Posted by
Mysterious_1 on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 11:31:00 AM
Bill Murchison had an interesting column that appeared on Townhall.com today. His column titled “God and Mr. Darwin” dealt with the continuing conflict between creationism and evolution. In it, he made the following comment:
What we all intuit about the debate, to the degree it really is one, rather than a shouting contest, is what our Victorian forbears intuited: that evolution is less about fossil records and genetic adaptations than it is about the Lord God Almighty. It's the great religious controversy of our times: Did He or didn't He? Because if He did, major consequences ensue; if not, same story.
What makes Darwin’s Origin of the Species and the doctrine of evolution (yes, it too, is a “faith”) so compelling to so many? To me the answer is a simple one. I think that the biggest draw of evolution is that it eliminates God from the universe.
As Mr. Murchison points out, if God created the universe, our solar system, the earth, and all life on it, there are consequences that flow from that reality. Mr. Murchison didn’t lay out those consequences but I’d like to suggest at least one of them.
This is probably the most important consequence of all: If God created us; we have an obligation to Him. We are bound by His moral laws just as surely as we are bound by His natural laws. This is extremely uncomfortable to those who do not have a relationship with God through Christ Jesus. The natural inclination of man is toward evil. If God created me but I refuse to live by His Word, I have conflicts internally and externally that cannot be resolved. If, on the other hand, I am a product of the evolutionary process, I can rationalize my behavior by believing that I live a better, more decent life than most. That is how I can justify myself. That doesn’t really make my conflicts go away but at least it’s easier to try to make myself believe that there are no eternal consequences for my behavior.