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Creation vs Evolution

Creation science is the Seattle Seahawks. The philosophy of evolutionism is the Denver Broncos. Let them compete on a level playing field and it is almost embarrassing to watch.  There is a reason why evolution is normally only taught in forums and classrooms where critical thinking and challenging questions aren’t permitted. It’s because evolution is impossible, disproved, ridiculous.  The evolutionist, like the creation scientist, believes in miracles, but believes in causeless miracles without God. This is irrational.  But it is what you must believe to accept evolution.  There is no natural mechanism by which any living creature can have offspring of another kind, no natural force that can cause the creation of and addition of new genetic material into an offspring that didn’t come from its parent.  And the fact that life cannot be spontaneously brought into existence from non-life, no matter how much energy is exerted in the effort, is patently obvious if you limit yourself to the natural laws of the universe.  The only way these things could have come about is for billions and billions of miracles (super-natural occurrences) to have happened without God even being there to make it so.  What a joke.  Yes, evolutionist, I believe in miracles just like you; I just understand there has to be a transcendent being who is above and beyond matter, space, time, and energy to cause it, while you vainly imagine the laws of nature constantly contradicted themselves until slime on a rock evolved into you and me.  If your mind is able to believe that this could happen if “mother nature” were just granted billions of years of trying, then you have more blind faith than I could ever be persuaded to exercise.  God is real.  A scientist who looks at the evidence and doesn’t think so isn’t thinking clearly on the subject.  It is foolish and irrational to be atheist.  It is logical and intelligent to examine the Bible’s every claim and let it prove itself true.
++Bill Nye believes in the causless miracles of matter and consciousness coming from nowhere, and yet scoffs at the idea Noah and his three adult sons could have built a boat that would float.

Who are the real skeptics?

The belief that this universe and all that is in it came about by an unplanned, unguided, unintended explosion of absolutely nothing is the most irrational of superstitions out there. And those who believe it, despite the lack of a scintilla of evidence that it could have happened, have no right to don the label of “skeptic,” as today’s agnostics and atheists are so fond of doing. They are the most gullible of people.
If I were to tell my 5-year-old that everything in the world came out of nothing at all, and that no one made it happen, even she would have enough skepticism in her innocent little mind to not only doubt my words, but completely disbelieve them. Atheists aren’t skeptics. They are people who put their skepticism to death on the altar of desire to be free from sensing any accountability to God.

The god atheists worship

Atheists today, lacking a god, often like to worship Richard Dawkins. (In the sense that they take his words as truth and accept them with the blindest of faiths.) Take a look at what that guy believes. Hard to believe he can even manage to dress himself, walk, and talk.

Hawking’s New Book

Breaking News: This just in–Stephen Hawking’s new book actually wrote itself! Then it was published and promoted by a process of undirected natural selection.

Dawkins is right about this part


“People certainly blame science for nuclear weapons and similar horrors. It’s been said before but needs to be said again: if you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so. The trick is to want the right things; then science will provide you with the most effective methods of achieving them.”
—Evolutionionary biologist and Pope* of the New World Church of God is Probably Fake, Richard Dawkins

He’s right that wanting to do right–not technological capability–is the issue of what separates good actions from evil ones. And it goes without saying, that a want to do right instead of what is selfish simply isn’t present in the human heart until said human heart has been touched by the God whom Dawkins calls a “delusion,” to his own demise.

