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The Hype around "Evolutionism": Atheistic Materialism as a Religion

By Elizabeth O'Brien

OTTAWA, August 13, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In a recent column, Ottawa Citizen columnist David Warren digs at the root of the hype surrounding "evolutionism," calling it, "evolution as a religious cosmology."

In the article entitled, "The Limits of Atheism," Warren notes that whenever he writes about "evolution", he always receives a series of letters from indignant people who are "shocked and appalled that anyone would dream of challenging what they believe to be the consensus of 'qualified experts,'" respected members of the scientific community whom they believe are a "closed camp of hard-bitten materialists, with no time for religious or poetical flights."

Why do people get so upset about the issue? The answer is simple, Warren says, "People without a stake in a controversy pay little or no attention to it." He continued, "It follows that my most apoplectic correspondents have a stake in evolutionary controversies."

"They imagine themselves to have an impersonal interest in defending science against 'religious superstition,' and the dangers to society that the latter might present. They in fact have strong and uncompromising religious beliefs of their own, which they are loath to have questioned."

Michael Behe and other such scientists, who have devoted their research to examining evidence for intelligent design in the universe, are a threat to the "religious order" of atheist materialism. As a result, "Any attempt, or suspected attempt, to acknowledge God in scientific proceedings, must be exposed and punished to the limit of the law; or by other ruthless means where the law does not suffice."

Truth be told, Warren notes, some members of the Catholic Church did mistakenly condemn certain "cosmological speculations" of Galileo, although they never tried to suppress the research. Likewise, some Christians disagreed with Darwinism. He emphasizes, however, that as "we found throughout the 20th century, atheist materialism is vastly more sensitive to heresy than any previously known religious orthodoxy-as witness more than 100 million corpses it created, to enforce its doctrinal will."

Warren notes, however, that just this past week biologists debunked the "panspermian" hypothesis, the belief that the seeds of all life arrived on earth by comets, proposed by some scientists as a means to solve the mystery of the origin of life that has vexed materialistic evolutionism since its beginnings. Warren notes that this theory only transfers the problem, taking "life's origin on earth, out of the finite space and time of the earth's own geological history, and into some abstract place where the laws of chance have an infinite amount of time to do whatever is necessary." According to the most accurate dating methods, however, the universe is too young for everything that exists to have evolved by chance.

Warren concludes, "Those who refuse to acknowledge God, will not give up. Most have by now moved on to hypotheses about 'multiple universes,'" another theory that proposes an infinite number of by-definition unobservable extant universes as a way of solving the problem of the origin of life.

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Read David Warren column:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=c43112b1-d4b9-4a09-ac0f-8...

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