Please, Open Your Eyes

It's frustrating when people renounce religion and creationism by citing "scientific evidence".

It's especially irritating when they make it sound like science has proven there is no God, that science has proven life has evolved over unimaginable stretches of time with no need for an intelligent designer.

The scientific method gives us the framework for gathering information, organizing information, and understanding information. The basic idea is this:

1) A scientist proposes a hypothesis to explain a phenomenon.
2) The scientist then either experimentally or empirically verifies the hypothesis.
3) The scientist then combines verified hypotheses into a theory that explains them.
4) The scientific community tests and re-tests the theory through experiments and observations. Hence, experimental procedure used in initially verifying the theory must be reproducible in a controlled environment, in order to preserve the objectivity of the results.

People, please understand the fact that Evolution, Big Bang, Global Warming, etc. are all just theories.

Science cannot reproduce evolution, or the big bang, or global warming in a lab. Science cannot observe irrefutable evidence of evolution, or the big bang, or global warming. Any "evidence" they are able to put together, can just as easily be explained by a different theory. If you cannot prove it in a lab through repeatable experiments, you cannot prove a theory.

Evolution especially gets on my nerves. Nobody's ever seen a fish grow legs or a being that's half-chimp and half-human. Nobody's ever seen a live intermediate species. There is no proof, period. It's all fantasy in the heads of a bunch of scientists who want to believe they descended from apes. That way, they could do away with God and religion, morality and meaning. If life accidentally came out of a pond billions of years ago on its own, then life has no meaning, no reason, and thus man is not accountable to anyone but himself in this world of "Survival of the Fittest". He only needs to look out for number one. Nothing else matters. If intelligence can be evolved, then there is no right or wrong. One's intelligence is no more or less correct than another's.

Evolution proponents argue that the many similarities at the molecular levels between vastly different species is proof that some species evolved out of others. They say that all living things share common building blocks, such as DNA, and as these building blocks mutate and diversify, the living things speciated into different species. Unfortunately, the fact that vastly different kinds of animals share the same building blocks says nothing in favour of evolution. Just because a chair, a table, and a doghouse are all made of wood, doesn't mean one evolved out of the other naturally. The carpenter had the blueprints in his head, and though he used the same building blocks, the same material, the same tools to realize them, they were each their own kind. He did not gradually make taller and bigger chairs until one day he declared it a table, suitable for placing objects on rather than for sitting. Each had its own design, and each served its own purpose. He may, at some point, decide to add armrests to the chair, or make a three-legged round table instead of a four-legged square one, but a chair is nevertheless a chair designed for sitting, and a table is nevertheless a table on which objects are placed.

Evolution is not science. It is at best a theory, and at worst just another religion. If anything, it requires a bigger leap of faith to accept Evolution as truth than to accept the Bible as God's Word.

Evolution reduces us to animals. It says we're merely evolved apes. God says we're special. God says He created man "in His own image" (Genesis 1:27), and "breathed into his hostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." (Genesis 2:7) God says we are to "rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." (Genesis 1:26) God gave man the gift of intelligence, to the point where he named every living creature (Genesis 2:19-20). God prepared a home for man, a garden in Eden, where He "made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food." (Genesis 2:9) God created man to have a relationship with him, to have fellowship with him. Only spiritual beings are capable of communicating with and seeking God, who is spirit. None of the other living creatures have ever displayed any God-seeking behaviour; only man is capable of praying. Only man is aware of the spiritual realm. We are and were created for His pleasure (Revelation 4:11).

The fact that we are not our own masters, that we are at the mercy of a higher being, that we are subject to an absolute moral standard, may offend some people. But choosing to ignore a fact does not make it go away.