But inevitably one will be favored and given preeminence. Since this position began with accommodation to evolution, further surrender becomes a criteria of respectability. Once evolutionary faith is accepted, nature is our source of knowledge about science, and the Bible is increasingly ruled out. We are left with man's reason and nature. If only the divine is excluded, only the natural is left.
Evolution is an exclusive faith that defends itself by excluding all others.
He provided an account of origins which provided miracles but was impersonal, materialistic, and held no man to account. Men felt freed from the Creator and creaturehood. Once God is a creation of evolved men, he may be accepted, rejected, or limited by those men at will. Truth is a premise of human thought. Facts have significance because meaning is a part of God's Creation.