I've had a unique privilege to attend a Creation Science class through my church. It is taught by a gentlemen who has a whole slew of science degrees to include an MD and degrees in chemistry. He used to teach evolution as a college professor before he became a believer in Jesus Christ. Since becoming a believer, he has had his eyes opened to the errors of modern science and he has the ability to articulate about the different issues like no other. The man is a walking encyclopedia. I wish to share this information in order to edify the body of believers that the Bible is true, and universe is young. There is plenty of scientific evidence out there, and this is my introduction to sharing it.
The Bible:
The Bible is the absolute authority. It is the compilation of generations of credible witnesses and testimony of the Word, who is the Truth, who is Jesus Christ. The Bible does not have all the details of the ages recorded. It is not a science book. That is not its purpose. It is a book on relationships among men and their Creator. The Bible does accurately make mention of very involved scientific processes in a language that a common shepherd could understand. Many scientists have only began to figure out many of these highly involved scientific processes in the 19th century only to later discover that these processes have been explained in the book of Job or some other book in the Bible. Sometimes, the translation of the Scriptures into English can sometimes lose some of the descriptive power that the Scripture is trying to make. But, we are going to try to get past all of that and get down to the Truth.
Jesus said it best to the pharisees:
"If you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?" Jesus, Gospel of John 5:46-47.
If people can't believe the Genesis story of Moses who was writing about Jesus who is the Creator, then their beliefs in Jesus as Lord and Savior can come into question. If this seems hard, go back to the verse and see what He had to say. Moses is one of His witnesses. To shun the witness, is to shun Christ. To shun Christ, is to shun God. To shun God, . . . is to reject Truth, Heaven, this Life, and Eternal Life. Data and evidence are up to interpretations and misinterpretations; Truth is not to be tampered with or else there will be a Great Lion on your case.
Modern Problems with Science
Most of the problems of scientific claims, other than being against the Bible, is that science has accepted a certain story that is not based upon fact. According to Issac Newton, physics is the art of observing creation to explore the mysteries of the Creator. Nowadays, the common evolutionary scientist has made himself the author of the story and is trying to replace God. He feels energized as pride sets himself up for the ultimate fall . . . being the stumbling block for millions. Scripture warns us "There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end, it only results in destruction." Philosophically, the evolutionary perspective also gives birth to world systems that are void of compassion and love and focus solely on cold efficiency that wishes to discard all else out of the way. Beliefs such as "survival of the fittest" also mean "might makes right" which fuel things like Nazis who believe in Aryan supremacy.
Evolutionists have created the story and indoctrinated the entire world without providing credible evidence. A credible scientific process is supposed to take the evidence, make observations, and then present what is believed to be going on. The anthem of evolutionists is basically, "well, we will just have to keep trying to find more fossils until we find one that fits." It is unfortunate how much evidence is thrown out because it does not meet their creation story. And, later we will get into the false tampering of fossils found used to just illustrate what they believe things should look like. Often times, evolutionists do proclaim that they have gone so far with the investment of money, reputation, and time in the development of their theories, that there is no turning back for them. And they are also known to say that most of their interpretations of the evidence laying before them mostly comes for their intense desire to see it. In other words, they see what they want to believe. The same could be said about Creationists, but I would have to say that it is Jesus who gives sight to the blind.
The Conflict
Evolutionists believe in a very old Earth and Universe. There are two reasons for this: 1. They are all uniformitarianists which means that they believe that by studying present day rates of decay, continental drift, sun shrinkage, and many other things, that you can kind of count backwards to see how things were millions of years ago. Just check out the quote in the beginning of most geology textbooks which declares that we study the present in order to understand the past. The problem is the past is the past, and the present is the present. 2. In order for their mathematically impossible random events to happen to support evolution, you have to keep piling on billions of years in order to beat the odds. So, when you take both of these things into account, I pose this question? How can life on Earth evolve millions and billions of years ago, when if you take the present shrinkage rate of the sun, the Earth would be inside of the sun? Uh-oh, back to the drawing board.
Creationists believe in a dynamic, explosive Earth and universe that undergoes rapid change. For example, when Mount St Helen erupted in the 1980's, coal was produced within a 24 hour period (the process was observed and then reduplicated in laboratory environment), not in millions of years. Another amazing event that happened with the eruption of Mount St Helen is that a 40-90 MPH mudslide carved out a 140 foot deep canyon in solid rock within a 24 hour period known today as Little Grand Canyon. What does this tell us about the actual
Today, Creationists and Evolutionists are examining the same pile of bones and are coming to different conclusions. This illustrates the huge impact that perspective, beliefs, and world views have. Unfortunately, only one side of the story typically gets out to the masses.
My Goal
Even though I love science, my love for God's Word reigns supreme. When it comes down to it, it is science which has to go back to the drawing board and catch up. I wish to take these studies I have done and been involved with and share them with all of you.
The Scripture foretells that powerful delusions will sweep across the world as we approach the end. I think the closer to the end we get, the more powerful the delusions will be. How many children lose their faith because they are taught evolution 5+ hours per week by a professional educator, and then go to Sunday School one hour per week? Church, our weapons are Truth and Love, the very nature of our God which make Him so Powerful. May we bring both to arms.
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