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Evolution and Genocide
Dear Friend of Creation,
“Disease will control the scourge of humanity,” the professor said. “We’re looking forward to a huge collapse in population.”
Biologist Eric Pianka delivered his doomsday presentation at the Texas Academy of Science’s annual meeting, March 2-4, 2006, where he was its 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist (as reported in The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise, April 2, 2006).
While plenty of doomsday soothsayers bemoan the state of the environment, what sets this celebrated biologist apart from all others is this: he embraces—and excitedly anticipates—a catastrophic culling of humanity for the sake of earth’s biosphere!
“We’ve grown fat, apathetic and miserable,” Pianka maintained. Further, Pianka argued for a 90% reduction in human population (5.8 billion lives) for the good of earth’s biology and the environment. A mutated ebola virus transmissible through air should do the trick, the University of Texas Professor contended; such a virus would be an ideal way to rid the planet of its “excess of fat human biomass.”
Wait a minute! Humanity a “scourge” to the earth? A death wish on human beings for the supposed sake of plants and animals? How does our culture tolerate—and even celebrate—the proponents of such ideas?!
The scientific community has been thoroughly indoctrinated by evolutionism. Evolutionary scientists believe mankind is nothing special. They think humans are a product of chance and time, not a reflection of Creator God.
Traditionally, Western civilization has understood the world as the Bible describes it: a home for humanity to use, multiply in, steward, and enjoy. Indeed, the Bible tells us that environmental decay was decreed by God at the Fall; earth’s decay is God-ordained (Gen. 3:17-19, Rom. 8:20-21). Man is powerless to stop environmental decay, though by good stewardship we can manage its rate and extent, and plant gardens in place of deserts.
Our Biggest Enemy?
Pianka’s words dealt on a very large scale, with life-and-death consequences, yet he smiled and joked candidly throughout the lecture, according to the Seguin Gazette, disseminating a message many would call morbid. The lecture was polished and entertaining, and the impressed Texas Academy of Science audience rose to a standing ovation as he finished.
“The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism,” Pianka said. “This is that common attitude that everything on this earth was put here for human use.”
Whoa! Stop! Wait another minute! According to the Bible, the world was indeed made for man. Human beings are the crown of creation—we are given dominion “over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Gen. 1:28).
Yet Pianka is telling students, and all those caught up in the aberrations of excessive environmentalism, that anthropocentrism is the biggest enemy we face! To Pianka and all those biologists who have been indoctrinated by evolutionism, a human life is no more valuable than any other. A lizard, a bison, a rhino, a human—they’re all equal.
This is why we need the message of Creation Moments more than ever. More than ever we must stand against the message of the humanist elite and other liberal agitators to remind folks of biblical truth. Can the Bible really be believed in connection with our origins? Were we really created in the image of God, to have dominion over the earth?
Pianka was trying to be shocking and provocative, but he was also very serious. As human population increases, he and others believe, our planet is in urgent need of a purging of the “scourge” of humanity. And viruses like the ebola virus (which kills 9 out of 10 people who are infected by it) could conveniently and selectively remove humans while keeping the rest of the environment intact.
Does this not sound like some futuristic science fiction movie with a crazed scientist planning the death of humanity? Or like the rhetoric of a facist dictator planning a massacre against innocent people? Yet this call for the near-eradication of humanity is absolutely real. And Pianka received a standing ovation for it!
What leads otherwise intelligent people to fall prey to such crazed notions? The answer is false philosophies and false worldviews. And that’s exactly what evolution is. Evolution gives people a perceived basis for believing things that are actually the opposite of what is right, true and good.
Like abortion, eugenics, the holocaust, and hunting aborigines for bounties and museum trophies, evolutionism has produced a mindset that wishes death on human beings. And this particular 21st-century sentiment wishes death for humanity on a scale previously unimagined.
Creation Moments is a breath of fresh air amidst the smog of false worldviews. At Creation Moments we proclaim the foundational truths of the Bible in the context of our technological and scientific culture.
“Thanks for Creation Moments everyday. I am blessed by it,” writes Merlin Benner, a wildlife biologist, in a letter to us this month. Not all biologists are deceived by evolutionism!
