A portion of this article is excerpted from the January 1998 Readers Digest from an article called "The Greatest Hoaxes Of All Time". Readers Digest actually got this materiel from the Washington Post. The materiel was researched and written by Michael Farquhar. Both the Washington Post and Readers Digest retain all copyright to the quoted materiel only. Also, a recent  and very pertinent news report from the Baptist Press (Author: James Dotson) has been added at the end of this document. The Baptist Press retains copyright to this quoted materiel.

 As I read through the newspapers and magazines in our "modern day" world, I am often confronted with scientific absolutes that seem to disprove the existence of God. Scientists are always discovering some new evolutionary proof, some archeological discovery that seems to support this new age faith that has been pushed on our schoolchildren as fact. Why, they have even re-written the dictionary! I have a huge old dictionary, dog-eared after years of use, that is so old that I really don't know when I bought it. "Theory" in this dictionary is defined as: "A supposition explaining something, a doctrine of scheme of things resting merely on speculation; hypothesis; plan or system suggested; an exposition of the general or abstract principles of any science (the theory of music or medicine); the science or rules of an art, as distinguished from the practice; a philosophical explanation of phenomena; a connected arrangement of facts according to their bearing on some real or hypothetical law or laws." This large definition all focuses on one fact: a theory is something that could have been but that has not been proven as fact.

This is the definition of theory that I was brought up on, a definition I could understand. I was teaching a group of young college kids in a Bible study a few weeks ago and was astounded to find out that the evolutionists have changed the definition of the word theory. Theory now means "something that is a proven fact that we did not personally witness". Perhaps this change of definition (which I was totally unaware of) is the reason that so many Christian Scholars are quickly moving from teaching the Biblical account of Creation and have moved into speculation and vain twisting of the Scripture to make the Genesis account agree with the evolutionists. (Curious? See our other study on Progressive Creation).

Though I heartily disagree with Evolutionary Theory, I have never particularly lost any sleep over it one way or the other. You see, my responsibility as an ambassador for Christ is to share the Gospel of Christ with you. Once I share the Gospel, it is the Holy Spirit's responsibility to impress you to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. As Jesus said:

John 15:26-27 "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning."

John 16:7-14 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you."

So you see, it is my job to be a witness of Christ, the Spirit's job to convict or convince you that the message is real and you are lost, and your job to accept Christ as Savior. If you reject the message and ignore the Spirit then you failed to do what you ought, and you are free to accept the consequences. So, no, I won't be discouraged by your bad decision. And yes, as an American, you are perfectly free to believe that you descended from a monkey, a garden slug, or whatever you choose to want to delude yourself into believing. This is your choice. This does not impact my soul.

What does impact my soul is when Christians jump on the bandwagon of error and try and make Christianity palatable to the evolutionists. This is terribly wrong! This is wrong on several fronts: First, we already possess the Truth of the Gospel as given us in God's Pure Word. When I'm already home, I don't need to get up from my comfortable chair, get in the car, and drive around just to get back home. Christians, you are already at home in the Truth. Why do you want to tear down your house and rebuild it in another's image, just to show hospitality to those who are wrong? How foolish! We possess the Truth of God, and as long as we stay in it we will be unencumbered by the errors of this world:

John 8:31-32 "Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

Only when we abide in Jesus' doctrine, without compromise, will we stay free both emotionally as well as intellectually. When we walk away from God's Truth, or modify it to suit the world, we lose our birthright of spiritual freedom.

Second, when we begin modifying the Truth of God in order to support some human philosophy, we have to modify our views on the Scripture. I have met believers who rejected some portions of the Bible as God's inspired Word because those portions taught things which offended or disagreed with them. Divorced men rejecting 1 Timothy because it teaches that the Minister must be the husband of one wife (1 Timothy 3:2). The Women's Liberation Movement rejecting the same section because they feel women should be allowed to preach. How you interpret these passages is between you and God, but when you begin to cut and paste Scripture you begin a dangerous thing.

Let me tell you this little story: A man went to a restaurant one day and ordered chopped sirloin.  The waiter said, "As the cook was running the sirloin through the food processor, he turned away to get some salt. When he turned back he discovered that a box of rat poison had poured over into the processor. He turned the processor off, and carefully scraped all of the poison off of the meat, so it should be fine to eat. How would you like that prepared?" What would you do, would you order the sirloin, or quickly move to another restaurant? You see, the Bible was given to believers as a whole unit by a Loving Father. When you pick and choose what portions are good and bad, when you discount the Genesis account because it doesn't align itself with evolutionary theory, then where do you stop? If the Genesis account is faulty, then how do you know that the Gospel account is accurate? Where do you stop cutting and scraping? To me, the whole Bible is true in all that it affirms. If you believe that only the portions that suit you are true, then you are guilty of intellectual dishonest and foolishness.

Third, this world goes through fads and notions that are often divorced from reality, and often blatantly depart from the truth. Evolutionists themselves cannot agree on their own belief structure, some believe in a "big bang theory", others a "creation of chance". There are as many evolutionary theories as there are evolutionists, each presupposing different time frames for different aspects of evolution. Yet those who accept God's Word as Truth stand on bedrock:

Matthew 7:24-27 " Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it."

