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EVOLUTION OR CREATION FOR SA SCHOOLS
By CFT friend Prof Grady McMurtry
Recently the Working Group on Values in Education; chaired by Professor
Wilmot James and at the request of the Minister of Education, Professor
Kader Asmal; presented a report promoting the idea that the teaching of
evolution in South African schools was essential to tolerance of all kinds,
especially tolerance of people of apparent different racial backgrounds.
The report stressed that good "race" relations would be fostered by
teaching evolution theory as the basis for our diversity.
This concept is totally flawed and the report should be rejected wholesale.
No person educated in the history of evolutionary philosophy would accept
such a premise. It is the teaching of Darwinianism that promotes human
racism, human intolerance and human hatred. This is the natural consequence
of the implementation of the concepts of "survival of the fittest" and
"natural selection."
What is it that makes one man think he is better than another? Most people
assume that racism only deals with color of skin, but it goes way beyond
that. Human racism is the belief that one person is better than another
person for any reason at all: color of skin, nationality, mental ability,
sex, etc.
It is a serious social problem that threatens the quality of peoples lives
and cherished values. We have all seen the damage that racism has done. Why
are we still dealing with this problem? The major reason is that for the
past 150 years the theory of evolution has been taught in schools and
evolutionary ideas are being sent throughout our society by our education
system, our media and our government. The religion of Charles Darwin is the
biggest reason for this. He believed in a superior white race. He also
believed that men are superior to women.
You may be saying to yourself, "How does evolution apply to this?" The
basic theory of evolution says that from one single-cell Amoeba came all of
life. This Amoeba supposedly evolved itself into new sub-species or races
of higher class, over and over again. Eventually people arrived and from
them the white man, the supposedly superior race. Therefore, in order for
people to get here, hundreds and maybe thousands of races had to become
extinct because they weren't good enough or intelligent enough to stay
around. So they died and we were left with all those inferior beings like
animals, black people, yellow people and women.
Now, you might say, "You can't be serious!" But, here is what Charles
Darwin once said about white men being superior. "I could show . . .
natural selection . . . doing more for the progress of civilization than
you seem inclined to admit. The more civilized so-called Caucasian races
have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to
the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower
races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout
the world." "At some future period, not very distant as measured by
centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and
replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the
anthropomorphous apes will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be
rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized
state, . . . than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead
of as at present between the Negro . . . and the gorilla."
Here is what Charles Darwin had to say about women. "It is generally
admitted that with women the powers of intuition, of rapid perception, and
perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man; but some . . .
of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of
a past and lower state of civilization. The chief distinction in the
intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man attaining to a higher
eminence, in whatever he takes up, than woman can attain whether requiring
deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and
hands."
Thomas Huxley, Darwin's close friend, said this about Africans: "No
rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is
the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. And if this be true,
it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, . . .
as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his
bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried
out by thoughts and not by bites."
You see that Darwin was a racist and that evolution is a racist theory.
When the world began to accept the concepts of evolution, the Creationist
teachings of one blood and one race, the human race, began to disappear.
Evolutionary concepts of superiority entered every area of life and people
truly began to believe them.
Karl Marx and Adolph Hitler formed many of their beliefs around the
concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest. White race
purity groups began to arise. Everything became segregated: public
transportation, public eating places, public schools. Signs were
everywhere: "FOR WHITES ONLY!" Most white people believed the lie of
racism, even some Christians.
There is only one race, the human race. "Races" is a purely evolutionary
terminology. Just because people have different skin color and different
facial features does not mean that there are different races, only that
there are people having different ethnic appearances. In fact there is
only one skin color pigment in humans.
How much melanin is in your skin, is determined genetically. It is a fact
that if you take two mulatto people and combine their genes you can get a
wide variety of skin tones ranging from very light to very dark in one
generation. There are no such things as different races and therefore there
should be no such thing as racism. However, there are always going to be
those people who want to believe that they are superior.
Racist ideas are still very prevalent today: predominantly white
neighborhoods versus predominantly black neighborhoods; black churches
versus white churches; etc. While some of these ideas may come about by
choice, most of them are because people still don't accept one another as
equals.
Everybody has his or her own solutions to the problem of racism:
affirmative action or legislation. If these are supposed to be such great
solutions, why don't we see major change? The government is attempting to
put Band-Aids on the cancer so they can cover up the real problem. As long
as evolution is being taught in the classroom, the Band-Aids will be ripped
off and the cancer will get bigger.
The solution to racism is to stop teaching evolution. When you stop
teaching evolution, you will stop telling children that they are better
than somebody else is because they are black or white, pretty or ugly,
smart or mentally challenged. If future generations were taught that
everyone is equal no matter your gender, age, skin color, or intelligence
level; we would eventually have a non-racist society. I know that it is a
pretty broad solution but it would work. If you teach children that they
came from monkeys, eventually they will start acting like monkeys. If you
teach children that were created equal and that they all came from one
blood, they will start acting like brothers and sisters. They will learn
to love one another and we will have a non-racist society. Recently the
Working Group on Values in Education; chaired by Professor Wilmot James and
at the request of the Minister of Education, Professor Kader Asmal;
presented a report promoting the idea that the teaching of evolution in
South African schools was essential to tolerance of all kinds, especially
tolerance of people of apparent different racial backgrounds. The report
stressed that good "race" relations would be fostered by teaching evolution
theory as the basis for our diversity.
