The
Results Of Evolution: Could It Be The Bloodiest Religion Ever?
Bodie Hodge, M.Sc., B.Sc., PEI
Biblical Authority Ministries, April 4, 2025 (Donate)
Christians are often leveled with the claim that “evolution will help society become better.” Is such a statement true? Even the first Humanist Manifesto, of which evolution is a subset of this religion declared:
“The goal of humanism is a free and universal society in which people voluntarily and intelligently co-operate for the common good.”
Of course, what do they mean by “good” anyway—they are simply borrowing from the teachings of God in the Bible. Regardless, does evolution really teach a future of prosperity? What has been the result of evolutionary thinking in a hundred years or so? Perhaps this could be a test of what is to come.
Evolution in Practice in 20th Century
Let’s first look at the casualties of evolutionary worldviews beginning in the 1900s to see the hints of what this next level looks like:
Table 1 Deaths as a result of an evolutionary worldview
|
Who/What? |
Specific event and estimated dead |
Total Estimates |
|
Pre-Hitler |
WWI: 20,000,000 dead, 21,000,000 wounded[1]
WWII: 72 million[2] [Holocaust: 17,000,000? (Figures ranged from 7 to 26 million)[3]] |
92,000,000 |
|
Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin |
Bolshevik revolution and Russian Civil War: 15,000,000[4]
|
15,000,000 |
|
Joseph Stalin |
20,000,000[5] |
20,000,000 |
|
Mao Zedong |
14,000,000 – 20,000,000[6] |
Median estimate: 17,000,000 |
|
Korean War |
2,500,000?[7] |
~2,500,000 |
|
Vietnam War (1959-1975) |
4,000,000 – 5,000,000 Vietnamese, 1,500,000 – 2,000,000 Lao and
Cambodians[8] |
Medians of each and excludes French, |
|
Pol Pot (Saloth Sar) |
750,000-1,700,000[9] |
Median estimate: 1,225,000 |
|
Abortion to children |
US estimates 1928-2007: 26,000,000[12] Etc. |
621,500,000 and this excludes many other countries |
|
Grand Total |
|
758,475,000 |
This only estimates a few countries when it comes to abortion so this figure is likely very conservative. It accounts for the deaths of over 3/4 of a billion people in one century! Such high figures on a chart seem to cry out that something is wrong with the claim in question! Charles Darwin’s view on evolution began being catapulted into societies across the world in the mid to late 1800s.
Evolution influenced Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin and many others. Let’s take a closer look at some of these people and events and see the evolutionary influence and repercussions.
World War I, World War II, Hitler, Nazis, and the Holocaust
Most historians would point to the assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand on June 18, 1914 as the event that triggered World War I (WWI),
also known as the “Great War” or the “World War”. But the tensions were already high
considering the state of
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes . . . will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian [Aborigine] and the gorilla.”[16]
But the German sentiment prior to WWI, was very much bent on conquering for the purpose of expanding their territory and their “race”. An encyclopedia entry from 1936 states:
“In discussions of the background of the war much has been said of Pan-Germanism, which was the spirit of national consciousness carried to the extreme limit. The Pan-Germans, who included not only militarists, but historians, scientists, educators and statesmen, conceived the German people, no matter where they located, as permanently retaining their nationality. The most ambitious of this group believed that it was their mission of Germans to extend their kultur, (culture) over the world, and to accomplish this by conquest if necessary. In this connection the theory was advanced that the German was a superior being, destined to dominate other peoples, most of whom were thought of as decadent.”[17]
World War II dwarfed World War I in total people dead. Racist attitudes exploded in Germany against people groups such as Jews, Poles, and many others. Adolf Hitler was influenced by Darwin’s teaching on evolution.
