Is it just me, or should people be held to certain standards? I try not to impose my standards on people who are clearly not at that position. I don’t sit there and think that the un-Churched should act like perfect Christians, nor do I expect children to have everything figured out. What I do expect is for people to act a certain way when they are given a certain title, or if they’re in a certain position. For example, I expect for people who are given a job, let’s say at Panera Bread (I love that place) making sandwiches, to show up on time, not call in if they don’t need to, make sandwiches to the best of their ability, clean up after themselves, and not spit in the food. These are all given expectations of someone in a position. Then if you elevate that position to management, then they no longer need to make sandwiches, but they do need to make sure the store is run properly and in a neat and orderly manner, and ensure that those below them are taken care of properly and not abuse the powers bestowed upon them.
Well, the same can be said for the military. There are four different tiers of position in the Army. You have your Jr. Enlisted, Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO), Warrant Officers, and Commissioned Officers. Well let’s take the NCOs for example, because I am one. We have what is called the Creed of the Non-Commissioned Officer. In it describes the values and virtues of what an NCO is supposed to look like and act like. So when a Jr. Enlisted reaches this point, they are automatically expected to live according to these set standards. We are expected to learn it, love it, live it, and basically recite it at will. So when someone is given this position, then it’s extremely hard for me to turn my head when someone does not live up to these standards. Now, I above anyone know that people are going to make mistakes. I make my own mistakes, but there’s also I guess a limited threshold of when a person really starts to cross the line. I can’t turn my head anymore. There was an NCO recently who just did not live up to this standard. They were mistreating their Soldiers, and giving everyone around them a rough time, especially if you did not outrank them. Something had to be said, which is getting into another story, but right now I’m going to move on because I know this blog is going to be long.
Now I’m taking this class through Liberty University Online called The History of Life. It’s a great class and I’m learning a LOT. The tests are challenging, but that just drives me to really understand the concepts of what’s being taught during the class. When it comes down to it, the class is comparing Creation to Evolution. It walks you through the different main ideas of each side, and refutes what needs to be refuted. As biased as I’m sure it may be, it does do its job by pointing out things that creation scientists are struggling to explain. The class does have a negative side effect on me though. I’ve been finding myself for the past few weeks getting really mad at evolutionist scientists. Not because I see them as the enemy; to each their own. They are doing their job to get down to how the world has come to be. My main complaint about them is the fact that they’re not paying attention to facts. They’re not admitting when they find evidence that could fit any given theory out there, that it could represent either of those theories. Then, they accuse Christians of using religion as a blinder to reality. They accuse us of being narrow minded, and sticking our heads in the sand. They are adamant about the “fact” that they are right with supporting evolution, and any other “opinion” out there is just preposterous. Let’s take a look at what I’m talking about.
Evolutionists would have you to believe that everyone and everything that has breath (including plants) originated from one puddle of goo that somehow spawned off a living single celled organism, and then evolved into every species of plant, animal, and man on Earth, not only today, but also in the past. This process took over the span of millions upon millions of years. And if you want to go even further back, then the Big Bang (which isn’t as much of a “bang” as they once taught us in school anymore) which is supposed to explain the origins of EVERYTHING, which took place billions of years ago.
Now, it’s not a problem that people have differing viewpoints. It’s when they start ignoring other scientific laws that have been set up and proven while making these other popular theories (evolution and the Big Bang). One of these big laws that they’re ignoring is the First Law of Thermodynamics. It states in essence that matter and energy can be transferred from one form to the other, but it cannot be created nor destroyed. I’m not saying that Creation has all the answers, but it does kind of explain where this matter and energy, of which cannot be created nor destroyed (with our human understanding), came from.
Now let’s assume that you can get past that little bit of scientific law that scientists tend to throw to the wayside, and let’s get down to the root of evolution.
