Is evolution science? Well, the answer is yes and no. There are two basic categories that we can divide science into. One is experimental science and the other is historical science.
Experimental science deals with observable and testable phenomena in the present. Experimental science is the search for cause and effect relationships in nature. In this endeavor scientists intentionally alter one or more factors under controlled conditions and then study the effects of doing so. This is the classic example of applying the scientific method to a set of observations.
The problem for evolution is that it is not experimental science since it is not observable or testable. Evolutionists want you to believe that they can gather evidence from the real world and infer how things work. They want you to believe that they can go back several billion years and determine cause and effect but have no evidence to support their theory. Since evolutionists believe in naturalism they are forced to exclude God from their hypothesis and by definition are left with evolution being the only game in town regardless whether the facts support their conclusion.
Historical science, however, investigates past events. The scientific method does not apply in these cases since when investigating origins, no one was there to see it, and experiments aren’t possible to repeat it. Evolution clearly falls under this category of science and by definition can’t utilize the scientific method to validate its theory.
When most scientists shift from studying experimental science to historical science they bring their rule for naturalism with them – the assumption that there is no God. This is a pre-supposition, or bias, and is not the way real science should operate. Real science follows the evidence wherever it leads even if this means that a supernatural cause is behind the creation of the universe and mankind. In fact, the Bible says that the evidence is clear cut that an all-powerful God is behind the creation of everything – not evolution. For we read: “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20).
Sadly, evolution is often presented as a fact proven by science. If this is the case we should be able to cite lots of scientific evidence to prove that evolution is a fact. However, when questioned scientists have very little evidence to support this claim.
Christians don’t support evolutionary science because quite frankly evolutionary science is bad science with no scientific evidence to support it. Evolutionists want you to believe that their theory of molecules to man is scientific. However, since there is no known observable process by which new genetic information can be added to an organism’s genetic code the fact of evolution is clearly wishful thinking and not science.
Another problem with evolution is that life has never been observed to come from non-life. And if you can’t even get non-life to produce a simple organism like an amoeba how in the world can we expect an ultra-complex organism such as man to evolve if we can’t even get a simple single cell organism in the beginning.
Could it just be that the Bible has a better answer? Could it just be that an all-powerful supernatural God is behind the whole creation process and that what the Bible says about God creating from nothing each life according to its kinds, each with its own set of genetic information, is how life came about?
The Bible says in (Psalm 19:1): “The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.” Evolutionists refuse to acknowledge this but contend that, “nobody times nothing equals everything?”
In summary, evolution is not experimental science but historical science and since, according to evolution the first life came about several billions years ago, it must be accepted totally by faith. But if scientists with all their knowledge can’t create living systems in the laboratory why should we believe that mindless matter did?
Of your devotions I’ve read, this is the best of the lot. You’ve hit the nail on the head when you claim that the evolutionist brings to the debate his “assumptions,” “presuppositions,” and “bias.” Those make up his worldview.
You properly state that in the face of what is “clearly seen” and “understood,” they “refuse” to accept the evidences of God’s person and plan both internally and externally. This is the child trying to slap God in the face, all the while sitting in His lap. Their refusals are a suppression of truth, sitting on the volleyball under the water with all their might (presuppositions of suppression), only to have it pop up because the opposing pressure is too much to hold it down (clearly seen and understood).
I might be less charitable when describing their belief as “wishful thinking.” The evolutionist is “without excuse” and God’s wrath is on his head. God “gave them up” in their enmity and disobedience to His will. These are not wishful thinkers but active rebels who have made it their goal to be God, just like the original sin of Adam and Eve. As you quoted in a previous article, they work overtime to make sure they do not let the Devine foot in the door.
This is a keeper and should be read over and over again until its truth and logic sink in.
Isn’t it a blessing to have been given the gift of repentance that we may know the truth? We pray nothing less for our evolutionist friends.