By Ada Brownell
The Creator of the universe loves you and will guide you into blessed tomorrows.
Excerpt from Ada Brownell's book, Imagine the Future You
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God— the One who is, who always has been, and who always
will be, is the most important person you can meet. He is your Creator, and
what your future is like depends on your relationship with Him.
I know more and more young people are atheists today. This
is by design by the secularists who write curriculum, teach in our schools, the
universities, and have taken over our government and media. As I’ve said
before, there is active brain washing to assure you won’t believe in God.
I’ve said many times in the past “atheism is the opiate of
the sinner.” If wicked people at least think they don’t believe in God, it
helps quiet their conscience. But their conscience won’t quit, so they blame it
on other people . Apparently they know what Christians believe is real, so they
target Christians. They think stopping the influence of Christianity will help
them feel better in their sinful state. That is why religious freedom is in
danger in the United States.
So, your future is wrapped in whether you believe in the God
of the universe. For that reason I will present the truths to you in this
chapter you might not have heard.
Besides creating you, “In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.”[1]
That’s the opening verse of the Bible—Genesis 1:1.
That sentence is where the debate begins, but it’s nothing
new. Atheists and agnostics argue extensively on this subject. Yet, they can’t
prove God is not there. Neither, however, have Christians proved without a
shadow of doubt God is the Creator and interested in humankind.
Because we can’t prove how we got here, atheism takes faith,
as much or more faith than it takes to believe in a loving God. To be an
atheist, man must believe the eyes he sees with and everything he sees and even
things he can’t see just happened, including the origin of matter, life and the
exact mixture in the air we breathe: nitrogen, oxygen, water, argon, carbon
dioxide and trace gases.
IMAGINE HOW YOU GOT HERE
Now, some Christians do believe in evolution—but with God
starting the process. But those who believe in God don’t believe the universe
or the magnificent human body happened by itself.
Most secular professors and teachers will not hesitate to
tell you what to believe and not believe about your origins, but even
scientists disagree.
One of the most interesting debates on evolution occurred in
October 1980, when 150 scientists met in Chicago and began openly bickering
among themselves, thundering forth conflicting theories.
Some scientists at this conference promulgated the “big bang” theory.[2]
This theory, obviously not the TV show, contends that instead of millions of
leisurely evolutionary years, the world began all at once, Bang!, in a
great galactic explosion of atoms and enzymes.
Darwin’s theory also came under attack from
scientists—because missing links are still missing after more than a century
since Darwin.
“Fossil hunters have not found the fossils needed to explain
the glaring differences between major species,” Associated Press newspaper
columnist Hugh A. Mulligan reported. “In the whole cycle of environmental
selection, with all the genes and embryos playing splitsville according to the
evolutionary plan, no six-legged vertebrate has yet walked forth upon the
earth.”
Science has provided few or none of the examples of one
major species shading gradually into another.
Fossil experts, not clergymen, are Darwin’s most formidable
opponents, according to Phillip E. Johnson, author of Darwin on Trial.[3]
Although Darwin’s theory revolved around survival of the fittest,
paleontologists often disagree with Darwin because appearance of an improved
form implies a disadvantage of its parent form. Many supposed parent forms
still survive, and the missing links just aren’t there, even though they’ve
been searched for since 1859, when Darwin wrote Origin of the Species.
“There always will be missing links if we think in terms of
link between all change,” a university anthropologist argued when I interviewed
him. He said changes in Darwin’s theory have occurred, the most recent the
theory of “punctuated equilibrium,” which he explained relates to the time
taken for one species to shade into another.
“A form which had been a small variant, might have great
rapid growth,” he said.
He used the doubling of chromosomes in some species as an
example of radical change in a short period.
On the other hand, he admitted such doubling could be caused
by the environment and also that most mutations are undesirable rather than
desirable.
He used a fruit fly as an example of a species with a short
life span where such changes in chromosomes could be observed. But he admitted
the insect still was a fruit fly.
“It is very difficult for an average scientist to test
evolution,” he said. “Our lives are too short and the research too specialized.
The theory is the result of collective effort.”
What did he have when he observed changes in the species? The same species.
-- More from Imagine the Future You will be posted in the days ahead.
[1] Genesis
1:1
[2]
Charles Percival, Pueblo Chieftain,
Aug. 9, 1992, page 6B.
[3] Darwin on Trial (Downers Grove, Ill.:
InterVarsity Press, 1993), 45.
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