Hitler even tried to change the protestant church in
“An attempt to alter the fundamentals of the German Protestant religion did not succeed.”[18]
A similar entry in the same encyclopedia under
“…a Hitler attempt to modify the Protestant faith failed.”[19]
He obviously didn’t hold to the basic fundamentals taught in the 66 books of the Bible. This refutes notions that Hitler was a protestant Christian as some have claimed. Though from his writings he did believe in some form of God early on, but his religious views moved toward humanism due to evolution. Consider his quote in his unpublished second book:
“The types of creatures on the earth are countless, and on an individual level their self-preservation instinct as well as the longing for procreation is always unlimited; however, the space in which this entire life process plays itself out its limited. It is the surface area of a precisely measured sphere on which billions and billions of individual beings struggle for life and succession. In the limitation of this living space lies the compulsion for the struggle for survival, and the struggle for survival, in turn contains the precondition for evolution.”[20]
Hitler continues:
“The history of the world in the ages when humans did not yet exist was initially a representation of geological occurrences. The clash of natural forces with each other, the formation of a habitable surface on this planet, the separation of water and land, the formation of the mountains, plains, and the seas. That [was] is the history of the world during this time. Later, with the emergence of organic life, human interest focuses on the appearance and disappearance of its thousandfold forms. Man himself finally becomes visible very late, and from that point on he begins to understand the term “world history” as referring to the history of his own development – in other words, the representation of his own evolution. This development is characterized by the never-ending battle of humans against animals and also against humans themselves.”[21]
Hitler fully believed
His views of evolution led him and the Nazi party (National Socialists German Workers Party[22]) into WWII because of his and their belief in evolution—viewing the Caucasian as more evolved and taking up Darwin’s claim to eliminate lesser “races”. Among the first to be targeted were Jews (in Nazi’s opinion), then Poles and many others. The Holocaust is a reminder of the repercussions of evolution that the Nazi’s inflicted due to their beliefs.
Leon Trotsky/Vladimir Lenin/Joseph Stalin/Mao Zedong/Pol Pot and other communist results
Trotsky and Lenin are both notorious for the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republic (U.S.S.R.) and specifically the communist revolution. Lenin,
taking power in 1917, became a ruthless leader and was set to have Trotsky be
the heir to his position. Lenin and
Trotsky held to Marxism, which was built on Darwinism and evolution. Karl Marx regarded
“The latter method is the only materialistic and, therefore, the only scientific one.”[23]
Marxism was the heavy influence in Communism. However, few realize that Marxism is built on Darwinism! In 1883, longtime friend and collaborator of Marx, Freidrich Engels at Marx’s funeral service stated that,
“Just as
Both Darwin and Marx build their ideologies
on naturalism and materialism. Trotsky and Lenin were contemporaries in the
Soviet Union after the Russian revolution during WWI, which led to their
subsequent treaty with Germany to cease the fight. Trotsky once said of
“
Trotsky’s high regard for evolution and
“The same high mental faculties which first led man to believe in unseen spiritual agencies, then in fetishism, polytheism, and ultimately in monotheism, would infallibly lead him, as long as his reasoning powers remained poorly developed, to various strange superstitions and customs.”[26]
“The idea of a universal and beneficent Creator does not seem to arise in the mind of man, until he has been elevated by long-continued culture.”[27]
Vladimir Lenin picked on Darwinism and Marxism and ruled very harshly as an evolutionist. His variant of Marxism has become known as Leninism (see The development of Capitalism in Russia). Regardless, communist roots by Marx, Trotsky, and Lenin were the foundation that communism has stood…and is standing on.
Perhaps the most ruthless leaders of communism though were Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. Each of these being Darwinists and each ruling three different countries—Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia respectively. Their reigns of terror on their nations show the value of human life being reduced to that of mere animals, a Darwinistic teaching.
Other results of communism are the various wars and conflicts that resulted from communistic and hence, Darwinistic philosophies. Two popular ones are the Korean and Vietnamese sagas. The results of an evolutionary worldview have produced many deaths in about hundred years of communism.
Such evolutionary leaders (including
|
|
Influences prior to investigating evolution |
Afterwards |
|
Stalin |
|
Evolutionist |
|
Trotsky |
Non practicing Jew |
Evolutionist |
|
Lenin |
Baptized into the Russian
Orthodox Church |
Evolutionist |
|
Hitler |
Roman Catholic |
Evolutionist |
|
Mao |
Some Buddhist upbringing |
Evolutionist |
|
Pol Pot |
Roman Catholic upbringing |
Evolutionist |
|
|
Anglican schooling, Unitarian influence |
Evolutionist |
The war on children has been one of the quietest and yet bloodiest in the past hundred years. In an evolutionary mindset, the unborn, have been treated as though they are going through an “animal phase”, and can be discarded.
Early evolutionist, Ernst Haeckel, first popularized the concept of that babies in the womb are actually undergoing animals stages such as a fish stage and so on. This idea has come to be known as ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Haeckel even faked drawings of various animals’ embryos and had them next to drawn human embryo looking virtually identical.
Image from Presentation Library
The faked drawings have been shown completely false.[28] Even Haeckel partially confessed.[29] However, the idea has still been used for hundred years! Textbooks today still use this concept and even museums around the world teach it.
