Why do we sit idly by and allow our kids to be taught a lie?
We do, and we have done just that for decades.
A lot of what is taught in schools as ‘science’ is nothing more than theory or a hypothesis at best. As Christians we are laughed and sneered at oftentimes when we question the ‘teachings’ of evolution, age of the earth, the big bang THEORY, and other commonly taught falsehoods.
If we would educate ourselves we could actually present a very cohesive case against such nonsense as ‘evolution’ and the like. But, unfortunately the masses of Christendom are too content to ‘go with the flow’, to ‘not rock the boat’ and to be spoon feed garbage and lies.
If we did as we were told and studied the scriptures “shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”then we might make some headway in this department.
Why do we take a back seat? Is that that we don’t believe the Word of God? Is that we are untaught and ignorant of the scriptures? What is the reason?
I don’t think that most people would tolerate someone teaching them a bold faced lie…. Then why is it we allow our impressionable children to be subjugated to it in school?
We teach them that life occurred by ‘chance’.
That life has ‘evolved’ from primordial sludge (think about what this implies – that we are worth nothing, we are just evolved slime). We teach them that there was no plan put into their creation and there is no afterlife… we will return to the dust of the ground… and then we wonder why children are growing up to disrespect life and others…
As Christians we know better- at least we should know better.
Now of course there are those misguided souls who will say something like this: “ Well, I’m not sure how God created everything, maybe he created it in ‘long’ days of thousands of years each…. Maybe God created the earth and then used evolution to create the life on it….” HOGWASH. Read your Bible.
God created just like He said He did. He created it in six (24 hour) days.
If you are a student of the Bible you know that everything God does has bigger implications and foreshadows other events and ideologies.
Six days of creation- 7th day of rest.
This all ties in with the Sabbaths, the Feasts and, are you even the least bit surprised… with the Second Coming of Christ.
Of course it all ties together- because that is God’s way. It all is interlinked and for those who wish to educate themselves, it all fits together like a jigsaw puzzle- and it’s a beautiful picture when it’s completed!! With this puzzle- even when there are several pieces that you haven’t been able to fit in, you can easily see the beauty of the finished work…. There are still quite a few pieces I have yet to place … But the picture that’s forming is something awesome!!
One of the biggest lies we are constantly feed is that the earth is millions- or billions of years old.
The funny thing is this ‘age’ keeps changing. At first it was just a few million years old, then it jumped up a few hundred million, and I think now its into the billions of years old…. Who can believe something that keeps getting changed.
I find it very funny that when I was in school and taking science – if asked on a test the age of the earth I was expected to answer in the millions of years… now as my children went through their science classes, that answer would have been marked wrong, and they had to answer in the billions of years… well?
Which is it… were you wrong then? Or are you wrong now?
Of course- they are wrong both times.
Biblically illiterate ‘scientists’ will claim that the Bible can’t be trusted for scientific understanding… they say it contradicts itself, it’s written by uneducated men who had no understanding of science and complicated geological matters.
But- do you know that the Bible has never had to change what it teaches … the same things the disciples learned from it, are the very things we are taught… and not one single solitary thing has ever had to be changed or ‘updated’.
In fact, if you were told the truth, the Bible has explained things thousands of years ahead of ‘enlightened’ scientists… go figure!
Could it be that the Creator of life and the Author of the Word actually understood things that man hadn’t even comprehended in his naïve state. Of course.
Now, God doesn’t tell us ‘how’ he created it all from nothing. Why doesn’t He? Are you kidding me? Do you think for an instance that our minds could comprehend it all? He doesn’t tell us firstly because it’s beyond our ability to understand; and secondly because we really don’t need to know… He did it, He told us He did it and that is that.
This shouldn’t be a stumbling block to anyone. Do you think that the scientist can explain (even to themselves) how the Big Bang (or whatever the current theory might be) happened?
