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A MODERN BABEL?

CONFUSION IN AMERICA

by Ken Ham

In Isaiah 5:20,21, we read, "Woe unto them that call evil good,

and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for

darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe

to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own

sight!"

During an interview on the origin of life, the talk-show

host insisted that there was a lot of evidence for evolution--

that millions of years ago life arose by chance random processes

in some primordial soup. Somehow, he explained, life arose from

chemicals. He insisted that the evolution of life was a

scientific theory--but to believe in creation, as I did, was just

a religious idea.

EVOLUTION IS BELIEF

I then began to explain that there were no human

witnesses to the event, and there was no written record. I

explained that we did not have a sample of the original

atmosphere or oceans, and there was no way of proving the idea

concerning the evolution of life. I also explained that in the

dictionary, "science" is defined as "knowledge," and that which

can be "observed and repeatedly tested." I insisted that

evolution was belief--NOT science.

A rather irate professor from a local university called

in to say that evolution IS science because you can investigate

it in a laboratory. He went on to say that one can set up

apparatus in a laboratory to simulate the original atmosphere and

oceans (the presumed original conditions on the primeval earth)

to show how life may have formed millions of years ago. I then

told the professor that in doing this experiment he could never

prove life evolved by chance because he was obviously putting

intelligence into his experiments. He then yelled at me over the

telephone, "we are not putting intelligence into our

experiments!" In a sense, I was inclined to agree with him.

However, I believe the talk-show host (and, I hope, the

listeners) got the point. Even if scientists did make some form

of life in the laboratory, this would have nothing to do with

chance, but everything to do with intelligence. If it took

intelligence the second time, then, obviously, it took

intelligence the first time.

When professors start insisting that using their

intelligence to design experiments can help them understand how

chance and randomness produced life, one starts to wonder if we

are speaking the same language. This reminded me of John 1:5,

"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended

it not." John 3:19 states, "And this is the condemnation, that

light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than

light, because their deeds were evil."

Even though everything we observe fits with what the

Bible says about the origin of life and the history of the world,

the evolutionists insist that evolution is a scientific fact.

What we observe in the present DOES NOT fit with evolution, but

DOES fit with the Bible. The Bible then must be the basis of

TRUE science. WHY is it that the courts are ruling in the

evolutionists' favor? Why is it that evolution can be taught as

science but creation is considered to be religion in the public

education system? Is science no longer interested in truth?

GOD ELIMINATED

What has happened is that the evolutionists have changed

the definition of science. It was once accepted that a

scientific explanation was the same as a feasible explanation.

For example, if the evidence fitted with there being a Designer

(God), then that explanation was accepted as a possibility.

However, because many scientists want nothing to do with God,

they have determined that science must be defined in terms of

explanations that can have nothing to do with God. In other

words, an arbitrary decision has been made by fallible humans to

insist that to be scientific, God cannot be a part of the

explanation. The reason for this should be obvious. If there is

a God and the Bible is true, then men and women would have to

obey HIS rules for their lives.

WARNING

It is not just that these people want evolution

accepted--they want a total man-centered philosophy. And yet the

Scripture tells us that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of

knowledge and wisdom" (Proverbs 1:7;9:10). Man is redefining

words to make them fit his anti-God philosophy, even though the

evidence is obviously totally opposite to what he is saying.

Don't be led astray by "science falsely so called" (I Timothy

6:20). Don't be led astray "through philosophy and vain deceit,

after the tradition of man, after the rudiments of the world, and

not after Christ" (Colossians 2:8). Help ICR to warn the nation

of America "that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk,

in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened,

being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that

is in them, because of the blindness of their heart" (Ephesians

4:17,18).

Woe to those who have redefined science, to those who

want evolution presented as fact: "Woe unto them that call evil

good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for

darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

 

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