Posted on 06/17/2007 6:54:37 PM PDT by Rodney King
Why I believe in Creation Posted: December 17, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
I was stunned the other day when I asked evolution-believing listeners to my nationally syndicated radio show to call in and tell me why they believed.
"Just give me one reason why you accept the theory," I said. "Just give me the strongest argument. You don't have to give me mountains of evidence. Just tell me why I should accept it."
Not one evolutionist called in.
Meanwhile, the phone banks lit up with dozens of evolution skeptics.
Go figure. For more than 40 years, evolution has been taught as fact in government schools to generations of children, yet there is still widespread skepticism, if not cynicism, about the theory across the country.
But, because of political correctness and the fear of ostracism, most people are afraid to admit what they believe about our origins. That's why I wrote my last column – "I believe in Creation."
The reaction to it has been unprecedented. While I expected mostly negative fallout, most letters have been quite positive.
So, I decided to take this issue a step further. Since the evolutionists don't want to tell me why they believe in their theory, I figured I would explain why I believe in mine.
The primary reason I believe, of course, is because the Bible tells me so. That's good enough for me, because I haven't found the Bible to be wrong about anything else.
But what about the worldly evidence?
The evolutionists insist the dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago and became extinct long before man walked the planet.
I don't believe that for a minute. I don't believe there is a shred of scientific evidence to suggest it. I am 100 percent certain man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. In fact, I'm not at all sure dinosaurs are even extinct!
Think of all the world's legends about dragons. Look at those images. What were those folks seeing? They were clearly seeing dinosaurs. You can see them etched in cave drawings. You can see them in ancient literature. You can see them described in the Bible. You can see them in virtually every culture in every corner of the world.
Did the human race have a collective common nightmare? Or did these people actually see dragons? I believe they saw dragons – what we now call dinosaurs.
Furthermore, many of the dinosaur fossils discovered in various parts of the world were found right along human footprints and remains. How did that happen?
And what about the not-so-unusual sightings of contemporary sea monsters? Some of them have actually been captured.
There are also countless contemporary sightings of what appear to be pterodactyls in Asia and Africa.
You know what I think? I think we've been sold a bill of goods about the dinosaurs. I don't believe they died off millions and millions of years ago. In fact, I'm not at all convinced they've died off completely.
Evolutionists have put the cart before the horse. They start out with a theory, then ignore all the facts that contradict the theory. Any observation that might call into question their assumptions is discounted, ridiculed and covered up. That's not science.
How could all the thousands of historical records of dragons and behemoths throughout mankind's time on earth be ignored? Let's admit it. At least some of these observations and records indicate dinosaurs were walking the earth fairly recently – if not still walking it today.
If I'm right about that – which I am – then the whole evolutionary house of cards comes tumbling down.
This is the evidence about which the evolutionists dare not speak.
Species extinction rate speeding up: 50,000 species a year
Clearly Homo sapiens caused the caveman extinction.
They did not.
Thanks. Let the reparations begin.
I wouldn't put it past some stooges to try it.
Global warming deniers should snag the Gieco cavemen to impart and educate the populace on the Global warming hoax. They could have that effect without calling it a hoax. Also, they could do mortal combat with the enviro-whackos.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Too easy.
Interviewer: Tell us caveman, how does today's world stack up to that of your early ancestors?
What's he going to say? You want me to say that modern man's technology is causing tremendous harm and hardship for the hunter-gather caveman. Cavewoman and cave-children hit hardest."
Caveman: Yeah right! Like that's goanna happen -- NOT! Sipping mint-juleps poolside is such a hardship. Where do you people come from?!
I wouldn’t waste time on someone like that.
Landru guide me.
Old testament for what it was a story and that he was here on Earth to replace those stories with his word and his law.
What Jesus and Old Testament are you talking about?
“Someone who believes in Jesus can’t believe in evolution”
That is a complete lie, and I am sure that you know it isn’t true. I believe in Jesus and in evolution. What I don’t believe is that one translation of the Bible is exact, and that every word has only one possible meaning.
Genesis 12:10, Genesis 20, and Genesis 26 are all the same story about Abraham and Abimlech. They contain different information about the story, and appear to contradict each other. A little history explains the reasons for this very clearly. Different writers with different purposes. They all send the same basic message, therefore they contain biblical truth.
Maybe you don’t agree, which is your perogative. I am not God, so I am not qualified to judge the truth of your beliefs. I will, however, defend mine from your criticism. The Jesus that I believe in suffered and died so that my sins would be forgiven. This would certainly include a belief in evolution, if it was a sin (which I doubt that it is). Your claim that one cannot believe in Jesus and evolution is only that...Your claim. It has nothing to do with God or Jesus or forgiveness or Christianity. It is only your narrow and exclusive interpretation of the Bible.