God made the world, including mankind…just as the Bible says He did. And He transcends reality in a way that we in our petty pride have a hard time understanding. It’s like the chickens…
The Social Psychology of Chickens
My mother occasionally refers to groups of people as “those birds,” asking, for example, “I wonder what ‘those birds’ are up to.” I never thought much about the phrase. It was just one of the many country idioms my mom had picked up living on a farm in rural Kansas during her childhood. But I now understand “those birds” a little better…
Like many American families, our family has participated in 4-H projects in preparation for the county fair. Among other things, we’ve raised broiler chickens—“meat birds”—for the poultry competition.
Here’s what I have learned: Chickens are pretty stupid! Their whole world is their pen. Chickens are cute only for the first few days of their lives (their childhood). Chickens are nervous, fearful characters. They can do a whole lot of squawking. Chickens can be bullies and will pick on weaker birds. Chickens will strut and flap their wings and challenge other chickens for pecking order. Chickens are lazy. As they grow older, they’ll roost all day and not even get up to eat (as long as they can reach the feed). They seem primarily interested in their own comfort.
Chickens care a lot about peer pressure from other chickens. Often, if one chicken starts to eat vigorously, others will want to jump in and crowd each other around that particular feeder, while nearby feeders stand empty. Their competitive streak leads to a few interesting games. One evening, I watched our chickens play a form of football with an oddly-shaped, dark-colored wood shaving that looked like a cockroach. One chicken would grab the chip and run with it while others would try to snatch the wood chip away. If another chicken succeeded, it would be its turn to run with the “ball.”
Chickens seem to have no loyalty to or appreciation for their masters. They don’t care for human contact, and as long as they have food, water, and a dry, comfortable place to roost, they prefer that you leave them alone. They show no gratitude to the hand that feeds them!
I’m sure we can appear to God like chickens appear to us. God transcends our world just like we transcend the world of chickens. I’m sure to God we can look pretty silly, stupid, self-absorbed, and unappreciative of His care and His provision. Thankfully, God loves us, and, as the Bible says, those who trust in Jesus Christ are God’s adopted children. In our lives as Christians, the goal for all of us is to become less like “those birds” and more like the Savior as we grow in grace and in the knowledge of Him.
Evolutionism encourages us to see the world as chickens see their pens. Spending their whole lives in the pen, chickens think that’s all there is. The worldview of environmental biologists, based as it is on evolution, ends up advocating human genocide. Spending their whole lives in the “pen” of evolution, these biologists think that’s all there is. In their twisted, anti-biblical, anti-human view, the earth gives life and the earth takes life.
Creation Moments proclaims the evidence for truth that counters the basis for such false philosophies. Won’t you please help us combat the many false ideas and false conclusions that stem from evolutionism? Won’t you please help us “cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God” (II Cor. 10:5). Won’t you please help us “bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (II Cor. 10:5).
Many churches today are preaching less Bible doctrine and more “feel-good” Christianity. But without the fundamental doctrines about creation, and the related doctrines of mankind, sin, and judgment, more and more people “fall prey to the false philosophies of man, based on the elementary principles of this world, and not on Christ” (Col. 2:8). This is precisely the kind of dangerous thinking that Creation Moments is uniquely positioned to prevent. This is a much-needed service we offer our truth-starved culture!
But we require your help—your prayers and your offerings.
I must be very frank. Our funding has been down significantly over the last five months. I’m not sure why. Perhaps we’re still feeling the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Perhaps the importance of the truth of creation has been overshadowed by the daily reports from Iraq.
Whatever the case, the truth is we can’t survive on such reduced giving. As we have mentioned before, God has entrusted us with a worldwide ministry reaching millions of people on a laughably small budget. We’ve always depended on God to meet our needs, and He always has—through friends like you.
Please reach deep this month. We must get caught up. We’re trusting God to bring in $33,253 this month so that we can continue to proclaim the truth of creation. Won’t you help us stand for truth?
May the Lord bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon you and give you His peace!
Yours in Christ,
Mark Cadwallader
Chairman
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