Conspiracy Theories

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Permalink Reply by Colin Newton on September 5, 2010 at 9:26am

In a spiritual sense, we can be pretty sure that the devil is trying to orchestrate a conspiracy against Christianity, and has been doing so for the last 2000 years. Given that, I doubt that it matters much whether the individual human players in it are aware of the overall picture. Similarly, we can advance God's purposes without being fully aware of all the details of his plan.

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Permalink Reply by Victoria Mabry on September 5, 2010 at 2:47pm

It's fascinating that I just came across this blog post. I am reading Dr. Henry Morris's book, "The Long War Against God," which I very highly recommend. From that book, I wrote my blog post of 9/3/10, "Darwin's Publication of Origins & The Evil Underpinnings of th... I am interested to read the sedin.org article and to take a look at your website. I would love your take/comments on my blog, too. God bless you, victoria

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Permalink Reply by Alexander Martin on September 11, 2010 at 4:50pm

I don't find it to be as much a conspiracy as a modern attemp to bring about a new political structure. The following is some of the info I've put together for a book I'm in the process of writing but it is obviously borrowed from other books. I'd cite the material but I'm too lazy right now so hopefully I don't get dinged for plagerism:

The 18th Century has been called the Age of Reason, due to its belief in the innate power of the human intellect. It is a period that has also been called the Enlightenment, a term reflecting the belief of the key thinkers of the era that their new ideas would erase what they viewed as the intellectual darkness imposed upon the minds of man by Christian traditions and Biblical authority. Because the philosophies of this period sought for absolute human freedom - to think and act apart from God - the period ended in the atrocities of the French Revolution.

The cause of the Enlightenment was the continued influence of the Renaissance developed in the Catholic universities of the countries that rejected the Reformation. Roman Catholic thought has always sought to make Christianity a supplement to humanism. The Enlightenment was full of anti-religious sentiment. There was a conviction among intellectuals to advocate religious toleration as a matter of principle because they thought that all religious beliefs were equally false and thus all should be equally tolerated. Voltaire rejoiced that, in a society where there were many religious groups, all of them would be weak. French philosophers admired reason and elevated it above all else, including faith in the Bible. Man’s ability to think - along with his alleged innate capacity to do good - would be his best hope for salvation. Some rationalists became Deists and opposed Christian teachings. They believed in a Creator-God but thought he didn’t involve himself in his Creation. He didn’t control history or had any purpose for what went on here. Elements of Deism were absorbed by Unitarianism.

The humanist thinkers Voltaire (1694-1778) and Rousseau (1712-1778) in France saw religion as the root of mankind’s problems and began to visualize a socialist Utopia where there would be no place for priest or king. Voltaire openly mocked all authority, sacred and secular. Rousseau, with his bizarre notions about nearly everything, was often called the father of the Enlightenment. He claimed that people in a natural state are basically good. Civilization, however, corrupts them. In The Social Contract (1762) he advocated government should follow the general will. If individuals try to place their own interests above the general will, inequalities and injustice result. Those who try to do this must be forced to obey the general will of the social collective. He did not realize that forcing a person to behave according to the general will could lead to the most vicious form of tyranny. Nevertheless, these ideas became central doctrines of socialism and communism in later years. Rousseau viewed government as based on the will of the people, rather than on laws appointed by the will of God. Voltaire often said about the Church, “Crush the infamous thing!” “It took twelve men to establish Christianity, I will show the world that it will take but one man to destroy it.” Satan was gunning to conquer and corrupt the whole of the Christian world and history will show that he’s made great strides in doing just that. Satan had a devious plan that was just beginning to unfold. He would try fighting his war using multiple fronts. He would beat them ideologically and continue trying to take them out by force.

