Thursday, April 18, 2024

Creation Moment 4/19/2024 - Observation & Response to Darwinian World View

"Satan’s strategy today is exactly the same as the one he employed in the Garden of Eden: “Did God really say?” (Gen. 3:1). 
Q:“Did God really mean that He made the world in six days?

I. Observation
Satan has “blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the Gospel” (2 Cor. 4:4), and the extent of this mind control is truly remarkable. 
--The insistence that it is a fact that ‘primitive’ life emerged out of
the oceans, by purely natural processes, is breath-taking, given that scientists have absolutely no idea how it could have happened. 
--Evolutionists are hard pressed to identify more than one or two mutations that appear to have added information to genomes, yet they insist that this happened billions and billions of times throughout history, to create all the complexity of the living world. 
--The dogma of an exceedingly ancient Earth, when current rates of erosion indicate that the continents would have been flattened many times over, were they really millions of years old, is nothing less than self-inflicted blindness.

*The insistence that belief in evolution is necessary for scientific advancement and medical progress is astonishing, given the difficulty scientists have in pointing to technological breakthroughs which arose from evolutionary thinking. As pointed out by Dr. Marc Kirschner, founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School,
In fact, over the last 100 years, almost all of biology has proceeded independent of evolution, except evolutionary biology itself. Molecular biology, biochemistry, physiology, have not taken evolution into account at all.”

II. Response
--When people question us about whether God cares about us in our fallen state, 
*we can tell them that, no sooner had man sinned, God announced His plan of salvation (Gen. 3:15). 
--When they ask us why the sedimentary rocks contain billions of fossils, and billions of tons of coal and other fossil fuels, 
*we can point them to the Noahic Flood (Gen. 6-8). 
--When they ask us where the different ‘human races’ came from, 
*we can point them to the dispersal at Babel (Gen. 11:1-9) and explain that there is only one human race, the one descended from Adam
--When they ask us how Christ could die for their sins, 
*we can explain that just as all sinned in Adam, so all may be redeemed in Christ (1 Cor. 15:21-22). 
--According to Jesus, the greatest commandment is 
*that we should love the Lord our God with all our hearts and with all our souls and with all our minds (Matt 22:37). 

Q: How can we do this if we have lingering doubts that we do not get answered? 
A: The answer is God’s Word, which provides “an anchor for the soul, firm and secure” (Heb. 6:19)." 
CMI