Darwin versus God in Genesis One verse one

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I Corinthians 1:18-31 - NIV

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written:
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."

Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.

Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written:

"Let him who boasts boast in the Lord."

One of the great barriers to salvation is man's worship of his own intellect. We think that salvation should be hard, complicated, challenging, enlightening...not simple so that even a child can receive it! Even a caveman...oh, never mind, that is somebody else's schtick. Richard Dawkins credits evolution with making atheism intellectually satisfying. The cross of Christ is distasteful to some simply because it is so simple.

Others prefer that there be no God setting the rules, like Sir Julian Huxley, because it limited his sexual activities and other things he wanted to do that were not allowed by the God of the Bible. Many who believe in Evolution do so because they believe it therefore eliminates the need for God, thus eliminating a standard for behavior and allows them to formulate their own codes and standards and social mores. This is the "if it feels good, do it" crowd.

Still others despise the concept of the need to humble themselves and admit that they need God to save them. Man wants to justify himself and he wants to sit on his own throne, neither beholding to God or kowtowing to Him. Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Humility is not a trait easily worn by those with talent and/or riches, who are used to being admired, followed and obeyed.

So that many scientists are NOT Christians is not surprising, since science is a field that challenges the intellect. Many self-worshippers wind up as scientists. On the other hand, that desire to seek out and understand truth leads many scientists right back to God Himself. So we have plenty of believers in the scientific community anyway.

Born again believers in Jesus Christ are surely basing their salvation on the Creator God of the Bible and so therefore they must believe that the Bible is true. If the Bible is not truly the Word of God, how do you depend upon it for your salvation? How is the message of Christ reliable? I challenge you to consider this as we open the Word of God to Genesis chapter one and verse one.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

This is a straightforward assertion. God is saying that He created everything, correct? From the point of view of a man, all we are able to observe is the heavens and the earth. We are situated in the arm of a galaxy in an area where we can observe much of our own galaxy and a great deal of the rest of the Universe, so we truly can see much of what has been created.

God is asserting that there was a beginning. This is an assertion that He began time and matter. Steady State theory has long been tossed aside by the vast majority of naturalistic scientists in favor of some kind of Big Bang. They are in agreement with God that there was a beginning and that all time and matter started at one point in time. They do not wish to give place to God, though, so where and how such a Big Bang could have originated, by what power, under whose supervision, etc? They frankly do not have much of a clue. The Universe does appear to have had a beginning and in that almost everyone is in agreement.

God asserts a beginning and He also takes credit for creating and specifically states that He created the Earth. God is going to modify this opening statement with further details as we go on, so at this point it is not necessary to infer that He created the heavens and then the Earth, or both at exactly the same time, for He is absolutely being a great journalist.

We were taught in journalism school to be sure to put the story into the opening line. We could then spend a few paragraphs filling in the details, but that opening sentence had better summarize the story or we were not doing our jobs! God, the Creator even of editors and J-School teachers, does exactly that. He has summarized the first chapter of Genesis in one sentence.

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cartoon from jasonlove.com

Suppose detectives are called to a crime scene, and they find a man hung from a rafter in the middle of a cabin and, on the desk, there is a note.

Detective one says, "Here's a note, let's see what it says."

Detective two says, "Toss it in the trash. I only want to consider the evidence!"

Is that logical? Of course not! Homicide detectives immediately look for a note in any possible suicide scenario. Often notes are left, sometimes they are faked or forcibly written and sometimes they are honest last messages left by someone who has decided that life on this planet for them must end. Any note left at the scene is part of the evidence and must be considered!

When it comes to the idea of the beginning of the Universe, scientists are forced to be forensic investigators, because we have no way of going back in time to view the beginning. Naturalistic materialists, such as Darwinists, foolishly crumple up the note left to explain the beginning of the Universe. I am referring to the Book of Genesis, of course!

A good forensic investigator doesn't limit suspects in a crime to only right-handed men because the only people they have personally arrested were all right-handed men. They will understand that all possibilities must be considered. Sometimes investigators just begin eliminating suspects until only one is left, along the line of Occam's Razor.

Those of you who are Christians, I am going to do my best to show you that faith in Christ is totally incompatible with a belief in evolution.

Those of you who are not, I intend to challenge you to investigate your presuppositions by comparing what the book of Genesis states, what we see in the Universe around us, and what Evolution asserts.

This is year four of this blog. I have learned that there are large numbers of people who deliberately obfuscate and hide and change evidence to push their own points of view. There is evidence that Darwinists have destroyed fossil evidence that harms their pet theory. There are certainly websites that post information they know has been refuted on purpose in order to fool the masses.

I have learned that some who are actually supposed to be on my side are intentionally deceptive! There are still Creationists who will try to pass off a picture of a rotting Basking Shark as a Pleisiosaurus. There are still people who claim to have found the actual blood of Jesus Christ. There are also those who think they have a piece of the actual Ark of Noah.

There may be rabbit trails I will not run down so that I do not spend time on issues that are not on topic, such as ice cores and prison populations. I have a few commenters who want me to focus on things like that so that the main focus will be off of the preposterous claims of Evolution. I will not be thrown off-course. I am a Bloodhound focused on following the trail.

During this Darwin versus God series, I will occasionally post articles by creation scientists and a few profiles of great scientists who believe in creation to augment the arguments I will present for the veracity of God in the form of the Book of Genesis and the idea that creationists do actual science and, in fact, often do better science because they are creationists! Here we go....