I haven’t been much bothered with updating this space over the last year, who the heck actually ever visits it anyway? but I got something on my mind and I gotta say it! so…
I am a firm believer in a literal interpretation of Genesis. That includes a six DAY (as in 24 hours) creation. I am around many psuedo-intellectual Christians who believe otherwise because of the secular humanism taught in the universities under the guise of science. I am totally puzzled about how they can claim to be believers in Christ as the literal and divine son of God, laying claim to the salvation that acceptance of him as savior brings with it, yet not take literally what he took literally. Jesus Christ, a part of the triune Godhead had no problem with Genesis and the other teachings and stories of the old testament. of course he did have an advantage over us: he was there!!! How can my beloved but misled brethren not see they are trying to have it both ways. God is not a trip to the cafeteria where you pick out what you like and leave the rest. Brothers and sisters, you must see that this IS essential doctrine!! this is not some fine point we can debate among our different denominations. This is the difference between true acceptance that Jesus Christ is who he says he is or acquiescence to the prevailing wind of “scientific” theory. How can someone accept on the one hand the miracles of virgin birth which they have never seen proof of and resurrection of the dead which they have seen no proof of, yet be unable to accept God could create the heavens and the earth and all that’s in it in six 24 hour days because their geology textbooks say different. Is it a desire not to offend the many scientists who desperately cling to the widely held but totally disprovable concept that we evolved from micro-organisms over millions of years, which requires the earth to be that old to have any credentials? Uniformitarianism is an idea first proposed by James Hutton and Charles Lyell around the beginning of the nineteenth century. Uniformitarianism is the widely held premise that all the conditions which can influence (principally) geological change have remained constant throughout time. This justifies the science that postulates a billions of years old planet/universe. Lyells book “principles of geology” reads like a refutation of creation/flood based explanations for creation written from the presupposition that biblical explanations are inherently unscientific and therefore can be disregarded like astrology or santa claus. Uniformitarianism is refuted resoundingly in 2 peter 3:4 and 2 thessalonians 2:10-12.
The very definition of science is the establishment of facts gathered by the recording of OBSERVABLE results to specific actions in a controlled environment which can be repeated infinitely with the same outcome. The fact that we were not there and have no indisputable evidence other than a geological record which has been interpreted through the flawed eyes of men is the “elephant in the room” stumbling block of old earth thought. It comes down to believe this because we said so.Old Earth” arguments are based on information culled in just a couple of hundred years and assumptions that rates of decay, and environmental conditions have remained unchanged for periods of time that a human mind cannot truly grasp much less speculate upon other than making so-called educated guesses. Do we really know the laws of thermo-dynamics have remained constant over millions of years when we only live to be 70 to 100 years ourselves and scientific data records go back four or five human lifetimes at best?? Think back over the evolution of man-made technology since the fifties. Television was not invented yet, microwave ovens weren’t thought of. Most of us talked on a party line if phone service was available. Now we have handheld internet access, entire music libraries in credit card sized ipods, and satelites can take pictures of your house from outer space so detailed you can see which cars were in the driveway that day. That is just sixty short years of what our tiny little finite minds can do without invoking the power of God, but God, whom we choose to call almighty cannot create the Earth and all human, geological and biological development in roughly six thousand? We far, far underestimate and devalue him when we believe otherwise. Just Using the few moments we can observe to postulate what supposedly happened billions of years ago is not unlike eating a hamburger and determining what color the cow was.
Okay, So the point I am aiming at and that I will continue to expound upon with these wild ramblings is that Human pride is the real culprit. It is how rational human beings are seduced into believing things that are just plain irresponsible. There is a peer pressure in our educational system and within the sciences that supersedes our own power to reason and speculate. You are not going to graduate the university and land a great job as a highly paid geologist, archeologist, or other theoretical scientist if you don’t parrot the same old crap that the last twelve generations were forced to accept to get that sheepskin. You are not gonna be treated as an equal in a room full of Phds if you don’t allow that the Earth might be billions of years old like they, the highly educated movers and shakers, believe it is. The belief of an ancient Earth is only arrived at if you accept on faith the viability of assumptions based on assumptions that have gradually become accepted among scholars without enough chutzpah to challenge the status quo. I believe that if you start with the premise that God exists and that he created the Earth on a time frame consistent with Biblical lineages, you would arrive at a much different conclusion as to the age of our planet using the same set of verifiable facts that we now possess. That is to say that scientific thought begins with a deeply held (even among professed believers) atheistic viewpoint and reaches therefore biased positions based on that predisposition. I am no scientist, so as a bassplayer I cannot prove this, but my spiritual gift for discernment tells me it is so. I have no problem with Einsteins E=mc2 theory of relativity, but although it may be reliable as a practical equation for making calculations in engineering, chemistry, astronomy, and whatever other disciplines it is applied to it still is called a theory because YOU CAN”T FREAKIN’ PROVE IT!!
Going hand in hand with old earth superstition is the teaching of Evolution to our children in the schools. It is taught as indisputable fact exclusive of any other way that human (or other) life could have formed so it has to have been proven in a laboratory somewhere? right? You, unless you are a total embecile know the answer to that question. There is a reason the theory of evolution is called a “theory”. All it is is an educated guess based on assumptions based on more assumptions that no one challenges because that would make them look like rubes.
There is no greater lie foisted upon us than the ridiculous fairy tale of Darwinian evolution. I puzzle over how hard so many so-called authorities cling to it when the whole premise is preposterous. I believe that Old earth thought is the father of the evolutionary position for two reasons: #1 is that evolution as a theory needs the Earth to be billions of years old, #2 Darwin had studied the works of Lyell when he was formulating his theories. Belief in Evolution is more a religion than Christianity ever thought about being. There is much evidence to support the historical accuracy of the bible, but there are no transitional species in the fossil record nor any observable changes in any present day animals that cannot be categorized as mutations. The fact that there is a fossil record at all would indicate cataclysmic events happened (like,..I don’t know massive floods) that preserved them, since they would have decayed before an impression could be made in the billions of years worldview.
No wait!, I take it back, evolution is not a religion, it’s a fairy story. If I showed you a toad and told you I could turn it into a man, you would tell me that’s a fairy story like Prince Charming or Cinderella. if I show you the same frog and tell you I can turn it into a frog in seventy million years you’ll believe it!! that’s evolution in a nutshell. a fairy story for grownups !!!
more later H.B.
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