Here’s every video I’ve done against the theory of evolution. I was recently reminded of this social and intellectual force, as I completed chapter 4 in Irvin Wyllie’s The Self-Made Man in America. It explains how the business world slowly began to abandon Christian business principles like the Golden Rule and replace them with the lying, cheating, and stealing of heartless, hateful corporate Machiavellians during the 1800s. Especially with the rise of Andrew Carnegie, liberal Christianity in the big Northern cities, Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man (1871); and Herbert Spencer’s Principles of Biology (1864): this is where the socio-economic idea of “survival of the fittest” came from: and how it came to be applied to the lower, middle, and upper classes. All of the 19th century Bible-believing Christian businessmen saw evolution as an intellectual novelty, atheistic delusion, pseudoscience, and nuisance; and they still do today. Here are some of my best attempts over the years at refuting this heresy, these “profane and vain babblings,” these “oppositions of science falsely so called, which some professing have erred concerning the faith” (1 Timothy 6:20-21).

I’ve included a presentation by Dr. Jonathan Wells on the “Icons of Evolution.”

I’ve also included a selection from John Wesley’s sermon “On Living Without God” (1790), where he describes the transition from atheism to Christianity, as one in which a person feels the presence of God, and now has his senses awakened to the spirit world. His description of the Atheist is much like today’s naturalistic evolutionist, who distracts his mind with thoughts about animals and geological formations (the natural world), but is completely insensible of the realm of the spirit all around him. Only by feeling the Holy Spirit can such a complete transition from atheism to Christianity be made. For more about this see my video called “Physically Feeling the Holy Spirit.”

On Living Without God – John Wesley

8. Every one of these is in exactly such a situation with regard to the invisible as the toad was in respect to the visible world. That creature had undoubtedly a sort of life, such as it was. It certainly had all the internal and external parts that are essential to animal life; and, without question, it had suitable juices, which kept up a kind of circulation. This was a life indeed! And exactly such a life is that of the Atheist, the man “without God in the world.” What a thick veil is between him and the invisible world, which, with regard to him, is as though it had no being! He has not the least perception of it; not the most distant idea. He has not the least sight of God, the intellectual Sun; nor any the least attraction toward him, or desire to have any knowledge of his ways. Although His light be gone forth into all lands, and His sound unto the end of the world, yet he heareth no more thereof than of the fabled music of the spheres. He tastes nothing of the goodness of God or the powers of the world to come. He does not feel (as our Church speaks) the working of the Holy Spirit in his heart. In a word, he has no more intercourse with a knowledge of the spiritual world, than this poor creature had of the natural, while shut up in its dark enclosure.

9. But the moment the Spirit of the Almighty strikes the heart of him that was till then without God in the world, it breaks the hardness of his heart, and creates all things new. The Sun of Righteousness appears, and shines upon his soul, showing him the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. He is in a new world. All things round him are become new, such as it never before entered into his heart to conceive. He sees, so far as his newly-opened eyes can bear the sight,

The opening heavens around him shine, With beams of sacred bliss.

He sees that he has “an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;” and that he has “redemption in his blood, the remission of his sins.” He sees “a new way that is opened into the holiest by the blood of Jesus;” and his “light shineth more and more unto the perfect day.”

10. By the same gracious stroke, he that before had ears but heard not is now made capable of hearing. He hears the voice that raiseth the dead, — the voice of Him that is “the resurrection and the life.” He is no longer deaf to his invitations or commands, to his promises or threatenings; but gladly hears every word that proceeds out of his mouth, and governs thereby all his thoughts, words, and actions.

11. At the same time, he receives other spiritual senses, capable of discerning spiritual good and evil. He is enabled to taste, as well as to see, how gracious the Lord is. He enters into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, and tastes of the powers of the world to come. He finds Jesus’ love far better than wine; yea, sweeter than honey or the honey-comb. He knows what that meaneth: “All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia.” He feels the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost which is given unto him; or, as our Church expresses it, “feels the workings of the Spirit of God in his heart.” Meantime, it may easily be observed, that the substance of all these figurative expressions is comprised in that one word faith, taken in its widest sense; being enjoyed, more or less, by everyone that believes in the name of the Son of God. This change, from spiritual death to spiritual life, is properly the new birth; all the particulars whereof are admirably well expressed by Dr. Watts in one verse:

Renew my eyes, open my ears, And form my soul afresh; Give me new passions, joys and fears, And turn the stone to flesh!