When philosophy is displaced with science, the man in the lab coat has assumed a rather peculiar seat of authority. While often holding the minority viewpoint of the atheist, he has managed to become the most trustworthy source, not just of science, but of the facts. This is most evident in the modern sting of a claim that something is “unscientific.” Having confined verifiable knowledge to that which can be tried in the laboratory, verifiable knowledge springs only from the mind of the scientist.

The Theory of Evolution is illustrative. Ask about humanity and the naturalist will point you to the ape. Ask about the ape, and he will point to some lesser quadruped. Ask about the quadruped, and he points to the fish. On and on he leads you, past increasingly lifeless creatures until at last, there is nothing to which he can point. It is here where he reminds us that there is still so much work to do. Of course, ask why any of this magnificent system should have existed in the first place, and you will kindly be advised that you shouldn’t ask such unscientific questions.

But it is science that plays handmaiden to logic, not the other way around.  And it is logic, aided by good science, by which we stumble upon our dilemma. Humble science tells us that naturally, matter and energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Logic steps in and dictates that, if this is true, matter and energy must have had a supernatural beginning or else no beginning at all. Logic and humble science have foisted this decision upon us, but hubristic science has dictated the answer – a supernatural beginning would, of course, be unscientific.

And so on his birthday, it is worth noting that Darwin’s Origin of Species concerns development post-bios. It leads us back to a certain beginning, but there we are left staring into a vast darkness. It is interestingly titled, as we still have some backtracking to do.

But the dogmatic atheist with his hubristic science has taken the Origin of Species, capitalized on general public ignorance, and published a copy of the Origin of Everything. He has reverse engineered the Model T and declared Henry Ford a phantom.