EVOLUTION is a man-made RELIGION.
Evolutionary philosophy can be traced back to ancient pagan cultures including the Chinese, the Egyptians, the Hindus and the Assyrians. The Egyptians believed that frogs appeared by spontaneous generation after the Nile flooded. The Chinese believed that insects could suddenly appear from nothing on the leaves of plants.
Thales of Miletus (640-546 BC) was the first Greek philosopher who believed that water evolved into other elements and then eventually into plants, animals and into higher complex forms including man. Anaximander (610-546 BC) claimed that humans originally resembled fish; Democritus (460-370 BC) taught that primitive people began to speak with confused and unintelligible sounds but gradually articulated words; Epicurus (341-270 BC) taught that there was no need of a God or gods, for the Universe came about by a chance movement of atoms; Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) taught that we are so subject to chance that Chance herself takes the place of God; Plato believed that this present Universe came about millions of years ago; and Lactantius said that many thousands of ages had passed since the world was completed.
The Epicureans were atheistic evolutionists. The Stoics, Gnostics, Platonists, and others, were pantheistic evolutionists. The pagans also believed in an eternal cosmos.
Today, this philosophy has been hijacked by those who wish to promote and INDOCTRINATE others into a "SECULAR HUMANIST ATHEISISM" just as it was hijacked in Nazi Germany by those wishing to promote a "master race".
This philosophy has as its basis:
1) Abiogenesis which says that this highly complex, fine-tuned Creation with its many interdependent symbiotic relationships just happened by random chance (eliminate the need for God the Creator).
2) Evolution from animals justifies our sinful human behavior. (Eliminate the need for absolute morals, therefore anything you feel like doing is OK. Therefore, there is no need for God to save us