Darwinism failed as a true philosophy, but it has succeeded as a false religion

Even if the evolutionary theory is true, it is totally useless for human affairs. "It is enormous, but irrelevant. Like the solar system, it is a colossal trifle."

Darwinism has become ingrained in our thinking. And we have gone from talking unphilosophically about philosophy to talking unscientifically about science.

Science itself is not the villain. Science is either a tool or a toy. We should never make it more than that. Putting science up on a pedestal and putting our trust in it, giving it a primary function instead of a secondary one, causes us to neglect our responsibilities, our moral and artistic standards, and our ability to think for ourselves. We end up using our choices to lose our choices, to enslave ourselves, and then we put our hope in science to set us free. We expect science to take care of us, to watch over us, to make our future safe. We stand up and demand a cure for a disease, when it is our own immoral behavior that has caused the epidemic.

It is ironic that we have put all our faith in science and then claim to be autonomous in supreme. We've intoxicated ourselves with self-esteem.

"What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific when it's really nothing but a sort of new religion and an uncommonly nasty one. When people talked about the fall of Man they knew they were talking about a mystery, a thing they didn't understand. Now that they talk about the survival of the fittest they think they do understand it, [but] they have ... no notion of what the words mean." -- Chesterton

Darwinism was embraced by its first great proponent, Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer, because they were agnostics who use Darwin to support their own skepticism about religion.

"It would have been better if they had cultivated a little more agnosticism about Darwinism." -- Chesterton

The problem is not that they opened the evolutionary question, but that they closed it. Evolution is no longer a subject for debate.

There are any number of weaknesses in Darwin's theory, including the rather remarkable lack of fossil evidence. The missing link is still missing. Chesterton says, "If there were a missing link in a real chain, it would not be called a chain at all."

The real problem with Darwinism has not been its implications for science, but its implications for everything else. It has fed "the absurd necessity for maintaining that everything is always getting better."

Common Sense 101, Alquist

Darwinism has firmly planted the idea that we must always be progressing, that progress is always a good thing, and that we are progressing toward some beautiful perfect future state.

What that state is? No one seems to know. But, as they'll tell you, it's going to be wonderful.