Vantage Point - The Demise of Evolution

By David Treybig, Managing Editor

Imagine that 1,000 years have passed since Jesus Christ returned to earth and set up the Kingdom of God. You have been part of the administration of this globe-encompassing government that has provided true education, justice and opportunity for all. And now, as He foretold, God has just brought untold billions of people of past ages back to life to at last learn the way of life that leads to happiness and peace.

Charles Darwin—the man who put forward the theory of evolution—awakens from his sleep in the grave, and you've been assigned to tell him what has happened in the intervening years.

After curiously looking around and being awed by the fact that he is alive again (after having drifted back and forth between agnosticism and atheism in his life), he sheepishly wonders what became of his theory of evolution.

"Well," you begin, "you wouldn't believe what a stir your little theory caused. As you knew before your death, your proposal was slow to gain acceptance. Unfortunately, as time passed a significant number of people began accepting it as true, and the results were tragic.

"A madman by the name of Adolf Hitler used your theory to justify the murder of 6 million Jews. He thought he was simply improving the human race. Believing the implications of your theory, that there was no God who cared what people did and that human beings were just animals, thousands upon thousands engaged in sexual relations with whomever they pleased. Marriages were destroyed and many suffered for the rest of their lives with sexually transmitted diseases.

"By the year 2009—the 200th anniversary of your birthday and the 150th year after the publication of your book On the Origin of Species—scientists were gathering a large body of evidence showing that intelligent design was involved in the creation of the universe and that your theory was flawed. Your supporters fought to keep this information out of schools because it indicated that there was indeed a creator. Although many academics continued to deceptively portray your theory as proven fact, the majority of people didn't believe it.

"Earlier that year your fellow countrymen in Britain were asked whether they believed your theory. About half said yes. Across the ocean in the United States of America, 39 percent said they believed in evolution. But your idea really gripped the vast majority of those in academia.

"Of those who accepted your theory, many didn't want to acknowledge God's existence and authority over their lives. Like you, many of them thought the religious teaching they had heard was hypocritical and unscientific. They couldn't reconcile the existence of God with all the evil in the world, and it just didn't seem right that God would continue to punish the wicked forever.

"Now at last the whole world is blessed with the opportunity to understand not only the mercy and love that God has always shown His creation, but also the details and necessity of His plan. Let me give you some answers to those questions about God that you didn't understand..."

Perhaps you'll get to have this conversation. Even if not, we hope this issue will help you better understand the deception behind Darwin's theory and the truth about God's way of life. VT