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The End of Evolution

The End of Evolution

Introduction:

In the year, 1859, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published.  The world has not been the same since!  His theory claims that all life came about by blind chance, by accident, and we’re not created by a super-natural being.  And through the years, life became more and more complex.

Why has this theory become so popular and accepted by so many?  They believe it gives them a scientific reason for not believing in God.  If there is no God, there is no moral law and people can live any way they desire!

But believers should not compromise, apologize, or hesitate in holding to their belief in a divine Creator.  There is ample evidence that all life was created by a super-natural being.  (Isaiah 44:24-25, Isaiah 42:5)

“Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb.  ‘I am the Lord, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself; Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness;”  (NKJV)

“Thus says God the Lord, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, Who gives breath to the people on it, And spirit to those who walk on it:”  (NKJV)

Read the account of Newton and his handmade solar system.

“The fact is we need little more than common sense to tell us which alternative is true.  This is well illustrated in a story about the great seventeenth-century scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who had a marvelous replica of the solar system sitting on a table in his laboratory.  In the center of the device was a model of the sun, and spinning around it on thin metal rods were eight small globes representing all the known planets.  The model was fitted with belts and pulleys so that the slightest touch would set the mechanism in motion.  And it moved perfectly, just like the solar system. 

One day a colleague who did not believe the Bible’s account of creation stopped by Newton’s laboratory for a visit.  When he spotted the model sitting there on a large table, he walked over for a closer look.  He reached out and touched the metal rods and, like clockwork, the tiny planets began to move in well-oiled precision.

The visitor was delighted.  “What a magnificent machine!”  he exclaimed.  “My dear Newton, you must tell me:  who made this amazing contraption for you?”

Newton paused for a moment, then smiled and said, “Nobody.”

“What?” the visitor exclaimed, shaking his head in disbelief.  “Nobody, you say?  How can that be?”

“Yes, that’s right,” Newton insisted.  “The balls and belts and pulleys you see here came together entirely by accident, and by some unknown miracle they move along in perfect orbit just as you see them now.”

At that point, the skeptic realized what Newton was saying.  How foolish to think that a detailed model of the solar system could come together by accident.  But how much more foolish to think that the earth, moon and stars – and all of God’s creation – could come into existence by mere chance.”

Body:

How Evolution Causes a Culture to Decline

Quote from Dr. Craig:

“One Rabbi who was imprisoned at Auschwitz said that it was as though all the Ten Commandments had been reversed:  Thou shalt kill.  Thou shalt lie.  Thou shalt steal.  Mankind has never seen such a hell.  And yet, in a real sense, if naturalism is true, our world is Auschwitz.  There is no good and evil, no right and wrong.  Objective moral values do not exist.”

Ideas have consequences.  Since Darwinism began to be accepted in our society’s various institutions, the results have been disastrous.

· Darwinism claims that nature is all there is.  There is no room for God, the Bible, or moral absolutes.  It teaches that there is no ultimate meaning beyond our temporary physical existence.  Ethics and morals are just illusions.  Survival of the fittest is the ruling paradigm.  This idea makes euthanasia, infanticide, etc. perfectly acceptable.  But believers know better.  They know there are moral absolutes and they do not have origins in the natural world.  They are based upon the very character of God.  (I Peter 1:14-16)  “as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, ‘Be holy, for I am holy.”  (NKJV)

· The legacy of Darwinism lives on as seen in the decline of moral values.  Listen to the words of Benjamin Wiker as quoted in the New Oxford Review.

“We live in a time of complete moral revolution, when moral boundaries are being crossed so quickly that they fly past in a blur like so many telephone poles, as we hurtle into the new millennium.  If we flipped through newspapers surfing the last half-century, we would see the divorce rate blossom, the introduction and wild spread of legalized abortion, sexual hysteria, men marrying men, women marrying women, in vitro fertilization of a grandmother with the eggs of her daughter fertilized by her son-in-law, pedophiles clamoring for legal recognition, partial-birth infanticide, the marketing of “fresh” baby parts from abortion clinics, and now a British panel recommending human cloning for cell research.”

· Darwinism inevitably leads to a sense of hopelessness.  Quote from Cornell University historian, William Provine.

“The implications of modern science, however, are clearly inconsistent with most religious traditions.  No purposive principles exist in nature.  Organic evolution has occurred by various combinations of random genetic drift, natural selection, Mendelian heredity, and many other purposeless mechanisms.  Humans are complex organic machines that die completely with no survival of soul or psyche.  Humans and other animals make choices frequently but these are determined by the interaction of heredity and environment and are not the result of free will.  No inherent moral or ethical laws exist, nor are there absolute guiding principles for human society.  The universe cares nothing for us and we have no ultimate meaning in life.”

Solomon more than two thousand years ago stated that a life without God is truly meaningless.  (Ecclesiastes 2:10-11)  “Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them, I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, For my heart rejoiced in all my labor; And this was my reward from all by labor. Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.  There was no profit under the sun.”  (NKJV)

 

Conclusion:

At one time Antony Flew was one of the most well-known atheists in the world.  He conducted many debates with believers including Brother Thomas Warren.  In the spring of 2004, he announced that he had become convinced by the evidence that God does exist and is the Creator of life.  His announcement stunned the world.  Belief in a Divine Creator was more reasonable than belief in blind luck.

Read Acts 17:24-27.

“God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.  Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.  And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us;” (NKJV)

Bobby Stafford     September 1, 2013

 

 

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