| It is interesting to notice that evolutionists take a defensive posture when dealing with creationism. For instance, Richard Dawkins entirely refuses to talk to creationists. As evolutionists start to realize that they are losing the origins debate about the scientific data, where evolutionary theory always claimed a methodological advantage, the only way out is to insist, as Richard Dawkins does, on the "wall of separation between religion and science" and to keep repeating the "slogan" according to which "creation is religion and evolution is science". Instead of daring to confront creationism in a free and open encounter in the marketplace of ideas (in the old liberal tradition of Milton and Mill) Richard Dawkins and other evolutionists want to separate the "scientific market" from the "religious market", leaving the latter for creationists and claiming monopoly status for themselves in the former. This is a classical proteccionist technique used by those who fear competition. It is interesting to notice that the artificial wall between science and religion is the only defense evolutionary theory holds on to these days, since all the observable facts themselves speak in favour of special creation. It is based on this conceptual separation alone that evolutionists like to proclaim the total scientific discredit of creationism. In truth, evolutionism has been suported by a strand of christian theology that claims that faith in God should be totally distanced from the real facts of this world. Creationism distances itself both from the irrational, random and accidental "selfish gene" assumptions from evolutionism, as well as from that kind of christian theology that supports and praises blind faith. These are two kinds of irrationalism that creationists abhorr. Both distance themselves from the actual scientific evidence that supports creation. Biblical creationism is not affraid of competition, and is willing to engage in confronting empirical topics such as cosmology, abiogenesis, pre-biotic soup, mutations, vestigial organs, junk-DNA, radiometric dating, geology, fossils, "ape-man", dino-to-bird, molecular machines, probabilities, design teory, information theory, etc. In all these fields all the observable data, when freed from naturalistic assumptions, points to special creation. Biblical creationism doesn't need to claim a separate market for itself and and doesn't need to capture public power to protect its monopoly status, as is the case with evolutionism. In spite of all the epistemic protectionism of evolutionists, creationism has been pretty successful in directing devastating blows against evolutionary theory. |