- The Theory of Evolution Revisited - William L. Johnson & Annabel M. Johnson
One has to be continually amazed that so little attention has been given in the literature of our time to the assumptions, weaknesses, failings, and inconsistencies associated with the theory of evolution. There is the widespread illusion that evolution is an established scientific fact; however, nothing could be further from the truth. The evolutionary paradigm is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth century theory.
Darwin's theory of evolution was one of society's jewels, and Darwin himself emerged as the shining star of an era that did not want God or at least felt God was a distant and remote first cause. Science alone would solve all mankind's problems. However, we now see a Western society crying out for values and a clearly defined direction. We see a society that hungers for spirituality. Could these unfulfilled desires be attributed to the propagation and advocacy of Darwinian evolution and to a rejection of God. Could these yearnings of the spirit be explained by evolution's failure to answer our most basic questions about life and our place in the cosmos. In this article, the authors want to show that the concept of evolution is in disarray because its assumptions are still largely as enigmatic as when Darwin set sail on the Beagle.
There is little question that the Origin of Species (Darwin, 1859) has had more influence on Western culture than any other book of modern times. Not only was it a great biological treatise, but it carried significant implications for present day sociology, psychology, philosophy, economics, history, educational theory, and religion, as well as the natural sciences, both biological and physical. In astronomy and cosmology, it is universally held that everything in the physical universe has gradually, over billions of years, evolved mechanically into its present state. Evolution is viewed as the greatest single unifying principle in all biology (Prosser, 1959). The theory proposes that life evolved gradually over billions of years.
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