If science is so advanced, ask a simple question: how then could so many scientists doubt God?

This is true deception and blindness and if one is blind, one cannot observe, at least not in entirety.

If one can’t observe, one cannot be a true scientist. How can we then believe everything such a person says?

Only true blindness coupled with pride does not see the utter necessity of a Creator in the complexity of basically every living thing and the tiniest aspects of every living thing (never mind the creation of an endless universe).

Consider one of the simplest life forms, the so-called, one-celled amoeba. It’s single-celled and yet ingests food by extending what they call pseudopods to encircle and engulf live prey or particles of scavenged material. They also can expel excess water. How did that come to be? Mere chance —  with a living organism toward the very bottom of “evolution”?

Is it also mere chance that tiny organisms can live even in a volcanic vent at the bottom of the ocean and that snow leopards are white so as to blend in with snow while elsewhere their dots hide them in brush and jungle and that there are fish in the dark depth with what amount to flashlights? Was it a mere mutation — an accidental distortion of genetic material — that allowed a chameleon lizard to change colors according to the material it was resting on?

The examples are as endless as there are animals.

The confusion is in the words. Evolution means “unfolding.” The dispute is not so much with evolution (no one should have any problem with the idea that God unfolded things gradually, step by step, in His own time, which is quite patient), but with “natural selection”: the idea put forth by Darwin that random mutations — genetic mistakes — caused the evolution. If a mutation was beneficial, goes this theory, the mutated animal outsurvived ones without the mutations.

Darwinists wean us to believe that everything around us — not just every animal, but also every bacterium and plant and tree — has evolved through mere chance. To believe that, you have to really want to disbelieve in God the Father. It is more fantastical than any of the things that scientists categorize as superstitions.

Are we really to believe — again, as one of endless examples, in the human body alone — that the structure below, allowing humans to see, is a product of genetic luck (genetic mistakes that piled up to create such an organ — different in every single animal)? The human eye can distinguish up to a million different colors and is more sophisticated than the largest telescope.

There are many systems in our bodies far more complex (such as the brain). If one could collect it, the energy produced by the brain would light an actual lightbulb. Approximately 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells in the time it takes you to read this sentence. Every square inch of your skin contains twenty feet of blood vessels, four yards of nerve fibers, 1,300 nerve cells, a hundred sweat glands, and three million cells.

If they were laid end to end, all the blood vessels (some are a hundred times smaller than a hair) could encircle the earth eight times.

Oh, and your nose can detect up to a trillion smells.

That many scientists could buy into the notion of all this being the result of natural selection — happy happenstance — indicates rationality gone bonkers, and is why so many people now doubt them, even though science has done and continues to accomplish remarkable things.

The current pandemic is one such example; it has led many to second-guess science (did this thing come out of a lab?), and while doubting legitimate research can have negative consequences, it also, in the long run, may carry the benefit of bringing scientists (including atheistic doctors) down a notch and into a world that God in His glory fashioned.

Dear scientists: stop beating yourself to death trying to rationalize how everything could exist without God. Stop trying to replace Him. Relax. Don’t lord too heavily over us. Don’t try to be the Lord. Take a deep breath into your amazing lungs. Let the energy light the lightbulb.

When it does, the most “rational” conclusion is simply that there is a Creator behind it.

[resources: Michael Brown retreat, February]

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