Notes:
The subject of origins is important because "how we got here" is the most
fundamental question that can be asked. "Why we are here" is a question
science cannot answer, but which is just as important. How we answer these
questions for ourselves provides the basis for how we think about the world -
it defines our "world-view". The belief that people were created by God,
in the "image of God", is at the heart of "creationism". The belief that
people now exist because of a long string of random chance events is one of
the tenets of "naturalism", of which "evolution" is a part. Naturalism is the
idea that "nature" is "all there is", there is no supernatural. Even though
some evolutionary scientists profess belief in God, evolution has no need of
Him. It is obvious that these two ideas are opposed to each other, and that
only one can be true - either God exists and He created us, or we are a
product of time and chance.
Some people say that God used the mechanisms of evolution to produce people.
This is known as "theistic evolution". However, when it is understood that
mutation and natural selection, the driving forces behind evolution,
are totally incapable of producing large-scale change, it is seen that this
compromise position does not make sense. The people who hold to this view
have been led to believe that science has "proven" evolution, but such is not
the case.
Finally, it should bother us that the truth is not being taught.
At a minimum, special creation should be acknowledged as a viable possibility.
Evolutionary training leads to an atheistic way of thinking.
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