Naturalism is one of the primary stumbling blocks to receiving the Christian faith, and believers should avail themselves of the data of science which supports creationism. And residual naturalism in believers is corrosive of faith and distorts one's view of the sovereignty of God. I give my testimony how God delivered me from the naturalistic compromise of theistic evolution.
Naturalism, a precursor of a depraved mind
The knowledge of God available in creation is inescapable, yet when men persistently and willfully reject the knowledge of God, God can give them over to a depraved mind. It is akin to the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
Naturalism: is it blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
Modern-day naturalism, where it approaches willful rejection of the incontrovertible truth of God in creation, is tantamount to the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. Romans 1 concluded 2000 years ago that rejection of the knowledge of God in creation is inexcusable. With the exponential increase in scientific knowledge, the evidence of God in creation has exponentially multiplied, making modern man even more accountable. Might naturalism be the modern-day version of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?
Romans 1: 18-23 applied to the question
The uncritical, even unscientific embrace of evolution by many scientists, illustrates the universal problem of mankind: the knowledge of God is inconvenient, and all naturally suppress the truth and replace it with futile speculations.
Evolution: the de-evolution of science
Prior commitment to naturalism in the field of biology has eroded scientific objectivity grounded in the falsifiability of scientific theory. "Punctuated Equilibrium" is an evolutionary theory in which lack of evidence can be pointed to as "evidence." The natural history presented in Genesis 1 is more consistent with the hard data of science than the interpretation of that data by evolutionists.
“Punctuated Equilibrium”: when “no evidence” becomes “evidence”
This episode highlights the attempt by Stephen Jay Gould, a noted paleontologist, to maintain Darwinian evolutionary theory without the evidence that Darwin himself required in order to prove his theory. Transitional fossils, according to Darwin, would be the proof of his theory. The gaps in the fossil record in Darwin's time would eventually be filled. Neodarwinists now concede that these gaps will never be filled. Normal scientific procedure would throw out theories lacking evidence. Instead, Stephen Jay Gould has posited a new theory, punctuated equilibrium, in which the macroevolutionary framework could still be kept, even though the evidence has never been forthcoming. Genesis 1 however perfectly explains the fossil recod: long periods of stasis followed by abrupt emergence of new species. A more "scientific" approach to the fossil record would concede the explanatory power of the Genesis 1 account in accounting for natural history.
Genesis 1:1 and naturalism
Acceptance or rejection of Genesis 1:1 largely determines the lens through which people see God as potentially involved in the universe. A priori commitment to naturalism became evident in many scientists' resistance to the philosophical implications of the Big Bang, which threatened the naturalistic presumptions held by many scientists.