Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, ...
2 Peter 3:3
Lucretius was a self-declared enemy of Scripture.
---He said that if
the origin of things could be explained without the need for gods, by
natural means, people would cease to have fear of right and wrong, and
would develop freely, doing and behaving as they desired.
---Bent on doing
just that, Lucretius went into detail on the formation of life from
nonlife in a primordial “soup” and spent a good deal of time explaining
the long evolutionary ascent of life from simple to complex.
---He went
into great detail discussing the influence of environmental factors like
food supply on the evolutionary development of new adaptations.
---Finally, according to Lucretius, life evolved as far as the early
ancestors of man, primitive creatures having a “framework of bigger and
solider bones fastened through their flesh to stout sinews.”
Luther often cited the creation account as an example of the clarity of
Scripture. .... he stated the philosophers (the evolutionary writers) would never
accept that since they work on the basis of human reason which “is
blind, deaf, senseless, godless and sacrilegious in its dealing with all
God’s words and works … ” CMI
