GREAT MYTHS OF EVOLUTION #7
                           by David N. Menton
       (C) copyright 1991 Missouri Association for Creation, Inc.

 PROFESSIONAL EVOLUTIONISTS ARE OPEN TO ACTIVE HELP FROM GOD REALIZING
   THAT THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS WOULD NOT HAVE WORKED WITHOUT DIVINE
                              INTERVENTION

Creationism was ruled to be "unscientific" by Judge Overton in the
recent Arkansas Creation-Evolution trial precisely because it "involves
Divine intervention."  Evolutionists are not about to open evolutionism
to the same criticism, though some evolutionists tolerate "theistic
evolution" as a sop for those who they see as too weak to entirely
abandon their belief in the supernatural.  But what do leading
evolutionists really think about the role of God in evolution?  Dr. Carl
Sagan, perhaps the single most important voice of evolutionism,
confidently claimed in his book COSMOS (p. 177)  "the world was not made
by the gods, but instead was the work of material forces interacting in
nature."  Sagan's former teacher, the famous evolutionary astronomer
Harlow Shapely, once said "Some piously record, 'In the beginning God',
but I say, 'In the beginning hydrogen'."  The famous Harvard
evolutionist Dr. Steven J. Gould insists in his book EVER SINCE DARWIN,
that "Matter is the ground of all existence; mind, spirit, and God as
well, are just words that express the wondrous results of neuronal
(brain cell) complexity." The distinguished evolutionist Dr. George
Gaylord Simpson in his book THE MEANING OF EVOLUTION (951 P.135) claimed
that "There is neither need nor excuse for postulation of nonmaterial
intervention in the origin of life, the rise of man or any other part of
the material cosmos."  In like manner, Sir Julian Huxley explained that
"in the evolutionary pattern of thought there is no longer either need
or room for the supernatural.  The earth was not created; it evolved. So
did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, in cluding our human
selves mind, and soul as well" (EVOLUTION AFTER DARWIN, 1960, p.252).
And finally, what did Charles Darwin himself believe about the role of
God in evolution?  Darwin expert Neal Gillespie, in his book CHARLES
DARWIN AND THE PROBLEM OF CREATION (1974, p. 141), said that "Darwin
clearly rejected Christianity and virtually all conventional arguments
in defense of the existence of God and human immortality."  In his own
autobiography, Darwin admitted that his evolutionary beliefs gradually
made the Bible unbelievable to him and said "Thus disbelief crept over
me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow
that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single
second that my conclusion was correct. I can indeed hardly see how
anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true."

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