I suppose the questions needing to be asked are, “Is it rational to believe in the theory of evolution and the big bang, or is it rational to believe in the creationists ideal of origins?” Would you not agree?
The List-O-Links, now the Un-Missing Links, have been relocated to DarwinCentral.org.
The direct link is http://wiki.darwincentral.org/tiki-index.php?page=Un-Missing+Links.
Within that page, you will find a link for 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution.
I can't help but marvel at the similarity in appearance between pterodactyls and the present day brown pelicans.
These guys are Florida's best fishing guides....when they're not just sitting around.
If you do belive in evolution and Jesus as you say, perhaps you would entertain Genesis 1:26 “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness”. Other texts would include Hewbrews 1:2, Colossians 1:16 and others. Now the Bible speaks of Jesus Christ involved in creation. What will you believe?? If you choose to throw out these texts, then you become the author of the Bible. If it is just a reference book, then throw it away, just believe in your self. If you choose to believe, then submit your self to the entirety of scripture, and view all things from an eternal perspective.
The words of Jesus
“The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those who do not know the secret, everything remains in parables, so that, ‘seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand; lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them’”.
“You hypocrites, Isaiah described you beautifully when he wrote - ‘This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’. You are so busy holding on to the traditions of men that you let go the commandment of God!”
“Humanly speaking it is impossible, but not with God. Everything is possible with God.”
even evolution and a 4 billion year old Earth
“I assure you that we are talking about something we really know and we are witnessing to something we have actually observed, yet men like you will not accept our evidence. Yet if I have spoken to you about things which happen on this earth and you will not believe me, what chance is there that you will believe me if I tell you about what happens in Heaven?”
” I would love to see 1 bit of evidence’
I doubt it would help you. Joe Farah, who wrote the article atop this thread, acknowledges there is a mountain of evidence but needs someone to explain to him why he should accept it.
You can’t be reasoned out of things you weren’t reasoned into.
OK, here's one. There are lots more where that came from. (Better close your eyes, lest you "see" some evidence.)
Site: Koobi Fora (Upper KBS tuff, area 104), Lake Turkana, Kenya (4, 1)
Discovered By: B. Ngeneo, 1975 (1)
Estimated Age of Fossil: 1.75 mya * determined by Stratigraphic, faunal, paleomagnetic & radiometric data (1, 4)
Species Name: Homo ergaster (1, 7, 8), Homo erectus (3, 4, 7), Homo erectus ergaster (25)
Gender: Female (species presumed to be sexually dimorphic) (1, 8)
Cranial Capacity: 850 cc (1, 3, 4)
Information: Tools found in same layer (8, 9). Found with KNM-ER 406 A. boisei (effectively eliminating single species hypothesis) (1)
Interpretation: Adult (based on cranial sutures, molar eruption and dental wear) (1)
See original source for notes:
Source: http://www.mos.org/evolution/fossils/fossilview.php?fid=33
God also said he could raise up children from stones, and in Ezekiel, God breathed into dry bones, but he also said the evening and the morning were the first day, the second day,.....etc.
Also, I find it extremely difficult to extrapolate a 4 billion year old earth and evolution from “with God, all things are possible.”, when He clearly states he created. Don’t use the scriptures for your ideas, take your ideas from the scriptures.
I believe that God created the world and everything in it. I believe that this happens through a process that I do not fully understand, that involves evolution and other processes which can be scientifically observed. I do not throw away the word of the Bible, nor do I only believe in myself. I just don’t believe that a strict literal reading is necessary or accurate. The Bible has been translated from language to language. There are many translations using different words and having different meanings. They cannot all be literally true, but they can all contain the truth.
I do not expect you to believe as I do. Nor do I condemn your beliefs. But, I am a Christian and I believe in evolution, so don’t tell me that it isn’t possible.
1 Corinthians 15:39
All you have to do is open your eyes and look at God’s creation to see that the world is older than 6,000 years. This is what Christ is telling the people when he says to them they worship the tradition and not the father. Of the Old testament Christ only refers to the ten commandments as Law all else he either is dismissive of such as when he tells the Jews they are not the sons of Abraham or he preaches that the people need to stop open their eyes and see God rather than than the word.
Genesis is a parable or even allegory as is most of the old testament. As with the teachings of Christ they are stories that are easily understood by primitive people as morality stories. They are not meant to be literal.
Your salvation doesn’t depend on your belief in a 4 billion year old world merely on your belief in Christ however your belief in a 6,000 year old world does endanger the souls those who see the world more clearly than you because they see your belief as archaic and ignorant. I don’t blame them for that in the least.
Isn't that like going to a Bhuddist Temple and asking the Baptists there to sing to Jesus? ...and wondering at the lack of response?
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