What is a rational response to naturalistic Darwinian Dogmatism?
What we need to do is to challenge the assumption that the only questions worth asking are the ones that assume that naturalism is true. It is worthwhile for us to recognize that Micro-Evolution is Empirical. Macro-Evolution is not empirical. Darwinism is a theory of empirical science only at the level of microevolution, where it provides a framework for explaining such things as the diversity that arises when small populations become reproductively isolated from the main body of the species. As a macro-evolutionary general theory of biological creation Darwinism is not empirical at all. Rather, it is a necessary implication of an essentially Atheistic philosophical doctrine called scientific naturalism, which is based on the atheist-faith-based a priori assumption that God was always absent from the realm of nature. End Notes This FAQ is adapted from a lecture by Prof. Phillip E. Johnson from the University of California, Berkeley. 1. Niles Eldredge, Time Frames (Heinemann, 1986), 144
