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: 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. Carl Sagan states simply, “Evolution is a fact, not a theory.” 8 Huxley claims, “The first point to make about Darwin’s theory is that it is no longer a theory, but a fact...Darwinianism has come of age so to speak. We do no longer have to bother about establishing the fact of evolution.” 9 Antony Flew is scandalized by the notion that there was a time, “unbelievably,” when the Vatican questioned “the fact of the evolutionary origin of the species.” 10
Thus, Humanists claim that the fact of evolution relates to changes within a species (microevolution) as well as macroevolution, or the transmutation of species.