Darwinism has become a cultural Shibboleth like supporting
homosexual lifestyles. If you criticize either, you are
immediately labeled as ignorant, culturally backward and an
obstacle to progress. Oxford zoologist and naturalistic
evangelist Richard Dawkins stated, “…If you meet somebody who
claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant,
stupid or insane (or wicked, but I’d rather not consider that).”
Unfortunately, many theists who oppose Darwinism don’t truly
understand it. I forced my way through Charles Darwin’s On The
Origin of the Species and Evolution: History of an Idea by Peter
Bowles in order to present the theory correctly even if I must
do so in oversimplified terms. So, what is Darwinism? Charles
Darwin argued that all life can be traced back to a common
ancestor. He theorized that different species were the product
of millions of years of slight mutations, breeding and “natural
selection.” In other words, Darwin argued that a creature would
produce an offspring with a slight mutati