God Is—Scientific Evidence for God

America’s Founding Fathers did not establish America as a secular state. Prior to the American Revolution, nearly all of the English colonies had established state churches. And most of the first state constitutions that were written in 1776 and following also had Christian tests for government service, as well as some form of established Christianity at the state level. When the Constitution was written and adopted in 1787 and following, no attempt was made to establish a state church; the reason: most of the state constitutions already contained Christian religious expectations. Given the fact that the states were so widely divided concerning their allegiances to their various Christian denominations, it would have been impossible to write and adopt the Constitution if the Puritans of the Northeast were expected to adopt the Episcopal and Anglican tradition of the South. Because the Founding Fathers made no attempt at the Federal level to adopt a state church, some have suggested that they sought to establish a secular government void of Christian influence; but only the most ill-informed make such fallacious claims. That Christianity was not rejected by America’s Founding Fathers is clearly evident from both private and state papers.

Despite the fact that the Founding Fathers made no attempt to distance themselves or America from the Christian religion, a cultural current arose in America that claimed a scientific justification for a new political orientation in the fledgling nation. A leading voice in this movement was President Woodrow Wilson who called for a scientific approach to politics in his book, The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People. An elitist mentality began to develop in the nineteenth century that rejected the Christian heritage bequeathed to America by the Founding Fathers. Despite the fact that modern science was birthed by Christians, science began to turn from its religious origin to assume an atheistic identity. The atheistic worldview has for more than a hundred years cast a shadow of doubt upon the Christian political origin of America, and for this reason, the articles below are presented to justify the Christian political foundation of America’s Founding Fathers.

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