religious foundations of their belief. Yet evolutionists
themselves admit the pantheistic beliefs they hold. Carl Sagan wrote, "But if humans
can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related
process is called natural selection. That life has changed fundamentally over the eons is
entirely clear from the alterations we have made in the beasts and vegetables during the
short tenure of humans on Earth, and from the fossil evidence."
Pantheists believe that all is one and
all is god. In the pantheist's mind, nature is as much the revelation of god as humanity
is. Therefore, Sagan has made the analogy that is man is creative, then nature is evermore
so. Man and nature are being portrayed as comparable. Nature is attributed with possessing
the same creative powers as man possesses. In fact, nature's creative powers outshine
those of man. This creative attribute superior to mankind's is one that is designated for
God Himself. Nature, therefore, is the god of the evolutionists. This is clear-cut
pantheism, the oldest world religion conceived in Babylon.
"To me, the god of evolution is
simply 'chance' itself," Douglas Spanner explained, "Now man has had, ever since
his primal act of disobedience, a sad but understandable reluctance to meet God. However,
he cannot help being a religious animal; so what does he do? He makes his own gods, of a
sort which won't impose unacceptable demands on him and which he can manipulate. The
mysterious and unknown, of course, must enter into their constitution, or they would
hardly be gods. So he looks around for a suitable material, and Chance suggests itself as
an eligible candidate. It accordingly becomes deified, an active agency in its own
right."
Therefore, Julian Huxley foresaw a new
religion being created as mankind continues to develop in the evolutionary process:
"The emergent religion of the near future could be a good thing. It will believe in
knowledge. It will be able to take advantage of the vast amount of new knowledge produced
by the knowledge-explosion of the last few centuries in constructing what we may call its
theology -- the framework of facts and ideas which provide it with intellectual support:
It should be able, with our increased knowledge of mind, to define man's sense of right
and wrong more clearly, so as to provide a better moral support, and to focus the feeling
of sacredness on fitter objects."
When evolution is applied to social
ethics in this manner, the designation for the system is "Social Darwinism."
Social Darwinism developed upon the foundation that Huxley suggested and produced the
holocaust in Nazi Germany. This is the religion that the evolutionist proposes.
According to David A. Noebel, the
evolutionists have even created a possibility for eternal life in a materialistic cosmos.
"As one might expect," Noebel wrote in Understanding the Times, "some
Humanists try to circumvent man's mortality in an effort to create a more appealing notion
of utopia. By granting the evolutionary process a state of wisdom usually reserved for
God, they claim that progress will one day guide man to an evolutionary form that fosters
immortality. For example, Victor Stenger claims that computers are the next step in the
evolutionary ladder and says that since their memory banks are basically immortal, mankind
"also can become immortal. It should be possible in the future to save the
accumulated knowledge of an individual human being when he or she dies, perhaps even those
thoughts which constitute consciousness will also be saved, and the collective thoughts of
all human beings will be continued in the memory banks of computers."
In spite of the evolutionist's misguided
faith, we depend upon the fact that spontaneous generation is a fable. Before spontaneous
generation was disproved, patients died from operations because physicians did not know to
wash their hands. We sterilize the abrasions on our skin, and cover them with bandages
because we realize if the area is cleansed and sealed off, it will be protected from
bacteria. We open cans of food with the confidence that death does not await for us
inside.
Yet, in spite of the fact that we live
in the assumption that spontaneous generation is a myth, scientists have adopted the
theory to explain our origins. Science has disproved the theory, yet we insist on
believing in it non-the-less.
Therefore, there is nothing scientific
about evolution at all, for the foundational precepts of the theory were first generated
long before modern science was born. Evolution is a philosophy, an explanation for the
meaning of life, not a scientific fact, which places it along side of religion.
The kind of thinking that underpins
evolution is the very thought life that brought the West into one thousand years of
ignorance. Evolution, rather than forming a testable theory subject to empirical
observation, starts from a premise from which all scientific study is interpreted.
