Evolution answers the same questions that all religions ask: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? What do we do on the way? Thus, it is the religious foundation of anti- Biblical worldviews.

For several decades now the evolutionists’ magnificent deception, “Evolution is science, but Creation is religion,” has succeeded in keeping creation-science alternatives to Darwinism out of our science classrooms. Thus, Darwinism is considered to be fact, not only in science classrooms, but in all other classrooms as well. Consequently, naturalistic materialism, based on Darwin’s speculations (falsely called theory), has overtaken our culture and led to the 20th century’s philosophical justification for eugenics, abortion, Nazism, Marxism, and all the other horrors resulting from such an anti-Biblical worldview. Unless this deplorable state of affairs is soon reversed, tyranny will inevitably follow. As William Penn observed, “He who will not be ruled by God will be ruled by tyrants.”

Creationists, however, hold the keys to a more optimistic future. Until recently we have been battling this naturalistic trend with only one arm, the arm demonstrating that Creation is not just religion, but good science. We need to unleash the power of the other arm, the arm demonstrating that Evolution is not just science, but anti-Biblical religion. Evolution’s own proponents give us fodder for debate. For example, Thomas Henry Huxley, “Darwin’s Bulldog,” was also called Pope Huxley. He personalized nature as “fairly just and patient” and “a strong angel who is playing for love,” and he described humanism as “The New Divinity.” His grandson, Sir Julian Huxley, who was elected the first Director-General of UNESCO in 1946, conceded that Evolution is “something in the nature of a religion.” Interestingly his brother, Aldous Huxley, confirmed William Penn’s above quotation in his satirical novel, Brave New World (1923), which, according to The World Book Encyclopedia (1969, Vol. 9, p. 405), “describes a totalitarian society that disregards individual dignity and worships science and machines.”

A more contemporary example, one of many who admit that Evolution is a religion, is Michael Ruse, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. In 1981 he testified in the McLean v. Arkansas trial in which Judge William Overton ruled that Arkansas’ “Balanced Treatment Act” was unconstitutional. The centerpiece of his ruling was Dr. Ruse’s testimony that Creation Science was not science at all, and that Darwinism was scientific. Since then, in an article, titled “Ruse Gives Away the Store,” by Tom Woodward (published by Christian Leadership Ministries), the author quotes Dr. Ruse thus: “Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion --- a full-fledged alternative to Christianity with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit in this one complaint . . . the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of Evolution in the beginning, and it is true of Evolution still today.”

There are two categories of science: operational science and origins science. Operational science is how we use the scientific method with the facts of science in laboratories and daily living; origins science uses untestable speculations to determine origins. Being untestable, both Creation and Evolution are really not operational science but philosophies underlying various religions, whether Biblical or anti-Biblical. Evolutionists have known this from the beginning and have succeeded in keeping it under wraps for the most part, but, sadly, we creationists are Johnny-come-latelies to this realization, and many of our Christian brethren don’t know it yet. Creation is no more religious than Evolution, and Evolution is no more scientific than Creation; Creation is no less scientific than Evolution, and Evolution is no less religious than Creation. Both Creation and Evolution are origins sciences and deserve equal treatment in our classrooms.

Come hear Dr. Henry Morris, III, ICR Executive Vice President for Strategic Ministries. He is a son of Dr. Henry M. Morris who wrote the book, The Long War Against God, which demonstrates that evolutionary naturalism has existed as a philosophy since Babylon. Dr. Morris, III, will address this topic, showing its impact on God’s people over the centuries.