Atheism, Evolution and Secular Humanism Masquerading as Science Against the Bible and Creation

God as The Architect. From: The Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee, Circa 13th Century.

Science and the Bible are not in conflict, because they have the same Author. The issue is how one’s belief can shape the interpretation of our findings. There are thousands of scientists who are also Christian or Jewish and who find it unlikely if not impossible that everything we see in the universe, including life on earth, came from a Big Bang in contrast to what the Bible says.

Science depends on research. Consider our limited opportunities–our lives are brief; our vision is limited; and we can make huge mistakes, when it comes to events we think were before Bible history. Here are a few examples:

• How often the supposed deductions from some scientists are revised or cast aside;
• With what readiness the assumed period of the earth’s development is from time to time increased or diminished by millions of years;
• How the theories advanced by different scientists conflict with one another.

Considering all this, do we prefer to trace our descent from germs and mollusks and apes when we could have an infinitely better genealogy: “God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him”? Genesis 1:27.

We will look at some scientific evidence, but first we see Bible history is supported by the science of archeology back to Genesis 11. a chapter with the Towel of Babel that is the basis of the European Union poster, “Europe: Many Tongues, One Voice.”

There is archeological support for Noah’s ark in addition Christ’s reference to Noah in Matthew 24:37. It is intesting that the Bible says eight people were in the ark and the Chinese character for flood is a boat with eight people.

But culture goes even further back than Genesis 5 to support the creation week of Genesis 1, 2 because cultures worldwide have observed a 7-day week from antiquity, and their word for the 7th-day is a derivative of Sabbath, Shabbat, Sabado, in most languages.

Dr. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, visited hundreds of college campuses and talked with many professors, some of whom could not bring themselves to believe in such a book of myths as the Bible. But on closer questioning, most them were embarrassed about the simplest questions about it and confessed that they were not ready to accept the moral obligation that belief in Scripture meant.

On the other hand, Wayne Carlson, an atheist was dying of cancer and told his brother, a chaplain, that in the end, life doesn’t make much sense if there is no God. He had a change of mind, which is what the Bible calls repentance.

Dr. Antony Flew, famed atheist, when he came to appreciate the complexity of the DNA molecule, surrendered his view of atheism and accepted God as the the best alternative.

There are numerous systems in the body requiring complex interaction, like a cascade of eight reactions in sequence for the clotting of blood. If we needed millions of years for these to have evolved, the Neanderthal man would have bled to death when he cut himself. The development of the eye is infinitely more complex. Intelligent Design implies a Designer.

Dr. Robert Gentry, a nuclear physicist who believed in evolution until his discovery of pleochroic halos in granite offered irrefutable evidence against the evolutionary theory that this world exploded off the sun and cooled over eons.

Etched within Earth’s foundation rocks – the granites – are beautiful microspheres of coloration, halos, produced by the split-second radioactive decay of primordial polonium..

The following analogy shows how polonium microspheres – or halos – contradict the evolutionary belief that granites formed as hot magma slowly cooled over millions of years. But the halos support both an almost instantaneous creation of granites and the young age of the earth.

A speck of polonium in molten rock is like an Alka-Seltzer dropped into a glass of water. The beginning of effervescence is equated to the moment that polonium atoms began to emit radioactive particles. In molten rock the traces of those radioactive particles would disappear as quickly as the Alka-Seltzer bubbles in water. But if the water were instantly frozen, the bubbles would be preserved. Likewise, polonium halos could have been preserved only if the rapidly “effervescing” specks of polonium had been instantly encased in solid rock.

An exceedingly large number of polonium halos are embedded in granites around the world. Just as frozen Alka-Seltzer bubbles in ice would be clear evidence of the quick-freezing of the water, so are these many polonium halos undeniable evidence that a sea of primordial matter quickly “froze” into solid granite. The occurrence of these polonium halos, then, distinctly implies that our earth was formed in a very short time, in complete harmony with the biblical record of creation.

The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics says that the energy systems of the universe tend to run down and tend to disorder unless acted upon by some outside force. This is seen when our desk needs organizing, the kitchen sink needs cleaning or the garage is chaos. Things don’t get organized by themselves.

A scientist cited in TIME Magazine said, that to believe everything came from a “Big Bang” is like thinking a jumbo jet came from an explosion in a junk yard. We might wonder how our planets all came to orbit around the sun at such a huge variation in distance, not drawn back to the sun by gravitation, nor flying off into space. And how did the planets get moons? Saturn has 62 moons so far.

Scientist Bill Nye in a recent debate seen by 5+ million, wished for predictability, but science is about observing facts, not about predicting them. By contrast, in his parable of Matthew 22:7, Christ predicted the destruction of Jerusalem that occurred less than 40 years later in 70 AD. He also gave a head’s up sign for his followers so that not a Christian lost their life in that holocaust. The point is that those signs could reapply this spring if a 3rd Intifada develops.

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