Sunday, October 28, 2007

Defending the Faith Sunday (Oct. 28th, 2007)

This week, I read an article (wish I had it now) about a scientist whose work is often quoted in creation science books and articles, who noted back in the 1960s about the unlikelihood of life just happening...the man is an evolutionist, incidentally. Well, last week there was an article about him recanting his whole paper that he wrote on that topic because of how disheartened he was about the creationists "misusing" his research. He basically said that his paper there was not very serious, and downplayed the importance of it.

When someone is confronted with the reality of God at work, and hears the gospel and/or sees miracles happen before his or her eyes, they have two choices--they can choose to believe or not. Sometimes when you take evangelism courses, much is covered about apologetics (the extra=biblical evidences for the Christian faith), but the truth is, if you have ever talked to someone who is hard hearted, some people don't really care if there is evidence or not. They will even get angry, start to cuss or even get violent...they don't want to be confused with facts.

Even someone like Darwin, who titled one of his chapters of Origin of Species, "The PROBLEM with the Fossil Record" (the chapter laments the fact that no proof exists---yet---to prove his insane claims, only the proof of natural selection within species), will reject truth if it doesn't line up with what they want to believe. He'd rather wish that some day we might find proof to back up his ideas, than believe in a Creator.

For the record, no proof has ever been found. A few times a "missing link" was found only to be later disproved. If however, life existed for billions of years, would we not expect the fossil record to be FULL of transitory creatures? No such creatures exist...but I don't have time to go into all of that now.

I read this quote this week which I think sums it up quite well: "Even if a miracle should be wrought in the open marketplace before a thousand sober witnesses, I would rather doubt my senses than admit a miracle" (Voltaire, French Philosopher).

And you thought science was about observing and classifying facts! Silly you! Not everyone who claims that they believe in infallible science and not so-called "blind faith" religion is being honest about that.

This sort of thing has been going on since the beginning of time...even on the day of Pentecost, 120 people get filled with the Holy Ghost and start speaking in other languages which the audience can understand as their own home dialects, and the skeptics immediately think they are drunk. Oh, sure, don'tcha know that when you get drunk you can always speak in foriegn lanaguages. LOL (as was pointed out during a recent Bible Institute class I was in)

Some people would rather you not confuse them with logic or facts.

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