Evolution: A Package Deal

Text Box: Evolution: A Package Deal Just a couple of years ago I was writing regularly in response to a local religion professor at High Point University. My co-workers, knowing my ongoing controversy with this professor and reading the articles I wrote in response, began to “harass” me about my endeavor. So much fun they had with this controversy that one Christmas I received a Christmas card from “Professor Earl Crow” – supposedly that is, who invited me to “step out from the security of my computer and face him in the real world.” Of course the card and the challenge were all given in good humor; but the more I thought about it, the more practical such a challenge seemed. That is the challenge, then, that I would like to extend to all teachers, at any level, who participate in the great lie of our century; namely, that the world as we know it arrived on the scene by purely naturalistic processes. All I want is consistency on this thing you know; because as it stands now, our nation’s leaders, educators and scientists are taught about a “chance” driven universe as if the idea can be confined to the classroom without affecting all of life. Well, this challenge may help some reconsider their position. First, I challenge you to step from behind the comfort of your lectern and deal with this nagging sense of value that your students have. We all, children and adults alike, seem driven by an innate sense of our uniqueness as human beings and there is nothing in the evolutionary scheme of things that allows for such a universal and powerful tug of the human heart. Behind the safety of the lectern, you imagine that you can somehow deny your students the knowledge of God and still teach them about an intrinsic value that really isn’t supposed to be there in the first place. I know you can’t deny the obvious – the need for self-worth, that is. But neither can you make your godless philosophy work in the real world. In fact, you see yourself as a person of worth and that just doesn’t fit in an atheistic “reality.” Finally, consistency means everything here and as a teacher, you must free their young minds of the moral obligation so intricately linked to their belief in a Supreme Being. Step from behind the podium and redirect their impressionable young minds from what appears to be a universal moral consciousness; because such ideas cannot consistently exist in an impersonal world where purely natural processes dictate. You know very well that any superseding moral obligation is the result of a theistic worldview, a belief in God if you will, and a consistent evolutionist cannot tolerate such thinking. There is no overbearing “should” to life and morality, there is only what “is.” That means that no one can tell them, from an evolutionary worldview that is, that anything is absolutely right or wrong. You are in good company here; because Richard Dawkins, the famed atheist, believes the same thing. There is no God says Dawkins, and the end result is an amoral world; i.e. a world in which there is no moral obligation that extends beyond humanity. There is no actual good and/or evil. Even Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist, also went on record as saying that our “aggressive instincts are encoded in our DNA.” (Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays) The assumption is that, whatever is encoded in our DNA is “natural” and may be a threat to our very existence; but it cannot be defined as “wrong.” It simply is. Steve Turner highlights the consistent outworking to such thinking. “If chance be the father of all flesh,” he writes, “disaster is his rainbow in the sky, and when you hear; state of emergency! Sniper kills ten! Troops on rampage! Whites go looting! Bomb blasts school! It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker.” The evidence is overwhelming, isn’t it? It’s easy to stand and teach about our Godless origin until you step out and see where such thinking actually leads. We cannot concede the ideas put forth by Dawkins, Hawking nor Turner, can we? In fact, it unsettles us to imagine such a world; a world where neither intrinsic human value nor morality really exist, logically that is. Conversely, it is comforting to realize that we were actually created in the image of the living God (intrinsic value) from whom we received our value and sense of right and wrong. We are uniquely human with a moral conscious that cannot be explained unless you teach a worldview that includes God generally and the God of the Bible specifically. Thank you and happy teaching! Tony Watts can be reached at Tony@link2eternity.com

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