WHAT DID THINKERS BELIEVE BEFORE DARWIN?
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Write a column such as I did stating that evolutionary theory is pure hockum and watch for your email box to fill up with all sorts of anger.
Emailers in panic fits are now going to their therapists to get relief from my post. It’s amazing what a column can do to mentally unstable people.
Anyhow, as I read the tirades, I wondered what thinkers did before the mid-1800s? How did they get along without Saint Darwin? What holy script did they use to explain origins?
Of course thinkers prior to Darwin believed that God started everything. That is, He brought all into being from nothing — ex nihilo. It’s what is still believed by God-holding minds.
For the centuries prior to The Origin of the Species came up with us all developing from tiny bits of swiggly whatevers, human brains worked out the biblical message as given primarily in Genesis.
It is that God brought into being all that there is. He is the Alpha and Omega — the Start and Finish. God being God can do that. He doesn’t need any help from Darwin. He does not even have to have assistance from an evolutionary line up of lesser to greater.
Now there are those believers who are still mired into the evolutionary posh that they think they have to bow down to it in some fashion. Therefore, they conclude that evolution must be the method that Creator God used to bring everything from nothing. In that way, they feel comfortable living a whacky world that holds tenaciously to a lamebrain theory full of holes.
But those truly adventurous, daring Christian biblical thinkers don’t need even the crutch of evolution to explain how God did whatever He did. They just by faith conclude that God being God did what He did. He brought it off. He is the eternal One who has the everlasting powers by which to do what He sets out to do — just as Genesis relates it — and therefore God needed no help.
It is a pity that some of the younger generation have to feel that they must give some sort of academic nod to evolutionary teachers who cruise through their university classrooms with texts that preach that evolution is not really a theory. It is indeed a fact. A FACT already proven and digested and baptized as absolutely realistic.
Those of the younger generation need to understand that Genesis does not even need that kind of oblation to secular university professors, not even to professors in supposedly Christian colleges which have gone spiritually astray.
The bottom line is this: The Bible is the divine revelation. There Genesis states that Creator God did what He did. It spells it out in as much detail as any mortal needs to know in this life.
Therefore, be done with it. It was realistically tenable to generations of thinkers prior to Saint Darwin and it still works quite well for those who hold to the revelation as needing no secular assistance — none whatsoever.
Now watch my email box fill up again. That’s okay. It means more money for the therapists. And I’m sure they can use the cash.
Write a column such as I did stating that evolutionary theory is pure hockum and watch for your email box to fill up with all sorts of anger.
Emailers in panic fits are now going to their therapists to get relief from my post. It’s amazing what a column can do to mentally unstable people.
Anyhow, as I read the tirades, I wondered what thinkers did before the mid-1800s? How did they get along without Saint Darwin? What holy script did they use to explain origins?
Of course thinkers prior to Darwin believed that God started everything. That is, He brought all into being from nothing — ex nihilo. It’s what is still believed by God-holding minds.
For the centuries prior to The Origin of the Species came up with us all developing from tiny bits of swiggly whatevers, human brains worked out the biblical message as given primarily in Genesis.
It is that God brought into being all that there is. He is the Alpha and Omega — the Start and Finish. God being God can do that. He doesn’t need any help from Darwin. He does not even have to have assistance from an evolutionary line up of lesser to greater.
Now there are those believers who are still mired into the evolutionary posh that they think they have to bow down to it in some fashion. Therefore, they conclude that evolution must be the method that Creator God used to bring everything from nothing. In that way, they feel comfortable living a whacky world that holds tenaciously to a lamebrain theory full of holes.
But those truly adventurous, daring Christian biblical thinkers don’t need even the crutch of evolution to explain how God did whatever He did. They just by faith conclude that God being God did what He did. He brought it off. He is the eternal One who has the everlasting powers by which to do what He sets out to do — just as Genesis relates it — and therefore God needed no help.
It is a pity that some of the younger generation have to feel that they must give some sort of academic nod to evolutionary teachers who cruise through their university classrooms with texts that preach that evolution is not really a theory. It is indeed a fact. A FACT already proven and digested and baptized as absolutely realistic.
Those of the younger generation need to understand that Genesis does not even need that kind of oblation to secular university professors, not even to professors in supposedly Christian colleges which have gone spiritually astray.
The bottom line is this: The Bible is the divine revelation. There Genesis states that Creator God did what He did. It spells it out in as much detail as any mortal needs to know in this life.
Therefore, be done with it. It was realistically tenable to generations of thinkers prior to Saint Darwin and it still works quite well for those who hold to the revelation as needing no secular assistance — none whatsoever.
Now watch my email box fill up again. That’s okay. It means more money for the therapists. And I’m sure they can use the cash.
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