Pot Calling the Kettle Black / Evolution and Faith

Text Box: The Pot calls the Kettle Black / Evolution and Faith Not long ago Cobb County, Georgia became the battlefield of a controversy that grabbed the national spotlight. That controversy arose over the decision made by the county to teach creation alongside evolution in its public schools. The predictable outrage was based on the prevailing idea that Religion, especially of a conservative Christian stripe, offers no real insight into the things to which only “science” can speak. After all, biblical Creationism is based on “faith” while evolution is based on “science,” so goes the argument. I am convinced that the separation of the minds into those who supposedly “know” (the evolutionists) and those who “believe” (the creationists) categories is an erroneous and premature distinction. In fact, like it or not, I am inclined to make the opposite claim; namely that Creationists, particularly of the biblical kind, are fact based while evolutionary thinking is a faith-based mentality that can be challenged with one simple question - where's the science? Where's the science when evolutionists so trustingly surrender to a process (reason) that also escapes scientific investigation? Reason may be self-evident, inherently evident or even necessarily evident; but it certainly isn’t scientifically evident. And since it isn’t subject to scientific investigation, dependency on reason is a leap of faith at best. Where's the science when observable reality contradicts the most basic element of evolutionary thinking? Perhaps this is too obvious but I think the voice of nature, by divine design (sorry about the “D” words here), speaks rather clearly here. You see, the evolutionist’s believe in a world of increasing complexities. That means that things began in very simple forms and proceeded, with enough luck and time of course, to become more complex. That’s an interesting view of reality, especially since the real world paints a much different picture. The real world doesn’t play favorites on this issue. In fact, what scientists actually observe isn’t a world that increases in complexity but one that is running down - consistently. Scientists refer to this phenomenon as the second law of thermodynamics and it describes a process to which there are no known exceptions. Let’s face it, things in the real world are winding down, burning out, or decaying. It takes a lot of “faith” to believe in a world that acts exactly opposite from the world we see, touch, and experience every day. Evolution may be the result of a very active imagination, but it certainly isn’t science. Third, where is the science when the necessary first cause for such things as life, reason, and morality is missing in action? Causal thinking is not only part of the scientific process; it is a necessary assumption for life itself. In the natural world every effect has a cause. For example, if you get sick, the doctor seeks a cause. When the temperature changes, the meteorologist seeks a legitimate cause; or, in the case of our world and life itself, the fact that something exists - an effect - leads men to contemplate the cause. Think about it. The first cause of life must be living. I’ve heard some strange explanations for the rise of life on this planet but, believe you me; there is nothing in the known universe that can explain it. That is why some “reputable” evolutionary theorists resort to the “seeding” of our planet by a species far more advanced than we. Quite frankly, and for consistency’s sake, one may as well claim that the simultaneous explosions of a printing press and a paper factory “created” this article as to believe that chance, or aliens for that matter, gave birth to life and the complexities it presents. Now that’s what I call faith - the belief in something that has no basis whatsoever in the real world – whether the object of that faith resides in chance or aliens. The more I study the issue the more I see faith at the heart of evolutionary thinking. In my estimation, then, it’s a classic example of the “pot calling the kettle black.” The only difference being that the evolutionist’s faith, a blind faith, is a fragile one that struggles to find any logical connection to the real world. The creationists’ faith, in stark contrast, is grounded in reason, reality and the resurrection. How’s that for the “three R’s” of education? So, all you evolutionists say it slowly with me, “I - am - a - person - of - faith.” Now that didn’t hurt so bad did it? Tony Watts is a preacher and freelance writer from Thomasville, NC. He can be reached at Tony@link2eternity.com

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