Pagan Darwinian Materialism:  Redoubt of Miserable Self-Deceived Non-Self Nihilists

A little more than nine years ago, American Christian author Dr. Frank Turek noted that Cambridge-trained Ph.D. Stephen Meyer’s New York Times best-seller, “Darwin’s Doubt,” was creating a major scientific controversy. Because Darwinists absolutely hated Meyer’s well-reasoned argument that an intelligent designer was the best explanation for the evidence at hand his contention unleashed a firestorm of irrational accusations that Meyers is anti-scientific and guilty of endangering sexual freedom everywhere. (Darwin’s Doubt, Turek, Townhall.com, July 09, 2013) (1)

Meyer wrote,

“Neo-Darwinism and the theory of intelligent design are not two different kinds of inquiry, as some critics have asserted. They are two different answers – formulated using a similar logic and method of reasoning – to the same question: ‘What caused biological forms and the appearance of design in the history of life?”

In other words, the real issue is not ‘anti-scientific’ intelligent design or for that matter, the Genesis account of creation ex nihilo (‘special creation’ as Darwinian materialists call it) versus ‘scientifically enlightened reason and science,’ but about creation account vs. new pagan anti-creation account (Darwinian materialism).

The reason Darwinists on one hand, and intelligent design and Genesis account proponents on the other, arrive at radically different answers is because God-hating Darwinists are neo-pagan materialists and the other two are not and do not hate the Lord our God:

“More disquieting still is Professor D.M.S. Watson’s defense. “Evolution itself,” he wrote, “is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or…can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.” Has it come to that? Does the whole vast structure of modern naturalism depend not on positive evidence but simply on an a priori metaphysical prejudice. Was it devised not to get in facts but to keep out God?” (CS Lewis, The Oxford Socratic Club, 1944)

“I suppose the reason we leaped at the origin of species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores,” confessed Sir Julian Huxley, former president of UNESCO and grandson of Darwin’s colleague Thomas Huxley.

Pagan Materialism: Ancient and Modern

“An age of science is necessarily an age of materialism,” declared Hugh Elliot early last century, “Ours is a scientific age, and it may be said with truth that we are all materialists now.” (Darwin Day in America, John G. West, xiv)

The Greek Atomist Epicurus (341-270 BC) is the father of contemporary scientific materialism. The principle tenet of Atomism teaches that the world was not created by any deity, or with any design, but came about by a chance movement of physical atoms of various sizes and magnitude that cemented together and so formed the world.

The world and everything in it were not created but instead the accidental emergent or evolved products of a great cosmic event (exploding Cosmic Egg/Big Bang) that spontaneously generated animated physical matter from nothing. This way of thinking excludes everything unseen, such as God, the human soul, mind, angels and demons, and holds that humans are aggregates of physical matter in motion in a human form and the human mind an active principle of grey matter.

This ancient pagan way of thinking forms the basis of the materialist psychology of Sigmund Freud, Darwin’s evolutionary conception, modern evolutionary biology, modern behaviorism, secular humanism, secular trans-humanism and Marxist quasi-pantheist and animist dialectical materialism.

Though modern materialism originated in the metaphysics of ancient Ionians and Stoics during the sixth century BC it was the Atomists (Leucippus/Democritus, 460-357 BC; Epicurus, 342-270 BC; and Lucretius, 96-55 BC) who methodically developed Atomism, the root and source of modern scientific evolutionary materialism. (2)

Charles Darwin (1809-82) helped spread pagan materialism to Westerners and eager seminarians and theologians. 

As Stephen Jay Gould argues,

“Darwin applied a consistent philosophy of materialism to his interpretation of nature,” and “the ground of all existence; mind, spirit, and God (are reduced to) neural complexity.” (Darwin Day in America, p. 41)

According to Darwin, natural selection (god substitute) and the laws of heredity acting on matter caused the evolution of soulless humans from apes followed eventually by civilization. By describing how deified natural mechanisms caused the complexity of life to emerge from deified matter, Darwin helped transform pagan materialism from a fantastically bizarre tale told by power-mad Christ-hating Prometheans on the fringe of society to a hallowed scientism principle enshrined and worshipped by modern scientism and ‘enlightened’ Westerners.

Together, Darwinism and the Epicurean proposition that all that exists is matter in motion within the void (monism) are the first principles of the naturalistic worldview proffered by atheists such as Richard Dawkins and other Darwinian materialists.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was with God in the beginning.  Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.  In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.  The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome It.” John 1:1-5

While intelligent design proponents are open to intelligent causes, Genesis account creationists hold that our Creator, the living Word (John 1) Who exists in the third heaven outside of the space/time dimension is Jesus Christ, the angel who spoke with Moses at Sinai. (3)

Foremost of His miracles is creation out of nothing – six days of creation rather than the billions of years of evolutionary process out of already existing or spontaneously generated matter:

“The first moment of time is the moment of God’s creative act and of creation’s simultaneous coming to be.” (Philosopher and New Testament scholar William Lane Craig, quoted in “If God created the universe, then who created God?’ by Jonathan Sarfati, Creation Ministries International)

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” (Genesis 1:27)

All men are spiritual image-bearers of the personal Triune God thus, it logically follows that each male and female is a trinity of being – of soul and its citadel spirit, and body:

“The essence of the human is not the body, but the soul. It is the soul alone that God made in his own image and the soul that he loves…For the sake of the soul…the Son of God came into the world….” (Incomplete Work on Matthew, Homily 25, Ancient Christian Devotional, Oden and Crosby, p. 153)

For fifteen hundred years, Christendom and then later Protestant America had followed St. Augustine (AD 354-430) in affirming that all men are spiritual image-bearers of the transcendent Triune God (Gen. 1:27). 

