Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution (15 page)
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Authors: Ray Comfort
Tags: #Chrisitian
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“Ray, you have been told, over and over again, that no one believes humans came from monkeys. No one. Humans and monkeys share a common ancestor, which is stunningly obvious to anyone who has ever seen both a human and a monkey. Stop it.”
“Whether the bishop likes it or not, Turkana Boy is a distant relation of his.
The bishop is descended from the apes
and these fossils tell how he evolved.” Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist (italics added).“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.” Richard Dawkins
Primates are members of the taxonomic order Primate, a subgroup of mammals (class Mammalia). There are approximately 350 species of primate.
“What are the four categories of primates? 1. Prosimians, 2. New World Monkeys, 3. Old World Monkeys, 4. Apes.”
5“Still we are monkeys, the sort of monkey which is called an ape. The common ancestor of apes and humans (humans are also perhaps best called apes I’d say) would have come in the group we call monkeys, and indeed old world monkeys. So we can say we are monkeys just as we are primates and mammals. If you look at the classification in the Wikipedia article on monkeys you will see that humans are actually classed there as apes, who are old world monkeys” (evolution believer).
Where would he get such a thought? From Charles Darwin (1871):
But a naturalist would undoubtedly have ranked as an ape or a monkey, an ancient form which possesses many characters common to the Catarhine and Platyrhine monkeys, other characters in an intermediate condition, and some few, perhaps, distinct from those now found in either group. And as man from a genealogical point of view belongs to the Catarhine or Old World stock, we must conclude, however much the conclusion may revolt our pride, that our early progenitors would have been properly designated. But we must not fall into the error of supposing that the early progenitors of the whole Simian stock, including man, was identical with, or even closely resembled, any existing ape or monkey.
Interpretation: “Even though it’s a revolting thought, our early ancestors were monkeys. But don’t fall into the error of thinking that they looked like contemporary apes or monkeys.”
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The Catholic Church released a statement recently saying that Christianity is compatible with evolution. I released one saying that the two are not at all compatible. Genesis says that God made man in His own image (a moral entity), as male and female, with the ability to reproduce after their own kind (within their own species). Jesus affirmed this by saying “In the beginning God made them male and female” (Mark 10:6). The Scriptures also differentiate between the flesh of animals and the flesh of human beings—”All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds” (1 Corinthians 15:39). The closest they can get for
human skin grafts is pig skin, and even then the graft may not take.
William Donahue, the eloquent and intelligent president of the Catholic League, responded with the heading “The simple mind of Ray Comfort,” and rightly called me a “Protestant.” He said, “Protestant author Ray Comfort recently said that ‘the Vatican has chosen to officially believe Darwin rather than Jesus.’ He accuses the Catholic Church of failing to exercise ‘common sense’ and of failing to think ‘too deeply’ about evolution.”
The Vatican, in essence, is saying “Don’t believe Jesus or Genesis. Believe Darwin instead.” He even goes so far as to say that “In the name of diversity, the Vatican is encouraging atheism, and that’s a terrible betrayal of Christianity.”
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A little girl asked her mother, “How did the human race appear?” The mother answered, “God made Adam and Eve; they had children; and so was all mankind made.” Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered, “Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.” The confused girl returned to her mother and said, “Mom, how is it possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?” The mother answered, “Well, Dear, it is very simple. I told you about my side of the family, and your father told you about his!”
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shown that man has often used the name of God for his own agenda—from religious wars, to Adolf Hitler (who had “God with us” engraved on the belt buckles of Nazi Germany). The zealous evolutionist evokes the name of science in the same way, and as far as he is concerned, anyone who disagrees with his beliefs disagrees with science and is therefore ignorant.
Evolutionary “scientists” would excel as Disney imagineers. Take for example the gifted folks at the very popular The Future is Wild ministry. These secular prophets predict the future. They give long-term evolutionary horoscopes for the earth—what evolution may do in 100 million years time, all in the name of science.
They do with the future what believers in evolution do with the past. They imagine. Then they draw pictures of what they believe may happen and sell them to kids and those with the imagination of a child. They say, “Every animal and plant in
The Future is Wild
could really exist. Our science team devised each
one as a viable, living organism…. It’s not surprising that our scientists talk about them as if they really existed!”
The same goes for those who imagine what things were like up to 14 billion years into the past, and talk about them as if they weren’t really imagining. All in the name of science. Imagine that.
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In reference to the biblical story of Adam and Eve, an atheist cynically said:
“Well, I suppose that if you can believe in talking snakes you can believe anything.” But did you know that a gorilla can learn thousands of English words and has the capacity to use language?
“More recently, the striking achievements of Kanzi, a bonobo who apparently has learned more than 3,000 spoken English words and can produce (by means of lexigrams) novel English sentences and comprehend English sentences he has never heard before, has strengthened the case of those who argue that the thinking of higher apes is much more complex than had previously been assumed and that the capacity for language use, at least at a rudimentary level, is not exclusively human.”
