they also intellectually disqualify themselves from speaking on behalf of science, because their basic worldview of “nothing created everything” is a scientific impossibility.
Einstein said, “I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.” 1 If you also want to know God’s thoughts, read your Bible.
An atheist speaks of the incredible creation. I speak of the incredible Creator. He speaks of the greatness of space. I speak of the greatness of the One who made it. He loves creation. I love the Creator and will escape His terrible swift sword, because I trust in His mercy. It’s my earnest prayer that every human being would also trust Jesus for his own eternal salvation.
M Y “D ISHONESTY ” AND E VOLUTION
Atheists and evolutionists are continually accusing me of dishonesty because I want evidence of species-to-species transition forms. They say that I don’t understand the true evolutionary theory.
Let’s settle this argument once and for all. The “missing link” is something that links one species changing into another species. The following article addresses the subject. In it, I have italicized references to species-to-species transitional forms:
Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution. Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link
between fish and land animals
[change from one species to another species], showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago. Paleontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the
Tiktaalik roseae
and described today in the journal
Nature
, could become an icon of evolution in action—like
Archaeopteryx
, the famous fossil that bridged the gap
between reptiles and birds
[change from one species to another species]. As such,it will be a blow to proponents of intelligent design, who claim that the many gaps in the fossil record show evidence of some higher power. 2
Of course, as touched on earlier, the above claims can’t be substantiated.
Archaeopteryx
(unlike
Archaeoraptor
) is not a hoax —it is a bird, not a “missing link” between birds and reptiles. The missing link is still missing, and we’re still waiting for the first piece of genuine evidence for the theory of evolution.
C ONFESSIONS OF A B ACKSLIDDEN A THEIST
Atheist, novelist, and biographer A. N. Wilson, a friend of bestselling atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, made the stunning announcement in April of 2009. He had become a believer in Jesus Christ.
Explaining his original embrace of atheism, Wilson said:
As a hesitant, doubting, religious man I’d never known how they felt. But, as a born-again atheist, I now knew exactly what satisfactions were on offer. For the first time in my thirty-eight years I was at one with my own generation. I had become like one of the Billy Grahamites, only in reverse. If I bumped into Richard Dawkins (an old colleague from Oxford days) or had dinner in Washington with Christopher Hitchens…I did not have to feel out on a limb. Hitchens was excited to greet a new convert to his non-creed and put me through a catechism before uncorking some stupendous claret. “So—absolutely no God?” “Nope,” I was able to say with Moonie-zeal. “No future life, nothing out there?” “No,” I obediently replied. At last! I could join in the creed shared by so many (most?) of my intelligent contemporaries in the Western world—that men and women are purely material beings (whatever that is supposed to mean), that “this is allthere is” (ditto), that God, Jesus, and religion are a load of baloney: and worse than that, the cause of much (no, come on, let yourself go), most (why stint yourself—go for it, man), all the trouble in the world, from Jerusalem to Belfast, from
Michael Baden, Linda Kenney Baden