In fact, pagans and neo-pagans still desire to practice human sacrifice where they are able, believing the shedding of blood will appease their gods, bring them favor, or enable them to gain spiritual power from the soul or spirit of the sacrificed individual.

There is in fact a school of thought which traces evolution and materialism back to the pagan beliefs of Sumeria and Babylon, both of which cultures practiced human sacrifice and worshipped inanimate objects.

http://www.harunyahya.com/books/science/dna/dnamiracle1.php

The materialist philosophy, once imposed on the mass of humanity under the guise of science, is ironically being defeated today by science itself. Materialism, the philosophy which holds that everything is composed of matter and which denies the existence of God, is actually the contemporary version of paganism. Ancient pagans used to worship non-living beings like wooden or stone totem poles and considered them divine beings. Materialist philosophy, on the other hand, bases its claim on the belief that man and all other beings are created out of atoms and molecules. According to this superstitious view, non-living atoms somehow organised themselves and over time acquired life and consciousness, finally bringing man into being.

This superstitious belief based on materialism is called "evolution." The belief in evolution, first introduced in the pagan cultures of the ancient Sumerians and then the ancient Greeks, was in a way revived in the 19th century by a group of materialist scientists and brought on to the world agenda. Charles Darwin is the best known of these scientists. The theory of evolution he advanced wasted the time of the world of science for 150 years, and despite its flawed nature having been widely acknowledged, it has been sustained until quite recently for purely ideological reasons. ...


http://www.evolutiondeceit.com/chapter3.php

The roots of evolutionist thought go back as far as antiquity as a dogmatic belief attempting to deny the fact of creation. Most of the pagan philosophers in ancient Greece defended the idea of evolution. When we take a look at the history of philosophy we see that the idea of evolution constitutes the backbone of many pagan philosophies....



...the connections being obvious in themselves to anyone with a knowledge of ancient religions, including some that still exist today under various names but still pagan nonetheless as regards their belief system and direct, undenied, lineage from the ancient beliefs.

Paganism is alive and well, we have an example right here among us, and evolution is it's creation story. Deny it as evolutionists most certainly will, it is like saying they invented the beliefs themselves, which they didn't. they simply should have spent more time in history class and perhaps done a more comprehensive study of religion before ever claiming evolution is a new idea, because the basic tenets of evolution are as old as the hills and move hand in hand with the same superstitions that enabled ancient peoples to believe a rock was a god, capable of powerful things, and killing virgins or drinking blood would bring them blessings, power, or somehow extend their own lives.