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The Assumption That Nature Is All There Is, And That Nature Has Been Governed By The Same Rules At All Times And Places, Makes It Possible For Natural Science To Be Confident That It Can Explain Such Things As How Life Began.

Evolutionary Biologists Have Been Able To Pretend To Know How Complex Biological Systems Originated Only Because They Treated Them As Black Boxes. Now That Biochemists Have Opened The Black Boxes And Seen What Is Inside, They Know The Darwinian Theory Is Just A Story, Not A Scientific Explanation.

Materialism Sets Us Free From Sin-by Proving That There Is No Such Thing As Sin. There's Just Antisocial Behavior, Which We Can Control With Measures Like Laws And Educational Programs.

Although I Insist That God Has Always Had The Power To Intervene Directly In Nature To Create New Forms, I Am Willing To Be Per-suaded That He Chose Not To Do So And Instead Employed Secondary Natural Causes Like Random Mutation And Natural Selection.

Modernist Discourse [...] Incorporates Semantic Devices - Such As The Labeling Of Theism As 'religion' And Naturalism As 'science' - That Work To Prevent A Dangerous Debate Over Fundamental Assumptions From Breaking Out In The Open.