The John-Henry Westen Show - February 13, 2026


Epstein Files REVEALED： Why was he pushing evolution？


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Epstein funded research into the theory of evolution at Harvard University with a $30 million grant from Jeffrey Epstein. Why would a man like Jeffrey Epstein be so interested in promoting evolutionary theory? And why is it important to know the truth about such an important question?

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00:00:00.000 The shockwaves from the Epstein files are still reverberating around the world,
00:00:04.920 and more than 3 million documents have been released. And as people all over the world
00:00:10.720 pour over them, we are sure discover more and more about just how evil and corrupt the elites
00:00:17.480 who rule us really are. But today, I want to draw your attention to two documents that risk
00:00:23.740 getting lost amid all the other scandals. These documents concern massive sums of money that
00:00:31.260 Jeffrey Epstein invested into research into the theory of evolution. According to one of the
00:00:40.380 documents released, the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University was started with
00:00:48.560 a $30 million grant from Jeffrey Epstein. Now, it closed down in 2021 after a review by Harvard
00:00:58.280 into the extensive connections between Epstein and its director, Martin Nowak. But why would Jeffrey
00:01:06.580 Epstein be so interested in promoting research into evolution? $30 million. Well, let's begin as
00:01:17.300 you always do with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
00:01:23.060 Ghost. Amen. Dear friends, what if I told you that for many proponents of evolution, it was more
00:01:32.000 important to promote an ideology than to discover scientific truth? There is nothing surprising about
00:01:41.240 a man like Jeffrey Epstein being interested in promoting evolution. The enemies of the church
00:01:48.200 and of the Catholic moral order have always been zealously committed to propagating an explanation
00:01:57.580 for human existence that does not involve God. This is because if God does not exist, and man is the
00:02:06.060 product of an undirected process, there is no moral order in the world. That would mean that morality is
00:02:14.040 just a human construct, and the rich and the powerful, like Jeffrey Epstein, can do whatever
00:02:20.760 they want. Research into evolutionary theory may seem a noble goal after all. Isn't it important to know
00:02:29.840 the truth about such an important question? Unfortunately, for many proponents of evolution,
00:02:36.560 it is an ideology that must be defended at any cost, even if the evidence is weak and even if it's outright
00:02:46.240 fraudulent. And it's always been this way. We recently passed the 100th anniversary of the famous 1925
00:02:56.900 Scopes Monkey Trial, in which the state of Tennessee prosecuted a teacher for violating laws prohibiting
00:03:05.540 the teaching of evolution. Scopes was represented by the famous trial lawyer Clarence Darrow, and his defense
00:03:15.380 has long been presented as a heroic, a historic stand for enlightened science against Christian bigotry.
00:03:24.340 How many people know that at the trial, an expert witness called by Darrow presented as evidence
00:03:34.820 plaster casts, which were from the skull of a pre-human ancestor? Nope. They were in fact casts of
00:03:46.660 a human skull, an aragutang jaw, and chimpanzee teeth. These were the remains known now as the Piltdown Man,
00:03:56.660 supposedly the remains of an ancestor of man, but later discovered to be an intentional mix of human and
00:04:04.580 animal bones. So, the most famous defense of evolutionary science, which still is to this day boasted about, was based on an
00:04:14.580 outright fraud. While many genuine scientists had doubts about Piltdown Man from the start, others leapt at it, this discovery, which seemed to provide evidence for human evolution.
00:04:28.580 Human evolution, the willingness to believe that which proves evolution, despite the weakness of the evidence, is a phenomenon we still see today.
00:04:38.580 But first, let's take a step back and look at why so many people are committed to the idea that evolution must be true.
00:04:48.580 Throughout the centuries, since the earliest days of the human race, men and women have looked at the wonders of creation
00:04:58.580 and their hearts and minds have been drawn to God. As St. Paul wrote, the knowledge of God is clear to their minds.
00:05:06.580 God Himself has made it clear to them. From the foundations of the world, men have caught sight of His invisible nature,
00:05:14.580 His eternal power, and His divineness, as they are known through His creatures.
00:05:20.580 Read that in Romans 1, 19 and 20.
00:05:24.580 When we look out into the world, its order, its beauty, the way everything works is one harmonious system, the most reasonable conclusion is that a supreme mind is responsible for it.
00:05:38.580 This was obvious even to those thinkers of the Enlightenment who wanted to dispense with Christianity as much as possible.
00:05:46.580 Most of them even still believed in the existence of one creator God because they were otherwise unable to explain the existence of the world they observed around them.
00:05:58.580 It was only after Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution that a large number of people began to dispense with God altogether.
00:06:08.580 Richard Dawkins, the most probably famous atheist ever, said that it was the theory of evolution that made it possible to be an, I quote,
00:06:18.580 intellectually fulfilled atheist.
