Is evolutionary theory a worldview (Weltanschauung)?
According to many fundamentalist Christians, especially those in the field of creation “science” or intelligent design “theory”, it is. But evolution is just a theory, like the theory of gravitation, or quantum theory, or the theory of plate tectonics… yet one rarely (if ever) hears about a “gravitational worldview” or a “plate tectonic worldview.” There seems to be a basic misunderstanding in the Creationist camp about exactly what evolution is and is not, and because of those misunderstandings, evolution is misconstrued as being a comprehensive worldview. The goal of this misconstruction is to attempt to invalidate evolution because it is inadequate as a worldview. I propose that since evolutionary theory is not, in fact, a worldview, it is unreasonable to invalidate its findings by that method.
