“In the beginning was matter, which begat the amoeba, which begat the
worm, which begat the fish, which begat the amphibian, which begat the reptile,
which begat the lower mammal, which begat the lemur, which begat the monkey,
which begat man, who imagined God.” This, according to atheist Charles
Smith, is the genealogy of man. Sadly, he is far from being alone in his views
of man’s origin. In fact, a vast majority of modern-day scientists cling
vehemently to this Darwinist view of origins as “gospel” on the
matter. It has become the light under which all new data is examined. It has
become their religion—one for which they will fight for in order to secure
its place in academia. And it appears that they are winning.
While you may find the concept of men evolving from some primordial slime repulsive
or sickening, the reality of the current politically climate is far worse. For
in our country, the only theory about man’s origins allowed in the classroom
is this fallacious concept of organic evolution: amoeba to man. And although
our country declared its independence with these words: “We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (emp. added), we now live in a land
where we can no longer discuss that Creator in the classroom. When Thomas Jefferson
penned those famous words, he illustrated that from the very beginning, America
recognized human rights as a gift of God, not something created by government.
This war to erase God has taken place in every form of media. If this movement
had a special forces unit—such as the Navy Seals or Army Rangers—it
would most surely be called evolution or neo-Darwinism. The belief of a special
creation has been discounted in magazines, on the television, and has now fallen
under attack within the Church. The atheists and agnostics of the world have
been effective at casting doubt on the very first verse of the Bible, where
it clearly states: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth”
(Genesis 1:1). These words are no longer viewed as the words of Almighty God,
but rather as a nice introduction to a fable or myth. Day-after-day our children
sit at the feet of professors who, using fancy words and scientific theories,
teach that man’s origins are the result of some Big Bang or Punctuated
Equilibrium. And thus we find ourselves in a nation that has outlawed God from
the classroom, and who now believes their own origin can be explained by some
cosmological accident.
But that is not the most heartrending part. The truly tragic part is that Christians
are now clinging to this fictitious theory of how man arrived on the Earth.
People who have confessed the name of Christ are suddenly giving more credence
to a CNN news report, than to the inspired, God-breathed, Holy Bible. They,
too, are willing to toss aside those powerful words—“In the beginning
God created…”—in favor of man’s latest scientific theory.
Sadly, in the process of discounting the first few chapters of Genesis, these
Christians are undermining the very foundation of their own religion. If they
question the way the Bible explains how man arrived on this Earth, then what
makes them think they can believe what it says regarding salvation and the afterlife?
If God did not do it the way He said He did, then why should we believe He sent
His only Son to die for our sins? Have Christians not realized the embodiment
of all that they are compromising when they buy into evolution and the idea
of a six billion year old Earth? If we are to believe and protect the rest of
the Bible, then we must be ready to believe and defend that God created the
world around us the way He said He did—in six literal days.
Brad Harrub, Ph.D.
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