Expelled: Common Sense

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” Romans 1:22-25

I truly dislike Earth Day. Of course there will be many out there, who, knowing I am a ‘fundamentalist’ Christian, will not be surprised at that. This morning in USA Today, there is a long-winded and condescending editorial on the subject of religion as it pertains to environmentalism. Entitled “Might Our Religion Be Killing Us?”, it suggests that since most religions encourage humans to ‘be fruitful and multiply’, and since overpopulation is ruining the environment, hence, religion is ruining the environment. Silly and stupid on one level, and scary on another if we are going to turn THAT corner. But I don’t think the liberals understand that as long as they keep pushing abortion there shouldn’t be any trouble keeping the current generation small. And it likely does not occur to them that judgment from God, due to aforementioned child sacrificial practices, will take mankind out long before the environment ceases to function on a useful level. That said, I think I will spend Earth Day being so heavenly minded I’m no earthly good. Christians should have no trouble coming up with ways of being heavenly minded, at least I hope so. If you come up empty on that, email me.

Here’s a suggestion: go see Ben Stein’s film, “Expelled”. I saw it on opening night and I applaud Ben for connecting some important dots. Not only does the heresy of evolution devalue human life and lead to some pretty godless behaviour, it also points directly to Romans 1 in that it leads to worshiping “the creature rather than the Creator”. Evolution makes no sense at all on so many levels and other ministries have had a good go at that, so I will leave that to the creationist apologists. I do know this: people who sell their eternal soul for an unprovable scientific theory truly are foolish and short-sighted, to say nothing of having pushed common sense out the door and onto the curb.

But I do have a couple of questions: Darwin died in 1882. Just think for a minute about all the great advances science and medicine have made since then, it’s phenomenal really. Diseases eradicated, controlled, occasionally cured. Combustion engines, light bulbs, radio communication, nuclear weapons — technology has increased exponentially in the our age of industrialization and ‘enlightenment’. So, why does “science” insist on dwelling in the Victorian Age when it comes to the origins of life? Science boasts continually on it’s accomplishments and advances, and yet this ‘theory’ is not worth re-visiting in light of atomic technology and the electron microscope?

We humans are the benefactors of sorts of all manner of technology. I really enjoy my computer and my iPod. Anyone can see that laptops and iPods show evidence of ‘intelligent design’. If someone did not design and manufacture them, we would not have them. Does it get any clearer than that? People have become unspeakably rich designing the latest gadgets and virtual worlds such as Google and Yahoo and cellular tower universes. Follow the money trail. My house, as simple as it is, has been designed. But the most complex thing in the universe, life, was NOT designed? Silly and stupid squared.

Richard Dawkins, featured in this film and one of those Paul referred to in Romans as a ‘professing wiseguy’, has my pity. He has come up with so many adjectives to describe his hatred of God, when really only one or two would have sufficed. I got his meaning, alright. Here is a sorry little human (we all are, outside of Christ) who is boxing God; kicking against the Creator of all things. What did God ever do to him, except give him life? The real story is he refuses to be accountable for his life or his sin and as long as he tells himself there is no God, he is convinced that makes it so. Sorry, Richard, you can kick God in the shins forever if you want, your pride and self-righteousness will be your undoing. Why not fall on His mercy while you still can? What if you are wrong, and you die in your sins? Is your eternity worth being right? Is it really so impossibly painful for you to acknowledge that man is not the center of the universe? You do profess yourself to be wise, but the Bible says that ‘the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding” (Prov. 9:10), and “The fool says in his heart there is no God.” (Psalm 53:1).

Thanks for the conversation jump-starter, Ben Stein. And to all you evolutionists who will give each other gifts for Earth Day, here is a parting shot:

God gave us brains, and He expects us to use them.