Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Category: Evolution/Creation
Anyone genuinely interesting in questioning the widespread view that humanity evolved from nothing via rock, bacteria, fish, lemur-like creatures and ape-like creatures can find a wealth of material to the contrary, produced by highly qualified and intelligent people. I here summarize a YouTube video titled, "Harvard Trained Biologist Wrecks Evolution and Billions of Years".
The idea that the universe created itself and ended up producing Beethoven's Sonata NO.14 in C is, to me, the most ridiculous, preposterous idea that could be imagined. But a common question which believers in such ideas ask, in order to stump Christians, is "Who made God? Where did he come from?"
Secular geologists have become more convinced in recent decades that catastrophic processes caused at least some of what we see in the record of the rocks and the fossils, whereas they once insisted that the present is the key to the past. The difference in their interpretation of the effect of catastrophism is that they believe multiple disasters over many millions of years formed the rock record, whereas the creationist puts most (not all) of the features we see today, including most of the fossil record, down to one colossal catastrophe: the Biblical Flood.
If there's no God to decide what's good and what isn't good, who decides what's true and what isn't? Who decides what's right and what's wrong? In a world where God doesn't exist there can be no absolutes: there is no ultimate right or wrong except what humanity decides is so. "Good" and "bad" are entirely subjective concepts, and open to change. To paraphrase a certain president from not long ago, "Truth is fluid".
One BBC science documentary can tell you a lot about the fragility and weakness of the theory of evolution, even if you aren't a scientist. However, you have to be willing to look and listen between the lines. Here I’m re-publishing my review of one "In Our Time" episode on the subject of fungi.
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 