The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin

by Benjamin Wiker

We are still caught in the lie that Darwinism is the only respectable scientific position -- and much of this pseudoscientific dogmatism rests on myths surrounding the enigmatic figure of Charles Darwin himself. Darwin would change the world with his theory -- but the popular perception of him as a disinterested scientist who arrived at this theory after painstaking and meticulous examination of the natural world is dead wrong. As Benjamin Wiker proves in The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin, Darwin did not originate the theory of evolution. Darwin's singular achievement was to dress it up with enough scientific trappings to make it plausible -- a goal which he pursued out of a fanatical desire to strike a blow at Christianity and eradicate the idea that human beings were created in the image of God. Wiker shows that Darwinism, despite the shrill denials of many of its supporters, does indeed lead to atheism -- because Darwin designed it to do so.

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Many have tried to make Darwin a secular saint, whose every fault is politely left unmentioned or hastily excused. Some have tried to make him a demon, and fiercely ignore his virtues. The Darwin Myth portrays him as he really was. Its provocative conclusion? "I have no doubt that if somehow Darwin could have lived to see what became of Darwinism," says Wiker, "he would have been absolutely mortified. But would Darwin have been sufficiently shocked to question Darwinism itself?" Whether or not he would have been, in The Darwin Myth Wiker gives you ample ammunition to do just that, and to prevail over the mindless and Darwin-inspired atheist dogma that surrounds us everywhere today.

• Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus: the bestselling medical-zoological treatise he wrote that spelled out his theory of evolution more than half a century before his grandson Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species

• How nothing in the childhood of Charles Darwin would have appeared to indicate future greatness

• How Darwin represented his religious skepticism as the result of scientific discovery rather than a family inheritance -- but the facts were otherwise

• The voyage of the Beagle: why Darwin, the great homebody, was about as unlikely a candidate for such an adventure as one could find

• How Darwin the scientist not only categorized races but placed them in an evolutionary order of inferior and superior, with black and white being practically different species

• Why the popular notion that Darwin wasn't really pondering evolution as a theory on his voyage until he landed on the Galapagos Islands is unsupportable

• The Galapagos Islands: how Darwin found unique variations of creatures -- although at the time he observed them he completely missed important distinctions among species, and their significance, so that there was no grand evolutionary aha! at Galapagos.

• Darwin's odd possessiveness about his theory of evolution -- leading him even to fail to acknowledge his predecessors, including his own grandfather

• How Darwin's experience with the savage tribes of Tierra del Fuego would play a major role in his theory of the evolution of man -- leading him to rank races as belonging to different gradations in the varying stages of evolution

• Darwin's racism: how he saw "the negro or Australian" as intermediate species, less evolved from the ape, and hence more likely to lose in the relentless struggle of the fit against the unfit

• Darwin and slavery: how he found "the wonderful instinct of making slaves" to be a natural fact

• How the evolution dilemma -- either a systematically Godless account of evolution or a young-earth creationism that sees every warbler and butterfly as being immediately created by God -- is a false dichotomy popularized by Darwinists to gain support for Darwin's theory

• The little-noted distinction between evolution and Darwinism: how one can heartily accept evolution on scientific grounds and roundly reject Darwinism on scientific, philosophical, moral, and theological grounds

• The deep anti-theistic bias that Darwin built into his theory -- and why those Christians who reject evolution because they believe that it leads to atheism are indeed proceeding from a proper fear

• How Darwin could not eliminate God from his theory without also eliminating humanity, that is, reducing human beings to mere animals

• Hitler and the Nazis: how Darwinism proved influential in providing a scientific foundation for their racial and eugenic theories

• How Darwin's theory actually makes racial extermination central to human evolution and the engine of evolutionary progress, for to condemn the slaughter of one tribe or race by another is to condemn evolution itself

• Darwin's lies -- and how his worst lie was the one he told himself, that he could have his moral cake and eat it too: pushing a Godless account of evolution that made morality a mere transient effect of natural selection, and at the same time holding up particular moral traits, such as sympathy, as if they were somehow the result of aimless evolution