CHAPTER OUTLINE:
1. To Show that the Bible and Evolution are Mutually Exclusive.
2. Call Attention to the Vast Evidence of God.
3. To Show that the Facts Agree with the Bible.
4. To Show that Everything that Disagrees with the Bible is
Wrong, Potentially Dangerous, and Possibly Evil.
5. To Expose the Serious War Going On All Around Us.
6. Show How Awesome God is, Inspiring Humility.
7. To Show How God can Justly Send People to Hell Who Never Heard that He died for their sins.
8. To Show the Utter Foolishness Which Results from Rejecting God.
9. Make You Part of Solution Instead of Part of the Problem.
a. The Theory of Evolution is a Religion.
b. Life in the Beginning (Reprogramming).
(Ancient Technology & Decadence.)
c. Evolutionary Concepts (Deprogramming).
d. Where Did Cain Get His Wife?
e. Continents, Animals, and the Ice Age.
f. A Creation Scientist is Not an Oddity.
WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THIS INFORMATION?
In the preceding seven chapters, you have seen the Theory of Evolution explained, explored, exposed, and ruthlessly expelled–Biblically, morally, logically, and scientifically. If you have read the first part of this book–about God, life, etc.–then you understand why it was done in this way—my passion for God and for people, and my desire to destroy anything which stands between them. With this in mind, here are the specific objectives which have hopefully been accomplished with this information. I pray that through it you have been greatly blessed and will, in turn, be a vessel through which God can bless other people.
Goal #1.
Goal number one has been to show that the Bible and Theory of Evolution are mutually exclusive. Once the two teachings are thoroughly understood, it is plain to see that if one is true, then the other is false.
Goal #2.
Goal number two has been to call your attention to the immeasurably vast amount of evidence which God has given us proving His existence. I have often heard people say that no one can prove the existence of God. We don’t need to. He has done it Himself! If we have a painting, it proves the existence of a painter. If we have a building, it proves the existence of a builder. If we have creation, it proves the existence of a Creator. If we know right from wrong (and every person knows that murder is wrong) it proves the Creator is both moral and compassionate.
Goal #3.
Goal number three has been to show that the facts–scientific, geological, archaeological, astronomical, historical, and social–when ultimately learned, understood, and truthfully reported always agree with the Bible. The Bible is true! The Bible is accurate! The Bible is the Word of God!
Goal #4.
Goal number four has been to show that any claim, theory, or suggestion which disagrees with the Bible is not only wrong, it is potentially very dangerous and possibly very evil.
Goal #5.
Goal number five has been to expose the extremely serious and eternally dangerous war going on all around us between sinful men and a Holy God and show that the Theory of Evolution is a major part of it. We need to understand this so we are not surprised by the conflict, misled by the crowd, nor overcome by the lies. (Approximately two-thirds of the children in the United States who start out believing in creation {i.e. truth} reject it by the time they complete a secular education.)
There are actually two major battle fronts in this Mankind vs. God war, the second being the world’s religions. Every religion in the world, except Christianity, says that we can “achieve” heaven by our own abilities. We can either learn enough, work hard enough, be good enough, serve others enough, or do something enough to achieve salvation by our own power. Only the Bible tells us that we absolutely cannot. It tells us that we have all missed the minimum requirement of sinless perfection, and the only way that any of us is going to get to heaven is by accepting what Almighty God has done for us. It is the Creator’s work, not ours! Just as the Theory of Evolution exalts man by saying “there is no God above us,” so mankind’s religions do it by saying “we don’t need God above us.” In reality, there are some amazing similarities between the Theory of Evolution and some of the world’s most prominent false religions (which you will read about in goal # 9, point “a”). You see, it is not only possible for the majority of the world’s population to be wrong, they are wrong!
Goal #6.
Goal number six has been to show how utterly awesome, how utterly magnificent, how utterly beyond description our Almighty Creator is, and to inspire you to humble yourself before Him. Think about it: Each and every one of the 30 trillion cells inside each and every one of the 7.73 billion distinctively different people on earth is as complex as the greatest city which man has ever built. And people are only one of the life forms on earth. And there’s the earth itself, with all of its resources, all of its systems, and all of its precision, providing all the necessities of life. And there are the stars–a hundred billion, billion of them, strewn throughout almost infinite space, all held in place by nothing other than (or should we say “nothing less than”) the incredible power of God. And He brought all of creation into existence, sustains it, and keeps it all running by a simple act of His will—by simply deciding that it should be.