For example, in a evolution-creation
debate held in Bakersfield Ca. in the fall of 1994, the evolutionist, Vincent Sarich from
the University of California, Berkeley, was asked if evolution is a certainty. In spite of
the fact that the one who was contending against him, Dr. Duane Gish from the Institute
for Creation Research, brought up a number of scientific facts that clearly contend
against the theory of evolution, Sarich dropped a book on the floor to say that evolution
was as sure as that. So, when the evolutionist looks at the world, he looks for things
that will prove his position.
This is not science at all. For science
looks at the creation to draw conclusions about the way that the cosmos works. The
evolutionist looks at his theory to draw conclusions for the purpose of describing the
world he observes. This is philosophy.
Basing science on philosophy was at the
very core of the bleak times that were experienced during the Middle Ages. It was a
science founded on the philosophical presumptions of Aristotle.
Scientific observation in Greece and Rome
was carried on by the philosophers of these kingdoms. In that regard, Aristotle determined
that scientific observation should be founded upon pre-determined postulates. Conclusions
would be drawn from these assumptions derived through deductive reasoning exercises.
Therefore, scientific conclusions would be drawn according to what was logical to the mind
rather than what was observable in the world. Hence, knowledge of the universe was gained
through mental exercises rather than examination of the world.
So, when Aristotle, in the 4th century
BC, conceived that the earth was round, it was because he had submitted his astronomical
observations to philosophical reasoning. Though he was right on that point, the rest of
his theory about the heavens was totally misconceived.
Aristotle was the first to develop the
Earth-centered view of the universe called the Geocentric World System. This notion
supposed that the world was at the center of the universe with all of the planets and
stars revolving around it. What Aristotle envisioned was a series of concentric,
crystalline spheres revolving around a stationary earth. There was a prime mover that got
the whole system in motion, and once this was initiated, the motion of all heavenly bodies
around the earth would remain circular, uniform and eternal. But this design was born out
of man's pride rather than truth. Only a humanist would insist that he is the center of
the universe.
Ptolemy (100-170 AD) picked up on the
Aristotelian notion to propagate the Geocentric notion in his publication, the Almagest.
This work influenced Western thought to such a degree that it held the mind of man for 14
centuries.
Saint Augustine in the 5th century was
held captive to this line of philosophical reasoning. Because he drew conclusions
regarding the world from what seemed reasonable to him rather than what could be observed,
he dismissed the fact that there could possibly be people who live on the other side of
the world.
"As to this nonsense about there
being Antipodae, that is to say, men living on the far side of the earth, where the sun
rises when it sets for us, men who have their feet facing ours when they walk" he
wrote in the City of God, "that is utterly incredible." Rather than
leaving the answer to this question up to future generations for the purpose of
exploration, Augustine proceeded in an intellectual argument to disprove the possibility
of life on the other side of the planet. He was wrong.
However, Augustine can be accredited as
being the first Christian to bring knowledge gained in the secular world into the
Christian fold. This would soon end, as the Christian Church in the early Middle Ages
pretty much shut itself off from Greek and pagan science and philosophy. In addition, very
little work was done to continue the search to solve the world's mysteries during the
Middle Ages. Of course, this lead to the ignorant assumptions that the world was flat and
that a sailing vessel would fall off the end of the world if it traveled too far out into
the sea.
After the collapse of the Roman Empire
it was the Arabs who preserved the heritage of Greek geography. Then, in the 11th century,
science began to decline among the Islamic nations. Ironically, this was the very era that
the West, as a result of the conquest of Spain and Sicily, began to become re-interested
in philosophical and scientific matters. The Christians began to absorb the vast Greek
knowledge absorbed in Arabic and the original work of the Muslim scientists during the
previous three centuries.
During the next three centuries, Europe's
universities served as centers of scientific study based upon the presumptions of
Aristotle. Thomas Aquinas in the middle of the 13th century produced a synthesis between
Aristotelian philosophy and Christian doctrine. Aristotle reigned supreme.