Do you believe in talking birds? Do you think porpoises speak to each other? How about whales? Do dogs communicate to each other? Do you think they understand English words? Have you ever spoken to a dog? Has a dog or cat ever “told” you that it was hungry? Have you ever heard of dogs warning their owners of a fire in their home? I presume that you believe that man evolved from fish. Why then is your mind so closed to the possibility that an animal could communicate with humans? It seems
that the atheist mind is open to anything as long as it’s not in the Bible. I wonder why?
Do you think fire existed before man discovered it? Of course it did. Even though no one had ever seen it, but it was a hidden reality (within the laws of nature).
It is interesting to note that fire manifests itself only when it has something to consume. If there is nothing material or no oxygen left for it to burn, its rage dissipates, and it disappears from our sight.
The Bible continually likens the justice of God to a “consuming fire.” It is passive until there is injustice. However, don’t make the tragic mistake of thinking that it doesn’t exist just because you can’t see it. And don’t be deceived into thinking that the patience of God is a sign that He has no knowledge of your sins. The day will come when the Law of God will manifest in rage upon everything that is evil. The justice of God will come “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ…” (2 Thessalonians 1:8).
You may be familiar with Moses and the burning bush. It raged with fire, and yet the bush wasn’t consumed: “And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed” (Exodus 3:2). As Moses approached the bush, God told him to take off his shoes (a gesture of humility) because the land on which he stood was holy ground. As Moses did so, he was allowed to approach God and he wasn’t consumed for his sins.
God (in His kindness) has made a way where we may approach Him and not be consumed by the wrath of His Law. He did it by becoming a human being and receiving the fire of His wrath upon Himself, so that it wouldn’t have to fall on guilty sinners.
He paid the fine so that we could leave the courtroom. God can legally dismiss our case. So humble yourself today and approach God through the blood of the Cross, and He will dismiss your case and allow you to live: “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire” (Hebrews 12:28-29).
According to the News Bureau at the University of Illinois:
Life did not begin with one primordial cell. Instead, there were initially at least three simple types of loosely constructed cellular organizations. They swam in a pool of genes, evolving in a communal way that aided one another in bootstrapping into the three distinct types of cells by sharing their evolutionary inventions.
I have some news for the University News Bureau. If you talk about life beginning as a “loosely constructed cellular organizations” that swam “in a pool of genes,” then it wasn’t the beginning at all, because loosely constructed cellular organizations swimming in a pool of genes
already existed.
Ex-atheist Lee Strobel said, “Essentially, I realized that to stay an atheist, I would have to believe that nothing produces everything; non-life produces life; randomness produces fine-tuning; chaos produces information; unconsciousness produces consciousness; and non-reason produces reason. Those leaps of faith were simply too big for me to take…”
For the beginning to be the beginning, there must be nothing. Zilch. If you disagree, in simple language, explain to me where I am going wrong. Tell me what was in the beginning— what was it that began the evolutionary process? Let me guess your answer. You don’t know what it was, but you know that it wasn’t God.
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A group of leading evolutionary biologists have gathered together in an effort to create a living hummingbird. Rather than “cheating” by using existing material, they have decided to duplicate the actual beginning of creation. They have determined to begin the process from nothing, as in the genesis of life’s origins.
They have already begun by listing what they need to create the small but intricate male bird. They require some sort of bone material to make lightweight hollow bones, very strong heart muscle, living blood, a variety of feather material, substance to make a long beak and even longer tongue, two eyes, a digestive system, lungs, kidneys, a liver, an appetite, an instinct to survive, a fear of predators, the ability to find and recognize a mate, and the ability to reproduce after its own kind. They will also need to make the ability to instinctively create a nest and raise young, and of course the ability to fly forward, backward, and sideway, and to remain stationary in the air.
Unfortunately, they are not sure how to create what they need, using nothing, as in the beginning. They have admitted that that’s their only problem. They are restricted to using nothing to create something, as in the beginning. They don’t know what to do next and they don’t know who to ask. Still, they are adamant that as soon as they discover how to make something from nothing, the process will begin. It’s simply a lack of time and of understanding.
Meanwhile, the men have formed a commission to discuss their problem, and named it the “Don’t Understand How” committee. “DUH” for short.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they
are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened (Romans 1:20-21).
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I watched a short video (presumably presented by an atheist) called “Tough Question for Christians” recently. He began his tough question by saying that he had videotape evidence that you dented his car. He gave you twenty-four hours to apologize, and if you didn’t, he was going to throw gasoline on you and burn you alive. That
is
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He then compared his analogy with the message of Christianity, saying that sinning against God was like denting a car, and that God will burn people in Hell for “not believing in Him” and for any other “little, tiny thing” they may have done.