If We Understand Our Own

In Short, It Is Not That Evolutionary Naturalists Have Been Less Brazen Than The Scientific Creationists In Holding Science Hostage, But Rather That They Have Been Infinitely More Effective In Getting Away With It.

Modernist Discourse [...] Incorporates Semantic Devices - Such As The Labeling Of Theism As 'religion' And Naturalism As 'science' - That Work To Prevent A Dangerous Debate Over Fundamental Assumptions From Breaking Out In The Open.

First, Darwinian Theory Tells Us How A Certain Amount Of Diversity In Life Forms Can Develop Once We Have Various Types Of Complex Living Organisms Already In Existence.

Science...has Become Identified With A Philosophy Known As Materialism Or Scientific Naturalism. This Philosophy Insists That Nature Is All There Is, Or At Least The Only Thing About Which We Can Have Any Knowledge. It Follows That Nature Had To Do Its Own Creating, And That The Means Of Creation Must Have Included Any Role For God.

The Restriction Of Religion To Private Life Therefore Does Not Necessarily Threaten The Vital Interests Of The Majority Religion, If There Is One, And It Protects Minority Religions From Tyranny Of The Majority.