Protests at Creation Museum – The New Politics of Science
By Michael Bresciani (05/16/07)
Science that heretofore seemed hard connected to empirical gathering of
data and basic protocols of discovery seems to be losing its subjectivity.
Darwinists are taking to active social protesting. Will they next try to
make their views the law?
The Rev. Mendle Adams who is pastor of a Cincinnati United Church of
Christ is part of a group that calls themselves “Rally for Reason.” The
group along with secularists and hard line evolutionists plan to be part
of the protest at the opening of the new $27 million dollar, 60,000 sq ft
Creation Museum in the suburbs of Cincinnati. They hope to see at least a
few hundred protestors at the opening.
Pastor Adams thinks that literal belief in the Genesis account of
creation, the byproduct of those who are opening the museum is that “They
make us (Christians) a laughing stock.” Perhaps someone should remind
Pastor Adams that Jesus was laughed to scorn at the raising of a dead girl
and also during his suffering.
Christ said if we were ashamed of him he would be ashamed of us when he
came with the glory of the Father and his angels. Mark 8:38 Does that mean
he will be ashamed of us if we don’t hold fast to the Genesis account of
creation? The simple answer to that is, yes but it is not predicated on
the old country preachers oft heard retort “God said it, I believe it and
that settles it.”
Secularists seem to think that theology is a haphazard un-provable heap of
gobbledygook that hapless believers yank from the Bible randomly and
assert even in the face of obvious reason to contrary. Studying the
historicity, the syntax and language, the epistemology and language, the
archaeology and the apologetic substance of the Bible are combined
disciplines that have far more years in the making than Darwin’s theory of
evolution.
Like philosophy, theology has its premises and conclusions which are not
lost except to the minds of unbelievers and those who know little to
nothing about what the Bible really says.
It is from this theology that we derive the answer to whether it is wrong
not to believe in the Genesis account if we are Christians. Since our
loyalty as believers is not primarily to any book of the Bible but to the
Savior the Bible presents then it could be said that until we come to know
more of these books we will not be refused by the Savior they present. But
as we become more familiar with the Savior we see his view about the books
we are studying. Here’s the catch.
Since Jesus said Adam and Eve were historical figures Mt. 19:4 then who
are we to insist they weren’t. When the Bible says “the disciple is not
above his master” that includes the education, reasoning and any other
suppositions we claim we have deduced from whatever source we may have
found them in. To say Jesus was wrong denies discipleship and makes a
double talking fool out of us rather than the Lord or the Bible.
Sound theology adds further credence to the argument when we discover that
Jesus Christ was Co-Creator. He was with the Father at the creation as an
eye witness to it. In fact the Bible says the world and all that is in it,
was made for him. (John 1:3)
Unlike secular scientists and evolutionists we in the faith have an eye
witness. They have prior philosophic postulation which is by any other
name pompous guessing with or without their spurious evidence to the
contrary.
Jesus attested to God creating the world and Adam and Eve so who are we to
think our wisdom or knowledge is greater than his. He started this world
and he alone will end it and that is why he referred to himself as “The
Alpha and the Omega.” Revelation 1:8
It could only be mans pride that would allow us to think that since we
have gone from drilling holes in peoples heads to let out evil spirits to
stem cells that might help grow human organs in only 6000 years of
history, then we are a match for Jesus. He grew limbs where there weren’t
any, retinas in eyes that were useless and dark, and living flesh on
bodies that were entombed and beginning to decay all in a matter of a few
seconds. Ah, but how could he have created a world as big as ours in only
seven days?
When thousands of people followed Christ around ancient Israel they got
hungry. He sat them down and with a prayer of thanks distributed a couple
of loaves and fishes that grew as they were distributed to feed all of
them. More leftover fragments were collected than the food they started
with.
If scientist of today had been there they would no doubt insist that a
huge bakery and fishing fleet from a nearby town was secretly engaged to
implement the feeding and not the power Christ had to create something
from nothing. But those scientists were not there, they are here insisting
God could not create a world in seven days. Not understanding the person
and power of God will always lead to these conclusions. Contrarily,
understanding Gods power is why we know he could have done it all in seven
minutes if he chose to.
Besides the growing number of credible scientist that are distancing
themselves from the evolutionary model, some who are not even believers in
the Bible, there is a burgeoning amount of new material now available
through various sources including creation science that is powerful and
convincing. 75 years of academic mindset and the oncoming of the world’s
last dictator is keeping the Darwinists on track as much as anything else.
It is hard to go on believing that science is the avant-garde of open
mindedness in this closed minded climate.
Suffice it to say that the few hundred protestors that are supposed to be
at the museums opening will far outnumber the numbers of inter species
remains of Homo sapiens that modern science has produced so far. In fact a
novice mathematician could use the lowest numbers of humans that any
generation could have produced in any period and give us an idea of how
many remains should be available. With disease, worldwide catastrophes and
all other eventuations figured into the calculations the numbers of bones
and remains would be staggering. It would be hard to dig a plot for the
family garden without encountering a few skeletons of ancient man. This
doesn’t happen because it can’t happen. This lends credence to the idea
that it takes more than a theory to produce bodies and much more than a
theory to produce the evolution of man. It only takes a mindset to produce
a few hundred protestors at a creation museum opening.
Rev Bresciani is a Christian author and a columnist for several online
sites and magazines. http://www.americanprophet.org
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