Well, going to breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

According to the principle of the day, posted August 26 by multi-billion dollar hedge fund manager Ray Dalio, quote, evolution is the single greatest force in the universe.

It's the only thing that's

permanent. It drives everything. He then went on to declare, everything from the smallest

subatomic particle to the entire galaxy is evolving. While everything apparently dies or

disappears in time, the truth is, all just gets reconfigured in evolving forms. Remember,

that energy can't be destroyed. It can only be reconfigured. evolving forms. Remember, that energy can't be destroyed.

It can only be reconfigured.

So the same stuff is continuously falling apart and coalescing in different forms.

The force behind that is evolution, end quote.

Now, if this Psalm to the glory of non-religious materialism sounds quite religious to you, it is. Often, those

most wholeheartedly dedicated to atheism and its aimless cosmic progression make proclamations,

like universe created or nature provided, or, as Dalio put it, evolution drives. They claim that

everything results from a purposeless, pointless series of atomic reactions,

but then they imply that this story of the universe is also somehow a storyteller.

They talk of evolution as if it's the mind behind it all, including itself,

a mind that might not love us, but which nonetheless has a plan for our lives.

In the dramatic opening to the 1980

documentary Cosmos, Carl Sagan announced the Cosmos, is all that is or ever was or ever will be.

Decades later, Neil deGrasse Tyson reincarnated the series by declaring, and I quote,

a generation ago, the astronomer Carl Sagan launched hundreds of millions of us on a great adventure. Now, I doubt that he meant here to quote, a generation ago, the astronomer Carl Sagan launched hundreds of millions of us on a great

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