Paul writes in I Timothy 6:20, “O Timothy, keep that which is
committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of
science falsely so called.”
“The Bible’s against things that
purport or pretend to be knowledge but really are not,” explains Ohio preacher
David Reid in a study. “Verse 21 continues, ‘Which some professing have erred
concerning the faith.’
“False science is the result of
man’s desire not to retain God in his knowledge. Romans 1:18 says, ‘For the
wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness.’
“Here’s what is commonly thought:
Man likes to pretend that the truth is hard to find; that it’s elusive. People
say, ‘Well, the reason I don’t believe is because the evidence is so confusing;
it’s so hard to figure out.’
“But what does Romans 1 say? Verses
19-20: ‘Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God
hath shewed it unto them.
[20] For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.’
[20] For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse.’
“Is the truth hard to find or is it
actually within man’s grasp? The problem is men hold that truth in
unrighteousness.
“Don’t people say all the time,
‘Well, I’d believe if I just saw a sign. I mean, if you’ve never seen Him how
do you know He exists?’
“Notice the verse says, ‘Being
understood by the things that are made.’ That’s interesting because what people
pretend all the time is that they don’t understand. It says ‘even his eternal
power and Godhead,’ and this is the part they detest above all else--‘so that
they are without excuse.’
*****
“Have you ever witnessed to somebody
and they say, ‘Well, what about those who haven’t heard?’ That is an
intellectual evasion. You know why? You’re trying to tell them!
“Whatever happens to those who
haven’t heard is totally irrelevant to your situation because you’re being
told! You know why people raise that? They want the answer to be that those who
haven’t heard get a free pass, in which case, ‘Shut up!’
“You see, what man wants is there to
be an excuse. What Romans 1:18-20 does is it says, ‘Look, guys, c’mon, you do know
. . . you know, you know, you know.’
*****
“Romans 1:22 says, ‘Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools.’
“It’s fascinating to me that if you
attain a PhD and then you obtain a full-time appointment with a university,
what is your title? Professor. And the idea is you PROFESS; you assert to know
something.
“Well, Romans 1:22 is exactly how
men operate. He declares himself to be wise, and yet for the vast majority of
mankind, they have rejected truth and, in the process, become fools.
“What man does is he refuses to
retain God in his knowledge and then constructs a false wisdom to make it
appear that his refusal is wise. They don’t want to think they’re doing
something dumb, so they invent all sorts of false things like science to claim they’re being wise.
“I Corinthians 1:20 says, ‘Where is
the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not
God made foolish the wisdom of this world?’
“Notice verse 21: ‘For after that in
the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.’
“Is that God’s wisdom or man’s
wisdom? For in the wisdom of God, men decided to create their own wisdom to
defend their not knowing God. What that tells you is man has all sorts of false
things that he believes; that he constructs for the purpose of excusing,
defending or rationalizing why he’s rejected the knowledge of God.
“When man rejects God, he rejects
true knowledge; he rejects true science because science is knowledge. But what
happens is nature abhors a vacuum, so when man rejects truth, what’s he left
with? He’s only left with worshipping something that’s false. Man’s going to
worship something.
*****
“You may think this is an
exaggeration, but I would say to you that men worship science. I came across
the following quote from a professor in a college alumni magazine I was reading
recently:
‘Many people
believe we will never bridge the moral and, thus, political divide in the
United States. I’m a little more optimistic. You see, I believe in a higher
power that does have the ability to provide this country with answers. Some may
even say it speaks to me directly; it’s called science.’
“That’s where a lot of mankind is.
They are looking for the answers to life—‘It can bridge the world divide in our
country! It can solve the problems of life!’ And what it is, 'It speaks to us!
It’s science!' And what they mean by that is ‘man’s science.’
“The professor’s not referring to
studying the Scriptures and getting a better understanding of God’s science;
it’s a reference to man’s wisdom solving the issues of life.
*****
“If you study the history of
evolution at all, you know it’s a history of hoaxes where they have believed
that, ‘Oh, this proves something,’ and then years later they find out it’s a
hoax.
“Let me suggest this, evolution is a
faith. Some dictionaries will define faith
as ‘something that is believed in the absence of proof.’ That’s not faith.
That’s silliness. That’s superstition. If you believe things in the absence of
proof, that’s just conjecture or being naïve.
“If you have faith in the Word of
God, you’re believing something because there IS abundant proof that the
Scriptures are true.
“When you read the Old Testament,
there are all these specific prophecies that are then fulfilled in the New
Testament that could not have happened by chance. When you believe the Word of
God is true, it’s not a belief in the absence of proof; it’s a belief supported
BY proof.
“The correct definition of faith is it’s something you did not see.
