Japan, war, and
evolution
Source:
TIME
Australia, August 14,1995 (p. 83). First
published in CREATION Magazine Volume 18 number 2. Pages 7 to 9. December
1995 - February 1996.
This century has seen
countless millions killed –more than in all known wars of human history
put together – in the name of ideologies that owe their inspiration and
justification directly to evolution.
The Nazis used this 'science
falsely so-called' to justify treating other races as sub-human. Engaging
in war, even genocide, could hardly be wrong, so they thought, since it made
their version of the 'fittest' more likely to survive.
Communism's dialectic
materialism required belief in evolution for intellectual respectability.
Stalin's butchery is directly linked to his renunciation of God (and thus
all notions of sin and judgment) after reading Darwin's book. Mao Zedong,
responsible for the deaths of tens of millions, listed Darwin and Huxley as
his two favourite authors.
Few have realized, however,
the degree to which Japanese thinking leading up to and during World War II
was also heavily influenced by Darwin.
Japanese thought blended
the theistic with the evolutionary. They were a chosen people because the
Emperor was a descendant of the sun goddess; they were a master race because
they were more highly evolved. Japanese biologists 'produced studies decrying
the apish physical features of other races (hairiness, long arms) and noting
the highly evolved characteristics of the Japanese' (which included milder
body odour).
The horrors of Changi,
the Burma railroad, and the various death marches of World War II showed a
people renowned for cultural gentility treating their wartime captives as
totally subhuman. Once you have made any group of people less than human in
your thinking, backed up by the authority of 'science', it becomes a powerful
justification for plain old sin.
If instead of Darwinism,
the scientific world had been disseminating the truth that we are all closely
related, being the descendants of Adam and Eve through Noah, what a difference
we could have seen in the history of the last hundred years!