They can’t… because somewhere back into the theory something had to come from nothing…. where did that first speck come from? Everything has to have an origin. Every scientific explanation has to involve a level of ‘faith’…. Uhh Ohh…. If we are condemmed because our explanation of the origins of life is based on ‘faith’ in a loving God who systematically and on purpose designed and created us in an orderly way…. Why are they not questioned because their ‘theory’ is based on ‘faith’ that the first initial speck, who’s origin they can’t explain… was created ‘somehow- someway”.
No matter how you look at it- creation and life demand faith in something or someone…. You can put your faith in chance and unexplained particles forming from nothing…. I’ll put my faith in a God who choose to create us on purpose and with purpose.
I truly wish that the schools would present both sides…. I don’t think that only one theory should be presented. Present them with both Creation and evolution- the facts speak for themselves, let them think for themselves and choose which one to believe.
Here’s a little rant about ‘education’…. Time was when schools were charged with the responsibility to teach children ‘HOW” to think….
Students were taught how to reason things out, how to judge for themselves, how to find the facts and make intelligent decisions and choices. As Archie Bunker’s theme song used to say “Those Were The Days”.
Today kids are taught “What” to believe.
That's a big difference!
There’s a big difference between being taught HOW to think and being taught WHAT to think.
When people are taught HOW to think they need to first understand the problem, then find the facts, then come to an educated conclusion, and much to the chagrin of the schools, not everyone will reach the same conclusion- some people may actually disagree!! Today that seems to be taboo.
When we teach people WHAT to think, we take away the need to discover the facts of the case, we remove the need to clearly understand the problem… we develop an ”Us against Them” attitude. Disagreement is seen in this case as a bad thing… because everyone is supposed to believe what they are told to believe, and anyone who doesn’t is frowned upon and demonized.
I have run into this in the past month with one of the major Universities. On their website they promote their school as “ developing independent thinkers”…. . Being university educated myself, I think that I understand what the term ‘independent’ means quite well, thank you.
Apparently the meaning has changed from when I went to school and since Webster published his latest dictionary. It used to mean that you didn’t go along with the status quo just because… it used to mean that you questioned everything you were being taught to ‘test’ it… it used to mean that you reached your own educated decisions after viewing the ALL the facts… not so much anymore!
Well that was put to the test and they failed. Apparantly Independent only meant independant of reason or religious instruction… it didn’t mean that you could actually present another case differing from what was being promoted in class.
The class was being indoctrinated on Social Justice and Environmentalism… (don’t even get me started on either one of those topics!) If you held that Social Justice is just another form of Marxism or Socialism, and that environmentalism was a made-up religion that worships the creation rather than the Creator then you were nothing more than a troublemaker… not an independent thinker, not an educated student, not a person who had looked at all the facts…. You were trouble!
We do the same in our public schools on the topic of creation and evolution and the fossil record and the like.
Give people all the facts, educate them and let them decide. Its not only religious indoctrination we need to fear- its indoctrination of any sort. Be weary, be very weary!
Let’s talk a little about the age of the earth.
If you went to public school, read the news papers, listen to the news or in anyway exist in society you are being told (as a fact, no less) that the earth IS billions of years old. It is not presented as a theory or as a guess, you are told that it IS that old. No room for questioning. Is it really? Do you even dare to ask that question? You need to.
You will have one of two ‘world views’. Either you will have a “Biblical” world view or a “Secular” world view. Which view is you? (Sorry, Dr. Suess popped up there I guess)
Either you view things in light of what the Bible teaches, or you view it from secular (non-Bible) teaching.
The question for each of us is: Do I really believe the Bible? Do I believe the Bible is the Word of God, completely Inerrant (without error)?
If you claim to believe the Bible, completely (that’s the only way you can believe it- either it’s all true or none of its good for anything) then you have a Biblical world view. I have to ask here… can you really be a Christian and not believe all the Bible? I don’t think so.
If you profess to be a Christian can you believe something that is anti-biblical, anti-God?
