Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution (19 page)

Each bird has a tiny brain, muscles that move the tail and twist the wings, a thirst, a hunger, an instinct to build a home, to
start a family, to daily search for food, and to snooze at night. Each has a brain that coordinates tiny feet, wings, a stomach, digestive juices, lungs that pull in air, kidneys, bowels, a liver, blood, and a pumping heart that sends it and oxygen through the tiny brain that keeps each little bird alive and kicking.

How blind we are to the absolute genius of God. It grieves me that I can go through life and look at any part of creation and not be awed speechless by God’s amazing hand. But I did that for twenty-two years of my unsaved life. I was a blind man, unaware that there was anything outside my own dark little world. What is even more grievous is that sinful man denies God due praise for His wonderful creation.

The atheist has a problem with both answered and unanswered prayer. Here’s a scenario that no doubt happens daily somewhere in the world. A young boy becomes deathly ill. The entire family gathers for prayer. However, despite earnest and sincere prayer, the child tragically dies. Their explanation for the death is that God took him to heaven because He wanted the child there. That’s seen by the atheist as “unanswered prayer.” Or the child miraculously makes a recovery, which the family hails as an evident miracle. God obviously answered the family’s prayers by saving the child from death. The atheist maintains that it wasn’t answered prayer but that the child recovered because his body healed itself.

Was the recovery a miracle? Perhaps. Then again, perhaps it wasn’t. Only God knows. The fact is that we have no idea what happened. However, one thing we do know is that answered or unanswered prayer has nothing to do with God’s existence. Let me explain. My wife has a Dodge Caravan. Let’s say it has a problem.
What would be my intellectual capacity if I concluded that it had no manufacturer simply because I couldn’t contact them about the dilemma? The fact of their existence has nothing to do with whether or not they return my calls.

Neither does God’s existence have anything to do with the fact that there are those who have experienced miracles, seen visions, or supposedly heard His voice. The sun doesn’t exist because we see its light, or because we feel its warmth. Its existence has nothing to do with any human testimony. Nor does it cease to exist because a blind man is not aware of its reality, or because it becomes cloudy, or the night falls. The sun exists, period.

God’s existence isn’t dependent on the Bible or its authenticity, the existence of the church, the prophets, or even creation. God existed before the Scriptures were written, before creation came into existence. Even if the Bible were proved to be fraudulent, God would still exist.

Adamant atheist April Pedersen writes, “The human trait of seeking comfort through prayer is a strong one.” This is true. However, April fails to see that human nature itself is very predictable. If men will not embrace the biblical revelation of God, their nature is to go into idolatry. “Idolatry” is the act of creating a god in our image, whether it is shaped with the human hands (a physical “idol”), or shaped in the human mind through the imagination. Those who create their own god then use it as a “good-luck charm” to do their bidding. The idolater uses his god
for his own ends. He calls on his god to win a football game, a boxing match, the lottery, and, of course, to win a war. Idolatry is as predictable as it is illogical.

Zoologists have recorded an amazing twenty thousand species of fish. Each of theses species has a two-chambered heart that pumps cold blood throughout its cold body.

There are six thousand species of reptiles. They also have cold blood, but theirs is a three-chambered heart (except for the crocodile, which has four). The one thousand or so different amphibians (frogs, toads, and newts) have cold blood and a three-chambered heart.

There are over nine thousand different species of birds. From the massive Andean Condor with its wingspan of twelve feet to the tiny hummingbird (whose heart beats fourteen hundred times a minute), each of those nine thousand different species has a heart and blood. There are four chambers in their heart: the left atrium, the right atrium, the left ventricle, and the right ventricle—just like in a human.

Of course the fifteen thousand species of mammals have a pumping four-chambered heart that faithfully pumps blood throughout a series of intricate blood vessels to the rest of the body.

There are also a million named species of insects, and scientists estimate that there could be another million waiting to be discovered and named. All these different insects have an “open circulatory” system. Their blood flows from the blood vessels out the end into the body cavity. It swishes around the body cavity until it gets sucked back by the heart into the other open end of the blood system somewhere else. This is in contrast to mammals where the blood never leaves the blood vessels at any stage.

