Opening my eyes and my ability to reason:
I was brought up in a relatively intellectually
oriented home. We read all the "National Geographic Magazines" and
science books we could devour. Although
we lived in the countryside, we only looked through the eyes of what others
said, instead of looking through the eyes that God gave us.
I took
all the usual evolution oriented classes throughout high school, college, and
some post graduate classes as well. I
was taught that we came from apes, which came from "lesser" mammals,
which came from little hoppy crawly things, which came from minute creatures,
which came from slime, which came from a big bang, which came from matter that
had no beginning and no end, which came from nothing. Today,
some hypothesize that everything was started by "something", as long
as that "something" wasn't God.
Many prefer to believe in aliens birthing us, but neglect to explain the
Initial Cause of the aliens. And so the
debate goes on and on. Every soul has to
satisfy her or his own curiosity and spiritual and intellectual hunger. Putting off an honest spiritual search for
truth only leads us into dead ends that cost us the loss of time, money,
health, and the loss of love and respect of family and friends and colleagues,
not to mention the battles we force ourselves into against God, by trying to
'do it all' our own way. We may even
sign our own earthly and eternal death warrant by the choices that we make in
this life.
For a
long time, I was a devout Darwinian evolutionist and accepted that self-justifying
scenario quite blindly. As such, I
thought little about personal accountability.
From a spiritual standpoint, I thought that when one died the
"lights went out" and that was all there was to life or death. How lonely! How depressing! And how irresponsible! As a lusty teenager and young adult, such
beliefs were very convenient, allowing me to be the center of all that I
desired to think or do, no matter what the repercussions were. I did not bother to examine the implications
of the myriad of competing "evolutionary theories", which are often popularly
lumped together in the appearance of unity, or proclaimed as truth, even though
their hypothetical ideas often undermine each other's tenets. For all the noise about the alleged truth of "evolutionary"
claims, I saw none of the teachers or proponents of "evolution" really
trying to examine or test what they claimed.
They seemed satisfied to judge all other things by the evolutionary
ideological filters with which they had been indoctrinated. They all appeared knowledgeable and sincere,
even enthusiastic about their beliefs, so I, too, followed their lead and reiterated
what they pontificated to me. I didn't
realize how religiously protective we all were being about what we claimed to believe
about "evolution", or how we all dreaded facing the need to reexamine
the philosophical and scientific mechanisms of what and how we professed our "evolutionary"
beliefs. There was a lot of
pseudo-science camouflaging the matchstick ideological houses we built in the
name of "evolution".
On moral,
social, and emotional issues, I knew when I was really wrong, even though I did
not want to admit it, nor admit the spiritual basis of my righteous
self-judgment. I was not aware that I
was practicing poor scientific technique in those days, whenever I parroted what
I had been taught about the origin of life. As I was exposed to more people with a wider
range of outlooks and philosophies, I fought the truth harder and harder to
avoid admitting that this amazingly complex and wonderful Creation has to have
a Designer, a Law Writer, a Maintainer, and a Life Giver. I DID NOT WANT to face the fact that even the
things which appear most simple are really quite complex, deceiving our senses
because of the scale on which we view them. Discoveries about high-speed bio-magnetic motors
and torque reduction mechanisms in bacterial motility mechanisms bear this out.
See the Creation Research Society link
below, to contact them for their quarterly magazine detailing this information
(Vol 31, June 1994, Number 1).
Since
15 March 1984, when I trusted Christ for His salvation, I have opened myself to
real scientific study, as well as Scriptural study. That openness and willingness to test and
examine ideas has put me onto a more truly scientific path that leads away from
the "evolutionary" view. As I have studied the Bible and science with a
more open mind and heart, I have found that God REALLY "IS," and that
He is THE AUTHOR of all that we experience in the natural and supernatural. He is the Law Giver who restrains the evil
that has grown up in His Creation. God
is the inventor of order.
