Common Sense Commentary: The word "science" comes from the Latin word, scientia, meaning "to have knowledge" as opposed to ignorance, its opposite, which means simply uninformed. To tell or teach "false knowledge" knowingly is another matter. It is lying ... not "uninformed ignorance".
The Apostle Paul cautioned his young friend, "O Timothy, keep that (knowledge of truth) which has been committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called." 1Tim.6:20.
The Apostle was a highly educated man, who had studied under the leading scholar of his time, Gamaliel. So he was not putting down Science, Knowledge or Education. He was doing the opposite. He was putting down Ignorance and "False Knowledge" of any kind especially False Religion. He was warning the young Timothy not to be taken in or influenced by "False Science". Every word, thought, theory, profession or religion which is not true to the Bible ... is "false". He did not tell Timothy to expose or debate or argue every error, lie or heresy but to "keep the truth" and "avoid" its opposite. The world is overflowing with error, lies, heresy and false religions and confronting them would consume all your time and energy. Preaching the truth is what will "make people free" of all the such bondage. Jn.8:32 "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Jesus said it. At least six times Paul challenged various churches, "I would not have you to be ignorant .... (uninformed) of the truth."
To deny God is to deny "creation" for creation requires a Creator. Therefore, the unbelieving world must devise some other, "pseudo-scientific" explanation for the existence of life, the Earth and the Universe. Since no kind of "creator" is acceptable to them ... for he, she or it would be God, the only other explanation atheism could postulate was that it all just "popped into existence" with a "Big Bang" and somehow a tiny bit of "life" evolved from one cell into an amoeba into a tadpole, frog, monkey and finally man. Never mind the 9,999,999 zillion impossibilities of that hypothesized theory, it was all they had.... a "Big Bang". One cannot fully comprehend Atheism's Evolution theory without understanding that Evolution is not just a theory but their A-theist (No God) religion in answer to the Faith God established through Christ.
I. The Big Bang Theory: This pseudo- scient if ical theory, is probably based on the fact that all the planets in the universe are supposedly moving outward, in all directions from some strangely central beginning point as in a single humongous, explosion in mid air. That is the nearest they can come to a "beginning" ... but how it happened, when and where, off there in a vast, dark, empty nothingness, has no explanation... like "who lit the fuse or pulled the trigger or spoke the WORD". Actually, they have blindly, ignorantly alluded to God without knowing it. When He said, "Let there be...", as He did in Genesis when He renovated the earth, but before that, when He created the Universe, His power went out within his WORD commanded and Created it. From wherever God was, and whenever it was, when He Created this universe with His omnipotent power, in a WORD, there had to be a huge noise or explosion flinging the stars, meteors and planets into existence. You could call that a BIG BANG but without God commanding ... "Let there be...", it could never have happened.
II. The E=MC2 Theory: Albert Einstein's theory of E equals MC squared or Energy equals Mass, though a scientific equation, does not mean it is "false or true science". It was arrived at in the brain of a man who, though not a Christian, strongly believed in a Creator God. Einstein firmly believed in a planned and created universe and often referred to "God" as its Creator. It was just too perfect. When a theory is established upon that premise, and harmonizes with the fact that GOD IS, the theorist cannot go too far astray with his theory. I will quote just four of Einstein's comments on God and creation. "The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects." "Before God we all are equally wise and equally foolish." "God does not play dice." "God always takes the simplest way." E=MC2 begins with a Creator God. "E" represents "Energy". The energy he is referring to is the energy of the Creator God, in Einstein's mind. Jesus said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." Matt.28:18. In Genesis, God spoke things into existence... by commanding it to be... "Let there be..." and... Bang ...it was so. His WORD did it.
Jesus said, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God... All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.... And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, as of the only begotten (Son) of God...." Jn.1:1,3,14. Jesus is here revealed to be the Living Word of God accomplishing the Will of God. When God spoke the Living Word, backed up by His omnipotent energy, the Word went forth in that power and created "Mass" ... the stars, planets, worlds. "...the worlds were framed by the WORD of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." Heb.11:3. Everything was made from nothing but the power (energy) in the WORD of God. E=MC2.
III. Evolution's Theory: As you can see, the Big Bang, E=MC2 and Evolution are all claimed as true science. The first two may indeed have an element of scientific truth in them, as I have pointed out. But evolution is contrary to all scientific truth as well as to the record of God's Word, the Bible.
Evolutionists have searched the archaeological world over from surface and subsurface, mountain top and ocean floor to find a creditable half monkey, half human skull, skeleton, tooth or bone. Many times they have claimed a find but not a single bone has yet proven to be a link between animal/human out of the millions they have dug up with a religious hope it will prove evolution. Not one!
When I was young, my words were much quicker than my brain. As a maturing adult, my brain became much quicker than my words. At 81, I now write thoughts much easier than I can speak them. That is not evolution. It is accumulation of years... a slow tongue, knowledge and maturity replacing the quickness and agility of youth. I am not more or less human. Human progress is not evolution it is several thousand years of accumulated knowledge compounded. Educational sophistication began at ground zero in Eden and each generation built upon the knowledge and progress of the previous generations. Adam and Eve had as much natural, inborn intelligence as we have but without the benefit of accumulated experiential knowledge passed down through the centuries.
Now, in this second millennium AD, we basically have the same innate, natural intelligence potential as did human beings 2000 or 5000 years ago. The difference is accumulated, and recorded knowledge which gives us an advantaged beginning mark from which to start and progress in our education and accomplishments.
People today have the same sins, make the same mistakes and have similar infant IQ as did Cain and Able when they were born to the first man and woman ...but no books or Google to learn from.
I have a certain suspicion that, on an individual level, it is more likely that some people are devolving rather than evolving. I've seen a few folks who appeared to be in evolutionary reverse, going down the evolutionary ladder not up it. I call that scientific devilution ... the effects of evil upon the soul.
Pass it on ... if you dare. RB
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