If ANYONE read origin of species it *should* destroy anyones faith in this myth. It is free PDF download on google.
I have read it and natural selection is really just a naturalistic assumption. What Darwin discussed in the chapters never went beyond the species level, perhaps as high as genus but that is about it. It's one of the illusions of inductive reasoning but getting back to my point. Based on those slight, slow, successive changes, he projects that all species have evolved in a constant progression throughout natural history going all the way back to the primaeval origins of life.
Indeed, Darwin was a mythographer just like his grandfather:
Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
These, as successive generations bloom,
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume;
Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.
Erasmus Darwin. The Temple of Nature. 1802.
That is Darwinism, that is the pagan myth that rejects God as Creator. I am seriously wondering what the difference between that myth and the modern myths of natural history really are. Theistic evolutionists are clearly being taken in by an atheistic philosophy that rejects God as the cause of anything, ever, even as a passive designer. They are not the enemy, they are victims of a bait and switch tactic thinking their attacks on Creationism will bring credibility to Christian theism. They are wrong. The evolutionists on here are not arguing for anything, certainly not anything theistic. They are arguing against Creationism, which is nothing more then a belief in God as Creator.
What is important to realize here is the God's natural revelation reaches everyone:
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (Rom 1:20,21)
Let me ask you a serious theological question, who is the Apostle Paul referring to when he says, 'their foolish heart was darkened'? I assume you read the Bible, I'm asking you to read this passage in the context of Romans 1 and tell me who's pedigree the Apostle is reading. I'll give you a hint, Proverbs 1 discusses the foolish and the wise. When you read Proverbs 1 who do you think the fools are?
Grace and peace,
Mark