00:06:22.580 In this, he was correct. Evolution was the first time that there was an apparently coherent explanation for the diversity among life forms that did not require God.
00:06:34.580 As the theory of evolution spread, belief in God weakened, and immorality of every kind increased.
00:06:41.580 Evolution quickly became more than a scientific theory, it became an entire worldview.
00:06:48.580 Evolutionary ideas came to dominate every field of knowledge.
00:06:54.580 Economics, history, psychology, nothing escaped the idea that everything could be explained by processes of slow evolution,
00:07:03.580 evolution over time, from the simple to the more complex.
00:07:08.580 In the 20th century, Darwinism became the only accepted explanation for the origins and diversity of life.
00:07:16.580 It became normative in schools, and those who put forward other views were mocked and ridiculed, driven from academia.
00:07:25.580 But now, evolution faces an existential threat.
00:07:30.580 Key arguments against evolution that, for decades now, even evolutionary biologists have recognized, are coming out.
00:07:40.580 That the theory of natural selection, still taught in schools and promoted to the general public, it doesn't actually work.
00:07:47.580 So modern advances in genetics, and our greater knowledge of the complexity of living organisms, has demonstrated that it can't possibly be true.
00:07:57.580 And as the body of data that demonstrates this grows year by year, the political and scientific establishments are becoming more frantic to find new explanations that will keep the theory alive.
00:08:12.580 And that's why they were desperate enough to accept tens of millions of dollars from a man like Jeffrey Epstein.
00:08:22.580 To understand why Darwinism doesn't work, we'll need to become a little technical for a minute.
00:08:29.580 Darwin's original theory was based on his observations that species can change over time.
00:08:36.580 Now, no one doubts this is true.
00:08:38.580 We can actually see it happening in the breeding of dogs or livestock.
00:08:43.580 But what Darwin did was to extend these small changes, which were once known as adaptation and variation, or now might be called microevolution, to explain the origin of all species, including human beings.
00:08:59.580 This latter process he calls what we call macroevolution.
00:09:04.580 Darwin proposed that small changes could give a particular form an advantage over others, which would lead to them surviving and then transmitting the changed form to future generations.
00:09:18.580 He called this process natural selection, and he thought it explained the origin of different species.
00:09:25.580 Darwin knew nothing about genetics, but later generations saw the discovery of genetic mutations as a mechanism that would explain how natural selection happened.
00:09:38.580 The more recent version of the theory, called Neo-Darwinism, proposes that change takes place through random mutations of genes which confer an advantage on an organism, making it more likely to survive.
00:09:52.580 This is the version of evolution that dominates today, and which is imposed in classrooms, in university, lecture halls, all over the world.
00:10:03.580 Yet, Neo-Darwinism is now being rejected by an increasing number of leading scientists, including evolutionary biologists.
00:10:13.580 Because the more we learn about the human genome, the more impossible it is to accept.
00:10:20.580 Put simply, since the epic-making discoveries of Crick and Watson in the 1950s, we know that genes contain a code.
00:10:31.580 They contain information of extreme complexity.
00:10:36.580 Even Bill Gates, now we know as an Epstein associate, has acknowledged himself that DNA is, and I quote, far more advanced than any software ever created.
00:10:49.580 DNA contains the coding for every form of life and explains its extraordinary complexity and diversity.
00:10:58.580 But only a minuscule fraction of all the possible sequences can produce the structures that sustain the life and function of organisms.
00:11:09.580 Most changes to a sequence, even small ones, would cause it to stop functioning altogether.
00:11:18.580 It is inconceivable that the extraordinary complexity of all genetic codes, of all the millions of species that exist on Earth,
00:11:26.580 some estimate there are a hundred million different species, by the way.
00:11:31.580 It's impossible that that could all be the product of random mutations that just happen to occur in the right order at the right time.
00:11:41.580 Many geneticists point out that mutations are generally harmful, not helpful, and even that they tend toward simplicity in species, not toward complexity.
00:11:53.580 Mathematicians, on the other hand, say that even if one presumes that it is genetically possible,
00:12:00.580 there simply isn't enough time for the process to have occurred, given what we know about the frequency of mutations.
00:12:08.580 So then there's the concept of irreducible complexity.
00:12:12.580 Biologist Michael Behe has pointed out another major problem for neo-Darwinism.
00:12:18.580 When Darwin devised his theory, little was known about cells because the microscopes of Darwin's day were very limited.
00:12:27.580 But today we know even that cells are extremely complex and have many different molecular structures all operating together to sustain life
00:12:40.580 and enable the cell to fulfill its particular function.
00:12:43.580 Every single cell in the body is an amazing biological machine.
