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I have suggested that the entirety of what we call science is based on the principle of truth as enunciated by believers in God, more specifically on the commandment attributed by the Hebrews to God himself in which he ordains: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour..."
Without the primacy of truth, there can be no science.
The atheist Richard Dawkins has now attempted to rebut this critique in his arguments.
He answers it by asserting that the principle of truth is instinctual and directed by evolution.
He postulates that any evolving apes or humans or whatever, who decided to jump off cliffs believing they could fly, would die out.
He sees the survivors as having an evolved predilection for truth.
I would try to answer this thusly.
We see lots of people who use lies as a means of survival, as a means of accumulating money, or as a means of worshipping evil or as a means of pleasure.
It is an observable fact that liars do not routinely jump off cliffs.
The notion of the primacy of truth as an evolved characteristic fails here.
If as Mr Dawkins asserts the notion of truth achieves primacy through evolutionary means and as he believes the concept of atheism is itself a fundamental truth, then we would expect to find an example in human history of an advanced atheistic civilisation naturally evolving, prevailing and triumphing over its supposedly delusional religious competitors with great social, cultural, scientific and even spiritual accomplishments to its name.
There is not even one.
We would expect great music, literature, learning, exploration, and art, to flow from such a culture.
It doesn't happen.
It never happened.
It's never going to happen.
Not even once.
Where can we look for direct insight into the effects on organisms of atheism as a guiding principle?
The French gave it a short whirl in the 18th century during a period which they still call The Terror. As with later impositions of atheism on societies, the French didn't really choose the Terror. The Terror chose them. A violent atheistic revolution was followed by a permanency of violence in the culture.
The first somewhat durable widespread atheistic attempts to construct a civilisation occurred over the last hundred years mainly at the hands of Marxian communists in Soviet Russia, and their proxies worldwide to wit Maoist China, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam, Castro's Cuba, and various Russian communist sponsored Statelets in Africa including Ethiopia, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and others, some of which remain to this day mired in command control conflict theory communist atheism.
Curiously, and again I suggest observably, in countries where those denying the existence of God took over, hell followed with them.
In each of the communist cases the advocates of atheism murdered their way to power while chanting the mantra: "Religion is the opium of the people."
And then they just kept on killing.
I would suggest that Hitlerite Germany was also an atheistic project in which truth, evolved or unevolved, did not have any visible primacy in the conduct of persons or government or indeed scientists.
I would further suggest that the current prevalence of atheism in Western ruling pseudo elites has led to a similar charnel house of institutionalised murders via abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, precisely the same level of predictable barbarities under different guises as has defined the human experience of all previous known attempts to incept atheism as a civilisational principle.
In each of the atheisms I have cited, (Soviet, Nazi and Western pseudo elite) atheism seems to be a cover for something specifically malevolent, something satanic. by which I mean Satan.
The primacy of truth, even in an evolved sense, is absent in every case.
I would note that in the contemporary human experience, where the profit motive is present, say in the development of pharmaceutical products, there has been no shortage of supposedly highly evolved scientists willing to falsify data at every level.
I think Mr Dawkins contention that he has shown that truth is an evolved characteristic naturally occurring the sciences and occurring in the organism through evolutionary processes without the action of a Deity, and that the standard of truth which underpinned great scientific accomplishments came from anywhere except the Ten Commandments, fails repeatedly when it is given more than cursory attention.
Gentle readers.
If Mr Dawkins is wrong every time, we must start to dare to consider the possibility, that he is absolutely wrong.
I am telling you he is absolutely wrong.

