Why I believe in Creation

Worlnetdaily ^ | 12/17/2004 | joe farah

[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.

[GodGunsGuts]

Before I comment further, just what is it you believe homo erectus proves?

[Cedric]

Sleep “tight” {figuratively speaking}.

[quiverfull]

Long past by may be true, but you forgot the phrase will exist to all eternity in the life to come. good night

[El Cid]

Time for bed and no time for your nonsense tonight. Good luck on living in a world that has long past your kind by.

Good night.
And don't worry don't worry about me, "for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day".
Its best to live by the creed of 'Let God be true, but every man a liar...'
than to rely on what's popular in the world at the moment - for man's popularity is fleeting - a vapor.
God is eternal.

[El Cid]

Re: 148

Okay, gravity is a fact and, conversely, evolution is a theory.

I vote for '...evolution is wild-arsed speculation'...

[Cedric]

Not necessarily. Did you hear about the explosion in a junk yard which resulted in a perfectly constructed Boeing 747?

[Bogtrotter52]

“What was the title of your uncle’s thesis and at what school did he defend it? What are some of the papers he wrote?”

It is always so telling when you hit “replies” and see “no replies” on a blank white screen. Pretty much says it all. LOL

[GodGunsGuts]

Be sure to pray to your Natural Selection god.

[BuckeyeForever]

“I believe the evidence, and because I’m a Christian, I believe Scripture, which in many many many ways contradicts the theory of evolution. Someone who believes in Jesus can’t believe in evolution — what He believed and spoke directly contradicts the theory.”

I agree completely. In fact, people make me really mad when I tell them my theory and they laugh at me. Here’s my theory. People have told me it is impossible for someone to sneak into my room at night, leaving no evidence whatsoever of breaking and entering, and reach under my pillow, remove the tooth I lost, replace it with some cash, and then leave just as quietly as she entered. I don’t care what they say, because I was once told by people I trust completely (my parents) that there really is a Tooth Fairy. So I know how you feel — I say we just let those phony junk science types tell their lies all they want. No pointy headed intellectuals are going to talk me out of my leap of faith in the Tooth Fairy.

[BuckeyeForever]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Christianity is completely antithetical to macro-evolution. If the Bible is true, God created a man, then a woman from a man, in the Garden of Eden. Maybe you’ve heard of Adam and Eve.
Christians believe that man fell from grace with God when Adam ate from the wrong tree after God told him not to. That act of disobedience left all of mankind doomed — each man and woman since then is born in sin — because of the “original sin.” The “wages of sin,” as Christianity holds, is death. Jesus was sent to Earth to redeem man from that original sin, assuming one accepts him in his heart. That is Christianity in a nutshell.
Only an idiot believes this nonsense. Evolution is a “theory” by definition, but it is a solid one backed by several disciplines in science. Evolution disproves the mythology of the Adam and Eve story, and in doing so, destroys the notion of “original sin.” Which means there was no need for a redeemer. Case closed.

[BuckeyeForever]

You didn’t direct your question to me, but I can answer it. Homo erectus was a now-extinct species of the Homo genus, part of the family of hominins. It may or may not have been a direct ancestor of modern man, but it lived on this planet over a million years ago. It may have been one of the first hunter-gatherers (omnivores) in our genus. (Probably not related to Adam and Eve, however, since they were “made from scratch” only 6000 years ago. Yuk, yuk.)

[BuckeyeForever]

I was once in the same dark place which you now inhabit. I actually became a Christian by setting out to disprove what I thought then were wives’ tales about an itinerant carpenter from the Middle East. Many of the most effective and ardent Christian advocates came to Christ through this route. Like me, they took a look at the evidence and concluded that, amazingly, the Bible is literally true and Christ is the Son Of God and He mandates that each person decide {with eternal consequences} what to do with those facts.
But, this quest for truth requires two things: {1} intellectual honesty and {2} spiritual humility.”

You forgot to mention: (3) a complete disregard of science, and (4) a complete disregard of logic.

[GodGunsGuts]

“If pressed about man’s ancestry, I would have to unequivocally say that all we have is a huge question mark. To date, there has been nothing found to truthfully purport as a transitional specie to man, including Lucy, since 1470 was as old and probably older. If further pressed, I would have to state that there is more evidence to suggest an abrupt arrival of man rather than a gradual process of evolving.” 10

—Richard Leakey, 1990

You might want to read the following re: H. erectus et al:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v13/i2/human_fossils.asp

Also, you might want to read the following re: the reliability of dating methods:

http://www.detectingdesign.com/geologiccolumn.html

http://www.detectingdesign.com/ancientice.html

http://www.detectingdesign.com/carbon14.html

http://www.detectingdesign.com/radiometricdating.html

[Mmmike]

If you start with Protestantism and follow where it leads, you're going to end up with either fundamentalism or the materialist breed of evolution. They're two sides of the same coin.

