CREATION OR EVOLUTION?

As we observe our world, it is clear that living organisms have a high capacity to adapt over time to changing conditions which they face. Many scholars in biological and other sciences have hastily generalized this observation to conclude that all living organisms have evolved from the single-celled amoeba.

The next time that you are tempted to entertain this "preponderance of opinion," go outside and look at the birds flying around. Watch them carefully as they take off and land. Study their magnificence and the mystery of their flight.

Now imagine an amphibian squirming onto the primeval mud. After millions (or maybe billions of years), imagine its fins evolving into legs and it gradually turning into a variety of animals. If it will help, imagine a strange mutation popping out once in a million years or so to assist the process.

Now imagine one of these animals (possibly a mule) starting to develop feathers. (Maybe a rabbit would be more plausible.) Over millions (maybe billions) of years the fur has changed to feathers and, possibly by mutation, the front legs have turned into wings.

Now for the big leap of faith. This single weird creature tries to fly for the first time. How many take-offs will it take? How many crash landings? Yes, we can see where this would have to take millions (maybe billions) of years to evolve flight.

But in the meantime our novice bird-rabbit is totally vulnerable to wolves, coyotes, cats and other predators, many of which might have evolved a few feathers of their own. And, if he got there by mutation, where does he find a mate so that he can sustain his species over the millions (maybe even billions) of years during which he is evolving the art of flight?

The next time you are tempted to feel foolish in the presence of atheistic scholarship, go outside once again and look at the bird; then consider the following:

"And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." (Gen. 1: 20)

"For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse." (Rom. 1: 20)

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God." (Psalms 14: 1).