Title: Secular Science
Headings: Secular Science
Secular Science
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Rendered with permission from the book, Understanding the Times: The Collision of Todays Competing Worldviews (Rev. 2 nd ed), David Noebel, Summit Press, 2006. Compliments of John Stonestreet, David Noebel, and the Christian Worldview Ministry at Summit Ministries. All rights reserved in the original.
1 George Gaylord Simpson, The Meaning of Evolution (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1971), 345.
2 Humanist Manifesto I (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, [1933] 1980), 8.
3 Humanist Manifesto II (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, [1973] 1980), 17.
4 Paul Kurtz, Humanist Manifesto 2000 (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000), 43.
5 Julian Huxley, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1942), 457.
6 However, Humanists accept both the Big Bang, a one-time event, and spontaneous generation as science.
7 Ashley Montagu, ed., Science and Creationism (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1984), 183. For an in-depth study on the politicization of science and how Humanists use science to stifle dissent see Tom Bethel’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2005).
8 Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York, NY: Random House, 1980), 27.
9 Julian Huxley, “At Random,” a television preview on Nov. 21, 1959. Also, Sol Tax, Evolution of Life (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1960), 1.
10 Paul Kurtz, ed., The Humanist Alternative (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1973), 110. Two interesting developments since Flew made these remarks: (a) Dr. Flew has left his atheistic position for some form of Deism, (b) the Roman Catholic Church since the death of Pope John Paul II has staked out a more creationist position.
11 Julian Huxley, “At Random,” a television preview on Nov. 21, 1959.
12 Stephen C. Meyer, “Intelligent Design: The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories,” Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington vol. 117, no. 2 (November 30, 2005): 213–239. Available online at http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2177.
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Content: Because, as we have noted, science cannot observe or measure the supernatural and therefore is incapable of obtaining any knowledge about it. But by this definition science cannot render judgment on the theory of evolution, either. That is because one-time-only historical events, such as the origin of life, fall outside the parameters of the scientific method. The reason: such events cannot be repeated, observed, tested, or falsified. 6 Accordingly, neither creationism nor evolution is strictly “scientific.” Still, Humanists insist that evolutionary theory is scientific and the idea of a Grand Designer is not. Just how closed-minded the Humanists are toward creation is summed up by Isaac Asimov: “ To those who are trained in science, creationism seems like a bad dream, a sudden reliving of a nightmare, a renewed march of an army of the night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.” 7
Secular Science – Evolution as “Fact”
Secular Science is grounded in Darwinian Evolution.