Does absolute truth exist? Newly released data from pollster George Barna confirms that most Americans do not think so. An analysis of results from the American Worldview Inventory 2025, a representative sampling of 2,100 American adults from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, indicates that 67 percent embrace the postmodern idea that truth is subjective and there are no absolutes.

Specifically, 67 percent of survey respondents agreed with the statement: “A mature human accepts different truth views to be just as valid as their own views.” The results were similar whether the respondents were Christian or non-Christian. About 67 percent of self-identified Christians expressed a belief that different truth views were equally valid, compared with 69 percent of non-Christians.

About 45 percent of survey respondents said the fact that “perceptions of moral truth change over time and across cultures” proves there is no absolute truth. A similar share (44 percent) said the fact that “different religions/philosophies” have “conflicting ideas about moral truth” proves there is no absolute truth.

These findings indicate a broad American consensus that truth is something human beings create instead of an objective reality waiting to be discovered. Yet this consensus is demonstrably false. Gravity and electromagnetism exist whether or not you believe in them, and so does moral truth.

The idea that there is no such thing as truth either in the moral or the scientific sense was a fringe academic theory for most of human history until Charles Darwin popularized the theory of evolution. Natural law and absolute truth exist only in a universe created by a Creator. When people started believing that creation does not require a Creator, they began accepting the idea that law does not require a Lawgiver.

Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man, “If … men were reared under precisely the same conditions as hive-bees, there can hardly be a doubt that our unmarried females would, like the worker-bees, think it a sacred duty to kill their brothers, and mothers would strive to kill their fertile daughters; and no one would think of interfering.”

This was a disturbing notion in 1871, but today, humanity’s females abort babies by the millions while roughly half the population approves of this decision as moral. Even many Christians believe abortion is moral because they no longer believe in a God who is “the same yesterday, and today, and forever” (Hebrews 13:8).

The late Herbert W. Armstrong warned of this in 1985 in his landmark book Mystery of the Ages. “Higher education contemptuously ignores, without any consideration whatsoever, the biblical truths revealing man’s presence on the Earth and the causes of the present state of civilization,” he wrote. “Education in the civilized world today has become entirely materialistic. Education has become a combination of the agnosticism of evolution, the politics and economics of Karl Marx, and the morals and social patterns of Sigmund Freud. Higher education remains in utter ignorance of the mystery of mankind and of human civilization.”

Today, many Christians who vehemently disagree with Darwinism, Marxism and Freudism have nevertheless accepted the idea that morality is an ever changing by-product of evolution. So they dismiss biblical passages against effeminacy, fornication and homosexuality as irrelevant to our modern sophisticated world.

Until humanity accepts God’s inexorable spiritual law as static, stationary, eternal and unchanging, we stand in great danger. Unless the Creator intervenes to save this world’s sick society, the moral relativism and evolutionary progressivism radiating throughout modern society will poison all humanity.

To learn more, read “The World’s Most Powerful Weapon.”