Darwinism; A world gone to the dogs

Ever wondered how 'religious sentiment' came into being? Well, everyone's favorite guru knows.

Quotes and comments;

1. "Lower animals, especially the dog, manifest love, reverence, fidelity, and obedience; and it is from these elements that the religious sentiment in man has been slowly [2] evolved by a process of natural selection." - Charles Darwin [1.]

- That's what passes for wisdom in the sad world of Darwin/ism.

- Dogs manifest love he tells us. Still believe he was a candid and honest man? They manifest reverence, he says. [Was his dog sitting at his feet as he wrote, looking up at him with big 'please-give-me-a-treat' eyes?] This is a joke. He's using words the way vandals spray graffiti. Dogs aren't capable of love, or reverence. They're bundles of instincts. These words should never be used for animals. (One of the great positives creationist thinking brings to the table, is it's cleansing and edifying effect on language.) He's using words in the sloppy way a child would. This equivocation of terms is again, more of Darwin's rhetoric.

- At times the things Darwin says are so staggeringly stupid it's hard to believe. This bearded guru actually says that 'religious sentiment' (including Christianity) arose from dogs. How our Christian 'liberals' can defend this man as a Christian is beyond me. They either don't know the man, or they're lying. The man isn't simply a materialist, but he's an atheist, and a very bitter one at that. I mean how plainer can it be? I don't think even Richard Harris (sorry, Dawkins) would have been capable of declaring that Christianity has its roots in the 'love' of a dog for its master. It's outrageous. What more could the man do to make his feelings known? Did he have to go to the local parish and lift his leg against the side of the building?

- All this is comical of course. There's no way the bearded one could have known any of this stuff. [Although it's possible that his dog told him I guess.] He got his ideas from smoking a crooked pipe. This has nothing to do with science, with a careful examination of the world and its manifold creatures. This is story telling, myth making, and the hackings of a disillusioned and bitter man.

- Dogs have no fidelity at all. Offer one a steak and he'll hop the fence any day of the week. If a dog is 'loyal' it only means he knows where to get a good bed and breakfast. These words should never be applied to animals. That Darwin does, shows how perverse he was. He had an agenda, and it was to show how evil the world was, to show things in their worst possible light, to show things in their most perverse aspect. (Imagine a man who hates his neighbor, and going over to his house and criticizing everything in the house in the worst possible terms, and getting a huge kick out of it.)

- There's one little problem with Darwin's story about the dogs. He speaks of their love, and reverence (etc.) but he seems to have forgotten there were no humans around when dogs bounded onto the scene (having evolved from dogfish I guess). So where did all this 'reverence' and 'love' come from? To whom was it directed? To dogs? To cats? To the great, big, awesome bear?

- Come to think of it, you'd think that if Christianity came from our canine friends, it would feature a kinder, nicer, gentler kind of god... not like the Holy one presented to us in the bible. Wouldn't you? Then again, maybe the dog that got the idea had been kicked around a bit; and maybe it passed its 'pissed off' gene to its descendents. [Sorry; I meant to say ticked off gene.]

- This is a great example of how evolution theory turns everything it touches into golden turds. (Golden as in golden retriever.) The 'ideas' it comes up with are among the stupidest things human beings have ever come up with. (With or without a pipe.)

- While most gurus and fortune tellers gaze into crystal balls, Charles Darwin apparently gazed into the eyes of his pet dog to find out the origins of religion. With his massive intelligence and great learning, this was all he needed to do. It all came to him in a flash, the answer to one of life's great mysteries. If only you and I could have that kind of amazing brain. (I hope he at least gave the dog a treat.)

- Anyone who wants serious answers to the questions Darwin dealt with is going to have to go elsewhere.

Notes;
1. Descent of Man (vol. 1. p. 65) - Charles Darwin (Quote taken from, 'What is Darwinism?' by Charles Hodge.
2. Darwin liked to refer to the 'slow' process of evolution. We might ask he knew how fast or slow evolution supposedly operated. His use of 'slow' isn't based on any observations, but is instead a rhetorical device. He knows his readers will find 'his' theory implausible (as no one has ever seen this evolution he's talking about) so he deflects criticism by saying "well, it's a slow process..." i.e. so slow you can't see it. (Slow has no scientific meaning. It has no objective meaning, but is a purely relative term.)