The supposed death of God ushered in an era in which humans proclaimed themselves sovereigns of the universe. Nowhere was this more evident than at the Darwinian Centennial Convention, which celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Darwin's The Origen of Species by Means of Natural Selection. With pomp and ceremony Sir Julian Huxley, the great-grandson of Thomas Huxley, Darwin's bulldog, boasted , "In the evolutionary system of thought there is no longer need or room for the supernatural. The earth was not created created; it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul, as well as brain and body. So did religion. Evolutionary man can no longer take refuge from his loneliness by creeping for shelter into the arms of a divinized father figure whom he himself has created."
While the evolutionary system of thought was credit for expunging the need for God, in reality it is merely the repackaging of an age-old deception. In the very first book of the Bible, Satan tells Eve that if she eats the forbidden fruit, "Your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:5). What Satan was communicating was that Eve could become the final court of arbitration-she could determine what was right and what was wrong.
Humanity's newfound autonomy sacrificed truth on the altar of subjectivism. Ethics and morals were no longer determined on the basis of objective standards but rather by the size and strength of the latest lobby group. With no enduring reference point, societal norms were reduced to a matter of preference.
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