And thorough this deception, women have been convinced that the baby they are
carrying in their womb, are simply going through an animal phase and can be
aborted. Author
“In
fact, some abortion clinics in
Evolutionary views have decreased the value of human life and throughout the world, the casualties of the war on children is staggering. Though deaths of children and the unborn did exist prior to evolution, it has increased many folds as a result of Darwinian teachings.
Conclusion
Does this mean that evolution is the cause of wars and deaths? Absolutely not. Sin is the result back in the Garden of Eden.[31] But an evolutionary worldview has done nothing but add fuel to the fire. In the wars and atrocities caused by those who believed evolution in recent times, there is still hope. But of all the atrocities and evils, the silent war on children has grossly outweighed the others and there seems no end in sight.
In
In
In today’s day and age, governments readily permit the killing of
the children, both boys and girls, and sometimes command it (abortion)…and by
Originally published here: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/07/13/results-evolution-bloodiest-religion-ever;
Reprinted by Permission
[1] World War I Casualties, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_casualties,
October 23, 2008, as with all of these statistics, such may have some variance
depending on source.
[2] World War II Casualties, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties,
October 23, 2008.
[3] The Holocaust, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust,
October 23, 2008.
[4] Russian Civil War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War,
October 23, 2008.
[5] Joseph Stalin, http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/stalin.html,
October 23, 2008.
[6] Mao Tse-Tung, http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/mao.html,
October 23, 2008.
[7] This one is tough to pin
down and several sources have different estimates, so this is a middle of the
road estimate from the sources I found.
[8] Vietnam War, http://www.vietnamwar.com/, October 23,
2008.
[9] Pol Pot, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot,
October 23, 2008.
[10] Historical abortion
statistics, PR China, compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston , last updated 4 June
2008, http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-prchina.html.
[11] Historical abortion
statistics, U.S.S.R., compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston , last updated 4 June
2008, http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-ussr.html
[12] Historical abortion
statistics,
[13] Historical abortion statistics,
[14] Historical abortion
statistics,
[15] Historical abortion
statistics, FR Germany, compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston , last updated 4 June
2008, http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-frgermany.html
[16] Charles Darwin, The
Descent of Man (New York: A.L. Burt, 1874, 2nd ed.), p. 178.
[17] The American Educator Encyclopedia, The
United Educators, Inc., Chicago, 1936, p. 3914 under entry “World War”.
[18] The American Educator
Encyclopedia, The United Educators, Inc., Chicago, 1936, p. 1702 under entry
“Hitler”.
[19] The American Educator
Encyclopedia, The United Educators, Inc., Chicago, 1936, p. 1494 under entry “
[20] Hitler’s Second Book, Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gerald L. Weinberg,
2003 Enigma books, Translated by Krista Smith, p. 8.
[21] Hitler’s Second Book, Adolf Hitler, Edited by Gerald L. Weinberg,
2003 Enigma books, Translated by Krista Smith, p. 9.
[22] In German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
Arbeiterpartei
[23] Great
Books of the Western World, Volume 50, Capital,
Karl Marx, William Benton (Publishers),
[24] Gertrude Himmelfarb,
[25] Eastman, Max, Trotsky:
A portrait of his youth,
[26] Darwin, Charles, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation
to Sex, Chapter III (Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals), 1871, As
printed in the Great Books of the Western
World, Volume 49, Robert Hutchins, Ed., Chicago, 1952, p. 303.
[27] Darwin, Charles, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation
to Sex, Chapter XXI, (Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals), 1871, As
printed in the Great Books of the Western
World, Volume 49, Robert Hutchins, Ed., Chicago, 1952, p. 593.
[28] Michael Richardson et
al, Anatomy and Embryology, 196(2):91–106, 1997.
[29] Haeckel said, “… a small portion of my embryo-pictures
(possibly 6 or 8 in a hundred) are really (in Dr Brass’s [one of his critics]
sense of the word) “falsified” — all those, namely, in which the disclosed
material for inspection is so incomplete or insufficient that one is compelled
in a restoration of a connected development series to fill up the gaps through
hypotheses, and to reconstruct the missing members through comparative
syntheses. What difficulties this task encounters, and how easily the draughts-
man may blunder in it, the embryologist alone can judge.” The Truth about
Haeckel’s Confession, The Bible Investigator and Inquirer, M.L.
Hutchinson,
[30] Ham,
[31] The New Answers Book 1, Gen. Ed.
