Apes or Angels?

Darwin, Dover, Human Nature, and Race

by Cornelius J. Troost


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 16/03/2007

Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 244
ISBN : 9781425955212
Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 244
ISBN : 9781425955229

About the Book

For many readers this book will be a mind-altering experience. It has a thesis that is a challenge to the conventional thinking of most Christians and their counterparts, the secular humanists. It offends both for very good reasons. It speaks the truth about Darwin’s views on human origins and race.

 

Contrary to the beliefs of most academicians and educated readers, Darwin had two dangerous ideas instead of one. Daniel Dennett was perfectly right about the first, which was the notion that  natural selection operated in a way that precluded explanatory intrusions from outside the natural world. In other words, metaphysics has no place in biological explanation. Things spiritual, like vitalism and finalism, are simply inapplicable to evolutionary biology. The second idea is rarely mentioned in politically correct America- that the human races are different in sometimes significant ways. Indeed, inequality is a normal condition of nature.

 

Darwin’s clash with Christianity is winding down because modern science is a foundation of western culture and it fully accepts the truth of natural selection and the evolution  of life(including man). It is ironic that as the struggle with Christianity declines, a new struggle emerges- the battle over racial differences. Liberalism evolved into radical egalitarianism as it swept over America, creating an authoritarian political correctness that contradicts our Constitution. Modern genetics now threatens the liberal myth of human equality.

 

These Darwinian conflicts are playing out amidst our culture wars, a battle that could transform us into another Brazil. Radical egalitarianism and multiculturalism are ideologies aimed at dismantling our great Anglo-European tradition. Forces of erosion are at work which may make our nation’s greatness a faint memory.

 

The battle with creationism is essentially over in Europe and it is winding down in the U.S. Science always wins fights over the facts of nature! Eddies of ignorance will persist in American society where fundamentalism exists, but educated elites have long since agreed with Darwin.

 

Liberal relativism erodes our standards of excellence and even undermines our Christian morality, a morality that seems closely connected to our moral instinct. With their power in academia liberals will submit to “white guilt” as they treat blacks as eternal victims, distorting reality to make outcomes equal. Darwin, however, may be vindicated on the matter of real racial differences, causing agony among idealistic liberals who must relinquish their lofty dreams.

 

Scientific humanism has always touted critical thinking as a supreme goal of education, but it is threatened by the irrational side of liberalism that savors post-modern subjectivism. Today we see “diversity training” imposed on  young people in a Stalinist manner. Propaganda and groupthink are current weapons of the PC martinets. In reading  this survey of how Darwin came to his dangerous ideas, you may appreciate how important science and critical thinking are in a society gripped by wayward versions of liberalism. 

Open debate over this book will be a healthy antidote for the fearful silence in America.

 

I hope you engage in this debate and send me any comments or criticisms at Njtjrt@aol.com



About the Author

Cornelius J. Troost was a professor of science education at UCLA and chair of graduate studies at Brock U. in Ontario, Canada. While at Brock Dr. Troost created an MA degree program and worked on critical thinking tests for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Dr. Troost is the author of 10 books and numerous articles in professional journals. In addition he gave four major talks to the faculty and graduate students at Harvard's GSE.These talks were judged by senior professors as exceptional. For years Dr. Troost gave talks about evolution in education and appeared on a variety of TV programs to discuss creationism and biology teaching. In Florida he has taught biology, physics, and chemistry as well as graduate level psychology courses.His students in Odyssey of the Mind competitions won numerous medals. He is married and has four children and five grandchildren.