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Against Evolution Part I Against Evolution A Theory Not Worthy of Catholic Credulity How the Bankrupt Theory of Evolution Has Overthrown the Genesis Account of the Fall with the Help of its Catholic Enablers by Christopher Ferrara God Separating the Lands and the Waters by Raphael When we descend to details, we can prove that no one is that God isn’t a good explanation, so we must wait and species has changed… hope that somebody comes up with a better one (emphasis -Charles Darwin, 1863 mine).”3 Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was a scientific mediocrity Through use and abuse of hidden postulates, who knew almost nothing of the emerging of bold, often ill-founded extrapolations, a Unproven, untestable, science of genetics being developed by the pseudo-science has been created. It is taking unrepeatable, Augustinian friar, Gregor Mendel (1822- root in the very heart of biology and is lead- 1884). For Darwin, cells were blobs of ing astray many biochemists and biologists… unverifiable and protoplasm easily altered by environmental -Pierre-Paul Grassé (Evolutionary Zoologist, 1973) therefore unscientific, conditions. Genetics would expose the na- iveté of his primitive hypothesis, leading to Introduction yet uncontainable in the more sophisticated but equally unbeliev- s the atheist ideologue its pretensions, neo- able neo-Darwinian “synthesis.” Given the Richard Dawkins famously Darwinism is another theory’s provenance in the intellectual crudi- observed in his oxymo- ties of nineteenth-century skepticism and ronically entitled The Blind Trojan Horse in the materialism, one would think that Catholics A Watchmaker, “Darwin made it City of God. would view it with the incredulity it de- possible to be an intellectually fulfilled athe- serves, holding it to the rigorous standards ist.”2 Darwinian and neo-Darwinian evolution provide the of proof that are supposed to apply to the sciences. atheist with a substitute for God, concealing the insuperable With the rise of Modernism in the Church, however, problem noted by Hume (as quoted by Dawkins): “I have came the rise of evolutionary thinking in theology, led by no explanation for complex biological design. All I know Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, neo-Modernism’s preeminent 6 Fall 2015 Against Evolution: Part I – A Theory Not Worthy of Catholic Credulity evolutionary mountebank (implicated in the Piltdown on reason because it is contrary to reason—indeed laugh- Man hoax) whose writings were twice condemned by the able in many of its preposterous contentions. It is long past Holy Office. Only weeks before the commencement of the time for Catholics to unite in opposing a materialist super- Second Vatican Council, the Holy Office under John XXIII stition masquerading as an empirical science. issued this monitum concerning Teilhard’s writings: The Evolutionary Superstition … it is sufficiently clear that the above-mentioned works The essence of the textbook theory of evolution is that abound in such ambiguities and indeed even serious er- the infinite variety of life is the result of fortuitous and rors, as to offend Catholic doctrine. unguided incremental changes in matter over vast amounts For this reason, the most eminent and most revered of time, beginning with lifeless molecules. The proposed Fathers of the Holy Office exhort all Ordinaries as well as mechanism for the evolutionary progress of molecules to the superiors of Religious institutes, rectors of seminar- men is itself constantly evolving to avoid falsification. ies, and presidents of universities, effectively to protect The innumerable transitional forms preceding emerg- the minds, particularly of the youth, against the dangers ing new species that Darwin expected the fossil record to presented by the works of Fr. Teilhard de Chardin and of show were never forthcoming, even though evolution by his followers.4 small mutations conserved by natural selection would logi- cally produce vastly more transitional than terminal forms. It is the burden of this series to Quite to the contrary, the “Cambrian show that, despite all protestations of explosion,” in which the basic body orthodoxy, the attempted reconcili- plans of the animal phyla appear ation of the Faith with the putative abruptly in the fossil record without “discoveries” of evolutionists has prior incipient stages, confounds inevitably eroded confidence in the evolutionists to this day, despite their de fide teaching on Creation, the flimsy attempts to explain away this basic elements of historical truth massive embarrassment for their indispensable to the integrity of the beloved theory. Genesis account, and thus the foun- Pierre-Paul Grassé, the eminent dation of the dogma of Original Sin. French evolutionary zoologist and As we shall see here, the constitu- one time President of the French ency in the Church that can fairly Academy of Sciences, admitted in be called neo-Catholic (a form of God Creating the Animals by Raphael 1977 that: “conservative” Catholicism with liberal features akin to political neo- Evolution is not a scientific