The Word of God tells us that the earth is relatively young in age. We are told that God created everything in 6 days, that He rested on the 7th. (that is an important eschatological[end times] point). If we do a quick (not precise) calculation based on the genealogies of the Old Testament we arrive at an age for the earth of around 6000 years old.
Interestingly the modern Jewish calendar (which unlike ours, is a creation based calendar) has a different year date than ours. We are in the year 2011. We claim it’s been two thousand and eleven years since the birth of Christ … but we know very little about the years BC- Before Christ. How many were there? Most of us have no idea.
The Jewish calendar for today would read in the year 5771. They didn’t divide their calendar into BC/ AD… think about it… for those people living before Christ- they couldn’t have used a calendar like ours…. Ours counts backwards…. They had to count forward, year 1, year 2, year 20, year 500, year 1049…. They couldn’t have used 3056 BC… because they didn’t know when Christ was coming exactly. Now there is some dispute (go figure!) over the Jewish calendars accuracy. There appears to be a discrepancy of a couple hundred years… 200+ years that are missing in their calculations… so it could be year 5771 or year 6000 ish.
Numbers and the Bible are amazing.
Let me diverge for just a minute (I’m sure you’re not too surprised by this ). We know that everything in the Bible is interlinked- interwoven to form one big picture (jigsaw puzzle) well here’s another piece you can fit into the big picture…. We are told in the NT that to God one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day. We often hear that repeated and used. Think. All of the Word of God bears on the promised Messiah and His Second Coming and our Eternity with God.
God created it all in six days and on the 7th day He rested. He set a pattern for all creation right from the very first- you must realize there is major importance in that act.
We also know from scripture that at Jesus’ Second Coming he will establish His Millennial Reign…. What will that be like? It will be perfect, a rest from sin and the effects of sin, a rest from fear and danger (the lion will lay with the lamb), a rest from trouble and temptation. It will be a perfect 1000 year reign- a Sabbath rest. We are told throughout scripture that the Feasts are a shadow of the things to come, being perfectly fulfilled in Christ. The weekly Sabbath- the 7th day (Saturday) was to be maintained by the Jews for ever (not just until the Messiah came).
If the earth is about 6000 years old, as the Bible indicates…. And a day sometimes equals a thousand years to God … at the end of 6 days/ 6000 years, what did God do? He took a Sabbath rest- a one day rest.
Is it possible that God’s design and his foreshadowing is telling us that the earth will last for 6000 years, after which he will return for His Sabbath of one day/ one thousand years? I think so, so do many others.
I find it interesting too that the calculations are a little messd up…. We are not supposed to know the exact date of His return… so mix up the calculations a little, and the exact time is lost…. However, we are told that we will know the season- the approximate time.
In Jesus’s day, the Jews were expectant of the Saviours return around the time of His birth, they didn’t know exactly when it would happen, but they knew from scripture that the time was ripe. We are given the same information. We aren’t told the exact day and hour but we are certainly given clues to watch for so we can be prepared and know the time is close. The time IS close, my friend…. Watch and prepare.
If we believe that the earth is a young 6000 years old… then how do we explain the million/billion year old bones and rocks? How do they reach the conclusion that those items are that old?
They usually radio-carbon date them (or use a similar process that measures the amount of a radioisotope left in the sample, compare that to the “known” half life of the element and calculate how much of the radioactive material has decayed).
Here’s a problem with that approach. We’ve mentioned this before as something that often gets us into trouble in our understanding of the Bible. We have (actually in this case, the scientist have) assumed that what we see happening today is the way it’s always been happening. That things haven’t changed with time.
That’s a theory that has been proven wrong in many other instances. Just because isotopes decay at a certain rate today, doesn’t mean that has always been the case. And since many of these elements have half lives into the millions of years (theoretically) then we have to take their word for the decay rate… because no one has ever proven it is so…. Because no one has been around to give evidence of that. Man’s recorded history is only thousands of years old…. He can’t testify to the half life of a radio active element being 6.89 million years. It’s only a theory- at best.
