Quite frankly it is not a compelling argument. It is the same “this is indisputable” string of reasoning we always get from evolutionists. The more someone throws out “indisputable”, “overwhelming” and words like that, the more I question the foundations of their argument. Even where they make what must have seemed like sound arguments, it doesn’t prove a thing. For example:
The discovery of DNA now provides an irrefutable digital record of the relatedness of all living things.
Which in and of itself is not an argument for evolution. In fact, given the creation record it strikes me that it is more a defense of creationism, that all life is interconnected because it was all created by the same Creator God, not over the course of “billions” of years but in a moment.
The tragedy is that these people think they can take what the Bible teaches, that man was created by God in His own image and distort that by taking their dogma from science. The same science that says that man must be the product of evolution also rejects the idea of a man being crucified and rising from the dead. The high priests of evolution are every bit as dogmatic about their religion as a fundie preacher. The editorial does little other than throw out blanket assertions and try to paint people that are presumably fellow believers in as bad a light as possible for their woefully ignorant beliefs.
Mr. Giberson and Mr. Falk are trying to juggle to irreconcilable world views. One is a world where life was created by chance, a series of random events that fortuitously (or not if you see humans as a threat to the environment) resulted in human beings. The other is a world where God is Creator, not Evolver, and He did just as He said He did, He spoke the universe into existence and His crowning creation was man. Those worldviews are irreconcilable. Either God created the universe as He has recorded in the Word or He didn’t. If you distrust the Bible from the first page, what sort of treatment does the rest of it get? It comes down, as it so often does in a wide range of issues, to authority. Mr. Giberson and Mr. Falk view the opinions of “scientists” and their own limited understanding of the universe as more authoritative than the Word of God. As for me and my family, we will continue to teach that God is capable of and willing to create all of Creation in an instant by the sheer force of His will. Trying to make God fit into a box of our own understanding is always a fool’s errand and borders on idolatry. I have no doubt that Mr Giberson and Mr. Falk believe in evolution and God. I just question who this God is that they believe in .
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