Darwin and Hitler

I know, I know… by mere title alone, you are probably already questioning me and my sanity. What in the world do Darwin and Hitler have to do with one another? Even more so, what kind of crazy person would choose to blog about two such men???
This weekend I watched Ben Stein’s documentary, “Expelled.” Throughout the course of the documentary, Ben Stein interviews several of the elite in the scientific community. Apparently, the vast majority of the scientific world has pledged an impenetrable allegiance to Darwin. You can not even debate or exercise your freedom to speak about intelligent design or a creator without being scrutinized, mocked, and expelled from the scientific community. What is it about the idea of a creator that offends them so? Why is it so horrific to entertain the idea? Perhaps it is the fact that if a creator exists, it would cancel out every idea of grandeur that they entertain about themselves and their intelligence. They would have to accept that they are not the elite of the intelligent world because in fact there is a creator that far exceeds the greatest amount of knowledge that could ever be placed in their minds. They would have to accept that they are no longer in control and that there is someone above them. Hmm… this concept seems familiar.
Let’s take it to the Word (from a creationist’s perspective ofcoarse). Where did Satan’s evil nature originate? 1 Timothy 3, tells us that Satan fell from his place in the kingdom of God because of pride. It was no longer good enough to be an angel, he wanted to be God. Then in Genesis, Satan deceives Eve and passes on this idea of grandeur to her, making her believe that God is holding out on her. This is where pride entered into the story for mankind. The idea that we can be our own gods, was now in play. Then a man like Adolf Hitler comes into the world. He elevated himself so highly in his mind that he actually believed that he had the right to play God. He strived to be the greatest totalitarian dictator and create a utopian world of only people considered to be “aryan”, eliminating every person with an undesirable trait. Over 43 million people were victims of Hitler’s destruction and genocide. You were considered inferior and unfit to live if you were a Jew, black, handicap, gypsy, Slav, Soviet Bolshevik or gay. How horrible, right? I mean where does this kind of ideology come from? Doesn’t this sound a bit familiar, a bit like Darwinism? Well, wait then…we love Darwin right? So how can we be upset about this? All Hitler did was speed up the process of natural selection. Rather than wait for nature to select the desirable traits in human beings, eventually getting rid of the “so-called” undesirable traits, he just did it instead. He did us a favor right? WRONG!
Have you ever heard a Darwinist scientist explain where the first cell came from? My guess is not. They can’t! They believe in this process of natural selection, but can not explain where it originated from. You have to have a cell in order to begin the process of natural selection… but they have no explanation for where the first cell came from. Although, there have been a few completely offbeat and sad attempts to explain. Some say that perhaps the first cell grew off of the back of a crystal. Um, ok. Some even accept that perhaps highly intelligent aliens have created us. Wow, so society will accept aliens as a creator, but not God. Seriously?!?
There is a huge pattern here. It is deceit and pride fed to society by Satan. He is feeding it to all of us just as he fed it to Adam and Eve, just as he fed it to Adolf Hitler and countless others. The scientific community is falling into the same trap, trying to be God, not humbling themselves to the point of acceptance that there is a creator above them, and that they can not explain creation fully without Him. Unfortunately, this keeps them from also knowing the beautiful love and redemption of God. They are missing out on the freedom of knowing that it is ok to not be the most intelligent being. It is much better to experience the grace, mercy and peace of God and allow God to be God. He loves us enough to guide us if we listen. We don’t have to do all of the work, we just have to trust.
Please pray for the people of the scientific community. Pray for the stronghold of pride to be broken and for them to experience a biblical revelation of God.