It cannot be that God wants each of us to invent the whole Christian religion from scratch, as the strict private interpretation of Scripture would have us do; it puts method before content, thereby relativizing the content. If people hold fast to the Protestant project, eventually they will either revolt against its own logical tendencies, as the fundamentalists do, or they will cease trying to find God in their intellectual project, as the convinced atheists do.

To arrive at another understanding of origins (for example, divinely-guided evolution), you have to be open to alternatives like Orthodoxy and Catholicism.

[Coyoteman]

Name one shred of actual "evidence" for Evolution. Just one. Any one. Please.

I already met your challenge to "name 1" bit of evidence for evolution. Apparently you just waved it away. OK, here is some more evidence.

Figure 1.4.4. Fossil hominid skulls. Some of the figures have been modified for ease of comparison (only left-right mirroring or removal of a jawbone). (Images © 2000 Smithsonian Institution.)

(A) Pan troglodytes, chimpanzee, modern
(B) Australopithecus africanus, STS 5, 2.6 My
(C) Australopithecus africanus, STS 71, 2.5 My
(D) Homo habilis, KNM-ER 1813, 1.9 My
(E) Homo habilis, OH24, 1.8 My
(F) Homo rudolfensis, KNM-ER 1470, 1.8 My
(G) Homo erectus, Dmanisi cranium D2700, 1.75 My
(H) Homo ergaster (early H. erectus), KNM-ER 3733, 1.75 My
(I) Homo heidelbergensis, "Rhodesia man," 300,000 - 125,000 y
(J) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Ferrassie 1, 70,000 y
(K) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, La Chappelle-aux-Saints, 60,000 y
(L) Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Le Moustier, 45,000 y
(M) Homo sapiens sapiens, Cro-Magnon I, 30,000 y
(N) Homo sapiens sapiens, modern

[Coyoteman]

Before I comment further, just what is it you believe homo erectus proves?

I didn't claim it "proved" anything. I claimed it was evidence. The challenge was to produce "1 bit of evidence" and that is what I produced. Of course, it will be waved away.

[ga medic]

I don’t doubt God’s power in Genesis or elsewhere...ever. I only doubt the ability of man to understand it. I look around me and see the beauty of God’s creation everywhere. I see miracles that could only be performed by God. I know he exists and that he guides my life. (if I let him, which I have a tendancy not to do)

I don’t believe that I have the capacity to understand compeletely what God does, or how he does it. He is God and I am not. I know he has given me a brain and the ability to reason, with the expectation that I will use it. I have taken time to try and understand the basis of the theory, and the evidence that supports it. I have also looked at the information that is presented in contradiction to the theory of evolution. I find the case for evolution convincing, and completely consistent with my understanding of Genesis and my belief in God.

I understand that this isn’t what some believe. I don’t seek to change anyone’s opinion. I just refuse to let someone claim that it isn’t possible to believe in evolution and Jesus. That just isn’t true.

[Alter Kaker]

I vote for '...evolution is wild-arsed speculation'...

Well in that case, you vote wrong.

I think it's funny that you barge into this thread whining about how the whole FR debate lacks substance, and then you proceed to do your best to lower the debate even more. You're an odd one.

[ga medic]

I don’t know who is behind the theory of evolution other than Darwin, and I don’t really care. A theory cannot be scientifically proven, so 150 years or 150 million years won’t make a difference.

God cannot be proven either, but I know he exists. There are plenty of “Christians”, that use Christianity for evil purposes, but I don’t discount God or his power because of it.

You have your opinion and I have mine. I appreciate the information that you have provided, but I am very comfortable with my beliefs in both God and evolution. I think that we have some common ground in our knowledge that God has created this world and everything in it, and that through Jesus, we have been saved from death. That is the most important part to me.

[Alter Kaker]

Be sure to pray to your Natural Selection god.

So you're now making rules for the Almighty? Saying what tools He can choose to use or not use for His purposes? I find it simultaneously amusing and yet preposterous that you and your ilk purport to piety.

Jeremiah 32:27: Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

To the creationists, it is beyond the scope of their imagination that God could possibly have allowed natural selection to take place. That a mechanism so powerful, so beautiful and yet so simple exists just might testify to the existence of God seems beyond them. Open your eyes, look at the world around you, look critically, study science and there you will see the works of God.