Post on 27-Sep-2020
Why we believe in
God #3 By
Robert C. Archer
Why we believe in God
1. Because the universe exists (Rom. 1:18-23)
2. Because the universe gives evidence of a Master Designer (Ps. 19:1; Heb. 3:4; Ps. 139:14)
3. Because of the inadequacy of the alterative
The alterative (evolution) lacks
1. A logical answer for the beginning of life
– Dr. George Wall, Professor Emeritus of Biology at Harvard University, who won the Nobel Prize in Biology in 1971 wrote:
He said
There are only two possibilities as to how life arose:
1. One is spontaneous generation arising to evolution.
2. The other is a supernatural creative act of God. There is no third possibility.
The alterative (evolution) lacks
1. A logical answer for the beginning of life
– The Bible declares
• Genesis 1:1 (NKJV)
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
The alterative (evolution) lacks
1. A logical answer for the beginning of life
– The Bible declares
• Colossians 1:15-17 (NKJV)
– He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn
over all creation.
– For by Him all things were created that are in
heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or principalities or
powers. All things were created through Him and for
Him.
– And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
Life comes from LIFE
The alterative (evolution) lacks
2. A missing link from one kind to another
– When God created animals, He created them in “kinds” (Gen. 1:21-25)
• Within these kinds, there are many species.
• For example: there are numerous species of dogs, cats, cows, horses, etc.
– What evolutionist need is evidence of a change from one kind to another, a transition or a missing link.
Many missing links have been claimed over the years
• Nebraska Man
– What was the scientific proof for Nebraska Man? The answer is a tooth.
– The top scientists of the world examined this tooth and appraised it as proof positive of a prehistoric race in America.
– The Nebraska Man was a hoax
Many missing links have been claimed over the years
• Piltdown man
– Charles Darwin, in Piltdown, England, found in a gravel pit a piece of a jaw, two molar teeth, and a piece of a skull. For 50 years, this was known as “the Piltdown man,” but it was later shown to be a hoax.
– The Reader’s Digest, in 1958, said, “The great Piltdown hoax was an ape only 50 years old. Its teeth had been filed down and artificially colored.”
One biologist of the Smithsonian Institute said,
• “There is no evidence which would show man developing step-by-step from lower forms of life. There is nothing to show that man was in any way connected with monkeys.
He said further
• He appeared suddenly and in substantially the same form as he is today. There are no such things as missing links.
• So far as concerns the major groups of animals, the creationists appear to have the best argument.
• There is not the slightest evidence that any one of the major groups arose from any other.”
The alterative (evolution) lacks
3. A logical answer for the existence of a moral conscience of mankind
Romans 2:15 (NKJV) 15 who show the work of the law written in
their hearts, their conscience also bearing
witness, and between themselves their
thoughts accusing or else excusing them)
The alterative (evolution) lacks
• Atheistic evolution cannot logically
explain morals.
– If we have evolved over billions or millions of years then there is no objective standard of morals.
– But on the other hand, if there is an objective standard of morals, there has to be a moral lawgiver – God.
The alterative (evolution) lacks
• So Atheists find themselves in great difficultly:
– Do they admit to objective morality (which ultimately means that a moral lawgiver, i.e., God?
– Or do they contend that everything is relative—that no action on Earth can ever be objectively good or evil; everything is subjective and situational.
• They try to do both!
The alterative (evolution) lacks
• Consider examples of their dilemma
– Extermination of the Jews by Nazis
– DNA
The alterative (evolution) lacks
• DNA
• According to Richard Dawkins– “Life has no higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of
DNA”
– So long as DNA is passed on, it does not matter who or what gets hurt in the process. Genes don’t care about suffering, because they don’t care about anything…. DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music…. This universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.
The alterative (evolution) lacks
• He is right, if there is no God, then
– There is no good and no evil, only “pitiless indifference.” “It does not matter” to atheistic evolution “who or what gets hurt.”
The alterative (evolution) lacks
Why object to a standard of morality?
– Aldous Huxley said in his book Ends and
Means, “I had motives for not wanting the
world to have a meaning. For myself, and
no doubt for most of my contemporaries,
the philosophy of meaninglessness was
essentially an instrument of liberation. The
liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain system of morality.
The alterative (evolution) lacks
Huxley
– We objected to the morality because it
interfered with our sexual freedom; we
objected to the political and economic
system because it was unjust. The
supporters of these systems claim that, in
some way, they embodied meaning —a
Christian meaning, they insisted—of the
world.
The alterative (evolution) lacks
Huxley
– There was one admirably simple method of
confuting these people and at the same
time justifying ourselves in our political and
erotic revolt: We could deny that the world
had any meaning whatsoever.”
The alterative (evolution) lacks
Huxley
– “We didn’t want anybody to tell us that our
sexual ways and perversions were sin, so
what we did—we just simply told God,
‘God, get out of the way.’”
Conclusion
• Truly, as the Psalmist said, Psalm 14:1 (NKJV)
– Ps 14:1 “The fool has said in his heart There isno God.”