Epoch Times - Darwinian evolution functions as a kind of secular religion
Aired: 2026-04-21
Duration: 00:54

[00:00:00]  He was a committed neo Darwinist.
[00:00:03]  But he wrote an important book in which he acknowledged or really spotlighted the fact that for many of his colleagues, Darwinian evolution functions as a kind of secular religion.
[00:00:17]  And you can see why, because it's answering one of the most fundamental questions that any worldview or religion has to answer, which is what is the thing or the entity or the process from which everything else came?
[00:00:27]  And the neo Darwinian explanation of the origin of new forms of life is part of the answer to that really fundamental question.
[00:00:34]  Question, which is not only a scientific question but a philosophical worldview question.
[00:00:38]  But Ruse's critique of some of his own colleagues was that because it functions like a secular religion, sometimes there's a resistance to a more dispassionate scientific evaluation of its merits.