Mechanistic Materialism: The Religion of Science

As much as "science-minded" evolutionists would seek to have you and I believe otherwise, everyone sees the world through the filter of their own private beliefs and presuppositions. For instance, I begin all study and learning with the presupposition that there is a God who created the heavens and the earth in six literal days, thousands of years ago. I believe that the universe is created with order and design thus making scientific study possible. This is my world view. It's the filter through which I process all other information.

The statement I just made is illegal in the county I live in. A teacher would be fired for saying it in the classroom, or even publicly outside of the classroom. So why, given the supposed freedom of ideas in this country, could a teacher not be able to even question the theory of evolution in a classroom? The answer is the ideological world view known as materialism; and, more specifically, mechanistic materialism. And believe it or not, it has major implications on your personal freedoms.

The conservative believes that our Bill of Rights, enumerated in our United States Constitution, are not given to us by our government. We do not have these rights because a government says we do. These rights are inalienable, and given to us by God Almighty. Our government's job is not to give us these rights; it's job is to protect our God-given rights from being tread upon. If God gives us these rights, then they can only be taken away by him.

If, however, our government is the granter of these rights, then they can also take them away. This is the reason why many other democracies fail, and it is also the reason why mechanistic materialism is so dangerous to our democracy.

The materialists' world view believes that only those things which are verifiable by scientific testing and empirical evidence are real. The mechanistic materialists take it one step further and say that only those things made of atoms, and can be tested scientifically and empirically are real. For this reason they deny the possibility of the existence of God or anything supernatural. They have led a campaign since the 1940s to have everything God-related discredited and thrown out of the classroom. Our children only learn Godless science and other fields of study in public schools and universities now.

First, I must say, the hypocrisy and lack of logic of this worldview is amazing. First, the assumption that everything that exists must have empirical evidence is itself something for which no evidence can be provided. We who practice philosophy call this a logical fallacy. For instance, there could potentially exist a god and there still be no evidence. With this said, the most dangerous problem of this ideology is its desire to remove God from our education system, courts, government, and eventually from our democracy.

A democracy cannot survive without God for many reasons, but for this discussion we will say because its citizens' rights and freedoms would then be granted by the government. If this is so, then your rights would become the subjective whimsy of whichever fragmented group managed to seize power that week. Government would first become nanny, then eventually daddy, and finally, god.