Creationism - National Center for Science Education

In a book on astronomy, John Whitcomb and Donald DeYoung write:“The issues
are, at bottom, moral and ethical, rather than merely academic and intellectual,” (1979).
Francis Schaeffer, an influential fundamentalist philosopher and theologian,
argues in How Should We Then Live? (1983) that our life and culture has degenerated to
the extent that we have forsaken Christian ethics, morality and belief. In one chapter,
Schaeffer explains that the rise of science was due to Christianity, and in another, that
“The Breakdown in Philosophy and Science” was caused by evolutionism and the
destructive philosophies it has spawned.
The Crime of Being Alive, an anti-abortion tract (reprinted from Last Days
Newsletter) co-authored by Melody Green, a prominent anti-abortion activist often seen
in the company of President Reagan, compares abortion explicitly with Hitler’s policies,
both of which are based on Darwinism. “If man evolved, then he is a mere animal. His
value is determined strictly by what he can offer society. If man is created in the image
and likeness of God, his value is determined by his Creator” (1984).
In Can America Survive the Fruits of Atheistic Evolution? (1981), a tract widely
distributed by Pro-Family Forum, an active supporter of the recent Louisiana creationscience
bill (they submitted several written arguments to the court), author Bert
Thompson of Apologetics Press (Reason & Revelation) declares that its fruits are Nazism
and communism.
Evolution is built upon the assumption that man is only an animal; consequently, morals and values are
useless and not to be incorporated into the system... Evolution, though its advocates do not like to admit it,
leads to out-and-out racism... America’s ruin will be hot on the heels of the popular acceptance of
evolution.
Prominent Florida televangelist D. James Kennedy calls evolution “the big lie-.the
most destructive, pernicious lie that has ever come down the pike... It has already
resulted in the deaths of more people than have been killed in all of the wars in the
history of mankind” (1977:1). Kennedy proclaims that evolution is the basis of every
false and evil doctrine in sight. To the evolutionist: “life has no meaning. It is just
haphazard chance... Life has no values and there is no basis for any moral standards”
(1987:12).
Walter Lang answers the charge that injecting religion and morality into science
will ruin its objectivity by insisting that when doing science, not only nature’s contraints,
but God’s moral constraints must always be observed.
Obviously there has to be a balance between nature and moral constraints, but today we have lost the
balance, by despising the moral constraints that are necessary for nature, and claiming that they are not only
unimportant but even damaging. Because we have neglected and avoided these moral constraints, for that
reason we have this greatest of all paganisms in the history of the world, this greatest of all deceptions and
myths, namely, mega-evolution; the idea that the world is billions of years old and that we came from
lower forms of life. [1986:5]