"When asked, ‘What would it take to get you to leave Christianity?’ I responded, ‘Convince me that God doesn’t exist.’
After some musings, I added, ‘Let’s lower the bar. Convince me of a scientific “fact” that is,
according to Richard Dawkins, supposedly as indubitable as “the earth goes round the sun”. That is, the neo-Darwinian synthesis (i.e., simple life starting billions of years ago, primitive genetic replication, natural selection, ape-men, the whole dog-and-pony show). Convince me that’s true, and I’m gone.’
How so? If Darwin were even close to getting origins right, God might as well have told us that the stork brings babies as to inspire Genesis 1 and 2. If creation took 4 billion years, as opposed to six days (off by a factor of only about 182.5 billion:1), why should I believe anything God says? A fortune cookie from a Chinese restaurant would give better odds of getting things right.
And the Sabbath day of rest, revealed to Moses and the children of Israel as a memorial of a six-day creation that really took eons? Please! We might as well pay homage to the stork.
But how can death be the ‘enemy’ if, as evolutionists assert, it was one of God’s chosen means for creating humans? The Lord must have expended plenty of Australapithecus afarensis, Homo heidelbergensis, and so on in order to finally get one into His own image (Homo sapiens). So Jesus comes to save humankind from the very process God used to create it in the first place?
Then there’s the altruism problem, one that troubles even atheistic evolutionists, much less those who toss a loving God into the mix. If this vicious, dog-eat-dog process of natural selection—in which the strong overpower the weak—were the means by which we came into existence, why should we do differently? Are we not following God, and the dictates of nature as He ordained it, when we advance our own interests at the expense of the less ‘naturally selected’? Shouldn’t we eliminate the weak, making way for those already closer to the ‘image of God’—the process for which all this pain, suffering and death were ultimately to lead?" Clifford Goldstein/CMI
After some musings, I added, ‘Let’s lower the bar. Convince me of a scientific “fact” that is,
How so? If Darwin were even close to getting origins right, God might as well have told us that the stork brings babies as to inspire Genesis 1 and 2. If creation took 4 billion years, as opposed to six days (off by a factor of only about 182.5 billion:1), why should I believe anything God says? A fortune cookie from a Chinese restaurant would give better odds of getting things right.
And the Sabbath day of rest, revealed to Moses and the children of Israel as a memorial of a six-day creation that really took eons? Please! We might as well pay homage to the stork.
But how can death be the ‘enemy’ if, as evolutionists assert, it was one of God’s chosen means for creating humans? The Lord must have expended plenty of Australapithecus afarensis, Homo heidelbergensis, and so on in order to finally get one into His own image (Homo sapiens). So Jesus comes to save humankind from the very process God used to create it in the first place?
Then there’s the altruism problem, one that troubles even atheistic evolutionists, much less those who toss a loving God into the mix. If this vicious, dog-eat-dog process of natural selection—in which the strong overpower the weak—were the means by which we came into existence, why should we do differently? Are we not following God, and the dictates of nature as He ordained it, when we advance our own interests at the expense of the less ‘naturally selected’? Shouldn’t we eliminate the weak, making way for those already closer to the ‘image of God’—the process for which all this pain, suffering and death were ultimately to lead?" Clifford Goldstein/CMI
I have made the earth,
and created man upon it:
Isaiah 45:12
