Posted on 06/17/2007 6:54:37 PM PDT by Rodney King
Why I believe in Creation Posted: December 17, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern
I was stunned the other day when I asked evolution-believing listeners to my nationally syndicated radio show to call in and tell me why they believed.
"Just give me one reason why you accept the theory," I said. "Just give me the strongest argument. You don't have to give me mountains of evidence. Just tell me why I should accept it."
Not one evolutionist called in.
Meanwhile, the phone banks lit up with dozens of evolution skeptics.
Go figure. For more than 40 years, evolution has been taught as fact in government schools to generations of children, yet there is still widespread skepticism, if not cynicism, about the theory across the country.
But, because of political correctness and the fear of ostracism, most people are afraid to admit what they believe about our origins. That's why I wrote my last column – "I believe in Creation."
The reaction to it has been unprecedented. While I expected mostly negative fallout, most letters have been quite positive.
So, I decided to take this issue a step further. Since the evolutionists don't want to tell me why they believe in their theory, I figured I would explain why I believe in mine.
The primary reason I believe, of course, is because the Bible tells me so. That's good enough for me, because I haven't found the Bible to be wrong about anything else.
But what about the worldly evidence?
The evolutionists insist the dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago and became extinct long before man walked the planet.
I don't believe that for a minute. I don't believe there is a shred of scientific evidence to suggest it. I am 100 percent certain man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. In fact, I'm not at all sure dinosaurs are even extinct!
Think of all the world's legends about dragons. Look at those images. What were those folks seeing? They were clearly seeing dinosaurs. You can see them etched in cave drawings. You can see them in ancient literature. You can see them described in the Bible. You can see them in virtually every culture in every corner of the world.
Did the human race have a collective common nightmare? Or did these people actually see dragons? I believe they saw dragons – what we now call dinosaurs.
Furthermore, many of the dinosaur fossils discovered in various parts of the world were found right along human footprints and remains. How did that happen?
And what about the not-so-unusual sightings of contemporary sea monsters? Some of them have actually been captured.
There are also countless contemporary sightings of what appear to be pterodactyls in Asia and Africa.
You know what I think? I think we've been sold a bill of goods about the dinosaurs. I don't believe they died off millions and millions of years ago. In fact, I'm not at all convinced they've died off completely.
Evolutionists have put the cart before the horse. They start out with a theory, then ignore all the facts that contradict the theory. Any observation that might call into question their assumptions is discounted, ridiculed and covered up. That's not science.
How could all the thousands of historical records of dragons and behemoths throughout mankind's time on earth be ignored? Let's admit it. At least some of these observations and records indicate dinosaurs were walking the earth fairly recently – if not still walking it today.
If I'm right about that – which I am – then the whole evolutionary house of cards comes tumbling down.
This is the evidence about which the evolutionists dare not speak.
“The evolutionists insist the dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago and became extinct long before man walked the planet.”
Most likely is that there were a few large (by human standards) lizards roaming about when human kind was becoming a powerful force. This could be where the legends of dragons come from. I’m not saying this is what I believe happened, only that it may have.
“In fact, I’m not at all sure dinosaurs are even extinct!”
They’re not. Crocodiles. Alligators...some of the larger snakes possibly. T-REX? Not likely.
If you don’t take all things in the Bible as literal why would you possibly take the Genesis account of creation as anything but an allegory. It has all the earmarks of one. All evidence shows the earth is much much older than 6,000 years and there is no reason you can’t believe in Christ and scientific reality at the same time. I would dare say God wants man to be rational not a superstitious savage.
“There are also countless contemporary sightings of what appear to be pterodactyls in Asia and Africa.”
Ok then. The author is a fruitbat.
Joseph Farah, nobody cares what you believe. If your beliefs were a little less preposterous, maybe they might.
“prove their bogus theory’
Did you know there is a theory of gravity? Like all theories, it has not been proven, yet gravity exists. As a matter of fact, Einstein’s theories of relativity required a change in the theory of gravity because they accurately predicted things gravity was later discovered to actually do.
The theory of evolution is the best explanation so far of the fact of evolution. If you believe nothing evolves, that’s one thing. To challenge a theory of something you think isn’t even real seems like a waste of your time.
To think the scientific method, so successful in practice, is incompetent at dealing with biology because it infringes on the beliefs of ancient desert dwellers surely strains the brain.
Ask Joe Farah. It’s his article and his acknowledgement of mountains of evidence.
Not really worried about your ilk destroying Christianity.
I believe it. And I am a conservative and a Catholic. I teach all of my five children the truth, "Evolution Happens." Your story wastes our time. Can't you discuss this in your bible study class?? We're busy here with more important matters.
Obviously not to be taken literally. Intended meaning- to shrug off the contents as unquestionally binding, absolute truth- bearing on all men universally- then it is no longer the Bible.
If my belief is -one word in the Scriptures is not God breathed, then I become God-I have written my own Bible.
I thought it was the Law Of Gravity.
I can't speak for Christians, but Jewish scholars of all demonations have tended to view Genesis as allegory for at least a thousand years. This is why even the most Orthodox have tended not to see a conflict with evolution. A minority of the Orthodox (and a miniscule minority of the overall Jewish population) do cling to creationism, but even they don't take Genesis as a strictly literal accounting. I would be shocked if there were a dozen Jews on the planet who believed the earth was 6000 years old.
Now maybe the Jews are crazy... after all, what could Jews possibly know about the Torah?
But I am worried about your ilk helping to damn people to Hell
Don’t worry. Be happy.
The law of gravity is simply the observation that if you drop something, it will hit the ground. It doesn't explain why that happens, nor does it explain how that happens, nor does it predict the gravitational pull two objects will exert upon each other. That things tend to fall is the Law -- everything else is gravitational Theory. And say what you want about gravitational Theory, it sure ain't bunk.
Cut the Gordian knot. Google law of gravity and theory of gravity as phrases. See which gets the most hits...
Evolution is the process by which God made man.
I firmly believe in both creationism and evolution.
Are you telling me that natural selection isn’t observable in nature and cannot produce different species?
Sorry but you and your flawed beliefs turn people from Christ and cause many people to rightly see christianity as a whole as little better than a bunch of superstitious primitives. Evolve a little bit and come into the 21st century leave the superstitions in the dark ages where they belong.
My take on legends of dragons is that when primitive people found fossils of big strange-looking animals, they made up stories to explain them.
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