Karl Popper (1902-1994) was a British philosopher and professor at the London School of Economics. Because he is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, what he had to say about Darwinism is of utmost importance to the desperate worldview struggle fought between creationists and the spirit of godlessness represented by methodological and ontological naturalists. This is because the America of the Founding generation is firmly grounded in the Genesis account of creation ex nihilo, the radical view of man as spiritual image bearer of God, Old and New Testament morality and Christian theism. Yet the original meaning and intent of our unalienable Constitutional rights endowed by our Creator and U.S. law — as now controlled and defined by the spirit of godlessness — has been radically changed so it now reflects the doctrinal decrees of imperialist atheist evolutionary naturalism and its dehumanizing view of man as soulless aggregate of matter in process of evolution.
Whereas the Founding generation esteemed the Bible and used it to teach their children to read, comprehend and think logically as well as to properly train them in morality and self-discipline, in contemporary America, God, Bible, and moral absolutes have been banned in favor of evolutionary scientism or magic science, atheism, moral relativism, and self-gratification. The still-unfolding consequences of all of this are destructive and terrible, adversely affecting every level of society from the individual to the family, community, and cultural institutions to local and national politics.
In post-Christian America atheist evolutionism is taken for granted throughout the college curriculum, just as it is in all aspects of modern thought and experience, especially within the progressive liberal community. Evolution not only undergirds biological and earth sciences, but also Freudian and Jungian psychology, anthropology, law, sociology, politics, economics, the media, arts, medicine, and all other academic disciplines as well.
Evolution-believers range from atheists and scientists to Hollywood and media insiders, occult New Age spiritists, Satanists, powerful global Luciferian Transhumanists, and large numbers of people who call themselves Christian.
Among this last group are Progressive Protestants, Liberal Roman Catholics, Emergent Church leaders Brian McLaren and Rob Bell, growing numbers of the Evangelical contemporary Church, and an increasingly vocal community of Christian theologians, scholars and scientists such as Tim Keller and Dennis Venema. Keller and Venema are prominent members of the BioLogos Foundation, a quasi-Christian group of evolutionary theists who try to reconcile the Word of God with evolutionary scientism, and as a consequence teach that humans emerged from apes.
Evolutionary naturalism is poisoning and destroying America’s traditional supernatural foundations, and when the foundations have finally been destroyed, all that is built upon them will be destroyed as well.
Americans have been deceived, and are needful of learning the truth about Darwinism — and all other evolutionary theories, by whatever name they are called.
Evolutionism: Spiritual…not Empirical
Though Popper esteemed evolutionary theory and natural selection, he also forthrightly stated that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory but rather a metaphysical research program. By this he means that not only is Darwinism of the unseen or spiritual dimension, but so are its’ two most important foundations, classical empiricism and the observationalist philosophy of science that grew out of it.
Empiricism is a theory of knowledge that contradicts itself by asserting that human knowledge comes only or primarily via sensory experience rather than the mind while observationalism asserts that human knowledge and theories must be based on empirical observations…instead of the mind. For this reason, Popper argued strongly against empiricism and observationalism, saying scientific theories and human knowledge generally, are conjectural or hypothetical and generated by the creative imagination.
In other words, all three theories originate in the mind, a spiritual power of which is imagination. As mind is a power of soul, then Darwinism, empiricism, and observationalism are spiritual despite denying the existence of the souls of mankind.
n short, all three theories are frauds. They claim to be what they are not in order to obtain an advantage over the Genesis account of creation ex nihilo by imposition of immoral means.
In Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828, soul and imagination are respectively defined as:
1. Soul: “The spiritual, rational and immortal substance in man, which distinguishes him from brutes; that part of man which enables him to think and reason.”
The Founding generation knew that mind is a power of soul, and imagination the power by which mind conceives:
2. Imagination: “…the power or faculty of the mind by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the senses…The business of conception (and the) power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones so as to form new wholes of our own creation…(imagination) selects the parts of different conceptions, or objects of memory, to form a whole more pleasing, more terrible, or more awful, than has ever been presented in the ordinary course of nature.”
In conclusion, Darwinism is an invention of imagination, an invention more terrible and more destructive than has ever been presented in the ordinary course of nature. It imagines that God is dead, that life somehow emerged out of nonlife, that man is not created in the spiritual image of God the Father but is rather a soulless, mindless hominid of evolution. It imagines there is no sin, no “hell below us, and above us only sky.”
Evolutionism is an invention of imagination, and it has taken the post-Christian West by storm.
2021@Linda Kimball
Originally published in 2011 this is an updated version.
Yes, evolution has certainly been taken fir granted. Even when we see the Superman comics that began in the ’50’s, Superman is presented as a humanlike ‘person” who came from another planet and acquired super powers when he arrived here. While it’s admirable that he fought for “truth, justice, and the American Way of life”, the assumption is that his people from another planet “evolved” there. And then a TV show came from it which attracted many youthful followers who also assumed an evolution took place in a far away planet.
From there, many other shows featuring “evolved” aliens from other planets appeared, such as H.G. Well’s “War of the Worlds” which featured hostile Martians attacking. That and many others introduced “evolved” aliens into popular culture.
There was very little if any protest against that assumption. I myself accepted it that way…until now. It was no small task on my part to reject it. I wonder if others, from my generation on up, are up to that task.
Speaking of Karl Popper, I understand George Soros studied with him ~ just an observation. Apparently Popper’s philosophy wasn’t accepted by Soros.
May I add that there have been many more current sci-fi programs that feature “evolved” aliens, for example in Star Trek and Star Wars among many others, all of which have impacted the popular culture with imaginary “evolved” beings.
Evolution is a theory based on imaginary suppositions which in fact don’t work, either in this world or in any other alien one. On that basis, there is no other intelligent life in our universe. Humans are the sum total of intelligent life, using the word “intelligent” loosely. “Loosely” because vain human imagination nevertheless plays such a large part. Imagination can even construct endless false idols.
In regard to to UFO’s, Unidentified Flying Objects, they’re still unidentified. If they’re observed flitting around like ghosts or appearing and disappearing like ghosts, it’s because they ARE ghosts. Spirits can change their appearance just like Satan could appear as an angel of light. They do this to deceive men into believing that men, or aliens, “evolved” so as to cause unbelief in God’s Creation as the Bible describes it: ex nihilo, from nothing.