Is evolution necessarily atheistic?
These three scientific ideas subsumed within the notion of evolution do not contain any materialistic or atheistic philosophy in themselves, which is the fourth idea sometimes contained within the term evolution. This atheistic notion, which I call evolutionism, is a philosophy that claims that the material process of evolution dispenses with the need for a creator. It argues that evolution demonstrates that humans are not in any way special, that we are merely the products of a material process, and therefore are fundamentally material in nature. The science of evolution, according to this philosophy, has replaced the need for a divine creator, and postulates that there is no necessity in the emergence of humans. We would then be solely the products of material forces, and are completely contingent on them. It is therefore erroneous to believe that we somehow hold a necessary and central place in the universe in which we live, or that, by implication, we exist by the express will of a
