Charles Darwin’s Lost Race and Muhammad’s Lost Tribes: Demythologizing the Great Myths

By David A Phillips

Before Charles Darwin was born, his grandfather, Erasmus, wrote a book titled Zoonomia, exploring the subject of evolution.

Erasmus was a polymath who was a founder member of the Derby Philosophical Society and a member of the Birmingham Lunar Society. It was, however, to fall to his grandson to put flesh on his ideas and take the accolades.

As Charles Darwin’s ideas have been elaborated upon, and confirmed, his denial of God’s existence has caused most of the people in England to welcome his apostasy. It has given them a freedom to express themselves, but that has had costs.

A country advances by means of its disciplines, and that includes universities that found belief in God an encumbrance. If only they had taken to psychiatrist Karl Gustav Jung, who famously said he believed in God, rather than atheists Sigmund Freud and Immanuel Kant, things may have been different.

Boys in particular need disciplining to reach their true potential, so that they smarten their genes rather than allow them, and their offspring, to become flaccid. The book suggests retired soldiers; particularly those who have overcome serious injuries inflicted in conflicts should play a part in their education in the quest to achieve a virtuous manhood.

The book also reflects on fourteen hundred years of Islam and how it continues to plague the world with terrorism.

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David A Phillips

David A Phillips was born into a strong Christian family during World War II. He was employed as a designer of heavy engineering, but at age thirty had to give up the work as the result of a bleed in the brain. He wrote this book to highlight the problems caused in his native country as a result of disbelief in God, and of the consequences of Islamic extremism.

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See, I have refined you, though not as Silver.

I have tested you in the furnace of affliction

(Isaiah 48:10)

CONTENTS

Acknowledgement

Introduction

Principia

Redemption

A Tribute to George Fox

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Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1Charles Darwin’s Decision

Chapter 2Charles Darwin’s Lost Race: Paving the Road to Decline

Chapter 3An Educated Primate’s View of the Universe

Chapter 4A Des Res with No Bad Neighbours

Chapter 5An Adaptable Cell for All Situations

Chapter 6Natural Selection or Pre-Selection

Chapter 7The Birth of Mitochondrial Eve

Chapter 8Is the Crunch Coming for Humanity?

Chapter 9Feminism v. Femininism: The Moral Battle between Females over Evolution

Chapter 10Media Giant Dabbles in Social Engineering

Chapter 11Male Genes: Humanity’s Evolved Guardians

Chapter 12God Is Not Helpless in Dealing with Those Who Go against His Will

Chapter 13The Indestructible Spirit

Chapter 14‘God’s Prodigal Children’

Chapter 15The Infallible Way

Chapter 16Free Speech—The Staff of Life, or a Stale Loaf?

Chapter 17Allah hu Alhab: Muhammad’s Lost Tribes

Chapter 18Evolution: Creation’s Unstoppable Advance towards Perfection?

Postscript

A Retrospection of George Fox

Remembrance of Genocides

A Final Thought

List of Scripture Quotations

About the Author

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I thank publishers in the United States of America for the facilitation and publication of the book after I found it impossible to publish in England owing to attacks on freedom of speech in the publishing industry and elsewhere. The government in February 2021 said it would bring about a law to guarantee freedom of speech and expression on university campuses, which—with the mindless attacks on the statues of notable but controversial people from history, whose lives are an intrinsic part of the learning curve of a nation that, if understood, add to its ascent and may have a positive effect on the intellectual ascent of the world upon we must live—is a tragedy. But for it to have to be guaranteed by law in the places of learning where such freedoms should be an inalienable, intrinsic part of its intellectual oxygen empowering and enlightening the blood that courses through the veins of true democracies is a tragedy upon tragedies.

Those learning curves depend upon the learning curves of individuals, and some, such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, sacrifice their lives in its pursuit. His was an extreme example, but the history of the world is enhanced by many such men and women, known and unknown, a few of whom I mention in the book. It is the intolerant minds of the many who are at the opposite end of the scale, the inadequacies of whose personal learning curves can, through the blinding effect inherent in intolerance, which is a socio-intellectual disease, throw theirs into descent, and possibly the nations into descent. Unless free speech is guaranteed by accord, those who value it above all make the ultimate sacrifice. As I say in the book, social media in England can be toxic, and these are some of the people who make it so.

