Now as you know that even the evolutionists
do not agree, they today have come up
with many theories.
I would like to, and I think this
probably might answer the statement of a great
many.
You cannot put one little star in motion,
you cannot shape one single forest leaf nor
fling a mountain up nor sink an ocean,
presumptuous, pygmy, large with unbelief.
You cannot bring one dawn of regal splendor
nor bid the day to shadow it twilight
fall nor send the pale moon forth with
radiance tender, and dare you doubt the one
who has done it all.
It's unfortunate that when you get down to
the level of the pseudo-scientists and I'm
thinking of the teachers today in our public
schools that teach science, they actually are not
in a position to give a fair view
of it as they were only given one
viewpoint in college, but actually there are some
outstanding men that very definitely feel that it
is not demonstrated.
For instance, Dr. G.
A.
Kirkut.
He's of the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry
at the University of Southampton in England, and
Dr. Kirkut wrote a book entitled The Implications
of Evolution.
I'm quoting from him now.
There is a theory which states that many
living animals can be observed over the course
of time to undergo changes so that new
species are formed.
This can be called a special theory of
evolution and can be demonstrated in certain cases
by experiments.
On the other hand, there is the theory
that all of the living forms in the
world have arisen from a single source which
itself came from an inorganic form.
The theory can be called a general theory
of evolution, and the evidence that supports it
is not sufficiently strong to allow us to
consider it as anything more than a working
hypothesis.
Now, will you listen to the statement of
the Swedish botanist Herbert Nielsen?
He has made this statement, and I'm quoting
him now.
He says, My attempts to demonstrate evolution by
experiment carried on for more than forty years
have completely failed.
At least I should hardly be accused of
having started from a preconceived anti-evolutionary standing
point.
It may be firmly maintained that it is
not even possible to make a caricature out
of a paleobiological fax.
The fossil material is now so complete that
it has been possible to construct new classes,
and the lack of transitional series cannot be
explained as due to the scarcity of material.
Deficiencies are real.
They'll never be filled.
The idea of an evolution rests on pure
belief.
May I say to you, he's moving us
in the realm of religion, and my friend,
if you're an evolutionist, you have to take
it by faith.
And may I say, it's speculation, and it
has always been that, but unfortunately a great
many have accepted it as fact.
Now there is today a group of these
theologians, young theologians for the most part, and
they do not want to be called intellectual
obscurantists, and so they have adopted what is
known as theistic evolution.
Kirtley Mather, in Science Ponders Religion, he makes
this statement.
Dr. Mather writes, when a theologian accepts evolution
as the process used by the creator, he
must be willing to go all the way
with it.
Not only is it an orderly process, it's
a continuing one.
The golden age for man, if any, is
in the future, not in the past.
Moreover, the creative process of evolution is not
to be interrupted by any supernatural intervention.
The evolution of the first living cells from
previously existing non-living materials may represent a
quantum jump rather than an infinitesimal step along
the path of progress, but it is an
entirely natural development.
Now may I say to you that it
is impossible.
In fact, that's almost an unreasonable tenet.
It's an illogical position today to say that
you're a theistic evolutionist.
There are those today that are trying to
run with the hare and with the hounds.
They'd like to move up with the unbelievers,
but they would also like to carry a
Scofield Bible under their arm.
And I'm afraid that it's difficult to do
both.
It's like that old Greek race where you
put one foot on one horse and one
on the other, and then you start out.
And it's marvelous when the two horses keep
on the same route.
But believe me, when one of them decides
to go another direction, you're in for trouble.
You've got to determine which one you're going
with, and that's the condition of the theistic
evolutionist.
And he ordinarily ends up in the wrong
field, by the way.
He generally rides with the wrong horse.
Now today there are so many that seem
to be misinformed that are intelligent human beings.
For instance, Liberty Magazine, years ago, and I
took this clipping out many years ago, and
it says what, according to biblical records, is
the date of the creation of the world.
And you know what they've given?
4004 B.C. How utterly ridiculous can you
be?
Who created this universe, may I say to
you?
God created it.
Well, you listen to this.
This, to me, is very important to know.
Here is what Life Magazine had as the
origin, and I'm reading now, for perhaps one
half of the long span of early history,
the planet Earth lay barren and lifeless under
its canopy of air.
The waters of its oceans rose and fell
with the pulse of the sun and moon,
and stirred with the respiration of the winds,
but in them no living thing moved.
Above them the great continental platforms loomed rocky
and bleak, devoid of green as the landscapes
of the airless moon.
