Douglas F. Kelly on the West's Abandonment of Creationism

Kelly writes,

Nothing has done more to remove God's true lordship from the Western mind than this craven abandonment of creation by the Christian churches in the nineteenth century. In a sense, the natural order itself becomes ultimate, rather than the personal God who made it and controls it; thus, it tends to be understood in an impersonal framework, rather than the expression of the sovereign will of the Holy Trinity. Nature becomes Lord in place of the true Lord (although theistic evolutionists have worked hard to maintain a personal framework, as best they can).

A good illustration of this is seen when there is a conflict between plain biblical teaching on reality and the claims of anti-theistic science (and vast areas of science are in no sense anti-theistic; never more so than today). In that case, most Church scholars hasten to adapt the Scriptures to secularist scientific claims, rather than vice versa; as in accounts of the age of the earth and biological fixity of the kinds as opposed to evolutionary development from one species into another. Whose word then is sovereign? This sort of thinking lay behind much of the German 'higher critical' methodology, which cut the Scriptures into disparate parts and imposed an evolutionary model on their supposed production.

Systematic Theology: Grounded in Holy Scripture and Understood in the Light of the Church. vol. 1: The God Who is: The Holy Trinity. Scotland: Mentor, 2008, p. 355.