In 1764 Erasmus Darwin, the Grandfather of Charles, founded the Lunar Society of Birmingham. It was composed of fourteen of the most influential citizens of England and sought the advancement of a secular society. They were extremely anti-Christian and sought to rid society of the Church and absolute monarchy, at the root of which was claimed to be the Bible (absolute monarchs claimed their position was given to them by God). The Lunar Society had formed because there was little hope of driving the people to revolution against God and king because of both the Glorious Revolution and the Great Awakening led by John Wesley in England. The Bible was recognized as the greatest obstacle to the socialists’ aims. Casting doubt on such stories as the Virgin birth and the Resurrection was too blatant, but by reaching into the very foundations of the Bible, the accounts of the Creation and the Flood, more subtle means could be employed. The members of this influential group were on intimate terms with Voltaire and Rousseau. Rousseau had been exiled from France and was invited to Scotland. He was given hospitality and communed with both Erasmus Darwin and the father of Charles Lyell whom we will learn more about momentarily. It was through this vehicle that Satan would wheel in his ultimate ideological weapon, a weapon that targeted the mind. He had figured out how to capture the scientific community. Secularist thought was beginning to succeed because a small group, the elite educated by Catholic schools and ideology, was able to undemocratically force their policies on the religious masses.

Unfortunately, secular humanism had been codified and made dominant on the college campus by the middle of the Eighteenth century in France and in other European countries. Secular humanism had no conception of the fallen nature of humanity. Instead it had bought from Rousseau the false concept that man is really very good and that proper education will enable him to make right choices for himself and all mankind. The French participation in the American war created an enormous debt for France, and this debt added to the financial crisis which was already skidding the French state toward bankruptcy. Many peasants began starving in the streets. When word of this reached the queen, Marie Antoinette, she gave her famous quote, “Let them eat cake.”

Following the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution, which had both been a result of reformation thinking, the political atmosphere had begun to change. The older forms of government centering around monarchs or conquerors began to give way to the new ideas that had been generated by both the Reformation and the Enlightenment. The financial conditions in France created a revolutionary attitude and in 1789 a mob of people stormed the Bastille which was a prison holding many enemies of the monarchy. When the Bastille fell, the fiery imaginations of the people rose; and all over the world the news roused visions of the dawn of a utopian new era of citizen power.

The next year the French composed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens. It was patterned after the English Bill of Rights in 1689 and the American Bill of Rights. With the people now in power a mob mentality developed and in 1793 Louis XVI was beheaded and a Reign of Terror began in France. Soon after, Marie Antoinette and thousands of others were beheaded at the guillotine. Of over 40,000 murdered, more than two-thirds were peasants. It appeared that this revolution was certainly not for the people. It was the example of what unfettered freedom brings. As an example of the failure of the French revolution, over the next several years over a hundred constitutions were drafted but all ended in failure. France became ruled by tyranny.

The objectives of the French Revolution had been to rid society of church and king, at the root of which stood the Bible. To the Terrorists, the Revolution was a greater event than the birth of Christ. Its leaders therefore replaced the historic Christian calendar and proclaimed September 21, 1792, the day the monarchy ended, as the first day of Year 1 of a new epoch in history.

Satan had intended the Revolution to be an event that would sweep Europe and drive God from the continent. The French Revolution was a historic horror of monstrous proportions, committed in the name of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” It was the triumph of humanism and became the model for all socialistic revolutions in modern history. Soon many other European countries began hosting their own revolutions, even consuming Germany for a time. On the immediate heels of the verbal ferment of “Enlightenment” had come bloody and oppressive revolutions. Yet the problems of society did not disappear. They still found injustice, prejudice, crime, greed, selfishness, political oppression, and war. In fact, the deeper the philosophies of the Enlightenment became ingrained in Western society, the more intense these social problems became. However, the revolutions failed to take the countries in which the Great Awakening had been the strongest and Satan had failed again to wipe God’s people off the face of the Earth.

In the countries where the “Enlightenment” was dominant, violence, bloodshed, and turmoil ushered in a revolution. A revolution is motivated by a desire for autonomous freedom from God’s authority as expressed in biblical revelation. It results in violent overthrow of a government based on a radical humanistic reordering of the whole social order apart from God’s law. In the countries where the Reformation was dominant, despotism was replaced by means of reformation. A political reformation or war for independence is motivated by a biblical view of liberty to serve God according to His Word. This results in a rejection of all forms of political tyranny, wherein man exalts himself above the law of God. While revolution seeks for freedom, it brings a worse form of tyranny. A political reformation based upon biblical truth is the only foundation of true freedom. Thus the French Revolution brought destruction and chaos, while the Puritan political reformations brought true liberty and peace.

