Human secularism needs to explain itself, and evolution is the only thing it has to do that. Materialism is actually a philosophy, lends itself to sayings like 'whoever has the most toys wins.' I really feel they are all tied in together, evolution as a religious belief within them. Human secularism = atheism.

Personally though I think you enter an area here where, simply because man is his own god within those philosophies, man can choose to admit or deny anything he wants, because he is the ultimate authority. So, the fact that they choose to deny that evolution is religion, is all just part of the same thing. They will never admit it, most anyway, kind of a waste of time to argue it. They have made themselves the authority on the issue, facts and definitions really don't matter.

My big question is... among all these men-gods... who is the top god? Who is their ultimate authority? Certainly someone must sit at the top of the human pyramid, someone who the rest never dare argue with.