It is true we can investigate miracles using the scientific method, but in that case we are measuring and studying the observable causes and effects. We aren’t confirming miracles. We are either finding natural causes, or stating that we don’t know the natural causes.
The useful thing about Darwin’s ‘cause’ is that it exposes the empirical doctrine as hypocrisy, as the conclusion is already drawn that the mechanics which operate for national supremacy and its dominion over other states can be directly inserted into biological evolution as a direct ‘cause’ -
“Till at length the whole territory, from the confines of China to the shores of the Baltic, was peopled by a various race of Barbarians, brave, robust, and enterprising, inured to hardship, and delighting in war. Some tribes maintained their independence. Others ranged themselves under the standard of some barbaric chieftain who led them to victory after victory, and what was of more importance, to regions abounding in corn, wine, and oil, the long wished for consummation, and great reward of their labours. An Alaric, an Attila, or a Zingis Khan, and the chiefs around them, might fight for glory, for the fame of extensive conquests, but the true cause that set in motion the great tide of northern emigration, and that continued to propel it till it rolled at different periods against China, Persia, italy, and even Egypt, was a scarcity of food, a population extended beyond the means of supporting it.” Thomas Malthus
“One day something brought to my recollection Malthus’s “Principles of Population,” which I had read about twelve years before. I thought of his clear exposition of “the positive checks to increase”—disease, accidents, war, and famine—which keep down the population of savage races to so much lower an average than that of civilized peoples. It then occurred to me that these causes or their equivalents are continually acting in the case of animals also… because in every generation the inferior would inevitably be killed off and the
superior would remain—that is, the fittest would survive.… The more I thought over it the more I became convinced that I had at length found the long-sought-for law of nature that solved the problem of the origin of species.” Charles Darwin
Neither Darwin or Malthus are at fault for believing what they did within the empirical approach but it should be an assault on a 21st century mind .The trouble is that it isn’t,it is as though Darwin never said what he did and the ideology is now toned down to an acceptable level even to Christian authorities.
In the matter of a holocaust based on ideologies,this one has had greater impact than any,as the ability of people to reason properly is suspended,whether it is from the empiricist attack on religion from the outside or the rotting of Christian denominational structures from the inside,the feature of science vs religions as separate entities is so established that the decay of reasoning and all its awful consequences will proceed unhindered -
“The basic motivation [of the Holocaust] was purely ideological, rooted in an illusionary world of Nazi imagination, where an international Jewish conspiracy to control the world was opposed to a parallel Aryan quest. No genocide to date had been based so completely on myths, on hallucinations, on abstract, nonpragmatic ideology – which was then executed by very rational, pragmatic means.” Yehuda Bauer
I have seen clearly how empiricism had acted on genuine scientific structures and created this current situation with its roots back in the late 17th century and with only the comparable agenda of the 1940’s holocaust as a guide,it follows a similar efficient path.
Most here owe nothing to the past or future generations but I do not hold to that view and God help us all.