Wisdom comes from trying to put yourself into the shoes of those whose lives you admire and those you decry, to understand their journeys. If you destroy history, you destroy your ability to understand it and learn from it.

God bless America.

INTRODUCTION

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And having called out in a loud voice, Jesus said, ‘Father into your hands I commit my spirit.’ (Luke 23:46 NIV)

The Turin Shroud is the cloth that wrapped Christ’s body in the tomb. The cloth has now been proven to be from the first century AD (see chapter 13). It is the only true image of a person that exists that came before the age of photography, which began in the nineteenth century. Here are the true images of the Son of God caught in transition from Earth to heaven.

The image is undoubtedly the most important image to exist because it has had unavoidable implications and consequences from what it represents for every person who has lived since the time of Christ and for those who will be born in the future who will be given the chance of eternal life. To gamble your life against Christ being the Son of God in these times of trial by virus has never been more perilous, or more threatening; and the planet we share with all forms of life and share genes with gets ever more crowded. The minds of young people have never been more at risk from the insidious virus of perversion—which steals their sense of responsibility and discipline, which is vital to fight it as current pandemic problems are revealing only too clearly and tragicaly.

PRINCIPIA

God commanded that the heavens and Earth be formed, and He gave the Ten Commandments, by which those who are born into His world should live. He sent His Son to Earth to explain those Ten Commandments to be the commands they are, and He expanded upon them so that His followers would be fit to join Him in heaven. Jesus says in John 13:34, ‘A new command I give you: Love one another.’ To live without accepting God’s commands, to live denying His ordinances and precepts, goes against His will and does have serious consequences.

This is a Christian book, but as the title may suggest it is not particularly aimed at Christian people. Almost all Christian books I have seen are aimed at the converted, but that would make this a pointless exercise—a wasted eight years. There are billions of people who believe they can go through life without the acceptance of Jesus Christ having an impact on their lives, but they could not be more wrong. I came to writing this book from an engineer’s perspective, not a liturgical one, and that demanded that I be realistic in my writing.

When the Turin Shroud was confirmed as being the cloth that wrapped Christ’s body in the tomb, it had a real impact on me. If you are, as I am, a Christian, it is a wonderful confirmation that Jesus Christ came to this lonely rock spinning in space that His father had created and made habitable. To all others, as I said earlier—it cannot be reiterated enough—it should be a signal, as it has consequences. It is my purpose to bring home to readers the message that a loving God wants you to join with Him on an ascendant pathway; He does not want you to make your life a wasted and gravely exposed journey. And those who accept Him into their lives are never alone on this journey, even when in a grave situation, such as the pandemic that has dominated our lives recently. It is a tragedy that people who are alone in lockdown are suffering mentally, because they only have to reach out to Jesus Christ and they will never be alone again. The church is a place of sanctuary where you are sure everyone has your best interests at heart, including the one who is at the heart of it.

I have gone back to the beginning of creation in this book, to fundamental principles designed by God and worked up to the present time in England.

REDEMPTION

St Paul states the following in Romans 8:18–24 (NIV):

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed to us.

The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not only by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay, and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the spirit groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons,(and daughters) the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved.

St Paul’s words concerning creation could not be more appropriate in today’s world, where the word ‘pollution’, with all of its connotations, can be applied to most aspects of human life and its effect on ‘the whole creation’, whose ill-considered thoughts and acts are its source ‘by its own choice’. Only through fundamental changes can it ‘be liberated from its bondage to decay’ as it groans not ‘as in the pains of childbirth’ but of death, as a large section of life on Earth is threatened by extinction, and Biblical floods that Noah experienced threaten much of life on Earth in the relatively near future unless humankind accepts responsibility for the situation it is in.

A TRIBUTE TO

GEORGE FOX

George Fox (1624–1691) was a friend and adviser to Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector during the civil war from 1653 to 1658, even though he refused to sign an oath to him. This was treasonous because he said only God was his master. He was also a religious adviser to King Charles II, who did at first imprison him because he again refused to sign oaths. This was a time, it should be remembered, when people could be burnt at the stake for disseminating ‘heretical’ views.

That was the fate of William Tyndale (1494–1536), the translator of the Bible from Latin into English. Without his selfless work, the inherent risk of which he was aware, George Fox could not have become the evangelist that changed England and the United States of America. Christianity was being drip-fed to the people from the Latin text and by paintings on church walls.

