It's a strange celebration time -- we learned today that over 1000 churches are recognizing a new "holiday" -- "Evolution Weekend" to promote the acceptance of evolution as a "scientific"
solution to the origin of the universe and mankind. This is not "new," of course, but an organized effort by liberal churches to do so is a new and sad development. We're glad for the many fundamental churches who still hold to the creation model as taught in the Bible. Charles Darwin, of course, is the man who really started the evolutionary approach, first, by his book "The Origin of Species" and then others later. Interestingly, he was "baptized" into the Anglican Church as a child, later went on to the university in England and even a short time in seminary. He wrote: "I had gradually come by this time (ca. 30 years of age) to see that the Old Testament was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindus or the beliefs of any barbarian. " Then in 1880: "I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, and therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God!" I was amazed to learn that Darwin was born on February 12, 1809 ... the same year and day that Abraham Lincoln was born! What a contrast between Darwin's rejection of God's Word and the damage still being done by his teachings, and Lincoln's reliance on the Bible with subsequent blessing for this old world! Hear his thoughts: "I attended ... a log schoolhouse in Indiana where we had no reading books or grammers, and all our reading was done from the Bible.... In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Saviour gave to the world was communicated through this Book!" Darwin's conclusions have led multitudes into spiritual slavery where everything came into existence by chance and there is no God to Whom we are accountable. Lincoln not only found comfort and guidance in God's Word to lead our country through a terrible crisis, but it gave him the moral fortitude and foundation to free the slaves! Surely, he agreed wholeheartedly with our first president, George Washington, who stated in his Farewell Address: "It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible!" Dear readers, let us pray for our new president and administration, along with all those who represent us, and all the people of the USA (who, by the way, are creatures of God and not accidents of evolution!), that we may recognize and rely upon God's Word in this critical time ... in obedience to I Timothy 2:1-6.