The lack of concrete evidence rela- conservatism) has joined the neo-Mod- tive to the ‘heyday’ of evolution [the ernists in pronouncing the death of the theory, even though it has Cambrian explosion] seriously impairs traditional account of the Fall. Bereft arrogated to itself the dignity any transformist theory… a shadow is of the guidance of the Magisterium cast over the genesis [!] of the funda- for an alternative account, they devise of a testable empirical mental structural plans and we are their own versions of how, in a world proposition. A theory that can unable to eliminate it…. The lack of in which men evolved from ape-like never be falsified because direct evidence leads to the formulation ancestors, Original Sin could have been of pure conjectures as to the genesis of transmitted to the entire human race by it simply concocts a new the phyla; we do not even have a basis one man, and how all humanity could hypothesis to save itself is not to determine the extent to which these have descended from two first parents. opinions are correct.5 Unproven, untestable, unrepeatable, science but superstition. unverifiable and therefore unscientific, Concerning the Cambrian explo- yet uncontainable in its pretensions, neo-Darwinism is an- sion, the Chinese paleontologist Jun-Yuan Chen, an expert other Trojan Horse in the City of God. But our neo-Catholic in the Cambrian shale at Chengjiang, China, remarked: “In brethren, always eager to disparage “Catholic fundamental- China we can criticize Darwin, but not the government; in ism,” have not hesitated to open the horse’s belly and invite America, you can criticize the government, but not Dar- what is inside to wreak havoc in the Church. They aid and win.”6 The same is true within the post-conciliar Church: all abet the conquering march of a pseudoscience with no claim are free to engage in “higher criticism” of Sacred Scripture Fall 2015 7 Against Evolution: Part I – A Theory Not Worthy of Catholic Credulity with voluptuous abandon, but thunderous mockery and transcription. But how did DNA “evolve” this function objurgation greet those few hardy souls who dare to utter a without RNA already being present to serve as the tran- peep against Sacred Evolution. script, and how did single-stranded RNA interface with its Yet as neo-Catholics kowtow to neo-Darwinism’s “syn- double-stranded DNA complement, which had to uncoil thetic model” of “natural selection” conserving a gradual itself for this purpose, especially in view of RNA’s un- accumulation of random genetic changes, that model is stable, mutation-prone nature? Then there is the question under increasing pressure from revi- how the DNA code, written in what sionists within the evolution estab- Gould called “machine language,” lishment who know a loser when they was compiled in the first place.10 see one. As early as 1980 the late In The Origins of Life: A New View Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard, then (p. 294), evolutionary revisionist the world’s most renowned evolu- Stuart Kaufman states the obvious tionist, reluctantly conceded that it about this fundamental biogenetic would seem that model “as a gen- system: “Its emergence seems to re- eral proposition, is effectively dead, quire its prior existence.” Undaunted despite its persistence as textbook by the obvious—as evolutionists orthodoxy.”7 It was Gould who posed always are—Kaufman proposes a an obvious question “fundamentalist” “new view” of the “self-organization” critics of evolution have been asking of polymeric molecules even more for decades: “Of what possible use implausible than the previous “new are the imperfect incipient stages of views.”11 In evolution theory what useful structures? What good is half Kaufman calls an “elegant body of 8 a jaw or half a wing?” And it was The Attributes of Science by Jean-Baptiste_Simeon Chardin ideas” keeps the show going, even he who famously admitted what was if observation or experiment cannot always evident: “the fossil record confirm them. contains precious little in the way Within the post-conciliar And what of the building block of intermediate forms; transitions Church all are free to of animal life, the eukaryotic cell? between major groups are character- Evolutionists have no credible istically abrupt.” engage in “higher criticism” explanation for how mindless pro- In an attempt to keep Darwinism of Sacred Scripture with cesses could produce a biological alive, neo-Darwinians have grafted voluptuous abandon, but world-within-a-world consisting various ad hoc hypotheses onto of an outer membrane, cytoplasm, Darwin’s creaky old theory, includ- thunderous mockery and organelles, an intricate folded reticu- ing “genetic drift,” Gould-Eldredge’s objurgation greet those few lum and a nucleus, surrounded by its “punctuated equilibrium” (abrupt mu- own double-layered lipid membrane tational leaps, conveniently bypassing hardy souls who dare to with pores for the passage of selected fossilized intermediates), genetic utter a peep against Sacred molecules and ions, packed with recombination, Gould-Lewontin’s Evolution.
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