And this God, this incredibly magnificent Being, is as righteous and as holy and as just as He is powerful. And it is because this unshakable cosmic reality collides violently and inevitably with the very nature of man that the human race is in incredible peril. Every one of us has come into this world with a sinful, rebellious “I want to be my own god” attitude. Now, we conceited, rebellious little created beings stand utterly guilty, exposed, and defenseless before the sovereign Creator of the universe, who absolutely must punish all unrighteousness. To allow injustice to go unpunished requires injustice.
Thankfully however, blessedly however, this magnificent Creator God is as loving and as caring and as merciful as He is just. And it is this incredible earth shaking impasse–justice’s unyielding demand that sin be punished and God’s infinite desire to forgive us and make us His children–that put Him to death on the cross. Laws have been broken, sentence has been passed, and Almighty God stepped into our world to take our punishment for us. Jesus Christ–creator of heaven and earth–actually stepped into human flesh to be insulted, spit upon, punched in the face, shredded with a whip, and to be physically nailed to a cross where He hung until He died to pay for our unrighteousness. He did this because of the evil things I would do. He did this because of the evil things you would do. And now He calls us. He calls us to humility and to repentance and to become His eternal children in heaven. The one and only alternative is paying for our own sins in the never ending fires of hell. Personally, I say “yes!” I scream “yes!” I accept Him, I love Him, I praise Him, and I will joyfully spend all of eternity bowing before Him. I bow to His love, His mercy, His power, to everything about Him. Anyone who refuses to do so is as foolish as God is powerful.
Goal #7.
At this point, I would like to take advantage of this subject of Evolution to address again one of life’s most difficult questions. How can God justly send a person to hell who never heard that He died for their sins? (This question was addressed in the chapter “What about the people who have never had the Bible?”) Equipped now with a true understanding of the Theory of Evolution, that in essence, it is mankind’s desire to extinguish God, we can more adequately answer this question. Think for a moment: What would be the response of a true Evolutionist (an atheist) to the message of the cross–to God’s offer of salvation? He would, of course, reject it. No one is going to accept an offer from God who refuses to acknowledge the existence of God. The Lord, therefore, being omniscient–knowing everything that is or ever will be in a person’s heart–is not justly required to have the message presented. If someone rejects the general message which we have through creation–that God exists and is a moral being–justness does not require that God give him a more specific message. (In theological circles, these messages from God are referred to as “general” and “specific” revelation.) Anyone who is receptive to God’s general message will be given specific revelation, even if it requires supernatural means. Do not forget that God can speak to people directly, has angels at His command (although the only Biblical record of an angel presenting the gospel is still in the future), and can supernaturally move someone to present it, if needed. If not knowing how salvation could be offered to people in remote areas has been your excuse for not accepting it, ignorance is no longer an excuse to go to hell. [Do not use this as an excuse to avoid telling someone about salvation. It is our God-given responsibility!]
Goal #8.
Goal number eight has been to show the utter foolishness which results from rejecting God. Whether individually or as a nation, when people decide to live as if there is no God, the foolishness soars to incredible heights. It’s amazing to think of the time, energy, and resources spent by people trying to convince themselves and/or others that God doesn’t exist, when the evidence is everywhere and the evidence is everything. It is before our eyes and it is our eyes themselves. (I don’t think an Evolutionist would ever suggest that a super-computer could come into existence by accident, but beings smart enough to make and program super-computers supposedly did.)
Goal #9.
Goal number nine has been to arm you with all of this knowledge, thus enabling you to become part of the solution instead of part of the problem. There are a lot of very wonderful and godly people, even some very good Bible teachers, who, because they are deceived themselves, not only fail to rebuke this lie, they ignorantly give it credence. I have even heard of a Bible which includes commentaries which basically support the Theory of Evolution and suggest that “perhaps the creation account in Genesis is not meant to be taken literally.” (Children go to church and are taught that God created the universe. They go to school and are taught that ‘evolution’ did it. When questioning the disparity, the school says the church is wrong, and the church says we’re not sure.)
We must always be aware, however, that not everyone who claims to be a Christian and supports the Theory of Evolution is either ignorant or innocent. It is certainly not a rare strategy for Satan to work from inside the church, achieving his goals through evil people masquerading as Christians. When Darwin first introduced his version of the Theory of Evolution, most of the scientific community rejected it. It was the liberal theologians of his day that kept it alive. The church was so infiltrated that Darwin (a theologian himself) even had the honor of being buried in Westminster Abbey—the most famous church building in England.
In an effort to more completely achieve this goal–equipping you to become a part of the solution–here is some final information. This material is intended to further define and clarify this battle, arm you with a few more truths of which you may not be aware, further reprogram your thinking from an Evolutionist’s to a Biblical perspective, and give you an even greater awareness of the many subtle indoctrinations of this theory.
9-a. The Theory of Evolution is a Religion.
While the Theory of Evolution is definitely not science, it is religion. When we look past all the pseudo-scientific hype, we discover that the basic underlying claim of this theory is identical to that espoused by Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, and the “New Age Movement” (which is simply a blending of the other three). According to Evolution, “there is no personal Creator; natural phenomena created life and natural selection guides its progress.” According to these other false religions, “there is no personal Creator; ‘Nature’ created life and ‘Nature’ guides all life processes.” (In addition, all five of these belief systems either credit nature with creating the non-living parts of the universe or they simply ignore the subject.) The only true difference is in terminology. Evolution says “there is no God” (atheism), while these false religions say “nature and everything else is God” (pantheism). In reality, what’s the difference? If we remove the idea of a personal transcendent Creator, does it make any difference what we call the rest?
It is important to understand that Satan and his demonic cohorts are not uninvolved in all of this. This lie, “We can be our own gods” (more clearly stated in pantheism than in atheism) is the same temptation Satan used on Eve in the Garden of Eden. In pantheism, where we and everything else are boldly said to be “god,” the theoretical force in nature which supposedly “creates and guides all things” is said to have both a positive and negative side. (These opposites are also referred to as “light and dark,” “yin and yang,” and “male and female.”) Followers of these pantheistic belief systems are told (very esoterically) that by coming to a true understanding of our “divine nature” and of the “true essence of good and evil,” they will naturally move toward the “positive” or “light” side. (They claim that sin doesn’t exist; good and evil are seemingly contradictory parts of the same amoral reality.) By moving far enough toward the “light” side, they will achieve their “full divine potential.” In other words, “they will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
9-b. Life in the Beginning: Let’s do some reprogramming.
The first humans to exist were highly intelligent, spoke well, and had both technical knowledge and ability. Adam and Eve sewed and gardened and Adam named all the animals. They also ruled over all the animals, including the dinosaurs. Cain, their first born son, built a city and raised livestock. No later than seven generations after Adam, people were playing harps and flutes and engaged in metal-forging to make tools. (Noah probably used hand tools which would rival anything you can get at the hardware store today.) Thinking of these or any other people as ‘primitive’ is the result of Evolutionary brainwashing. ‘Primitive’–defined as “the earliest kind in existence”–does not apply to human beings or to any other type of life form. There is and always has been only one kind of human being–just like us, made in the image of God.
Understanding this, we are not surprised by ancient technological achievements, such as the pyramids or Stonehenge, or many others the Evolutionists don’t want you to know about–like 2,000 year-old electric batteries, 4,500 year-old electro-plated items, 2,100 year-old printed fabric (i.e. done on a printing press), 3,500 year-old evaporative cooling (which honey bees also use), 1,600 year-old stainless steel, 2,300 year-old human-carrying-kites from china (i.e. hang-gliders), glass lenses and aerodynamic wooden bird models from ancient Egypt, and ancient travel which enabled people to visit the American continent 2,000 years before Columbus. We may have some knowledge which the people in the past did not have, but we are certainly no more intelligent. There is actually a good chance that we are less intelligent, as we are suffering from the accumulation of 6,000 years of the curse of Adam’s sin—6,000 years since the beginning of entropy and of the decline of genetic codes. People in the past actually accomplished technological feats–like transporting enormously heavy stones–which we are unable to duplicate today. The Bible tells us that knowledge and abilities are learned, lost, and rediscovered, and that there really isn’t anything new under the sun.
“Well,” someone may ask, “what about all the so called primitive people in the world today?” Unfortunately, “decadent” is the word which we would have to use to describe these people. You see, all technologically deficient cultures have descended from technologically advanced ones, because of sin. Again, the first human ever born built a city. Sadly, what has happened is that there have been various cultures over time, which have chosen to unitedly reject God. As a result, these people and the generations which followed were not only left without any true or sustainable basis of morality, they were disconnected from the very source of all knowledge and wisdom. Naturally, their cultures began to deteriorate and the results are what we see today. (Consider the growing tide of illiteracy in this country, now that we are nationally rejecting God.)
