The Theory of Evolution is widely taught today, more often as fact than as theory, in our schools and universities. Naturalistic evolution holds that life evolved naturally, without any divine design or guidance.

The prevailing worldview in the scientific and academic community is that the material world of nature, that which can be observed, measured and quantified, encompasses the whole of reality. This doctrine, that nature is "all there is," is called naturalism.

Naturalism is the basis of what is taught about the origin of life in our schools and universities. Our children are taught that the extraordinary complexity and variety of life on this planet evolved, over very long periods of time, only through the natural processes of chance, random mutation, and natural selection ("survival of the fittest").

It is understandable for scientists to have a naturalistic perspective. Scientists are charged with pursuing a rational understanding of problems according to their best judgment. For scientists to admit that "God did it" is sometimes seen as giving up on science.

Naturalism, unfortunately, leaves no room in science for religious "superstition" or unsubstantiated "faith." Many in the scientific and academic community adamantly and dogmatically hold to this nature-only (naturalistic) basis for evolution and life on earth. Many are dogmatically certain they are right and no other alternative is worth teaching our young people.

Dogmatism, however, is a human characteristic that grows out of insecurity. It seems that naturalistic evolutionists fear the obvious. Namely, that the complexity and wonder of human and all earthly life gives the appearance of having been intelligently designed because it was! They would rather have us believe: The Theory of Naturalistic Evolution: Hydrogen is a gas, which given enough time, turns into people.

How absurd. Plain old common sense tells us this cannot be true. Hydrogen, the basic primordial element after the Big Bang, cannot just naturally turn into people, even over very long periods of time!

Furthermore, evolution has only been demonstrated to produce changes within a species (i.e., finch beak sizes, moth coloring). This type of evolution, which produces variations within a single species, is called micro-evolution. However, there is no compelling evidence in the fossil record or anywhere else for evolution naturally creating (through natural selection) one species from another. This type of unproven, but widely taught, evolution is called macro-evolution.

Besides, where did the orderly and predictable laws of nature, which science seeks to discover and quantify, come from? Mere happenstance?

I am convinced there is more to reality than what science can explain by only natural causes. Since we are confined by the "space-time continuum," it is impossible to preclude the possibility of any reality outside of that continuum. Because we are limited by our five senses, we are unlikely to be able to perceive the whole of reality.

For example, imagine if humans did not have the sense of sight. How would we ever know the beauty of a magnificent, red sunset? That red sunset is reality. Nevertheless, how could we describe that reality, or the colors of a rainbow, to a person who's been blind since birth? For without our sense of sight we would be totally unaware of that reality. In short, we are too blinded by the limitations of our senses to know for certain that the natural world encompasses the whole of reality.

Therefore, a science that considers only natural causes, including for the origin and complexity of life on earth, is a crippled science. It does not seek to discover the whole truth. If an educational curriculum incorporates the subject of biological origins and since intelligent design is a scientifically-based, rational alternative to naturalistic evolution within that subject, then it is bad educational policy as well as viewpoint discrimination to keep students ignorant of an alternative that may be true.