{"id":6209,"date":"2009-11-06T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6209"},"modified":"2009-11-06T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T20:10:18","slug":"the-impending-extinction-of-darwinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-impending-extinction-of-darwinians\/","title":{"rendered":"The impending extinction of Darwinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8345837.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Europe is facing a population crisis because of attacks on religion by secular writers, Britain&#8217;s chief rabbi has said.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Sacks blamed Europe&#8217;s falling birth rate on a culture of &#8220;consumerism and instant gratification&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said the continent was &#8220;dying&#8221; and accused its citizens of not being prepared for parenthood&#8217;s &#8220;sacrifices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He made his comments in a lecture for Christian think tank Theos in central London on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old, who took his seat in the Lords last week, said: &#8220;Wherever you turn today &#8211; Jewish, Christian or Muslim &#8211; the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The major assault on religion today comes from the neo-Darwinians.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a message here: secularists believe in evolution, so if evolution is true, it programs those who believe in it to stop reproducing; they have been naturally selected out and are not fit to survive.<\/p>\n<p>If evolution is not true, those who believe in it are deluded. The delusion leads to the conclusion, as Richard Dawkins says, that the universe has<em> &#8220;no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference&#8221;<\/em>; this is sufficiently depressing to cause Darwinians to abort and birth-control themselves into extinction.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, evolutionists lose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the BBC: Europe is facing a population crisis because of attacks on religion by secular writers, Britain&#8217;s chief rabbi has said. Lord Sacks blamed Europe&#8217;s falling birth rate on a culture of &#8220;consumerism and instant gratification&#8221;. He said the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-impending-extinction-of-darwinians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,307],"tags":[2136,2267],"class_list":["post-6209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-the-fall-of-the-west","tag-evolution","tag-the-fall-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}