Intellihub.com March 25 2013
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Charles Darwin is one of the most respected figures in scientific history and his ideological theories have changed the way we look at the world and how we practice science. Although “Darwinism” consists of more theory and assumption than scientific law, it is still held to be absolute truth in the western world. Charles Darwin did make some incredible observations about the natural world that no one in the west had even approached at the time.
However, these natural observations were corrupted by his own ideological assumptions. There is a lot of truth in Darwin’s work, but the truth that exists within his research really doesn’t do anything to prove his materialistic assumptions.
Darwin’s painfully damaging assumptions did not come from his research in the wilderness but from his upbringing as a white wealthy Englishman under the strict rule of the Catholic Church. Darwin belonged to a popular movement at the time that was fed up with the churches tyrannical rule.
The aristocracy also had economic and strategic reasons for wanting to break down the established religious order, as the divine right of kings prevented the nobility from attaining more wealth and power then they already had. Darwin and his colleagues belonged to that privileged class which sought to disprove any kind of spirituality and remove the spirit from serious intellectual discussion. This was an understandable goal considering the extremely repressive nature of the church at the time, but what they did was throw the baby out with the bathwater, for lack of a better term.
It is true that the Anglo Saxon church in its many variations was unrealistic, outdated and oppressive even at the time of Darwin, but for some reason he didn’t draw the line with organized religion but wanted to rule out the supernatural altogether.
Darwin and his colleagues assumed that since spirituality in their culture was represented by an oppressive control system that the idea of spirit was somehow damaging to the human condition. In reality it was just the corrupted mainstream versions of religion which Darwin was exposed to that shaped his whole spiritual view. Even if the idea of spirit was some kind of menace, Darwin’s observations have nothing to do with spirituality.
Yes, Darwin’s observations do disprove many specific points of the King James Bible, which did totally cripple that institution. However, the Christian bible or any other holy book for that matter is not any kind of representation of human spirituality. It is simply a book that was written by rulers and then passed along to the public as the “word of god“. Therefore, Darwin’s findings only disprove the said “truths” of specific organized religions but have no implications for spirituality in general.
In Darwin’s time there was an idea among the nobility that their genetics were superior to those of the rest of society. Many families including Darwin’s took this belief to extreme levels by practicing incest as a tradition.
They thought that if adolescents were to marry within their own family then not only would all the wealth stay in the family, but the “good” genes would also. This also ensured that the family fortunes would be retained for many future generations. This practice is very common in aristocratic families, which explains why they are all extremely mentally unstable. Darwin came from a very classist and racist elite level of society and that is reflected in his work, especially “The Descent of Man”.