Why you should become a Bible-believing anarchist
who also believes the universe was created around 4004 B.C.
Here is a chart of nearly all the names found in the resources listed elsewhere (Osborn, Frame, etc.).
The list includes atheist philosophers and some who claimed to be Christians. Some of the ostensibly Christian philosophers understood the conflict between Jerusalem and Athens, while others were infected by autonomy and evolutionism. Most of them compromised on the issue of Biblical authority vs. the autonomy of human reason. In his book, Frame consistently points out the conflict between Theonomy and Autonomy.
Your homework: Fill in the blanks with your answers to the questions above.
To simplify, with a view to adding a third book, as described above, start with Gary North and ask,
Then move to Frame's book and ask,
Then the final question:
Fill in this chart, and you have the third book we need.
More importantly, did some of these philosophers admit that they loathed the Bible and creationism because they didn't want to be limited by God's commandments, and invented evolutionism to justify seizing power. It's astonishing how many of these writers admitted (sometimes publicly, often only privately) it is not about "facts," but about morality. "We will not have this Man reign over us" (Luke 19:14).
Fill in this chart, and you have the third book we need. Here again are the questions to ask each one of the big-brains and the lesser-brains.
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| Name of Philosopher or Movement | 1. God | 2. Timeline | 3. Ex Nihilo | 4. Creator/ creature | 5. Violence | 6. Autonomy | 7. Statism | Newton Converted? | |
Scripture and History
Ancient Empires
Ancient ReligionsBackground:Baalism: Mythical and Academic
I make the claim that all ancient empires were "evolutionist." Defenders of Darwin want me to say Isaac Newton, The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended (1728)Newton writes about these great ancient empires: |
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| Assyria | |||||||||
| Babylon | |||||||||
| Egypt | |||||||||
| Medes | |||||||||
| Persians | |||||||||
| The Far East | |||||||||
| Ancient Evolutionists: I call them "evolutionists" just to put them in the same camp as modern "naturalists." The issue is supernaturalism vs. naturalism. "Naturalists" can believe that nature is static or evolving/changing. |
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| Greeks | |||||||||
| Christianity brings civilization. Not the Greeks. Not the Romans. They destroy civilization whenever they are dragged out of the dustbin of history, like Aquinas and other churchmen did. |
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| Milesians: lonians and Eleatics : Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Xenophanes | |||||||||
| Thales (c. 624 BC - c. 546 BC) | |||||||||
| Anaximander (c. 610 BC - c. 546 BC) | |||||||||
| Anaximenes (d. 528 BCE) | |||||||||
| Pythagoras (c. 570 BC - c. 490 BC) | |||||||||
| Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570 - c. 478 BC) | |||||||||
| The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, is traditionally said to have lived from 563 to 483 BC.
Isaac Newton said little about the civilizations of the Far East, and religions like Buddhism, mainly because the Bible does not. I asked ChatGPT for a summary of those civilizations, along with a summary of Newton's views of history up to and including the Greeks: Breakout page: |
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| The Physicists: Heraclitus, Empedocles, Democritus, Anaxagoras | |||||||||
| Heraclitus c. 535 BC - 475 BC | |||||||||
| Parmenides b. 510 BC | |||||||||
| Anaxagoras (c.500—428 BCE) | |||||||||
| Empedocles (c. 492—432 BC) | |||||||||
| The Atomists | |||||||||
| Leucippus c. 450 BC | |||||||||
| Democritus c. 460 - c. 370 BC | |||||||||
| The Sophists Protagoras, Gorgias, and Hippias. 2nd half of 5th century BC (450-401 BC) | |||||||||
| Protagoras (490-420 BC) | |||||||||
| Gorgias (c. 483 BC - c. 375 BC) | |||||||||
| Hippias of Elis (late 5th century BC) | |||||||||
| Socrates (469-399 BC) | |||||||||
| Plato (c. 428-347 B.C.) | |||||||||
| Aristotle (384-322 BC) | |||||||||
| Aristotle and his followers. Pliny, Epicurus, Lucretius | |||||||||
| Epicurus 300 BC | |||||||||
| Stoicism founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium (modern day Cyprus), c. 300 B.C. | |||||||||
| Zeno of Citium c. 334-262 BC. | |||||||||
| Romans | |||||||||
| Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 98 BC - ca. 55 BC) | |||||||||
| Strabo (64 BC - 24 AD) | |||||||||
| Ovid (43 BC - 17/18 AD) | |||||||||
| Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 - 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder | |||||||||
| Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD) | |||||||||
| Birth of Christ | |||||||||
| Clement of Rome (Pope Clement I) (35- 99 or 101) | |||||||||
| Ignatius of Antioch (35/50 - 98/117) | |||||||||
| Polycarp (69 -155) | |||||||||
| Shepherd of Hermas (70 to 140) | |||||||||
| Didache (70-150) | |||||||||
| Justin Martyr (100-165) | |||||||||
| Irenaeus (130-202) | |||||||||
| Tertullian (c. 155/160 - after 220) | |||||||||
| Clement of Alexandria (c. AD 155-c. 220) | |||||||||
| Origen of Alexandria ( c. 185 - c. 253) | |||||||||
| Plotinus (204-270 AD) Neoplatonism | |||||||||
| The Fathers and Schoolmen : Gregory, Augustine, Erigena, Aquinas. | |||||||||
| Athanasius (296-373) | |||||||||
| Gregory of Nyssa, (c. 335 - c. 394) | |||||||||
| Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; Bishop of Hippo (now, Annaba, Algeria) (354 -430) | |||||||||
