Karl Popper (1902-1994) was a British philosopher and a professor at the London School of Economics. Because he is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century, what Popper had to say about Darwinism is of utmost importance to the desperate political struggle fought between creationists and methodological and ontological naturalists. This is because the America of the Founding generation is firmly grounded in the Genesis account of creation, Old and New Testament morality and Christian theism, yet the original meaning and intent of U.S. law — as now controlled and defined by anti-God naturalism — has been radically changed so that it now reflects the doctrinal decrees of imperialist atheist evolutionary naturalism.
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 science, atheism, moral relativism, and self-gratification. The still-unfolding consequences of all of this are destructive, dark, nihilistic, 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 powerful Luciferian Globalists to lower level atheists, and scientists to esoteric Free Masonry, Hollywood insiders, occult New Age spiritists, Satanists, powerful Transnational Progressives, and large numbers of people who call themselves Christian. Among this last group are Liberal Christians, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Emergent Church leaders Brian McLaren and Rob Bell, growing numbers of the Evangelical contemporary Church, and an increasingly vocal community of Christian scholars and scientists such as Dennis Venema. Venema is a senior fellow at BioLogos Foundation, a Christian group that tries to reconcile the Bible with evolutionary science, and as a consequence teach that humans emerged from apes.
Evolutionary naturalism is poisoning and destroying America’s traditional 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 metaphysical (spiritual), 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 that scientific theories and human knowledge generally, is conjectural or hypothetical and is generated by the creative imagination.
In other words, all three theories originated in the mind, a power of which is imagination. As mind is a power of soul, then Darwinism, empiricism, and observationalism are spiritual. In 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 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.”
The authority wielded through empirical science (naturalism) by atheists is a counterfeit, and they know it is by the fact that they must live double-minded lives. Consider for example that they know they think, but must deny the reality of their minds because the mind is spirit–not biological–hence not subject to empirical investigation. They know they think, they know they dream, and they know they live but if required to present empirical evidence to support their contention that they think, dream , and live they could not present any scientific evidence whatsoever. So in order to maintain their authority via empirical science they cheat by reducing mind and dreams to the firing of synapses in the brain and life to something seeded on this plant by meteors or brought here by extraterrestrials. Only by cheating and lying can they maintain their counterfeit authority.
In conclusion, evolutionism 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 ex-ape 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.
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Yes, cheating and lying is in keeping with the Leftist’s “by any means necessary” trope by which they achieve their end of maintaining their counterfeit authority that replaces what is really truthful, authoritative, and lawful.
Incidentally, I read that George Soros had studied at Professor Karl Popper’s London School of Economics. Apparently he took no interest in what else the Professor had to say about the unprovable Theory of Evolution. Apparently Soros preferred the Leftist “by any means necessary” approach of totalitarianism which we’ve seen today. His son Alex is said to be none too happy that current events have turned against them.
I read a report long ago that Soros used his knowledge of economics to swindle the Bank of Indonesia out of millions and thereby profitted from ill-gotten gains. At this point though, I’m not sure anymore if that was the bank he swindled, but there was foul play involved that made him rich. He should be denaturalized and deported for his un-American activities.
We know that Hungary won’t take him back, since he’s so utterly unscrupulous. We don’t need any robber barons around here either.