Defacing the Tomb of Darwin

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There are pictures usually taken at strategic moments, then captioned with things like, "Have you ever been so angry that you tackled a horse?" Well, have you ever been so angry that you defaced classic artwork and also Darwin's tomb?

A group known as Just Stop Oil believes that because global temperatures allegedly reached a certain number, we are now in the sixth great extinction. These t3rrorists are stupid on several levels, not the least of which is like other t3rrorists, they enrage people, then expect sympathy for their cause.

Darwin's Tomb at Westminster Abbey, Flickr / Amanda (CC BY 2.0)
The denizens of Just Stop Oil are buying into evolutionary mythologies including deep time and the so-called great extinctions. Well, those extinction events are based on assumptions merged with storytelling, and they should have considered possibilities outside the evolution box. One in particular is how the Genesis Flood covers the data of one catastrophic event instead of claims of multiple extinctions.

Another problem for them is accepting global warming / climate change alarmism. It is a leftist tactic, and other predictions of doom have all failed miserably. Many factors involved in climate change (volcanism is a big one) are ignored or twisted; climate is a complex subject. Of course, they would not consider the possibility that God our Creator is in control, nor would they consider a complete picture of their alarmism — including the misuse of evolutionism.

Worldviews have consequences, and evolutionary thinking influences behavior.

Reuters reports that climate activists associated with Just Stop Oil had defaced Charles Darwin’s grave at Westminster Abbey in London:

The activists wrote “1.5 is dead” in orange over the surface of the white marble gravestone — a reference to recent news that global temperatures in 2024 had exceeded 1.5 Celsius above the pre-industrial era for the first time.


“We have passed the 1.5 degree threshold that was supposed to keep us safe,” one of the activists said. “Darwin would be turning in his grave to know we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction.” 


“Climate activists deface Darwin’s grave at London’s Westminster Abbey,” January 13, 2025

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