Mystery:Why Has Creationism Been Pushed Out Of Mainstream Discourse?
On both the left and the right, Creationism and theories of intelligent design have been laughed at and dismissed as idiotic. These ideas have exited mainstream discussion, even in the Judeo-Christian West. While there are still some Creationist philosophers and organizations, with Conservapedia continuing to be fervently Creationist, it seems that Creationists and evolution skeptics are no longer taken seriously, their ideas and opinions no longer considered legitimate. If someone says something contrary to the evolutionist agenda and dogma, they are dismissed, condemned, laughed at, etc.
Why is this? How did this situation arise?
I believe that evolutionism gained prominence due to the power and influence already gained by the movements of secular humanism[1][2] and cultural Marxism (the Frankfurt School; see Frankfurt School). These atheistic ideologies not only believed the Darwinian ideals of macroevolution and major natural selection, but desired for all ideas contrary to that to be snuffed out. So they began to label Creationism as the conspiracy theory. To them, anyone who believed intelligent design was silly, foolish. Thus, the atheists and deists of the secular humanist and cultural Marxist movements could allow God to be dismissed as the general Creator of all major and minor details of Earth and the universe, and thereby could dismiss God as a being who intervenes at all in our daily lives. The other side was virtually deplatformed.
With time, even conservatives began to accept evolution,[1] as they accepted ideals such as secularism.[2] However, I should note that even some who accept evolution, such as Jordan Peterson, argue that cultural Marxism and secular humanism actually caused many people to strongly disbelieve the Theory of Evolution.[3] And evolution and evolutionism are still debated, for example by the Hoover Institution,[4] today. In addition, Conservapedia, as stated above, is still fervently Creationist, accepting intelligent design and not evolution as the true story behind the origins of the universe.