| Salvian the Presbyter (c. 400-480) | |||||||||
| Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (476?-526?) | |||||||||
| Pseudo-Dionysius (c. 485- 532) | |||||||||
| John Scotus Erigena (810 - c. 877) | |||||||||
| Anselm of Canterbury (1033—1109) | |||||||||
| Arabic Science and Philosophy: Avicenna, Avempace, Abubacer. | |||||||||
| Abubacer | Abū Bakr (573- 634) | |||||||||
| Avicenna (Ibn Sina, 980-1037) | |||||||||
| Avempace (c. 1095-1138/39) | |||||||||
| Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) | |||||||||
| Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) | |||||||||
| Averroes (Ibn Rushd, 1126-1198) | |||||||||
| Eckhart von Hochheim OP ( c. 1260 - c. 1328) | |||||||||
| John Duns Scotus (1265/66-1308) | |||||||||
| William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347) | |||||||||
| The Reformation | |||||||||
| Martin Luther (1483-1546) | |||||||||
| John Calvin (1509-1564) | |||||||||
| The Natural Philosophers : Bacon, Descartes, Leibnitz, Kant, Lessing, Herder, Schelling. | |||||||||
| Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) | |||||||||
| Francisco Suárez (1548—1617) | |||||||||
| Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561-1626) | |||||||||
| Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) | |||||||||
| Claude Duret (c. 1570-1611) | |||||||||
| James Ussher (1581–1656) | |||||||||
| Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) | |||||||||
| René Descartes (1596-1650) | |||||||||
| John Lightfoot (1602–1675) | |||||||||
| Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) | |||||||||
| Henry More (1614–1687) | |||||||||
| Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) | |||||||||
| Robert Boyle (1627–1691) | |||||||||
| John Ray (1627-1705) | |||||||||
| Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza (1632-1677) | |||||||||
| John Locke (1632-1704) | |||||||||
| Thomas Burnet (1635–1715) | |||||||||
| Nicolas Steno (1638-1686) | |||||||||
| The beginning of "The Enlightenment" is said to be around 1685, lasting until 1815. Also called "The Age of Reason," that is, the Age of Autonomous Reason, in contrast with those who sought to "think God's thoughts after Him." Names associated with the beginning of the Enlightenment are Isaac Newton (although as we are learning he was a Bible-believing young-earth creationist) and John Locke (although as we will see was a Bible- believing Christian "Theocrat"). Up until this time, the near-universal consensus was that the Bible teaches a young-earth creationist viewpoint. |
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Isaac Newton (1643-1727) |
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| Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 -1716) | |||||||||
| Benoit de Maillet (1656-1738) | |||||||||
| Edmond Halley (1656-1742) | |||||||||
| William Derham (1657–1735) | |||||||||
| John Woodward (1665–1728) | |||||||||
| John Toland (1670-1722) | |||||||||
| George Berkeley (1685-1753) | |||||||||
| Joseph Butler (1692-1752) | |||||||||
| Voltaire (1694-1778) | |||||||||
| The speculative Evolutionists : Duret, Kircher, Maupertuis, Diderot, Bonnet, De Maillet, Robinet, Oken. |
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| Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis 1698 - 1759 | |||||||||
| Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) | |||||||||
| Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) | |||||||||
| Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, (1707-1788) | |||||||||
| Julien Offray de LaMettrie (1709-1751) | |||||||||
| Thomas Reid (1710-1796) | |||||||||
| David Hume (1711-1776) | |||||||||
| Denis Diderot (1713-1784) | |||||||||
| Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789) | |||||||||
| Gotthold E. Lessing (1729-1781) | |||||||||
| Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) | |||||||||
| James Hutton (1726-1797) Regarded as the father of Uniformitarianism which is a religion, not based on "facts" |
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| Young-Earth Creationists pre-1900 | |||||||||
| Jean André Deluc (1727-1817) | |||||||||
| Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) | |||||||||
| Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) | |||||||||
| Jean-Baptiste Robinet (1735-1820) | |||||||||
| Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799) | |||||||||
| William Paley (1743-1805) | |||||||||
| Johann Gottfried von Herder 1744-1803 | |||||||||
| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) | |||||||||
| Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817) | |||||||||
| Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) | |||||||||
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) | |||||||||
| William Charles Wells (1757- 1817) | |||||||||
| William Playfair (1759-1823) | |||||||||
| Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1761-1832) | |||||||||
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) | |||||||||
| Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) | |||||||||
| Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) | |||||||||
| Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) | |||||||||
| William Smith (1769-1839) | |||||||||
| Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) | |||||||||
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) | |||||||||
| Étienne Geoffroy St. Hilaire (1772-1844) | |||||||||
| Christian Leopold von Buch (1774-1853) | |||||||||
| Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775—1854) | |||||||||
| Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776-1837) | |||||||||
| Jean-Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778-1846) | |||||||||
