Creationism - National Center for Science Education

Randall Hedtke, in his 1983 book The Secret of the Sixth Edition (about Darwin’s
Origin), argues that Darwin followed an obsolete pre-Baconian, pre-Cartesian scientific
ethod, “overloading” facts in order to fit pre-conceived philosophies, and shunning
experiment. Darwin was thus not a true scientist, but rather a biased propagandist.
It all comes down to this: Evolutionary theory, allegedly one of the greatest scientific theories of all times,
the foundation for many philosophies, religions, and political systems, is merely a metaphor “proved” by an
analogy, an abomination of science. Those who believe it have been over-influenced by the clever
persuasion tactics of a natural philosopher.
Even psychic and occultic evolutionists embrace this Baconian philosophy of
science. Max Heindel, in The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, or Mystic Christianity
(1973; orig. 1909), flatly asserts that “Science merely states the facts; the occult scientist
gives the reason.” The correct—occult—interpretation of the facts is that we evolve to
higher consciousness in each successive cosmic Epoch, but that within each Epoch
organic forms degenerate. Non-occultic evolutionary theory has it backwards: “modern
evolutionary theory—would, if it were completely reversed, be in almost perfect accord
with the knowledge of occult science.”
FACT VERSUS THEORY
The stated abhorrence of speculative theories and philosophies, and the insistence
on straightforward, uninterpreted facts, is illustrated in the title of an 1855 book by David
N. Lord: Geognosy; or the Facts and Principles of Geology Against Theories. The
biblical account of creation is factual; modern geological theories are not: “The
Geological Theory Contradicts the Sacred History of the Creation,” says Lord. Lord
denounces doctrines “openly hostile to revelation” featured in popular education, which
are “masked under the form of facts or truths of natural science...”
W.R. Gordon rails against liberal and atheistic theologians and geologists in The
Science of Revealed Truth Impregnable as Shown by the Argumentative Failures of
Infidelity and Theoretical Geology (1878), a book based on his lectures at the Theological
Seminary of Rutgers College (N.J.). He denounces “theoretical” geology—such as that
espoused by Darwinists—as opposed to true geology, which is based an solid fact.
Sir John William Dawson, who claims the Bible avoids all theorizing, emphasizes
the difference between Facts and Fancies in Modern Science in his 1882 book of that
title. In Nature and the Bible (1875), Dawson wrote:
Perhaps there can be no surer test of a true revelation from God than to ask the question, Does it refuse to
commit itself to scientific or philosophical hypotheses, and does it grasp firmly those problems most
important to man as a spiritual being and insoluble by his unassisted reason? This non-committal attitude
as to the method of nature and the secondary causes of phenomena is, as we shall see, eminently
characteristic of the Bible. [Quoted in Ramm 1954:47]
William Bell Dawson, Sir John’s son, agrees that the Bible is factually—
scientifically—accurate. It is for this reason—not in spite of it—that the Bible avoids all
theory. In The Bible Confirmed by Science he says: