I never cease to be amazed at how supposed intelligent rational thinking scientists forever put that intelligence & rationality in their back pocket when it comes to the subject of creation. Why do they prefer to consider that mankind “evolved” from apes & monkeys (& all the way back to single-celled organisms) rather than consider we are created by an awesome God? They twitter on about all the “evidence” for evolution and throw out crazy figures like 150 million years ago in the hope that the more they bandy about such terms the more society will accept them, & sadly, for the most part, they’re right. Too many nowadays prefer to get their “truth” from television & biased BBC programs rather than actually investigate any alternative, lest it point them in a direction they truly do not wish to ever go.
But there is indeed evidence in abundance in every single living creation on the planet to prove their theories are wrong, yet when faced with it, they just shout all the louder that they are right, & creationists are so very wrong. But I have no concerns of their erroneous position ever actually becoming the right one, as while they can warble on endlessly about fossils, carbon dating & other things they insist point to evolution, I just sit back & throw out one word which they really can’t deal with as it invariably throws 90% of their arguments out the window. And that one word – DNA. Yep, the basic building block of life – the life that evolutionists insist had to start out as nothing & then become something without any Divine input!! Yet without DNA no life can exist and not just DNA but its counterpart – Messenger RNA. You can’t have one without the other, & both are arguably the most complex protein molecules on the planet. But we’re expected to believe that somehow time & little else produced DNA as well as everything else. But the evolutionists neatly sidestep that whole thorny topic of how DNA came into being given it’s a zillion times more complex in itself than the first organism in the chain that’s supposed to somehow end up with mankind!!! However, even an article in Evolution News & Views alludes to the design in mRNA as well as throwing out another long-famed argument of evolutionists – that of “junk DNA/RNA”. It also accepts the enormous complexity involved in just a single 4-amino acid sequence coming into being and how mRNA is considered even more complex than DNA due to its dual role in DNA production. For life to be formed from all the materials we have available to us from scratch, we would have to engineer or design it to function, and that’s the whole point. Life has the appearance of being engineered, and points in the direction of a Designer & one with a rather exceptionally higher level of intelligence than us!!
But the evolutionists, utterly intent & locked into their worldview, continue to just consider all of this information, while bothersome, to be just another thing that the passage of time will sort out, & in their view prove their hypothesis. In other words, no amount of alternative evidence, regardless of how concrete will ever convince them otherwise, because they’ve all too much to lose, from credibility through to major investment in research projects & employment etc. Sadly it’s a flaw of human nature that sometimes when we fix our worldview & opinions in one direction, few are willing to truly consider any objections to it lest they prove right, & then huge decisions will have to be made which may change lives.
But even if you’re dead set on accepting evolution as a worldview I’d still suggest you consider your reasons why! Is it because you’ve just accepted all you’ve heard about it and figure it makes sense to you – in that case I’d suggest you go and spend a bit of time doing some more meaningful research into your opinion before fixing it. Or perhaps you’ve spent most of your life pursuing the evolutionary aspect and thus to ever consider it errant or faulty, would be to have to accept you’ve wasted most of your life, & ma
ybe face criticism & ridicule should you change your views now? I would just ask – what’s worse – continuing to live in ignorance & accept something that even on the most basic level is utterly flawed, or seek out the more plausible reason for everything you know – a Person Who can provide more than just answers to creation questions, but answers to sin questions etc too. Or is it because you really don’t want to consider a Creator God just might be real and if you accept He created everything, then other things you don’t want to accept might just be true too? Then you do have a serious dilemma – ultimately whether you accept evolution or not as a worldview isn’t going to kill you, but denying God & ultimately the existence of Jesus absolutely will, not just in this lifetime but eternally! It’s far more important that you get to know the Saviour of the world Who will determine your eternal future, & in doing so, you’ll also find a lot of your creation/evolution questions answered along the way. Jesus alone is the Way, the Truth, & the Life, & only in Him can you find real life both here & eternally.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” John 14:6
“…..but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel….” 2 Timothy 1:10
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ou are in a position of genuine desire to know all angles of the issue, and you’ve heard all the evolutionary “evidence”, then please consider spending some time hearing this mini-documentary on the John Ankerberg show a while back – The DNA enigma. It might not provide all the refutation possible, but will go a long way to countering much of the error pushed out from the evolutionary camp, and from a Christian point of view. If, however, you’d prefer a secular scientific approach then you could check out http://www.biologicinstitute.org/post/20025768653/of-codes-and-rna but be warned this is a fairly complex topic.
Ultimately, every argument has 2 sides and thus each person has to make their choice on which side they will stand, but at least ensure that you’re standing on a side you’ve comfortably researched until convinced of its worth, rather than just standing on a viewpoint because it’s where your peers are or others you respect, or worse, because you’re just too lazy to bother finding out the truth of it.
As ever, I welcome comments, but please provide them on the basis of the evidence, & not my writing ability etc! Thanks.
or that you can’t know anything for sure, especially when it comes to religion & spirituality. Then, take that on out to where you have to say that nobody can know that God exists? Are you someone who’s just decided God doesn’t exist for any number of reasons, but who’s never bothered to investigate the point one way or another? Are you an avowed atheist because you don’t want God to exist or you’ve decided that’s just going to be your truth as you’ve listened to the mantra so many times that if God existed, then the world wouldn’t be the way it is – the old “How can a God of Love allow x, y or z”?
