The Evolutionists are Angry at Themselves

I was thinking the other day about how much different the world is today because of the United States of America.

When England surrendered to George Washington, they marched to the surrender playing a tune called, “The World Turned Upside Down.”

The United States really did turn the world upside down.

The entire written history of mankind, prior to the Revolutionary War, was all about the Middle East and Europe.

Within a couple of decades after the Revolutionary War, hugely significant world events highlighted the United States.

Even in things that played out on the other side of the Atlantic, the United States became a key figure in the historical record:

• World War I
• World War II

Russia launched the first man into space in April of 1961

September of 1962 President Kennedy boldly, almost brazenly said, “We choose to go to the moon.”

And we took the historical record of not only being the first, but the only country to do that.

We changed the world.

The victory of the American Revolution came at the cost of the American Indians.

America could not become the superpower that we did without taking the land that the American Indians had occupied for who knows how long.

But that’s not anything different than what had always happened on the other side of the Ocean. European and Middle Eastern countries had always fought one another, trying to dominate over the others. They only reason they had not been successful in obliterating other nations was the balance of power.

Something different happened here.

Originally there were enough Indians to keep a balance of power with the white immigrants.

But then came disease.

Chickenpox, smallpox, measles – illness virtually wiped out whole tribes.[1]

It was natural selection – the survival of the fittest – a concept of the theory of evolution, that defeated the American Indians.

Which is really ironic.

The people who are most angry that white people took this land from the Indians are the ones who most strongly push the concept that led to it.

The evolutionists are the ones complaining about what evolution did!

Marvin McKenzie
In the fields

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[1]These same illnesses, had struck the Middle East and Europe too. Millions of them died at that time. The black plague helped Europe to defeat the Roman Empire. What happened here was not isolated to here.

The Scopes Trial of this Century?

Last night's debate between Bill Nye "The Science Guy" and Creationist, Ken Ham was slated by some to be the equivalent of a "Scopes 2". I rescheduled my day so I would be free to give it my full attention. Having the liberty of watching via the internet rather than being there, I was also free to keep up with the chatter on Twitter as the debate progressed.

My early impressions began days previous to the event as I follow Ken Ham's Answers In Genesis website on my Facebook Feed. It seemed obvious that this event, as much as anything, has been a huge publicity tool for Ken Ham's Creation Museum; the site where the debate was held. Ham encouraged watchers to visit the museum several times over the span of the debate and referenced items in the museum or staff scientists of the museum repeatedly. This has to have been a shot in the museum's arm. I also noticed early on that the major media outlets acknowledged the upcoming event but, to my knowledge, never acknowledged Ken Ham. I saw interviews of Nye, but none of Ham. It was as if they regarded him as nobody, an unknown. That is certainly not the case. If Ham seemed to have over published the event on his internet outlets, it is in no small way reconciled by the fact that he was under published by the mainstream new sources. 

Introductions were made by an excellent moderator for the event. It appeared to me the men were academically equal. Though their courses of study as well as life experiences are different, neither one outclassed the other. Nye is better known in public media but certainly not better known than Ham in the world of Christianity. I doubt many are better known than Ham as a spokesman for Creation Science.

I heard nothing surprising from either side in the debate. Ham won the coin toss and gave his opening statement and his presentation first. I found it interesting that he used video clips of creation scientists in his presentation. No small portion of his thirty minutes was taken up, not by his own voice but theirs. It was gratifying to see and hear him present a clear case for the gospel in his presentation.

Nye sounded exactly like I would have expected. He is not considered to be a scientist even though he calls himself a science guy. Many evolutionary scientists have expressed that Nye was the right guy for this debate because, in their minds, this was not a debate about science but an entertainment event. I see that as their way to excuse the whole event if Nye had made too big a mess of it. Nye did not. He did exactly what he is capable if doing; rote recitation of the evolutionary platform. 

·        He demonstrated no capability for critical thinking

·        He betrayed his gross ignorance of even the most basic Christian concepts 

·        He offered no understanding of the objections to evolutionary theory

Nye did what every ape of evolutionary theory always does; he hurriedly admitted evolution is a theory but behaved throughout his presentation as if it is fact. The jab he repeatedly poked was that this was "Ken Ham's Creation Theory" and implied he had few followers, even among Christians. 

Besides the very clear presentation of the gospel (and a number of subsequent references to it) my favorite line in the debate seemed very impromptu. The question to Nye was, "Where did the matter that resulted in the Big Bang come from?" Nye's answer was "I don't know" to which Ham replied, "There is a book..." 

There is a book that answers the most fundamental of our questions and, when embraced, liberates us to real discovery of those secrets God has hidden for our pleasure to search out.

Marvin McKenzie

In the field