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Believing What We Believe
January 3, 2019
"They sure don’t have much faith in what they have faith in,” was my reaction to the diatribe of despair. The news report had been about the disappearing ice caps at the poles. With alarm, the interviewed authorities, almost at the point of hyperventilation, were lamenting that this was evidence of climate change perpetrated by us humans and that this climate change was going to result in the disappearance of many species from our earth.
Now, these calamity howlers would deny that what they believe has anything to do with belief, with faith. However, in the end, every worldview begins with some basic presuppositions, assumed truths, that cannot be proved--every worldview including those of the evolutionary materialists, and, yes, including those of evangelical creationists. (Although, it seems apparent to me that the evidence for the creation presupposition far outweighs any if there is any, evidence for the evolutionary hypothesis for the origin and sustenance of life.) Yes, despite any protests on their part, those who were agonizing over the extinction of species due to climate change have placed their faith in the evolutionary process. It is the irony of the contradiction of this faith and their despair over disappearing species that generated my thought, “They don’t have much faith in what they have faith in.”
Their faith is in the process whereby a species can adapt to survive in the environment of its existence. My question is, why are these species not naturally evolving to survive the supposed climate change? If these evolutionists had faith in what they believed, they would not despair. They would assume that the evolutionary process was more than adequate to respond to climate change. At this point I cannot resist noting a huge problem I have always had with the evolutionary theory: If a species must evolve to survive, how does it persist to evolve? But, back to point: If they had faith in the evolutionary process, they need not worry about the disappearance of species. Or, perhaps they should because of another of their conclusions they must keep suppressing: By their estimations, 99.9% of all species that have ever existed have already gone extinct. Almost all of these became extinct before human existence and did so because of far more drastic cataclysmic climate change than any that could be attributed to humans.
No wonder they are so filled with despair. They can’t even believe what they are supposed to believe. My righteous fervor in pointing out their hypocritical lack of faith had hardly died down before I saw a finger pointing at myself and other Christians. We too often have little faith in what we have faith in. We see the future stretching out before us as the eons stretch out behind and ahead of the evolutionists. We say we believe that God is sovereign, that God works all things for our good, that God will protect and provide. We say we believe Jesus when He says He will care for us like He does the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.
Still, we look around at our present and ahead to our future and feel panic, despair. Problems seemingly loom so largely, threatening, intimidating. We often go on our laments of how bleak the future appears. We fail to believe what we believe, to have faith in what we have faith in. We, not they, have every reason to have faith in what we have faith in. Their belief is based on a theory, a past concocted out of conjectures without any empirical substantiation. Our faith is based on a Living Being, One who has revealed Himself. Our faith is rooted in the reality of the historical evidence of the Person, Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ! We can believe that kind of belief!
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