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Post details: Introduction: Darwin Day in America - a review
02/20/08
Introduction: Darwin Day in America - a review
by Denyse O'Leary
ARN correspondent
In Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, John G. West, a political scientist and associate director of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture looks at the enormous influence Darwin's theory of evolution has had on North American culture.
Darwin's theory of evolution - essentially, that life, including human life, occurs without purpose and perishes without consequence - popularized points of view that would have been considered unacceptable to most Westerners in earlier times. Indeed, that has always been its greatest appeal, to judge from the thousands of editorials on how Darwin's great feat was to show that man is just a two-legged animal - a biped who affects trousers.
Today, many Americans are far readier to celebrate Darwin Day than Lincoln Day. This year Evolution Sunday coincided with the First Sunday in Lent in the traditional Christian year.
Culturally, it is also significant that many churches chose to preach evolution (or possibly process theology, in which God is said to be evolving, along with creation) rather than the creation and fall of man and the temptations in the wilderness (traditional readings for Lent I).
One must choose, I suppose, but choices have consequences ...
Part One: So what are the consequences?
Part Two: Always a political project, always a spin job
Part Three: High deception level warning: "Darwin was not a eugenicist"
Next: Part One: So what are the consequences?
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