In today’s devotion we continue to discuss whose faith is really blind.
Thankfully God has not left us with just looking up at the heavens to understand and know Him. He has given us His written revelation – the Bible to explain much of His creative powers and His divine attributes. Not only that but His Word allows us to see who we really are – sinners in need of a Savior. And the Bible shares how faith is needed to accept Jesus as God and as our Lord and Savior. But this faith is not blind but is tied to the absolute authority of the Word of God. And, if you have been following my website for any length of time, the Bible is the only sacred book that is full of truth on every level. It is historically reliable, scientifically always ahead of it time, prophetically unique and always accurate, as well as the finest book on morals and ethics ever penned.
Yes, I stake my life on the truth of the Bible and if it says God created the universe and mankind I feel totally comfortable with this supernatural event. Before I became a Christian in 1981, I believed in evolution, not because I could defend it but because most of my peers in college believed in it. Sadly, I staked my beliefs on a worldview but didn’t know if it was true or not – I really was exercising blind faith. And my friends, that is exactly what proponents of evolution are doing today. They have no evidence to support their bankrupt theory only a belief that the supernatural isn’t possible and therefore are left with evolution as the only game in town.
As an example of the evolutionist’s blind faith just listen to how the evolutionary geneticist from Harvard University, Richard Lewontin, puts it:
“Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”1
And also consider these three observations by astronomer Robert Jastrow:
“Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.”2
“At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”3
“Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by the nature of their profession to seek explanations for the origin of life that lie within the boundaries of natural law.”4
If we follow the evidence I believe we are left with no other alternative then to believe that supernatural forces were at work to form our universe and mankind. And this is not blind faith but rational reason.
In the last analysis, I believe, all of us know in our hearts that God created the universe and the real reason that evolutionists hold firm to their beliefs can be found in (Romans 1:18-20): “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, being understood by what has been made, so that they are without excuse.”
Man’s heart is darkened and only the light from the Holy Spirit can open his blind eyes to see clearly that: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” So, it’s really not a question of blind faith but blind eyes.
1 Amazing admission – creation.com
2 Robert Jastrow Quotes (Author of God and the Astronomers) (goodreads.com)
3 Robert Jastrow Quotes (Author of God and the Astronomers) (goodreads.com)
4 Robert Jastrow Quotes (Author of God and the Astronomers) (goodreads.com)