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What does Punk Ek have to do with Darwinism and Evolutionism not being the same? It would be simpler to say that evolutionism doesn't exist except in the minds of creationists.

What the creationists seem to miss in all this is this tiny little line:

Ruse says -- he prefers to call the ideological strain "evolutionism" -- reveals it to be a Trojan horse carrying an ideology of "progress" that can't be deduced from Darwin" [underline mine]

The concept of 'progress' which is not contained in the ToE and not promulgated by any evos here or elsewhere is something that only exists today in creationist propaganda.

What is also missed by the creos here is the fact the article refers to Huxley and others who 150 years ago decided to make evolution a world view rather than a science. This is a classic case of the genetic fallacy.

The concept of evolution as progress does not inhabit Dawkins cranium as Ruse claims. Dawkins however considers Atheism progress. Dawkins considers the removal of religion as progress. He uses evolution as a tool, as did Huxley in his time. The manner in which Dawkins uses evolution does not mean that the study of evolution or the Theory of Evolution is in any way a religion.