One of the main criticisms that the atheists and materialists have directed against Christian believers is that Christian theology teaches that God put man at the center of the universe. They charge Christianity with teaching that man has a right to be proud since he is God's highest creation. They use the results of scientific investigations that have revealed that the sun is at the center of our solar system, and that the solar system orbits the center of our galaxy to argue that man is nothing special in our universe, and therefore, has no right to be proud. One of the facts of psychology is that often those who are guilty of a fault will accuse most others they know of being guilty of that same fault while being blind to it within themselves.
Such is the case with the materialists and atheists. Nowhere does the Bible teach that God put man at the center of the universe, or that man has a right to be proud. In fact, the Bible teaches the exact opposite of this. The Bible teaches that man is a sinner before God who needs to humble himself to God, admit that he is an evil sinner and accept by faith alone the grace of God provided through Christ our Savior, and then live for the glory of God. God is at the center of the Christian universe.
Those supposed Christians who opposed Galileo for discovering that the sun is at the center of our solar system were actually politicians who hid behind Christianity in order to further their hidden agenda. They knew very little about the Bible or that which true Christianity teaches.
The materialists and atheists seized on the scientific method as their means for trying to prove that God does not exist. Most of the original scientists were Christians, including Galileo and Newton. The atheist Charles Darwin discoverd the process of small changes within species called microevolution, and greatly expanded and inflated it to a theory that all species, and life itself, originated and evolved by pure chance and natural selection. Natural selection simply means that those animals who were better at surviving tended to survive, which was something everyone already knew. But Darwin theorized that the animals who better survived did so because of lucky mutations in their genes that gave them an edge. This means that he thought that life originated and evolved by chance alone since natural selection also operates by pure chance. The Darwinists persist in believing this even though modern science has discoverd that lucky mutations are extremely rare, and some of their own mathematicians have calculated that evolution by chance alone is absolutely impossible.
This is true hubris. For a person to take scant evidence and greatly inflate it to a theory that goes far beyond the small implications of the discovered evidence demonstrates nothing less than pure fantasy and mythmaking. One of Darwin's followers fantasized about prehistoric Nebraska man complete with descriptions of his villages and manner of life because he found a single tooth in Nebraska. Science later found that this was a pig's tooth. The early Darwinists did not shy away from presenting downright fraud as evidence for macroevolution. The bones of Piltdown man which were supposed to be evidence for macroevolution were later shown by scientists to be a fraudulent mixture of human and gorilla bones. Haeckel's supposed evolutionary progression of human embryos were later proved to be a fraud. In recent years, the Darwinist, Steven Jay Gould, theorized, because of the lack of real evidence for macroevolution, that macroevolution must have progressed by a means he called "punctuated equilibrium," by which he meant that over relatively small periods of time one animal, as if by magic, turned into a completely different kind. Those who believe this are the same kind of people who would ridicule anyone who claimed to be a real magician. This tendency of Darwinists to create fantasy and mythmaking might cause one to suspect that deep in their hearts they know the truth, but their pride and their hostility to God simply wont let them admit it.
Another myth of the macroevolutionists is that their theories are held up by certain pillars of evidence, and that all they have to do is to fill in the gaps with new evidence and their theory will be complete. They claim that the creationists' criticisms of their theories only amounts to a God-of-the-gaps set of objections. They believe that eventually new evidence will fill in all the gaps and God will be squeezed out, thus proving that there is no God. The truth of the matter is that there are no pillars holding up their theory. There exists no real evidence for any of the theories of macroevolution whatsoever. The whole theory of evolution by chance alone simply amounts to one huge gap.
Christianity is that truth that teaches that man knows very little, and God knows everything. This truth should make every man humble before God. But no Christian can have excessive pride who humbly accepts the great value that God has given him through His creation and His grace.
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