Regardless of what you have heard, those who believe in evolution view it as a religion. Its proponents defend evolution passionately and zealously. It is a religion in that they believe in it, while it is not completely provable. Evolution is based upon theories as well as some evidence that has led scientists to draw certain conclusions. It differs very little from religion, which also has verifiable proofs.

Duke University recently conducted a study concluding that prayer works. This study was done using heart patients as test subjects. The people in the study did not know that they were being prayed for. Those who were prayed for had a marked difference in recovery from illness than those who did not receive prayer. The study also helped show that prayer is not some form of mass hysteria, or mental and emotional persuasion but a viable partner with science.

People who believe in a personal God have made many of our greatest scientific discoveries and triumphs. Believing there is a God does not mean we cannot discover how, and by what laws and principles, God has created something. Sociology has known for years that most people who espouse Biblical principles live happier, longer, and more productive lives. Intelligent design is again making hay at science conventions around the world. Order and the exact timing of various components seem necessary for the universe to have taken place and sustain itself. This suggests an intelligent superintendence of the process.

There are many places where science and faith can be partners. Religion can give integrity to those who pursue scientific studies. Science can give all religions ways to live our lives better.

The Theory of Evolution leaves our world open to many serious problems. It asks some questions that need answering before we put our faith into it.

• Are we still evolving?
  
• Are we really just more intelligent animals still bound by primitive instincts?
  
• If we are still evolving, when will we be morally responsible for our actions?
  
• Are we at this present moment of evolution morally responsible for our actions?
  
• Is there a morality involved in evolution, or are we too primitive to judge?
  
• Can we uphold any law if we are convicted of a crime?
  
• Are we after all just intelligent apes, not really fully responsible for our actions?
  
• How do we make laws or legislate them?
  
• Are any laws really applicable?
  * Are we capable of suppressing our primitive instincts?
  

As you can see, Pandora's box is opened up if we really believe in evolution. True belief in evolution unleashes on the world's societies questions that must be addressed. We face some serious moral issues that can be debilitating to our world as we look to answer these questions.

I say this: if we believe in evolution, then all laws, whether of God or man, are not viable in our present condition of evolution until we answer these questions. All our judgments are made with a rank unfairness. As in all situational ethics theories, we are left with an anarchist's mindset, unable to meet humanity's most basic need for life-fulfilling truth.

If, as evolution seems to suggest, we are the sum total of our evolutionary process, mankind may be unable to be morally responsible. If we are ever going to take evolution seriously, we must have more than a few bones and projected theories of how we evolved. If evolution is a science, it must address the issues that religion solves powerfully and with great success, which is who we are and where we are going. In fact, in some cases, as evolution tries to undermine religion, it also undermines the civility and civilization that Christianity has established over the centuries. If evolution is true, then anarchy must reign until we evolve; hopelessness will then be the god that reigns in the human heart.

Is it possible that real intellectual thinking has far surpassed the primitive Theory of Evolution? This theory no longer fits the norms of present intelligent reasoning and deduction. In other words, evolution has always been too primitive a thought, a step backwards in man's aspirations and objectives for real living. Thinking is based upon the knowledge we have learned and added to us as people, from our process of seeking understanding. We have not evolved, as human beings, but have grown in our thinking, beginning with the ability to do so, and not by an evolutionary process. We may evolve too slowly or may not evolve again for centuries, thus limiting ourselves to a present catastrophic end as primitives unable to manage their world.

The Bible tells us we are made in the image of God and therefore, capable moral agents. God has made truth available to us. In God's economy, we are ultimately responsible for our actions. We are accountable to God and His laws. In Christianity, everyone is responsible for his or her actions. The Bible, as well as the church, gives mankind a future based upon a growing knowledge revealed by God that will transform the human heart. It is in the searching for truth and God that man is transformed. If we are satisfied with theories of our primitive past, we will never seek our glorious spiritual future.

Evolution, like humanism, will fail because we limit our knowledge to the measurable universe when we can tap into the wisdom of God. We limit ourselves by mocking and casting down spiritual truths.