It was during this time that the Lunar Society of Birmingham started making the first of their destructive efforts. These were the first pebbles that began the avalanche. In 1794 Erasmus Darwin published his major work in destroying the foundations of the Bible. It was titled Zoonomia and contained all the elements of the theory his grandson would make popular: evolution. This was the first effective drop in preparing the minds of the people for the flood that was to come. The next major product was published by the Scotsman named James Hutton the very next year in 1795. His book was titled Theory of the Earth and popularized a concept known as uniformitarianism which implied that the earth was much older than indicated in the Bible. This successfully put into question the time frame and thus the reliability of a literal interpretation of the Bible. The Church didn’t quite know how to handle ideas like these. At first they tried to censor them but that proved to be unsuccessful. Geology had always been interpreted as the work of the Biblical Flood. Hutton’s concept seemed to give an alternative rational explanation that appealed to many people.

Charles Lyell was born the year James Hutton died but was to be his greatest follower in geology. He was educated in law and acquired quite a reputation for being a most persuasive lawyer. For this reason the Royal Society, founded by the Lunar Society of Birmingham, adopted him as a fellow of the society and in 1830 he published his most famous book entitled Principles of Geology which in the minds of the public of that time refuted the multiple catastrophist theory of Georges Cuvier. The historian Alex Marton recounts the situation like this:

“In the 18th century, the winds of democracy from America and the Attacks of
thinkers like Locke and Rousseau, among others, questioned the Monarchy as the
natural form of government. Liberalism was moving and its method was to go
after Biblical Geology (specifically the Flood) in order to disarm the
Monarchists…. What the liberal middle class wanted was reform in Parliament,
but traditional theological doctrine stood in the way. Paley’s Natural Theology
claimed that sovereignty descended from God to the King…. There was only one
way to reform Parliament, and that was to destroy Paley’s Natural Theology - and
the only way to do that was to discredit the catastrophist notions of its religious
defenders who sought to reconcile the geological evidence with the story of
Genesis… a young Whig lawyer named Charles Lyell decided to take a novel
approach: in his Principles of Geology, he argued against the catastrophists by
saying that the diluvial theory was, in effect, mythological, and that it stood in the
way of progress in geology…. After some early skirmishes, Darwin’s “theory of
evolution” won the day - a mechanistic theory subservient to and dependent upon
geological uniformitarianism.”

Lyell, blatantly exposing his conscious struggle against the Church, said:

“If we don’t irritate, which I fear that we may,… we shall carry all with us. If you
don’t triumph over them, but compliment the liberality and candor of the present
age, the bishops and enlightened saints will join us in despising both the ancient
and modern physico-theologians…. I conceived the idea five or six years ago, that
if ever the Mosaic geology could be set down without giving offence, it would be
in an historical sketch…. Let them feel it, and point the moral.”

The Church was again without a defense concerning a global flood. Lyell went on to develop strategraphy and created the Geologic column which was patterned after the ideas of the Great Chain of Being. This would later be used as one of the greatest proofs of evolution. It however was not based on the evidence found, as the popular evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould observes, “Charles Lyell was a lawyer by profession, and his book is one of the most brilliant briefs ever published by an advocate…. Lyell relied upon two bits of cunning to establish his uniformitarian view as the only true geology…. Lyell imposed his imagination upon the evidence.”

During this time in Europe Satan was preparing a man whose ideas would damn millions of God’s people. Carl Marx had made himself known as an influential socialist. Marx had been heavily influenced by his father Heinrich who knew Voltaire and Rousseau by heart. Rousseau played a big part in Marx’ ideologies. Rousseau had rejected the doctrine of original sin and held instead that it was the advance of civilization that had corrupted society. Therefore, civilization, as represented by capitalism, royal government, and a long-established church, needed to be rejected. Man must immerse himself in a back-to-nature movement. Marx had rationalized, “Religion is man’s escape from unpleasant reality. It is the opium of the people. Since man is a living creature, and not an abstract being crouching outside the world, his pursuit of religion is an illusion. It cannot solve his real problems. To achieve the real happiness of the people, it is necessary to abolish the illusory religious one.” Of course this was just clever semantics to mask Satan’s true hatred of God’s plan for mankind.

