Creation Is Religion Pt III

[An excerpt: Creation Is Religion by Ken Ham] "If the Bible is not the infallible word of the One who knows everything, then we have exactly nothing. We can never be sure about anything. What then is truth: my word, your word, or someone else’s word? In fact, how do you determine what truth is or how to search for it?

I recall a seminar where a young man stated, “I can’t believe in creation. I believe in the big bang. We are just products of chance and random processes. There is no God. What do you say to that?”

I replied, “Well, if you are a product of chance, your brain is also a product of chance. Therefore, the thought patterns that determine your logic are also products of chance. If your logic is the result of chance processes, you can’t be sure it evolved properly. You can’t be sure you’re even asking the right question because you can’t trust your own logic.”

He was dumbfounded. Afterwards he came up and asked for the best books on the subject and said he would have to seriously think this through. He had begun to realize that, without an absolute (God), he had nothing.

Christians have the Bible, which claims to be the Word of God. We can also take what the Bible says and see if the evidence of the present does fit. If we take the Book of Genesis, which claims to be the account of our origins and history, we can see what it says concerning how the world was created and what subsequently happened. We can decide what we would expect to find if the Bible is true (this is our scientific model relating to creation). Then we can look at the world to see if the evidence is there (that is, investigate the present—all the evidence we have—to see if it fits with our model).

For example, we are told that God created living things in distinct kinds, or groups. We can postulate, therefore, that animals and plants should be found in kinds—the one kind cannot change into the other. In fact, this is exactly what we do find (in living as well as fossil organisms).

Genesis tells us that because of wickedness God judged the world with a worldwide flood. If this is true, what sort of evidence would we find? We could expect that we would find billions of dead things (fossils) buried in rock layers, laid down by water and catastrophic processes over most of the earth. This is exactly what we observe.

In Genesis 11 we read of events that occurred at the Tower of Babel. Again, we can ask the question: If this event really happened, what evidence would we expect to find? Does the evidence from the cultures throughout the world fit with this?

Again, the answer is overwhelmingly “Yes.” All humans can interbreed and produce fertile offspring—we are all the same kind. All humans have the same color (genetics tells us it’s differing shades of the one color). If all humans had the same ancestor, Noah (and ultimately Adam), then all cultures have developed since Noah’s flood and the division at the Tower of Babel." Creation Is Religion, Ham.

Response to comment [from a Muslim]:  "...Creationism should continue to be banned from classrooms..."

Get your kids out of the godless public schools.

...And know your enemy (Mt 7:16).

See:

Religion of Pieces

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "I have friends who home school and friends who volunteered at Christian Schools to get their children in there.  What about private schools?"

Anything but public schools. They are officially godless. Those homeschooled kids are something--they're winning all of the spelling bees!

One of the public high school football coaches in our area asked his team to volunteer yesterday at a therapeutic horse ranch for the disabled. I bet he's a Christian.   It was so great seeing these big, tough guys out there mucking stalls (but dressed for golf ), cleaning tack, and helping kids with special needs.

Creation Is Religion Pt III