Evolution is Not Fact. I recently read an article that said that evolution is fact. This article is in response to that erroneous claim.
The Article
The entire article reeked of bias, and arrogance. Its premise was that the weight of evidence proved it to be fact. Interestingly, he began by talking about the ‘theory of evolution’.
Evolution is a Theory.
Theory and fact are two different things. A theory is something believed but cannot be proved. Fact is something that has been proved. You might take a theory, prove it, and thereby it becomes fact. Very rare, but not beyond our thinking.
Something is called a theory because it cannot be proved. Thus, evolution is a theory as is creationism. Both theories interpret scientific discoveries (facts’) according to their assumptions. But both remain theories.
Evolution is Not Fact
As mentioned above, evolution interprets science, or raw science. Raw science is simply the basic scientific discoveries that have been made, are being made, and will be made. Scientists take these ‘facts’ and try to interpret them.
Evolutionists interpret according to their bias, namely that evolutionary processes occur over time; whereas creationism believes creation happened within a very short period of time, say six 24-hour days (God rested on the 7th day).
The Example of the Hittites
Scientists, scholars, and archeologists knew that the Bible spoke of a great people known as Hittites. These wise men searched all the wisdom of man and found no mention of these people. Thus, they proved the Bible wrong, and therefore not inerrant. This conclusion lasted for hundreds of years until 1834 when the first discovery was made. Even then it wasn’t identified as Hittite until later.
In the second half of the 19th century an abundance of evidence revealed not only the existence of the Hittites, but of their power and greatness.
Evolution is not Fact, it is Man’s Wisdom
As with the Hittites the modern version of Scientists, scholars, and archeologists have concluded that evolution is a fact. What they fail to see, or at least acknowledge, is that theory and fact are two different things, as I have already shown.
Scientists, scholars, and archeologists are very smart. But if you have smarts but don’t have God’s Word, you end up looking dumb. They, for the most part, are not interested in God’s view. In fact, most of them don’t believe in God.
They celebrate their wisdom, and their accomplishments while denigrating the wisdom and accomplishments of Bible believers. They dig in their heels and become fools.
Evolution is not Fact, but Science is True
Now wait a minute! If science is true, then why isn’t evolution? Evolution is, as noted above, an interpretation of facts. For example, they test rocks to determine age. Are these tests proof? No. Why? Because the testing is flawed. Their testing is based upon what is called uniformitarianism or the assumption that at the same natural laws and processes that operate in our present-day scientific observations have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe.
But what if that is not true? Evolution would fall on its face. There are problems with the Uniformitarian view, which we don’t have time to go into. While evolution accepts this view there are aspects, such as the Big Bang theory, that operate contrary to that view.
Evolution is not a Fact is a truth not Visited.
Why do I say that?
Because evolution dominates the scientific world. Believers in this theory are intolerant of other views and will fight to keep them from being heard. They resist it no matter how foolish it makes them look. They write articles, as I mentioned earlier, that are easily refuted. But in their arrogance, they laugh and sneer.
The Bible Warns Against the Wisdom of Man
Their wisdom is confusion and misrepresentation. The Bible talks repeatedly about their wisdom in I Corinthians 1:18-25; Isaiah 55:8-9; Proverbs 14:12; Job 38:4; Isaiah 45:9, 12; Proverbs 3:7; and many more!
Science is a Useful Tool
I believe in science. Through science man has reached the stars, visited the ocean depths, crossed the country with trains, flew across the oceans, laundered their clothes, invented the automobile, created medicines, created the internet, and so much more.
But when science seeks to destroy the Bible. Wait! They say that is not their goal.
That may be true of individual men and women, but behind them and encouraging them is the devil himself. It is Satan who tricked Eve, who rebelled against God, who is the father of lies, and who wants us to worship anything other than God Himself!
Science is Best When it Admits Evolution is Not Fact
Modern science has embraced evolution because it denies creation. This is true whether they believe it to be so or not. But when you find scientists, and there are many, that believe in God, His Word, and His Son, then you have scientists who are free to use their knowledge in a way that truly blesses humanity.
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R. Frederick Riddle is an author, teacher, publisher, and the owner of T&R Independent Books. The website is at Home – T&R Independent Bookstore (trbookservices.com). He can also be found on Facebook.
