Summary of John Mac Arthur's The Battle For the Beginning

            In MacArthur's rebuttal he denies the validity of The theory of evolution explaining the origin of all living species. .
             MacArthur states that the theory of evolution is responsible for naturalism being the dominant religion in modern society and that naturalism is clearly a religion despite their vehement denial of it. He also expresses his opinion that the views of naturalism are based completely on faith, their basic premise of the belief of every force in the universe being natural, is a leap of faith. The idea that all living things came to be due to the evolutionary process has never been nor will ever be proven, therefore is not an established fact. Nor is this view scientific in any sense of the word. The origin of life cannot be observed or recreated for science; subsequently science can give us no definite answers as to where or how we got here. .
             In the rebuttal its stated that all of the philosophers who incorporated Darwin's ideas have created or encouraged negative, ignoble, and destructive ideas or actions. For example Karl Marx-inspired communism, Herbert Spencer's "social Darwinism", and Friedrich Nierzsche's philosophy which laid the foundation for the Nazi movement in Germany. Most of these philosophies denounced the Christian morals of compassion for the powerless, and service to one another. MacArthur believes that the only reason we still view human life as special is due to a collective memory of a biblical world since the majority of society hold science before the scripture and in turn has no higher authority to answer to or to be judged by.
             What Mac Arthur finds even more frightening is that the Church has even begun to accept and integrate these views in to the Christian religion saying that Genesis 1-3 are simply poetic or symbolic and calling these beliefs "old-earth creationism". This popular views of "old-earth creationists" is the "framework hypothesis".