Many people believe that the world is governed by chance, not by God, and that morality is man-made, not divine. This ideology did not start today. In the Biblical era, David identified atheists and called them fools. "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" This verse in fact occurs in two passages in the book of Psalms (14:1 and 53:1). A comparative analysis of the foolishness of the Biblical atheists and that of the now atheists has shown that atheistic foolishness has increased alarmingly in this present age.
The Biblical atheists could not voice out that there was no God; they only imagined that in their hearts because they had no scientific evidence, but the atheists of today are now using every available medium to advertise their godless status, backing it up with scientific proofs. Some of them are educated men and women who have acquired scientific knowledge but were blinded by the god of this world. They use scientific theories to back up their proof that there is no God.
While I was at the university, my lecturer in genetics and molecular biology, in one of his lectures, made us understand that the scientific Theory of Evolution is not in harmony with the Christian belief that God created man. The evolutionary theory postulates that man evolved from a unicellular organism through a process of natural selection. According to him, "Evolution by natural selection is one of the best substantiated theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including paleontology, geology, genetics, and developmental biology. He was of the opinion that the universe was not created by God and that God was a figment of man's imagination.
I am a Christian and understand evolutionary theories. I have pneumatologically and scientifically discovered certain similarities between the Theory of Evolution and the Theory of Divine Creation. Evolutionary trend shows that life started from water and evolved to the land, and Biblical study shows that moving creatures that had life were first created by God in the water, and then later He created everything that creeps upon the earth. Evolution proves that man evolved from ape, and the Bible says that God formed man from the dust of the earth and breathed upon him, and he became a living soul.
The fossil evidence that proves that man evolved from apes has scientific backing, but we should not forget that God created man from the earth, which may have included preserved remains or traces of dead apes. Therefore, we should not be surprised if fossil evidence links the origin of man to the ape. Evolutionary trend has shown that man was the last organism to evolve, and the Biblical survey also shows that man was the last organism to be created by God. Are these mere coincidences, or is it that there are some things that are beyond scientific comprehension?
The foolishness of men is a result of our inability to understand the ways and the timings of God. "For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night" (Psalm 90:4). For lack of knowledge, many have become foolish in this present time and have opened their mouths to say that God is not the creator of the universe. They back up their argument with the Theory of Origin of Life by Charles Darwin and the Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Character by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 - 1829) propounded the first theory of evolution, and in 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace published a new evolutionary theory, explained in detail in Darwin's Origin of Species. This theory led to the conceptualization of the tree of life by Darwin. The scientific work of these men as fathers of evolution can not be neglected by scientific minds, but the fact remains that these men did not understand that a billion years in the sight of man was like a day in the sight of God
In the tree of life of Darwin, man was at the apex, and in God's Creation, man was the highest organism with authority and dominion to control and rule over the earth. It took only six days from the beginning of the world to the creation of man by God using God's calendar, and 4.2 billion years for man to evolve from unicellular organisms using man's calendar. It is now about 315,000 years since the evolution of man in Africa. My million-dollar question to all those who do not believe in the existence of God and use evolutionary theory as evidence: "Why hasn't man evolved into another species since 315,000 years ago?" The answer is found in the Bible: "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work." (Genesis 2:2) The rest of God from all His work put an end to the evolution of any other species, period!
Evolution theory is simply men trying to explain the wondrous creative work of God using scientific permutations. The fathers of evolution have done great works scientifically, but their challenge remained that they were ignorant of how to calculate time using God's calendar. When God was counting in days, scientists and archeologists were counting in billions of years. The discordance between God's days and man's years is responsible for the foolishness of men.
I chose to discuss evolution because it has been the most powerful scientific theory that atheists have used to dispute the existence of God by citing scientific evidence from the fossil record, biogeography, comparative anatomy, comparative embryology, and molecular biology. God is a mystery, and His ways and timings are mysterious; the inability of men to understand that 6 days of God is like 4.2 billion years in the sight of men is responsible for the foolish concept that postulates there is no God.
Foolishness is not a lack of knowledge; rather, it is the act of rejection of the truth of the existence of God. Proverbs 1:7 tells us that "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction." The fool's heart is smeared and blinded to God's wisdom, making him ignorant of his originator and savior. The world around us is so saturated with the fingerprints of God in all His creation, ranging from the complexity of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which is the molecule that carries genetic information for the development and functioning of an organism, to the precision of the planet.
"Ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God." (Romans 1:20 NLT) Atheists and skeptics do not have any reason not to believe in the existence of God. God does not even see them the way we see them. He loves them and wants them to repent of their sins and accept His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, so that they will not perish but have eternal life.
