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"Still believe the earth was [created] in six days? Ever heard of Charles Darwin?"
Imagine getting shipwrecked on an island that you aren't sure is inhabited. You
awake on the beach and find 10 stones laid out in the shape of the letter "C".
You may look down at those stones and wonder if they had been laid there by
someone or if something random like the waves may have placed
the stones in that shape.
But imagine you awake on the beach and find 10,000,000,000,000 (ten
trillion) stones laid
to spell out all of Shakespeare's plays. You couldn't attribute that
to some random cause, could you? You would have to conclude that
somebody laid out those stones with intent.
What's the point? Charles Darwin identified the cell as the basic building block of
life but didn't have the electron microscope. As a result, Darwin assumed the
cell to be just some uniform blob. But today's electron microscope shows
the cell actually to be incredibly complex organic machine. Unknown to
Darwin, each cell is made of about ten trillion atoms organized into highly specific
and interdependent parts, all of which are need for the cell to exist in the
first place.
The random mutations Darwin wrote about in the
Origin of the Species
cause minute
variations within species. They give us the zebra vs. the horse. But saying that
random mutations built the animal and plant kingdoms is akin to saying that a
final coat of paint manufactured a car.
And while the
Bible says God created
the universe in
6 days, the
Bible also defines what a
"day" is to God:
"But, beloved,
do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day." (2 Peter 3:8) The plural form of the
original Greek word for "thousand" means "innumerable", so those 6 days could
have been six 24-hour days, or an innumerable number of years.
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