whats your position on evolution?

and you didnt answer my question as to whether you have yet read Crisis of thr Modern World...

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I am a Christian, so I am a creationist. Microevolution (adaptations within a species) but not macroevolution (one specie begets an advenced specie through random beneficial genetic mutation).

I have not read--and am not likely to read--Guenon.

ok wait a minute here... lets go back a few steps to your OP:

"😂 classical liberals (i.e., libertarians) really do **not** have a 'home' in either major political party in the U.S., do we? It's farcical 😂"

it appears here that you are saying that today's "libertarians" are really the classical liberals of yesteryear... can you elaborate on that a bit, including what era "classical liberal" you are referring to and maybe addressing a bit the confusion that might arise when viewing libertarianisms "anarchic/socialist/communist" origins relative to both Christianity and "classical liberalism" ?

Yes, some confusion is probable, since there are, within 'libertarianism' today, many flavors of 'libertarian' who would point to different origins/sources when deriving their first principles. I would refer to myself as a 'Natural Law Libertarian," I suppose. 1) there is an external natural moral order to which we must confirm; 2) it is known in the hearts of men (though frequently repressed); 3) to go beyond the natural law is unjust at best and tyrannical at worst. So 'my people' are those at, say, the Mises Institute. The form of 'classical liberalism' I mean would be from Locke, from Mises (See his book, _Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition_). For some background on how these movements have morphed and been re-named (the term 'liberal' having been stolen by the progressives a hundred years ago), you might look at Justin Raimondo, _Recovering the American Right_, or Rothbard, _The Betrayal of the Right_, among plenty others. I know--it's rich for me ask you to read these books after I said I am not likely to read the one you suggested--granted. Time is short, and I have 100+ books already on my list, most already within my own tradition, and I probably won't get to them all before I die. Point is that after years of study and thinking, I've "found my people" both theologically and politically, and now I wish to spend my time going deeper into them. As a classical liberal I am opposed both practically and morally to any forms of involuntary collectivism (socialism, communism). I think anarchism gets a bad rap and, though I'm not quite willing to wear that patch, I am certainly drawn to it--by necessity of logic. This 'brand' of anarchism only means no overarching MAN as ruler--it does not preclude all authority whatsoever. "Sphere sovereignty" comes pretty close.

Even Murray Rothbard, who was at least an agnostic, realized and promoted the idea that without some transcendent lawgiver we have no ground for our first principles. See his 'Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought' -- though he gets some basic details wrong in what we Reformed/Protestant believe, he's "directionally correct." I'm sure you've read MLK Jr's. "Letter from Birmingham Jail" that touches on some of the high points in Western history related to just vs unjust laws, and their sources.

I hope that at least approaches the question you're asking.

if you wouldn't mind, could you extract the principle from which you have arrived at rejecting evolution as they call it, and explain it to me like i am five and i have asked you "why don't you believe in evolution?"

DNA only begets DNA. This is observable in the lab. It also aligns with "fruits bearing their own seeds within them" of Scripture. Like begets like. The Biblical Adam was not merely a legendary figure, he was also purely historical. Macro evolution has never been observed in a laboratory, and there are no 'transitional forms' in the fossil record. It also defies mathematics and probability. Darwin himself said that if any organ or system or system of systems could be shown that could not have their complexity reduced "my entire system breaks down." The human eye does this, as does the requirement for all human systems (circulatory, lymphatic, musculoskeltal, cardiovascular, etc.0 to be developed to the same point, at the same time, and in the same place, in a male AND a female, such that they can actually reproduce. But mostly? Scripture doesn't allow for it. Adam was a historical person whose actions changed the state of himself and his progency from 'blessedness' to 'curse' at a particular time and place in history. Hope that answers the question.

thats how you would describe the principle to a 5-year old?

poor kid!

here is how I would:

the greater can never come from the lesser.

evolution is just an inverted perversion of The Great Chain of Being.

That is one of the benefits of reading Guenon bro... Crisis of the Modern World is only 120 pages and every page offers an immense reward for the faithful, intellectual, seeker...

I think you should not skip over the Traditionalist school if you are pursuing Truth... Along with Guenon, there is his "successor" Frithjof Schuon, and also Ananda Coomaraswamy... their influence, Guenons in particular, in relation to EVERYTHING happening in the West as far as the pushback against unhinged liberalism, cannot be overstated...

Their perspectives are unique and invaluable to the western mind, offering profound Traditional wisdom and deep takes on, well, the crisis of modernity, relative to the Traditional world.