Political Earthquake: Russia Rejects Darwinism

Prof. Page Smith observed in his book Killing the Spirit. Higher Education in America: “Rosenstock-Huessy had experienced the resentment and hostility of his Harvard colleagues (one of them referred to him as “that little squirt”) because he refused to genuflect to two of the reigning deities of the academic world, Marx and Freud, and occasionally spoke favorably of God. (...) Academic fundamentalism is at issue, the stubborn refusal of the academy to acknowledge any truth that does not conform to professional dogmas”.(pp.XII and 5)
January 19, 2006 Ian Fisher and Cornelia Dean in their article In 'Design' vs. Darwinism, Darwin Wins Point in Rome wrote: “The official Vatican newspaper published an article this week labeling as “correct” the recent decision by a judge in Pennsylvania that intelligent design should not be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution.” It took the Vatican 10 months to “persuade” the Senate of the Warsaw University to express its support for the Vatican's decision.
Desirous to defend pope John Paul II's scientific legacy and his prospective canonization (Holy Evolution!) the Senate of the Warsaw University issued on October 19, 2006 a declaration warning that “No reasonable scientists dares deny the theory of evolution.” They reminded the stubborn rebels who tried to throw the evolution out of the schools that in 1950 Pope Pius XII declared that there is no conflict between evolution and the Magisterium (official doctrine of the Church) and that pope John Paul II in his statement of October 22, 1996 said: "...les nouvelles connaissances conduisent a reconnaitre dans la theorie de l'evolution plus qu'une hypothese"
One George Wood expressed John Paul's statement in more practical terms: “Basically what the Vatican said was that they are not scientists, and that God created Reality. If Science observes reality to be different from religious beliefs, then people should listen to the Scientists and ignore their previously held religious beliefs.” Let me remind here that Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn dismissed in a New York Times article John Paul's 1996 statement as “rather vague and unimportant” and seemed to back intelligent design.
Creationism or evolutionism is a life or death problem for modern Israel. The Torah view of history is that history had a beginning and that the beginning is in God's hands. Therefore, what comes thereafter is invested with meaning and purpose; the creator is not the prime mover of ancient philosophy and therefore we have no reason to be afraid of the bleak exhaustion of resources or the running down of the sun. God's will and Personality dominate everything and make of history a moral arena.
The Sages commented on the verse: “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” (Gen 1:1) as follows:
Why does it start with the Creation? So that if the nations of the world say to Israel, “You are robbers, because you have seized the land of the seven Canaanite nations,” Israel can answer, “The whole world belongs to the Holy One. He created it and gave it to whom He pleased, He gave it to them and He took the land from them and gave it to us.” God revealed to Israel the works of Creation in order to give them the heritage of nations (Ps 11.6). If the world belongs to Evolution, the earth, including the Holy Land, is the possession of the most favored race sometimes called transhumans which has the same meaning as Nietzsche's Uebermenschen.
Well, John Paul's double rehabilitation of heliocentrism and evolutionism has to be viewed in the context of his political postulate of 1984 regarding establishment of an “independent” Palestinian state. In the aftermath of the Annapolis Final Solution Conference (AFSC) Cardinal Renato Martino, who heads the Vatican's office for migrants, said that Palestinian refugees have the right to return to their homeland, and said he hoped Israeli-Palestinian peace talks would address the issue. That would mean the end of the Jewish state in the Middle East
Consider these revealing facts. Just one day after the Annapolis conference at which the PA recognized the State of Israel's right to exist in peace and security, the PA's official TV station screened a map that shows a Palestinian state in place of Israel. At the same time M. Abbas reiterated his rejection of Israel' s demand to recognize it as a Jewish state. It turns out that the “moderate” PA leader who gets billions of dollars from international donors for his “moderate” attitude embraced Hamas leader Haniyeh's plan of annihilation of Jewish state.
On Tuesday July 11, 2006 Haniyeh wrote in his article for the Washington Post: “Israel must resolve issues raised by its existence to bring about peace. It's not enough for Israel to address its occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.” In reaction to this article Radio Israel quoted Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as saying: “He is implying claims against the existence of the State of Israel.”