William Tyndale was born in Gloucestershire in England, but little is known of his early life. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford University, obtaining a master of arts degree, and was a brilliant linguist, fluent in French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Latin. He became a priest and chaplain in the Church of England, but his controversial views aligned him with Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation movement in Germany, which drove him to translate the Bible into English.

Martin Luther’s experience when he visited Rome—learning of the perversions that had become embedded in the hierarchy of the church there and seeing the depictions on the walls of religious buildings—caused him to break from Roman Catholicism, and Protestantism was born. Christ said the pure in heart are blessed, but what Luther saw was the antithesis of that statement. Art lovers may drool over what is depicted on those walls and ceilings, but put in the context of Christianity, they represent the lowest point. When you are aware, without prejudice, that Michelangelo was a homosexual, knowing God’s spirit was there, and His view of homosexuality, what is represented takes on a new significance. However well executed, his caricatures are spread as sexual graffiti over the walls and ceiling of the greatest architecture ever created. They obviously reflect Michelangelo’s view of his paymasters’ unrepentant flawed characters, as they cross the boundaries of decency and skirt those of decadence. I wonder whether he was mocking his masters as he created a decadent image of them that they could not appreciate, but the church is left with it in perpetuity.

It is heart-wrenching when you consider there are thousands of magnificent Christian works of art gracing the walls of art galleries and private art collections that, if depicted on the walls of the magnificent buildings that are the Sistine Chapel and St Peter’s Basilica, would have made them transcendent places of worship. But when you consider the original Church of Saint Peter lies destroyed by the leaders of the Church, beneath the latter’s foundations, it throws light upon those leaders that its replacement, however magnificent, has the aspect of an art gallery or mausoleum rather than a place of worship. I and millions of Christians could not worship there, but the original building would have been a cause of pilgrimage for people of all Christian denominations.

But to get back to William Tyndale, his brilliant use of language in the translation of the Bible did, according to historians, inspire the authors of the acclaimed King James Bible, which is the basis of most of the ensuing English-language Bibles, as well as the works of William Shakespeare, and became a fundamental cornerstone of the English language.

There has not been another book written in the English language that had such revolutionary portent; William Shakespeare’s works, while being resplendently lucid and innovative, were pallid in comparison. The King James Version was the cause of the civil war in England, the beheading of a monarch, and the violent disruption of religious life for hundreds of years as various monarchs took sides between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. The Pilgrim Fathers were so pressured by the established church as to be coerced into travelling to America in search of freedom to worship and freedom of speech.

The fact is, God and His Son Jesus Christ can inspire, even impel, people to do extraordinary things, and these two men’s selfless sacrifice, risking their lives in His service, are examples of such. George Fox became a great exemplar because William Tyndale was so, and they became part of a long line of witnesses stretching back to Jesus Christ and the prophets. Tyndale said, ‘All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.’ George Fox would undoubtedly have said amen to that.

George Fox’s father, Christopher Fox, was a Puritan Christian; he was called ‘Righteous Christer’ by his friends, which undoubtedly influenced the young George, who was said to have had a contemplative nature.

After preaching for several years, he attracted other preachers to join him, and they went around the country spreading God’s word. They formed the Society of Friends in 1651 and were noted for holding meetings of silent prayer, being interrupted as the Spirit moved them. He and his followers were imprisoned many times for criticizing judicial decisions, refusing to sign oaths, and preaching against the established Church. During one of his court appearances, the judge called him a ‘quaker’ for his mode of speech, which was taken up by followers, and they became known as ‘Quakers’. By 1657 there were often over a thousand of those followers imprisoned for following his teaching, and the king would occasionally issue pardons in response to his pleas. He visited America and preached there, and William Penn became a friend. He was one of the greatest Christian preachers the world has known. After being imprisoned many times, he became weak and died in 1691. He is buried in the Bunhill Fields Cemetery in London.

I have been an admirer of George Fox for a long while, for his selfless drive to spread God’s message. It is only in writing this book that I have realized the true influence his teaching had on many great men and women worldwide over the seventeenth through twentieth centuries, through the Quaker movement. I consider him to be the first modern-day evangelist. England would certainly not have been the driving force it was in the world without his preaching of Christ’s spiritual guidance and the importance of contemplation and prayer in understanding God’s will.

