Competing Worldviews
There are two predominant worldviews in the modern world.
One is a product of Darwinism. The other is Creationism.
The Darwinian worldview centers on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection: all living organisms share common ancestry. I saw in one museum that claimed all manner of organisms were an ancient ancestor of humans.
This graphic illustrates the “wisdom” of this worldview. Though there is no evidence of this conclusion, it is declared as science. Most of the academic world is rooted in this conclusion.
The simple fact these beliefs are beliefs and not science because it is impossible to know these things based on the scientific method.
A quote from Fred Hoyle, an Astronomer,
“The chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junkyard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.”
John Sanford of Cornell, plant geneticist, said,
“If mutation/selection cannot preserve the information already within the genome, it is difficult to imagine how it could have created all that information in the first place! We cannot rationally speak of genome-building when there is a net loss of information every generation!”
The more science learns from the expanse of the Universe to the complexity they see in the microscopic world, the complexity they see reveals that the simple conclusions Darwin and the worldview he constructed are not possible or logical from the things science has discovered and knows.
Francis Collins, director of the public Human Genome Project, is the primary figure from that effort who has publicly linked the genome to a Creator. Below are a few of his quotes.
“It is humbling for me, and awe-inspiring, to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God.” (White House announcement of the draft human genome sequence, June 26, 2000)
“As a believer, I see DNA, the information molecule of all living things, as God’s language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God’s plan.” (From The Language of God)
“The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome.”
A. E. Wilder-Smith (Arthur Ernest Wilder-Smith, 1915–1995), the organic chemist
“To deny planning when studying such a system is to strain credulity more than to ask one to believe in an intelligent nipple designer, who incidentally must have understood hydraulics rather well.”
Just a few facts from the Book, “Atheism is Dead” by Eric Metaxas
Earth’s size is precisely calibrated. If it were slightly smaller, its magnetic field would be too weak, allowing the solar wind to strip away most of the atmosphere (leaving it like barren Mars). If it were slightly larger, gravity would be stronger, trapping a thick, unbreathable atmosphere of water vapor, methane, and carbon dioxide.
Its distance from the Sun places it in the narrow habitable (“Goldilocks”) zone where liquid water can exist. Even small shifts would make the planet too hot or too cold for life.
A striking geometric coincidence: the Moon’s diameter is almost exactly 1/400th that of the Sun, and its average distance from Earth is almost exactly 1/400th the Earth–Sun distance. As a result, the Moon and Sun appear nearly the same size in Earth’s sky, enabling total solar eclipses.
The simplest living cell functions like a sophisticated automated factory with digital information storage, error correction, and molecular machines. The information content in DNA is compared to an instruction manual of immense length and precision—something that, in every other known case, requires intelligence.
Metaxis, in the introduction of his book, says,
“Atheism is no longer an option for those wishing to be regarded as intellectually honest.”
“The belief that there is no God has—at least in recent decades—become untenable.”
He concludes with this,
“Agnosticism can be perfectly logical. We can have questions. We can wonder at much of what the Bible says, not understanding or agreeing with it. But to leap from this to the idea that we can know that there is no God and can say that belief in God and in the Bible is irrational is itself irrational.”
“There is enough evidence to leap toward the God who created the universe and who created us.”
I wish that our education system did not exclude the logical and rational case for a creator.
Our world has been infected with the foolish conclusion that there is no God.
The results are in; it is catastrophic to the health of the soul and the death of morals.
The Church of Darwin does not understand the Creation worldview.
God created the world and everything in it in a finished, functional form.
Not as incomplete proto-versions that slowly assembled themselves over vast ages.
Think of a computer. No serious person claims that a MacBook evolved, step by tiny step, from a random silicon molecule through millions of years of unguided mutations and natural selection. We all recognize that as absurd.
Computers are designed.
They are assembled from carefully engineered parts according to a pre-existing plan.
When we see two computers that share similar processors, operating systems, ports, or design language, we do not conclude that one is the distant ancestor of the other.
We immediately recognize the common link: the same designer and manufacturer.
Walk into an Apple Store. The iPhone and the Apple Watch share countless features, the same ecosystem, similar chips, the same design philosophy, the same software DNA. Yet no one claims the iPhone is the ancient evolutionary ancestor of the Apple Watch, or that one slowly transformed into the other over eons.
The similarities exist because both were deliberately designed by the same company, using the same underlying principles and components.
In the same way, the striking similarities we observe across living organisms- shared genetic code, homologous structures, common biochemical pathways— do not require us to believe that one species slowly morphed into another through undirected processes.
Those commonalities are exactly what we would expect if a single intelligent Creator designed all of them, reusing brilliant solutions and the same foundational “code” across His creation. The evolutionary explanation treats the similarities as proof of common ancestry.
The design explanation sees them as evidence of a common Designer.
The Chimp is not my great-grandfather. The Chimp was made by the same creator that made me.
I guess someone could say we are cousins.
Thankful for Our Father Which Art in Heaven,
In Him, By Him, Through Him,
Scott A. Phillips