| William Herbert (1778-1847) | |||||||||
| Lorenz Oken (originally Okenfuß) (1779-1851) | |||||||||
| Chalmers, Thomas, 1780-1847 | |||||||||
| Johann Friedrich Meckel the Younger (1781-1833) | |||||||||
| William Buckland, 1784-1856 | |||||||||
| Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873) | |||||||||
| Antoine Étienne Renaud Augustin Serres (1786-1868) | |||||||||
| Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) | |||||||||
| Patrick Matthew (1790-1874) | |||||||||
| Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) | |||||||||
| William Whewell (1794–1866) | |||||||||
The Messianic Character of American EducationAt this point I'm introducing more characters to our Evolutionary Hall of Shame: |
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| Chronologically, the first figure in Rushdoony's list is
James G. Carter (1795–1849) |
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| But the most important pioneer of statist evolutionary schooling is undoubtedly
Horace Mann (1796–1859) |
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| Charles Lyell (1797-1875) | |||||||||
| Robert Chambers (1802-1871) | |||||||||
| Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) | |||||||||
| Richard Owen (1804-1892) | |||||||||
| Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) | |||||||||
| David Friedrich Strauss (1808-1874) | |||||||||
Summary: Precursors of Charles DarwinGregory L. Bahnsen, who earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy at USC, does a detailed survey of the literature before 1859 and concludes,
Note the names Bahnsen covers in philosophy and theology:
This is a philosophical and theological trend that began two hundred years before Darwin's book in 1859. Darwin's scientific surmises had been anticipated by men who were not necessarily "scientists," any more than today's flat-earth bloggers are "scientists"; they are "dabblers" and propagandists. They might be very smart (high I.Q.), and they might have filing cabinets full of scientific-sounding factoids, but you might not consider them to be what you think of as a "scientist." Bahnsen mentions
These were the bloggers of their day. They had influence. Strauss was quoted above asdf |
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| Charles Darwin (1809-1882) | |||||||||
| Henry Barnard (1811–1900) | |||||||||
| Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812-1880) | |||||||||
| Georg Büchner (1813-1837) | |||||||||
| Charles Victor Naudin (1815-1899) | |||||||||
| Karl Marx (1818-1883) | |||||||||
| Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) | |||||||||
| Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) | |||||||||
| Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) | |||||||||
| Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) | |||||||||
| Edward H. Sheldon (1823–1897) | |||||||||
| James Swett (1830–1913) | |||||||||
| The term "scientist" was coined by English scholar and philosopher of science William Whewell in 1833, first appearing in print in 1834, to replace inadequate terms like "natural philosophers" and create a more fitting title for people engaged in scientific inquiry, partly inspired by the need to describe brilliant women like Mary Somerville [Google] Prior to this, "scientists" were called "natural philsophers" |
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| Francis Wayland Parker (1837–1902) | |||||||||
| William Torrey Harris (1835–1909) | |||||||||
| John Wesley Judd (1840-1916) | |||||||||
| Lester Frank Ward (1841-1913)
Lester Frank Ward: Godfather of American Central Planning | Gary North |
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| William James (1842–1910) | |||||||||
| Friedrich W. Nietzsche (1844-1900) | |||||||||
| G. Stanley Hall (1844–1924) | |||||||||
| Charles De Garmo (1849–1934) | |||||||||
| Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) | |||||||||
| President Wilson, beginning during his academic career, worked to replace the U.S. Constitution with an entirely different form of government, which is called "Administration," or "The Administrative State." |
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| Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) | |||||||||
| Karl Pearson (1857-1936) | |||||||||
Part II: Post-Darwin
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| The Scopes Trial: This significant event brought together several figures in 1925.
The lives of Darrow, Bryan, Mencken, and Machen all intersected in fascinating ways, |
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| Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) | |||||||||
| Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858- 1919) | |||||||||
| John Dewey (1859–1952) | |||||||||
| William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) | |||||||||
| Nicholas Murray Butler (1862–1947) | |||||||||
| William Heard Kilpatrick (1871–1965) | |||||||||
| Boyd H. Bode (1873–1953) | |||||||||
| Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949) | |||||||||
| Herman Harrell Horne (1874–1946) | |||||||||
| J. B. Watson (1878–1958) | |||||||||
| Henry Louis Mencken (1880- 1956) | |||||||||
| J. Gresham Machen (1881–1937) Machen was an opponent of Liberalism |
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| The Progressive Era | |||||||||
| Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) | |||||||||
| Harold O. Rugg (1886–1960) | |||||||||
| Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) | |||||||||
| Carlton Washburne (1889–1968) | |||||||||
| George S. Counts (1889–1974) | |||||||||
| Theodore Brameld (1904–1987) |
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