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Imagine
that 1,000 years have passed since Jesus Christ returned to earth and set
up the Kingdom of God. You have been part of the administration of this
globe-encompassing government that has provided true education, justice
and opportunity for all. And now, as He foretold, God has just brought
untold billions of people of past ages back to life to at last learn the
way of life that leads to happiness and peace.
Charles Darwin—the man who put forward the theory of evolution—awakens from his sleep in the grave, and you've been assigned to tell him what has happened in the intervening years.
After curiously looking around and being awed by the fact that he is alive again (after having drifted back and forth between agnosticism and atheism in his life), he sheepishly wonders what became of his theory of evolution.
"Well," you begin, "you wouldn't believe what a stir your little theory caused. As you knew before your death, your proposal was slow to gain acceptance. Unfortunately, as time passed a significant number of people began accepting it as true, and the results were tragic.
"A madman by the name of Adolf Hitler used your theory to justify the murder of 6 million Jews. He thought he was simply improving the human race. Believing the implications of your theory, that there was no God who cared what people did and that human beings were just animals, thousands upon thousands engaged in sexual relations with whomever they pleased. Marriages were destroyed and many suffered for the rest of their lives with sexually transmitted diseases.
"By the year 2009—the 200th anniversary of your birthday and the 150th year after the publication of your book On the Origin of Species—scientists were gathering a large body of evidence showing that intelligent design was involved in the creation of the universe and that your theory was flawed. Your supporters fought to keep this information out of schools because it indicated that there was indeed a creator. Although many academics continued to deceptively portray your theory as proven fact, the majority of people didn't believe it.
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