Creation Moment 4/6/2012 - Anti-Darwinist Scientist Mortimer Adler

Mortimer Adler

"Mortimer Adler was one of the great intellectual giants of the 20th century. Among his credits were Chairman of the Board of the Encyclopedia Britannica and compiler of the Great Books of the Western World. This set of 54 volumes of intellectual literature ranging from the Greeks to the early 20th century has sold half a million copies; it graces many a scholarly home’s library and university philosophy department. Adler wrote 45 successful books of his own, Adler was a lifelong opponent of Darwinism.
Adler argued against Darwin’s views on both scientific and rational grounds – not religious dogma (he did not become a Christian himself till age 82, long after most of his books were written). He observed that Darwin’s theory was nothing more than historical mythmaking, and the evidence opposes it. With debaters the likes of Mortimer Adler standing in their way, Darwinists cannot charge that their opponents are ignorant or religiously motivated. Dr. Adler further argued that Darwin’s theory is intellectually bankrupt because it dehumanizes man and makes his intellectual faculties no different from those of the animals. The Darwinian view of man, he argued, undermines all claims to rationality.
 He marked history as BD and AD: before Darwin and after Darwin. No serious intellectual, he said, even Hobbes and Hume, had suggested that the human mind was continuous with that of the animals. Calling Darwin’s theory a wild speculation, a grand myth, he engaged in a decades-long crusade against Darwinism in his books and conferences, yet with the armor of a respected scholar.
Bergman uses Adler, Von Braun and Ernst Chain as three examples of scientists who were not ruthlessly attacked for doubting Darwin." CEH
That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 2:5