Meyer, Murray, Holland: Join the Conversation about Faith and Science
January 15, 2023, 7:40 AM Andrew McDiarmid
AGelbert COMMENT: I just finished watching and agree that this is an excellent discussion by all these erudite individuals on a topic that can be quite thorny, to put it mildly.
It all boils down to this: The problem for humanity is to decide, once and for all, that ethical behavior, based on Christ's Commandment to behave towards others as you would have them behave towards you, is sine qua non for a viable society, OR accept that the embrace of Social Darwinism by too many influential poltical and business leaders, from the late 19th century all the way to the present, has replaced ethics with the morally bankrupt 'might equals right' atheist Darwinian ideology.
Celebrated social theorist and geographer David Harvey asked, "Is there a way to capture what (to the detriment of human civilization) is going on now" ?
YES.
Based on what David Harvey himself has written, I'm surprised that he has not reached the "It's the Social Darwinism, s t - - - d" conclusion yet (see below):
David Harvey explains that neoliberal ideology serves the following principle:
"There shall be no serious challenge to the absolute power of money to rule absolutely. And that power is to be exercised with one objective: Those possessed of money shall not only be privileged to accumulate wealth endlessly at will, but they shall have the right to inherit the earth, taking either direct or indirect dominion, not only of the land and all the resources and productive capacities that reside therein, but also assume absolute command, directly or indirectly, over the labor and creative capacities of all those others it needs. The rest of humanity shall be deemed disposable."
David Harvey, “The Party of Wall Street Meets its Nemesis,”
http://www.zcommunications.org/the/party/of/wall/street/meets/its/nemesis. Also, by David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
It's the SOCIAL DARWINISM!
Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are 'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are 'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our species.
The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law: “Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
Social Darwinism is actually based, not on "survival of the fittest", but on fear of tomorrow, a morally bankrupt excuse for rejecting altruism and empathy and embracing a selfish greed dominated hoarding modus vivendi.
"One who fears tomorrow does not offer his bread to others. But one who is willing to divide his food with a stranger has already shown himself capable of fellowship and faith, the two things from which hope is born." -- Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz
"In the post-industrial US, a person matters only as much as that individual produces wealth for the economic or political elite." -- Howard Lisnoff
Social Darwinists believe that the dictum “survival of the fittest” (a term coined not by Charles Darwin but by sociologist Herbert Spencer) means that only the fittest should survive. Darwin's book published later ("Descent of Man") made it clear that Darwin completely supported the morally bankrupt views of Spencer.
Enthusiastic converts to Social Darwinism have, to this day, used the language of evolution to frame an understanding of the growing gulf between the rich and the poor, as well as the many differences between cultures all over the world. The explanation they arrived at, and continue to use to justify biosphere trashing profit over people and planet, regardless of any alligator tear filled mendacious claims to the contrary, is that businessmen and others who are economically and socially successful are so because they are biologically and socially “naturally” the fittest.
Conversely, they reason that the poor are “naturally” weak and unfit and it would be an error to allow the weak of the species to continue to breed.
The money lenders have played a key role in funding this deceit propagated in high schools and universities, where it is passed off as "the Capitalist fiduciary duty of corporations to make a profit above ANY OTHER CONSIDERATION, be it the health and wellbeing of employees or the environment". It is, and always was, legerdemain formulated by the monied elite to dress up selfish, abusive, exploitative and cruel behavior towards "less important" humans and/or animals experimented upon in research labs, as "scientifically justified".
Look at our world, our country, our interactions with each other……… this is not the mark of a healthy society, and if these are the self-appointed leaders of this flaming meteor…..it’s time to move on to new ideas and new people. Let’s relegate these fools to history. They perpetuate a narrative that it is right to behave in a strictly selfish, exploitative manner towards all. We simply can’t survive it any longer. Things will change because they have to. -- Kathleen Wallace
If we wish, as a species, to survive and thrive, we MUST make ethical behavior sine qua non. The following is the antithesis of Social Darwinism:
"What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it." ~ Psam 34:12-14
The Social Darwinist world view is an abomination. Civilized humans should have a proper understanding of the correct ordering of their priority of duties. The Social Darwinists, all atheist avowed worshippers of the self, regardless of the harm self-worship causes human civilization, are uncivilized reprobates.
Isaiah voiced God's view of the arrogance of all morally bankrupt humans who worship themselves instead of the Creator of the Universe.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. ~ Isaiah 41:24.
Read more:
https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/renewables/pumped-hydro/msg736/#msg736By Design: Behe, Lennox, and Meyer on the Evidence for a Creator
