True or false, societies always express concepts of god, man, being, knowledge and law. No matter where we turn for analysis, differing concepts on these produce different social institutions. The Protestant Christianity of the 17th and 18th centuries are at root of the free society we have inherited.

Yet as soon as that point is stressed, men begin to howl in opposition. Like the prodigal son in Jesus’ parable, these men live spending the capital inherited from their fathers. But unlike that prodigal, there will be no home to return to once the nation has been destroyed by their profligacy.The oldest and most prevalent of false concepts is evolution, introduced by the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. Of course we have been told that evolution is some new “scientific discovery.”’ Science has indeed been used to “justify” the theory, but the faith that stands behind it is as old as the devil’s temptation. It is a faith that has received social development before in nations ancient and modern.

For example, the culture of ancient Egypt expressed the evolutionary faith. As R.J. Rushdoony explains, “Not only priests and magicians but all men could manipulate the gods to some extent through rituals, amulets and by means of works.

“In The Book of the Dead, it is clear that man expected eternal life in exchange for his service of works. More than that, on being accepted into the other world, he became deified to a great degree, declaring: ‘There is no member of my body which is not the member of a god. The god Toth shielded my body altogether, and I am Ra day by day .’

“This development of man was simply a reflection of the evolution and development of the gods. The god Neb-er-tcher declared, ‘I evolved the evolving of evolutions. I evolved myself under the form of the evolutions of the God Khepera, which were evolved at the beginning of all time ....”

Egyptian society was an absolute tyranny, with the pharaoh conceived as a link between the divine and the mere human pawns in the political system. These pawnswere pressed into service to the pharaohs and built the great monuments memorializing the society. Pyramids celebrated the ascension of the pharaohs into the realm of the gods. But the time and treasure of thousands of men went to glorify the one man at the top of the political order.

From Egypt, to more modern examples like Adolph Hitler, the result is the same. Hitler’s brand of evolutionary theory was the scientific one, keying on the concept of “natural selection” or “the survival of the fittest.” His goal to help the process along, marking for destruction what he considered to be the “less favored” races in his nation, gave justification to genocide.

America’s experience with evolutionary faith began in 1859 with Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species, and men ready to seek this faith again. The social implications can be seen in the transformation of law at the hands of Darwinists. The great progressive, Woodrow Wilson, declared, “All we progressives ask is that the Constitution be interpreted in accordance with Darwinian principles.” Henceforth, the Constitution would be “living,” an evolving thing. The words of its text may have one meaning in one generation, and another meaning in the next, according to men’s needs and desires.

Modern evolutionary courts have turned precious liberties, supposedly secured in our Bill of Rights, into confusion. The First Amendment, which originally prohibited federal Congress from making one establishment of religion the national one — establishments or settlements were present at the state level in each of the colonies — now means religion shall have no place in public.

The right to keep and bear arms not being infringed is subject to congressional regulation. Prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures somehow does not prevent armed military-style raids on the homes of citizens.

Due process of law does not protect the lives of the unborn, the liberties of men when labeled as “terrorists” or “enemy combatants,” or the private property of citizens when there is a compelling state interest involved in potential tax revenues. Right to trial by jury has somehow morphed into a jury pre-screening process whereattorneys question potential jurors to determine their attitudes.

The prohibition against double jeopardy is overcome by federal charges leveled for the same actions, if the local prosecution fails to bring a guilty verdict. Cruel and unusual punishment is now frequently defined as “the death penalty,” and capital offenders walk the streets.

The 10th Amendment is in the unfortunate position of having to be asserted by state legislators in resolutions — as men seek for answers to a government out of control.

Evolutionary theory has always produced tyranny and confusion. The reason America was a new, unique experiment in freedom is that Protestant Biblical Christianity, and the principles it teaches, stood at its foundation.