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will carry out these plans. This view of Darwinism had become
dominant by 1900. 9
Darwinism was not confined to the geology department, the
biology department, and the paleontology department. It
spread outward from these fields in natural science into the
social sciences and the arts. Above all, it spread into the field of
law. In 1881, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., made the evolutionary
worldview the basis of his book, The Common Law. He eventually
became a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Since 1961, a few academic Christians have begun to defend
the six-day creation in the natural sciences. The problem is,
dispensationali;m does not have a doctrine of biblical law.
Thus, there is no attempt on the part of these dispensational
six-day creationists to extend their view of origins into the social
sciences and the arts. Three decades after The Genesis Flood,
thp-e is not a single college-level textbook by a dispensationalist
that applies creationism to the social sciences, law, and the arts.
Only the Christian Reconstructionists make these applications,
precisely because they are not dispensationalists, although they
are six-day creationists. 10
The pietism and retreatism of traditional dispensationalism,
which are the inevitable products of dispensationalism’s view of
social law and the future, have paralyzed the six-day creationists
within the dispensational camp. These scholars have refused to
take the creation vs. evolution battle out of the narrow confines
of the natural sciences. Yet it was in these other academic disciplines
that nineteenth-century Darwinism created a new view of
God, man, law, and time, and a new civilization to match this
Darwinian worldview. The battle has barely begun, yet the
dispensational creationists seem almost unaware of the vast
9. Gary North, The Dominion Covenant: GenEszk (2nd cd.; Tyler, Texas: Institute
for Christian Economics, 1987), Appendix A “From Cosmic Purposelessness to
Humanistic Sovereignty.”
10. Gary North, Is the World Running Down? CnM in the Christian WWldview
(Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1988).