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JOB

JOB

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Joe Gibbs in Game Plan for Life agrees. He notes:

Like most other kids, even in the Bible Belt, I was taught at school that I was the result of an accidental fusion of amoebas in some primordial ooze two billion years ago. Come on now. I remember sitting there thinking, I’m not real sharp, but that doesn’t sound right to me . Call me unscientific, but the whole idea that this world and everything in it is the result of random chance strikes me as nonsense. Think about it: Does any other complex thing in this life ever happen by accident? 11

THE ADAGE IS TRUE: Atheistic evolution finds the origin of everything in nothing Evolutionists think nothing times nobody equals everything. Thus it ends up in the great Unknown. This, of course, is an attempt to do the impossible: draw unlimited resources from a non-existent bank by a blank check with an anonymous signature. Mark Twain noted: There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjectures out of such a trifling investment of facts. 12 The simple truth is that neither the evolutionist nor the creationist can ever prove what he believes scientifically. Reason being: our inability to experimentally “observe” how the universe came into existence. Origins, simply put, are beyond the reach of science to test. Dr. Harry Rimmer in A Scientific View of the Virgin Birth notes: There is only one way a Scientist can arrive at an opinion on any matter under consideration, and that is by a careful, painstaking, and impartial analysis of whatever evidence may be available. No evidence may be disregarded, none may be slighted, and all must be tested by KNOWN AND ACCEPTED STANDARDS. The opinions of others must not sway the investigator, but he must proceed just on the evidence at hand. 13 Although there are a great many theories as to how the universe began, all of them can fit into one of two categories: 1. creation 2. speculation Speculation is very unscientific, for the first law of science is the ability to “observe” the facts firsthand. Seeing both evolutionism and creationism are theories (no one was there to observe the facts), then both require faith. J. Vernon McGee in Thru the Bible Commentary: The Law (Genesis 1-15) notes:

My attempt to demonstrate evolution by experiment carried on for more than forty years, have completely failed... At least I should hardly be accused of having started from a preconceived antievoluntary standpoint...It may be firmly maintained that it is not even possible to make a caricature out of paleobiological facts. The fossil material is now so complete that it has been possible to construct new classes, and the lack of transitional series cannot be explained as due to the scarcity of material. Deficiencies are real. They will never be filled...The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief. 14

Dr. Jobe Martin in The Evolution of a Creationist agrees. He notes:

Belief in a mega-explosion that ultimately results in order and regularity and predictability and beauty and music and emotions (such as love) appears to me to demand a huge volume of faith. 15

Simply put, to be an evolutionist you have to have lots and lots of faith -the faith that you will eventually find a materialistic theory to explain the origin of life. Question is, “Where are you (the reader) going to place your faith? Are you going to place it in creation or speculation ? (See - Religious Note after Daniel 8:27) 26:13 This word ( garnished ) means “ thought it good to show .” God “thought it good to show” the original revelation of God by these signs written in the heavens to earth’s inhabitants. 26:14 Job declared that the greatness of God’s creation revealed only a small portion of His power (Eccl 3:11).

1 Ross, Hugh. The Creator and the Cosmos , Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress. 2001. Print. 2 Darwin, Francis. The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin . New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company. 1898. Print 3 Rimmer, Harry. The Theory of Evolution and the Facts of Science , Grand Rapids, MI, WM. B. Eerdmans Pub. 1935. Print. 4 Denton, Michael. Evolution: A Theory In Crisis , Bethesda, Maryland, Adler & Adler, 1986. Print. 5 Watson, Lyall. “ The Water People. ” Science Digest. May 1982: 44. Print. 6 Gould, Stephen Jay. “ Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?. ” Paleobiology . Vol. 6. 1980. Print. 7 Sir Fred Hoyle, qtd in Carlson, Decker 55 8 Marrs, Texe. Dark Secrets of the New Age , Westchester, ILL, Crossway Books, 1987. Print. 9 Jones, Floyd Nolen. The Chronology of the Old Testament , Green Forest, AR, Master Books, 1993-2004. Print. 10 Johnson, Phillip E. Defeating Darwinism , Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. 1997. Print. 11 Gibbs, Joe. Game Plan for Life , Carol Stream, ILL, Tyndale House Pub., 2009. Print. 12 “Quotation #492, Mark Twain.” quotqationspage.com . May 30, 2009. . 13 Rimmer, Harry. A Scientist’s Viewpoint of the Virgin Birth . Los Angeles, CA: Research Science Bureau Inc. 1925. Print. 14 McGee, J. Vernon. Thru the Bible Commentary: The Law (Genesis 1-15). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson. 1991. Electronic. 15 Martin, Jobe. The Evolution of a Creationist , Rockwall, TX, Biblical Discipleship Pub., 1994. Print.