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If evolution is the true story of our creation, how can evolutionists fault Christians who believe men and women were created whole by a living God?
It seems that most scientists today are certain that evolutionary processes created you and me. And many of them are, like leading evolutionist Richard Dawkins, committed atheists who desperately want everyone on earth to know that they were created by evolutionary processes, and certainly not by a living God.
Scientists such as Dawkins claim that the God-less nature we stumbled into does not care. The universe of mere molecules in motion just happens, and we just happened. But, ironically, scientists such as Dawkins who believe they are a product of these uncaring processes of nature do care. They care passionately. They care to the point of barely suppressed anger and hatred toward those who believe God, in fact, created human beings.
Today, the fastest way to make a mad scientist is to tell him you believe God created human beings.
But consider: on what grounds can an evolutionist fault a Christian who believes in God? If the blind, uncaring forces of nature produce in a first happenstance of a brain ideas of evolution, and in a second happenstance of a brain ideas of God, who can object? If evolutionists are correct, then both brains are equally meaningless, and their thoughts are equally purposeless.
Consider the rest of nature: Does a snowflake care that all the others look different? Do stalactites begrudge stalagmites for pointing the other way? Does a river’s left bank resent the right bank for opposing it at every turn?
Why, then, among all the natural occurrences of purposeless nature do those unplanned products of blind physics and uncaring chemistry known as evolutionists care if others believe something different?
Though evolutionists make evident that they care what others believe, the very nature of caring is, ironically, the opposite of Darwinism’s world of the “pitiless indifference” of mere matter in motion subject to natural selection.[1] On the one hand, evolutionists claim that “DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is.” But that “uncaring” DNA produced the brain neurons of both evolutionists and creationists. All recipients ended up with minds that can equally think.
If the neurons of one brain lead that brain-owner to embrace evolution as the explanation for the origin of the human species and the neurons of another bring a different person instead to the belief in God as an explanation, it should, in the evolutionary world of pitiless indifference, make no difference to either person. Evolution just happened. DNA just is.
In fact, the astounding success of evolution as so powerful that it can make something that both does and does not believe in it should be celebrated! On this hand, then, evolutionists leave themselves with no rational basis for some evolved neurons caring what other evolved neurons produced as thoughts or beliefs.
The astounding success of evolution as so powerful that it can make something that both does and does not believe in it should, in fact, be celebrated!
If evolution created me to believe in creation by a living God and it created you to believe in creation by blind nature, on what basis do you consider me wrong? It seems that your angst should be directed at the process that created me to believe as I do. After all, according to you, your DNA neither knows nor cares. Your DNA, like mine, just is. Why can’t your DNA leave my DNA alone?
We find a curious fact of hypocrisy among evolutionists. In a Darwinian world of uncaring nature, creationists are what evolution blindly and pitilessly made them. But in a world of Darwinists who care, creationists suddenly become moral agents guilty of believing a wrong thing.
Why do creationists make so many mad scientists?
Because the very fact of our belief forces a reaction that is evidence of their distrust in their own theory.
And such distrust in an otherwise certain belief would drive anyone mad.
God help us all to avoid such madness.
[1] The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. As that unhappy poet A.E. Housman put it: ‘For Nature, heartless, witless Nature Will neither know nor care.’ DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is.”[i] Dawkins, Richard in “Chapter Four: God’s Utility Function” in River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Basic Books, New York, NY (1995), 1st edition, p.132, 133.
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