Side-by-side evidence-based comparison of Secularism, Evolution/Naturalism, Atheism using Faithscore's six weighted evidentiary criteria. Same rubric, applied uniformly.
Highest aggregate Faithscore: Secularism (53/100). The compared field spans 41 points across the same uniform rubric.
This comparison evaluates Secularism and Evolution/Naturalism and Atheism against the same six weighted evidentiary criteria — textual fidelity, historical verification, scientific testability, internal consistency, prophetic accuracy, and explanatory power — that Faithscore applies to all 313 systems in its registry. Aggregated across those criteria, Secularism receives the highest overall score (53/100), indicating limited support, with notable gaps in historical or predictive verification. Evolution/Naturalism receives the lowest of the compared systems (12/100), indicating failing support across most weighted criteria when scored against verifiable evidence. The arithmetic mean across the comparison is 30/100.
The 41-point spread is large enough that the ranking is unlikely to invert under reasonable methodological adjustments. The lower-scoring system has structural gaps in multiple criteria, not merely lower performance in one. Adherent counts are within an order of magnitude across the systems compared, so demographic weight is not a confounding factor in the comparison. Both systems are classified as modern worldview traditions, so the comparison is between systems sharing similar metaphysical commitments rather than across a worldview boundary; this should be read as a within-category ranking.
It is important to note what this comparison does not claim. A higher Faithscore is not a metaphysical proof; it is a structured summary of how a system performs on six measurable axes the framework treats as evidentially relevant. Sincere adherents may reasonably weight criteria differently than this rubric does, and a low score on one criterion does not negate the explanatory or experiential value a tradition has for its community. The methodology is published in full and the per-criterion scores are reproducible from the cited source data, so any disagreement can be located precisely — at the rubric level, the criterion level, or the underlying evidence level.
Each of the six weighted criteria, scored independently. The system with the higher score on each row is noted; aggregate ranking follows from the weighted total, not from a simple count of category wins.
Faithscore applies court-like evidentiary standards across six weighted criteria. Every system is scored against the same rubric — religious or philosophical — to surface objective comparisons. Read the full methodology.
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