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The Evolution of Evolution
John G. Campbell
Introduction by Paul Ellwanger **
(Posted !/29/10 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) What follows is a brief paper by a Catholic lay Scotsman who was founder and editor of DAYLIGHT, a quarterly founded to expose the lie of evolution. Before his death, Campbell wrote this paper to contrast two devastating epics in the Church’s history. While Campbell’s observations were directed at the theological element of the origins questions, you may know that in November of 2009 there was an anti-Evolution conference held in Rome whose participants exposed the scientific bankruptcy of evolution. Evolutionists have conventionally seized upon the religion element in their desperate attempts to distract from evolution’s scientific impossibility. Participants of that Roman Conference focused exclusively on those scientific impossibilities, leaving the religion element to philosophers. However, it is no secret that evolutionism is a deeply religious concept requiring “belief” (faith) of its postulants. It is also no secret that evolutionism is a core dogma of all atheist religions, such as Scientology, Secular Humanism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism and the Ethical Societies. With the loss of evolution’s scientific credibility, all those atheist religions would crumble. So while we can appreciate the thrust of Campbell’s article, dealing with the theological, let us recall that last November’s Rome conference was the latest such conference in which evolution’s scientific impossibility was elucidated., quite devoid of the theological (metaphysical) aspects. PE
As St. Jerome put it, “The Church wakened to find itself Arian”. Today the Church has wakened to find itself Evolutionist. And today’s heresy — or body of heresies — is a much more radical thing than the adherence to the single Arian heresy; for the present error, though it is presented as Theistic Evolution, draws upon the fundamental atheistic or pantheistic explanation of the universe: the universe creating itself by its own processes.
Quite obviously it is a most radical departure, to throw overboard the Church’s teaching, from the very beginning, on direct creation by God. Quite obviously it is a most dangerous departure; for we witness the theologians, trying to accommodate themselves to the evolutionist thesis, now proposing the elimination of Adam (polygenism) and of Original Sin, thereby transforming the Faith into a purely naturalistic explanation of things.
Like all other currents of thought within the Church, this business originated in the seminaries, a fact which is well corroborated by various clerical correspondents of the present writer. An aged priest in Britain affirms that Evolution was presented to him in his seminary prior to the First World War.
An American friar in his late fifties states that he was regarded as something of an oddity when he declared to his professor and fellow students that Evolution was far from being proved.
A young priest recounts that his professor presented polygenism as the most probable explanation of man. Indeed, these examples are themselves corroborated by the fact that most of the young seminarians emerging today are Evolutionist and Teilhardian in their outlook. There can be little doubt that the evil is long-standing and deep-rooted.
The example of the polygenistic professor is an illuminating one. The legend was that the seminaries were arenas of the most acute philosophical and theological debate, but there is an academic prepared to accept the idea that man evolved everywhere, but all evolved in precisely the same type, down to the same ten fingers and ten toes, and all imbued with the idea that they were all members of the human race. An idea so contrary to all human experience as this is obediently accepted upon the authority of “the scientists”. And here is the root error, that of Scientism; that theology and philosophy must find their bases upon the dicta of “the scientists”. It is a complete surrender, and a reversal of all previous teaching.
One aspect of this evolutionist teaching must be emphasized. The young seminarian is presented, not only with Evolutionism, but with a theology based upon Evolutionism, evolutionist theology, and thus, sooner or later, Evolutionism begins to be regarded almost as one of the sacred, theological truths. So that today we may witness the spectacle of a young cleric being astonished upon hearing Evolution being described as a myth — as if one of the truths of the Faith were being challenged!
But what is the most astonishing and serious aspect of this situation is this: that few, if any, clerics seem to have heard of the authorities who have presented the case against Evolution. It may be that some have heard of the modern American attack upon the theory, and have blandly dismissed it as simply being another manifestation of `Fundamentalism’.
However, the root of the matter is elsewhere. There has been all along a classic line of European authorities against Evolution, instancing Lord Kelvin and Sir Ambrose Philips, Vialleton, Lemoine and Thomas in France, plus eminent Italian authorities — and this to name but a few. It is probably true that, owing to the great suppression in the modern media, that most ordinary men have not heard of such authorities, but the librarians and faculty members of these seats of learning are not ordinary men, and it is difficult to conceive of them being unaware of the published works of these scientists, particularly those of Paris publication.
