Are you timing evolution?
In front of the door of our house, a newspaper article that followed a worldview and a magazine with another design were next to each other. The magazine article quotes Philip Johnson, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley:
- If we say.
- “A bacterium.
- In gradual stages.
- Has become a lobster.
- An insect.
- Or a worm.
- ” many would ask.
- “Is it possible that God has acted this way?That’s a boring question.
- Of course.
- He But if God was really involved in the situation.
- What is the evidence that he transformed the bacteria.
- Into gradual steps.
- Into a worm?There’s no evidence.
- There’s no sign in the fossils.
- This cannot be tested in the lab.
- If anyone believes this.
- Believe in faith.
- Faith in evolution (World.
- Nov.
- 22.
- 1997.
- P.
- 13).
At this turn of the century, Johnson led a remarkable crusade that specializes in defeating Darwinism with an open mind, which is the title of one of his books. His first book on evolution was Darwin at the Defendants’ Bank. Johnson is an expert in evidence processing. Although he is a believer, he does not always begin his scripture argument, as his listeners often do not share the same starting point. Is Johnson simply arguing on the basis of the evidence?used by evolutionists? and shows that this evidence does not support the weight of evolutionary worldview. Accepting Darwinism, or naturalistic evolution, is a step of faith.
On the same day, I also read, in the Star Tribune newspaper, Minneapolis, an incredibly frank statement, written by Renee Twombly, about the Darwinian faith. Here is your sincere statement of faith:
As a human being, we would say, do you feel a little superior to all the other creatures that breathe around you?You can’t repel this thinking, as homo sapiens can move mountains, while ants prefer small mounds of soil, right?Well, the truth is that you’re just a tick on the clock of evolution on Earth, a little outbreak in the development of the tree of life?, determine whether this species will live or not.
With this in mind, evolution is not a predictable process, evolution is more the result of chance and has no high guiding principle, life is not intrinsically progressive, climbing, step by step, a ladder of improvement, to achieve the perfect being, which many assume to be man. What is the moral of history? Check it after the next evolutionary tick (November 26, 1997, A16 – emphasis added).
Not everyone has the skills or time to deal with all the trials as Philip Johnson does, God knows. Therefore, he planned the world in such a way that “the invisible attributes of God, as well as his eternal power, as well as his own divinity,” were clearly recognized, “from the beginning of the world, being perceived through things. that were created? (Romans 1. 20). Evolutionists will have to explain whether the passage of faith they have taken, from bacteria to locust, is as reasonable as the passage of faith of Christians, starting from the universe full of order and reaching God.
In addition to the universe, there is also the Lord Jesus. Twombly, with a casual touch of the keys, states that the difference between Jesus and an ant is a tick in the clock of evolution. This is a relevant and dangerous statement. When humans celebrate Christmas, they essentially do what ants do when they dance instinctively, it’s just a matter of substance, more energy, more time, nothing essential has changed.
Please understand what’s involved here. With the touch of an imaginary magic stick, the Darwinists drove God out of heaven and Christ from the earth. Then they go to the classrooms of the country and say, “Do you respect yourself and do good?”And they always ask why young people kill, their colleagues, as if they were animals.
I will gladly say to those who believe in Evolutionism: the origin of the species is explained more on the basis of biblical hypotheses than Jesus of Nazareth on the basis of Darwinian hypotheses. The Creation and Jesus Christ reveal the God who created the cosmos and saved from it. sin If you don’t see this, keep looking. This connection is more accessible than connecting an ant to a human being.
Devotion of John Piper’s book Provai e Vede
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