A week later, on Tuesday July 18 The Washington Post's columnist Richard Cohen introduced into the US mainstream media what can be considered as the most serious attempt at de-legitimization of the state of Israel. His opening salvo went like that: “The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself. (...) The smart choice is to pull back to defensible – but hardly impervious – borders. That includes getting out of the most of the West Bank – and waiting (and hoping) that history (!) will get distracted and move on to something else.”
A nation of European Jews? I would say, it was a state for survivors of death camps that were supervised by Love Inc. and and a million of refugees from Arab countries who were occasionally decimated by the order of the All Merciful sharia.
Mr. R. Cohen substitutes history for God to avoid mentioning that it was God who promised this land to His people. Of course, Mr. Cohen's history is the Natural History which is reigning supreme from its throne in the Museum of Natural History. Unlike the Guardian of Israel who never slumbers Mr. Cohen's Evolving History can be outsmarted and distracted to move on to something else like, for instance, evolving a new species of frogs for the French cuisine. Similarly, Mr. Cohen's History evolved the Freedom fries!
Unfortunately, Mr. Cohen himself was distracted and he missed a very important event which happened one day earlier i.e. On July 17. On that day, according to Xinhua agency's report Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held a trilateral summit meeting, the first of its kind among the three countries. At the summit, Hu said China, Russia and India, who have set up bilateral strategic partnership among them, have vital influence on the international and regional affairs. These are the countries that have the worst memories of the British colonial power and are not ready to welcome the return of this power to the Middle East or to any other part of the world, for that matter.
The Russians remember that The British used the Palestine mandate as a stronghold to foment political strife inside the czarist and then the Soviet empire. So, when the opportunity occurred, the Soviet empire struck back. Mightily, from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The best way to subvert the British power in the Middle East and its colonial possessions in Asia was to undermine their stronghold in the Middle East by recognizing the Independent Israel established by the United Nations' decision to divide Palestine into two states one for the Jews and the other for the Arabs. If this was a mistake, as Mr. Cohen assures us, then this mistake was also committed by the USA that immediately recognized the Jewish state. Now, somebody could get impression that Mr. Cohen signalized by his article that the USA might withdraw some day its recognition of the Jewish state because Natural History supported by the Vatican became its “formidable enemy.”
But on December 12, 2007 the former organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Pravda sang a requiem over this “formidable enemy”. The requiem was entitled Natural Selection not the same as Evolution and was penned by Babu G. Ranganathan who was introduced by the editor of the paper to his international readers as an experienced Christian writer. Mr. Ranganathan has his B.A. with academic concentrations in Bible and Biology from Bob Jones University. As a religion and science writer he has been recognized in the 24th edition of Marquis Who's Who in The East. The author's articles have been published in various publications including Russia's Pravda and South Korea's The Seoul Times. The author's website may be accessed at: www.religionscience.com. On the last page of his article Mr. Ranganathan gave a link to an excellent article by scientists and biochemist Dr. Duane T. Gish entitled A Few Reasons An Evolutionary Origian of Life is impossible (http://icr.org/article/3140/). If you want to read the original piece in Pravda go to: http://english.pravda.ru/print/science/earth/102720-natural_selection_evolution-0.
While reading this article I recalled the words of a Chinese scholar who pointing to the difference between China and the USA said, In China you cannot criticize the government, but you can criticize evolution. In America it is the other way around, you can criticize government, but you cannot criticize evolution. The political impact of this publication may be assessed by the Vatican's sudden postponement of canonization of pope Pius XII who started this whole political flirtation with evolutionism, because he was scared to death by the emergence of Jewish state in the Middle East.
Now, the sense of intellectual superiority over and the contempt for the “barbaric” Hebrew Bible will be significantly reduced. Unimaginable event occurred just before our eyes; Pravda which so recently was defining the thinking of hundreds of millions of people throughout the world by its “scientifically proved Truth” now is recanting this alleged Truth. Pravda, however, did not recant in the scenery of a fake trial like that of Galileo's. What Pravda did reminds me of the death of Samson:
“And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. (...) And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein.” (Jud. 16:29-30). Let the neo-Philistines rest in peace process together with their evolution and heliocentrism.