Despite decades of indoctrination, most Americans do not bend the knee to Darwinism.

What did you do on your summer vacation? I saw America’s Established Church.

The Established Church wasn’t Anglican or Baptist or Presbyterian: It was Darwinian. On a trip across America I stopped to visit Independence Hall in Philadelphia and found next to it — on land administered by the National Park Service and protected by government guards — the American Philosophical Society Museum and the exhibition that has occupied its space since April 2009, “Dialogues with Darwin.”

The name is a misnomer. The exhibition did not feature dialogue. One small section of it listed three 19th-century challengers to Darwin — Edward Cope, August Weismann, and Hugo de Vries — but the displays told us that his wisdom dispatched them all.

“Dialogues with Darwin” was hagiography, a life of a saint, with sentences like “Despite the death of three of his children and a painful chronic illness, Darwin persevered in his work.” (Actually, it seems that Darwin persisted because of the suffering: He could not reconcile it with the existence of a good Creator.)

The only “dialogue” came in the form of sticky notes that visitors were invited to post. Some were bluster: “Science is evolution!” Some were diplomatic: “American History is very interesting,” one Japanese visitor wrote, “I had fun.”

Marvin Olasky is Editor-in-Chief of World Magazine, and Provost of The King’s College in New York City.

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