Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution (24 page)

After breakfast we drove with two other Christians for about an hour until we arrived at a beautiful lake. It was so picturesque that I remember thinking there couldn’t be an atheist in the area. I can understand how an atheist could believe what he believes in a rat-infested, crime-ridden, overcrowded, smog-drenched city. But not this place. It had snow-capped mountains, green pastures with tiny vibrant-colored yellow flowers that looked so beautiful it was breathtaking. The lake was a mirror, reflecting the deep blue color of a cloudless sky. We could see bald eagles flying majestically to massive trees, perching and surveying that lake like a king looks over his kingdom. It was an incredible painting and only a fool would dare say that it was painted by nothing.

As the men unhooked the boat I walked across to a man who was standing alone about fifty feet from us and handed him a trillion-dollar-bill gospel tract.
¹
He laughed, and as I was about to walk away I said, “It’s a gospel tract. What your name?” He said it was Milton. I asked “Milton, what do you think happens after somebody dies? Do you think that there is a Heaven?” He said, “I hope so.” I said, “Are you good enough to go there?” he said, “Not if God is going to judge me by the Ten Commandments.” I was amazed at his answer. He had obviously been thinking about the issue, so we went through some of the Commandments. He was right. Milton would end up in Hell if God gave him justice. I shared the good news of the Gospel with him, told him that he needed to repent and trust the Savior. We then prayed together and hugged, and when I left he had tears in his eyes.
²

The next day, I was I was about to speak at an important combined church meeting in Klamath Falls, Oregon, when someone said that an atheist had come in and was sitting in the front row, just in front of the pulpit. I say that it was an “important” meeting because it’s not often that local churches come together in unity, so we were hoping everything would run smoothly.

I learned he was a university student and that he had recently stood up during a previous church service, disrupted it, and had to be escorted from the church. Apparently he had done it to win a six-pack of beer. The prize was offered by a group of atheists for anyone who would interrupt a church service. I went out to the auditorium, welcomed him, and found out that his name was Abel. I then sat on the platform with the pastor and discreetly eyed Abel as the congregation sang. I couldn’t help but wonder what he would say when he interrupted me. I thought that if the atmosphere became tense, as it often does in such circumstances, I could say that his name was Abel, and that when atheists ask me where Cain got his wife I say, “I would tell you if I was Abel.”

During the meet-and-greet time I decided offered Abel my bottle of water as a small gesture of love for him. He said that he had his own water and that I would probably need mine during the service (probably because my mouth would go dry when he began yelling at me).

It was then that I noticed a small green book in his hand. It was a Gideon New Testament. When he said, “I’m a big fan of ‘The Way of the Master’ [television program],” I asked, “Are you a Christian?” He said, “Yes. I became one this morning.”

Needless to say there was no interruption, and after the service we both had a great time of fellowship together. How cool.

That afternoon my flight was delayed and I missed my connecting flight from Portland back to Los Angeles. The wonderful thing about being a Christian is that God promises to work everything that happens to us, no matter how bad, for our good (see Romans 8:28). The only way I could get home was to fly farther north to Seattle then back down to L.A. I concluded that perhaps God wanted me to talk to someone on the plane. I found myself sitting next to a 6′5″, thirty-one-year-old bartender from Alaska who was reading a novel about vampires. Nick and I talked about Alaska for a while, then I said, “Nick, I have a question for you. What do you think happens when someone dies? Is there an afterlife? He thought that there was, but nothing like Heaven and Hell. I said, “If there was a Heaven, do you think that you are good enough to go there? Are you a good person?” He said that he was, but after going through the Commandments he realized that he wasn’t. He was a self-admitted liar, a thief, a blasphemer, an idolater, and an adulterer at heart. He was extremely receptive to the good news of the Gospel and even said, “God bless you” as he left the plane.”

When I finally arrived home Sue told me that I missed an earthquake. She was sure pleased to see me. She was upstairs
when it shook the house, and it was pretty scary. The next morning she told me that the quake was big enough to shake a basket of ornaments off our TV. Fortunately, they didn’t break. I pointed to the straps on the sides of the set that I had wisely connected to the wall to make it stable. And it was stable. A woman needs a man to protect her. I rocked the TV to show her how it would have reacted during the quake. The ornaments fell off and broke.

Thank you for taking the time to read this book. May I end with a thought-provoking comment written by a reader of my blog.
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Around 2004, I was with our film crew in Las Vegas. We were interviewing people for our television program outside the famed Bellagio Hotel. One of the reasons it’s famous is because it has a magnificent computerized fountain that plays music as water bursts into the sky with each crescendo.

During that time they played some music that almost brought me to tears. I never knew what that song was called, and for years I have longed to hear it again. But recently, to my great joy, I heard it. As I listened to its incredible melody, tears streamed down my face. One of the reasons for the tears was its title. It is called “Time to Say Goodbye.” I have often watched people say goodbye to their loved ones at airports and my heart breaks for them, because one day there will be a last goodbye. All of us will say goodbye to everything we love and hold dear to us.

The Christian carries around a deep and heavy sorrow. He is like a man who sees villagers happily living beneath a great dam. He has seen cracks in the dam and he knows that they will soon die if they don’t move from where they are living. But the villagers refuse to believe his warning, and even mock his every word. His sorrow is that their deaths will be totally needless.

When I say goodbye to my loved ones for the last time, I will know that I will see them again at the resurrection of the just and the unjust. If you want that incredible consolation, stop doubting and take a long and honest look at the Ten Commandments. They are going to justly damn you forever. Then take a long look at the Savior on the Cross. That’s what can save you completely. Then move out of the sinful village of this world, through repentance and faith in Jesus. When your sins are forgiven, instead of having God
against
you, “God will be with you”:
Origin of the word Goodbye:
1565-75; contr. of “God be with ye.”

P
REFACE

1.
http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/

C
HAPTER
O
NE

1.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/turok07/turok07_index.html

2.
http://understandingevolution.com/evolibrary/misconceptions_ faq.php#a1

3.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/did-dinosaurs-turn-into-birds

4.
Ibid

5.
http://understandingevolution.com/evolibrary/home.php

6.
Ibid

7.
http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/

8.
http://www.karger.com/gazette/64/fernald/index.htm

9.
Ibid

10.
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/lgd/index.html

11.
George Wald,
Scientific American
(1954),
http://www.yukoncofc.org/creationvsevolution.pdf

12.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/feb/09/darwin.dawkins1

13.
Ibid

14.
Richard Dawkins,
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
(New York: Basic Books, 1995), 78.

15.
Richard Dawkins,
A Devil’s Chaplain
(New York: First Mariner Books, 2004), 212. Italics added.

16.
http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/

17.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/01/13/eyes-have-it

18.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2009/01/13/eyes-have-it#fnList_1_2

19.
Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush, “Which Came First, the Feather or the Bird?”
Scientific American
, March 2003

C
HAPTER
T
WO

1.
http://raycomfortfood.blogspot.com/

2.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-dawkins/why-there-almost-certainl_b_32164.html

3.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/

4.
VIDEO CLIP (see
www.PullThePlugOnAtheism.com/
):

5.
http://discovermagazine.com/2002/apr/cover

6.
R.C Sproul,
The Holiness of God
(Carol Stream: Tyndale House, 2000), 10-11.

C
HAPTER
T
HREE

1.
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99834.htm

2.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/origins/knoll.html

3.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979365-2,00.html

4.
Richard Dawkins (italics added). “Expelled.”

5.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12506-did-life-begin-oncomets.html

6.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979365-3,00.html