Occasionally the issue of creation and evolution rears its head in our community.\u00a0 No one that I know questions the issue of micro-evolution–the subtle changes over time within a particular species.\u00a0 Evolutionists see that as the bedrock of their system; creationists view it as evidence of a wise designer who built into His creatures the ability to adapt to a changing environment.\u00a0 But micro-evolution is not the center of the debate.<\/p>\n
The real question revolves around the issue\u00a0of macro-evolution–whether the evidence suggests that there are actually changes between species and therefore a logical and final explanation for the origin of life.<\/p>\n
The context of the recent controversy is a bill\u00a0just passed by our state senate allowing local districts to include various theories of creation in their biology classes in public schools if they choose to do so.\u00a0 The house has not yet determined whether they will even hear the bill during this particular legislative session.\u00a0 But enough has occurred to bring many opinions to the table.<\/p>\n
The god of the evolutionists, natural selection, is\u00a0incredibly powerful in their belief system.\u00a0 I contend that their system requires at least as much faith as biblical Christianity.<\/p>\n<\/div>People\u00a0who believe science has the capacity to definitively answer the question of the origin of life have been out in full force.\u00a0 They are practicing what C.S. Lewis called “scientism” in his book The Abolition of Man<\/a>–the view that science has the answers to the ultimate questions\u00a0of life.\u00a0 It is a form of idolatry whose progression is traced in places like Romans 1.\u00a0 An example of this approach appeared in a February 2012 article from a retired Purdue professor —\u00a0Using Science to Discover our Past<\/a>.\u00a0 Using the example of the eye, he suggested that “Biologists have shown that its parts, anatomical, physiological and biochemical pre-existed the complex completed structure because they had different roles in the lives of extinct organisms.\u00a0 Natural selection works to reassemble and redefine the role existing parts (gene products), thereby creating new species.”\u00a0 I am sure this gentleman knows 100 times more about biology than I ever will, but believing the various parts of the eye existed in different forms in extinct organisms that could not see is an incredible leap of faith.\u00a0 The god of the evolutionists, natural selection, is\u00a0incredibly powerful in their belief system.\u00a0 I contend that their system requires at least as much faith as biblical Christianity.<\/p>\nThose who redefine Scripture<\/h2>\n