“I personally believe that this
theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the
adversary, and it has become what is scientifically, politically correct.”
----Political Neophyte
and Republican Presidential Candidate Ben Carson (1)
“For
anyone who’s confused,” writes Joe Clark for liberalamerica.org, “adversary’ is
another name used to describe “Satan” or “The devil.”’ Carson, a retired Detroit neurosurgeon who
should know better, is now standing before America and declaring in his best
Flip Wilson voice that poor Darwin’s problem was the same as the one that
dogged good old Geraldine: the devil made him do it
.
.
Nobody
would be taking much notice except that Carson is presently one of the top
three leading contenders for the Republican presidential nomination, polling
just behind “The Donald” himself. It’s bad enough that none of the three, the
real estate magnate, the neurosurgeon nor the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard
have ever been elected dog catcher much less an office of some importance, it’s
that their public utterances have become a crescendo of ignorance; some of it
due to intellectual slovenliness, much of it a studied and determined
strain. Here the good doctor is not only
demonstrating the total rejection of everything he learned in his biology
classes, but a complete ignorance of the origin of the “Origin of Species”.
Every
public figure, at some point in time, must learn that problems will emerge by
painting with too big a brush. Making
broad categorical statements, especially concerning ‘origins’, can quickly lead
to embarrassing moments; moments conclusively demonstrating that one is “not
ready for prime time”. As a case in
point, let’s take the dear doctor’s statement at face value and subject it to
the scrutiny and logic of the historical
record.
If what
Darwin came up with was encouraged by “The Adversary”, then the ‘adversary’ was
none other than Adam Smith, the founder of modern capitalism. Darwin said later in life that his
inspiration for the mechanism operating behind evolutionary change was inspired
by Adam Smith’s descriptions of the operations of the marketplace and how
competition forced an enterprise, and indeed a society, to change and
adapt.
Following
the logic of Dr. Carson we can therefore reasonably conclude that the works of
Smith and all that he inspired were the handicraft of none other than Beelzebub
himself. Capitalism is the work of the ‘devil’.
Out of
the mouth of babes and fools, perhaps the good doctor is on to something. Perhaps he has revealed more than he could
know.
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(1) http://www.liberalamerica.org/2015/09/27/dr-ben-carson-straight-believes-devil-invented-evolution/
Joe Clark, 9/27/15
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