Creationism - National Center for Science Education

mysticism or Scientific Creationism? The answer is obvious. The New Age mystics allow secular
humanists to retain the heart of their Darwinian religion: human autonomy.
Christians need a better alternative than historical despair, both for themselves and for their presentation
of Christ’s gospel of redemption. We are at war with post-Darwinian evolutionism, and this war
encompasses every area of life. Very few Christians recognize the comprehensive, literally life-and-death
nature of this war, including members of the Scientific Creation movement…
This indicates that the vast majority of Christians still do not believe that the doctrine of the six-day
creation is relevant for Christian spiritual life. There is a reason for this: Scientific Creationists have
written virtually nothing on how and why the doctrine of the six-day creation must reshape all of modern
Christian theology and the entire Christian way of life. Christians have not been shown clearly and
decisively that Darwinism is a total worldview, and that by accepting any aspect of this worldview,
Christians compromise and weaken the presentation of the Christian worldview, as well as risk disobeying
God. They have not been shown how evolutionism spreads like cancer from the geology or history
textbook to every area of personal ethics and public policy. Worse, they have not been shown why and
how six-day creationism leads to a fundamentally unique worldview that encompasses things other than
academic topics like historical geology and biology. To win the battle with Darwinism, which is above all
a comprehensive worldview justifying comprehensive power, six-day creationists must believe that the
stakes are far larger than mere laboratory experiments or one-evening debates. Creation scientists must
demonstrate that six-day creationism really makes a difference in every area of life…
The only people who seem to understand how much of a threat the six-day creation doctrine is to all of
modern secular humanism are the best-informed secular humanists on one side and the Christian
Reconstructionists on the other. The secular humanists reject the conclusions of the Scientific Creationists,
and argue that the creationists’ official methodology (the appeal to scientific neutrality) is a charade, while
the Christian Reconstructionists accept the creationists’ conclusions but reject their methodology as selfdeception
rather than a charade. [1988:xiii-xv]
Gary DeMar’s American Vision publishes The Biblical Worldview. A recent
article, explaining how the Bible was to be applied to education, criticized the ICR-style
“twomodel” approach:
We must not encourage [students] to doubt God or to question Him. Neither should we encourage the
students to set themselves up as judges over the Word of God. Unfortunately, the current “creationscience”
movement falls into this error (among others). According to this view, the students are to be
presented with the evolutionary view of origins and the creationist view (which is totally divorced from
God and His Word), and allowed to make up their own minds as to which is true and which is false. In
effect, students are being told, “Here are two guesses about origins: one is prevalent among modern
scientists, and the other comes from the Bible (although we won’t tell you that). You decide if God is right
or if He is wrong.” We must soundly reject such an approach. God does not call upon us to judge His
Word; His Word judges us, and determines whether or not we are faithful to Him. We must reject the
“creation-science” approach to science. (Let me add that much of the work of creation scientists is very
helpful; I am merely speaking here of the recommended methodology of teaching creationism in the
schools.) [R. Kirby 1989:6]
We should declare, says the author, that the reason we do not believe in evolution is
because the Bible teaches creationism, not because evolution is unscientific (though that
is true too).
The Plymouth Rock Foundation has organized “Committees of Correspondence”
(named after Revolutionary War-era patriot groups) nationwide to reclaim America for
Christ. (Curiously, the organized anti-creationist information network, which pre-dates
the Plymouth Rock groups, also calls their local groups “Committees of
Correspondence”). Rus Walton, leader of Plymouth Rock, includes a chapter “Evolution
vs. Creation” in his book Biblical Principles Concerning Issues of Importance to Godly
Christians (1984). Teaching only the evolution view, says Walton, violates the religious