Vishal Mangalwadi, India’s foremost Christian scholar, writes that this revolutionary concept of man as God’s spiritual image-bearer gave birth to the “belief in the unique dignity of human beings,” and this is

“…the force that created Western civilization, where citizens do not exist for the state, but the state exists for the individuals. Even kings, presidents, prime ministers, and army generals cannot be allowed to trample upon an individual and his or her rights.” (Truth and Transformation: A Manifesto for Ailing Nations, pp. 12-13)

Darwinian Materialism: Hatred of God the Father

“The irony is devastating. The main purpose of Darwinism was to drive every last trace of an incredible God from biology. But the theory replaces God with an even more incredible deity – omnipotent chance….” (T. Rosazak, Unfinished Animal, pp. 101-102, 1975)

Darwinian materialists hate the very thought of Him as their Father and seek escape to an impersonal, collective communal unconscious, a metaverse where man as God’s spiritual image-bearer, immutable truth, order, moral law, sexual ethics, authority, hell, heaven, angels, demons, meaning, and purpose do not exist. For these reasons and others, such as Original Sin and the two created sexes, they fiercely reject intelligent design but viciously hate Jesus Christ the Word and creation ex nihilo and choose rather to embrace pagan evolutionary and materialist conceptions. The truth of this can be seen in the following quotes:

“The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves. The voluntary…reasons for holding doctrines of materialism…may be predominantly erotic, as they were in the case of Lamettrie…or predominantly political as they were in the case of Karl Marx.” (Aldous Huxley, “Ends and Means,” p. 315, from Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control, E. Michael Jones, p. 27)

“…one belief that all true original Darwinians held in common, and that was their rejection of creationism, their rejection of special creation. This was the flag around which they assembled and under which they marched…. The conviction that the diversity of the natural world was the result of natural processes and not the work of God was the idea that brought all the so-called Darwinians together in spite of their disagreements on other of Darwin’s theories.” (One Long Argument, 1991, p. 99, Ernst Mayr (d. 2005), Professor of Zoology at Harvard University)

“We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.” (“Billions and Billions of Demons,” Richard Lewontin, PhD Zoology, Alexander Agassiz Research Professor at Harvard University)

Metaphysical Nihilism and Non-Self

Metaphysical nihilism (all that exists is matter and energy) is the metaphysics of Darwinian materialism:

“Behold, you are of nothing, and your work of that which hath no being: he that hath chosen you is an abomination.” Isaiah 41:24

Though Darwinian materialists congratulate themselves for being scientifically enlightened, cutting edge ‘elite’ free thinkers and ‘brights,’ the truth is otherwise. New pagan materialists are miserable self-deceived nihilists for whom there is neither source for ‘self’ (conscious life, soul, individual mind) nor for meaning and purpose in life. They are “of nothing” and the unreality of their own existence is the devastating price they have paid the devil, the father of death, pagan materialism, and nihilism, for “saving” them from the living Word.
The misery inducing non-salvation of ‘non-self’ is not something new but something ancient. It began with Buddha who craved God-like power to deconstruct and reinterpret the soul. Taking power not only requires the murder of God but the teaching of lies.

Six centuries before Jesus Christ, the Buddha already knew that if all that exists is matter then the human self cannot exist either:

“Therefore, he deconstructed the Hindu idea of the soul. When one starts peeling the onion skin of one’s psyche, he discovers that there is no solid core at the center of one’s being. Your sense of self is an illusion. Reality is nonself (anatman). You don’t exist. Liberation, the Buddha taught, is realizing the unreality of your existence.” (The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization, Vishal Mangalwadi, p. 6)

Following in Buddha’s footsteps, Western and American Darwinian materialists took our Creator away and replaced Him with nihilist Darwinian materialism. Then they conceptually reduced His spiritual image-bearers to less than nothing, taught monstrous lies as scientific fact, morally corrupted Westerners and Americans, and brutally ridiculed and demonized anyone who dared speak truth to their lies. By these means they set Western and American civilization adrift in infinite nothingness.

Nihilism is spiritual, moral, intellectual, and cultural suicide. It is the devil’s inferno here on earth, the void of everything and nothing in which death is life, evil is good, lie is truth, up is down, male is female, female is male, rolling in filth is good clean fun, bad is good but evil better, and the father of nihilism is Lucifer/Satan/Baphomet.

Choose eternal blessing and not cursing

The unreality of ‘self’ is a waking nightmare fueled by horrors of conscience, obsession with death, and hellish terrors of mind that make suicide, murder, abortion, euthanasia, and genocide into virtues.

“…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life….” Deuteronomy 30:19-20

“Thou hast brought forth, O Lord, my soul from hell: thou hast saved me from them that go down into the pit.” Psalm 30:3

The Second Person of the Holy Trinity, the Living Word become Flesh, Jesus Christ the Physician, came to heal the spiritually sick and dying, to save their immortal souls. Just as we are on the verge of going down into the pit, ready to depart to the unseen world, if we will repent and turn back to Him, then by His providence and grace our Lord will revive our souls and deliver us from those accursed horrors of conscience and ghastly terrors of mind which by reason of our sin are as hell searing itself into and possessing our very minds. (Psalm 116:3)

But whoever rejects the Physician, the Divine Source of life and soul, rejects His prescription, thereby destroys him or herself. So, we ought to turn back to Him right now, before it is too late.

2022@Linda

1. Why Evolutionary Materialism Leads to the Unreality of Your Existence, L. Kimball
2. Acts 17: 18-19—The Modern Pagan and Pantheist Antithesis of the Word of God, L. Kimball
3. Gen. 1-11: The Creation Model Versus Modern Pagan and Pantheist Evolutionary Models, Linda Kimball

Linda writes about worldview, the occult, and similar subjects.