Further Motivations
Evolutionary “scientists” have other motives than simply a shared bias against the Creator God of the Bible. They also share a secular ambition for fame and reward, as illustrated by the following quote from Dr. David Pilbeam, the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Pilbeam is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His comments are recorded by National Geographic author John Reader in the book entitled Missing Links : The Hunt for Earliest Man, Little Brown & Co., 1981:
“Scientists (or at least paleoanthropologists) don’t behave as scientists are supposed to behave: as fact-grinding, theory-generating, objective automata.
“But that is because they involve scientists who are also people and because there is much at stake, for there are glittering prizes in the form of fame and publicity.
“And there is more general pressure too for answers to cosmic questions, a hunger that sometimes makes paleoanthropologists priests of a new kind of secular theology.”
At one time the website of the Harvard Anthropology Department, Paleoanthropology Laboratory, had this graphic with Pilbeam’s photo:
Today Pilbeam’s photo has been removed from the website home page, but the primitive ape-like hominid remains, and Pilbeam’s photo is found elsewhere in the “Paleolab Photos” section of the site. This pictorial juxtaposition of the modern “scientist” with his imagined ape-like ancestor vividly captures the evolutionists’ presupposition.
That presupposition may now be summarized in the words of the well-known evolutionist sympathizer, Carl Sagan, in the opening lines of his book Cosmos,
“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”
This biblical sounding assertion proclaims evolutionist wisdom that the material universe is eternal and uncreated. No divine Creator exists. Everything we see around us, including ourselves, is simply a materialistic and naturalistic derivative of eternal matter. There is no God; man is in control of everything and responsible to no one. It is this presupposition that enables the following sorts of pronouncements by evolutionist preachers:
“All thinking people accept the biologic fact of our ‘descent from the animal world. Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life.” – J. Gould in Natural History, July 1995, “This View of Life – Spin-Doctoring Darwin”
“Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.” – George Gaylord Simpson in The Meaning of Evolution (1949) p.344
I have discussed only a small representative sample of extensive commentary by evolutionists on their “science.” Their atheistic confessions can be multiplied manifold if one simply searches the internet for evolutionists’ comments on evolution. If biological evolution were truly the science that its adherents proclaim it to be, then their protestations against a Creator would not be necessary. They could—and enthusiastically would—present the science that settled the issue once for all, and there would not be the persistent argument that we have today. That they must resort to baseless opinionated rhetoric exposes their “science” as intellectually bankrupt and fraudulent.
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