In 1847 Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. Communism is first of all atheism. At the core of its philosophy and conduct is the conviction and oft-repeated announcement “There is no God.” Marx attempted to put communism in a historical perspective. He believed in dialectical materialism which perceived that a wave motion is built into the fabric of time and history. Nature itself persistently attempted to rise in successive waves of historical progress, each wave overwhelming the existing status quo. He viewed this as an evolutionary process putting power consecutively into the hands of the masses. He became very popular and began accumulating quite a following. Satan would ultimately use these ideas of communism to do battle again with God’s people in an attempt to take over the world.

Satan had prepared his favorite disciple whose word would be the most effective
in combating the truth contained in the Bible. Charles Darwin, the Grandson of Erasmus, was raised a Unitarian although his father was an atheist. He became a theologian, which had high public status, only after he had failed at becoming a doctor because he did not have the stomach for medicine. He was heavily influenced by his grandfather’s book Zoonomia, and Charles Lyell’s book Principles of Geology. Lyell in fact was his closest friend and associate and encouraged him to write his book Origin of Species in 1859. The book became very influential and began changing the whole mindset of the people. Charles Darwin exposed his own consensual involvement in his grandfather’s elaborate scheme, ultimately deriving from Satan’s hate of God’s plan, when he wrote, “Lyell is most firmly convinced that he has shaken the faith in the Deluge far more efficiently by never having said a word against the Bible than if he had acted otherwise…. I have read lately Morley’s Life of Voltaire and he insists strongly that direct attacks against Christianity produce little permanent effect; real good seems only to follow slow and silent side attacks.”

Evolution had severe implications for Christianity: Darwin had served his purpose. His theologian status created a nice effect when Darwin painted a picture of how he had believed in God but slowly lost his faith as he discovered the “truth.” This story was far from the truth, however, as anyone can see when you take into account that he was bred to oppose Christianity as all his ties indicate.

Carl Marx became very excited about the implications of evolution and thought that here was proof of his dialectic materialism ideas. In 1867 Marx wrote his famous book Das Kapital which became very influential with masses of people. Admiring Darwin he asked if he could dedicate the book to him but Darwin refused thinking it was too blatantly atheistic and would color his subtlety with the minds of Christians. That subtlety continues to be aggressively maintained today. If you ask an evolutionist if evolution has any religious implications they will adamantly deny it and claim evolution is completely compatible with a literal interpretation of the Bible and does not rule God out of reality.

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Permalink Reply by Ron Craig on September 11, 2010 at 4:59pm

WOW! Think I'll eat some wheaties before reading this one all the way through! LOL!

Alexander Martin said:

I don't find it to be as much a conspiracy as a modern attemp to bring about a new political structure. The following is some of the info I've put together for a book I'm in the process of writing but it is obviously borrowed from other books. I'd cite the material but I'm too lazy right now so hopefully I don't get dinged for plagerism:

The 18th Century has been called the Age of Reason, due to its belief in the innate power of the human intellect. It is a period that has also been called the Enlightenment, a term reflecting the belief of the key thinkers of the era that their new ideas would erase what they viewed as the intellectual darkness imposed upon the minds of man by Christian traditions and Biblical authority. Because the philosophies of this period sought for absolute human freedom - to think and act apart from God - the period ended in the atrocities of the French Revolution.

The cause of the Enlightenment was the continued influence of the Renaissance developed in the Catholic universities of the countries that rejected the Reformation. Roman Catholic thought has always sought to make Christianity a supplement to humanism. The Enlightenment was full of anti-religious sentiment. There was a conviction among intellectuals to advocate religious toleration as a matter of principle because they thought that all religious beliefs were equally false and thus all should be equally tolerated. Voltaire rejoiced that, in a society where there were many religious groups, all of them would be weak. French philosophers admired reason and elevated it above all else, including faith in the Bible. Man’s ability to think - along with his alleged innate capacity to do good - would be his best hope for salvation. Some rationalists became Deists and opposed Christian teachings. They believed in a Creator-God but thought he didn’t involve himself in his Creation. He didn’t control history or had any purpose for what went on here. Elements of Deism were absorbed by Unitarianism.

