YE creationism is a religion, because it depends on faith, not evidence.
Evolution, of course is a phenomenon, for which evolutionary theory is the best available explanation. And since the men who first proposed the presently accepted theory of evolution (Darwin and Wallace) were Christians, the idea that it was an atheistic plot is laughable. Darwin later became an agnostic, but Wallace remained a devoted Christian all his life.
All of science is methodologically naturalistic. It merely assumes that science can only understand the physical universe, without making any assumptions that the physical universe is all there is. Because of that, scientists can do science, and still be theists.
As most of us are.
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