Doubting Darwin

National | Biblical creationists could learn a lesson from Darwinists

What is evolution? Does it simply mean that plants and animals can adapt to changing circumstances? Or does it mean birds descend from dinosaurs and people from apes?

Did life arise spontaneously when clusters of molecules somehow devised ways to increase their complexity and to reproduce their kind? If so, where is a role for God in any of this?

John Wiester, a science instructor at Biola University and Westmont College and chairman of the Science Education Commission of the American Scientific Affiliation, has been asking questions like these for more than a decade. Mr. Wiester is especially concerned by what students are taught about evolution. "What we're talking about here is Darwinian fundamentalism," he observes. "The Darwinists teach their ideology-that we are the result of purposeless, accidental forces-as science. This is a tragedy for authentic science and rational thought."

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