There are two ways something can be become above reproach. Either it is so strong that no one dares to confront it or it is so weak that no one is allowed to question it. Either it is so exalted that no one can reach it or it is so vulnerable that no one is permitted to touch it. The theory of evolution is of the second variety. It is weak and vulnerable. Thus it is considered beyond reproach to keep it from being exposed. It is the great and powerful Oz putting on a show. Darwin is the man behind the curtain. Honest questions cannot be asked of it. Sincere criticisms cannot be levied against it. Serious inquiries cannot be made into it. It has hardened into a creed. It is cold and calloused.
"Materialism is really our established Church; for the Government will really help it to persecute its heretics." — G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils
Evolution is the confession of the modern world. If you do not recite it, you are excommunicated from academia. If you deny it, you are anathema. You are barred from the intellectual table and forced to wear the scarlet letter, which in this case ironically means not being allowed or permitted to have their letters of recommendation behind your name on your business cards. You cannot be accredited without committing to the creed of blind chance over time being our faithful guide.
"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is sceptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it." — G.K. Chesterton
People are not too quick to throw shade as they are too quick to adopt liturgies. The modern world is chock full of catechisms, creeds, blasphemy laws, sacraments, tithes, and sermons. They persist in ignorance to this even while wearing the priestly garments.
“What is Darwinism? It is atheism.” — Charles Hodge
Evolution is a religion. It is the god of chance going to war with the God of order. It is, as we have noted many times before, Christ or chaos.
"Reform implies form. It implies that we are trying to shape the world in a particular image; to make it something that we see already in our minds. Evolution is a metaphor from mere automatic unrolling. Progress is a metaphor from merely walking along a road -- very likely the wrong road. But reform is a metaphor for reasonable and determined men: it means that we see a certain thing out of shape and we mean to put it into shape. And we know what shape." — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Uninterrupted progress is the punchline of apostasy. It claims that everything always accidentally goes the right direction unaided and unguided by anything other than its impeccable timing. The joke is on it though as its Maker and Sustainer looks down and laughs (Ps 2:4)
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