Darwinism

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Darwinism is an theomachist belief system which attempts to deny the intuitively obvious need for a Creator—as seen in the design and complexity of creation—by an unthinking, unguided process of living things adapting to their environment in small increments with the best of these surviving into successive generations.

Being inherently progressivist, Darwinism is fundamentally bound to modernism and futurism. It is a specifically condemned heresy.[1]

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Overview

The model commonly encountered today is the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, a combination of

  • Non-living chemicals in a so-called “primordial soup” randomly arranging themselves into the first self-replicating organism,
  • unguided mutations occurring in these organisms, resulting in some of them being less and other more fit to survive in their environments, and
  • natural selection killing off those organisms least fit to survive.

This combination is then claimed to lead progressively from less complex, less sophisticated organisms to ones which are more complex and better able to survive and reproduce.

History

Position of the Holy Fathers

Philosophical implications

Scientific implications

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