During the year 2009, the eyes of the world will turn to remember the anniversaries of the birth of the two most influential men of the last one thousand years—the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin, and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. No two men of the millennium have done more to shape the thoughts of mankind or to affect the political and social destiny of nations than Calvin and Darwin—the former for the glory of God, and the latter for unimaginable evil. . . . Where Calvin taught the inadequacies of the fallen mind of man, the supremacy of the law of God, and the sufficiency of Holy Scripture, Darwin’s Theory led to the supremacy of man’s reason, the rejection of Scripture, and to widespread distrust in the Bible as an accurate record of Earth history. The children of Calvin and the Reformers gave us the rise of nation states that embraced Republican representative government. The children of Darwin gave us Marxism and totalitarianism. Calvin’s legacy included respect for life, a defense of the biblical family, and the rule of law under God. Darwin’s philosophical progeny introduced the world to the horrors of eugenics and legalized widespread abortion on demand.
– Doug Phillips
Christ Alone Wyoming 
Excellent compare/contrast. Certainly gives me some food for thought. I need to chew on it a bit and see how I can build on it to use it some in my classroom this year . . .
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The more reformed I have become in my theology the more I have come to truly appreciate Calvin. On his 500th anniversary I believe there is a resurgence in the Church in interest in Calvin with a new generation of reformed believing Christians just finding out about the riches of the doctrines of grace and true Biblical understanding of the sovereignty of God.
I also completely concur with the fruits listed for Darwinism, although Darwinists will argue the point and deny. Unfortunately, in today’s world I think Darwin holds sway, even among some Christians and is even possibly why some so-called Christians do not bother with Biblical exegesis and establishing a truly informed faith, underneath it all they have bought the wisdom of this world and think that faith is really all about them and what it does for them and not about truth because Darwin/science holds real truth, spiritual things are subjective and ethereal. They are not interested in a concise theology because it is unimportant in their eyes.
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