WHY IS EVOLUTION BELIEVED?
It is sometimes asked: �Why do so many educated people believe in evolution?� Dr. Henry Morris, who was once an evolutionist himself, gives
this concise and revealing answer: The writer is convinced, from having discussed the subject with hundreds of people, that the main reason
most educated people believe in evolution is simply because they have been told that most educated people believe in evolution. Very rarely is
such a person able to do more than repeat a few stock �evidences for evolution,� and almost never has he given any really serious consideration
to the question of their real implication. 1
From all outward appearance it would appear that the majority of educated people tend to believe in some kind of evolution. However, as
Dr. Morris implies, this widespread acceptance is not altogether based on objective thinking. In their book, Why Scientists Accept Evolution,
Doctors R.T. Clark and James D. Bales say: �Evolution is taken for granted today and thus it is uncritically accepted by scientists as well as by
laymen. It is accepted by them today because it was already accepted by others who went before them and under whose direction they obtained
their education.�2 Again, they note: �So widely accepted is the doctrine of evolution that it is received by each oncoming generation for the
simple reason that each generation finds that evolution is a part of the scientific world outlook in which it is reared.�3
There is a strong trend in most educated circles to lean toward evolution even if one does not actually believe it. Clark and Bales mention
further that �the tendency to conformity is so great that...there are many people who will call white black in order to be in step with the times.�4
Dr. Thomas Dwight observes: �How very few of the leaders in the field of science dare to tell the truth as to the state of their own minds! How
many feel themselves forced in public to do lip service to a cult that they do not believe in!�5 Also, belief in evolution has apparently come
about due to an anti-religious, anti-Biblical bias. This does not mean that all evolutionists hold to this bias; no doubt some have honestly endeavored
to discover answers to questions about life without reflecting on God or the Bible. And, yet, among the vast majority of evolutionists
there is an undertone of resentment toward the Bible, especially the Biblical account of creation.
As far back as the days of Darwin this trend was apparent. T.H. Huxley, Darwin�s peer, said Darwin�s The Origin of Species was �anti-genesis.�
6 The ardent evolutionist Sir Arthur Keith declared: �Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it because the only alternative
is special creation and that is unthinkable.�7 Again, Huxley says: �It is clear that the doctrine of evolution is directly antagonistic to that of
creation. Evolution, if consistently accepted, makes it impossible to believe the Bible.�8 The third annual report of the American Association
for the Advancement of Atheism, strong backers of evolution, said: �Evolution is atheism.�9 Dr. L.T. More of the University of Cincinnati said:
�Our faith in the idea of evolution depends on our reluctance to accept the antagonistic doctrine of special creation.�10 Dr. Theodore Schwarze
of New York University, pointedly states that evolution is �accepted by scholars and scientists because it categorically denies the word of God,
which they hate.�11 In his work, Evolution and the New Inquisition, Bales states: �If one is acquainted with the background of Darwin and
other evolutionists in the nineteenth century, he will realize that they accepted evolution not because scientific evidence proved it, but because
they had rejected the idea of creation by God, and had determined that all must be explained naturally.�12
Creation is the only alternative to evolution, and since supporters of the theory view the Biblical narrative as untenable, they are compelled to
turn to evolution.
