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“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
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In years gone by I frequently addressed students enrolled in provincial and state colleges.
Because of my training in the sciences, I was often asked to speak on the issue of origins.
Especially along the West Coast of the United States and Canada I received multiple opportunities to address campus groups on the subject of origins.
I consistently encouraged Christians to consider the Word of God on this subject through these engagements.
On one occasion, as result of a conference conducted on the campus of the University of British Columbia, I was approached by a young man inquiring about the Christian Faith.
All that kept him from becoming a believer, he insisted, was the “fact” of evolution.
Would I be so kind, he wished to know, as to give him some time that we might discuss the issue of origins.
Of course I am pleased to spend whatever time is required to respond to honest doubts.
This young man wished to visit me at length so he could clarify his thinking and so we made an appointment which would permit us to invest extended time exploring his concerns.
The young man was an example of the prevailing mindset of our world.
His position was that though the concept of God had been useful in our national history and in the development of western thought, the concept of the divine has outlived its usefulness and we need to move beyond those ancient myths of God and atonement.
Man will own neither the Living God nor His Christ as Master of life, so he snatches at straws seeking reasons to reject God and His claims over life.
In their rush to justify unbelief, to provide a reason for rejection of grace, the most have become unreasonable.
This young man was no different when confronted by truth.
I probed my young interlocutor's consciousness with a thought-provoking question.
“What do you know to be true concerning evolution?
What facts have persuaded you to accept evolutionary thought as accurate?”
At last the young man admitted that he knew little of evolutionary thought, nor was he able to speak definitively on the subject.
His wish to avoid appearing foolish to peers drove him to espouse evolutionary dogma as truth.
He was forced to concede that it was only his desire to exclude God from his life that drove him to seek out a fabrication justifying the exclusion.
I say the evolutionist is a fool.
*THE EVOLUTIONIST IS A FOOL BECAUSE HE REJECTS THE TESTIMONY OF NATURE!*
During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries there was an almost exponential growth of scientific knowledge.
Fundamental laws of science were recognised and articulated during that period, which laws greatly influenced thinking and the conduct of all modern scientific studies.
A law of nature is unlike a theory or hypothesis.
A law of nature grows out of observation.
No congress decided to pass the law of gravity—it is a law of observation.
It may be possible to violate the law of gravity; but in the history of scientific observation is has never been violated.
No parliament ever met to debate the laws of thermodynamics—yet these fundamental laws are recognised as holding sway over the entire realm of nature.
The FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS states that all things had a beginning.
The SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS states that all things are moving toward a state of greater disorderliness.
The first law of thermodynamics is but a recognition of the first statement recorded in the Word of God: “In the Beginning…” The second law of thermodynamics is but the outgrowth—the natural consequence—of the fall perpetuated when our first father chose to exercise his will against the will of the Creator.
Our first parents chose to rebel against the One who created them and thus brought upon the entire universe the awful curse.
Consequently, by this knowledge of the sin of our first parents we obtain ample understanding of Paul's statement: “We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies” [ROMANS 8:22, 23].
Our sinful condition is the result of our first parents’ fall as the Apostle emphasises in ROMANS 5:12.
“Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.”
The Bible initiates its teaching with a simple declaration of what is perhaps the fundamental truth for all mankind.
We had a beginning!
We owe our existence to One who created all things—including time.
This foundational law of science is witnessed throughout New Testament Scriptures.
JOHN 1:1-5 reveals this primary law of science.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God.
All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
We see this same law demonstrated in Paul’s writings when he says of the Son of God: “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
And he is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.
For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross” [COLOSSIANS 1:15-20].
The author of the letter to the Hebrews took note of this law.
“Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power.
After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs…
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‘You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning,
and the heavens are the work of your hands;
they will perish, but you remain;
they will all wear out like a garment,
like a robe you will roll them up,
like a garment they will be changed.
But you are the same,
and your years will have no end.’”
[HEBREWS 1:1-4, 10-12]
The LAW OF BIOGENESIS is likewise a law of observation.
This law states that animals reproduce “according to its kind.”
It is a foundational law for biological research and is fundamental to an understanding of modern genetic research.
This law is stated in the Bible, as are also the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
God informs us that “The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good” [GENESIS 1:12].
Plants reproduce after their kind.
Likewise, God ensured that animals reproduce after their kind, having created each of the multiplied kinds of the animal kingdom.
“God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.’
And it was so.
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good” [GENESIS 1:24, 25].
To this day like produces like—all living creatures and plants reproduce according to its own kind.
Mice always reproduce mice; cats always reproduce cats; dogs always reproduce dogs; apes always reproduce apes; and man unfailingly begets man.
The entire fabric of modern medical research is based upon this one vital law.
Research conducted on a given species is dependent upon reproducible results in that same, genetically identical species at another time.
Were rats to become guinea pigs—whether suddenly or gradually is immaterial—there could be no possibility of research.
Though within narrow limits man can manipulate the genotype of a given population, as soon as genetic pressure is removed the species reverts to what is commonly called “wild type.”
In other words, animals tend to remain what they were, the genotype and the phenotype expressed within narrow limits defined by the biblical “kinds.”
Some years ago an article which was mostly ignored throughout the world appeared in many North American newspapers.
The information reported in the newspaper articles was not ignored in scientific laboratories, however.
It is possible that some listening to the message will recall the article which reported that much of the biological research of the previous several decades was called into question because the genetic typing of Sprague-Dawley rats at the University of Wisconsin had not been carefully controlled.
Consequently, the rats were reverting to wild type.
In other words even a slight change in genotype ensured that research could not be conducted because there was no certainty from one experiment to another as the rats again became rats.
The LAW OF BIOGENESIS demands that species reproduce after their kind.
The permitted variations are confined to very narrow limits.
Dogs may be large as a Saint Bernard or as small as a Chihuahua, they may be hairy as English Sheep Dogs or as hairless as Peruvian Hairless Dogs, but they are always dogs.
Though they may be interbred within the narrowly defined class of dogs, they cannot be bred with bears to become some new creature such as “bogs” or “dears.”
Though cats may accept puppies at their breasts and though dogs may mother cats, dogs cannot be bred with cats to produce “cogs” or “dats.”
When the scientist has scaled the peaks of time which obscure the origin of all matter he will find that the theologian has long since been there.
The individual who thinks will find that God has already provided an explanation of the fundamental laws of science.
That one rushing madly about in a futile effort to deny God and His sovereignty may well embrace evolutionary thought only to place himself in awesome jeopardy according to Paul in the opening sentences of his Roman letter.
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