Evolutionary Biologists Have Been Able To Pretend

The Restriction Of Religion To Private Life Therefore Does Not Necessarily Threaten The Vital Interests Of The Majority Religion, If There Is One, And It Protects Minority Religions From Tyranny Of The Majority.

Some Theists In Evolutionary Science Acquiesce To These Tacit Rules And Retain A Personal Faith While Accepting A Thoroughly Naturalistic Picture Of Physical Reality.

Science...has Become Identified With A Philosophy Known As Materialism Or Scientific Naturalism. This Philosophy Insists That Nature Is All There Is, Or At Least The Only Thing About Which We Can Have Any Knowledge. It Follows That Nature Had To Do Its Own Creating, And That The Means Of Creation Must Have Included Any Role For God.

The Assumption That Nature Is All There Is, And That Nature Has Been Governed By The Same Rules At All Times And Places, Makes It Possible For Natural Science To Be Confident That It Can Explain Such Things As How Life Began.

Darwinism Is Not Merely A Support For Naturalistic Philosophy: It Is A Product Of Naturalistic Philosophy.