Scientism - an analogy

        Many of those who advocate for the theory of evolution also try to apply a strictly Western scientific process to the rest of reality, seeking to answer questions about things such as God, ethics, art, etc. This however presents a problem. Due to the naturalistic assumption that underlies and informs western scientific philosophy, the viewpoint disables and limits itself from asking certain questions and seeing certain potential answers to those questions.

The modern scientific tradition in the West begins and ends with the assumption that the only “things” that exist and are true are grounded in material and/or observable foundations. This is all good and dandy when applied to things such as biology, anatomy, or chemistry, but some have often try to extend the domain of this scientific approach to other areas of life that could potentially be beyond the reach of naturalistic scientific understanding – this approach to certain aspects of reality is called Scientism. The problem with Scientism is that it dogmatically denies the possibility of alternate answers than to the ones it presupposes.

I like to use an illustration when it comes to scientism that will demonstrate the insufficiency of a strictly materialistic scientific approach to answer the entirety of reality:

Suppose I filled a tea pot with water and put it on a stove, then turned on the gas and stepped back to let it heat up. Suppose I then asked a scientist to come over and tell me what was going on in the situation. He would probably tell me about the water molecules and how they were moving faster and faster causing friction, which translates into heated water. This, however, is not the complete story. While all that is true about the situation there is something else going on here. Simply put, I wanted a pot of hot water…

The Concept of Evolution

Suppose you were to walk into a room and someone walks up to you and shows you a magazine article on the latest supercomputer. That person goes through all the complex and amazing details about how it was designed and made by renowned scientists, and then tells you that the supercomputer was made by chance and the magazine article was telling a lie about how it was made. You would think that person was crazy, and rightly so.   Although this is an extreme example, this is what evolution says. The human cell is much more complex than even a supercomputer which itself doesn't think originally, but is programmed. Could such small chance prove to be the trillions of cells and other organisms beginning. Obviously not! There has to be a creator of some sort involved, just as someone designed and created a supercomputer. The chance of evolution happening is smaller than if you were to take all the volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and take all the letters inside, mix them up, and drop them and for them to fall in the exact words and order they originally were in inside their volumes. That is obviously impossible. There has to be someone who creates this world and everything in it.

Geologic Time Chart

The Geologic Time Chart is supposed to have many layers with organisms from simply formed at the bottom, to highly formed animals and man at the top. However, nowhere on earth has this order been found. Instead there is, around the Cambrian layer, a sudden explosion of life. Evolutionists cannot explain this. This is a vital part to evolution, and even it cannot be explained.

Did Charles Darwin and other evolutionists question the theory of evolution?

In a way they did. Charles Darwin, when talking about the complexity of the eye in his Origin of The Species, said,"To suppose that the eye....could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." Sir Arthur Keith, another evolutionist said,"Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable." There are other quotes like these; this must show that it is impossible for even the most knowledgeable evolutionists to prove that evolution actually occurred.