Evolution means several things and must be examined in its context in each appearance. One meaning is "to change." We can speak of a baseball team's "evolution" from a poor team to a championship caliber team. Evolution is also the belief, not "fact" as Stephen Gould has supposed when he spoke of the "fact" of evolution akin to the fact of gravity, that the universe and life on this planet sprang up and rose to existence by natural processes we can discover and which do not owe their control to any divine being. Most evolutionists are atheists or atheist humanists and this is because while evolution is not apparent as they think, it is believed by them because, after all, according to their philosophy there is no god that could do any creating. Evol

Evolution carries with it a philosophical system known by many names, including "naturalism" and "materialism." Furthermore, evolution is believed most often by those who adhere to a certain philosophical frame of thought. In this system of thought man is "morally free" to do as he pleases as long as his fellows agree. You need not obey a God, but only obey yourself (or the people in charge). Atheist evolutionists acknowledge this and show great fear when their philosophical base is threatened.

I'll start with comments from Corliss Lamont who states that humanism "believes in a naturalistic metaphysics or attitude toward the universe that considers all forms of the supernatural as myth." Nature is "the totality of being," and is a "constantly changing system of matter and energy which exists independently of any mind or consciousness." Metaphysics is a way of looking at existence and our place in the universe, a subject that is not approachable through the ordinary physical sciences. It is also a way of viewing man

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