Evil before Darwin

The evil before Darwin defense

Evolutionists have responded to books like Richard Weikart's (From 'Darwin to Hitler')1. by saying, "this is meaningless... Darwin had nothing to do with atrocities committed by the Nazis. There was evil before Darwin after all."

Some comments;

1. This is true; but it misses the point. We can't ignore Hitler simply because there was evil before him can we?

2. This defense is disingenuous for a number of reasons. Evolutionists have long been pounding the drum and blaming Christianity for all kinds of evil... But was there not evil before Christ came among men? (Bringing light to the darkness) So if we're going to absolve Darwinism we must on the same grounds absolve Christianity. You can't play this game only one way.

3. People who say this (if not merely acting as defense attorneys for Darwin) miss the point. The bible tells us "we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against spirits...'' Whether one sees this 'literally' or not, the point is crucial. Satan wants to destroy men; he wants not merely to destroy their relationship to god... but to degrade and humiliate men as well, to make them do evil things... to make men act as ungodly as possible.
To have success at this he must switch up his tactics from time to time. Let's picture it this way; Satan calls out to man continually to do evil... but he must play a different song at times. If one 'trick' won't work he switches to another. (eg. if the racism card doesn't work, try the nationalist one, the political one, the greed one, the fear one, the lust one, etc.) All these 'tricks' have been successful for him during the long ages. In other words, there isn't just one 'motive' for the evil deeds men do.

4. The Darwin ploy (survival of the fittest and all that) worked, and worked incredibly well in the 20th century. To brush all this off is to miss the point. Evil always comes disguised, (the bible says Satan comes disguised as an angel of light) it comes in the guise of good. The song changes but the musician remains the same. This is not to say man is innocent... or that he's merely played like a fiddle... but because times change, Satan must always find new ways to get man to commit mahem... to do his will. (Not that he needs many entirely new tricks... the old ones can be recycled continually.)

5. The non-christian won't find this at all convincing, as he doesn't believe Satan (or evil spirits) exist. But there's truth even to a figurative understanding of what I've said. If you look at history (and everyone should) you see that evil always abounds... but that its form changes continually. The speeches change, the rationales change, the targets change... but an irrational will to do evil is always there.

6. In my view Darwin had a horrid influence on the years 1850-1950. It won't do to pretend he didn't. (If we decide to absolve him, we must absolve all the other thinkers and gurus in history.)

Notes;
1. Audio lecture by Weikart; From Darwin to Hitler
2. One reviewer claimed Darwin wasn't at all responsible because great evils were done prior to 1850... but this is naive at best. Evolution wasn't (despite what your idiot textbook tells you) invented by Darwin. French thinkers had been writing on evolution for at least 100 years prior... and evolutionism goes back in a more benign form to at the least the early Greeks. (To what extent evolution theory inspired their campaigns against the barbarians I don't know... I've never heard the subject discussed.)
3. It's interesting that despite all the endless critiques of Christianity... I don't remember one apologist dismissing the problem at hand by saying ''oh well, there was evil before Christianity.'' no; they tried to deal with the criticisms.