It was the misconceptions of Aristotle
that Christopher Columbus grappled with as he attempted to persuade King John II of Portugal
to support a mission across the Atlantic Ocean. Ironically, this adventurer to the New
World had made the assumptions of Augustine, not understanding that there was another
continent on the other side of the world that housed people. Likewise, Columbus accepted
Ptolemy's underestimation of the circumference of the earth and his over estimation of the
Eurasian land mass. In addition, he accepted Marco Polo's erroneous location of Japan.
Thinking the world was smaller than it
was, Columbus felt he could sail west across the ocean to find India on the other side.
This, he tried to persuade the king, could be accomplished in the sailing vessels of the
day. This request was refused by the Portuguese who likewise had underestimated the
distance as well, but thought it was none-the-less too far to travel.
So, everyone was caught in the error of
bad Aristotelian presumption. The resolution to the matter would require an experiment.
Someone would have to actually go out and find out exactly what the truth was. Science
would have to be utilized, not based on presumption, but rather on observation. So, thanks
to Queen Isabella of Castile, Columbus eventually opened the door of America to Europe.
But it wasn't until the advent of
Nicolaus Copernicus that the assumptions of Aristotle were finally brought down. After
Copernicus published his De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolution
of Heavenly Spheres) in 1543, the world was never the same. Aiming to restore the purity
of ancient Greek astronomy by eliminating the novelties introduced by Ptolemy, Copernicus
introduced the idea that the world was not the center of the universe.
Copernicus proposed the Heliocentric
World System. This theory assumed that a rotating earth revolving around a stationary sun
along with the other planets was a simpler way to understand what astronomers had been
observing for centuries in the heavens.
The culture he lived in was infuriated
at the notion. The Church, now knee deep in Aristotle, proclaimed Copernicus a heretic.
Others argued that if his theory was true then Venus would appear to get lighter and
darker as it moved toward and away from the earth. Without the use of telescopes, they
were unable to see this occur. However, as the telescope began to come in use, the slight
fluctuations in light necessary to support the theory of Copernicus was affirmed.
Again, it was observation that supported
the theory of the revolving earth. By introducing mathematical reasoning into cosmology,
Copernicus dealt a death blow to Aristotelian common-sense physics. So, it was with
Copernicus that modern science was born. Modern science became a discipline founded upon
observation rather than presumption.
But presumption is the very foundation
of the evolutionists. They revere the assumptions of Darwin as if it was the last word,
and therefore have placed themselves into the error of the Middle Ages. It is a dangerous
proposition for science when you follow the philosophy of a man rather than what can be
observed in the Creation of God.
Jean Lamark (1744-1829) is a prime
example of how error has occurred among the evolutionists as a result of their erroneous
presumption. Lamark was the first to determine that the Scripture is wrong when it
declares that all animals are made after their own kind. In proposing that species and
varieties are subject to change and that complex organisms evolved from simpler ones, he
pioneered modern evolutionary thought.
But Lamark believed that the species
changed through the inheritance of acquired characteristics. For example, possibly there
was an ancient fish who wanted to walk on land. So, the fish began to crawl out of the
ocean a well as he would given his anatomy. As he kept trying, he was able to stay out of
the water longer and longer. Likewise, his fins began to strengthen. The augmentations
gained in the fish's body through exercise were passed on to his sons. These young fish
were, in turn, better land dwellers because of their father's efforts to build himself up.
Explorations into genetics have
convinced evolutionists that Lamark's theory is an unsuitable model for their theory.
Instead, they have looked towards natural selection and genetic change as the propellants
of evolutionary change.
But remember, it was through
incorporating math into scientific study that Copernicus was able to begin the scientific
revolution. Mathematicians have proven that the probability of evolution occurring through
mere chance through these mechanisms is virtually nil.
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was formed as a service to the body of Christ to encourage scriptural
worship. To accomplish this goal Wigtune Company offers free contemporary Christian praise
and worship music, contemporary Christian rock and hymn mp3 and chart material along with
a free on-line worship study book for personal devotions, Bible study groups, Sunday
schools, pastors, music ministers and ministry training. In order to bridge the gap
between the old and the new the worship study book gives solid theological and
historical support to the use of traditional Christian hymn-singing in conjunction with
praise chorus singing. 
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