Back for a third time, Gary highlights a few of his favorite “Memes of the Week.”
Evidences do not have the ability to “speak.” The fossil record, looked at by evolutionists as incontrovertible proof that their position is true, must be interpreted. “Unfortunately, fossils do not come with labels reading, ‘I am an ancestor of man,’ ‘I am the ancestor of the chimpanzee,’ or ‘My line became extinct.’”[1] The evolutionist and the creationist are interpreting the facts in terms of an established belief system. Ultimately, then, this question remains: What standard is being used to interpret the evidence and how reliable is that standard?
Even after being confronted with a preponderance of evidence, history shows us that people holding contrary opinions will not always change their views because they do not like the alternative. In effect, they will believe a hypothesis even though there is little or no evidence to support it. Consider the following:
D.M.S. Watson, known to the public for his B.B.C. talks popularizing the Darwinian notion that human beings descended from primates, declared in an address to his fellow biologists at a Cape Town conference: “Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists not because it has been observed to occur or… can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.”[2]
C. S. Lewis was astounded at Watson’s frank admission. Lewis responded: “Has it come to that? Does the whole vast structure of modern naturalism depend not on positive evidence but simply on an a priori metaphysical prejudice? Was it devised not to get in facts but to keep out God?”[3] Since believing in God did not suit Watson, he decided to believe in a worldview that could not be supported by the facts. Evidences do not speak for themselves as Lewis wants to maintain. There is always a prior commitment to some belief system that interprets the facts. At least Watson was honest enough to admit it.
Thinking Straight in a Crooked World
The nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man" is an appropriate description of how sin affects us and our world. We live in a crooked world of ideas evaluated by crooked people. Left to our crooked nature, we can never fully understand what God has planned for us and His world. God has not left us without a corrective solution. He has given us a reliable reference point in the Bible so we can identify the crookedness and straighten it.
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[1] William R. Fix, The Bone Peddlers: Selling Evolution (New York: Macmillan, 1984), 4.
[2] Quoted in Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: Christian Faith and Its Confrontation with American Society (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, [1983] 1993), 144-45.
[3] C.S. Lewis, They Asked for a Paper (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1962), 163.