Evolution Before Darwin

Common knowledge tells us that creationism was the universally accepted belief before Charles Darwin came along and set the record straight. In fact, theories of evolution have been around since the very ancient world, and were part of pantheistic religions like that of ancient India.

Arguments for modern evolutionary theory trade on an equivocation: the fact that species change over time has never been disputed. Children are not identical to their parents. Yet, evolution, as described by people like Kenneth Miller, Richard Dawkins, Michael Ruse, and others is a process where nature brought about the complete diversity of life through the process of change over time. The strength of this hypothesis depends on whether you are open to supernatural explanations for the diversity of life or not. If not (and the theistic evolution movement is not), then modern evolutionary theory follows trivially. If you are open to such explanations, then modern evolution has very little going for it.

The push for acceptance of evolutionary biology is a political one. The acceptance of evolutionary biology, or even the existence of an old earth, is irrelevant to 99% of occupations. You generally don't care whether your auto mechanic believes in a 6,000 year old earth or a 4 billion year old earth. Proponents know that if they can establish modern evolutionary biology, it undermines our confidence in human uniqueness and in doctrines such as the inerrancy of the Bible, and in sex as a divinely designed activity. Acceptance of modern evolutionary biology increases society's acceptance that sex, marriage, and procreation can be separated into separate decisions, a goal of the sexual revolution movement. This is why evolution is so ardently pushed into public schools and to information storehouses such as Wikipedia. Do a search for Susan Gerbic to discover how secularists manipulate Wikipedia to serve their political ends.