The End May Be Much Than Nearer Than We Think

Chapter 2. The Real Danger In The Theory of Evolution {158 words}

When the class finished its study of the Book of Revelation, the next lesson carried us into a study of the Book of Genesis. Even though I had not solved all of my problems about the Tribulation, I was excited and pleased to move on to something new and to study something a little less challenging. I was particularly happy to be studying Genesis because I felt that it would be significant and meaningful to the class and me if we could study about the beginning of life and the world right after we had completed a study about the end of the world. Besides that, I wanted to talk to the class about the Theory of Evolution and expose to them the truth about this unproven and scientifically invalid theory. So, for each of these reasons, it appeared to me that the study of Genesis was perfect.

In my modest home library, I have a pretty good selection of technical and scientific books, among them, all of the works of Charles Darwin, the founder of the Theory of Evolution. In putting together my lesson about evolution, I recalled from some of my earlier studies that Darwin had written about certain problems with his theory which he could not solve. He had not been able to prove his theory, so in his works, he had carefully documented the problems for the benefit of future scientists. I searched through my materials to locate his discussions on those unproven points, which are still unproven today, and I began to prepare a case against Darwin's Theory of Evolution. However, as I put together the facts against his theory, I began to feel that disproving his theory was too easy.

I found that the facts were so heavily weighted against the Theory of Evolution that no self-respecting scientist could possibly endorse such an incredible theory without a very good reason. Yet, at the same time, I knew that most scientists readily do accept the theory as truth. I immediately became very troubled and full of self-doubt. Had I overlooked something in my haste that was essential? I did not think so, yet I was not sure. Originally, I had thought that the instruction of Evolution along with Creation would provide an excellent learning environment for the class. But as I considered the weak premises upon which Darwin's theory had been based with my own feelings of self-doubt, I was no longer sure. I became afraid that my lecture would appear to others to be more of a personal attack on a controversial theory rather than an attempt by me to teach the truth about the Theory of Evolution.

A few days later, while still pondering those thoughts about the Theory of Evolution and while also still being puzzled by my questions about the Book of Revelation, I went to visit a local museum. It was not a special trip to the museum but rather a day in which I had some time to kill, so I chose the museum to be the place where I would kill it. The same thing had happened on another day earlier in the month, and on this particular day, I went into a building that housed exhibits of natural history.

As I walked through the hallways, I saw a giant exhibit that rose several feet, probably about twenty-to-thirty feet into the room. It actually protruded into the second floor of the building, and to see the top of it, one had to go to the second floor. As I stood on the first floor, I looked at it and realized that it was an exhibit of the evolutionary cycles of life. Because the Theory of Evolution was already very much on my mind, I immediately took a great interest. I noticed that it began at the very low, one-celled animal stage and progressed through higher and higher stages.

As I followed the stages upward, my sight was hampered by its height, so I quickly ran up the stairs to get a better look. At the top, I could clearly see the upper levels of the exhibit. At the next to the top level, I saw what appeared to be normal human beings like you and me. Just above that, I saw faces and eyes of another, apparently more advanced kind of human being. As I looked at that top level, I could not help but notice the "wide-open eyes" on each of the faces. It was as though the eyes were trying to infer some kind of superior human qualities about the people at that level, such as superior intelligence or other equally high attributes. As I continued to stare at the faces at that top level, the main thing that stood out were the wide open eyes.

I left the exhibit and continued to wander through the museum, looking at other exhibits until finally, after having looked at much of the Evolutionary propaganda, I became angry and frustrated and left the museum. My reason for being upset should not be very difficult to understand. I had just finished studying about all of the foolish, unsubstantiated conclusions of the Theory of Evolution, and I was convinced in my heart that the theory was incorrect. Yet, I was walking through a reputable museum that showed all of the types of exhibits that would normally make one believe that the theory is absolutely true. I simply could not understand what was going on!

Several days after my visit to the museum, I returned to work on my Sunday School lesson. I was very fortunate because two weeks of classes had been canceled, so I had more time than usual to try to answer some of the questions that had plagued me. Frequently, we hear someone say that, even though he has read a particular portion of Scripture many times, he gets something new out of it every time that he reads it again. For the most part, I have found that to be true for myself, but on this particular day when I resumed my study of the early chapters of Genesis, I found it to be especially true. As I read Genesis, Chapter Three, I saw a part of the light at the end of the tunnel, and some of the answers that had, thus far, eluded me began to shine through. As I read the account of Adam and Eve with the serpent in the Garden, my mind was jolted into an unexpected awareness, and I saw those few verses in a way that I had never seen them before:

"And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day that ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." (Genesis 3:4-6)

As I read the above words, and in particular the words "your eyes shall be opened," my thoughts immediately flashed back to the evolution exhibit at the museum. I remembered the wide open eyes of the faces at the top level of the exhibit. As I finished the verse, I realized why scientists today support a theory, like evolution, which they cannot prove and why people, like you and me, allow them to do so. The Theory of Evolution is popular today because the devil is using this theory in our times in the very same way that he used the forbidden fruit on Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The answer is found in the words that immediately follow the word "opened" as the verse goes on to say, "and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." I realized that the top level of the evolutionary exhibit was not man's impression of a sort of super man, but more specifically, it was man's impression of man becoming gods. The Theory of Evolution is so strong today and is now being pumped into the minds of our children in the public school system not because we want to know where we have evolved from so much as we want to know into what we are evolving. Our minds are being conditioned and even brainwashed into believing that we can someday evolve into gods.

I read the remaining portion of the verse, "knowing good and evil," and I recognized the current condition of our own society. We now have Judges, Lawyers, Congressman, Doctors, Psychiatrists, and many other people in high places who have replaced God's clear, sacred Law with their own brand of right and wrong, justice and injustice. In our society today, we have a multitude of people who say that it is all right to kill the unwanted baby, and these same people often call the death penalty too brutal and wicked for the convicted murderers. Their brand of "knowing good and evil" is to pardon the guilty and to slaughter the innocent.

At the same time, our nation and even much of the world is beginning to tolerate the serious crimes and acts of terrorism that are happening all around us, and sin is abounding! We now accept and tolerate adultery, abortion, homosexuality, murder, rape, stealing, lying, cheating, alcoholism, drug abuse, Satan worship, and just about anything else that the mind can imagine, and this is a direct result of a world which universally believes and accepts the Theory of Evolution. Only a people who see themselves as gods, or as someday evolving into gods, and who see themselves as knowing good and evil could possibly propagate so much evil.

The Theory of Evolution is clearly a lie of the devil. But the people of this world, from the small to the great, have accepted it because these people would rather think of themselves as becoming gods, knowing good and evil, than to see themselves as standing before a holy God and as being accountable to Him for their lives. As I consider Adam and Eve in the Garden, it is clear to me that the real danger in the Theory of Evolution is not simply that it teaches us a lie about our origins but that it makes us see ourselves as gods or as evolving into gods. Once Adam and Eve tried to make themselves as gods, knowing good and evil and with their eyes opened, by eating of the forbidden fruit, their fates were sealed, and they were cast from the Garden. As we allow the Theory of Evolution to penetrate our lives and to "open our eyes," we, too, are more than likely sealing our fate.