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The Evolution of Evolution
John G. Campbell
Introduction by Paul Ellwanger **
(Posted !/29/10 www.RemnantNewspaper.com) What follows is a brief paper by a Catholic lay Scotsman who was founder and editor of DAYLIGHT, a quarterly founded to expose the lie of evolution. Before his death, Campbell wrote this paper to contrast two devastating epics in the Church’s history. While Campbell’s observations were directed at the theological element of the origins questions, you may know that in November of 2009 there was an anti-Evolution conference held in Rome whose participants exposed the scientific bankruptcy of evolution. Evolutionists have conventionally seized upon the religion element in their desperate attempts to distract from evolution’s scientific impossibility. Participants of that Roman Conference focused exclusively on those scientific impossibilities, leaving the religion element to philosophers. However, it is no secret that evolutionism is a deeply religious concept requiring “belief” (faith) of its postulants. It is also no secret that evolutionism is a core dogma of all atheist religions, such as Scientology, Secular Humanism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism and the Ethical Societies. With the loss of evolution’s scientific credibility, all those atheist religions would crumble. So while we can appreciate the thrust of Campbell’s article, dealing with the theological, let us recall that last November’s Rome conference was the latest such conference in which evolution’s scientific impossibility was elucidated., quite devoid of the theological (metaphysical) aspects. PE
As St. Jerome put it, “The Church wakened to find itself Arian”. Today the Church has wakened to find itself Evolutionist. And today’s heresy — or body of heresies — is a much more radical thing than the adherence to the single Arian heresy; for the present error, though it is presented as Theistic Evolution, draws upon the fundamental atheistic or pantheistic explanation of the universe: the universe creating itself by its own processes.
Quite obviously it is a most radical departure, to throw overboard the Church’s teaching, from the very beginning, on direct creation by God. Quite obviously it is a most dangerous departure; for we witness the theologians, trying to accommodate themselves to the evolutionist thesis, now proposing the elimination of Adam (polygenism) and of Original Sin, thereby transforming the Faith into a purely naturalistic explanation of things.
Like all other currents of thought within the Church, this business originated in the seminaries, a fact which is well corroborated by various clerical correspondents of the present writer. An aged priest in Britain affirms that Evolution was presented to him in his seminary prior to the First World War.
An American friar in his late fifties states that he was regarded as something of an oddity when he declared to his professor and fellow students that Evolution was far from being proved.
A young priest recounts that his professor presented polygenism as the most probable explanation of man. Indeed, these examples are themselves corroborated by the fact that most of the young seminarians emerging today are Evolutionist and Teilhardian in their outlook. There can be little doubt that the evil is long-standing and deep-rooted.
The example of the polygenistic professor is an illuminating one. The legend was that the seminaries were arenas of the most acute philosophical and theological debate, but there is an academic prepared to accept the idea that man evolved everywhere, but all evolved in precisely the same type, down to the same ten fingers and ten toes, and all imbued with the idea that they were all members of the human race. An idea so contrary to all human experience as this is obediently accepted upon the authority of “the scientists”. And here is the root error, that of Scientism; that theology and philosophy must find their bases upon the dicta of “the scientists”. It is a complete surrender, and a reversal of all previous teaching.
One aspect of this evolutionist teaching must be emphasized. The young seminarian is presented, not only with Evolutionism, but with a theology based upon Evolutionism, evolutionist theology, and thus, sooner or later, Evolutionism begins to be regarded almost as one of the sacred, theological truths. So that today we may witness the spectacle of a young cleric being astonished upon hearing Evolution being described as a myth — as if one of the truths of the Faith were being challenged!
But what is the most astonishing and serious aspect of this situation is this: that few, if any, clerics seem to have heard of the authorities who have presented the case against Evolution. It may be that some have heard of the modern American attack upon the theory, and have blandly dismissed it as simply being another manifestation of `Fundamentalism’.
However, the root of the matter is elsewhere. There has been all along a classic line of European authorities against Evolution, instancing Lord Kelvin and Sir Ambrose Philips, Vialleton, Lemoine and Thomas in France, plus eminent Italian authorities — and this to name but a few. It is probably true that, owing to the great suppression in the modern media, that most ordinary men have not heard of such authorities, but the librarians and faculty members of these seats of learning are not ordinary men, and it is difficult to conceive of them being unaware of the published works of these scientists, particularly those of Paris publication.
**Continue here: remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2010-01310-John-Campbell-Evolution.htm
“CIA” link: findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=1532807 **
