Former Teen Star Attacks Darwinism

Kirk Cameron is back in the news and he's bringing the pushy version of Christianity with him, despite all that stuff Jesus said about minding one's own business.

His target: Darwinism. Here's a quote:

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species. We have a situation in our country where young people are entering college with a belief in God and exiting with that faith being stripped and shredded. What we want to do is have student make an informed, educated decision before they chuck their faith.

"The Bible of the atheists is The Origin of Species"? Uh, no. There were plenty of atheists before Darwin. In fact, I'm starting to think this is about something else for Cameron. In this clip, He talks about how he used to be an atheist. He jumped into it because it made him feel like an intellectual to stick it to God.



So, for Cameron, making the decision to adopt atheism as his world view was based on nothing. But, we're supposed to believe that his turn to Jesus is a well informed choice and that he is now qualified to go around making sweeping statements about the evils of Darwinism. Like this one:

You can see where [Hitler] clearly takes Darwin's ideas to some of their logical conclusions and compares certain races of people to lower evolutionary life forms. If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify all number of very horrendous things.

Darwin's logical conclusion is not the Holocaust. Darwin described a slow process of natural selection played out over many generations. If the Nazis really were just trying to get to the logical end of Darwinism, which they weren't, they ruined the process by substituting their judgment for the judgment of nature. By definition, evolution can not be forced by will (not even will to power). As soon as it is forced, the selection is no longer natural and we are left with something other than evolution. Actually, that simple, elegant principle seems to point to a rational god more than just about anything else this atheist has seen or heard.