A Challenge to Darwinism

Charles Darwin

Just a dozen years after Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, growing numbers of scientists and other educated persons considered it impossible, indeed laughable, to suppose that humans were anything other than the modified descendants of an ancestral line of apelike creatures.

Srila Prabhupada: Therefore our first charge against Darwin is this: He says there were no human beings millions of years ago. That is not a fact. We now see human beings existing along with all other species, and it should be concluded that this situation always existed. Human life has always been there. Darwin cannot say there was no human life. 

A Challenge to Darwinism

Just a dozen years after Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species in 1859, growing numbers of scientists and other educated persons considered it impossible, indeed laughable, to suppose that humans were anything other than the modified descendants of an ancestral line of apelike creatures.

According to Darwinists, the first undisputed fossil evidence for life on earth goes back about 2 billion years. They say the first apes and monkeys appeared about 40-50 million years ago. The first ape-men (called Australopithecus) appeared about 4 million years ago. These were followed by other apemen called Homo habilis, Homo erectus, and Neanderthal man. The first human beings of modern type (Homo sapiens sapiens) appeared only 100,000 or 200,000 years ago. Civilization, according to modern scientists, is less than 10,000 years old.

Those who blindly follow Darwin’s ideas on human evolution do not see the pattern of suppression inherent in scientific investigation. However, Michael A. Cremo and Richard L. Thompson of the Bhaktivedanta Institute investigated hundreds of scientific reports showing that humans or near humans were living millions of years ago in the Pliocene, Miocene, or earlier periods.

This evidence was not regarded as anomalous by the scientists who introduced it in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, since they were contemplating theories of human origins that were compatible with this evidence. Then, with the development of the modern theory that humans like ourselves evolved within the past 200,000 years in the Late Pleistocene, this evidence became highly unacceptable, and it vanished from sight.

Is Darwins evolution theory right or wrong?

The short answer is, yes, there is a type of evolution that happens. The planet does start covered with water and first there are aquatics, then insects, and as the water dries up and there is land there are the land animals. But this is not at all happening by the process of natural selection that Charles Darwin has guessed it is. It is a nice guess. But it is wrong.

So evolution is partially true, but the idea of natural selection is completely wrong. The species are fixed. There are, all over the universe, 8,400,000 species of life. And these species are existing permanently. There is not much point discussing these points in detail, you can find the information everywhere, but briefly there is no evidence of evolution in the fossil record. Rather there is so much evidence that disproves the idea of a gradual progression from primitive life forms up to the higher forms and ultimately to man. This is just not what happened at all. It is completely wrong, a complete mistake.

Rather than primitive life forms forming an evolving gradually, what actually happened is Lord Brahma was born as the first person within the universe and he is the most evolved, the most highly developed person in the universe, and he was the first living entity. So the highest, most developed form of life was there in the universe from the very beginning and the whole creation and development of the universe happened under his direction.

So Darwin and his followers are very badly mistaken. I have discussed these points in other places on the http://www.Krishna.org website and you can search for them and post other questions on those articles if you would like to discuss the matter in more detail.

The real evolution is the evolution of consciousness. It is not that one species is evolving into another species. This has never happened and will never happen. The individual species are all there and they will also remain. Even if they are not physically manifest at some point in time they still exist in their subtle forms and will be recreated at the right time.

This universe is going on in cycles. It is created, it exists for some time, and it is destroyed, then it is created again. This goes on, and on, and on, like every year we are having summer, fall, winter, spring. So every time there is a new creation all the same species of life come out. It is not that there are different species created by chance each time. It is like the seeds from some plant. The plants many not be viable but if the seeds are in the ground when there is some rain and some sun the plants will grow again out of the ground, and they will be the same as the old plants, not a new species.

So evolution, as Darwin proposed it, is a big mistake, he is very wrong.

Darwins evolution theory is just an idea, a theory, there is no proof , even so people have become so attached to this idea, only because it provides a so-called scientific explanation of how it could be possible for life to develop on this planet without any higher intelligence in control.

Basically you have to “unlearn” what they have taught you at school. It is a type of brainwashing that you have undergone. They have filled your head with so many incorrect ideas and because, all around you, people are believing these incorrect ideas you think they must be true. But if you carefully consider these things you will see they are nothing more than ideas and there is nothing to suggest actually that they are true…