The View From 1776

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Implicit in liberalism’s atheistic doctrine of materialism is the idea that the rational human mind (of intellectuals, not you) is the creator of all human institutions and that human beings and human society are putty in their hands, to be shaped to perfection in conformity with their designs.

History has demonstrated that this is arrant nonsense, the prime exhibits being Revolutionary France, the Soviet Union, Mussolini’s Fascist Italy, Hitler’s National Socialist Germany, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society in the United States.  Obviously neither FDR nor LBJ got it right, otherwise the Democrats would have no further reason to exist as a political force.

What history reveals, in fact, is that the avowed benevolence of atheistic materialism is simply the age-old struggle for power to control other people and other people’s wealth.  Whether it is called socialism, liberalism, Progressivism, or secular humanism, it all comes to the same point.

Secular materialists ridicule the Judeo-Christian tradition for its faith that God created the universe and that humans have a special role to play in His Creation.  Evolutionists, as Mr. Kellmeyer notes below, see humans as just one more chance product of the mindless process of evolution.

Yet, if we are to believe Al Gore, humans are really so powerful that they can control and perfect, not only human nature and human society, but even the climate of the whole world.  At last we can do something other than complaining about the weather.

After liberals have perfected human society and gained control of the planet’s weather system, no doubt they will turn their attention to interstellar missions to redistribute the chemical elements equally among the stars.

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It Ain’t Natural

by Steve Kellmeyer
 

As most people know, the University of Wisconsin - Madison has long been a hot-bed of support for intelligent design theory. Take for example, their biology department. The entire staff of the biology department insists, and has insisted for quite some time, that what we see happening in the world is not natural, rather, it is the result of actions taken by an intelligence not properly part of nature or the natural world.

Similarly, the American Association for the Advancement of Scienceis a strong supporter of intelligent design theory. Just one year ago, on February 19, 2005, the AAAS released a report that insisted supernatural phenomena were having long-term, serious impacts on the world we inhabit.

The Environmental Defense Fund, following even earlier findings by the Pew Charitable Trust, now recognizes that there is a force stronger than nature at work in the world, and warns that we must be willing to deal with this fact.

Only one thing remains to be clarified: why do these and like-minded organizations insist intelligent design is the only accurate way of describing the environment while simultaneously holding that intelligent design is junk science?

As Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould both famously pointed out, evolutionary theory made it possible for an atheist to reasonably deny the existence of God and of the supernatural. If they are correct about evolutionary theory, man is simply one more animal - no more, no less. We are only marginally better than the great apes in terms of technology, and certainly not morally superior to them in any respect worth noting.

In short, man is just part of nature.

But global warming? Ahh; that’s not natural. It is unnatural, it is contra-natural, it is a violation of the natural rhythms of the world. And, as everyone knows, global warming is caused by dolphins.

Hmm?? Oh, wait, scratch that; global warming is caused by man.

And there’s the rub. If Man is just an animal whose actions are completely explained by natural processes,

AND man acts to cause global warming,

THEN global warming is natural.

Dawkins and other evolutionists imply that mankind’s ability to create houses, computers and similar things is merely an expression of genes; no more unusual than bees building a beehive or mollusks building shells to inhabit.

If Dawkins, et. al., are correct, then global warming is a perfectly natural phenomenon that none of us should worry our pretty little heads about. After all, according to this theory, an SUV is just as natural as a beaver dam. Just as a beaver dam may cause some local flooding, so the SUVs may cause some global warming, but each is a thoroughly natural event. If evolution has no teleology, no purpose, then there is no good or bad and the destruction of diverse habitats caused by global warming is neither good nor bad.

If, on the other hand, we insist that global warming is not natural, then who is causing it? A non-natural event can only be caused by something that is not part of nature. Since everyone seems to think man is the cause of global warming (even the most religious among us fail to blame God for this particular problem), the claim that this warming is not natural is thereby identical to the statement that man is not natural.

In fact, it is worse than this. If Non-natural Man is capable of controlling and impacting nature with powers and abilities for beyond that proper to nature, then he must be - dare we say it? Yes, we dare - supernatural.

Even worse, if evolution is a natural process, then man is beyond the power of mere evolution and his presence here cannot be explained by evolution.

So, if global warming is not natural, man must be (a) supernatural, and (b) the result of a process greater than evolution, a supernatural process of some kind.

The positivists and the materialists are always asking for a proof for God?s existence. They don?t realize that they have not only already provided the proof, they insist on it. As a matter of Christian charity, we should take them at their word.

About the Writer: Steve Kellmeyer is a nationally recognized author and lecturer who integrates today’s headlines with the Catholic Faith. His work is available through http://www.bridegroompress.com . He can be contacted at skellmeyer@bridegroompress.com .

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