Evolutionists spend a lot of time in the fossil records to illustrate their theory, which wasn’t really even Darwin’s own doing, he just provided the vehicle of Natural Selection. The fossil records are supposed to be evolutionists’ best friend. Through the records, scientists will tell you that evolution is “well documented” and they can show you the processes that life has gone through to modern day understanding. They use the “tree of evolution” to explain that it started at one point, went up the trunk, and extended into the branches and twigs to the leaves which is where we are with all of the different species. Usually this takes place in the form of mutations (which is a bigger hindrance than a help). Creationists on the other hand, use an orchard, rather than a single tree to illustrate the progressions of the species, each species representing its own tree. If the tree dies out, then that species has since gone extinct.
So what are the evolutionists ignoring now? First of all, they’re ignoring that species cannot now or ever give birth to new species. A dog will not give birth to a cat, and no matter how much you want it to, an ape will never give birth to a human. Even if you pray, which would be admitting a deity and you might as well believe in creation. I believe God could make it happen, but that would be going against the laws that He’s already set in place.
Here’s the real kicker as to why I’m so mad at evolutionist scientists. They write biology books, and ruin everyone’s fun in the educational system by insisting the FACT of the “theory of evolution.” They have these trees of evolution in biology text books. But what people fail to realize is that the branches that comes off the main trunk are all dashed lines instead of solid lines of actual fact. The dashed lines are supposed to represent where science gets fuzzy, or “sketchy” as they word it. THEY HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO COME UP WITH A SINGLE MISSING LINK!!!! Not for humans, not for birds, not for whales (no matter how much they try), not for anything. But they'll swear up and down that it's documented. They cannot logically explain the Cambrian Explosion where they suddenly find fossils of many different species, rather than finding a gradual building up of the species. There’s NOTHING!!! Do I need to say this again? NOTHING! But yet we’re supposed to take their word for it that evolution happens on a large scale like they’re trying so hard to convince everyone. Before this class I thought they actually had these “missing links” for other species in place, but no, they don’t. And yet we MUST learn it through 12 years of science classes through the American public education system. God forbid a teacher even mention creation on anything more than a two second introduction. That’s just unethical! People are so ready to incorrectly scream "Separation of Church and State!" (Follow the link for some food for thought.)
Obviously there are more scientific theories out there to explain each side, but when it comes down to it, scientists (not all of them obviously) are FAILING miserably when it comes to presenting the evidence for anything that they find. If there’s a worldview that hasn’t been totally proven, then admit to it and apply your findings to every thought pattern out there until you come up with the most comprehensible explanation of where we came from, and stop belittling people for believing something other than your heresy. I'm sick of listening to people accuse Christians of forcing our beliefs on people, when they're forcing their disbelief on us. I'm sick of being pushed around by "great thinkers," or the "educated elite" who are trying so hard to disprove God just because they don't want to answer for the crappy choices that they've made in life. That's what it all comes down to. (Okay, that might be my own opinion.) People didn't start questioning evolution, they started questioning creation, which can only mean that creation was the reason for life from the very beginning. We didn't wake up one day and realize that we were completely different from our parents because we walk upright while they're still dragging their knuckles. Not only that, but how would that one "mutation" procreate if there was no one else like "him." He couldn't reproduce with another ape, because species don't intermix and populate. It's biologically impossible.
I’m so tired of hearing about how people take school systems to court because a science teacher remotely seems to be questioning evolution. If you think that it’s not happening then please, be my guest and watch the documentary Icons of Evolution (or here) from Cold Water Media. I also challenge you to find Lucy: She's No Lady, from the Answers in Genesis website.
After taking this class I think I’ll scream if someone even mentions the fact that evolutionists are wrongly winning over the public education curriculum. I say people need to take a stand. It’s a bigger issue than people realize. We’re being lied to by the very people who we look to for scientific answers. Is this ethical? I say no! Which is why I dedicate the song “Rise Up,” by Disciple as the theme song for this blog post.
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