Page 18 - The Religion of Darwinism

16

4
belief"; the outstanding Harvard evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr
5
calls it "man's world view today." Sir Julian Huxley, probably the
most prominent evolutionist of the 20th century, saw evolution as "a
universal and all-pervading process" and, in fact, nothing less than
"the whole of reality." 6 A leading evolutionary geneticist of the
present day, writing an obituary for Theodosius Dobzhansky (who
himself was probably one of the leading evolutionists at the time of
his death in 1975), says that Dobzhansky's view of evolution followed
that of de Chardin. Karl Popper, one of the world's leading
philosophers of science, has stated that evolution is not a scientific
theory but a metaphysical research program. 7 Following these
definitions, H.S. Lipson has reached the following conclusion:
In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all
scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their
observations to fit in with it. 8
When the aforementioned authorities
discuss Darwinism, it is interesting to note the
words and expressions they use. They make no
reference to any mathematically or scientifically
proven evidence by experiment or observation to
support their assertions. Instead, they
offer strange descriptions, calling
evolution "the whole of reality," "an
all-pervading process," "a light
which illuminates all facts."
No one makes such dogmatic
assertions, metaphysical inter-

Top left: Theodosius Dobzhansky
Top right: Ernst Mayr
Bottom: Karl Popper

THE RELIGION OF DARWINISM