Why celebrate Darwin’s theory?

It’s 2009 and many Darwinists plan to celebrate Darwin’s 1859 publication “Origin of the Species.” Yet Darwinism is losing as a viable scientific theory. So what are we to celebrate?

-- Should we celebrate that Darwin’s theory was adopted by Karl Marx, providing scientific cover for despots and atrocities including Lenin, Stalin and Hitler? The connection between evolutionism and Hitler’s final solution is well documented including in Ben Stein’s movie, “Expelled—No Intelligence Allowed.”

-- Should we celebrate academic intolerance against anyone who questions the dogma of evolution? No matter their scientific credentials?

-- Why celebrate a theory that is still looking for scientific verification? S.J. Gould admitted in Scientific American, “Natural selection is therefore a principle of local adaptation, not of general advance or progress.”

-- Or the fossil record? Darwin admitted it did not fit his theory — and still does not. Dr. Colin Patterson, British paleontologist, said: “I woke up and realized that all my life I had been duped into taking evolutionism as revealed truth in some way.” It takes blind faith to believe in evolutionism. Or being “duped.”

Instead let’s celebrate a great scientist, Louis Pasteur, who opposed Darwinism. Pasteur’s work disproved the spontaneous generation of life and promoted major advances in medicine. Pasteur saw wisdom and design, not randomness and chaos. He gave hope to those with diseases and said: “The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.”

Helmut Welke

Bettendorf