“Not another book on the evolution/creation debate! Hasn’t enough been said?”

Before writing this book, I often asked myself this very same question.   This controversy has gone on far too long, and has consumed more resources than I would care to imagine.   And just when there appears to be a lull in this war of ideas, another flare-up occurs.   For instance, whenever Creationists start to get a voice in the educational system in the States, the Evolutionists are there even before the first verse is quoted.   Armed with court orders, they are able to impose their beliefs on students without any consideration for basic human rights, such as the freedom of speech, or the freedom of religion.

By their actions, Evolutionists, many of whom are dedicated Christians, make Creationists feel repressed in a society that will not allow them to expresstheir beliefs in a young-earth or in the literal interpretation of the first book of the Bible.   Evolutionists make science and fundamental Christianity appear to be antithetical, promoting the dogma that science can only be understood from an evolutionary perspective.   As David Suzuki, well known for his science programs on Canadian television, has written:

“Evolution is an informative and enlightening lens under which we can scrutinize the natural world, including human history.   Denying or ignoring this theory hobbles us intellecturally to the point that it becomes virtually impossible to understand nature.”   (Science Matters Syndicated Newspaper Column, February, 2000).

So why another book on the evolution/creation debate?   Because over my years of experience as a university professor engaged in teaching and research, I have come to the realization that the Evolutionists are right about one thing.   Creation Science is religiously based, and teaching young-earth, six-day creationism in the public school system is bringing religious ideas into the classroom.   Even the concept of intelligent design, which claims that the design in nature is scientific proof of a designer, has been accused by Evolutionists as being Creation Science in disguise.

On the other hand, Evolutionists are dead wrong when they claim that the natural world can only be understood from an evolutionary perspective, and it is for this reason that this book has been written.   Its goal is to train the Creationist to stand firm on the reality of scripture, and to rid science of religious presuppositions by attacking the scientific merit of evolution, rather than promoting creationism.

This is not a book for casual reading, but an academic book aimed to teach. To facilitate learning, each chapter begins with a list of learning objectives that should be kept in mind while reading the chapter.   At the end of each chapter, there are chapter questions to help the reader remember the important points that were made. To gain the most from this book, chapter questions should be completed before proceeding to the next chapter.   These learning goals and chapter questions also permit the book to be used in group study where one or two chapters could be discussed per session.

The primary objective of the scientific study of nature is to glorify God.   Sometime in Victorian England, this objective was usurped by another religious ideology which encourages us to worship the creature rather than the creator.   Disguised as science, this ideology promotes atheism, and it needs to be confronted, head-on, by science, not religion. The aim of this book is to equip Creationists to do just that - to use the science of biology to defeat evolution.