Here’s an interesting question or two for the thinking evolutionist. Can you explain which came first (the blood or the heart) and why? Did the heart in all these different species of fish, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and insects evolve before there were blood vessels throughout their bodies? When did the blood evolve? Was it before the vessels evolved or after they evolved?

If it was before, what was it that carried the blood to the heart, if there were no vessels? Did the heart beat before the blood evolved? Why was it beating if there was no blood to pump? If it wasn’t beating, why did it start when it didn’t know anything about blood?

If the blood vessels evolved before there was blood, why did they evolve if there was no such thing as blood? And if the blood evolved before the heart evolved, what was it that kept it circulating around the body?

The following are some attempts (by believers in evolution) to answer the question about which came first—the blood, the heart, or the blood vessels, and why:

The only answer to these questions is that Almighty God supernaturally made the human body (and every other creature) with a heart, lungs (needed for oxygenated blood), kidneys (to
get rid of bad blood), vessels, arteries, blood, skin (to hold it all in), etc., all at once. Unthinkable for an atheist, but true.

I recently read the biography of Abraham Lincoln. It was written in Lincoln’s own words, based on historical records. As I turned each page, I wondered how they would handle his assassination because he didn’t say anything after he was shot in the head. In the book, he spoke of the grief of the Civil War, about how good it was to have peace back in the country, and how he went to a play with his wife. It was a comedy, so he spoke about how it was good to hear people laugh again. He said, “…to be with Mary…to think of the years ahead. Please God, never let people forget the joy of love, the pleasure of laughter, and the beauty of peace.” Then there was simply a bold headline that read: “WASHINGTON, D.C. —President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theater shortly after ten o’clock last evening. At 7:22 this morning, April 15, 1865, he died.”

As I read those words, tears ran down my cheeks. I couldn’t believe my reaction. I knew it was coming, so why was I crying like a child? This is why. Throughout the book, I got to know Abraham Lincoln, not as a cold historical figure but as a man with fears and pains. I grieved when his beloved sister suddenly died in her youth. I grieved with him at the loss of two of his children through sickness. The book personalized him to a point where I personally felt the pain of his untimely death.

Did you know that every twenty-four hours 150,000 people die? That’s a lot of people. It makes us raise an eyebrow. But because it is just a cold statistic, it can wash over us like water on a dead duck’s back. If we are going to have a passion for the unsaved, we have to personalize ourselves with them to a point where it brings more than a tear to our eye. We have to see those 150,000 people as moms and dads, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters…people with the same fears and pains we possess.
That is what is known as “empathy”—a virtue of compassion that causes us to feel the pain of another. “And on some have compassion, making a distinction; but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh” (Jude 1:22-23).

I found the following quote in an interesting article:
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Richard Dawkins refers to “The God of the Old Testament” as a “megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” However, the God of the New Testament is just as offensive to the ungodly as the God of the Old Testament, because they are One in the same. He never changes. Jesus warned to fear Him because He had the power “to cast body and soul into Hell” (see Matthew 10:28).

Look at His terrible New Testament judgments: He killed a husband and wife simply because they told one lie (see Acts 5:1-11). His “wrath” abides on every unbeliever for their sins (see John 3:36, Ephesians 5:6). He will punish the unsaved with a fearful “indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish” (Romans 2:8-9), and warns that He is going to be “revealed from Heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ” (see 2 Thessalonians 1:8).

He is so angry at this world He calls us His enemy (see James 4:4) and promises to “shake not only the earth, but also Heaven” in His wrath (Hebrews 12:26). Our God is “a consuming fire” (see Hebrews 12:29) and His justice will cause some to gnaw their tongues in pain (see Revelation 16:10). He is so serious about sin He will cast all liars into the lake of fire (see Revelation 21:8).

If you still want to paint the Old Testament God as being mean and the New Testament God as being nice, please realize that the God of the New Testament proclaimed the death sentence on every man, on every woman, and on every child of the human race. Every single human being will die because they have violated God’s Law (see Romans 5:12, 6:23).

So the two Gods scenario is imaginary, and He isn’t a “Megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully,” but
an utterly perfect, holy, and righteous Creator. He will see that absolute justice is done on what the Bible calls “the Day of Wrath.” That is what is offensive to guilty sinners. They are at enmity with God’s Law (see Romans 8:7). They hate His moral government.