Contemplative thought is the greatest power God has endowed upon his people to enable them to ascend, and there is not a greater force for good in the world than the spiritual guidance He advocated through His Son. George Fox encouraged women to preach and, because there was a dearth of men owing to fatalities in wars and the increasingly risk-laden nature of their work, to live together as companions. Feminists use this to say he accepted homosexuality, but he knew God’s view of homosexuality and would never have condoned it. Neither would those ladies in the seventeenth century or those who lived together in this way up to the twentieth century. It has become a matter of distaste in many people’s minds because of feminists’ entanglement of such association with homosexuality and the detrimental effect it is having on the lives of young people.

George Fox could see the conservatives within the hierarchy of the established church was determined to maintain the status quo, and Lancelot Andrews (1555–1626), the Jacobean Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Chichester, Ely, and Winchester, made that plain when he said, ‘The church had always been guided by ritual and ceremony to understand the divine; it was the pathway that grace could reach believers; only big headed modern novelists take on that role without seeking the knowledge of the church Fathers which ordinary people had not done since the Apostles.’

Ritual and ceremony were not what George Fox thought the apostles were about, and certainly not what Christ was about. Ritual and ceremony in the church almost certainly came from the transition of the worship of pagan deities in Rome to the worship of Christ in the second and third centuries AD. Now all denominations of the High Church around the world are totally involved in that way of worshipping. A television programme I watched about Westminster Abbey showed how bishops love to get fitted out with new cassocks and mitres, and the more gold thread used the better. To Protestants following George Fox, it was anathema; only black vestments could convey the seriousness with which they pursued righteousness. But in the true meaning of the church, colour and style of vestments or of ritual do not matter; it is the power of the message their wearers convey in the search for righteousness that is important.

Some priests in the Church over the two millennia of Christendom’s existence, such as Lancelot Andrews, have claimed to be the exclusive ‘protectors’ of God and His Word—as indeed the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, was determined to ascertain, with the cost of many lives. They, like those two men, were united in that new insights stirred up deep resentment which they could not cope with, and so they, as the thought police they were, vented un-Christian feeling. There have been strong indications on the BBC Morning Service programme that Andrews’s and Cromwell’s intransigence has been passed down over the centuries to a few present-day intolerant priests, but as George Fox said, ‘God needs no such helpers.’ They should also remember Christ’s words to Peter when he questioned His closeness to a follower and told him in effect to mind his own business: ‘What is that to you? You must follow me’ (John 21:22).

In the hundreds of times Christ must have preached to the multitudes, He would have wanted to perturb their minds, even to shock them into accepting the seriousness of the purpose of life, His knowledge of which came from God, that they should be saved. A fellow Quaker, Isaac Penington, wrote in 1670, ‘It is not enough to hear of Christ, or read of Christ, but this is the thing; to feel Him to be my root, my life, my foundation.’ If St Paul was the founder of theology, George Fox was its grounder. He realized he could seek God’s presence and His will from deep within his being without reference to ritual or ceremony.

George Fox and his followers were absolutists because God is absolute; He is the source of truth, and His truth is absolute, categorical, and even dictatorial. As I have said previously, His commands are commands. When the Bible states ‘Thou shall’ or ‘Thou shall not’, the imperative is absolute, and that is why George Fox and his followers ended up in prison so many times.

Walt Whitman, the American poet, raised by parents who were steeped in Quakerism, wrote, ‘George Fox stands for something, a thought that wakes in the silent hours, perhaps the deepest most eternal thought latent in the human soul. This is the thought of God merged into the thoughts of moral right, and the immortality of identity. Great, great, is this thought, aye greater than all else.’ To that, as a Christian, I can only say aye.

PREVIEW

For those who have taken a seat as spectators around this arena that is England, particularly from foreign climes, here is a view of what brought it to the reduced state we see today, as it has fallen from grace. It is a societal battleground now, as it became after the Second World War.

Most people would like to think their country has a strong moral backbone—a resilient structural integrity that has been built up over hundreds, if not thousands, of years—and English people are no different in that regard. But a strong backbone relies upon strong vertebrae, as a chain is as strong as its weakest link. Some of the chapters of this book could be considered as an examination of the vertebrae that represent sections of society in England which are weakening its moral structure and undermining the stability of society. This weakening is causing it to incline its head towards its foundations rather than to the stars and their creator. England is probably the only country that has become progressively weaker and relatively poorer over the past century.

