Life Matters - March 22, 2023
Nothing in this material life is more sure than death. The demise of our mortal bodies is so sure, so absolute, that none of us expect to avoid it. Though we may ignore thoughts of death, or determine to do all we can to avoid it, the haunting dark specter of its inevitability only becomes more clear as we age.
The answer, then, is not to avoid the reality of its presence, but to face death, as we can every other difficulty in life, with grace in our hearts, in our minds. “The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness, and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world.” (Titus 2:11-12) “The sting of death is sin,” God says through the apostle Paul, “and the strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (I Corinthians 15:56-57) And so the “haunting dark specter” is canceled by the bright and beckoning light of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
In the meantime, has that “haunting dark specter” not been the force driving most of the struggles in this broken world? Certainly it has driven many into the sweaty, bloody, and tearful cauldrons of war. Which may seem contradictory, until we consider that the events leading to war revolve around national, political, cultural and finally, personal survival. A struggle for survival that “evolution by natural selection” legitimizes by default with its “survival of the fittest” ideas. “Survival of the fittest” ideas, however, break down in so many obvious and not-so-obvious places that a seeker of knowledge, which is the definition of science, will not find it difficult to understand its lack of sound logic: to those open-minded enough to hear it. From Achilles and his famous/infamous heel to the majestic lion attacked and “murdered” by a pack of hyenas, “natural selections” “survival of the fittest” idea has so many exceptions to the rule as to render any final conclusion impossible to settle upon, unless one settles for the obvious; that the idea only works in a mysterious vacuum called millions of years. As long as that vacuum remains the mysterious catch-all for all things that are otherwise illogical it cannot properly be called science, because the definition of science is, and has always been, about the discovery of knowable facts through repeated testings, always with the same results.
Religion, however, has its mysteries. Its parts that we don’t, and can’t, understand by the prerequisites of science, but which we nonetheless believe by faith in One whom we trust knows it all. We trust Him to answer our questions about origins. About fossil records, including but not limited to, dinosaur bones, rock layers, fossils in rocks, in layers of earth, petrified rocks and the vast glacial fields of ice. For creation-based logical science based upon the only dependable record we have of the origin of species, of all things and of ourselves, the Holy Bible, go to answersingenesis.org. As a science project, visit the Creation Museum in rural Florence, KY, and the Ark Encounter close by. If you’re like me, you will come away with a deeper understanding and belief in creation-based science. If you’re like Bill Nye, you will continue to argue against God while borrowing many of God’s precepts from this orderly cosmos we enjoy being grateful recipients of. Still claiming allegiance to the god of materialism from whom all that we see and know supposedly materialized through untold millions of accidental mutations, then somewhere in that millions of years vacuum became purposeful mutations, Mr. Nye has departed from the science and logic of origins so far that one wonders if he even makes sense to himself. Because, with its “millions of years” belief, post-modern “science” can no longer lay claim to its respectable definition, but has become religious in nature. It has, meanwhile, in its rejection of Jehovah God and His word, no answer, no explanation, for the origin of life itself and therefore cannot speak authoritatively on the origin of species, nor on any other faith-based subject addressing the facts of life. Certainly it has shown its glaring deficiency in its rejection of nature and the attempt to “normalize” all manner of perverted, materialist insults against God and His creation.
Life Matters!