Creation Moment 5/5/2025 - Evolution is Hegelian process-metaphysics

"Sigmund Freud famously postulated the “unconscious mind” to explain the fact that so many of us (how do we even speak of it now without using his language?) are not conscious of the drives and motivations that lie hidden deep within us, and that our outer rational life is the mere tip of an iceberg emerging above the tumultuous sea of conscious existence.

The word “unconscious” (in German unbewusst) was arguably coined by German idealist philosopher Friedrich Schelling (1775-1854), whose book System of Transcendental Idealism played a transformative role in my graduate work at the University of CA, Irvine. Freud’s solution presented a metaphysical picture of consciousness as a submerged mountain progressively surging upward to burst through the surface of the sea into the sunlight of rational conscious human life.

Freud postulated that this sunlit consciousness was “unconscious” of both its origins and its ascent from the muck of the seabed – that the conscious mind “suppressed” these dark and dirty origins and processes from entering the sunlit conscious mind. This is why Freud’s theory is called depth psychology.

The problem?
Q: How can the conscious mind suppress that of which it is unconscious? In order to “censor” the unconscious content, it must first be conscious of the content-to-be-censored, resulting in a contradiction – a conscious unconscious, or as logicians would state it: A and not-A.

The solution?
Consciousness must be an emergent phenomenon that begins in the muck of the seafloor and ascends to progressively higher levels until it rises above the waves into the sunlight, now complex and highly ordered, but (really) nothing other than the seafloor muck that has endured the “natural” and necessary process that compels its ascent. In a word, the unconscious becomes conscious, ascending the ladder to ever-higher consciousness, while at the same time being the same thing as the muck from which it sprung. Consciousness is nothing but the process itself of becoming conscious.

Sound familiar?
It should, as this is the alternative logic – one might fairly call it an

anti-logic – of 18th century philosopher G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831). This “logic” pervades the modern mind and soul (Ezekiel 14). It is the essence of Marxism, socialism, Freudian theory, Darwinism, postmodernism, Wokism, the advance of atheism and a host of other modern maladies that are systematically dismantling the scientific, moral and cultural achievements of the Western world nourished and enabled by Christianity.

Q: What has all this got to do with the concept of evolving evolvability?
Everything.
Hegel’s philosophical system is built on the denial of a fundamental law of (Aristotelian) logic – the law of non-contradiction. In natural language this states that it cannot be the case that both a proposition and its negation are true.

In logical notation: ~[A and ~A].
In other words, Hegel’s dialectical logic embraces contradiction – that which Aristotelian logic forbids. In practice this embrace means that contradiction is simply a part of (or, using Hegel’s terminology, “a moment in”) the process that is logic. Hegel’s logic embraces contradiction as the engine of progressive development.

For Hegel, “all that exists is logical, and all that is logical exists.”

This is process-metaphysics.
Like Einstein’s E=MC2, what is is reducible to a single fundamental “thing” (philosophers call this “monism”) from which all else is compounded: in Einstein’s case the fundamental underlying substance is energy; in Hegel, it is the progressive process of logic.

What is also evident, however, to any thinking being (and Hegel was a stunningly brilliant thinker) is that logic – the process of thought – is inextricably anchored in mind. If mind did not underlay reality, it could not emerge from it. Like the scientific law of biogenesis – life can only come from life, so consciousness can only emerge from consciousness. Hegel’s logic (here, anyway) is impeccable: if consciousness is to emerge, then at some level it must be the very substance from which everything emerges.

For Hegel, as we saw analogously with Freud, there is an ever-ascending logic to reality, a process of becoming conscious. For Hegel, though, there is no independent material “muck,” just the initial (contradictory) conjunction of an unconscious consciousness. From this, all else will emerge. Hegel calls this fundamental “substance” of reality, appropriately, “Spirit.” Because it begins as an unconscious-consciousness it possesses, in ever-increasing clarity, a goal-directedness – it is the process of becoming conscious.

Now to seal the deal.
Marx and Darwin (and their acolytes) are Hegelian metaphysicians – ALL is process, and process is all – but neither wanted Hegel’s mystical notion of Spirit. 

Q: How can a scientific materialistic monist accept that?
“Easy!”, says Marx (he learned so well from Darwin!) “Turn Hegel upside down,” substituting materialism for Hegel’s idealism (non-material) – Spirit. 