Why do I say that? II Corinthians 5:7: ‘For we walk by faith, not by sight.’ So
faith and sight are what? They’re opposites. Hebrews 11:1 says, ‘Now faith is
the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’
“Faith and sight are opposites. If
you didn’t see something happen, then you believe it by faith. So, for example,
you take it by faith that George Washington was the first president of the U.S.
The point is, if you didn’t SEE it, it’s faith.
*****
“Evolution is the belief that all
life arises from a single common ancestor; a one-celled organism. So evolution
is a belief about the origin of life; how it all started.
“Think through this with me: How
many people, including scientists, were there to observe, to witness the origin
of life? If you believe evolution, by definition there couldn’t have been
anybody because nobody was there! It took billions of years for man to even
arrive! So for him to say, ‘Yes, evolution is a fact,’ he never witnessed it
and no man EVER did.
“So evolution is a faith, and
evolutionists will just freak out about that, but that is true. No one
witnessed evolution in the past, and can I tell you, no one observes it today.
If anyone thought they could observe evolution today, they would record it and
put it on YouTube and say, ‘The creationists are idiots; just watch this video.’
*****
“The first step of the Scientific
Method is, make an observation, which in a word is ‘sight.’ The way the
Scientific Method works is it observes some physical phenomenon and it tries to
measure and evaluate it, but the point is it’s based upon observation, yet no
one has observed the origin of life.
“May I suggest to you, evolution
itself is not science according to the Scientific Method because the Scientific
Method is based upon observation, and there was no one here to observe it! It’s
all just guesswork and speculation to try and apply it.
“The origin of life is not something
that can be studied using the Scientific Method and therefore evolution is
unscientific. The bottom line is, God created the universe and He has said what
happened and He didn’t say evolution happened.
*****
“There are no observed instances of
species-to-species evolution. When we define evolution, it’s the belief all
life arises from a common ancestor, meaning there was a one-celled organism in
the past that went to a two-celled organism to a four to an eight to a cat,
dog, wolverine, etc.
“What science talks about all the
time is they’re trying to find the ‘missing link.’ But if you think about that
for even 12 seconds, you realize the problem is not a missing link; the problem
is THOUSANDS upon thousands of missing links, where it goes from cat to dog to
platypus to bear to horse to pig to monkey. That’s a big problem.
“Here’s the second problem. There
are no observed, naturally occurring favorable mutations. What does that mean?
What evolution presupposes is organisms reproduce and there will be a genetic
mutation, and the organism that has that mutation will then be better adapted
to its environment; it will live longer and reproduce more.
“The whole crux of that is then
there have to be mutations that are actually favorable. The problem is when
they look at mutations (deviations from the correct genetic code), they
invariably make the organism less well-suited to survive.
“So if evolution is true,
evolutionists ought to be able to give us a list of 25 naturally occurring
favorable mutations, because to go from a one-celled organism to mankind, you
need hundreds of millions. So asking for 25 doesn’t seem like much. I’d be
happy with 10. They don’t have 5. Truth be told, they don’t have any.
“You know why there’s none? Because
God, when He created dogs, He created the perfect dog. When He created cats, He
created the perfect cat. There was no mutation; there was no deviation from
what God did that could possibly be an improvement.
******
“Evolution is the idea that you go
from the one-celled organism to the highly specialized and functioning man.
“Think about this: Your body tends
to live to 80 years old despite what you eat. Your body does such a good job
repairing itself because the Creator designed it that way.
“Well, what evolution then believes
is you went from this one-celled organism to this extremely, well-functioning,
specialized, complex organism. Let me just tell you, life doesn’t work that way.
“How about this, your child comes to
you and says, ‘Hey, dad, I’ve got this one-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle. Can
you help me out?’ and you say, ‘Sure, son, here’s what you do. Take all the
pieces, throw them in the dryer and put them on the spin cycle and just leave
them for an hour. And what they’ll do is they’ll assemble themselves together.’
“What evolution believes is that
order emerges from chaos by chance. They don’t believe there’s the application
of external intelligence; they believe it’s by chance. So you put the puzzle on
for an hour and what happens? Nothing! So run it again!
“The point is, if your philosophy
for trying to put a jigsaw puzzle together is to use the dryer, you will be
frustrated in life. Well, that’s what evolution believes.
*****
“Entropy is a measure of the
disorder of a system. To make it simple, entropy is disorder. It’s lack of
organization; it’s chaos.
“The California Poly Technical State
University at San Luis Obispo has an article on the second law of
thermodynamics that states, ‘Entropy is the measure of a disorder of a system.
That disorder can be represented in terms of energy that is not available to be
used. Natural processes will always proceed in the direction that increases the
disorder of a system. All natural processes tend toward increasing disorder.’