The humanist thinkers Voltaire (1694-1778) and Rousseau (1712-1778) in France saw religion as the root of mankind’s problems and began to visualize a socialist Utopia where there would be no place for priest or king. Voltaire openly mocked all authority, sacred and secular. Rousseau, with his bizarre notions about nearly everything, was often called the father of the Enlightenment. He claimed that people in a natural state are basically good. Civilization, however, corrupts them. In The Social Contract (1762) he advocated government should follow the general will. If individuals try to place their own interests above the general will, inequalities and injustice result. Those who try to do this must be forced to obey the general will of the social collective. He did not realize that forcing a person to behave according to the general will could lead to the most vicious form of tyranny. Nevertheless, these ideas became central doctrines of socialism and communism in later years. Rousseau viewed government as based on the will of the people, rather than on laws appointed by the will of God. Voltaire often said about the Church, “Crush the infamous thing!” “It took twelve men to establish Christianity, I will show the world that it will take but one man to destroy it.” Satan was gunning to conquer and corrupt the whole of the Christian world and history will show that he’s made great strides in doing just that. Satan had a devious plan that was just beginning to unfold. He would try fighting his war using multiple fronts. He would beat them ideologically and continue trying to take them out by force.

In 1764 Erasmus Darwin, the Grandfather of Charles, founded the Lunar Society of Birmingham. It was composed of fourteen of the most influential citizens of England and sought the advancement of a secular society. They were extremely anti-Christian and sought to rid society of the Church and absolute monarchy, at the root of which was claimed to be the Bible (absolute monarchs claimed their position was given to them by God). The Lunar Society had formed because there was little hope of driving the people to revolution against God and king because of both the Glorious Revolution and the Great Awakening led by John Wesley in England. The Bible was recognized as the greatest obstacle to the socialists’ aims. Casting doubt on such stories as the Virgin birth and the Resurrection was too blatant, but by reaching into the very foundations of the Bible, the accounts of the Creation and the Flood, more subtle means could be employed. The members of this influential group were on intimate terms with Voltaire and Rousseau. Rousseau had been exiled from France and was invited to Scotland. He was given hospitality and communed with both Erasmus Darwin and the father of Charles Lyell whom we will learn more about momentarily. It was through this vehicle that Satan would wheel in his ultimate ideological weapon, a weapon that targeted the mind. He had figured out how to capture the scientific community. Secularist thought was beginning to succeed because a small group, the elite educated by Catholic schools and ideology, was able to undemocratically force their policies on the religious masses.

Unfortunately, secular humanism had been codified and made dominant on the college campus by the middle of the Eighteenth century in France and in other European countries. Secular humanism had no conception of the fallen nature of humanity. Instead it had bought from Rousseau the false concept that man is really very good and that proper education will enable him to make right choices for himself and all mankind. The French participation in the American war created an enormous debt for France, and this debt added to the financial crisis which was already skidding the French state toward bankruptcy. Many peasants began starving in the streets. When word of this reached the queen, Marie Antoinette, she gave her famous quote, “Let them eat cake.”

Following the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution, which had both been a result of reformation thinking, the political atmosphere had begun to change. The older forms of government centering around monarchs or conquerors began to give way to the new ideas that had been generated by both the Reformation and the Enlightenment. The financial conditions in France created a revolutionary attitude and in 1789 a mob of people stormed the Bastille which was a prison holding many enemies of the monarchy. When the Bastille fell, the fiery imaginations of the people rose; and all over the world the news roused visions of the dawn of a utopian new era of citizen power.

The next year the French composed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens. It was patterned after the English Bill of Rights in 1689 and the American Bill of Rights. With the people now in power a mob mentality developed and in 1793 Louis XVI was beheaded and a Reign of Terror began in France. Soon after, Marie Antoinette and thousands of others were beheaded at the guillotine. Of over 40,000 murdered, more than two-thirds were peasants. It appeared that this revolution was certainly not for the people. It was the example of what unfettered freedom brings. As an example of the failure of the French revolution, over the next several years over a hundred constitutions were drafted but all ended in failure. France became ruled by tyranny.

