The Strand Study Bible

JUDGES JUDGES humanism to the world 200 years after the father of atheism (Thales of Miletus - c. 600 BC) introduced his theory of atheism. Eliminate God and you can become god. Issac Asimov (Humanist of the year in 1984) declared in an interview: I am an atheist, out and out… I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time. 7 3. The theory of humanism is seriously flawed, seeing humanism is entirely based on the erroneous theory of evolution Thomas Henry Huxley (late 1800’s), who coined the term “ agnostic ” and was themanmost responsible for advancing Darwinism, was an evolutionary militant racist who went so far as to say: No rational man cognizant of the facts believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. 8 The reason humanism is so erroneous, so mistaken and flawed, is because it is based on the science of evolution, which is racist in its core. In his book The Descent of Man Darwin speculated: 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. 9 In less than a century after Charles Darwin proposed his evolutionary bigotry to the world, a “German Fuhrer,” holding to Darwinian theory, tried to exterminate the “less fit” of the world. For evolution to succeed, the “unfit” must die so that they cannot continue to “infect” the “fit” with their “less fit” genes. Indeed, Darwinism has provided the scientific substructure for some of the most significant atrocities in human history. 4. Humanism is a religion that leads to self-worship Julian Huxley (Humanist of the year in 1962) notes: Man’s destiny is to be the sole agent for the future evolution of this planet. 10 Does it sound to you like man wants to become God? It does to me. 5. Humanism is unbelievably and undeniably hypocritical The late Carl Sagan (Humanist of the year 1981), a vowed Socrates’ disciple, loved to quote the Grecian philosophers. In his book, considered by many as the “Humanist Bible,” Sagan notes: We are in the most profound sense, children of the cosmos. Therefore, it makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars because we are their children. 11 Humanists state dogmatically that they trust the scientific method as the only sure method of arriving at knowledge. They unequivocally vow, if something cannot be observed, tested, and experimented upon, it cannot exist. Only what is “observably testable” is meaningful and so can be true or false; all else is unreal. My question to the humanist who holds to this process of thought is, “Were you present when the Big Bang went boom? Were you there to observe the beginning of the evolutionary process for which you hold so dearly?” I will answer for them, “No. No one was there to observe anything.” Because origins are beyond the reach of science to test, the humanist’s hold to such statements is unbelievably and undeniably hypocritical. 6. Humanism is a tragic view of life and strips people of all sense of purpose If everybody’s right because nobody’s wrong, who determines what is right and what is wrong? After 6,000 years of human failure you’d think man would finally figure it out – man does not have the answer. Man is the problem. Relativism, which is man’s answer to men’s problems, is truly a sad view of life. It means man has yet to figure out that he’s the problem and that he needs an outside look at an inside problem ( Prov 14:34 & 29:2 ) 7. Humanism is unscriptural David Noebel in Understanding the Times notes: Humanism assigns to man nothing less than the task of being his own savior and redeemer. 12 Humanism is unscriptural because God’s Word clearly states that God alone is the Savior (Isa 45:21-22 & 49:26, Mt 1:21 and Titus 2:13), not man. Nobel goes on to note: There is no place in the Humanist worldview for either immortality or God in the valid meaning of those terms. Humanism contends that instead of the gods creating the cosmos, the cosmos, in the individualized form of human beings giving rein to their imagination, created the gods. 12 READ NEXT - Judges 3:12-31 1 LaHaye, Tim. The Battle for the Mind , NY, NY, Flemimg Revell, 1980. Print. 2 Henley, William Earnest. Poems . BiblioLife. 2008. Print 3 Black, Hugo. “Torcaso v. Watkins”. N.d. . 4 Rafton, Harold. “Released Time or Democracy,” The Humanist . N.p: 1947. Print. 5 Therese, Marie. “Steve Forbes Claims global Warming Is a Myth.” News Hounds . 14 Jan 2008 . 473

6 Noebel, David. “The Journal.” (June 2006): N. pag. 7 Asimov, Isaac. Free Inquiry . Vol 2 No. 2. (1982). 8 “Thomas Henry Huxley”. Wikipedia. 4 May, 1925. . 9 Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1981. Print. 10 “Thomas Henry Huxley”. Wikipedia. 4 May, 1925. . 11 Sagan, Carl. Cosmos , New York: Ballantine Books, 1980. Print. 12 Noebel, David. Understanding the Times , Eugene, OR, Harvest House Publishers, 1980. Print.