The Declaration of Independence, written in 1776, says: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Our forefathers based these human rights on a self-evident, fundamental truth – that the rights were endowed by their Creator. Endowed means “provided or supplied or equipped with”. The rights were gifts provided by God. They took it for granted that there was a Creator who could grant them those rights in the first place.

Less than two centuries later some Americans began to doubt the reality of a Creator. Charles Darwin and others of his day embraced a new religion – natural selection and theory of evolution. And today this religious theory is taught as fact to school children all across the world.

I could offer a number of resources to show why evolution makes no sense and cannot be proven by the fossil record or any other record, and perhaps in coming days I will, but for now I want to focus on one thing. Those human rights that we as a nation still cling to – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – stand on wobbly legs without the Creator who originally endowed them.

Belief in evolution has undermined our most basic human rights. If a Creator is no longer self-evident (obvious), then why should our equality or unalienable rights be obvious either? World views that embrace the evolutionary theory, if taken to their ultimate end, will strip men and women of all rights. If there is no Creator, then we have nothing on which to base the government we have maintained for over two hundred years.

The Declaration also states in the very beginning: “…and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them…”

I wonder – would there have been such a declaration of independence from foreign powers to establish this great nation if the signers had not believed that their Creator – Nature’s God – had entitled them to do so?

The men who wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence chose to separate from England’s rule and establish the government citizens of the United States know and love today. But I dare say that they never intended for this nation to deny the very Creator that led them to that destiny. It’s time we rethink where belief in the evolutionary theory has brought us. Rather than cling to it as a useless and disproved religion, we must let it go. We must repent of our disbelief and return to Nature’s God.

He alone made all of this possible in the first place.