Secular Philosophy

Secularism is the rejection or exclusion of religious considerations. Secular Science examines the existence of a universe that has occurred without a God or some type of Designer. It often follows a materialistic view regarding the Big Bang Theory for cosmology, a Natural Origins Theory for the Earth's formation and development, and the Theory of Evolution for biological life.

Naturalism has its base in the Natural Philosophy of the Greek Empire and it focused on the premise of nature existing without a god or, at most, with a distant god that may have started things but now does not interact with nature. It was a materialistic concept where physical matter, without anything spiritual, could produce all that exists. These concepts all but do away with a Creator and the possibility of a relationship with Him.

Technically, the theory of evolution is a study of the common descent of organisms and does not include the earth sciences. However, the term “evolution” has gained a more generic use which includes the naturalistic origins of everything rather than just living things. The primary model used in naturalistic origins is the Big Bang theory, which states the universe started in an explosion or expansion of a dense collection of particles approximately 18 billion years ago. The planets, stars, and galaxies slowly formed through uniformitarian processes. The Earth started taking its current form about 4.5 billion years ago. Uniformitarianism predicts that, over time, the erosional and depositional processes should form layers createing a standard geologic column.