This is why Marx’s theory is called “dialectical materialism” – it is Hegel’s dialectical logic applied to metaphysically material monism. Darwin and Marx presuppose (on faith) an ever-ascending process of reality, an EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS, substituting materialism for Hegel’s Spirit, denying the fundamental reality of consciousness. As with Freud, consciousness is derivative, emergent from something else.

Here’s the rub.
The substitution comes at a high price: cognitive and evidentiary dissonance. 

---The material is by itself neither life nor logic, but both life and logic are a part of the world in and with which science operates – without them science, knowledge, rational consciousness itself, are inconceivable.

“In Him we live, move, and have our being” said Paul to the Athenians in Acts 17:28. We would all do better to place our faith and confidence in Him than in this “science falsely so-called.”
John Wise /CEH

"PoP" Goes Marxism [Jer. 17:9 Case Study- Marxism of Hate]

 The heart is deceitful above all things,

 and desperately wicked:

 Jeremiah 17:9 

 

Gramsci, one of the philosophical contributors to the poison known

today as Cultural Marxism (of which Critical Race Theory is based) was caught up in his own Faculty Lounge of Academia in his own head---twisted around terms like "praxis" amd "hegemony".

Gramsci believed Capitalism stemmed from Calvinism.  

In his twisted academic Faculty Lounge of his own head, he got tripped up over "praxis" and "hegemony" so much that he believed that the philosophy of "praxis" (referred to in philosophical circles as PoP) was reality and that religion was the result of separation from it.  PoP leads to more Hate than just the Marxism of Class Hate....

---He borrowed from Marx his "realization of philosophy" which, in simplified terms, taught that societal philosophical problems can only be resolved by revolutionary action. Hence, the Frankfurt School of Marxism, and Gramsci, who fine tuned it into Cultural Marxism for Cultural Revolutions, such as through Critical Race Theory.

***In the article from Fulcrum7 below, one can see the results of Gramsci's twisted debates from within his own Faculty Lounge of Academia in his own head with the likes of Marx taken to a Cultural Level rather than a purely Socio-Economic Level. (In this case--pitting the Culture against each other via Race in order for it to be brought down).

 

"In a recent Rasmussen poll, only 53% of black people responded that it was “okay to be white.”  Not to be a white racist or a white

supremacist, but merely to be white. Twenty-six percent said it was “not okay to be white,” and 21% said they weren’t sure. In other words, almost half of blacks were not sure if it is okay for white people to be allowed to exist. 

 

This is the result of making critical race theory the official ideology of American education. Marxist Critical Race Theory teaches that white people are all white supremacists, irredeemably hateful and oppressive, merely because they were born into the white race. 

.... cultural Marxism, which was formulated by the Italian Marxist

Antonio Gramsci, does not teach Marx’s belief in common ownership of the means of production. 

Instead, Marxist Critical Theory is a broad-based attack on many aspects of our civilization, including an attack on our epistemological norms and beliefs.  

 

---Marxist Critical Race Theory is blatantly racist, an attack on the

white race very reminiscent of Nazism’s attack on the Jews. 

Q: Shouldn’t it be easier for us to recognize that this is sinful?

Wrong thinking inevitably leads to wrong actions; the rhetoric of dehumanization is designed to prepare you to carry out the atrocities.  

---First, they tell you that Jews are subhuman, then they tell you to march them into the gas chambers." DavidRead/F7

 

Ripped from Current Headlines: Example of the Poison of Woke/Cultural Marxism-- "Thirty-seven-year-old Karen Ivery compared herself to civil rights icon Rosa Parks after accosting a Target manager, ultimately leading to a loss prevention officer allegedly punching her in the face. “This is my Rosa Parks moment,” Ivery reportedly told officers after the October 2022 incident at a

Target store. 

According to the police report, Ivery asked the Target cashier to speak with the manager about “reparations” while she was trying to pay for her $1,000 grocery bill. Once the manager arrived, Ivery continued her demands for reparations before becoming upset and “aggressively” walking toward the manager. 

“Ivery kept berating her about reparations and her privileged life” while walking toward the manager, the police report explained. 

