Over the last two posts I have presented the arguments for why the explanation of an intelligent God as our creator and the scientific explanation of our creation by chance are both impossible.
And yet here we are.
The truth is that there is no bulletproof, well documented, scientifically verified explanation as to how we got here. We stand around and poke holes in the other guy’s belief system. We accept the “unprovable” parts of our own belief system with little critical analysis.
The Christian accepts the creation story in Genesis on faith.
The secular humanist accepts the “big bang”, spontaneous generation of life, and Darwinian evolution on faith.
We do this because if the things that we accept on faith aren’t true, then our entire belief system fails apart. In point of fact Christianity and secular humanism are both religions. If you add in Judaism and Islam, the God of the old testament and secular humanism/science are by far the two dominant religions on the planet.
Given the choice of science vs. God, we like science because it gives us more leeway to do as we choose. Don’t like being a man? You can be a woman. Don’t like being pregnant, you can have an abortion. Don’t like being sad……take a pill. Don’t like being sick……. there’s euthanasia.
We believe the premises of secular humanism because they give us what we want……freedom. Freedom from God and his expectations…….freedom to live our lives as we choose.
Freedom to make our own decisions……..good and bad.
Science……..secular humanism………gives us ultimate power. God, on the other hand, reserves ultimate power to himself……and denies it to us.
And there it is…….we want the power……we want control. We want to be in charge.
God is not possible……… because we want to be God.
And there’s only room for one God.
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Paul, NIV
“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.”
God, NIV
“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs?
God, NIV