“Did you get that? I call that the
‘law of the garage.’ What happens to your garage? Every six months or longer
you have to restore it to a state of order. Because naturally it does what? It
declines into chaos.
“What my children do, for example,
is they follow my wife around, and as soon as she gets something done, they
help her by ‘fixing it.’ What happens? Every progress you make is immediately
undone. That’s life in a universe where there is entropy.
“All natural processes move in the
direction of increasing disorder. Evolution doesn’t say you went from a
one-celled organism to man in a week. It says there were billions and billions
of years, so that by chance there was enough time, and given long enough they
would eventually assemble themselves into the right shapes and order and so on.
“But you have to understand, the
longer you make that period of time, what is the direction of the universe? Is
it toward order or disorder? Making the period of time longer does not solve
your problem. If anything, it makes it worse.
“No one believes in evolution
because it’s compelling. It’s contrary to common sense. Do you go camping and
take a nature hike and find an IPhone and say, ‘Wow, how did this assemble
itself out in the woods?’
“Or do you assume some intelligent
person left it there? That there was a designer who created it? You see, the design
testifies to a designer.
******
“Some people claim that evolution
can be reconciled with a literal belief in Scripture. Not so. God simply
doesn't give you that option.
“First, God created all animal life
in two days. That’s Genesis 1:20-30.
“One of the common things people do
to make Genesis 1 not say what it says is when they see the word ‘day,’ they
say, ‘Oh, well, a day means a lengthy period of time. It’s not just a normal
day.’
“Genesis 1:5 says, ‘And God called
the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the
morning were the first day.’
“So this day has an evening and a
morning. If you go through all the days, it says that each time.
It’s almost as if God knew the nonsense people would say and just put little
things in there to disprove them.
“Genesis 2:2 says, ‘And on the
seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh
day from all his work which he had made.’
“Do you say you did something ON a
millennium? Or ON an eon? You do something IN a millennium, but you do
something ON a day.
“Exodus 20:11 says, ‘For in six days
the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested
the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.’
“Think through this with me. If you
say in Genesis 1 that when it says ‘day’ it really means this huge period of
indeterminate time, then what that means is we are still in the seventh day, a
huge period of indeterminate time, and none of you should be working. (Exodus
20:8)
“The reason why the Sabbath was
hallowed is because God Himself rested on that day.
*****
“The question’s often asked of a
pregnant woman, ‘Do you know what you’re having?’ and there are only two
answers. I’ve never had anyone say, ‘Well, we’re having a dog.’
“Genesis 1:24 says, ‘And God said,
Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and
creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.’
“It says ‘after his kind’ 23 times
in the Old Testament. Here’s the point. Crazy people say things like, ‘Oh, well
those are textural emendations. The ‘his kind’ and ‘their kind’ was copied over
and over and it was a copyist’s error and it wasn’t in the original.’ Nonsense.
“If God had the power to create the
universe, He had the power to preserve His Word for six thousand years so you
have it as He wants. If the Holy Spirit said ‘his kind, his kind, their kind,
their kind,’ it was because He was making a point He didn’t want you to miss!
“The point in Genesis 1 is that what
animals do today is what they have always done since the beginning of time and
that is they reproduce after their kind. The reason you can’t go from a
one-celled organism to two, to four, to dog to cat to bear to horse, is the
simple fact bears have bears and horses have horses and it will always be that
way.
“Gen. 1:31 says, ‘And God saw every
thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day.’
“If you believe evolution and want
to reconcile that with Scripture, what that means is this: By the
end of Genesis 1 man is created, which means there’s been billions of years and
trillions of deaths. Because all those inferior organisms had to live and die
and live and die and live and die, and there had to be genetic mutation after
genetic mutation, so in Genesis 1, God looks at an earth that has billions of
carcasses and dead forms of life and says, ‘That’s very good.’ Nonsense.
*****
“People don’t believe evolution
because it’s intellectually satisfying. There’s the thousands upon thousands of
missing links. They can’t find any favorable genetic mutations. The very
concept of disorder randomly assembling itself into order without any
intelligence violates everything you’ve ever experienced in life.
“No one believes it because it makes
sense. The reason they believe it is what we read about in Romans 1. God has
revealed the fact that He has wrath against man’s unrighteousness. Not only has
He revealed that, He’s revealed His eternal power. He has anger against man’s
sin and the ability to do something about it and that offends man.
“The reason why people believe
evolution is the old ‘any port in the storm,’ because they want to avoid the
judgment of God and want to believe there’s a way out, and want to believe it’s
okay. If it was okay Jesus Christ didn’t have to go to the Cross. He went to
the Cross because there was no other way to deal with man’s sin.
******
“The engine that drives evolution is
natural selection; survival of the fittest. In other words, there are these
organisms that reproduce and the ones that have the favorable genetics--those
are the ones who live longer and reproduce more.
