Monday, September 25, 2017

A VIEW FROM THE FRONT LINE: EVOLUTION VS. CREATIONISM





I post many essays on my blog, but none of them attract the attention as those against macro-evolution. Nor are there any as often or as ferociously contested as these.

Why? This battle continues to rage as the front line between the two major worldviews – atheism and theism. According to many voices, it is where one of these worldviews will ultimately be put to rest. In Atheist American, atheist Richard Bozarth had written:

·       Christianity has fought, and will fight…to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and the original sin, and in the rubble you will find the sorry remains of the son of god. Take away the meaning of his death. If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing. (Feb. 1978, p.30)

Meanwhile, theistic evolutionists offer us a relatively painless death, like a frog in slowly heating water, claiming that we can have our politically correct cake and pleasurably eat it. In “Saving Darwin: How to be a Christian and Believe in Evolution,” theistic evolutionist and former co-head of the Biologos Foundation, Karl Giberson, admitted that:

·       Acid is an appropriate metaphor for the erosion of my fundamentalism, as I slowly lost confidence in the Genesis story of creation and the scientific creationism that placed this ancient story within the framework of modern science….[Darwin’s] acid dissolved Adam and Eve; it ate through the Garden of Eden; it destroyed the historicity of the events of creation week. It etched holes in those parts of Christianity connected to the stories—the fall, “Christ as the second Adam,” the origins of sin, and nearly everything else that I counted sacred. (9-10)

While, after this, he reassured his readers that evolution’s acid would not dissolve any more of his faith, Giberson subsequently admitted that he could no longer believe in the God of the Old Testament, Jesus’ God. Perhaps, by now, death has already claimed him for atheism.

Sadly, many are like Giberson. They reassure me that they are just as Christian as anyone else, having just as high a view of Scripture as Jesus Himself. However, their faith is also in its death throes. One symptom of this is - when I bring the argument down to specific Scriptural verses, they “piously” retort that “We have to be humble about our interpretations of Scripture.” If only they had been equally humble about Darwinism!

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