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meanderings of the Anglican Church. This experiment was successfully verified at Lambeth 2008.<\/p>\nIf you sit enough monkeys down with typewriters, eventually they will produce the latest theological meanderings of the Anglican Church. This experiment was successfully verified at Lambeth 2008.<\/p>\n
In the never ending quest for its own destruction, the CofE is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Darwin\u2019s \u2018On the Origin of Species\u2019. It is a fitting tribute to Darwin\u2019s theory of natural selection, since the Anglican Church in the West is a live demonstration of the theory\u2019s application. The church, having adapted to its surrounding culture in all the wrong ways, has made itself irrelevant and incomprehensible (just listen to Rowan Williams) to all and sundry; very soon it will cease to exist \u2013 it will have adapted itself into extinction.<\/p>\n
The CofE pays its homage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n It is this need for humans to think, and love, that forms the centrepiece of a new retrospective by the Revd Dr Malcolm Brown, Director of Mission and Public Affairs for the Church of England, called ‘Good Religion Needs Good Science’. After warning of the social misapplication of Darwin\u2019s discoveries, where natural selection justifies racism and other forms of discrimination – perhaps predicted in the “misguided” over-reaction of the Church in the 1860s – Brown writes: \u201cChristians will want to stress, instead, the human capacity for love, for altruism, and for self-sacrifice.\u201d He separates the biological and emotional further by pointing out the naivety of assuming a wholesale evolution of the human race: \u201cDespite our vastly expanding technical knowledge, even a fairly cursory review of human history undermines any idea of constant moral progress.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is replete with the usual Anglican drivel. First, if natural selection is true, then of course it would engender \u2018racism\u2019: if one race is superior and stronger than another, the inferior will be selected out. If natural selection is true what incentive is there to indulge in the opposite \u2013 self-sacrifice. And as for \u2018other forms of discrimination\u2019, there is hardly any worse discrimination than that of the abortionist towards the unborn child; a fairly predictable result of adopting a theory which declares that the strong survive and the weak perish.<\/p>\n The very worst part of all this is the diabolically bad logic of attempting to believe in Christianity and natural selection simultaneously. Leaving aside the squabbling about whether the universe arrived in 6 days, minutes, millennia or a few septillion years, the fact is, natural selection depends on accident to work. This means that mankind is accidental: it would be quite possible \u2013 indeed likely –\u00a0 for it not to have existed \u2013 ever. From a Christian perspective this is absurd: the Christian view is that God planned man\u2019s existence, planned revealing himself through Jesus, planned to redeem us through Jesus\u2019 atoning sacrifice, and eventually plans to renew all of creation. The very opposite of an accident.<\/p>\n So, Church of England, you can have Christ or natural selection; you can\u2019t have both. And it seems you have made your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you sit enough monkeys down with typewriters, eventually they will produce the latest theological meanderings of the Anglican Church. This experiment was successfully verified at Lambeth 2008. In the never ending quest for its own destruction, the CofE is … Continue reading