You may think you've heard enough about the creation versus evolution debate. Anyone who has given the debate even a cursory following has heard the creation position described as "creationism." But one rarely, if ever, hears of "evolutionism," as though only one side of this debate is rooted completely in logic and reason, without any un-provable premises.
It is frequently overlooked that every side of the creation/evolution debate derives their knowledge (The word "science" is derived from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge.") from certain governing presuppositions. In other words, whether a person is a creationist or an evolutionist, or some combination of the two, eventually he or she must eventually rely on certain un-provable assumptions. As the late philosopher, Dr. Greg Bahnsen, put it, "At the most fundamental level of everyone's thinking and beliefs there are primary convictions about reality, man, the world, knowledge, truth, behavior, and such things. Convictions about which all other experience is organized, interpreted, and applied."
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