“Some Biblical Reasons for Rejecting Evolution”
(Sunday Morning March 7th, 2010)
Selected Scriptures (Romans 1:20-23)
O.S. I Want to Begin This Sermon in a Way That I do Not Normally Begin a Sermon, and That is With a Brief Video Clip.
This Comes From a Film Entitled “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” That Was Produced by a Man Named Ben Stein And I Will Recommend It to You Since It Received a “Family Approved” Rating and an Endorsement from Focus on the Family.I Also Want You to Know That Several of These Video Clips are Available to the Public on the Internet.I Chose This Particular One, Because It Illustrates the Lengths That Some People Will go to in Order to Protect Their Belief in Evolution.
SHOW VIDEO CLIP
That Video Clip Reveals That the Improbability of Life Emerging on This Planet by Blind Chance Has Now Become so Obvious That Many Scientists are Turning to Some Completely Bizarre Ways of Explaining It. In Other Words, the Theory of Evolution is Scientifically Bankrupt, and They Know It, But the Last Thing They Will Consider is the Possibility of a Divine Designer. In Fact, Ben Stein’s Film Exposes the Fact That Many Reputable Scientists in Our Country Have Been Overlooked for Promotions, or Denied Tenure, Terminated and/or Ostracized by Others in the Scientific Community Just Because They Dared to Use Those Two Words “Intelligent Design” .
Q.n = Why are They Going to Such Great Lengths to Protect the Theory of Evolution?
Q.n = Why Did the ACLU (The American Civil Liberties Union) and the AUSCS (Americans United for the Separation of Church and State) Hire Enough Attorneys to Line the Back Wall at a School Board Meeting in Dover Pennsylvania Just Because They Were Considering the Possibility of Putting a Little Label Inside of Their Textbooks That Mentioned the Possibility of “Intelligent Design?”
Ans = They’re Scared
Q.n = And What are They Scared of?
Ans = God
For You See, Once Evolution Has Been Proven to be False, the Only Other Option is to Believe in “Intelligent Design,” and That Means That We All Have to Accept the Fact That We Have a Creator And if We Have a Creator, This Also Means That We are All Accountable to Our Creator for the Way That We Live, and They Don’t Like That Idea. Most of Those in the Scientific Community Who Promote Evolution are Either Atheists or Agnostics, and That is Why They Defend It so Vehemently. They are Behaving Exactly the Way That the Apostle Paul Told Us That Depraved People Would Behave in Those Four Verses That We Just Read (Romans 1:20-23) .
The Theory of Evolution is Only That; It is Just a Theory, But It is Promoted as Fact.And Our Society Has Become so Saturated With It, That Many People Automatically Accept It as Being True. Darwinism is Taught in Our Schools. It is Reinforced in Museums, and Zoos, State and National Parks, and Magazines and Even Cartoons for Children. It Was William James, a Renowned 19th Century Psychologist and Philosopher Who First Said, “There is no idea so absurd but if repeated often enough will eventually come to be believed,” and That is What Has Happened. Evolution Has Been Repeated so Often That Anyone Who Challenges Its Validity is Considered to be Ignorant and Uninformed.
Ex. Dr. Richard Dawkins, for Example, an Oxford Zoologist, and One of the Most Vocal Proponents of Darwinism Once Said This; He Said, “…if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid, or insane”, And Then, He Went on to Say That What He Particularly Dislikes About Creationists is That They are Intolerant. (Pause) Well Unfortunately, That is What I Believe Has Happened, and Evolution is Not Only False, It is Also Dangerous. So, I Want to Give You Some Biblical Reasons for Rejecting It This Morning.
I. Evolution is Scripturally Incompatible
It is entirely Possible That We Could Have Someone Here This Morning Who is a Theistic Evolutionist. This Means That They Believe in Evolution, But They Believe That God Controlled It. In Other Words, They Believe That God Used the Process of Evolution to Create This World in Which We Live (Ex. Many Catholics are Theistic Evolutionists Because…). If You are a Theistic Evolution, I Will Still Love You, and I Will Still Have Fellowship With You But I Have to Tell You, That I Find It to be Extremely Difficult, Even Impossible, to Reconcile a Belief in the Inerrancy of Scripture With the Theory of Evolution. In Fact, There are Three Passages in the Bible’s Account of Creation That, in My Opinion, Cannot be Harmonized With Evolution.
a. The First is Found in Genesis 1:25 Which Says This, Listen Carefully, It Says, “God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good” . That Phrase “After Their Kind” Indicates That There Was a Line of Separation Between Each Species of Animal. The Lion, and the Tiger, and the Panther May Have All Originated From One Pair of Cats, But There is a Big Difference Between a Cat and a Chicken.
