Leaping Locusts and Shouts of Joy

Job 39:20 (ESV) “Do you make him leap like the locust? His majestic snorting is terrifying.”

Last weekend I read someone’s copy of the February 16th issue of the Economist. The article entitled “How Life Got Going. Maybe” talks about the components of the first cell. According to this article, which I can’t view online without a subscription, one of the highly probable components being considered is clay. Of course, God says that he created us from the dust of the earth in Genesis 2:7

Genesis 2:7 (ESV) “then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. “

I’m disappointed lately in movement to push the theory of evolution as proven fact. When I was in school we learned that it was a theory not a proven fact. At that time we all laughed at the idea that all living organisms originated from a single cell. Logically it seemed impossible.
We also learned that theories are derived from various lines of research that appear to go together. The PBS website on evolution states that “a scientific theory stands until proven wrong- it is never proven correct.” It seems like it ought to be the other way around.

In the animal books that I’m reading to my grandson I’m finding that the opposite is taught. Evolution is taught as fact not as theory. I have no qualms against teaching the theory of evolution; what I really resent is that it permeates the field of biology as fact.

If science is fact why does the purported age of the universe vary from 7-20 billion years. That’s a huge difference and hardly one that could be considered fact. The time that it took for us to evolve is supposed to be 5-8 million years. Again, if this is scientific fact why can’t the time be more exact?

For more information see the following:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/
http://newton.nap.edu/books/0309064066/html/6.html

I’m not qualified to give a scientific opinion, but I know by looking at my dog, my cat and myself that we could not possibly come from the same cell. It’s just not logical.

The sites on creation have wonderful facts about the intricate designs of each kind of species and all of their explanations for how we and our world came to be. Check out www.creationresearch.org and www.icr.org
A good article on geckos and ocean sponges: http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=2594
And one on bees: http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=2608

This National Acamadies site states that science has not disproved creation.

My faith in science has been diminished by so called discoveries in health science. If we can’t pin down health issues for human, how in the world could we discover how it all began? I remember when butter was considered an evil according to science and we all started using margarine. Now we have been told that margarine is dangerous to our health and butter is good again. Estrogen therapy used to be scientifically proven to prevent osteoporosis. Now we’ve found out that it has no effect. The latest research on weight is saying that it’s ok to be a little overweight. In fact, a little fat may be healthy.

Science is too much like the world: changing with the times and culture. While God and His Word stands the test of time and always provides wisdom appropriate for living:

2 Peter 1:5 - 8 (ESV) “For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The fact is, in regard to evolution vs. creation, I don’t want everything to be reduced to facts. I like the awe that creation inspires towards a God who is so big that we can’t understand Him no matter how many tests we run or how many facts we learn. He is big enough and awe-inspiring enough to keep us busy for eternity trying to figure him out. Whenever I study creation I come away in worship of the God who took the effort to make everything so different and intricate that I will never be able to learn about it all.

If we reduce everything to a big bang and a single cell we have no one to worship.

Isaiah 55:8 - 9 (ESV) “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Job 37:22 - 24 (ESV) “Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty. The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate. Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”

Job 38:1 - 7 (ESV) “Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"