Up until the beginning of the Second World War, England, as the second wealthiest nation on the planet (it is now the sixth), was in general respected as an exemplary example of probity and diligence. There was a soundness of purpose between the classes, and a balance of respect between the secular and religious, that was rarely tested, although the Industrial Revolution did cause some tribulations. The Second World War was to end that idyll as the realization of the sacrifice made by the lower classes in both world wars sank in. The brutal overthrow of the royal family in Russia settled into the minds of the far left in England like sludge into a pond. Those of the far left now frolic in it like young African elephants, desensitizing their skins as a part of their initiation into Marxism.

After the war, West Germany, even though divided by Russia’s takeover of the east, rose united and undiminished from the ashes, and it has never looked back, whereas the socialists in England fanned the embers of conflict to start a war of attrition. The socialist Labour government at that time decided to use taxation as a punitive instrument to attack the upper classes. Two of the prime examples were the imposition of a harsh death duty on the landed gentry, such that over two thousand stately homes—which not only contained many works of art but were in themselves works of art, admired around the world—were either razed to the ground or rendered uninhabitable so the tax did not apply. The second tax was brought in by a Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, who had been a member of the Communist Party. Most Communist regimes were vindictive and philistine in nature, and he proved he had a vindictive streak by saying at a party conference, ‘I will squeeze the rich until their pips squeak.’ He imposed a top rate of tax of 85 per cent.

This signalled the raising of the stakes in the conflict between workers and management, which was to lead to the undermining and stripping the country of ownership of most of its major industries. There arose from that arid sludge a godlessness that has festered for over seventy years, now emerging as anti-Semitism. A third of the members of the Parliamentary Labour Party signed a letter accusing the party leader of being an anti-Semite. The general election of 2019 was to remove him from leadership, but the left wing is still in charge. While Germany has confirmed its status as Deutschland Uber alles, the union foot soldiers of the Labour Party stripped Great Britain of its adjective of acclamation.

There was a casting off of inhibitions after the war which led to a slide into decadence, and Charles Darwin’s apostasy greased the slope. One of the worst outcomes of that descent has been the crisis caused by the rise of the gay movement and its offspring, the LGBT movement. Children’s lives are being sacrificed as pawns on the altar of homosexual marriage, by adoptions and its forced imposition onto junior school curricula, to normalize it in their vulnerable minds! There has been a huge rise in the number of transgender children seeking help because of this shameful imposition. The government said in 2020 there were five hundred thousand.

There is now a genuine consideration of the breakup of the United Kingdom, as the Scottish National Party seeks independence for Scotland to join the European Union in its own right; and Northern Ireland is, for the first time since separation, entertaining the prospect of a majority of those wishing to leave, which could heal the fracture from the south—a welcome prospect. As William Shakespeare might have said, ‘England, England, wherefore art though now that thy tormented soul doth repose in far hotter climes than of old. Welcome.’

As this book was completed, a frightening phenomenon struck the world’s human population. A coronavirus named as Covid-19 not only perturbed their physical and mental well-being but also forced them to reflect upon what humanity’s purpose is here on Earth. Out and out atheists took part in online church services, while everyone, it seemed, was being good to their neighbours (behaviour which I, as a seventy-eight-year-old, was a grateful recipient of). I have never heard so much religious music being played on radios, which shows how flimsy the shroud of atheism and humanism is that a strong gust can blow it away to expose them to God’s interiorizing examination.

As millions of people had their livelihoods stripped away and their lifestyles changed for years to come, it caused them to look for an inner strength, and that was reflected by a 50 per cent rise in the use of the word ‘prayer’ in online searches. When I refer in this book to the human conscience being based on God and Christ’s life here on Earth, the effect this virus has had on our consciousness shows what I mean. People learnt they have nowhere else to turn but to God when they are helplessly aware a hospitalized quarantined family member or close friend is close to death or has succumbed to it, despite the magnificent and sometimes sacrificial efforts of health and care workers. False gods and meaningless ways of life were brought into focus and seen as being wanting and irrelevant.

I have asked in the book whether these phenomena are here for a purpose, such as to make us consider who is truly in charge on this God-created rock spinning in space. Despite humankind’s ascending intellectual powers, it can be powerless, and on a world scale, it can be brought down by the simplest of life forms. Bacteria and viruses that survive antibiotics and vaccines like nothing better than wrestling with them until they come out on top stronger, and in the virus’s case, they carry on their apparently singular task of testing the integrity and resilience of life.

