April 23, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Today, in our increasingly secularized world, there’s an ongoing attack on the transcendent. We’re told the only things that exist are those we can see, touch and measure. Nothing exists beyond.
The one thing that’s held as (sort of) “transcendent” is science. A great cliché of our time is the idea of “settled science” — an assortment of theories, most of which actually aren’t all that settled, but are nonetheless put forth as the answers to everything.
This outlook is really just a twist on old-fashioned materialism, and it’s been with us for millennia. But it got a strong boost in the 19th century from Charles Darwin. His pivotal work, On the Origin of Species (1859), laid out a master plan for the evolution of living things. In reality, that plan was no plan at all. Darwin posited that every form of life evolved by sheer chance from some earlier form.
Applying the evolutionary principle, scientists have been able to explain much about our world, and made many remarkable advances. At the same time, a lot of people have drawn the false conclusion that life thus exists on its own. No superior will or intelligence
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