A number of years ago the conservative Presbyterian Church in America (“PCA”) denomination went through a tumultuous battle on the issue of creation and evolution. Regretfully, the compromise position with evolution made significant headway, and defenders of the historical position on six-day creation were defeated in their efforts to maintain as a position of orthodoxy, the historical, grammatical approach to interpreting the Genesis account of origins. The fruit of such compromises continue to work themselves out in the American church. Now a member of the same PCA denomination has made the news with his own attempt to advance evolutionism in the government schools by making it “less offensive” to the religious belief of students.

This past weekend The Birmingham News published a story on UAB professor Lee Meadows—a professing Christian—who has recently published a book entitled “Missing Link”— a textbook on how to teach evolution to middle school and high school children without offending their religious beliefs.

To justify his position Professor Meadows borrows from the same neutrality postulate advanced by leading atheists and agnostics when defending the legitimacy of evolution—namely, the myth that evolution is about science, and creation is about religion. The idea here is that science (and the scientists who are advancing evolution) are free from faith assumptions, that their conclusions are based on reason and factual analysis, and are unimpaired by religious presuppositions. This is why Professor Meadows is comfortable repeating the mantra so often recited by atheists that “creationism...is inherently religious,” but evolution is about pure science.

And this is precisely the untruth which the film The Mysterious Islands addresses. It is not accidental that for the last century and a half the leading proponents of evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to Julian Huxley to Richard Dawkins are some of the most notorious blasphemers and God-haters of their respective generations—their theory of origins, like their view of Christianity, are driven by deeply-held, unprovable, faith-driven, religious commitments about the universe, the authority of man’s autonomous reason, and the nature of reality itself.

And the more they proclaim their own neutrality, and the objectivity of their self-destructing theory of evolution, the sillier they look. The truth is this: brute factuality does not exist—all facts must be interpreted. Every scientist (both creationist and evolutionist) bring a priori, faith driven assumptions to the table when they interpret facts. The Mysterious Islands examines the way the faith assumptions of evolutionists condition their interpretation of the data. It also draws from Darwin’s own testimony of anti-biblical prejudice which he brought to the Galapagos to demonstrate that he reached the wrong conclusions, not because he lacked facts, but because his faulty (and highly religious) assumptions drove his interpretation of the facts.

Click here to read the rest of the article. The article, which references our premiere of The Mysterious Islands in Alabama, appears to be a response to the success of the film premiere, by attempting to show that not all Christians oppose evolution.