Expelled!

I can't wait to see "Expelled."

A local pastor mentioned in his sermon that he had seen an ad for the movie. He couldn't recall the name, but his description of the basic premise intrigued me. A recent article published in our local paper piqued my interest as well. In fact, it's fairer to say that I'm going to make a point of seeing it because of these two events.

The article was submitted by Dr. Keith Lockitch, a fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. He gave the movie an 'F.' However, the bulk of his commentary was not on the film itself, but rather, it was an attack on intelligent design and the ridiculous notion that the universe was created. Lockitch dismisses the film as a simple attempt to discredit Darwinism. He also says that the defenders of intelligent design will do anything except use science to explain Biblical truth.

Militant scientists would have us believe the even more ridiculous notion that the universe somehow created itself.

What troubles me is that they fault those of us who believe in God because of our faith without acknowledging that they place their complete trust in what their science can reveal. Science is their religion.

They tell us that everything in the universe formed from one tiny speck of super dense, super hot material. They're talking about something smaller than an atom and into the billions of degrees. Why should we all believe this? Well, because science tells us so, that's why! They make no attempt to explain where this 'speck' came from or why it formed, just that it was there and exploded - giving rise to the entire, infinite universe. In fact, they can't prove it either, by any scientific means. Based on what they can know, they can only hypothesize. Theorize. Guess. Dare I say it? Believe.

They defend Darwinism as if Charles Darwin was their messiah. Why? Because they think they can prove evolution. They are not willing to take the leap of faith to believe in God because their faith lies in something that men created.

Personally, I think that it's at least possible that evolution is the way life changes on Earth, but in the same breath I would say that if that is how it happens, then it's still all part of God's plan, which we were not meant to understand entirely. Science is a gift from God. We were created with questioning minds. God can handle all the questions. As I wrote in an earlier post, science isn't killing God. It can't. It's revealing all the majesty and mystery that is the Almighty. God isn't Oz behind the curtain. God is so far beyond the curtain that we simply cannot comprehend.

When science asks us to take it on faith that there are trillions of stars or that the universe is boundless, they do so out of faith. Their faith is in science. We place ours in God.

They would say that we don't need God. We have science. There is no right and wrong. No good and evil. Only survival of the fittest and, to paraphrase Ayn Rand, the pursuit of whatever makes you happy.

I just finished a very interesting book by Scott Hahn, Reasons To Believe. In it he recalls a moment in his classroom when a student spoke up to say that if God didn't exist, we would have created Him anyway, and we did. Dr. Hahn responded beautifully, saying that even if God exists (and He does) that we'd create atheism anyway...and we did. Then he took things a step further:
If humans created God, then why didn't we create a God that let us do whatever we want without fear of punishment or separation from Him? Why not create an amoral god that allowed us to indulge every worldly pleasure? Good question, eh?

Peace in Christ,

Damon