Q.n = And How Many Transitional Forms Have Our Modern Scientists Discovered?
Ans = The Answer is NONE – ZERO – ZILCH
Evolutionists Talk About “The Missing Link,” But the Truth is That the Whole Chain is Missing, And When We Think of the Complexity of What It Would Take for an Animal to go From Having Gills to Having Lungs or to Develop Complex Organs, Such as the Human Eye. If Evolution Were True, We Would Have Found Millions Upon Millions of These “Transitional Forms,” But the Truth is That We’ve Never Found a Single One.
Quote = Michael Denton, in His Book Entitled: “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis” Summarized the Absence of Transitional Forms in This Way; He Said, “…The universal experience of paleontology…[is that] while the rocks have continually yielded new and exciting and even bizarre forms of life…what they have never yielded is any of Darwin’s myriads of transitional forms. Despite the tremendous increase in geological activity in every corner of the globe and despite the discovery of many strange and hitherto unknown forms, the infinitude of connecting links has still not been discovered and the fossil record is about as discontinuous as it was when Darwin was writing the Origin. The intermediates have remained as elusive as ever and their absence remains, a century later, one of the most striking characteristics of the fossil record”.
You See, They’ve Never Found Them, and the Reason That They’ve Never Found Them is That They Aren’t There. I Need to Warn You, However, About the Fact That There Have Been Some Hoaxes That Have Come Along From Time to Time.
Ex. In 1999, for Example, the National Geographic Magazine Published an Article That Said There is New Evidence That Feathered Dinosaurs Were Ancestors of the First Bird But It Was Later Proven That Someone Had Simply Glued a Dinosaur Tail on a Primitive Bird.
Q.n = But What About These Images That We See in Modern Textbooks and on Museum Walls That Show Men Progressing From Apes?
Ex. In Most Modern Biology Textbooks, for Example, We Still Find Pictures of Java Man Who Was Discovered by Eugene Dubois in Indonesia in 1891. What Many People do Not Know is That All Java Man Really Consists of is a Skullcap, a Femur (Thigh Bone), Three Teeth and a Great Deal of Imagination.
Ex. The Piltdown Man Who Was Discovered by Charles Dawson in 1912 Was Later Revealed to be a Hoax (Ex. They Even Found File Marks on His Teeth)
Ex. The Nebraska Man Discovered in 1922 Consist of Only One Tooth; and Yet, That One Tooth Was Used as Evidence in the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Pt = Those Pictures, in Many Cases, Lifesize Pictures, Murials That Appear on Museum Walls, are Simply the Product of Someone’s Imagination.
b. The Second Passage in the Creation Account That Cannot be Harmonized With Evolution, in My Opinion, is Genesis 2:7 Which Says “Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being” .
Now Listen, if You Believe That God Used Evolution to Create the World, You Cannot Accept That Statement as Being True. You Must Take the Position That God Didn’t Really Create Man Out of the Dust of the Ground, and He Really Didn’t Cause Him to Fall Into a Deep Sleep, and He Didn’t Really Create the Woman as a Unique Creation With no Animal Ancestry. In Other Words, You Have to Come to the Conclusion That the Opening Chapters in the Book of Genesis are Figurative, But Then, You Have Another Problem, Because Jesus Referred to This Event as Actual in Matthew 19:4 And the Apostle Paul Referred to Adam and Eve as Being Literal People in Places Like Acts 17:2 and 1 Timothy 2:13.
c. The Third Passage in the Creation Account That Cannot be Harmonized With Evolution, in My Opinion, is Genesis 2:17 Which Says “but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die” .
The Bible Teaches That the World God Originally Created Was Perfect, and Human Suffering and Death Were Not Introduced Until After Man Sinned. Paul Again Referred to Adam as a Literal Person When He Said This in Romans 5:12; He Said, “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned” .Evolution Teaches That There Were Millions of Years of Death and Suffering Prior to the Existence of Man, and This is Not Compatible With Scripture. Moreover, Evolution Teaches That Man is Getting Better and Better, But the Scriptures Teach Exactly the Opposite; They Teach That Man Began in Perfection; and Now, He is Not Evolving, But Rather, Devolving.
