The Way Forward

In his book Defeating Darwinism by Opening Minds, Phillip Johnson described three ways he has seen people who have professed Christian beliefs handle the dispute between Darwinism and Christianity. One could simply apostasize and embrace full-throated naturalism by deciding that naturalism provides the best description of reality, overthrowing any pretense to maintaining Christian conviction. One could also try to reshape Christianity according to naturalism, accommodating Christianity by jettisoning the miraculous and other supernatural aspects of biblical Christianity. This is theological liberalism. Or one could become a fideist, the epistemological equivalent of holding one's hands over one's ears and shouting down opposing ideas--believe despite everything. This may seem attractive at first but is intellectual suicide and actually disobedience to God, who has commanded us to "take every thought captive" (2 Corinthians 10:5).

And that is the key to the real way forward. We do what Paul says and take on the philosophies of the age, expose them, and defeat them. We do not simply roll over and accept the soothing public pronouncements of the science educators. We ask the hard questions, both of them and of their facilitators in the media.

It might seem a daunting, impossible task. Yet the three "titans" of modernism were Darwin, Marx, and Freud. Two have already fallen. If the evidence continues to mount up as it has against Darwinism, how long can it stand?