Evolution and my ostrich mentality

• Did God take billions of years to create the universe?
• Mutations could have created many new species over time, couldn’t they?
• Were there human-like creatures before Adam and Eve?

Today I answer, “No, no, no,” to these questions with much clarity and confidence.

When I was growing up, in India, evolution was taught in schools. But it did not shake my faith even one teeny bit because none of my teachers believed in it. But the theory of evolution was sneakier than our teachers realised. Terms like adaptations and modifications soon became second nature to us all, teachers and taught alike. In reality, the monster was too crafty for ordinary people to handle. We did not know what to do with concepts like radioactive dating, Neanderthal man, Cambrian explosion, and the myriad others that we came across.

I believed that ordinary people need not worry themselves about these matters that were best left to Christian scientists to deal with. At the same time I believed resolutely, that the Bible will eventually be proved right. For all my zeal for the Lord, I was like the proverbial ostrich, imagining that if I did not think about the problem, it would go away.

Importance of becoming better informed

“Why are photocopies of the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Internet not available free to the public?” Thus starts Don Srail’s Talkback piece in the Biblical Archaeology Review site, and he goes on to lament the suppression of valuable information from the public eye.

Once long ago, my dad was trying to move a bed from one room to another. And I was helping him. But being just four or so, he told me later, I was an additional weight that he was dragging with the bed. So it is in this struggle to get true science and true archaeology into the open, many of us are more of a nuisance than a help.

RC Sproul interviews Ben Stein about the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

This is a long video of 27 minutes. R.C. Sproul is very respected in Christian circles as a preacher and author who with his gift for lucid explanation has driven many a truth home to the hearts of his listeners and readers. This interview adds to the credibility and integrity of Ben Stein and this movie.

Click here for an earlier post about Expelled:No Intelligence Allowed

If any one knows whether or when this movie is to be screened in New Zealand, please let me know.

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

Ben Stein’s documentary, due for release in April, certainly promises to be a movie to watch out for.

Click here to read the overview

Click here to read Ben Stein’s own introduction

It claims to expose the suppression and persecution that some scientists and academicians have gone through for not going along with Darwinism. Life in academic institutions, world over, has not been easy for those who believe that nature points to intelligent design by a Master Designer. It has not been easy for scientists, professors, and students. It has not been easy for parents who have had to avoid the public school systems and home-school their children.

So this movie, whether or not it conclusively establishes anything, will be welcomed by many who long for freedom in institutions to speak both for and against matters such as faith and creation. Voltaire is supposed to have said: ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’ Where is such freedom today?

RC Sproul interviews Ben Stein about the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed