America’s Reigning Pagan Worldview: Evolutionary Materialism
“An age of science is necessarily an age of materialism,” declared Hugh Elliot early last century, “Ours is a scientific age, and it may be said with truth that we are all materialists now.” (Darwin Day in America, John G. West, xiv)
The Greek Atomist Epicurus (341-270 BC) is the father of contemporary scientific materialism. The principle tenet of Atomism teaches that the world was not created by any deity, or with any design, but came about by a chance movement of physical atoms of various sizes and magnitude that cemented together and so formed the world.
The world and everything in it were not created but instead the accidental emergent or evolved products of a great cosmic event (exploding Cosmic Egg/Big Bang) that spontaneously generated animated physical matter from nothing. This way of thinking excludes everything unseen, such as God, the human soul, mind, truth, morality, angels and demons, and holds that humans are aggregates of physical matter in motion in a human form and the human mind an active principle of grey matter.
This ancient pagan form of nature worship forms the basis of the materialist psychology of Sigmund Freud, Darwin’s evolutionary model, modern evolutionary biology, modern behaviorism, secular humanism, secular trans-humanism and Marxist quasi-pantheist and animist dialectical materialism, Illuminati Masonry, Theosophy, atheist Zionism, and Luciferianism.
Charles Darwin (1809-82) helped spread pagan materialism to Westerners, Americans, and eager seminarians and theologians. In the name of ‘science,’ pagan materialism is the abomination that replaced the West’s and America’s founding Christian worldview. @linda
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Jeremiah Knight, July 6, 2026
There is a test that can be applied to every belief system in the world, and it is a test very few people ever think to apply. Take any worldview, any religion, any philosophy, and ask one simple question of it. Does everything fit? Does the system have an apex, a highest point, under which every part of reality finds its place? Reason, morality, love, beauty, evil, suffering, personhood, death, meaning. Can the system account for all of it without mutilating something or quietly ignoring what will not fit? Because every system of thought that man has ever constructed fails this test somewhere. Something always sticks out. Something always has to be cut off, explained away, or shoved out of sight for the system to survive. Every system except one. Christianity is the only framework in existence where everything fits under its apex, and the apex is the existence of the infinite and personal God who is actually there.
Notice both words, because both are essential. Infinite and personal. Scripture presents a God who is infinite, “Great is our Lord and abundant in strength; His understanding is infinite” Psalm 147:5, the One who fills heaven and earth, Jeremiah 23:24, who created all things from nothing by the word of His power, Genesis 1:1, and who is not contained by anything He has made, “Heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You” 1 Kings 8:27. And the same Scripture presents a God who is personal, who speaks, loves, knows, wills, grieves, and relates. He is not a force. He is not an energy. He is not an abstract principle behind the universe. He is the living God who said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM” Exodus 3:14, and who within His own triune being has known love and fellowship from all eternity, the Father loving the Son before the foundation of the world. John 17:24. Infinite, so that nothing is outside Him. Personal, so that persons like us are not orphans in an impersonal machine. Every other system in the world gives you one or the other or neither. Only the Bible gives you both, and both are required for anything to fit.
I did not learn this from books first. I lived on the other side of it. I was born into a Hindu household, and Hinduism is not one single system but many systems under one name, so let me be fair to it before I test it. In its most respected philosophical school, the highest reality is Brahman, and Brahman is impersonal. It has no attributes. It does not know you, love you, or speak to you. And in that school, this world of persons and things is finally maya, an illusion to be seen through rather than something real. But Hinduism also has its devotional side, the side most of us actually grew up around, where the gods are personal and millions pour out real devotion to them. Yet those gods are limited. They are many, not one. They are inside the great cycle of things, not above it. So the seeker in Hinduism is left with a choice between two options. An ultimate reality that is infinite but not personal, or gods that are personal but not infinite. And under either option, the things that matter most in human life stick out and cannot be made to fit. If the highest reality is impersonal, then love sticks out, personhood sticks out, and evil is finally explained away as illusion and karma. But go and tell the mother weeping over her dead child that her grief is an illusion. She knows better. Her tears are real, her love is real, her loss is real. And if the gods are personal but limited, then no one stands above the whole of reality with the authority to give it meaning, and the deepest questions get passed endlessly up a ladder that has no top. Either way the test fails. What no school of Hinduism offers, and what no system built by man anywhere offers, is the one thing reality actually requires, a highest point that is both infinite and personal at the same time.
The modern West has run the same experiment with a different apex and reached the same dead end. Atheistic materialism says the ultimate reality is impersonal matter plus time plus chance. Nothing else. And under that apex, almost everything sticks out. Reason sticks out, because if our thoughts are only chemical reactions determined by physics, there is no ground for trusting the reasoning that produced atheism itself. Morality sticks out, because molecules in motion cannot generate an ought, and yet the atheist cannot stop making moral judgments, borrowing the very categories his system cannot supply. Love sticks out, reduced to brain chemistry that helped our ancestors survive, which is a description no lover on earth actually believes about his own love. Beauty, justice, meaning, the horror we feel at evil, the dignity we insist every human being possesses, all of it sticks out from the materialist apex, and all of it must be mutilated or ignored for the system to stand. Paul described this exact condition two thousand years ago. “For even though they knew God they did not honor Him as God or give thanks but they became futile in their speculations and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise they became fools” Romans 1:21 and 22. The futility is not a lack of intelligence. It is the inevitable result of building a system on an apex that cannot carry the weight of reality.