St = Before I Move on to My Next Point, I Also Want to Mention the Biblical Timeline For You See, the Biblical Record Indicates That Our Earth and Human Life are Much Younger Than Those Who Believe in Evolution Suggests. In Fact, if We Add Up All of the Geneologies That Appear in Places Like: Genesis 5, and Gen 11, and Matt 1 and Luke 3, We Come Up With Only About 6000 Years. So, How Can We Reconcile This With Things Like the Fossil Records and the Arguments Evolutionists Come Up With Such as the Speed of Light.
Well, Let Me Say That What Parades as Science May Not Actually be Science. The Age of Fossils, for Example, is Determined by the Layer of Sediment They are Found in and the Age of Sediment is Determined by the Age of the Fossils. Moreover, Listen, We do Not Even Get Fossils Without a Cataclysmic Event, and the Bible Has an Answer for This; It is Called “The Flood” (Ex = Animals Decay)
Q.n = How Else Can You Explain the Fact That We Find Aquatic Fossils on the Tops of Mountains?
i. Several Years Ago, I Became Fascinated by Something I Learned About Moon Dust.
Before We Reached the Moon, It Was Assumed That the Moon Was 3.5 Billion Years Old,
and They Were Very Concerned About Moon Dust. (Elaborate) But When Neil Armstrong
Stepped Down on the Moon, He Was Delighted to Discover That There Was Very Little
Moon Dust on Its Surface.
ii. Just Recently, I Learned Something About the Speed of Light That Supports the Biblical View of a Younger Earth as Well. An Australian Scientist by the Name of Barry Setterfield Has Done Some Research, and He Has Discovered That the Speed of Light is Decreasing. The Emergence of the Atomic Clock in 1960 Simplified His Research, and He Came to the Conclusion That Our Planet is Much Younger Than It Was Previously Believe to be.
Pt = We Do Not Have to Bow to the god (Little ‘g’) of Evolution, and We Shouldn’t Because Evolution and Scripture are Incompatible With One Another.
II. Evolution is Scientifically Impossible
There are Two Things That Evolution Cannot
Begin to Explain. One is the Gap Between Nothing and Matter, and the Other is the
Gap Between Matter and Life. The Bible Teaches That God Created Matter “Ex Nihilo”
Which Means Out of Nothing. Genesis 1:1 Says “In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth” And the Hebrew Word, He Used for Created is the Greek Word “Bara”.
It Applies Only to God, and It Means to Create “Out of Nothing”. We are Also Told
This Occurred, With the Exception of His Creation of Man and Woman, Simply by Speaking
It Into Existence. He Said, in Genesis 1:3, for Example, Let There be Light, and
It Came Into Being. The Psalmist Said, “6 By the word of the Lord the heavens were
made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host…9 For He spoke, and it was done”
(Psalms 33:6,9). In Hebrews 11:3, the Writer of Hebrews Said, “By faith we understand
that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made
out of things which are visible”.
I Don’t Think He Could Have Gotten More Specific
Than That; He Said, in Essence,That God Spoke and This is How Matter Came Into Existence.
That is Obviously Not a Scientific Explanation; It is a Theological One. But Let
Me Tell You Something, It’s a Better Explanation Than Any Scientist or Evolutionist
Ever Came Up With.
St = The Greeks Used to Say That This World Was Held Up by a Man Named “Atlas”.
Their Kids Would Accept This for a While; But Eventually, They Would Come Back and Say “Dad, Mom, What is Atlas Standing On?”. So, Their Father or Mother Would Say “Atlas is Standing on an Elephant”. This Worked for a While; But Eventually, They Would Come Back and Say, “Dad, Mom, What is the Elephant Standing On” So, Their Father or Mother Would Say “A Giant Turtle”. This Worked for a While; But Eventually, They Would Come Back and Say, “Dad, Mom, What is the Giant Turtle Standing On” So, Their Father or Mother Would Say “An Even Bigger Turtle”. This Worked for a While; but Eventually, They Would Come Back and Say, “Dad, Mom, What is the Even Bigger Turtle Standing On”. So, Their Father or Mother Would Say “Get Off My Back Kid, It’s Turtles all the Way Down”
In a Similar Way, We are constantly Being Told That It is Evolution All the Way Back
Q.n
= But All the Way Back to What?
