My understanding of the
finches (subject) of Charles Darwin from which all of the various evolutionary
hypothesis and theories “evolve” from, are different species of the same
kind. The kind is finch, and there were
many different featured (eg. different beak shapes or sizes) finches, but they
were still finches.
Human being or Man, is a
kind. And so, although an “ang mo”
pastor (referring to the US pastor, Ps Prentis) and I share many common
features, we do have different features, for I am a Chinese man and he is “ang
mo” man, but we are both man, NOT monkeys.
Monkey is another kind.
On the Galapagos islands
(the location of Darwin’s study), there were tortoises, iguanas, even mocking
birds, apart from the species of the finches.
In fact, each island was dominated by particular finch(es), but there
were of course, “cross-living”, just like, we do find “ang mo” men in
Singapore, and a (the) US pastor could find Chinese men in his state. But there was no such thing (NOT even
hypothesis of it, then) like iguanas were evolved from the tortoises or the other
way round, or that any of birds of air, somehow were evolved from the land
kinds. There was not even the
hypothesis, then, of the finches could have evolved from the mocking birds or vice
versa. So much for evolution of Man from
monkey!
As to questioning of miracles,
we can say the same thing, too, of the evolution (evolutionists commonly claim
that there is no duplication of the miracles of Jesus, like feeding of 5,000,
and Jesus’ walking on water), that no one has duplicated the evolution of a
monkey into a man, either! Bible has
account of oil that did NOT run out (until all the containers were used up); I
have heard of testimony of little food or petrol that did NOT run out too
(until certain event happens, like when additional provision has arrived). It is NOT uncommon to hear of testimony of
cars running on almost empty tank driven by believers, could still move for
many tens of kilometres until a petrol source is reached. Well, I have seen legs grew just by my prayer
to the Lord for it to grow! Can one
explain how it can be humanly possible for me to have accomplished it, based on
my own ability! If such miracles still
happen today, why is it NOT possible, in the days of Jesus walking the earth,
that those miracles recorded in the Word, did happen?
All of these “gravity
defying” scenarios are possible because there is a Creator God. God is the Creator of all of the universe,
and as the Creator, He could modify and change things around, for, as the El
Shaddai, the all powerful, He has the power and means to accomplish anything
and everything. Scripture recorded for
us, that He could simply speak things, including living things, into
being. Well, if there had been one
initial “Big Bang”, why is it NOT possible that, that initial big bang was work
of God, the Creator, or used of, by God (I am NOT necessarily supporting the “Big
Bang” theory).
I am NOT saying we are gods
(as in Jesus is God, or God is God; god in Scripture can mean judge or
magistrate) but we are creators after God, though of a lesser degree. A simple illustration or metaphor I can give,
is this:
Imagine there is a cichlid
fish (a very common and “hardy” fish) in a large aquarium. When it first came into the tank, it saw
there were some other fishes it had NOT seen before. Every day it would find food in the tank
(dropped in by the owner - you), and it would eat it, like we eat vegetables or
fruits from the plants of the earth. It
also find that it needed to carve out a territory for itself (cichlids are very
territorial), and would fight for its space and food. Occasionally, it would find worms in the tank
(again, dropped in by you), and it would eat them, too, like we eat meat from
animals of the earth.
It would, at times, fight
with other fishes, and even managed to kill some of them. But typically, it does NOT eat up the entire
carcass, but would devour the eyes of the dead fish(!), leaving the carcass to
pollute the water. And so, from time to time, it finds the water in which it
lives becomes refreshed (water-change by you), and its enclave got “wrecked”
(by you, when you were changing the water and cleaning the tank). Occasionally, it could see this peculiar but
powerful thing moving about in the tank; that is your hand! And then, it found new
plants appeared; and new fishes, too, and even some others, of its kind,
cichlids. And some of the cichlids
looked every different but they were of the same kind, cichlids. By the way, there are over 1,400 species of
cichlids in the world. And “bless its
soul”, it finds one cichlid it likes, and mates up with her. It brings her into his enclave, and jointly,
they beautify their home (Cichlids would pick up tiny objects with their mouths,
and then spew them out at specific area or target).
Did the cichlid create the
entire environment that he has found himself to be in? No, he, being in the environment, explored
it, and then carved out a place he called his own. You are the creator of its environment, just
like God created the entire environment that we are in.
Did the environment of the
cichlid remained constant? Not
really. Did it, the cichlid, contribute
to the instability of the environment?
Yes, it did, with its own discharge (its own shit, high in certain
chemicals which when reached certain level would be harmful to the fishes
themselves), and with its other activities, like killing and leaving carcasses
in the water. Who was monitoring the
going-on in the environment of the cichlid?
You - as the creator and owner of the aquarium.
Then, does NOT the cichlid
find new lives, it cannot account for?
What do you think should go through the “head” of the fish? “Some “God” created the universe, all that
there is, here, including lives. He has
given me a mate, too, and now I, too, can produce my own kind. How great is this “God”, that He could defy
gravity, so to speak, miraculously, have the water refreshed, for example! ….” Who is this “God”? You!
See, to the cichlid,
things were bigger than life, so to speak, but as suggested in the preceding
para., it has the heart {or mind of its soul} to know there is a “God” - you! And there were miracles it could NOT explain.
Do you have your heart so hardened you
can perceive no longer, there is a God?
Is your heart so hardened that you would NOT give Him, the honour and
glory due Him? Romans 1:20-21 put it
this way:
20 For since
the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and
divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,
so that people are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither
glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile
and their foolish hearts were darkened. (I encourage you to read my separate exposition of Romans
1:20 - “We are without excuse”)
Is there no way out for
the ones hardened of heart? The posture
of God concerning this, can be gleaned from these words of Jer 29:12-14:
12'… call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
13 … seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
14'I will be found by you,' declares the LORD, 'and I will restore …
Today, begin to call upon
the God of the universe.
Today, pray to Him. He
will listen to you.Today, seek Him with all your heart.
He will allow Himself to be found by you. And He will restore you.
He will change your heart of stone to the heart of flesh.
He will cause the scales on your eyes to fall off.
He will allow you to know Him (ginosko-know – know Him in a personal way).
Anthony Chia,
high.expressions
PS1: “Bro Anthony, you don’t
believe in evolution at all?” My current
position is along this line:
My position is CLOSER TO
what has come to be termed as "biblical evolution", where I believe that
God created a set of "kinds" of plants and animals at the beginning. The many kinds and species have passed through
some biological changes with the passage of time and changes to the environment
or habitat. There has been, and nature
will continue to have, adaptation or “micro level evolution”, but central to my
belief is still that human beings or Man was literally created in God's image, as
given us in the Book of Genesis. My view rejects any evolution theory (and
there are many evolution theories put forward by people) that claims that Man
is evolved from monkey.
Central to my rejection
above is that Man and animals are unlike in that Man is tripartite (spirit,
soul and body), whereas animals are only with soul and body (life + form). An animal cannot evolve to be a man. Man is a special kind of its own, a special
life-form that has a spirit that came from God, the Creator (Unlike for animals
or plants, for Man, God breathed His breath into Man at Creation [For clearer
understanding of this, read this article of mine: Man is Tripartite]).
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