# 1991 VHS • Pagan Invasion Vol 7 • Evolution: From Physics to Metaphysics • 4K Remaster 60 FPS

Pagan Invasion Volume 7: Evolution, From Physics to Metaphysics is the seventh installment of the Jeremiah Films series hosted by Chuck Smith and Caryl Matrisciana. The program examines how the theory of evolution has expanded from a biological claim into a metaphysical and spiritual worldview that forms the basis of the New Age movement. The program argues that evolutionary science has become a religion of its own, with British biologist L. Harrison Matthews acknowledged to have written that belief in evolution is in essence a religious one, analogous to belief in special creation. The program covers the history of humanist ideology in public education, tracing it to a 1981 meeting in Washington D.C. at which leading evolutionary scientists, including Frank Press of the National Academy of Sciences and figures from the ACLU, coordinated a strategy to ensure evolution remained the exclusive framework taught in schools. Isaac Asimov is quoted arguing that teaching alternative views would require students to discard their sense of logic. The Louisiana 1981 Balanced Treatment law requiring equal time for creation science alongside evolution is discussed and its Supreme Court defeat is traced. A biology teacher facing institutional pressure for questioning evolution is profiled. The program also examines Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, whose books Zoonomia and The Temple of Nature anticipated evolutionary theory, and the role of John Dewey as the father of modern…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1991
- By: The Vista Group®
- Genres: Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-PaganInvasionVol7EvolutionFromPhysicstoMetaphysics4K1991)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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