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Christians should realize that evolution is not part of genuine natural science, but is an excuse invented by men to reject God.
Theistic evolution: A tragic misunderstanding and grave error - By Clement A. Butel
This article directs attention to the fact that organic evolution is not a testable scientific theory. It also reveals that it is no more than a metaphysical research program1 based upon a naturalism ("nature is all there is"), which is clearly materialistic.
The program in question uses a methodology that is obviously outside the scientific method. However, it attempts to demonstrate that the facts of nature contain inferences supporting the view that man evolved from amoeba through random changes over a vast period of time. These changes, the theory asserts, were undirected and purposeless.
As shown herein, a leading evolutionist claims that despite its untestable character Darwinism comes within an extended meaning he grants to science because it adopts this methodology. However, along with all other secular evolutionists (including the National Academy for Sciences of the United States-see note 9 below), he rejects this convenient extension of the scope of natural science where inferences are drawn in favor of intelligent design from the true facts of nature, on the ground that they are not wholly naturalistic.
It is obvious that such a distinction cannot be accepted by any true Christian, who in considering the creation/evolution issue should insist that the inferences in favor of intelligent design (and therefore creation by God) should be taken into account.
The article also shows why the case for intelligent design is far superior to the case for evolutionist naturalism. Moreover, after it was written, the author's attention was drawn to a book compiled by experienced scientists, which demonstrates this by making a comparison between the inferences from the true facts of nature that may be validly drawn in favor of either research program. (See Of Pandas and People by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon, with Charles B. Thaxton as academic editor, second edition, 1993, Foundation for Thought and Ethics [a pro-family group] P.O. Box 830721, Richardson, Texas, 75083-0721, U.S.A.).