Next, 28-year-old loss prevention officer Zach Cotter arrived on the scene to try and diffuse the situation. Cotter reportedly asked Ivery to calm down and leave, but she then screamed at him and followed him into his office. After Cotter unsuccessfully tried to shut the office door on Ivery, she made her way in, leading Cotter to punch Ivery directly in the face. 

Officers arrived on the scene, reviewed security footage from the incident, determined Ivery was the “aggressor,” and then arrested her. “Ivery was confrontational with officers on the scene and didn’t want to explain her actions,” the police report added. In an apparent video of the incident, Ivery can be heard telling officers she wanted to speak with the manager “so we could have a larger conversation about how money works, and how the provision works, and how it’s been working in our community in a very wrong way.” Breitbart

Q: Who put the Poison that she, who was never a slave, was owed Reparations by those who never owned slaves?

A: Cultural Marxism.

Q: Who told her that the manager (apparently white) was leading a privileged life?

A: Cultural Marxism.

IN the NEWS - Luciferian Woke Thoughts on Display

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Genesis 6:5

 

Who put these WOKE ideas, of viewing life today, through the poison prism of CRT into his head?

This is why the social justice movement, CRT and WOKE is not compatible with Christianity. 

It is based on REVENGE POLITICS of perceived wrongs of the past fought out today.

It's about PICKING AT THE SCABS OF THE PAST.

It is--Luciferian in it's Inspiration.

btw, the queen wasn't even alive, nor was Chail, during Amristar.

"The crossbow-armed man who tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day said he was motivated by anger over colonialism and racial discrimination.

A video of Jaswant Singh Chail posted just 24 minutes before his assassination attempt shows the culprit ranting in a distorted voice.

The suspect, who is seen wearing a white mask and a black hoodie, states, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry for what I’ve done and what I will do. I will attempt to assassinate Elizabeth, queen of the Royal Family.”

He goes on to state that the attack is “revenge” for the 1919 Amritsar massacre, which took place 7 years before Queen Elizabeth was even born.

Chail got to within 500 meters of the Queen’s apartments at Windsor Castle before he was apprehended by armed officers.

The culprit had scaled a spiked outer wall using a rope ladder, immediately triggering alarms as he was spotted on surveillance cameras.

The Queen was having breakfast at the time of the incident and was immediately informed by police about the attempted attack."  SN

IN the NEWS - Dangers of WOKE to the Soul

 nec·ro·man·cy

/ˈnekrəˌmansē/

noun

noun: necromancy

......supposed practice of communicating with the dead, especially in order to predict the future.

"alchemy, necromancy, and other magic practices"

 

 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not ...do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you aany.....a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD... DDeuteronomy 18:9-12

"Andre Henry (MA Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary) is a Los

Angeles-based writer, musician, former editor of Relevant Magazine, and a wanna-be theologian who stopped believing in God years ago.

In a conversation with fellow unbeliever Jo Luehmann, a self-described “Christian Atheist” who doesn’t believe in God but believes in Jesus, ....these two exceedingly ignorant souls cover a wide range of topics, with Henry explaining that the Christian prohibition on necromancy is basically white oppression

Our story picks up with Luehmann revealing that she needed to ‘break up with ‘white Jesus” in order to reconnect to her true self, and then Henry jumping in.

“I so relate to what you’re saying, including disconnecting from your ancestor. And I write about this in my new book where I talk about when I was in Jamaica last year, I was doing a lot of reconnecting with my extended family and hearing about where my mother’s bloodline began, between an enslaved woman and a slaveholder named (unintelligible)

I couldn’t stop thinking about her- my first ancestor in Jamaica. And I kept thinking about how the version of Christianity that I received had like this very strong- you’re not supposed to commune with the dead, basically. It’s like when people talk about connecting with their ancestors and stuff like that, that’s something that was so foreign to me, because I was like, you know, they tell us not to do that basically. And for the first time, I really asked the question ‘why would it be so important for these oppressors to tell us not to connect with our ancestors.'” P&P

IN the NEWS - Woke on Steroids

 This world is clearly a Lost World....when it MANDATES GENDER CONFUSION:

 ...male and female created he them.

Genesis 1:27

"California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a host of bills into law on Friday, including AB 1084, which requires “gender neutral retail

departments” in toy stores, so that shoppers will not be encouraged some toys for girls and others for boys.