Then at some indeterminate point, some say two
billion years ago, some a billion and a
half, the entity called Life miraculously appeared on
the surface of the deep.
What form it took, what concatenation of physical
circumstances brought it into being, science cannot specify,
nor indeed reply with assurance to the question,
what is Life?
All that can be said is that through
some agency, certain giant molecules acquired the ability
to duplicate themselves.
Now, friends, are you willing to go along
with that?
And fact of the matter is, we have
some almost ridiculous statements that have been made.
I know that one of them takes the
position the way man began was in some
garbage can.
It says, from some raw material, some prehistoric
intelligent left his garbage here.
Now that's a statement of a scientist, by
the way, and that's the way that we
got started.
Now some of them send us out to
look at the seaweed, some of them send
us to look up the tree at the
monkey in the tree, and my friend, may
I say to you, now they send us
to the garbage can.
May I say to you that this is
getting worse and worse, is it not?
I don't know about you, but I still
feel that God's statement still stands up in
this modern age.
Here is the definition that Herbert Spencer gave.
It's a very famous definition, and let me
read it.
He says, Evolution is an integration of matter
in a concomitant dissipation of motion, during which
the matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity
to a definite coherent heterogeneity, and the retained
motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
You turn that one around for a little
while and see what you come up with,
friends.
I do not know about you, but today
it still makes sense to read, In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Who created it?
God did.
Created it out of nothing.
When?
I don't know.
I have news for you.
Nobody else knows.
They have this record that I read just
a moment ago.
Some say two billion, some say one billion,
and I notice now that some are moving
it up maybe to five billion years.
No one knows.
I think they're all pikers.
I think it was created long before that.
In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth.
May I say to you very candidly, you
see, God's had eternity back of Him.
What do you think He's been doing in
all the billions of the years of the
past, waiting for you to come on the
scene and waiting for me to come on
the scene?
No, He's been busy.
He's had this creation a long time to
work with.
You see, He really hasn't told us very
much, has He?
And I think it's rather presumptuous on this
little pygmy down here to presume he knows
more than he really knows about it.
We just accept these majestic words of the
Word of God and can say with the
psalmist, When I consider thy heavens the work
of thy fingers, the heavens declare the glory
of God, and the firmament showeth His handiwork,
and Paul writing to the Romans in Romans
1.20, For the invisible things of Him
from the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things that are
made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so
that they are without excuse.
And then the writer to the Hebrews, through
faith we understand that the worlds were framed
by the Word of God.
So the things which are seen are not
made of things which do appear.
You have to accept that by faith, because
even science can't tell you how you can
take nothing and make something.
God apparently did it that way, but man
today cannot tell when this was created.
And when you put down the account that's
in Genesis, along with the other creation accounts,
and most nations had it, I think most
of them were perversions of the Genesis account.
You take the Bible account and the Babylonian
account, for instance.
The tablets that give the Babylonian account, they
begin with chaos.
The Bible begins with cosmos.
In the beginning God created the heavens and
the earth.
And the heavenly bodies are gods, according to
the Babylonian account, and they're nothing in the
world but matter, according to the Bible.
And you have polytheistic theology in the Babylonian
account, and you have monotheistic truth in the
Bible account.
And the Babylonian account is just the work
of a craftsman.
And in the Bible God spoke, and it
came into existence.
And the Babylonian account is puerile.
It's grotesque.
But in the Bible you have here the
grand and solemn realities.
And the Babylonian account is definitely out of
harmony with known science, but not the Bible.
May I say that the fact that we
reject evolution, it rejects God, it rejects revelation,
it denies the fall of man and the
fact of sin, and it opposes the virgin
birth.
That's the reason that we reject it with
all our being, friends, because we do not
believe that it is the answer to the
origin of this universe.
And there's so many other things that could
be said.
Now, there is a third question here.
Not only who created and when did he
create, but why did he create?
And believe me, this is getting right down
now to the nitty-gritty.
This is important to see.
Will you notice what the Word of God
has to say?
This universe that you and I live in
today was created for His own pleasure.
He saw fit to create it, and He
delighted in it.
And you read over in the fourth chapter
of Revelation, verse 11, Thou art worthy, O
Lord, to receive glory and honor and power,
for Thou hast created all things, and for
Thy pleasure they are and were created.
Now, He created this universe because He wanted
to create it.
He did it for His pleasure.
You may not like the universe, but He
does.
He never asked me about where I wanted
this little world on which I live placed
in His universe.
