”I
can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the
earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look
up into the heavens and say there is no god.” Abraham Lincoln
It would seem that too few people have been looking up lately for
more and more people are saying, ”There is no God.” David said that
this would be said by the fool but look how many there are! David,
like Abraham Lincoln, was convinced that there is a God when he
looked upward and he recorded his thoughts saying, ”When I consider
thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which
thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and
the son of man, that thou visitest him?”
When we consider the vastness of space measured in light years we
also humbly ask, what is man that the God of the universe is mindful
of him? The atheist and the agnostic will proudly tell us that all
of this ”just happened by chance” and that man is the ultimate.
Actually this belief requires more faith than that of creation because
it is so unscientific and unprovable. Professor Henry Morris rightly
said, ”The main reason most educated people believe in evolution
is simply because they have been told that most educated people
believe in evolution.” It is so obvious that it is ridiculous to
deny it and unnecessary to prove it, so they say, and therefore
they accept as a fact what is at best an unproven and unprovable
theory.
The
professional scientists have an interesting way of quoting one another
so that A quotes B and B quotes C and C cites a paper by D while
D now refers back to what A has said and by this process it is quite
possible to confuse and therefore convince all those who want desperately
to be convinced already. Charles Darwin said, ”I would give absolutely
nothing for a theory of natural selection if it required miraculous
addition at any one stage of descent.” Dr. Watson stated that he
believed in evolution ”not because it had been observed to occur,
or was supported by logically coherent arguments, but because the
only alternative, special creation, was clearly incredible.”
Yes,
those who believe in evolution do so, not because it is scientific
because it isn’t, or because it can be proved, for it can’t, but
simply because there is only one alternative and that is in creation
as recorded by God in our Bibles. Truly it does take more blind
faith to be an evolutionist than it does to be a believer in creation.
Now what are the advantages in being an atheist or agnostic and
rejecting creation for evolution? Well, of course, the strongest
point in its favor is the fact that now we can do just as we please
because there is no one who is greater than us; man is the supreme
being. This means that man is the ultimate and therefore there is
no hope of salvation and no one who can deliver us from the mess
that the world is in as a result of man’s bungling. There is no
use looking up for there is no one above to help. Everything just
happened by ”chance” and no one has the right to tell us to do anything
for we are each the master of our own destiny. We haven’t any future
anyway because death claims each one in due course.
Are
you willing to trade evolution for creation? With creation comes
the responsibility to learn of God, to obey His commands, to put
our faith and hope in Him knowing that as great as He is, and the
vastness of His universe, still He cares for us and numbers the
very hairs of our head. This is the God who created all things and
He invites you to learn of Him, to obey His commands and to become
a recipient of His gift to the faithful, life without end.
Take
your pick, choose between life and death, creation or evolution.
The choice is yours, but be prepared to accept the consequences
of your choice.
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