By the year 2040, Darwin’s theory will be fully replaced. It will not vanish overnight, because theories this entrenched never do. Too many careers, institutions, funding streams, and reputations are tied to it. But by then, it will be undeniable that the theory of speciation by natural selection is obsolete. In fact, Materialism as we know it will vanish.

Starting with a single cell, nature is supposed to climb a long slope of gradual improvements until true multicellular animals emerge. The problem is that when we look for the evidence, that slope does not exist. The jump from one cell to many is not a slow climb at all. It is a sudden leap, and that leap skips everything Darwin’s idea requires.

Darwin himself had admitted in The Origin of Species: “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.” Behe took Darwin at his word, and asked the question: Do such systems exist? His answer was yes — at the molecular level. Behe’s examples included the bacterial flagellum, the blood-clotting cascade, and the immune system. All are systems where the removal of any one part leads to collapse of function. With these systems, Behe did something few biologists dared: he asked whether a step-by-step Darwinian pathway could actually be demonstrated. His challenge was simple: show a testable, detailed, evolutionary route that builds an irreducibly complex system through random mutation and natural selection.

Many of the same thinkers who reject the idea of a Creator can’t seem to stop speaking as if one exists. They disavow religion, mock belief in a divine Designer, and insist the universe is the product of blind, material processes. But then they describe nature with words that reveal something else entirely.