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Praise Jesus for godly Pastors like THIS, who take a stand for Christ and against the satan-controlled evilutionists. Despite his handicap (he is apparently British-Columbian), he is obviously full of the Holy Spirit!
I don't know about you, but I'm putting my faith in something believable like talking snakes, a tower that was build high into the clouds, Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt, a global flood that wiped out all life, a river turning into blood, burning ice falling from the skies, a pillar of fire appearing out of nowhere to stop the Egyptians, Moses parting the Red Sea, a river bursting out of a rock, God flying around in a cloud ship and zapping the Isrealites with fire beams, talking donkeys, a sound of trumpets crumbling the walls fo Jericho, the day and night cycle stopping at Joshua's command, Samson's super human strength and his 1 vs 1000 victory over armed and armored soldiers using nothing but a donkey's jawbone, Saul speaking with Samuels ghost, Solomon's 1000 mates, God & Isrealite killing a 1 million strong cushite army, Jesus walking on water, Jesus raising the dead, Jesus turning water to wine, Jesus feeding 5000 people with 5 loafs of bread and 2 fish, the earth quaking when Jesus died and zombies walking the streets and Jesus rising from the dead and flying to Heaven.
Acts of Faith: Evolution is magical, medieval sorcery
Why do I believe in a Creator? Why don’t I just believe what I have been told by educators and entertainers? What’s wrong with adopting the conventional, well funded, and politically correct view that we all came from primates, then from lower forms of animals, then from slime in a pond somewhere?
As they say, “From goo to you by way of the zoo.”
After all, a lot of smart people believe in evolution – and evolution does not require God. So why should I believe in God?
Besides, who am I (how arrogant of me) to not agree with what is taught in the media, loved by Hollywood and defended by the academic elite?
I believe in a Creator for many reasons. For one, I’m not a ‘group-think’ kind of person. I don’t just go with the flow. I walk upstream. Put my face to the wind. Think for myself.
But that often puts me at odds with the status quo.
Secondly, I just see the whole idea that one form of life (dog, donkey, dinosaur) changing into another form as impossible, even if you give it millions and millions of years.
“A long, long, long time ago ... very slowly ... with no known reason ... dinosaurs transmogrified into chickens.”
That is just too fantastical for me. It smacks of medieval sorcery. No one ever tells me how these animals change, just that they did. Magically. Although I love myths, magic and science fiction – for entertainment – I don’t want to base my life on such things.
Then there is the whole issue of science. As we observe our world today, we discover certain principles or rules that seem to apply everywhere. We call these the laws of nature. The problem is that what we know about science – the laws devised from actually observing the universe – do not allow for the kind of evolutionary scenario that I mentioned above.
In mathematics, there is this thing called information theory.
One of the tenants of the theory is that new information cannot come about by accident, but must always have an intelligent source. This is universally true. We have never seen an exception. But evolution wants us to believe that the vast amount of new information needed to create each new type of animal, just came out of nowhere. That’s not science. That’s Harry Potter.
Then there is this thing called entropy. You might have heard the word, but are not sure what it is. Entropy applies everywhere in the universe. The universe would not be the universe as we know it, were it not for entropy.
In terms I can understand, entropy is this: “Given time, all systems go from order to disorder.”
Actually, this is one of the few ways we can tell the direction of time’s arrow. Time makes things worse.
But according to evolution, over time, different life forms evolved and became more and more complex. It is almost as if evolution caused time to go backwards – but only for evolution. This sounds like a great fairy tale, but it makes for terrible science.
There are many other laws of mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and microbiology that also violate the very concept of evolution.
So why do people still believe in evolution? There are various reasons. Some people just follow the media and the academic elite because they think that those people must be very smart. But many of these very smart people cling to evolution because they want the approval of their peers, and they think that God would cramp their lifestyle.
So the myth lives on.
But our belief system should not be based on what we would like to be true, or on what will make us popular, but on a relentless pursuit of the truth.
– by John Martens, pastor at The Connection.
Why do I believe in a Creator? Why don’t I just believe what I have been told by educators and entertainers? What’s wrong with adopting the conventional, well funded, and politically correct view that we all came from primates, then from lower forms of animals, then from slime in a pond somewhere?
As they say, “From goo to you by way of the zoo.”
After all, a lot of smart people believe in evolution – and evolution does not require God. So why should I believe in God?
Besides, who am I (how arrogant of me) to not agree with what is taught in the media, loved by Hollywood and defended by the academic elite?
I believe in a Creator for many reasons. For one, I’m not a ‘group-think’ kind of person. I don’t just go with the flow. I walk upstream. Put my face to the wind. Think for myself.
But that often puts me at odds with the status quo.
Secondly, I just see the whole idea that one form of life (dog, donkey, dinosaur) changing into another form as impossible, even if you give it millions and millions of years.
“A long, long, long time ago ... very slowly ... with no known reason ... dinosaurs transmogrified into chickens.”
That is just too fantastical for me. It smacks of medieval sorcery. No one ever tells me how these animals change, just that they did. Magically. Although I love myths, magic and science fiction – for entertainment – I don’t want to base my life on such things.
Then there is the whole issue of science. As we observe our world today, we discover certain principles or rules that seem to apply everywhere. We call these the laws of nature. The problem is that what we know about science – the laws devised from actually observing the universe – do not allow for the kind of evolutionary scenario that I mentioned above.
In mathematics, there is this thing called information theory.
One of the tenants of the theory is that new information cannot come about by accident, but must always have an intelligent source. This is universally true. We have never seen an exception. But evolution wants us to believe that the vast amount of new information needed to create each new type of animal, just came out of nowhere. That’s not science. That’s Harry Potter.
Then there is this thing called entropy. You might have heard the word, but are not sure what it is. Entropy applies everywhere in the universe. The universe would not be the universe as we know it, were it not for entropy.
In terms I can understand, entropy is this: “Given time, all systems go from order to disorder.”
Actually, this is one of the few ways we can tell the direction of time’s arrow. Time makes things worse.
But according to evolution, over time, different life forms evolved and became more and more complex. It is almost as if evolution caused time to go backwards – but only for evolution. This sounds like a great fairy tale, but it makes for terrible science.
There are many other laws of mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and microbiology that also violate the very concept of evolution.
So why do people still believe in evolution? There are various reasons. Some people just follow the media and the academic elite because they think that those people must be very smart. But many of these very smart people cling to evolution because they want the approval of their peers, and they think that God would cramp their lifestyle.
So the myth lives on.
But our belief system should not be based on what we would like to be true, or on what will make us popular, but on a relentless pursuit of the truth.
– by John Martens, pastor at The Connection.
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