“The reason for that is death
catches the other ones. What underpins ‘survival of the fittest and natural
selection’ is death. What evolution is really saying is life, where it really
originated from, was death.
“Notice Proverbs 8:36: ‘But he that
sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.’
“When men hate God they love death.
What I think of when I read that verse is Halloween. It’s skeletons, zombies,
graveyards, vampires, spooky things, haunted houses, and all sorts of things
that are all about death.
“When you see that obsession with
death, the thing you should think of from Proverbs 8:36 is, ‘When I see that,
what am I actually observing?’ The hatred of God.
*****
“Evolution is the belief that it was
the death of trillions of prior organisms over billions of years that gave man
life.
“John 1:4 says, ‘In him was life;
and the life was the light of men.’ Life is inseparably connected to Jesus
Christ, the Creator. What Romans 1 describes is when men reject the knowledge
of God, they are rejecting the source of life itself, and so the explanation
they are left with as to how life came about is death.
“Let
me put it this way, if you’re trying to grow your church, I wouldn’t spend a
lot of time looking for new converts in graveyards, right? I’m a huge believer
myself in, look in the nursery.
“Evolution is an irrational, crazy
philosophy where it views the origin of life as arising from death itself.
*****
“Man’s science correctly perceives
that the universe is falling apart, but has no answers because God hid all the
answers in Jesus Christ.
“What the second law of
thermodynamics tells you is that the universe is falling apart. Entropy is
always increasing; in other words, order is just decreasing, and the longer the
universe is around the more disorder there is. Thermodynamics, as best I can
tell, is true and what that means is science has an understanding that the
universe is falling apart. It’s descending into chaos, but science can’t do
anything about it.
“Now, by the way, the Bible
explained the deterioration of the universe a long time ago. Thermodynamics
came along in the 1800s. So what science views as this great advance, read
Genesis 3. Can you get an inkling from Genesis 3 that now that sin has entered
into the universe, the universe is going to decay?
“Romans 8:19 says, ‘For the earnest
expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.’
“What your physical being is subject
to and can’t get out of is the bondage of corruption and that’s why the older
you get, you don’t necessarily always start to look pretty. Verse 22 says, ‘For
we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until
now.’
“Do you ever have those moments
where you sort of exhale in exasperation at the insanity that’s going on in the
world? I just think, ‘Wow, I’m a mess, the world’s a mess, it doesn’t seem like
anything is getting better,’ and that’s because you live in a universe that’s
under this bondage of corruption and man has this naïve view that if he just would
create new and better laws, or just elect the right people, or just do
something earthly, that things would then be better.
“ It’s this naïve, vain hope that,
‘Yeah, man’s going to get it right. Just give us more time and we’re going to
get it right.’ No, the universe is falling apart!
*****
“Ecclesiastes 1:18 says, ‘For in
much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.’
“What the writer’s lament is,
‘The more you learn about this earth, is that going to cheer you up?’ You
realize there are more wars going on then you thought. There’s more slavery
still in the world. There’s more human trafficking. There’s real, real persecution
against Christians going on.
“Science can observe some of these
phenomena that the world is falling apart but it can’t do anything to fix it.
“Proverbs 1:7 says, ‘The fear of the
LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.’
Proverbs 9:10: ‘The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the
knowledge of the holy is understanding.’
*****
“When man rejects God, how much
wisdom do they have? They haven’t even started! Proverbs 15:33 is the best
definition of what the fear of the Lord is that I've seen: ‘The fear of the
LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.’
“What we know from Colossians 2 is
God took ‘all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge,’ the things that would
give life meaning and purpose and understanding--and give you comfort as to
what’s going on in the universe--and put them in Jesus Christ and hid them
there.
“And you know what the vast majority
of mankind is doing? They reject Jesus Christ, and while they don’t perceive it
at the time, you know what they’re also doing? They just rejected all wisdom
and knowledge, because God put it all in Him.
“God gave man a perfect map to allow
him to navigate through life, but man hates the mapmaker so much he’d rather
stumble around lost and in the dark, bumping into things, then read the map.
That’s what Romans 1 says.
“Let me conclude with this: All
truth is God’s truth. Science that is true is God-honoring, because the
universe was created by God and it belongs to Him. But man creates ‘science
falsely so-called’ because they want to get rid of the Creator, and evolution
is just one example of that.
“Science falsely so-called is
completely unable to address the real issues of life. It can’t give you peace
or contentment or help you understand your eternal destiny, and it can’t help
you resolve it because what God did is, all that wisdom that you need, He hid
it in Jesus Christ. The answer to all the questions in life that really matter
is the Lord Jesus Christ.”
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