Day 30.

We have been considering the fact that Evolution is a religion that requires an enormous amount of faith. Without faith and imagination, it is impossible to understand evolution, because anyone who studies evolution must believe that it really happened, since no ‘real’ scientist doubts it, despite the fact that many Christian scientists discount evolution. By faith they affirm that the ‘present is the key to the past’. They don’t really know what the past was like, but this faith helps them ignore all the evidence for Noah and the Flood—such a preposterous idea would mean that God has judged the world and He may do it again.
By faith they boldly affirm that death is the hero of the plot and that less adapted organisms have to be sacrificed on the altar of progress. The less fit need to die in order to make space for the more fit—there’s no mercy and no care for the weak. Struggle for existence and death have always been around—this is how it was, how it should be, and how it will always be. Therefore, by faith they accept that we are nothing but animals. It’s only random mutations and natural selection that brought us here some 100,000 years ago and made us able to study our evolutionary past. We are here for a while, we suffer, and then we die. By faith they declare that there is no meaning in the universe, and no purpose in life. It takes a lot of faith to believe that intangible concepts such as emotion, beauty, creativity, order, love, wisdom, time, law, and justice did not have a divine origin.
Belief in creation is based on faith indeed—and so is belief in evolution. The two faiths, though, were not born equal: one is based on a continuously changing system of inferences, ‘educated guesses’, and ‘just so’ stories (which sometimes even defy logic and known scientific principles); the other is based on a historical account inspired by the Creator who, needless to say, was there when these things happened. And this account makes sense of the world, gives meaning to what has happened in our world, and assurance for our own destiny. I hope you have availed yourself of my ‘Evidences’ SMS, which gives us enormous evidence that our faith is not blind.
It’s important to remember that Creationists and evolutionists, Christians and non-Christians all have the same evidence—the same facts. One group believes in a Creator, the other denies His existence. It’s the foundational and presuppositional beliefs under-girding these two polar-opposite world views that lead us down the path to our final interpretations. If I believe there is a God, then creationism is mandated in the fourth commandment.