Let's talk "the science"
Which is not, sadly, the same as actual science
What we call "science" in western culture has been weaponized for many decades to legitimize whatever narrative the powerful want to push.
This should be self-evident after the Covid debacle, where everything that was labeled a conspiracy theory turned out to be true, and everything they told us turned out to be false (remember President Biden threatening us with a “winter of death” or promising that the shot would prevent getting it?).
But it extends back much farther that that, and it isn't always about following the money (although that's a pretty reliable measure of who's benefitting from any particular research study).
And now, in the "I didn't see that coming" department, here's a recent peer-reviewed medical journal article that criticizes... corrupt medical journals and their corrupt peer-reviewed studies. Um, what?
Since virtually all the "science" that gets reported in the media — the "science" on which public policy is made, and the "science" which subsequently affects our everyday lives in countless ways — since all that tends to stem from peer-reviewed research in medical journals, this is a pretty big admission.
Obviously, of course, our mainstream media has reported nothing about it. But we can come back to that another day. For now I want to focus on the result, in everyday life, of the entirely faulty assumption that "science" provides unassailable answers to any questions, much less life's biggest searches for truth.
Because for many decades now, the most unassailable, unquestionable, absolutely-carved-in-solid-rock "truth" from "science" is this:
Everything evolved from something else, and we are all a product of nothing but random chance.
But that is simply not true. And we’re going to look at the truth about creation, starting right here.
God's Word isn't fooling around
The Bible encompasses several types of literature — history, poetry, prophecy, and in the New Testament, letters. Inspired by God (the Holy Spirit), and humanly penned by many different authors, it's important to understand context and culture when reading and seeking to understand and apply Scripture.
It's also important to understand how the Bible itself has been carefully protected throughout history and can be considered wholly reliable. That's a subject for another day as well, but believers know and cherish God's Word as THE Word.
So Moses, who penned Genesis (as well as the next four books of the Bible), was not writing metaphorically. He was recording history, from the beginning and through the first centuries. And he records the first seven days in some detail.
And because he was recording history, when Moses wrote "And there was evening and there was morning, one day" — he meant one day. The Hebrew translation supports that. Answers in Genesis explains this perfectly here.
As they point out, the reality is that until the Fall, described in chapter 3, there was no death in the world God had created. If death was part of God's original creation, it would not have all been deemed "good" by Him, which it was. The theory of evolution requires death — and a lot of it — before humans even come on the scene.
The Bible, therefore, easily discredits the "science" of secularism's evolutionary golden calf.
Our uniqueness in God's creation
But Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 both clearly teach God made humans in His image — in fact, He made us with His own hands and breathed into us to bring us to life. In contrast, all the other creatures were simply spoken into existence, as well all of the natural creation other than humans.
It bears repeating — God made humans in His image. Animals are not equivalent to humans. Nature is not equivalent to humans. Each and every human being is a precious creature made in the image of God. This is why believers must be pro-life, and anti-any philosophy that places any other creature or creation above human life.
This of course has political ramifications — we are not going to support, for example, protecting a tiny fish with policy that puts human life at risk (looking at you, California). Of course, if you think you are just an advanced form of a monkey, you don't really have any grounds on which to say you're more important than the little fish. And much of the world puts themselves in that category by what they claim as their worldview.
But the scriptural worldview — that God created the world and He specially designed humans — is just one of the preliminary arguments that explain why believers must not try to fit the evolution square peg in the creation round hole.
More on those arguments coming in the future, but it’s important to answer this question up front: Do people have to understand and believe in biblical creation to be saved? No, they do not. But once we place faith in Jesus, we want to learn as much as we can about Him, and that means understanding the beginning.
We should not acquiesce to a theory that has never and can never be proven, since it requires millions of years to prove. A theory that tells us we are random cogs in a wheel with no greater meaning. A theory that is presented as “the science” without the evidence to back it up. A brief discussion of that here, for those wanting to dip their toe into these ideas.
I’m confident stating this: Christianity is a complete, evidence-based worldview that stands on its own — and the whole Bible, including the opening chapters, supports that big picture.
Have you ever pushed back on the evolution propaganda? Please share in the comments!