I believe that modern man is DESCENDING towards the level of the ape.
Nietzsche called it the 'great cosmic farce'. That was my outlook on life too before G-d allowed me to start reading His Tanakh.
I tend to agree with you there. What I got out of Savage's lecture is that the Rabbi did not agree with Savage's perception of "evolution". The Rabbi agreed with Savage that Man does evolve to his/her environment around them but did not agree with Darwinism; that Man was the evolutionary byproduct of a billion years "progressing" slim floating in hot water or that man evolved from monkeys. Might I also add, or ask, that with the embracing of homosexuality, same sex marriage by the Reform, and subsequently the "Conservative" so-called "Jewish" movements would this be a form of social evolution or digression? I believe, if one researches the acceptance and promulgation of Darwinism you will find notable "Jewish" Reform leaders at the forefront of such molestations. I am not sure on this but it most deffinately fits into both their Social and Political agendas for "Reform" Judaism as advocated by the Abraham Geiger and his Communist Bund.
Savage seems to neglect the fact that the failed Scopes (Monkey) Trial presented by Communist Clarence Darrow backed by the British Fabian Society's ACLU (Which was established to undermine the American Constitution, provide legal support for exposed Socialist/Communists and to promulgate Socialism throughout America) to legalize/legislate the promulgation of Darwinist Theology: Darwinism
in place of intelligent design. From my research, Darwin's Theory only attained noteriety after Marx and Engles learned that the teachings of Darwin's "logic" and reasoning lended the very much needed "creditablity" to their Communist socio-political goals within
Dialectical Materialism allowing both to be further researched, accepted and further advocated by the "Utopian" Univeristy Intelligencia.
Personally, I do not know, but I will tend to disagree because I do know the goals and am well knowledged in Marxism, Socialism and Dialectical Materialism....which are all out to vanquish G-d and religion. Too, Savage said "Evolution" is "fact". Sadly those same leftist individuals who state emphatically that Global Warming is too "Fact" are the vast majority of Chomskites and Marxists. Since these peoples are one and the same to an immense degree, does that not signal alarm bells that something is questionable when Marxists unite ideologically with "Conservatives" knowing that the former ideology was solely brought about to distroy the latter? Savage is a "Biblical Absolutist" when it fits his side of an arguement but if anyone else, as was the disagreeing Christian man who educationally deffended himself last night against Homosexuality stating both Sodom and Gomorah and the founding fathers views on the subject, which Savage also quotes endlessly and repetitivly on his show. Thus, in my sincere opinion, defeating Savage at his own arguements while ending off laughing at the fellows comment; "any Christian living on my street would do a much better job then Bush, Clinton, Carter or any other knuckle heads in Government today". Savage knew he was beaten and cut this knowledged non-Ph.D. from driving in the nail to establish an
unconditional surrender in that particular debate. Now that was one righteous Gentile. Savage too praises Rev. John Hagy who has been on his show many times but Rev. Hagy doesn't beleive in Evolution. My friend John, a Christian Zionist who follows The World Wide Church of G-d, tried to call in and tell Savage that fact, but Savage wouldn't accept his call.... What does that say?
Savage then says anyone without a PhD is ignorant, then slamming those from "Yale" who are developing American policies both internally and externally..... Are they all not PhD's as well?
Savage, in many cases is good promoting morality but is an egotistical fraud. I'll close with a very good and applicable quote to Dr. Savage's arrogance.
"But I think I detect today a certain public scepticism when intellectuals stand up to preach to us, a growing tendency among ordinary people to dispute the right of academics, writers and philosophers, eminent though they may be, to tell us how to behave and conduct our affairs. The belief seems to be spreading that intellectuals are no wiser as mentors, or worthier as exemplars, than the witch doctors or priests of old. I share that scepticism. A dozen people picked at random on the street are at least as likely to offer sensible views on moral and political matters as a cross-section of the intelligentsia. But I would go further. One of the principal lessons of our tragic century, which has seen so many innocent lives sacrificed in schemes to improve the lot of humanity is - beware intellectuals. Not merely should they be kept well away from the levers of power, they should also be objects of particular suspicion when they seek to offer collective advice. Beware committees, conferences and leagues of intellectuals. Distrust public statements issued from their serried ranks. Discount their verdicts on political leaders and important events. For intellectuals, far from being highly individualistic and non-conformist people, follow certain regular patterns of behaviour. Taken as a group, they are often ultra-conformist within the circles formed by those whose approval they seek and value. That is what makes them, en masse, so dangerous, for it enables them to create climates of opinion and prevailing orthodoxies, which themselves often generate irrational and destructive courses of action. Above all, we must at all times remember what intellectuals habitually forget: that people matter more than concepts and must come first. The worst of all despotisms is the heartless tyranny of ideas." - Dr. Paul Johnson:
"Intellectuals", Pg. 342