Well evolutionists talk a lot about theology. I used to be an atheist and I was an evolutionist. Then I was saved and became a Christian. I remained an evolutionist as I had no reason to doubt it. But then I got interested in evolution on a lark–I happened to hear what evolutionists were saying about it, and the claims they were making seemed strange. I wasn’t against evolution, but rather was neutral. It was OK with me if it was true, but it was also OK with me if it was false. I didn’t have any baggage on the topic. I found that many evolutionists do have baggage on the topic. There is a lot of religious talk, and evolution must be true for non scientific reasons.
Because, for me, it was OK if evolution was false, I was free to explore the science objectively. As a scientific theory, evolution is terrible. It lacks explanatory mechanisms, its fundamental predictions are all falsified, it is incredibly complicated, and it is religiously motivated. Evolutionary thought has a long history that goes way back. You could resurrect arguments from two millennia ago, between the Epicureans and Stoics, and they literally would fit right into today’s discourse. People have sought naturalistic origins for thousands of years, probably for as long as there have been people. There is nothing new in modern evolutionary thought. The idea that the world, especially the biological world with its millions of species, evolved is simply not scientific.