One of the fundamental issues between origins science and creationism is that "science" has now been defined to allow only naturalistic explanations. And since scientists are not satisfied with "I don't know" as an answer, they end up promoting theories of our origins which must exclude God by definition. It seems that keeping the philosophy of naturalism is more important than understanding what is real and true. The Bible speaks of an entire spiritual world which is just as real as the physical world we see. Just as scientists infer conclusions about what they can't see from what they can observe, the design and purpose evident in the universe, earth, and living things infers the existence of a powerful creator.

Even though the scientific community claims it is following "methodological naturalism" and not necessarily "philosophical naturalism", the end result encourages an atheistic world-view.