We’ve also been told (falsely) that fossils are the product of thousands and millions of years. That in most cases a fossil is produced when an animal dies and falls into water and is eventually covered over with sediment which is covered with more sediment and over thousands and millions of years the once living animal decomposes and the weight of the sediment mineralizes and the whole thing turns into stone (a fossil). Can you tell that I am not a science teacher! My apologies to all those science teachers out there who are clenching their teeth and shouting at their monitors right about now…. That was my simplified version of fossil production, I’ll work on making it more scientific some day.
There are so many problems with fossils that I don’t really know where to begin. Fossils exist. Dinosaurs fossils exist. These are facts. How they are made is in large part not quite true.
Think about it for a moment. When something dies in the wild what usually happens to it? Does it often times fall into a watering hole? Not usually, but for the sake of argument let’s just pretend that this is always the case.
So at a certain watering hole in the jungle you have a dinosaur that has just died and fallen into the water. What happens next? Well if he isn’t floating around on the top, he will be soon. Dead things usually float- if you need to know why do the research on decomposition and the gases that are formed, et al.
So at this watering hole in the jungle you have a dinosaur floating around in everyone’s water bowl. Along comes a hungry bigger dinosaur… he sees his dinner floating by, well what’s he going to do- eat now or leave that tastey morsel and go rummage around in the jungle for something else… I think he will eat the dead one that’s floating around him at present.
Okay, maybe no dinosaurs came by that day, or the next day, or the next, and lets just suppose that all those vultures and prediator birds didn’t light on the floating carcass and eat it… and eventually the dinosaur carcass sinks to the bottom fully intact (with all its skin and scales etc)…. So its sitting on the bottom of this watering hole… what happens next…. The bacteria start devouring it of course, this is basic science folks…. Happens every day… then other life forms- fish, crabs, I don’t know whatever is living in that water comes along and munches out on this dinosaur buffet. So, according to the scientists somewhere along the line sediment has to cover up this creature in order for it to become a fossil…. How quickly does sediment deposit? Not very quickly under ordinary circumstances.
I was watching a Discovery program last night, it was on ship wrecks dating back 2000 years. Guess what, the wood had totally decayed but the cargo of pottery was still visible on the bottom…. Some sediments had built up, but not a lot… and that was after 2000 years.
Okay, so you might argue that in some places the sediments might get deposited quicker, and I agree, there are places- deltas, etc where sediments are deposited easily and often. So if the animal fell into the water immediately after it died, or died because it fell in, and if it wasn’t eaten as it floated on the water by other animals or the birds, and if it sunk to the bottom fully intact, and if the bacteria and other life forms didn’t comsume it while it was on the bottom, and if it was left untouched and uneaten and if it got covered up with sediment before it decayed, then we would have a complete fossiled dinosaur (or whatever animal you want to make it).
That’s a lot of ‘ifs’.
Do you know there are fossils of whole schools of fish- numbering in the thousands, fossilized in mid stream so to speak. There are fossils of animals in the midst of giving birth. There are fossils (many examples) of footprints. There are boneyards where fossils are found all jumbled all and numbering in the hundreds and thousands of animals.
And what about fossilized plants. How long does it take for a leaf to compost? Not too long. How long would it take for sediments to fall on a leaf and completely cover it… could this happen naturally or would the leaf decompose long before it was ever covered with sediment?
And then there’s the geological column. Schools teach that the ages of the earth can be seen in this magnificent geological column.
The earth’s crust is in layers- each layer representing a different era. Obviously the very bottom layers are the oldest, they were laid down first, followed by newer layers and the newest, most recent layers being at the top. They thus argue that the animal life (fossils) found in these earliest, deepest layers must be the very oldest life forms and all other life must have ‘evolved’ from them…. Simple life to complex life.
The reasoning says that over time (thousands of years) sediments compose these layers, enabling us to day to date fossil finds by detecting what layer they are found in. There are problems of course. The heralded geological column, shown in all its glory in school and university text books, in actuality doesn’t exist anywhere in the world. No matter where one digs, only partial columns (layers) are found… and another problem is that even when partial layers exist, they are not always in the proper order.