The objectives of the French Revolution had been to rid society of church and king, at the root of which stood the Bible. To the Terrorists, the Revolution was a greater event than the birth of Christ. Its leaders therefore replaced the historic Christian calendar and proclaimed September 21, 1792, the day the monarchy ended, as the first day of Year 1 of a new epoch in history.

Satan had intended the Revolution to be an event that would sweep Europe and drive God from the continent. The French Revolution was a historic horror of monstrous proportions, committed in the name of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.” It was the triumph of humanism and became the model for all socialistic revolutions in modern history. Soon many other European countries began hosting their own revolutions, even consuming Germany for a time. On the immediate heels of the verbal ferment of “Enlightenment” had come bloody and oppressive revolutions. Yet the problems of society did not disappear. They still found injustice, prejudice, crime, greed, selfishness, political oppression, and war. In fact, the deeper the philosophies of the Enlightenment became ingrained in Western society, the more intense these social problems became. However, the revolutions failed to take the countries in which the Great Awakening had been the strongest and Satan had failed again to wipe God’s people off the face of the Earth.

In the countries where the “Enlightenment” was dominant, violence, bloodshed, and turmoil ushered in a revolution. A revolution is motivated by a desire for autonomous freedom from God’s authority as expressed in biblical revelation. It results in violent overthrow of a government based on a radical humanistic reordering of the whole social order apart from God’s law. In the countries where the Reformation was dominant, despotism was replaced by means of reformation. A political reformation or war for independence is motivated by a biblical view of liberty to serve God according to His Word. This results in a rejection of all forms of political tyranny, wherein man exalts himself above the law of God. While revolution seeks for freedom, it brings a worse form of tyranny. A political reformation based upon biblical truth is the only foundation of true freedom. Thus the French Revolution brought destruction and chaos, while the Puritan political reformations brought true liberty and peace.

It was during this time that the Lunar Society of Birmingham started making the first of their destructive efforts. These were the first pebbles that began the avalanche. In 1794 Erasmus Darwin published his major work in destroying the foundations of the Bible. It was titled Zoonomia and contained all the elements of the theory his grandson would make popular: evolution. This was the first effective drop in preparing the minds of the people for the flood that was to come. The next major product was published by the Scotsman named James Hutton the very next year in 1795. His book was titled Theory of the Earth and popularized a concept known as uniformitarianism which implied that the earth was much older than indicated in the Bible. This successfully put into question the time frame and thus the reliability of a literal interpretation of the Bible. The Church didn’t quite know how to handle ideas like these. At first they tried to censor them but that proved to be unsuccessful. Geology had always been interpreted as the work of the Biblical Flood. Hutton’s concept seemed to give an alternative rational explanation that appealed to many people.

Charles Lyell was born the year James Hutton died but was to be his greatest follower in geology. He was educated in law and acquired quite a reputation for being a most persuasive lawyer. For this reason the Royal Society, founded by the Lunar Society of Birmingham, adopted him as a fellow of the society and in 1830 he published his most famous book entitled Principles of Geology which in the minds of the public of that time refuted the multiple catastrophist theory of Georges Cuvier. The historian Alex Marton recounts the situation like this:

“In the 18th century, the winds of democracy from America and the Attacks of
thinkers like Locke and Rousseau, among others, questioned the Monarchy as the
natural form of government. Liberalism was moving and its method was to go
after Biblical Geology (specifically the Flood) in order to disarm the
Monarchists…. What the liberal middle class wanted was reform in Parliament,
but traditional theological doctrine stood in the way. Paley’s Natural Theology
claimed that sovereignty descended from God to the King…. There was only one
way to reform Parliament, and that was to destroy Paley’s Natural Theology - and
the only way to do that was to discredit the catastrophist notions of its religious
defenders who sought to reconcile the geological evidence with the story of
Genesis… a young Whig lawyer named Charles Lyell decided to take a novel
approach: in his Principles of Geology, he argued against the catastrophists by
saying that the diluvial theory was, in effect, mythological, and that it stood in the
way of progress in geology…. After some early skirmishes, Darwin’s “theory of
evolution” won the day - a mechanistic theory subservient to and dependent upon
geological uniformitarianism.”

