Toby Sumpter

Ben Zornes: The Garden Kingdom As Darwin’s theory for the origin of the species took hold in academic circles, and the liberal theologians went along with it–to keep their street cred, no doubt–not only was his view patently false from a scientific perspective, it was also unimaginative. Now, I am not a scientist, nor the son of a scientist, so others are more qualified to speak to the evidentiary proofs for why Darwinian evolution is a tottering Jenga tower of poorly placed propositions. I want to speak to the issue of how damaging Darwin’s view is to our imagination. We have come to a point where sneezing on a canvas is lauded as brave and visionary art. But no one notices that this arises from the bland, sepia-hued picture which Darwin left us of the origin of man. The readers of this publication are, in large measure, the sort of people who believe the Bible from cover to cover. But take a moment, and picture in your mind what you think of when you think of our first parents. Many Christians doing this exercise would admit that their mental picture is far more akin to a Neanderthal Display at the Smithsonian rather than Lord Celeborn and Lady Galadriel. Darwin’s proposal for man’s origin is, to put it bluntly, ugly... Read the rest ⬇️

Lockean liberalism is closer to the biblical-covenantal foundation of nations than modern secular liberalism but he watered it down. As @d3bach pointed out, the Founders cited Scripture more than any other source, Deuteronomy twice as much as Locke. Covenant > social contract.

One of the remarkable things about Columbus was how well read and educated he was. In an age of widespread illiteracy, he studied Marco Polo’s Travels (his personal copy is one of nine surviving books of his library), John Mandeville, Seneca, Thomas Aquinas, Bible commentaries, Plutarch, works of geography, mathematics, and science. He carefully studied the movements of the sun and estimated the circumference of the earth. He also read the Bible voraciously, later writing, “I hold alone to the sacred Scriptures, and to the interpretations of prophecy given by certain devout persons.” crosspolitic.substack.com/p/…