Sometimes the ‘oldest’ layers are found on top – like Mt. Everest for example. Mt. Everest is scattered with the ‘earliest’ text book life forms- the triliobites- shouldn’t they be buried deep in the earths crust, under all the layers of time? Nope, they are easily found atop the tallest of mountains… go figure.
Another problem that evolutionists encounter is seen locally even at the Joggins site (Nova Scotia). The evolutionist theorizes that each layer of the geo column was composed over great expanses of years (thousands/ millions)… but, occasionally a tree is found in a vertical position through several of these layers. Now if these layers were laid down over such great periods of time- how did that tree get there? Was the bottom of it covered 250,000 years ago, and then the top part remained, undecayed for another 20,000 years until it became covered in the succeeding layer? Impossible. Could it be that these layers were laid down quickly, rather than over hundreds of thousands of years?
Recent examples of floods have shed new light on the results of flooding and drainage. Silt deposits exists from local floods that are meters deep- laid down in a matter of hours or days. These silt layers are different in structure- some sand, some stones, different materials in different layers…. Just like we find today all over the world. When Mount St. Helene’s erupted back in the 80’s… scientists were astonished at the ash flows and the deep deep gorges that resulted with the ensuing rains. Scientists tell us that the Grand Canyon was ‘carved’ out over millions of years…. And they know that how? Look at the facts from Mt. St. Helene’s- multiply the forces astronomically, and it’s easy to believe that a world wide flood would have no problem carving out a gorge like the Grand Canyon in a relatively short amount of time.
What am I trying to say? Christians can stand firmly on the truth of the Word of God. He cannot lie. Science does not disprove the Bible, science has only confirmed the Word. How one interprets the world, nature, life will depend on one’s world view… do you believe the Bible and God or do you believe Science and Man…. One has been wrong many times, the other- never.
As Christians we cannot hold a secular world view. We fear being made fun of, of being ridiculed, of being embarrassed… we do not need to be. We have the truth, we have the evidence… it’s all right here, you just have to know it, to read it, to educate yourself. Your children (and you) are being lied to… educate yourself now.
There was a world wide flood, waters flooded the entire earth to a depth of 15 cubits (Gen 7:20) and eventually it had to drain away… deposit the silts, flow to the oceans, the lakes and through the rivers.
Just another quick look at the theoretical geological column- think about the beginning of the flood… as they waters flooded the earth, what animals would be impacted first? The smallest, why? Well a lion can run a whole lot faster than a slug. The first animals to be covered quickly in sediments will be the little creatures- the trilobites, the slugs, the small things that can’t get away…. Followed by bigger animals and even bigger animals and even bigger animals… just the way the geo column shows it- less complicated life on the bottom- followed by a little more complicated animal, followed by a more complicated life form, etc.
Scientist with a secular world view look at that evidence and say… since life happened by chance, and there can’t be a creator, this must explain how life ‘happened’ to come about or evolve…. Simple life appeared suddenly without explanation, turned into more complex life, turned into (evolved in other words) the most complex life form (humans).
Those with a Biblical world view look at the exact same evidence and say; this is just how God said, when the world flooded and dead things were quickly covered in water with thick layers of sediments, if was the small life that perished first, followed by a little larger animal, followed by larger and larger and larger… just like we’d expect.
Remember those schools of fish that were fossilized ‘mid stream’…. How do you think a complete school of thousands! of fish were covered quickly with thick layers of sediments… maybe a flood caused land slide under water? What about fossils of footprints and of fish complete with scales? A flood answers all those questions, very nicely thank you.
What you believe will depend on what worldview you hold. A Christian world view is dictated by the Word of God.. the other is dictated by man.. you choose this day who you will serve.
Christian should not equal ‘uneducated’ …. Scientist does not equal God.
Happy Digging Friends!
Nancy
