CheckMate: Chess Analogy

......through deceit they refuse to know Me, 

saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:6

"Suppose scientists decide to study the origins of chess:

from the rules of the game,

to the principles and laws behind those rules,

to the color, shape, and composition of the squares,

the board,

and the pieces themselves.

Suppose, too, working from the philosophical presupposition of

ontological naturalism, they limit their research to the physical components of the game alone.

That is, they are not allowed to probe, peek, or theorize beyond the material elements before them, on the assumption that only from within these material elements and their precursors did the pieces, the board, and the rules of the game arise to begin with.

However,
*because human beings—transcending and existing outside of the material elements of the game—had, in fact, created chess, whatever process that these scientists theorize as the origin of the game will, by default, be wrong because they ruled out the correct one.

The process, the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, is premised on

ontological naturalism, an assumption antithetical to any reasonable interpretation of the Genesis creation account. 

And that is because the Genesis account is suffused with a transcendent supernaturalism that contradicts the naturalistic presuppositions of the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis." 

Clifford Goldstein