The bill, authored by Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Campbell), declares that differences in products that are marketed to girls or boys are “unjustified,” and that it is “inappropriate” to imply they should be used by one gender instead of another." Breitbart

IN the NEWS - The Mental Illness of Cultural Marxism is here...in America

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Deuteronomy 22:5

Cultural Marxism is alive and well in America now....as people are being threatened with punishment for using pronouns that are scientifically & biologically accurate.....placating mental illness is in and of itself a form of mental illness...

 

"A Pennsylvania university has warned it may mete out punishments for students who refer to “transgender” classmates by their legal names or biologically accurate pronouns, National Review reported Thursday. 

In a September 13 email, the Office of Equity and Inclusion at Point Park University (PPU) in Pittsburgh sent an email informing new and returning Fall 2021 students about the institution’s “Misgendering, Pronoun Misuse, and Deadnaming Policy.”

....the email warned Point Park students that “action could be taken” against them if they commit any of a variety of “microaggressions” or other alleged offenses against transgender students. 

The email failed to address the concerns of those who may feel the university’s policies violate their right to free speech or undermine their convictions that gender differences are biological and immutable." Lifesite

IN the NEWS - Example of why "Christians" can't be part of "social justice" movement

"A student has been reinstated by State University of New York

(SUNY) Geneseo after being suspended from the school’s education program after he expressed his views on biology on social media, stating “a man is a man,” and “a woman is a woman.”

“I was made aware of a current student’s Instagram posts pertaining to transgender people,” the office of the university president wrote. “I imagine that reading these sentiments from a member of the of the Geneseo community raises apprehension of trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming students and their allies. I want to take this opportunity to publicly restate my deep personal commitment to promoting social justice,” the office added." Breitbart

 

Bingo...there it is....how can any of you who are "Christians" be involved with the so-called self ordained "social justice" movement?

It's a movement at odds in so many ways with what God teaches us...  male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27

SDA News - SDA Carson weighs in on Dr. Suess

 .......what it is;... Psalm 39:4

"Last week, a far-left group called Learning for Justice forced the publisher of the books, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, to cease printing and licensing six of the works, asserting that they promoted “white supremacy.”

That prompted an immediate backlash, with sales surging on Amazon by a whopping 5.7 million percent.

Numerous libraries across the country have also stated that they will not remove the titles from their shelves.

Former secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson described leftist attempts to cancel Dr Seuss books as ‘poison’ Thursday, adding that cancel culture on the whole stems from the fact that “socialists believe that everything comes from government.”

 

Carson, founder and chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute, further added “it’s appropriate that we’re talking about children’s books. Because as a society, we’re acting like children.”

He continued, “Like a child who is in charge who doesn’t like peas. So he says let’s ban peas, anybody eating peas or growing peas shall be killed. That’s childish thinking. That’s what we’re doing right now and it’s absolutely absurd.” ZeroHedge

IN the NEWS - Lucifer Reads Proverbs 22 -then- Stalks 3rd Graders

Even Lucifer reads & understands Proverbs 22----Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

"A class of third-graders in a California elementary school were forced to undergo a lesson on “social identities,” designed to

indoctrinate them on Critical Race Theory. The lesson required the children to classify their racial and sexual identities before “ranking” themselves based on their “power and privilege.”

After discovering that Critical Race Theory was being taught at R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School through “whistleblower documents and parents familiar with the session,” Rufo explained that a third-grade teacher at the school had asked his students to create “an ‘identity map,’ listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics.”

…The teacher, taking his cues from New York Times bestseller This Book Is Antiracist, continued with his Marxist reading of society, instructing the eight-year-old students that ...“folx” (touted as a more inclusive term for “folks”) “who do not benefit from their social identities, who are in the subordinate culture, have little to no privilege and power.”

 Awareness is drawn to “families” such as those with “two moms, two dads,” without making any distinction from “mom and dad” families, in an attempt to give the former categories a kind of credence or normality.

The students were expected to draft short essays, “at least one full page in writing,” in which they would assess their own “intersectionality,” including their sexual identity, and ordering themselves according to the principles of intersectionality. To help the students identify what rung of the intersectional hierarchy they fit into, the teacher’s presentation offered a “social identities” page, listing such identities as “transgenderism and non-binary sexuality.”