It is interesting that this virus hardly touches the very young. This is possibly to allow them to grow up but is more likely because their immune systems are more resilient. I strongly believe HIV was designed by God to sift through humankind’s genes and winnow the morally wayward (see chapter 12). This coronavirus is less selective, more clinical, and more easily passed on. The spiky proteins that bind them to host cells were already changing after only six months, revealing how eager they are to adapt and go about their business without entirely wiping out their hosts (yet).

England has unfortunately been one of worst in the developed world to cope with the effects of Covid-19, as over the years its resources have been weakened and depleted. Top scientists failed to understand how to manage a pandemic, with tragic consequences. But young, naïve, irresponsible people who have realized they are personally at little risk, have become inured to the damage it is causing and are playing chicken with the virus and spreading it around the country. On a per-capita basis, England is the worst affected in the developed world, and its economy is one of the deepest into recession. Fortunately, a year after the virus revealed itself in China, vaccines have been developed in several countries; but the true picture is yet to be revealed, as new variants have already emerged in England, South Africa, India and Brazil that are more easily transmissible. Vaccines that are not efficient destroyers of viruses can allow the development of variants that are beyond humankind’s capabilities to answer, as HIV, influenza, and the common cold have proved. And when you realize there are to be over seven billion vaccinations administered, it must be a cause for concern. Scientists have managed so far to control the virus with vaccines, but this is only the first round of a fight that will intensify because so many carriers are asymptomatic.

If anything good can come out of such a tragedy, it is that governments are having to dig deep to re-examine and prioritize, and will hopefully emerge a better, if not stronger, society.

FOREWORD

This book is an alert to all people of what happens when you turn God into a myth. There is at present no other country so afflicted as England is, as by turning its back on its life source it has abandoned His commandments and taken up the laws of nature. English people need to look with realism at their declining position in the world, and to God to return them to His fold. If this Christian book seems worldly, that is because I believe Jesus Christ was worldly. He was not in any way narrow-minded, as some so afflicted Christians would make him out to be. He sought the company of those who would be irredeemable, sufferers from sickness of mind and body, and no one on this planet could be so wise about any aspect of life. Quaker George Fox said, ‘Do not worry about God because he needs no such helper.’ The same can be said about Jesus Christ, but what He needs is for believers to tell nonbelievers what they will face at the end of their lives, because no one should come to such an end.

It was inevitable, with the evolvement of life and the intellectual ascent of humankind that people would eventually want to rule their own lives and set the rules thereby. Anything or anyone that stood in their way or their groups’ way would be undermined, erased, or mythologized. To do so, humankind had to have a focal point—a pagan deity, or an inexplicable functioning of the solar system which affected their lives—to worship.

God’s intervention through the Jewish people gave humankind the chance to become worthy of His vision through the realization of His unfolding creation that would accomplish His purpose. The fulfilment of that purpose required that humankind would be raised above the animals that were the test bed of creation. The verses from St Paul’s letter to the Romans on page XV makes that intent crystal clear.

Now, with humankind’s expanding intellect eliminating those focal points of worship (in most countries), through an understanding, in part, of the evolvement of the universe, and the evolution of life on Earth, the focus has inexorably returned to self. Evolution has necessarily produced a drive in humankind’s consciousness to ascend that originated in his animal genes as a means to dominate through aggression, which has been brought forward into modern humankind and is recognized as the ego. Shared concern for one’s country or race has been transcended in England by the ascendance of self, which is reflected in the growth of narcissism and feminism. Nothing displays this more clearly than what is exhibited on iPhones and in social media. There is, in parts of English social media, a toxicity that is graphically exposed in cynicism, voyeurism, eroticism, and anger that is eagerly vented. The renowned psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud would have spent hours trying to tease out of the minds of their afflicted patients what is now readily exposed for all to see. Where social media is toxic, many of the younger generation seem to be determined to poison themselves, and the rise in the mental health problems among the young reflects that.

Atheists, humanists, and heathens, whom a book such as this reflects upon—particularly those whose monetary interests are locked into it—are bound to attack it. They are like hyenas howling into the night, calling for support of their godless ways. But their endeavours to thwart God’s will are as pointless as trying to stop the sun from rising. Their godless, corrosive practices hang tenuously like the sword of Damocles over their heads. What these and all people