A couple of sad, yet relevant examples of this decadence of cultures are the Catchua and the Lockendone Indians of South America. The Catchuas are a totally unmotivated group of people (many of whom are addicted to cocaine, staying on it constantly) perfectly content to spend their entire lives as the servants of others. This very depressed and aimless culture descended from the Incas. The Incas were a technologically advanced society which had accomplished brain surgery, built an impressive network of roads (including one which was 3,250 miles long), had impressive architecture (some roof tops adorned with gold) and built an irrigation system which is still intact today (almost 500 years later). They were also satanic—worshiping idols, building torture chambers, and engaging in human sacrifice.
The Lockendones are also a group of people who live an extremely deprived existence. (In Evolutionist’s terms, they have been described as “one of the most primitive peoples alive today.”) The Lockendones are descendants of the Mayans. The Mayans were a very technologically advanced society, showing themselves to be highly skilled at architecture, mathematics, and astronomy. They accurately measured a solar year at 365.2420 days, while modern astronomers have just recently measured it at 365.2422 days. They also correctly predicted solar eclipses on a 23-year rotation. Sadly, like the Incas, the Mayans also grew very evil. They engaged in human sacrifice (their artwork shows them offering the hearts of their victims to idols) and were known to have slaughtered people by the tens of thousands.
God used Spain to conquer both of these nations (the Incas and the Mayans), allowing them to defeat the Incas with a force of only 167 men. [This does not cast any judgment on the morality of Spain at this time. They could have been very good or very evil. God uses anybody He wants to, any time He wants to, any way He wants to.]
9-c. More Evolutionist Concepts: Have You Been Indoctrinated?
It is doubtful that any of us has been totally immune to the subtle deception of the Theory of Evolution, as it has become so pervasive in our society. Even if we have never accepted the theory, we have, most likely, believed different aspects of it. I have included below, a list of concepts which are either entirely the result of Evolutionary thinking or are strongly influenced by it. See if you can figure out the problem with each one before reading the accompanying explanation.
Primitive ** Error — (Explained above).
Primates = a grouping of humans, apes, and monkeys into a single scientific classification. ** Error — Humans, who are made in the image of God, have dominion over the animal world and cannot be classified with them.
Early Humans / Modern man ** Error — Implies that humans have evolved and that people are now different than they were in the past.
Cavemen ** Error — Almost always used in an Evolutionary sense, implying that people who lived in caves a long time ago were less human than people living today.
Stone Age = A theoretical “prehistoric” time period when “evolving” humans were supposedly learning to use stone tools and weapons. ** Error — Various groups of people may have been forced to use stone tools and weapons after the flood, or after the Tower of Babel, but these people’s ancestors were involved in metal forging and probably had metal tools and weapons which would rival the ones we have today.
Civilization = defined as “an advanced state of human society.” ** Error — Implies that humans have advanced from a primitive state and have become “civilized.”
Backward society ** Error — Implies that societies have evolved forward and, thus, can migrate backward in a direction from which they never came.
Early life forms / Highly-developed life forms ** Error — Implies that life forms have evolved.
Developed the ability to ??? Often used in describing the abilities of different animals. ** Error — Implies that animals, through Evolution, have developed certain abilities which their ancestors did not have.
Related to / Part of the same family ** Error — Often used in describing different animals–such as the electric eel and the electric catfish–implying that they have evolved from a common ancestor.
Prehistoric ** Error — The Bible tells us what happened from the moment time began. There is no such thing as “prehistoric”–except what God was doing before He began to create.
Throughout human history ** Error — Implies that human history is shorter (more recent) than all of history. In reality it is, but only by five days.
Millions of years ** Error — Time has only existed for about 6,000 years, and eternity will be upon us–we will be beyond time–long before the first million years ever gets close.
You old fossil / Older than dirt ** Error — Often used to imply that something is extremely old, conjuring up thoughts of millions of years.