Sin
(missing God's mark by self-ish will) is the source of death and destruction. The whole order of God's creation now groans
waiting for God to cleanse it from the chaotic lawless ravages of sin. His cleansing will be by fire and total
destruction of all that now exists, except those He takes to Himself before the
end, who have honestly trusted Him and His Christ, rather than trusting man or man-made
religion. Humanity can not save itself
from itself, nor from the Judgement to come. This is not some new revelation, but biblical
teaching that is eons old, as recorded in the Bible Gospels and letters of
Peter, Paul, and John, as well as in the preceding eons of Old Testament
history and prophecy.
The
following links refer the reader to experienced scientists and science study
groups in a variety of disciplines, who subscribe to the literal biblical
account of creation. If you believe the
literal Bible account, know that you are not alone in your conviction about
that. There are literally thousands of bona fide scientists, with a host of
advanced degrees, who, also, have come to the realization, mostly through their
own research, that the universe is a NEW and YOUNG work of God, just as God
recorded in the Bible.
It
would be erroneous on my part, if I failed to admit that scientific, technical,
biblical, spiritual, social, and interpersonal errors have been made, at times,
by human parties on 'both sides' of the creation-evolution debate. However, let us not lose sight of the fact
that, in the purest sense of scientific methodology, both evolutionistic and
creationistic outlooks or models ultimately are not testable, with regard to a
Beginning Event. We humans simply can
not create nor repeat the INITIAL Event of how all things started. We can guess about it, ourselves, based on our
own observations and study of current and historical conditions, or we can take
that Event on faith, based on someone else's study of the subject. In
either case, when I was a child and as I went through college, there was little
difference between how I was taught religion and the study of origins in school. In school or church, adherence to prescribed
doctrinal tenets was demanded by school teachers, college professors, and
religious leaders alike. What they all
neglected is that they each should have been encouraging us to learn how to
question, how to examine objectively, and how to test the veracity of ideas and
practices. Even in the Bible, God says
to us, "Come let us reason together."
Swallowing and vomiting knee-jerk "science", without questioning
or reasoning, is no better than its equivalent in religion, politics, or community
and business management. God expects us
to use our gift of reasoning, whereas "yes-men" or sycophants only
serve to strip us of our reason, and thereby cripple us.
Numerous
scientists and philosophers have repeatedly asked whether a person is really
using scientific methodology, if one chooses to exclude the possibility and
study of a particular Initial Cause simply because one does not like to think about
or believe in the likelihood of that particular Initial Cause, especially if that
Initial Cause fits the data at hand better than another possible Initial Cause.
Shall we examine the evidence or shall
we blind ourselves so that we can not see it, then blame the blindness instead
of ourselves for misusing our hand to make us blind? Shall we examine all the evidence or only
look at the things we want to see? Which
of these is more scientific in its methodology?
God
says He is the ONLY Witness to the Beginning of all things. In this life, no human can ever see how God
created everything. Therefore, we really
have few choices from which to pick, concerning how we will view the subject at
hand. Do we pick tradition? educated guesswork?
wishful thinking? faith? or some combination thereof? Those who debate this topic need to admit
that ALL our competing views are based IN FAITH and BY FAITH on certain
PRECONCEIVED IDEAS which are rooted in our families, cultures, hopes, fears,
and aspirations in this life, as well as with respect to our aspirations, or
lack thereof, regarding spiritual life after our physical deaths. God places the banquet of faith before us in
the light of His highly complex and well ordered Creation. Our natural ways are not His spiritual ways
or truth, and His spiritual truth and ways are not our natural ways. We see through little eyes and minds. He sees and knows all things. He waits for us to awaken to the splendor of
what He has done, that we might partake and praise Him for His beauty and
glory.
May
the Good Lord bless your SEARCH, and your RESEARCH.
· Answers in Genesis
· Creation
Research Society Bookstore
· Institute for
Creation Research
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