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”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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