Lyell, blatantly exposing his conscious struggle against the Church, said:

“If we don’t irritate, which I fear that we may,… we shall carry all with us. If you
don’t triumph over them, but compliment the liberality and candor of the present
age, the bishops and enlightened saints will join us in despising both the ancient
and modern physico-theologians…. I conceived the idea five or six years ago, that
if ever the Mosaic geology could be set down without giving offence, it would be
in an historical sketch…. Let them feel it, and point the moral.”

The Church was again without a defense concerning a global flood. Lyell went on to develop strategraphy and created the Geologic column which was patterned after the ideas of the Great Chain of Being. This would later be used as one of the greatest proofs of evolution. It however was not based on the evidence found, as the popular evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould observes, “Charles Lyell was a lawyer by profession, and his book is one of the most brilliant briefs ever published by an advocate…. Lyell relied upon two bits of cunning to establish his uniformitarian view as the only true geology…. Lyell imposed his imagination upon the evidence.”

During this time in Europe Satan was preparing a man whose ideas would damn millions of God’s people. Carl Marx had made himself known as an influential socialist. Marx had been heavily influenced by his father Heinrich who knew Voltaire and Rousseau by heart. Rousseau played a big part in Marx’ ideologies. Rousseau had rejected the doctrine of original sin and held instead that it was the advance of civilization that had corrupted society. Therefore, civilization, as represented by capitalism, royal government, and a long-established church, needed to be rejected. Man must immerse himself in a back-to-nature movement. Marx had rationalized, “Religion is man’s escape from unpleasant reality. It is the opium of the people. Since man is a living creature, and not an abstract being crouching outside the world, his pursuit of religion is an illusion. It cannot solve his real problems. To achieve the real happiness of the people, it is necessary to abolish the illusory religious one.” Of course this was just clever semantics to mask Satan’s true hatred of God’s plan for mankind.

In 1847 Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. Communism is first of all atheism. At the core of its philosophy and conduct is the conviction and oft-repeated announcement “There is no God.” Marx attempted to put communism in a historical perspective. He believed in dialectical materialism which perceived that a wave motion is built into the fabric of time and history. Nature itself persistently attempted to rise in successive waves of historical progress, each wave overwhelming the existing status quo. He viewed this as an evolutionary process putting power consecutively into the hands of the masses. He became very popular and began accumulating quite a following. Satan would ultimately use these ideas of communism to do battle again with God’s people in an attempt to take over the world.

Satan had prepared his favorite disciple whose word would be the most effective
in combating the truth contained in the Bible. Charles Darwin, the Grandson of Erasmus, was raised a Unitarian although his father was an atheist. He became a theologian, which had high public status, only after he had failed at becoming a doctor because he did not have the stomach for medicine. He was heavily influenced by his grandfather’s book Zoonomia, and Charles Lyell’s book Principles of Geology. Lyell in fact was his closest friend and associate and encouraged him to write his book Origin of Species in 1859. The book became very influential and began changing the whole mindset of the people. Charles Darwin exposed his own consensual involvement in his grandfather’s elaborate scheme, ultimately deriving from Satan’s hate of God’s plan, when he wrote, “Lyell is most firmly convinced that he has shaken the faith in the Deluge far more efficiently by never having said a word against the Bible than if he had acted otherwise…. I have read lately Morley’s Life of Voltaire and he insists strongly that direct attacks against Christianity produce little permanent effect; real good seems only to follow slow and silent side attacks.”

Evolution had severe implications for Christianity: Darwin had served his purpose. His theologian status created a nice effect when Darwin painted a picture of how he had believed in God but slowly lost his faith as he discovered the “truth.” This story was far from the truth, however, as anyone can see when you take into account that he was bred to oppose Christianity as all his ties indicate.

Carl Marx became very excited about the implications of evolution and thought that here was proof of his dialectic materialism ideas. In 1867 Marx wrote his famous book Das Kapital which became very influential with masses of people. Admiring Darwin he asked if he could dedicate the book to him but Darwin refused thinking it was too blatantly atheistic and would color his subtlety with the minds of Christians. That subtlety continues to be aggressively maintained today. If you ask an evolutionist if evolution has any religious implications they will adamantly deny it and claim evolution is completely compatible with a literal interpretation of the Bible and does not rule God out of reality.

