Murder, violent crime, guns, gangs, rape, abuse ... the list goes on. Our nation is becoming more vicious, violent and vile, with some even young teenagers acting like savage animals at times.

Drug addiction and alcoholism are increasing. Families are disintegrating. Too many people seem to care only about themselves.

Should this surprise us? For the last 60 years, our public education system has taught that humans ARE animals, albeit evolutionarily advanced ones. However, the biblical principle is true: Dont be deceived: God isnt mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap (Galatians 6:7). Weve sowed the wind; now we reap the whirlwind.

The theory of evolution is foundational teaching in most primary and secondary public schools. Textbooks explain the science of evolution and the origin of the species. The alternate idea that God may have created anything is left to the home and the churches.

Intelligent design? Summarily discounted, disregarded and dismissed. Thankfully, some educators supplement their curriculum with additional resources and information which challenges evolutionary theory.

Higher education, the news media, and cultural elites take the theory of evolution for granted; a God-less beginning is assumed a priori. Thats how they teach, write, lead and operate. Only fanatic, Bible-thumping, religious nuts claim to believe that In the beginning, God created ...

We hear and read that it all started with a Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago; that life on Earth began 3.77 billion years ago. Lifeforms have been evolving ever since. Random chance, natural selection, mutations (both good and bad), and eons of time have brought us to today. Humans evolved from lower order ape-like lifeforms to the superstar animal species we are now.

Lets ponder, if evolution were true, what would a few of the ramifications be? What would some of the effects of teaching only evolutionary theory be? Could some of the evil behaviors in our society be linked partially to the fact that our society is awash in teaching evolution in both public schools, higher education and news media?

Lets consider what might logically follow if evolution were true.

If evolution were true, then were an accident.

No more, no less. This earth we live on, everything we see around us, and even our own life is nothing more than a cosmic accident. There was a Big Bang and stuff went everywhere.

But just by happenstance, some stuff went to the exact right place at the exact right time with the exact right temperature and the exact right force and the exact right conditions for life to come into being. How fortuitous.

That first primordial life did a lightning bolt spark it? Volcanic eruption? Meteor strike? Who knows, but over the course of a few billion years, random chance produced mutations, adaptations and more which have resulted in us being here today.

The probability that this couldve all worked out the way it did is so astronomically small as to be non-existent, but scientists claim that given enough time and chances, anything can happen (put enough monkeys behind a typewriter and let them type for a few billion years and eventually one will produce Shakespeares Macbeth).

Scientists say the earth is about 4.54 billion years old, and a whole lot can happen in that amount of time.

Thus, humanity, people you, me, us are accidents and freaks of nature. Does that help your self-esteem and self-worth?

If evolution were true, we have no purpose.

If all life is accidental, if theres no perfect plan, only time and chance, then all life even our own has no purpose.

We arent here for a reason; were here for NO reason. Were here because nature flipped heads one billion times in a row. And then on the billionth plus one flip, the coin stood on edge.

Where are we evolving to and why? Who knows? Nature certainly doesnt. Scientists teach that evolution is unguided. Theres no unseen hand leading anything. When they say random, they mean random.

So, we await the next mutation, the next adaptation, and the next freak genetic accident. Were adrift in an evolutionary tide, except theres no tide.

Can you see how these ideas could lead to hopelessness and helplessness?

Continuing next month, well see that this thinking might cause folks to believe that life has no value, all life (whether animal or human) is the same, all events are random, death is the end, live for today, survival of the fittest, its all about me, all laws come from man, might makes right, theres no right and wrong only behavior, and were alone.

Or, we can listen to Jesus who said, Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me (John 14:1).

Gregg Nydegger is the evangelist at Christs Church at Monticello.

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