And this is the point Scripture presses that our generation most needs to hear. The unbeliever does not live in a different world from the believer. He lives in God’s world while denying the God whose world it is, and so he is forced to live on borrowed capital every single day. When he trusts his reason, he is borrowing from the God who is truth and who made minds to know. When he demands justice, he is borrowing from the God whose character defines justice. When he loves his children, he is borrowing from the God who is love. 1 John 4:8. “For in Him we live and move and exist” Acts 17:28. Paul said that to pagan philosophers in Athens, and it remains true of every philosopher since. The man denying God is sustained by God in the act of denying Him, using God given reason, breathing God given breath, standing in a God upheld universe to declare that no such God exists. That is why Scripture never argues for the existence of God as an open question. It declares that His existence is known and suppressed. “Because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes His eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen being understood through what has been made so that they are without excuse” Romans 1:19 and 20. Without excuse. Everything sticking out of the unbeliever’s system is the pressure of the truth he is holding down.
Now watch what happens under the Christian apex, because this is where the wonder begins. Under the infinite and personal God, reason fits, because the universe was spoken into being by the Word, John 1:1 to 3, by a rational God who made us in His image to think His thoughts after Him, and that is why mathematics works and science is possible and the farmer and the physicist can both count on tomorrow. “The heavens are telling of the glory of God” Psalm 19:1. Morality fits, because right and wrong are not human inventions or cultural moods but reflections of the unchanging character of a holy God, which is why the conscience testifies in every culture on earth. Romans 2:15. Love fits, because before there was a single creature to love, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit loved within the fellowship of the one triune God, which means love is not a latecomer to the universe. It is older than the universe. Personhood fits, because we are persons made by a personal God, in His image, Genesis 1:27, and our hunger for relationship, meaning, and significance is not an accident of chemistry but the fingerprint of our Maker.
Even evil fits, and this is the test where every other system collapses completely. Christianity does not deny evil the way the eastern systems do, and it does not render evil meaningless the way materialism does. Scripture names evil, traces it to the rebellion of creatures against their Creator, holds every sinner accountable for it, and then declares the staggering truth that the sovereign God ordains its existence within His plan and bends it to His glory without ever being the author of it. Joseph could say to the brothers who sold him, “you meant evil against me but God meant it for good” Genesis 50:20. Peter could say of the cross itself, the worst evil ever committed, that Christ was “delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God” and nailed to the cross “by the hands of godless men” Acts 2:23. The greatest evil in history fits under the apex, ordained for the greatest good in history, the redemption of sinners. No other system in the world can look evil in the face, grant its full horror, and still show you its place under a wise and holy purpose. Christianity can, because its apex is big enough.
Death fits, because Christ has passed through it and broken it from the inside. 1 Corinthians 15:54 to 57. Suffering fits, because it is not stray chaos but the instrument of a Father producing “an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison” 2 Corinthians 4:17. History fits, because it is not a wheel endlessly turning nor an accident endlessly drifting but a story moving from creation to fall to redemption to the day already fixed when God “will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed” Acts 17:31. And at the centre of it all stands the One in whom the fitting is not an idea but a person. “For by Him all things were created both in the heavens and on earth visible and invisible… all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things and in Him all things hold together” Colossians 1:16 and 17. In Him all things hold together. That sentence is the deepest explanation of reality ever written. The universe coheres because Christ upholds it, “upholding all things by the word of His power” Hebrews 1:3, and a worldview coheres only when it bows to Him.
This is why the Christian never has to mutilate reality to keep his faith, and never has to sacrifice his integrity to keep his system. We do not have to pretend evil is illusion. We do not have to pretend love is chemistry. We do not have to pretend reason is an accident or that our longing for meaning is a trick of the nerves. We can look at everything, the glory and the horror, the laughter and the graveside, and see all of it in its place beneath the God who is there. The unbeliever must live in constant tension, officially denying what he practically depends on every hour. The believer lives in the only framework where what is confessed on Sunday and what is lived on Monday belong to the same world. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” Proverbs 1:7. Not the end of knowledge after everything else has been figured out. The beginning. The apex has to be in place before anything underneath it makes sense.
So when the world tells us that Christianity is one option among many, one more stall in the marketplace of ideas, we should know better. There is no marketplace of complete systems. There is one framework under which everything fits and a graveyard of frameworks with pieces of reality sticking out of them, mutilated or ignored. And the difference is not that Christians are cleverer. The difference is that we did not build our apex. It was revealed. The infinite and personal God who is there has spoken, in creation, in Scripture, and finally in His Son, Hebrews 1:1 and 2, and everything that exists finds its place beneath Him because everything that exists came from Him. “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen” Romans 11:36. That is the apex. That is why everything fits. And that is why the soul that finally bows to Him discovers not the loss of the world but the world handed back with all its pieces in place, held together by the One who made it, redeemed it, and will one day fill it with His glory as the waters cover the sea. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
He, who has ears to hear, let him hear.