When you build your faith on the theories of the world, you build your faith on sand. Whenever the evolutionists have a new theory, or a new discovery, you'll find that you have to quickly change your faith to blend in with the new theory to stay "up to date". What a waste! Though not all evolutionists are intellectually dishonest, many are just deceived, there are many in this camp that will twist truth just to make it meet their interpretation. The following article is from the January 1988 Reader's Digest (The Greatest Hoaxes Of All Time):

A recent report from the Baptist Press also shows how weak the Evolutionary Theory is:
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ORLANDO, Fla. (BP) -- Could life have developed in the universe by accident, without divine intervention? That's the prevailing viewpoint set forth in our culture, but Southern Baptist apologist and educator Theodore Cabal said science itself indicates otherwise.

According to the broadly accepted Anthropic Cosmological Principle, he said, there are currently 46 physical constants that have been discovered which, if any were only slightly
different, would have made life anywhere in the universe impossible.

"The universe has obviously been designed with human beings in mind," said Cabal, dean of the James P. Boyce College of the Bible at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. "It is so incredibly fine-tuned that if it were any different nobody would be here to talk about it."

Cabal was one of the principal speakers during a June 13-17 session of Student Leadership University 101, the first course in a program founded by evangelist Jay Strack to empower and equip Christian leaders of the future. Cabal gave a broad look at evidence supporting the Christian faith from a philosophical and scientific perspective, as well as an outline of direct evidence supporting the resurrection of Christ and thus the truth of the gospel.

His assault on naturalism, the prevailing notion that the universe somehow evolved on its own, came during a discussion of major philosophical worldviews challenging Christianity today. This view of life's origins has become accepted as mainstream, although only about 8 percent of the world's population actually holds the atheistic position that it requires, Cabal said.

"People think that if you're smart you're an atheist, even though most atheists are not philosophers and scientists," said Cabal, an atheist himself before his conversion. "So this view sort of wins by default."

In explaining the Anthropic Cosmological Principle (ACP), Cabal said just one of those constants -- the mass ratio of the electron to the proton throughout the universe -- must be
accurate to one part in 10 to the 37th power for life to exist.

He asked students to imagine a stack of dimes covering the North American continent as high as the moon, 237,000 miles. Then multiply that pile by about a billion. And one of those dimes is painted red.

"You get one try to take the dime that's marked or we don't get to be here," Cabal said. "This is only one of these nearly four dozen ACP parameters. ... The number is so staggering most people using just a tiny bit of common sense ... when they hear that
think there must be a God."

The atheistic conclusion to the data, Cabal said, is simply "Well, so what, we lucked out. ... The fact that we're here talking about it is proof that it happened."

Such a response, however, rests solely on a philosophical presupposition that supernatural forces do not exist, he said. It ignores the overwhelming evidence of what scientists now call "intelligent design."

A related argument for a created universe is the notion of irreducible complexity, he said. Modern microbiology has revealed processes so incredibly complex they could not possibly have arisen by chance. Any chance mutation would have resulted not in gradual improvement through natural selection, as evolutionists claim, but only in the process ceasing to function.

One noted scientist, Cabal said, has compared the odds of chance development of such complex processes as sight "to a tornado blowing through a junkyard and ending up with a 747 (jetliner)."

The other predominant world view confronting Christianity today is that of postmodernism and related New Age beliefs, Cabal said.

"Postmodernism is the view that says there isn't any one world view that can be known to be true," he said. "Every world view is equal, therefore every religion is equal, and you
would never say that any religion is more true than another. ... And if you don't (believe that) you are a bigot and intolerant."

The problem with this view lies in its inconsistencies, he said. "If you say, 'There really isn't any truth,' what have you just done? You've said, 'There isn't any truth. But here's what the truth is.' Now isn't that just dumb?"

When all views of mankind's origins are examined carefully, he said, the Christian perspective clearly stands out as the most logical.

"The atheist says I came from a big bang and the universe came from nothing. ... The New Ager believes something like that's true; it's just that there was an impersonal 'it' that guided this whole process. Or if you are a Christian you say God created the heavens and the earth," Cabal said. "Which takes more faith to believe?"

Even armed with all the scientific and philosophical arguments, however, Cabal encouraged students not to be ashamed of defending their beliefs on the basis of personal experience. The Christian world view should at least be allowed equal standing with others
in the ideological spectrum.

"To people who say, 'You believe what you believe because you were raised in church,' I would say, 'Yeah, so what?' ... You let them squirm a little bit, and then you say, 'Well, why are you an atheist? Is it because you're so smart and advanced and just figured it all out? Or is it because you've been in a culture that is atheist?'" Cabal said. "'If you want to make the point that most people follow the leader ... then I'm going to agree with you. ... The question is, 'What does the evidence show to be true?'"

If you decide to get in bed with the evolutionists, decide the turn away from Biblical Truth in order to follow the fads of today, then understand that you will be mislead and will be hurt. As God tells us:

Matthew 24:23-27 "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."

False Christs and False Prophets have always been with us, and are here today in the guise of evolution. Scientology, Mormonism, The Jehovah's Witnesses, Hinduism, Buddhism -- all of these cults do not have the "stamp of approval" that science seems to place on evolution. Yet science is not God, only fallible men making guesses and theories that were one day supposition but now alleged fact. Trust in the Bible, not man, or you will lose yourself in a storm of error! God Bless!