"When mankind began to adopt the theory of evolution in the nineteenth century, jurists and other legal intellectuals began tosubscribe to a view that law is a mere byproduct of human will and social struggle – “survival of the fittest”.
Previous to Charles Darwin the dominant view in Western legal tradition was that human laws are subject to higher law, to natural law, to God’s law – a fixed standard. And this, through the Bible and through such sources as Blackstone’s Legal Commentary, was the worldview which framed the American Constitution.
There is no basis in the Constitution for so-called “legislating from the Bench” – for activist judges.
Under the influence of evolutionism and its off-shoot Social Darwinism, a powerful transformation of legal studies took place in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Western Civilization – just as occurred in science. And it occurred for the same reason.
There is no basis in the Constitution for so-called “legislating from the Bench” – for activist judges.
Under the influence of evolutionism and its off-shoot Social Darwinism, a powerful transformation of legal studies took place in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Western Civilization – just as occurred in science. And it occurred for the same reason.
Man’s depravity, his will to sin and rebel against his Maker, drives a resistance to God’s rule – and to the very existence of our Almighty Creator."
Creation Moment