It is Much Easier for Me to Believe That “In the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth” Because the Likelihood of This Earth and Every
Life Form on It Emerging by the Process of Evolution and Without a Divine Designer
is Astronomical. I Quoted Michael Denton Earlier Who Wrote a Book Entitled “Evolution:
A Theory in Crisis;,” This is What He Had to Say About the First Simple Cell: “Perhaps,
in no other area of modern biology is the challenge (He is Referring to the Challenge
This Presents to Evolution) posed by extreme complexity and ingenuity of the biological
adaptations more apparent than in the fascinating new molecular world of the cell”
.
LET ME TRY TO ILLUSTRATE THE COMPLEXITY OF THIS
Scientists Tell Us That the Simplest
Cell Would be a Cell With Just 124 Parts. The Average is 445 Parts, and They’ve Never
Actually Found a Cell With Just 124 Parts But They Have Speculated That One That
Small Could Exist. “If We Magnified a Cell Until It Was the Size of London or New
York City,” Michael Denton Says, “We Would Find Ourselves in a World of Supreme
Technology and Bewildering Complexity”. The Problem is That All We Have to Begin
With is 124 Parts That are Separate From One Another, Kind of Like Finding a New
Corvette Sitting in a Crate. In Order for These Parts to Become a Cell, Something
Must Happen to Bring These 124 Parts Together in Perfect Sequence. If This Happens,
These 124 Parts Called “Amino Acids” Will Form 1 Protein Cell. Now Fortunately, They
do Come With an Instruction Book Called DNA. The DNA, However, Cannot Take This Information
to These 124 Parts and Arrange Them in Proper Order Without a Translator. We Don’t
Need to Worry Though; Because This Cell Has Within It a Fax Machine of Sorts That
is Called RNA. If You’ve Seen the Famous Double Helix That Looks Like a Curved Ladder,
One Side is DNA, and Other Side is the RNA. The RNA Can Bring the Information of
the DNA to These 124 Parts and Arrange Them in Proper Order. This Can Happen and
Does Happen, But the Odds of This Happening by Chance are Astronomical. In Fact,
Listen to This, It Would Take a Secretary Typing 40 Hours Straight at a Speed of
6,000 Words Per Minute to Transfer That Much information, and She Would Have to do
It Without a Single Typographical Error. You Also Have to Have a Protein Before You
Can Get Another Protein, a Cell Before You Get a Cell (The Old Chicken and Egg Scenario),
and There are 30 Trillion Cells in the Human Body .
Let’s Talk About Probabilities, Now, And I Got These Statistics From an Article Written by Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon. One Thing They Pointed Out Was That in the 1970’s, Sir Fredrick Hoyle Calculated the Mathematical Probability of One Bacteria Being Spontaneously Generated, and He Determined It to be 1 in 10 Followed by 40,000 Zeros. Now, Those Statistics, Even Though That is an Astronomical Number, are Extremely Conservative, Because That Was Written Before We Know What We do Today About the Complexity of a Cell.
One Modern Scientist I Read Said That the Odds are About the Same as They are for
One Person to Win the Powerball Lottery 96 Times in a Row. Now, if You Know Anything
About the Average Lifespan of a Person, You Should be Able to Catch the Humor in
That
1 in 10 Followed by 40,000 Zeroes is an Extremely Conservative Figure.
The Reason
I Chose It Was Because of a Statement Sir Fredrick Hoyle Made After Coming to That
Conclusion; He Said This, Listen, He Said, “The likelihood of the formation of life
from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 zeroes after it. It is enough
to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither
on this planet or on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random they
must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence”. So, This New Little
Green Man Theory Called “Directed Panspermia” , Which Has Been Suggested by a British
Molecular Biologist Named Sir Francis Crick , I Ain’t Buyin It. And This is Why I
Can Say That Evolution is Really a Religion, Because It Takes a Lot More Faith to
Believe That Than It Does to Believe in Intelligent Design.
I Agree, in Fact, With
Jean Rostand, a Famous French Biologist Who Called Evolution “A Fairy Tale for Adults”.
Ex. -Watch
Ex.-Truck
Ex.-Boeing 747
None are as Complex as Even One Cell.
III. Evolution is Socially Injurious
In Genesis
1:26, We are Told That God Said This Just Before He Created Man; He Said, "…’Let
Us (And That is a Plural of Majesty Referring to the Trinity, It is There to Support
the Fact That We are Persons – Relational Beings) make man in Our image, according
to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of
the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creeps on the earth”. This Means That God Created Us in Such a Way That We are
Superior to the Animals, and We are to Have Dominion Over the Animals. If Evolution
is True, However, We Have no Right to Think of Ourselves as Being Superior to the
Animals, and Those Folks at PETA are Right When They Say That Chickens Should be
Given Equal Rights With People,
And of Course, Taking It to Its Logical Conclusion,
a Belief in Evolution Carries With It Several Very Serious Implications.
a.