He could have put it way out yonder
somewhere.
But He didn't ask me that.
In fact, He didn't even ask me whether
I wanted to be born in Texas or
not.
Of course, if He'd given me the opportunity,
I would have chosen Texas.
Well, He didn't.
May I say to you that this universe
you and I live in today was created
for His pleasure.
He saw fit to create.
He delighted in the act.
And then the second reason that He created
this universe, it was for His own glory.
The original creation, you remember, sang that wonderful
Creator's praise when the sons of God, you
remember, they sang together.
That was a wonderful time.
And over in the 38th chapter of the
book of Job, verse 7, when the morning
stars sang together and all the sons of
God shouted for glory.
May I say to you, it was created
for His glory.
It's for Him.
And then you remember Isaiah.
He says in Isaiah 43, 7, I have
created Him for my glory.
I have formed Him.
Yea, I have made Him.
God has created this universe for His glory.
And then God created this universe and man
in it for fellowship.
He wanted fellowship with man.
And God placed that first man in the
Garden of Eden.
And He wanted this man that He created.
He wanted him to have fellowship with.
And He had to make him a free
moral agent.
God could have made a bunch of robots.
God could have made a mechanical man and
push a button and have him bow down.
But God didn't want that kind of a
man.
God wanted a man to be free to
choose Him and to love Him and serve
Him.
You remember, that was the awful slur and
blasphemy that Satan hurled against God and against
Job.
He said, you remember, does Job serve you
for naught?
In other words, you're paying him to.
God says, I want creatures that will, by
a free choice, choose Me.
My friend, the greatest thing you can do
as a human being is to, in this
world of sin where everything is against God
today, and He's permitted it that way, but
He has put you and me in this
world as it is today that you and
I can make a choice for Him.
And in the midst of all of this
unbelief and the blasphemy around us, we can
say today, I choose Jesus.
I accept and receive Him.
I believe in God the Father, Almighty Maker
of heaven and earth.
That's the most glorious privilege that you and
I have.
And you can talk about freedom of speech
and freedom of everything else, but this poor
crowd around us today that's talking about freedom
really don't know about it.
You have real freedom when you choose Jesus
Christ as your Savior.
As we are suggesting that you are on
the horns of a dilemma today relative to
the creation of the world, actually you'll have
to depend on speculation or revelation.
There's not a third one at all.
Now, someone is going to say, but evolution
explains the origin of this universe.
Well, listen to Dr. Howard Shapley, and we'll
be quoting him later on.
He is director of the Harvard Observatory, and
he says, we are still embedded in abysmal
ignorance of the world in which we live.
We are still absolutely in the dark relative
to the creation of this earth on which
you and I live.
You see, today it's either revelation or speculation.
It would seem now that these rocks that
have been brought back from the moon are
not advancing the theory of the origin of
the universe that they had before, that it
was the result of a tremendous explosion.
It would look so far as if the
rocks on the moon do not correspond to
rocks on the earth.
Well, that's quite upsetting, and as you have
probably noted, that the scientists haven't been jumping
up and kicking their heels together because of
the rocks that have been found on the
moon.
In other words, there are three areas in
which evolution cannot move, and we'll see that
here in Genesis, and that is it cannot
bridge the gap from nothing to something.
It cannot bridge the gap from something to
life, and it cannot bridge the gap between
life and humanity, that is, self-conscious human
life with a free will.
These are gaps that evolution so far has
not been able to bridge at all.
And the press, of course, always looking for
something sensational, comes up with something that's quite
interesting.
And one of the things that's been put
in my hands in the past few days
is a fellow Texan sent me something that
they're doing down in Texas.
As you probably know, that they found down
near a place where I used to live
on the Paluxy River in Glen Rose, Texas,
they have found dinosaur tracks.
Well, I've known about that for years, and
of course, you might expect that in Texas
you'd have the biggest of everything, so they
apparently had the dinosaurs.
Now, not only that, but they now have
found something that's quite disturbing.
They have found some giant human tracks there.
And you know that's really upsetting, because it's
very difficult to start out with a little
amoeba or a little scum on top of
the water, and all of a sudden you
find walking back there with the dinosaurs human
beings that are much bigger than any that
we've got today.
I want to say that evolution is going
to have a lot of problems in the
next few years, and may I predict right
now that, and I'm merely quoting some scientists,
that by the end of this century, evolution
will be as dead as a dodo bird.
This brings us back to this wonderful story
that we want to continue in.