The evidence that God exists is all around us. Even though God is invisible, what He has created in the physical word shows His eternal power so strongly that there is no excuse for those who deny His existence (Rom. 1:20). However, man has been given the freedom to choose to know God or to reject Him. Man can deceive himself into believing foolishness if the world deems it wise (Rom. 1:22; 1 Cor. 3:18).
Genesis 1:27 states, “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” The Genesis record also declares that there are kinds of the living things that were here from the beginning—grass kind, whale kind, cat kind, dog kind, horse kind, etc. (Gen. 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25). However, the theory that has been in vogue for the last century and half proposes that all living things came from one common ancestor and have developed over a very long period of time by minute changes. Instead of purposeful design by God, the world around us is thought to be the product of random occurrences. The wisdom of the world has rejected God as the Creator. One century after the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species,[1] George Gaylord Simpson stated, “Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind.”[2] Even today people in general are more likely to believe a scientist who makes an outlandish claim over that of a spiritual leader.[3] The General Theory of Evolution has insurmountable problems, yet it still remains the respectable view in the eyes of the masses.
Think of pioneers of this godless theory who made inroads in the educational arena which then trickled into popular thinking. They caused so many to reject God; where are they now? Though they are not on earth, they have not ceased to exist. Unlike the animals—from which they proposed we descended—humans have eternal souls which stand before God in judgment (Ecc. 12:7; James 2:26; 2 Cor. 5:10; Heb 9:27; Rev. 20:12). Like the rich man of Luke 16, they have a very different view of God now that they have died; like him, their realization of their responsibility to God and their fellow man has come too late for their salvation.
Ungodly people who have lived before our time serve as an example for us today to avoid the path that leads to the punishment they are presently undergoing (Jude 7). Instead, of teaching people to reject God and His standards, may our lives be devoted to promoting healthy teaching of the gospel which is able to save man’s eternal soul (Rom. 1:16; James 1:21). What we teach will affect our salvation and the salvation of those who hear us (1 Tim. 4:16).
[1] The full title of Darwin’s work published in 1859 is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
[2] George Gaylord Simpson, The Meaning of Evolution (New York: Mentor, 1959), p. 19.
[3] “Credibility Score: People Put Their Trust in Scientists” (2022), Nature cited in “Should ‘Science’ Trump Scripture?” by Jeff Miller (Apologetics Press) < https://apologeticspress.org/should-science-trump-scripture/>
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