We cannot avoid the fact that some blame for the triumph of evolution falls upon the shoulders of the Christian debaters who fought the wrong battle and rightfully lost the debates in England. In our century it is time to reopen the debate about evolution again. Whenever I discuss the historic evolutionary debate in my class, very very many of the students appreciate the fact that evolution is not necessarily a fact. They in many cases are resentful victims of an oppressive Mythos whose time to die is long overdue. If the Christian Church would capture the hearts and minds of this generation we must be willing to reopen the age old debate about origins without forging new human chains for the mind.
Evolution is indeed in trouble.
It is a theory that increasingly will not hold water. Certainly Charles Darwin may have stumbled upon some truths about changes within species. He certainly can be credited for explaining how species may become extinct. But the atheistic model for natural selection and mutation into higher and more complex kinds is even being rejected by leading scientists in the biological fields. A century of research has not confirmed the naturalistic assumptions.