DOES EVERYONE KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD?

The Bible makes an audacious claim that we all know the truth about God:

·       For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. (Romans 1:18-20)

The Bible claims that not only do we have sufficient evidence about God, His existence and His nature, but we are “without excuse” when we reject this knowledge. However, do we see evidence of this outside of the Bible? I think that we do. Even though it seems that Albert Einstein had believed in an impersonal and unintelligent god, the god of Baruch Spinoza, he had acknowledged that a supreme intelligence must have created this world:

·       The scientist… [is in] rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. (Heeren, Show Me God, 202)

Even though Einstein was a pantheist of sorts, he was willing to admit that the evidence argued in favor of an intelligent Creator. The Astrophysicist and atheist, Fred Hoyle, also acknowledged the evidence of ID:

·       A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question. (Ibid.)

Princeton physicist, Freeman Dyson, hardly a creationist, also acknowledged the evidence:

·       …the universe, in some sense, must have known we were coming.” (Ibid. 202)

Only an intelligent Being could “have known we are coming.” In light of these observations, how should we understand the widespread belief in the theory of evolution? Evolutionist D.M.S. Watson admitted that evolution is a theory:

·       “universally accepted not because it can be proven by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.” (Erwin W. Lutzer, Seven Reasons why you can Trust the Bible, 132)

What makes special creation impossible? Berkeley professor Phillip Johnson offers one explanation:

·       …evolution with its accompanying philosophy is identified with their [naturalistic] worldview at such a deep level that they cannot imagine how the theory could possibly be contrary to the evidence. (Lutzer, 130)

“Cannot imagine?” Evolutionist and Harvard geneticist, Richard Lewontin, claimed that it’s not a matter of “cannot” but “will not”:

·       We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs… in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism...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 absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. (Matti Leisola, Heretic)

Why the rejection of the Divine Foot? The NYU atheist philosopher, Thomas Nagel, had argued that no one can be impartial about God:

·       I am talking of...the fear of religion itself. I speak from experience, being strongly subject to this fear myself: I want atheism to be true...It isn't just that I don't believe in God and, naturally hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God. I don't want the universe to be like that...I am curious whether there is anyone who is genuinely indifferent as to whether there is a God. (The Last Word, Oxford University Press, 1997, 130)

All of these men have, in their own way, affirmed the Biblical assertion that humanity does not want God and rejects Him. Evolution, therefore serves them as a refuge, a God-substitute. Even if the theory fails at every turn, it remains their hope of “reasonably” preventing God to stick His foot into their door:

·       Dr. Lewis Bounoure, Director of Scientific Research in France, is quoted as saying, “Evolution is a fairy tale for adults.” (Lutzer, 133)

Lutzer admits that he had once naively thought:

·       …that if scientists were presented with the impossibilities of the evolutionary theory, they would concede, admitting that it is not only improbable, but also impossible. (133)

Lutzer argues that macro-evolution is impossible for several reasons. Just one of them is the mathematical impossibility of all the right parts coming together, especially in view of the Law of Entropy. He cites Walter T. Brown:

·       “The genetic information contained in each cell of the human body is roughly equivalent to a library of 4,000 volumes.” (135)

Humanity is not only “without excuse” for suppressing the knowledge of the evidence of God, we are also morally culpable, in the eyes of a God who wants to be acknowledged for the life He has given us. There is only one viable course of action – to confess our sin before a forgiving God.