A Belief in Evolution, for Example, Can Effect Our View of Capital Punishment
If we
are simply the Noble Product of the Survival of the Fittest, Why Should Anyone be
Punished for Killing Someone Else? Just Think About It?
Q.n = We Don’t Put a Lion
on Trial for Killing a Zebra, Do We?
Q.n = We Don’t Put a Whale on Trial for Killing
a Tuna, Do We?
Q.n = So, What’s to Keep Us From Applying This Same “Survival of the
Fittest” Mentality to Our Own Species?
On the Other Hand, if We Accept Creationism,
and We Believe What the Bible Says About Us Being Created in the Image of God, We
Will Also Accept What the Bible Says About Capital Punishment Which is Found in Genesis
9:6. Listen Carefully as I Read This Verse:"Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his
blood shall be shed, (Listen) for in the image of God He made man”. (Elaborate)
Q.n = How do You Think Hitler Justified His Mass Extermination of Mentally Handicapped
People and Jews?
Q.n = Where do You Think He Got His Idea to Create a Super Race From?
Ans = The Answer is Evolution In Fact, a Man by the Name of Sir Arthur Keith Wrote
a Book Entitled “Evolution and Ethics”; and in It, He Made This Comment About Hitler;
He Said, “To see the evolutionary measures applied vigorously to the affairs of a
great and modern nation turn to Germany in 1942. Here you will see Hitler devoutly
convinced that evolution produces the only real basis for national policy. The means
he adopted to secure the destiny of his race and his people was organized slaughter
which drenched Europe in blood. Such conduct is highly immoral as measured by every
scale of ethics; and yet, Germany justified it, and it was
consistent with evolutionary
morality. Germany reverted to its tribal past and demonstrated to the world, in
their naked ferocity, the methods of evolution”.
b. A Belief in Evolution Can Effect Our Sense of Purpose and Meaning
If Evolution is True, All We Can Hope for is Whatever Joy or Pleasure We Can Find
in This Life, And So, We Might as Well Become Totally Self-Centered and Pleasure
Seeking, Because as the Slogan Goes “You Only go Around Once so go for the Gusto”.
On the Other Hand, if We Believe as We Should That We Were Created by God, in the
Image of God, for the Purpose of Glorying God Now and for All of Eternity And That
We Can as Jesus Says “…store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal” (Matthew 6:20).
We Will be
Able to Live Every Day of Our Lives, Regardless of How Difficult It Might Be, With
a Sense of Meaning and Purpose.
c. A Belief in Evolution Can Affect Our Concept of the Family
When the Lord God Said. “…’ It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him
a helper suitable for him" in Genesis 2:18, He Was Thinking Ahead to the Creation
of the Family. In Fact, the Phrase “One Flesh” is Even Described by Some Bible Scholars
as Referring to Procreation (Elaborate = A Mom and Dad Together)
Fish Have Schools,
Dogs Have Packs, and Lion Have a Pride, But the Family is a Distinct
Institution Created by God for the Human Race. God’s Design is for One Man to be
With One Woman for Life and for Them to Bring Their Children Up in the Nurture and
Admonition of the Lord, But if Evolution is True, We Can Change That; Instead of
Adam and Eve, We Can Have Adam and Joe or Eve and Sue, Moreover, Dolphins Eat Their
Young. (Did You Know That?) Flipper
Q.n = So, Since This is True, Who’s to Say That
Cannibalism is Wrong?
Pt = A Belief in Evolution Will Destroy Every Society That
Accepts It
So, Don’t Tell Me That We Don’t Need to Speak Up and Challenge This Kind
of Pseudo Science That is Constantly Being Promoted as Fact Because We Most Certainly
Do.
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Invitation:
So Finally, in Closing, Let Me Simply Say This. The Bible Says, Listen to Me Now,
the Bible Says That You Sir, You Maam, You Young Person are Much More Than Just a
Blob of Meaningless Protoplasm. You Were Created in the Image of God, Unique, Special,
Gifted, and He Gave You an Eternal Soul And He Loves You so Much That He Made a Way
for You to Come and Live With Him in Heaven for All of Eternity (John 3:16)
I Believe
in Fact That He Would Have Done That Even if You Were the Only Person on the Earth;
So, You Can Put Your Name in That Verse.