Ark update: Kangaroos hopped
In response to Terry Alexander's statement in the March 15 Desert
Advocate, that the Bible is "outdated," I offer the following:
In every field of study, whether it be archeology, medicine, genetics,
zoology, geology or astronomy, the Bible is being corroborated,
as discoveries are made. Terry Alexander proves my point very nicely
that truth defined by humans is relative by arbitrarily labeling
the Bible as "outdated."
The underlying issue is that of presupposition. Either one presupposes
that God does not exist and natural causes alone are
responsible through random chance for evolution of hydrogen to humans,
or that indeed God exists and "in six days the Lord made the
heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them." (Exodus
20:11)
As for the presupposition that God does not exist, that is the purpose
of evolution, to attempt to explain our existence apart from God.
That is why some evolutionists do not let the evidence for creation
and against evolution enter their thought process. I quote the evolutionist
Richard Lewontin. "It is not that the methods and institutions
of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of
the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by
our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus
of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations,
no matter how counter intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the
uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot
allow a Divine Foot in the door."
So it becomes evident that evolution is a secular religion, based
on faith, not on scientific evidence. I also quote the evolutionist
Dr. Hubert P. Yockey: "...the longest genome which could be
expected with 95% confidence in 10 billion years corresponds to
only 49 amino acid residues. This is much too short to code a living
system so evolution to higher forms could not get started. Geological
evidence for the 'warm little pond' is missing. It is concluded
that belief in currently accepted scenarios of spontaneous biogenesis
is based on faith, contrary to conventional wisdom."
Therefore it becomes more obvious that the battle between creation
science and evolutionism is a spiritual war, between two faith systems,
one based on the word of God, and the other, the word of man. To
say that it is a battle between Christianity and science is a false
argument. How one interprets evidence obtained by observation in
the present to try to understand what happened in the past will
be determined by which world view that person believes in.
Regarding the existence of God, all Christian and secular scientists
agree that the universe had a beginning. That fact that we observe
it winding down and obeying the Second Law of Thermodynamics mandates
that there was a beginning. The Law of Causality states that everything
that has a beginning must have a cause for that beginning. Christians
have God: "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the
earth," (Genesis 1:1), establishes the beginning of time, the
space to contain time, and the matter, the atoms themselves, created
by God out of nothing.
The evolutionists have nothing. I quote the evolutionist David Darling:
"You can not fudge this by appealing to quantum mechanics.
Either there is nothing to begin with, in which case there is no
quantum vacuum, no pregeometric dust, no time in which anything
can happen, no physical laws that can effect a change from nothingness
into somethingness; or there is something, in which case that needs
explaining." So evolutionists must believe in nothingness or
eternal matter, which is still not explained, while Christians have
the eternal Creator God of the Bible.
As for the kangaroos, that is easy. Terry Alexander does not understand
that Noah's world before the Flood was quite different than the
post Flood world we live in. The kangaroos hopped to the ark. Australia
did not come into existence until after the Flood. Due to the one
Ice Age on the heels of the flood, sea levels were lower than now,
enabling animals and people to traverse the shallow areas among
the islands, including Australia, as well as the Bering Strait.
Joseph M. Kezele, M.D.
Cave Creek
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