Animal Rights ** Error — Evolution says that humans evolved from animals, and animals, therefore (being in essence the same as humans), are just as valuable and should have the same rights. The Bible says that God made humans unique–in His own image, to become His children–and that He has given us animals for food, clothing, etc. [Even though God killed the first animal that ever died, killed more animals (in the flood) than any human being has ever seen, and commands that an animal that kills a human should be destroyed, He does not condone the neglect of, or cruelty to animals.]
Mother Nature / Nature (capitalized) ** Error — A personification of nature overlooks the sovereignty of God and is often used by Evolutionists, occultists, and members of false religions in an attempt to credit natural forces with creating and improving life. *** Worshiping “Mother Earth” (who is, of course, nothing but a big dirt ball) has been a recurring occultic problem for thousands of years and is currently gaining momentum with the help of Evolution.
9-d. Where Did Cain Get His Wife?
One of the criticisms the Word of God has received is that it speaks of Cain–the first person ever born–having a wife, without telling us where she came from. This so-called mystery is easily and logically explained by the simple fact that Adam and Eve had other children who intermarried. If the children of Adam and Eve had not married each other, the human race would have ended when their generation died. [Duh!] Cain most likely married his sister, or he could have waited a number of years and married a niece, a great niece, etc. Remember that his father lived for 930 years and most likely had a very large number of children. By the time the Bible mentions Cain’s wife, he is about to begin building a city. This indicates there was not only a marriage partner available, there was already a growing population.
It’s important to mention here that the earliest generations of people (or animals) would not have suffered from the biological problems presently associated with the marrying of close relatives–the birth defects commonly resulting in their children. We, again, are suffering from the accumulated results of 6,000 years of the curse of Adam’s sin. Biologically, we are far worse off.
9-e. Continental Separation, Animal Distribution, and the Ice Age — Two Theories.
Theory # 1. Practically all scientists believe that the earth’s continents were originally part of a single mass of land which somehow became divided. (They base this theory upon the shape of the continents and a study of the ocean floor.) There is a verse in the Bible which seems to indicate that they are right. In Genesis 10:25, we read the following statement; “Two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.” (Peleg means “to divide” or “division.”) This “division,” as written in the original Hebrew language, was evidently talking about a physical geographic separation, as the word “Peleg” literally means to “separate or canal by water.” What is important to note is that this division occurred at around the same time as God’s judgment on the human race causing them to speak different languages and scattering them over all the earth. If the Bible is saying that the individual continents were created at this time, then this is the explanation of how the descendants of the animals which came off of Noah’s ark got distributed to all parts of the earth. They were already there when the land divided (as were the people).
Theory # 2. There is an alternative theory on this subject which I would also like to mention. This theory suggests that the continental separation occurred during the world-wide flood and the animals were distributed later via two different methods. The first method was by being transported to the various continents by ship, either as cargo (livestock or animals used for trade) or as stowaways (rats, mice, etc. hiding in grain). The second method was by migrating the short distances between continents–at their closest points–on land bridges which were above sea level during the Ice Age. It is theorized that the Ice Age would have significantly lowered the level of the ocean as water evaporated, came down over the land, and froze, forming the enormous glaciers scientists claim once existed. These land bridges, which were normally slightly below the surface, became exposed and the animals were able to migrate across.
The “ice age” resulted from the accumulation of volcanic ash in the atmosphere during the world-wide flood (as “the springs of the deep burst forth” causing an enormous amount of volcanic activity) and from the collapse of the vapor canopy. When the canopy was destroyed, the greenhouse effect–which had kept the earth universally warm–ended, and the volcanic ash blocked out much of the sun. The temperature at the poles dropped extremely low, extremely fast. As the water came down from the canopy and up from the ground, the North and South “ends” of the earth were quickly covered in ice. Evidence shows this happened very fast, as scientists have discovered (near the poles) frozen woolly mammoths with undigested buttercups in their stomachs, frozen fruit trees with the fruit still on them (covered by mounds of gravel), and redwood trees buried under massive ice deposits.
9-f. A Creation Scientist Is Not An Oddity.
As you can see by now, all true science agrees with the Bible, even if all so-called scientists do not. What you may not know, however, are the numbers. There are actually a lot of scientists who acknowledge a transcendent Creator, most of whom are Christians. (Strangely, there are some who are not.) The problem here is not simply the numbers. It is also the fact that Creation Scientists are routinely ignored by the greater Evolutionist science-fiction community as well as by the secular media. If this comes as a surprise, then you need to expand or, more advisedly, change your media.