This concept is totally flawed and the report should be rejected wholesale.
No person educated in the history of evolutionary philosophy would accept
such a premise. It is the teaching of Darwinianism that promotes human
racism, human intolerance and human hatred. This is the natural consequence
of the implementation of the concepts of "survival of the fittest" and
"natural selection."
What is it that makes one man think he is better than another? Most people
assume that racism only deals with color of skin, but it goes way beyond
that. Human racism is the belief that one person is better than another
person for any reason at all: color of skin, nationality, mental ability,
sex, etc.
It is a serious social problem that threatens the quality of peoples lives
and cherished values. We have all seen the damage that racism has done. Why
are we still dealing with this problem? The major reason is that for the
past 150 years the theory of evolution has been taught in schools and
evolutionary ideas are being sent throughout our society by our education
system, our media and our government. The religion of Charles Darwin is the
biggest reason for this. He believed in a superior white race. He also
believed that men are superior to women.
You may be saying to yourself, "How does evolution apply to this?" The
basic theory of evolution says that from one single-cell Amoeba came all of
life. This Amoeba supposedly evolved itself into new sub-species or races
of higher class, over and over again. Eventually people arrived and from
them the white man, the supposedly superior race. Therefore, in order for
people to get here, hundreds and maybe thousands of races had to become
extinct because they weren't good enough or intelligent enough to stay
around. So they died and we were left with all those inferior beings like
animals, black people, yellow people and women.
Now, you might say, "You can't be serious!" But, here is what Charles
Darwin once said about white men being superior. "I could show . . .
natural selection . . . doing more for the progress of civilization than
you seem inclined to admit. The more civilized so-called Caucasian races
have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to
the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower
races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout
the world." "At some future period, not very distant as measured by
centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and
replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the
anthropomorphous apes will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be
rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized
state, . . . than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead
of as at present between the Negro . . . and the gorilla."
Here is what Charles Darwin had to say about women. "It is generally
admitted that with women the powers of intuition, of rapid perception, and
perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than in man; but some . . .
of these faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of
a past and lower state of civilization. The chief distinction in the
intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man attaining to a higher
eminence, in whatever he takes up, than woman can attain whether requiring
deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and
hands."
Thomas Huxley, Darwin's close friend, said this about Africans: "No
rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is
the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. And if this be true,
it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, . . .
as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his
bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried
out by thoughts and not by bites."
You see that Darwin was a racist and that evolution is a racist theory.
When the world began to accept the concepts of evolution, the Creationist
teachings of one blood and one race, the human race, began to disappear.
Evolutionary concepts of superiority entered every area of life and people
truly began to believe them.
Karl Marx and Adolph Hitler formed many of their beliefs around the
concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest. White race
purity groups began to arise. Everything became segregated: public
transportation, public eating places, public schools. Signs were
everywhere: "FOR WHITES ONLY!" Most white people believed the lie of
racism, even some Christians.
There is only one race, the human race. "Races" is a purely evolutionary
terminology. Just because people have different skin color and different
facial features does not mean that there are different races, only that
there are people having different ethnic appearances. In fact there is
only one skin color pigment in humans.
How much melanin is in your skin, is determined genetically. It is a fact
that if you take two mulatto people and combine their genes you can get a
wide variety of skin tones ranging from very light to very dark in one
generation. There are no such things as different races and therefore there
should be no such thing as racism. However, there are always going to be
those people who want to believe that they are superior.
Racist ideas are still very prevalent today: predominantly white
neighborhoods versus predominantly black neighborhoods; black churches
versus white churches; etc. While some of these ideas may come about by
choice, most of them are because people still don't accept one another as
equals.
Everybody has his or her own solutions to the problem of racism:
affirmative action or legislation. If these are supposed to be such great
solutions, why don't we see major change? The government is attempting to
put Band-Aids on the cancer so they can cover up the real problem. As long
as evolution is being taught in the classroom, the Band-Aids will be ripped
off and the cancer will get bigger.
The solution to racism is to stop teaching evolution. When you stop
teaching evolution, you will stop telling children that they are better
than somebody else is because they are black or white, pretty or ugly,
smart or mentally challenged. If future generations were taught that
everyone is equal no matter your gender, age, skin color, or intelligence
level; we would eventually have a non-racist society. I know that it is a
pretty broad solution but it would work. If you teach children that they
came from monkeys, eventually they will start acting like monkeys. If you
teach children that were created equal and that they all came from one
blood, they will start acting like brothers and sisters. They will learn
to love one another and we will have a non-racist society.
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