Modern
secularists love to see present day humans as the pinnacle of
evolution. In reality, human nature has change not one iota since
Adam and Eve.
“We
tend to have this idea of Neanderthals as these stereotypical cavemen
that must have been different from us because they're not around
today,” Riel-Salvatore said. “And what we’re seeing, in fact,
is that the more we look at the record of Neanderthals ... the more
their lifestyle appears to have been similar to those of modern
humans at more or less the same time.”
“The
big difference between them and us is shrinking by the day —
literally, at this point,” Riel-Salvatore said. “And so instead
of seeing them as this extinct offshoot on the human family tree, we
should think of them more as extinct cousins, fairly close relatives.
Regardless
of either option, monkey or man, Darwinists plead with us to believe
that we are nothing more than a mass of chemical exchanges and firing
neurons even as they, the atheists, display a whole range of personal
thoughts, emotions and pseudo arguments when their beliefs in this
area are challenged.
These
people look at the human abilities of self-reflection, art, medicine,
the enjoyment of music and say it comes from an illusory direction of
will. In fact, they say that self-will or freewill choice are also an
illusion. Even though the development of our vocabulary is enormous,
our grammar complex and our conversations deep and meaningful, it all
comes, say materialists, without purpose or meaning. These atheists
look at the human ability to codify language, our unbounded
creativity, selflessness, love, the exercising of our rational
faculties, our ability to develop an argument, follow a line of
logic, draw conclusions and frame hypotheses and call it the simple,
random and unguided firing of neurons.
Our strong spirit of enquiry,
our research in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, medicine and
physics while noteworthy for some, is nothing of lasting consequence
to an atheist, for all will, according to atheists comes to an absurd
and meaningless end. Yearn for meaning in life? It too is of no
lasting import. It’s the same illusion that causes us to devote so
much of our time to philosophy, theology and ethics. Or so the
materialist world-view claims. Atheists say that our religious
sentiments and practices and our intense and endless quest for
meaning can be traced to some random mutation eons ago.
The concept of atheism forces us to say that it’s only the illusion of the “I” that questions not only our origin but also our destiny. It’s only the illusion of the “I” that has a refined aesthetic sense that admires beauty and longs to be surrounded with it. When we cultivate a garden, put flowers in a vase, or hang up a painting, it’s the illusion of the “I” that is expressing a love of beauty and a strong creative impulse. Our poetry, painting, dance, drama and music, our weekly craft groups where baskets are woven, wool is spun, shawls are knit, and photo albums are covered, all this, says the ardent materialist, is carried out for no particular reason save to follow the command of chemical exchanges.
Reason,
language, enquiry, wonder, longing, religion, morality, aesthetics,
creativity, imagination, aspiration and humour, to such intangible
but fundamental qualities, atheists like Bertrand Russel can only
respond, and in the total absence of proofs or evidence, yet driven
by a desperate desire to be free from all accountability to one’s
Creator, they hope that you will agree:
“That man is the product of
causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that
his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs
are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no
fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve
an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the
ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday
brightness of human genius are destined to extinction . . . that the
whole temple of man’s achievement must inevitably be buried - all
these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain,
that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within
the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of
unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely
built.”
The atheist’s philosophical and powerful emotional reaction to the fact of a universe with a beginning and to the impossibility of life arising unaided from non life shows that we are far, far more than a mass of chemical exchanges, more than mere thinking machines. Bottom line, we're a lot less simian than atheists would like us to believe.
From "Trolling for Atheists" Rod Holmgren
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