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Permalink Reply by Alexander Martin on September 11, 2010 at 8:10pm

Hey Nick, I read the article you posted. It's really upsetting to see how the evidence was systematically reinterpreted for a specific paradigm and them presented as if the evidence objectively supported that view of reality. Society needs to wake up from the idea that science is objective and the things the scientific community feeds us is reality. Something has to be done to open people's eyes.

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Permalink Reply by Victoria Mabry on September 11, 2010 at 8:30pm

I've "stopped following" this string. God bless you all.

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Permalink Reply by Ron Craig on September 11, 2010 at 8:44pm

Couldn't agree more Alex!

Alexander Martin said:

Hey Nick, I read the article you posted. It's really upsetting to see how the evidence was systematically reinterpreted for a specific paradigm and them presented as if the evidence objectively supported that view of reality. Society needs to wake up from the idea that science is objective and the things the scientific community feeds us is reality. Something has to be done to open people's eyes.

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Permalink Reply by Terrance Egolf on September 11, 2010 at 11:35pm

Nick,

It really wasn't a conspiracy, as if it were done in secret. Read Lyell and Hutton's public writings, and you will find that their intent was to wrest geology from the biblical catastrophists so they could finally eliminate the influence of religion in science. Darwin picked up on this theme for biology. Later in the century, Tyndall, of the Tyndall Effect fame, became a key figure in public speaking on both sides of the Atlantic as an atheistic rationalist supporting uniformitarianism and biological evolution.

Terry

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Permalink Reply by Alexander Martin on September 12, 2010 at 8:18pm

Now that you've had your Wheaties, Ron, did you learn anything new from my post or had you heard it all before?

D. Ron Craig said:

Couldn't agree more Alex!

Alexander Martin said:

Hey Nick, I read the article you posted. It's really upsetting to see how the evidence was systematically reinterpreted for a specific paradigm and them presented as if the evidence objectively supported that view of reality. Society needs to wake up from the idea that science is objective and the things the scientific community feeds us is reality. Something has to be done to open people's eyes.

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Permalink Reply by Ron Craig on September 12, 2010 at 9:32pm

Outstanding Alexander!
Yes, much of these histories I have read or heard before from various sources, but you have deftly woven them together into a captivating read.

I answered Paul in an earlier post and named Rousseau, Lyell, Hutton, and Darwin, and spoke of their "anti-biblical dispositions" so to speak. Needless to say, he didn't quite concur with my logic or histories (lol!)

It has been well said, and I forget to whom the quote is attributed that; "The Word of God is an anvil that has worn out many hammers".

Once you publish, please let me know how I can get my hands on a copy. Ron

Alexander Martin said:

Now that you've had your Wheaties, Ron, did you learn anything new from my post or had you heard it all before?

D. Ron Craig said:

Couldn't agree more Alex!

Alexander Martin said:

Hey Nick, I read the article you posted. It's really upsetting to see how the evidence was systematically reinterpreted for a specific paradigm and them presented as if the evidence objectively supported that view of reality. Society needs to wake up from the idea that science is objective and the things the scientific community feeds us is reality. Something has to be done to open people's eyes.

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Permalink Reply by Victoria Mabry on September 12, 2010 at 9:59pm

Alex and Ron, If either of you hasn't read Dr. Henry Morris's, "The Long War Against God," I highly recommend it. He goes into a lot of detail about the "conspiracy" of evolutionists. I touch on a few of his points in two of my blog posts on my new website. I try to write simply and plainly for the common man. If you care to read, go to http://www.notbychance.net/blog.php and click on the category, "Darwin--The Man."

It's been interesting reading your retorts. Go get 'em!
victoria

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Permalink Reply by Ron Craig on September 12, 2010 at 10:09pm

Thanks Victoria, I've been meaning to pick up that title. Ron

Victoria Mabry said:

Alex and Ron, If either of you hasn't read Dr. Henry Morris's, "The Long War Against God," I highly recommend it. He goes into a lot of detail about the "conspiracy" of evolutionists. I touch on a few of his points in two of my blog posts on my new website. I try to write simply and plainly for the common man. If you care to read, go to http://www.notbychance.net/blog.php and click on the category, "Darwin--The Man."

It's been interesting reading your retorts. Go get 'em!
victoria

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