You say evolution doesn't pass the common sense meter. But you don't follow with showing contradiction, just an illustration of how amazing evolution is.
Yes, it is amazing. And probably far more amazing than we can ever understand. But the fact it is amazing doesn't refute it. The handiwork of God is meant to be amazing.
I'm not arguing for you to believe in nihilist. The horde of nihilist who have seized control of the media, and who threaten to sieze control of science are perverters of the truth, and we must not abandon the power of science to them.
I'm arguing that the exploration of the wonders of God's creation is a pious and just cause, but tha your well-intentionned, hyperliteral misreading of the scripures is a threat to that cause. Believe me, the ones who are most in awe of the universe are the ones who have studied it the closest.
Centuries ago, Galileo abused the work of Copernicus to blaspheme against God. Ever since then, heretics and apostates have been trying misconstrue science into evidence God doesn't exist. The thesists, Christian and Jew, have been racing against them to uncover the truth. But wit the advent of mass media, science was brought to the masses, and it has been the nihilists presenting it.
Their victory was two-fold. First, they succeeded in misrepresenting the truth. So many popular notions of science would never find their way into a legitimate science textbok: that scientists have created life in a jar; that life has been found on Mars, that amino acids can aseemble themselves into DNA, etc., etc.
But they have also succeeded in causing Christians to become defensive against science and abandon the contest to the nihilists.
Dont ever EVER confuse what is amazing with what is implausible.
So, are you saying that God programed evolution into the first creatures that He produced?
If we take evolution to mean that purely matter can eventually, using the physical laws that we understand, produce life so complex that it will at some point have the capacity to formulate the laws which accomplished the production.
You will never get me to agree to that kind of statement. It is completely absurd.
If we take evolution to mean that God produced the initial life, but allowed the laws of His nature to progress it beyond that point, without His intervention.
You will never get me to agree to that kind of statement. It is completely absurd.
If we take evolution to mean that God produced the initial life, including the programming necessary for producing more complex life, without His intervention.
You will never get me to agree to that kind of statement. Not because it is absurd, but because He said He didn't do it that way. And it means Death was created into His creation irregardless of sin.
If you have some time I suggest you take counsel from an expert on this subject. He has numerous doctorates in the fields relating to evolution, and he is a follower of Jesus Christ.
Click here -->>His name is Dr. Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith
Curriculum Vitae
- Creationist, Chemist, & Lecturer
- Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry at University of Reading, England (1941)
- Dr.es.Sc. in pharmacological sciences from Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich
- D.Sc. in pharmacological sciences from University of Geneva (1964)
- F.R.I.C. (Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry) Professorships held at numerous institutions including: University of Illinois Medical School Center (Visiting Full Professor of Pharmacology, 1959-61, received 3 "Golden Apple" awards for the best course of lectures), University of Geneva School of Medicine, University of Bergen (Norway) School of Medicine, Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey) Medical School, etc.
- Former Director of Research for a Swiss pharmaceutical company
- Presented the 1986 Huxley Memorial Lecture at the invitation of the University of Oxford
- Author or co-author of over 70 scientific publications and more than 30 books published in 17 languages
- NATO three-star general
- Deceased
- Dr. Wilder-Smith was featured in an award-winning film and video series called ORIGINS: How the World Came to Be