*That title is sarcasm on my part, since the atheists who trouble themselves to write me lengthy hate mail tend to view Dawkins with unquestioning blind faith as their spiritual leader, and since Dawkins’ latest crusade is an ad campaign exhorting people with “There’s probably no god, so stop worrying…”

Easy to Prove a Negative

Okay, so if you’ve debated atheists long enough, you’ve several times heard them whine about how you’re being unfair in the debate by requiring them to provide evidence for their beliefs, because, as they like to put it, “you can’t prove a negative” or “you can’t prove something DOESN’T exist.”
It’s nonsense, though. It is actually quite easy to prove a negative assertion, if that negative assertion is true. I wouldn’t break an intellectual sweat trying to sufficiently prove to you that there is no pink elephant sitting on my couch, there is no person on earth who is 40 feet tall, or that there is no Santa Claus or Easter bunny. It would be easy to find empirical evidence sufficient to persuade all but the most delusional of people that those negative assertions are entirely true, and not just provable, but proven.
The atheist’s problem isn’t that he is helplessly painted into a corner trying to defend a negative assertion–the non-existence of someone. His problem is that his negative assertion not only lacks supporting evidence, but is at odds with an infinite amount of evidence to the contrary. His problem is that the reason he cannot prove God isn’t there, is that he is simply wrong.

Theistic Atheism

The letters continue to pour in, more than ever before in my eight years of blogging, in response to this week’s not-so-soft criticism of atheists and their faith. It appears that they aren’t all that used to being openly criticized, because they come unraveled so much more quickly than the adherents of any other religious system that has ever disagreed with my admittedly narrow theological beliefs. Their anger, profanity, threats, and foot-stomping demands that I “shut up,” “stay in church,” publish their responses RIGHT NOW, or go burn in a place I thought they didn’t believe existed, makes me feel like I’ve challenged a bunch of pouty teenagers to a debate.

But there’s another category of professing atheist, different from these ones that are devoted to their faith in godlessness to the point of being incapable of reason. This different kind of atheist actually believes deep down that God is there, but claims to believe He isn’t, because he or she is angry at God. These ones make comments about how if there were a God, then there wouldn’t be any of what they ironically call “acts of God,” like hurricanes, earthquakes, and all sources of suffering. These ones protest, rather confidently, that if God were real, they would have seen Him, and He would have come to them and been forced to answer to them for all of the things they perceive He is doing wrong in the world. Since He has never shown up to apologize for the fact that their mother died, or their friend got cancer, or whatever other horror they’ve endured, they decided in their hearts that the best revenge against Him for what they perceive as His indifference to their suffering, is to look Him in the eye and say, “You aren’t there. You don’t exist.” They know, deep down, He is there; but they’re mad at Him.
If they were right in their perceptions about His indifference, or about His injustice, then they would indeed have reason to be angry at Him. But He isn’t really the reason they have suffered. He is actually the One who can heal their pain and restore to them everything that has been lost, stolen, broken, or murdered in their hearts. Like Job in his moments of weakness, after he lost his 10 children, his property, and his health, they demand an audience with God so that they can state their case, plead their innocence, and have God apologize for failing to bless and protect them as much as they feel they deserved.
It’s an amazing thing that God did show up when Job summoned Him to a meeting. But what He said when He got there wasn’t anything like Job expected from the encounter.
If you’re one of those who is absolutely ticked off at God because of what you’ve been through, let me advise you not to deny Him. You don’t gain anything by that. It won’t make you happy or bring you peace and healing. Let me advise that instead you come to Him and seek His help and healing. He loves you, He can help you, and His answers to your problems, fears, and hurts will be more than satisfactory if you show the wisdom to take Him at His word, instead of just believing the falsehoods your heart has told you about Him. He saw your tears. And He wants to help you. He will, if you will let Him.

Creation vs evolution

Earlier this summer, we did a four-part series at the church on Genesis 1-2, looking at Creation and how the Bible stands strong, being backed up even by the scientific evidence, which is conspicuously lacking in the evolutionary atheist camp.  It was probably the most well-received Bible study series I’ve taught in the past year.  You can listen to the series here, also followed by a link to a gospel study from Genesis 3-4.

Genesis 1a– Creation and the big bang

Genesis 1b-Creation of life

Genesis 2a-Creation of humanity, a closer look

Genesis 2b–Creation of marriage and family

Genesis 3-4 “The first family and sin”

The entire series is in English and Romanian.