00:12:49.580 It carries out a whole range of functions.
00:12:52.580 They have even been compared to small cities with their own power plants and vehicles transporting molecules around the cell.
00:13:02.580 Darwin's theory assumes evolution takes place by small stages, but complex machines can't be built that way.
00:13:11.580 In order to work, complex machines require everything to be in place all at once.
00:13:17.580 They are systems that you can't make any simpler without destroying their function.
00:13:22.580 This is what Michael Behe calls irreducible complexity.
00:13:28.580 Behe uses the example of a mousetrap.
00:13:32.580 Each part of a mousetrap must be there and at the same time for the mousetrap to function.
00:13:41.580 If there's no spring or no piece to trap the animal, there's no mousetrap.
00:13:46.580 Darwin proposes small changes that give an evolutionary advantage, he says.
00:13:53.580 But the complex structures of a cell cannot be created by a sequence of genetic mutation
00:13:59.580 because each small change would not confer an advantage.
00:14:04.580 As scientist Stephen Meyer puts it, the intermediate stage confers no functional advantage.
00:14:13.580 Therefore, there is nothing for natural selection to select on the way from the simple to the complex.
00:14:20.580 Darwin himself wrote this, and I quote,
00:14:24.580 If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications,
00:14:36.580 my theory would absolutely break down.
00:14:39.580 And we know this is true.
00:14:41.580 There are indeed complex structures in the body of all living things which it makes no sense to propose were formed by numerous successive slight modifications.
00:14:53.580 Let's look at one of the more powerful objections to Darwin's theory, this time one that he himself was aware of.
00:15:02.580 If Darwin's theory is true, you would expect to see evidence in the fossil record of slow changes in the species taking place over time.
00:15:12.580 You would find very similar fossils showing the intermediate stages of species.
00:15:18.580 But this evidence simply doesn't exist.
00:15:22.580 Instead, the fossil record shows big leaps, plants suddenly appear, animals suddenly appear, and so on.
00:15:31.580 Darwin and the early evolutionists were aware of this problem, but hoped that over time these fossils would be found.
00:15:39.580 But nearly 200 years later, it's clearer than ever that the fossil record provides no evidence of intermediate forms at all.
00:15:51.580 In order to account for this problem, leading evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould came up with the theory of punctuated equilibrium,
00:15:59.580 which suggests evolution took place in a series of big leaps.
00:16:04.580 The problem is that no explanation has ever been provided to explain how this could happen in light of what we know about genetics.
00:16:12.580 Then there's biochemist Franklin Harold.
00:16:15.580 He's a passionate believer in evolution, and he's already acknowledged that we must concede that there are presently no detailed Darwinian accounts of the evolution of any biochemical system,
00:16:27.580 only a variety of wishful speculations.
00:16:31.580 If this is the case, why are so many people so desperate to keep Darwinism alive?
00:16:39.580 And why is it still enforced in our schools?
00:16:44.580 The answer is actually very simple.
00:16:46.580 Those who rule us want to make sure that God continues to be sidelined, excluded.
00:16:54.580 The discoveries of modern science lead us in a direction that goes straight back to God.
00:17:01.580 DNA is a code.
00:17:03.580 It is information.
00:17:04.580 And our experience tells us that information requires a mind.
00:17:10.580 Where there's a code, there is a coder.
00:17:13.580 But this is precisely what the powers who govern us are determined to avoid acknowledging.
00:17:19.580 Let's imagine for a moment a world in which the public knew that the truth, that the Darwinist hypothesis had been proven false.
00:17:28.580 First, people would feel betrayed.
00:17:31.580 They would know that our entire education system is a lie propagating as a truth, a theory known to be false.
00:17:40.580 They would wonder what else was being kept from them and what other truths were being suppressed.
00:17:46.580 But secondly, they would ask if evolution is false, how did life actually begin?
00:17:54.580 How are we to explain the incredible diversity of life on Earth and the extraordinary order and complexity it displays?
00:18:03.580 And they would discover that there is only one reasonable answer to this question.
00:18:09.580 They were made by God.
00:18:11.580 The rediscovery of the necessity of God's existence would lead to a reassessment of our society's decision to reject the claims of the Catholic Church.
00:18:23.580 To have received a revelation from God in Jesus Christ.
00:18:27.580 This would lead to a return to Jesus Christ, to His Church, to His worship, and to His law. 0.93
00:18:35.580 And that is why the evil elites who rule us will go to any length, even making it up, to keep the truth about evolution hidden.
00:18:46.580 And that's why LifeSite News and Sign of the Cross Media will continue to share the truth far and wide.
00:18:54.580 For LifeSite News and Sign of the Cross Media, I'm John Henry Weston.
00:18:56.580 And may God bless you.