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Plodcast

322: The Absurdity of Darwinism

Plodcast

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9970 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0

Yes, God, God. God don't never change.

0:17.0

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 322.

0:21.0

322. My name is Douglas Wilson. I'm very glad that you decided to join us. My topic, my launching topic, my initial topic today, is the absurdity of Darwinism, not the errors of Darwinism, but the absurdity of Darwinism.

0:40.4

And I think there's an important point here.

0:43.0

Malcolm Muggeridge once said that in retrospect,

0:46.0

evolution is going to be seen as one of the great jokes of history.

0:51.0

Gonna be seen as one of the great jokes of history.

0:54.0

I think that this is exactly right.

0:58.0

When the moment comes, when we walk away from Darwinism, and that moment not going to come

1:05.0

abandon Darwinism we are not going to set it lightly aside and say well it was sensible while it lasted but the facts have overtaken us

1:16.0

and we must regrettably replace this old theory as valuable as it might have been with this new theory. It's not going to be like that.

1:26.0

If Darwinism is finally rejected, it's going to be rejected as absurd all the way down.

1:35.8

Everything about it is absurd.

1:38.9

And the only reason it has any traction at all

1:42.0

is because the only alternative to it is special creation.

1:46.2

And if we are here because a Creator put us here, then it follows, as Night Follows Day, that we have obligations to that person whoever

1:55.8

it was that put us here we have obligations to him and so we will swallow any

2:01.7

absurdity we will swallow any absurdity.

2:03.0

We will swallow any absurdity rather than admit

2:07.0

that there's a God in heaven.

2:09.0

So what do I mean?

2:11.0

Try imagining, if you will, that the little yellow canary is a blood cousin to the sea lion.

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