Well the fault is mine. I know these concepts and phrases are not commonplace. Let me try a different way of explaining it.
Secularism teaches that we all possess a universal, autonomous reason. As Decartes put it, "I think therefore I am." The only thing certain in life is my own logic. For the secularist, this logic is the foundation of how everything is known and this logic is self-derived. So, we all gather around and use our self-derived intellect to make sense of the world around us. We do this by observing things, labeling things and classifying things. You know, genus, phylum, species, etc. We have names for all kinds of things and through these names we claim to possess understanding of those things. Thus, religion is viewed as completely unnecessary for possessing knowledge. Reason is all that is necessary and that comes from ourselves. Also, this view is based on the idea that we are all ontologically univocal. This means that we all possess our own being. We are "individuals" who are self-sustained in a world that is self-sustained. In effect, the idea is that we and all of creation is completely independent from God. God created this world and us as something entirely other than himself and it all exists apart from him and independently of him. Of course, this is how the philosophical view started....then suddenly God was simply erased from the picture by the secularist.
The Bible teaches that intellect and reason are not self-possessed, but is a gift from God. Wisdom comes from God, not from us. My intelligence and even my every breath is a gift from God. I don't sustain myself, God sustains me. Reason is not rooted in nothing, but in the wisdom of God. Creation is not self-sustained. Rather, all creation exists because God exists. We do not exist apart from Him. I am not arguing for pantheism here, because creation is truly a gift that operates freely, but it still is not self-sustained. So, science, when done properly, is about understanding God. Creation is a reflection of God, not a reflection of itself. There is something deeper to reality than the mere substances themselves. So, it is an illegitimate idea to argue whether or not we should teach "creationism" is the public school. The fact that we can think, teach, understand and even exist is proof that God exists in my mind. And for someone to say that they can think, teach, or exist apart from God is not a scientific claim, but a faith-based claim. It is a philosophy, not a science that makes such claims. It is an act of faith to claim that there is an unaided, universal reason that all mankind operates out of in order to understand a world that is self-sustained and exists in and of itself (which may or may not carry proofs that it was created thousands or billions of years ago).
I don't think we should engage in such debates because the starting point is one that is well outside what the Bible teaches. The whole earth is filled with the glory of God. I hope this makes more sense.