For any of the children who might have been confused by terms like “transgender” and “cisgender,” the teacher provided an “example identity sentence” to train them out of the habit of identifying gender “just by looking at” people. Instead, the class are taught that “gender is something you get to choose.” Lifesite

IN the NEWS - When your Pastor Imbibes on "Social Justice" (Cultural Marxism)

 A "Pastor" should know:

1- ...and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. 

Exodus 23:13

2- ...he made the stars also.

Genesis 1:16

-----This (below) is what happens when a pastor imbibes on social justice (cultural marxism) instead of the word of his God......

"Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, concluded his Congressional

prayer at the 117th Congress by dedicating it "in the name of the monotheistic God, Brahama, and god known by many names by many different things.” 

He then bizarrely finished his prayer with “Amen…and awoman.” Cleaver claims to be a Methodist pastor." Fulcrum7

IN the NEWS - BLM Spiritualism & Marxism

 The Prince of Persia is using Race to divide the black brethren from Christ...NO CHRISTIAN SHOULD FOLLOW A MOVEMENT THAT CAN'T EMBRACE THE SLOGAN "ALL LIVES MATTER".

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour... 1 Peter 5:8

"A recorded prayer for Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd played on repeat as Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors shredded sheets of paper with the words “police”

and “white racism.”
In the background, a pair of wings hung against a wall as candles lit up the room. Cullors stood in the middle of the wings, shredding.
After the performance, Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles, joined Cullors in a discussion that touched on the role that spirituality and prayer has played in the movement.
"Part of our calling as people who do this work for Black lives is to lift our people up, both in their living, but also in their death,”

Cullors said. "The need to lift our folks up feels so incredibly spirit-driven for me."
Abdullah and Cullors touched on the practice of calling out the names of the victims that they advocate for in protests and demonstrations. It's kind of a way to invoke their spirits, Abdullah said.
“It is literally almost resurrecting a spirit so they can work through us to get the work that we need to get done,” she said.
By highlighting their names, Cullors said she feels "personally connected and responsible and accountable to them, both from a

deeply political place but also from a deeply spiritual place.”
Cullors touched on West African traditions that center on remembering ancestors.
Cullors, who grew up Jehovah's Witness, said she "was always someone who almost obsessed about our (Black) ancestors."
"I wasn’t raised with honoring ancestors. ... As I got older and started to feel like I was missing something, ancestral worship became really important," she said.
The women also touched on their tradition of praying and pouring libations during demonstrations.
After each name, Abdullah poured libations on the ground as the group in return chanted "Asé." The Yoruba term is "often used by practitioners of Ifa, a faith and divination system that originated in West Africa," Farrag wrote.

Abdullah on Saturday said it took her almost a year before she realized Black Lives Matter was much more than a racial and social justice movement.
"At its core, it's a spiritual movement," she said."
RNS

"Cullors, who described BLM organizers in 2015 as "trained Marxists,"..."
ZeroHedge

IN the NEWS - IRONY of the Nonsense

As the Insanity and Nonsense of tearing down historical statues continues---the IRONY of wanting to tear down Constantine's statue is that many of these people, we are told in Scripture, will follow Constantine's idea of Sunday Sacredness in the near future...of course these specific people could be the types to do it in the name of setting aside a day to reduce our so-called carbon footprint. BUT Regardless as to why or how---many will do it.

 

"The statue of a Roman Emperor outside York Minster because he ended the persecution of Christians could be torn down after a review into whether it celebrates slavery.

Emperor Constantine's likeness has been in the south side of the cathedral for over 20 years but is now under the spotlight.

York Minster is looking into the statue after receiving complaints the Roman leader supported slavery.

It comes in the wake of the Most Rev Justin Welby saying last week said that statues in Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Abbey would be looked at 'very carefully' to see if they should stay.

He spoke out amid Black Lives Matter protests that saw the sculpture of slave Edward Colston brought to the ground in Bristol earlier this month.

A spokesman for York Minster told the Telegraph: 'The Cathedrals Fabric Commission is developing national guidance for churches and cathedrals about how to respond to concerns about their statues and monuments."

DailyMail