Proof The Bible Is True

Editor’s Note: First published in St. Louis MetroVoice 5, no. 5 (May 1995).

 

Evolutionism is a belief system based upon the assumption that there is a purely materialistic explanation for the origin of virtually everything that ever has existed or ever will exist. The essential feature of this belief (often called materialism) is that everything in nature arose spontaneously by a process of self-transformation without the necessity of supernatural intervention. Julian Huxley once said,

 

The whole of reality is evolution, a single process of self-transformation (Evolution and Genetics, Simon & Shuster, 1955, p. 278).

 

In today’s public schools, history teachers teach how the universe evolved; earth science teachers tell how the earth evolved; biology teachers relate how living things evolved; and social studies teachers preach about how our values and religion evolved—however, students are rarely instructed in how belief in evolutionism itself evolved. To be sure, it didn’t begin with Darwin, nor was it first proposed by scientists working in the field or in the laboratory.

 

Ancient Greek philosophers were perhaps the first to clearly formulate a materialistic evolutionary concept of origins.

Ancient Greek philosophers were perhaps the first to clearly formulate a materialistic evolutionary concept of origins.

 

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