Is Darwinism basically Atheism?
In 1874, the great Presbyterian theologian Charles Hodge asked the question I have asked: What is Darwinism? After a careful and thoroughly fair-minded evaluation of the doctrine, his answer was unequivocal: “It is Atheism.” Another way to state the proposition is to say that Darwinism is the answer to a specific question that grows out of philosophical naturalism. In analogy with the game of “Jeopardy”, let us say that Darwinism is the answer. What, then, is the question? The question is: “How must creation have occurred if we assume that God had nothing to do with it?” Theistic evolutionists accomplish very little by trying to Christianize the answer to a question that comes straight out of the agenda of scientific naturalism. What we need to do instead is to challenge the assumption that the only questions worth asking are the ones that assume that naturalism is true.
