Origins of The Shadow

Okay, so this was a comment to something Spectre had said elsewhere and I decided to repost it as material for my blog :)

Wow Spectre! Your comments are beginning to look like mine as far as length! I have a horrible tendency to ramble. I did like your little talk. Recently a person posted a comic strip down by the Physics department about how Evolution is obviously the only way to go and Christianity (or creationism) is like trying to teach alchemy, or astrology. It's just stupid! was their contention.

Then someone else comes along and makes this little comment on the side (in pencil) "and someone thought this was funny?" meaning that yeah, it's true but it's sad that anyone could possibly believe anything other than evolution. It made me slightly..... disturbed. So took out the bookmark I had and wrote a long explanation/argument why Christianity did indeed explain origins much more satisfactorily than evolution could and pointed out several errors that evolution has and how people don't seem to realize that it is merely a theory and has not been proven. Fossil evidence of "evolved species" is found in EXACTLY the same spot as fossils of fish or birds that are just like they are today. But they thrust those aside and look at these other ones. If the layers of strata are how they say they are, those fish must have dug down before they died and were fossilized, OR (gasp) possibly these new fossils aren't evolved but are just extinct species!

Anyway, this note that I posted with my side of the arument logically laid out.... someone just came along and penned a couple of letters that stand for a swear word over the top of it. There was not even an attempt to repudiate my logic, they just said "bah, he's stupid" with no reason given. I just shrug my shoulders and move on. It stayed down there on the board next to the comic for over a month so hopefully some other people read it.

It's been my peeve for a while that Science should be looking at the facts and formulating theories to explain those facts based on what they have. Not look at certain facts and make up other ones and try to prove their THEORY by looking for other stuff.

Recently I read an article about a link that proves that fish evolved into land animals (which is why we have land creatures apparently). They decided that if fish DID evolve into land animals, they would probably have done it in shallow water because then they would have to get used to both air and water and eventually would crawl up on land and leave the water altogether. So they went to some island that had some shallow water pools near the shore and amazingly they found some fossils that looked like a crocodile with fins and now they've proved evolution! First of all, it does sound highly suspicious to me to find fossils in exactly the spot you decided they must be, they aren't extremely common you know.
Second, they went looking in shallow water near the ocean. If these fossils and evolutionary links are many millions of years old (or possibly a billion) then don't you think the rocks around that "shallow water" would have eroded just a tiny bit? I mean, I would expect the island to have been much larger way back then so now the shallow water that was then, is far out into the ocean and pretty deep underwater!

But these poor "sheeple" just nod their heads and agree to everything that is told them. Ah! They say. The power of evolution to predict where fossils should be! Isn't it amazing that we've discovered the secrets of the universe! We've proved that there is no God and that everything just happened to evolve like it is (never mind the law entropy, we'll forget that for the moment) and therefore it must have started as chemicals in a pond with an electric current which itself all came billions of years ago from a very large explosion. Where the explosion and matter itself came from we don't care to think about.

It's a thing that bugs me too Spectre, something that bothers me indeed. I see comics, newpaper articles, etc. on the outside of teacher's doors that uphold this theory of evolution as fact and mock Christianity and the belief in a God. Why? They'd say because they are obviously wiser and more scientific and know better than us poor dumb people. They know it is true because they feel it's true, or at least they don't want to feel that there is a God so they cling to whatever else presents itself.

The sad thing though is, that many, MANY so-called Christians have fallen for it. On the discussion for the same article, when people are bashing Christians as that group of dumb people that wouldn't believe "science" (I thought skeptics were the best scientists because they didn't accept what everybody told them, like Copernicus didn't believe the sun moved around the earth) and how dumb they are before the "mighty facts of evolution." Then some people who claimed to be Christians came on and tried to justify themselves by saying "Oh no! We Christians believe in evolution too, we think that God started evolution off and the Genesis account is just something of a pictorial representation of that." I was really taken aback by that though I've seen it before. They are doing far more harm than any evolutionist is doing when they speak on a topic such as that. They are basically denying that God has the power to create, all because they want to appear smart and to fit in and not be mocked by the world. They have been led astray by their own weakness and stupidity.

I am perfectly willing to evaluate the facts, to look at evidence and then make a decision, that decision of course would be influenced by the only standard men can live by: The Bible. But my "opponents" or peers say that I'm close-minded, while they in turn will not believe anything other than evolution because they think for some reason that it MUST be true! Or they dont' want to think of a world where it isn't true because then (another gasp) they might be accountable to a God. So rather than face that thought, they hide under the blankets of evolution and cry out "go away God, you can't get me!" just like a child will run to his or her bed and pull the covers over their head and say "now that bad man with the knife can't touch me." Before. Hiding from God doesn't prove that there is no God, and that someday you will be judged. How I want to reach out to these people sometimes but like the dwarves in The Last Battle, they have blinded their own eyes and rather than partaking of the feast set before them, claim that it's all rubbish and rotten in this world. Rather than see light, they close their eyes so that they will wallow in darkness, they would rather stumble than walk clearly, for men hate the light and walk in darkness. (John 3:19,20)

Obviously this has been something written for Christians. Just another rambling post I guess(see, that's how you write 'em Spectre ;) ). It's something that has bothered me for a while and I've commented on frequently in other places. It boggles the mind. Anyway, I should probably repost this on my blog for filler material!

And yes, this was all just a "comment" :(