Who took only 6 days to create EVERYTHING in perfect order, perfect symmetry and Who has immense complete knowledge of everything down to the tiniest atom or the largest galaxy. The god of evolution which can’t explain how DNA came into being, and who at times actually denies that DNA was involved in the earliest life, who makes the story of life into what suits its purposes and ultimately is totally out of the loop and sleeping while life continues to “evolve”! Or the God of creation Who from the beginning indicated that He was in control of absolutely every nanoatom in His creation, and Who had a purpose at the outset which is still being worked out today, and Who is intimately involved with His creation in a personal way. A god of chance, or a God in control. A god who neither cares nor can do anything about the evils of mankind, or the perfect, just and righteous God Who set law and justice into the very fabric of mankind and ensures that while some acts may only see limited human justice here or sometimes apparently none at all, He absolutely will ensure justice will prevail in the world to come. The god who provides no hint of what its 
done or doing so leaves you totally in the dark, or the God Who has provided a complete manual for life from start to end, and says what He means and means what He says. Who tells you in advance what is going to happen. He doesn’t necessarily lay it out in the order we think He should, but ensures that only those who’re His followers will be able to discern more accurately what He is planning up ahead.
A God Who was willing to become His creation in order to pay a price for its endless rebellion and then to allow His creation to kill Him to fulfill that purpose. The perfect righteous Being Who cannot look on the black sinful souls of men, became sin Himself so that He could take on the punishment we deserve & so cleanse it from humanity to enable His creation to be made spiritually whole again. You don’t need to know how He can bring that all to pass, just that He can & will.
But what many either don’t know or certainly don’t appreciate is that while those traits are good in human terms God has categorically stated through His Word that nobody is good – not one of us, as we all regardless of our spiritual state continually sin against Him one way or another in thought especially if not in word or deed. And this is what sin is at its root – a refusal (directly or indirectly) to give God His rightful place in our lives. And this is why death entered the world – God told Adam not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden or he’d die but then Eve easily accepted the lie of Satan that they wouldn’t die but rather have their eyes opened to good & evil, and so when she didn’t drop dead the minute she ate the fruit, she persuaded Adam to do so too and that, as they say, was that!! Not only did death enter the world physically but spiritually as well and mankind has paid the price ever since.
of scripture, and the Christian God etc they would pretty much all say they “hope” to go to heaven without any concept of what it is other than what they’re reading in the secular press, the latest fictional book or some film that makes heaven look like a continuation of life here just for longer & more peaceful!! Most have the idea that those who’ve gone before them are all up there and moreover watching everything they do and “rooting for them” down here. And of course there’s also a slew of modern day “I went to heaven & came back” novels avidly read by all and many times foolishly accepted as the real truth. Heaven forbid (pardon the Pun) that anyone should ever read the reality about our final destination in the Bible – that would be too boring!!
suddenly determine that you were wrong for not accepting your need of Him as Saviour. God says we are all sinners and not one of us is good in His eyes, because He is a righteous and perfect God and thus when we die He will judge us as our Creator and find us guilty unless we have someone in that heavenly courtroom able to mediate on our behalf and be our defence. And that’s where Jesus comes in – because He’s not only perfect but also because He alone has lived a perfect human life and submitted to God’s Will perfectly to die as a sacrifice to pay that ultimate price on our behalf. And I know that’s where many struggle – some think that God’s into human sacrifice – He’s not – but from the outset He stated that there had to be a price for sinning that was high enough to show the huge crime of it in His eyes and thus blood sacrifices were instituted. It’s a much larger topic than I can cover here but
Muslim, not a Hindu, not a Protestant, nor any other religion, so I’m a Christian. I live in a “Christian” country so I’m a Christian!!”. After another 10 minutes bouncing the topic around by the end of which she was starting to get just a shade more antsy than I wanted given I was there to talk about my role as chair of a medical charity, I had to just let her have her view and hope that what little I did manage to say about “true” Christianity might be used to turn her around at some later point. But sadly in this little part of the world, religion has come to be more than a hot button topic given how many lives have been affected by the actions of those insisting on using it as a weapon complete with actual weapons to back their views up. But before I finish this little portion, let me just be very clear on one thing – the “war” here has never been about religion. Sure, it’s been used to whip up sentiments and attitudes etc but the Troubles were always primarily about power, control & eventually money – on both sides. Left to themselves, here as elsewhere, Protestants & Catholics can live happily together and often forge lifelong friendships (one of my very best friends currently is an RC girl who connected with me through my charity work. In the very early stages of our developing friendship we started discussing our differing views on faith, and discovered we had polar opposite views on many important topics from abortion and sexual attitudes etc, to who the Black Pope was etc, yet never once did it impact our friendship to any degree. If anything I think it’s strengthened it – we don’t discuss faith matters as much these days purely because of circumstances but are very comfortable doing so nonetheless).
over for demolition. Yet during the “Troubles” it was still interesting to see how the Protestant paramilitaries (more than the IRA) insisted their part in the war was for “God and Ulster” somehow totally missing the 6th Commandment as if God would somehow be pleased with them for continually breaking it. But while the IRA never openly put God anywhere in their statements much, they were many times equally tied in to religion in some sense usually through priests who had no problem burying “volunteers” having a firing “squad” sendoff or Chapels providing safe haven for others etc. But aside from all of that, most of those involved on both sides saw themselves as “Christian” “good Catholics”, or at the very least likely to make it to heaven. Even murderers often think they have a right to heaven!!
Ever looking Upwards! 
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