In an effort to keep my thoughts from drifting into inexpressible emotions, I present this review of the Movie expelled. My thoughts and prayers will drift back to those more personal ones, but they are silent griefs without words for now.
Last night I watched the movie, Expelled. The documentary hosted by Ben Stein. It explores the conflict and one-sided debate surrounding the dogma of the Theory of Evolution versus the theory of Intelligent Design. It is critical of the expulsion of Scientists and Reports that even give mention of the Theory of Intelligent Design. Those few and small who break against the monolith of Darwin’s creation: The origin of Species. Who dare not swallow the pill without first questioning and reviewing the evidence and science of Darwin.
Ben Stein is a Jew. He focused his attention first on the intellectual freedom of science being under attack and then his personal connection to Darwin in investigating the connection that Hitler’s Third Reich, and the Nazi’s had to Darwin’s Theories of Natural Selection and the Origin of Species. He cautiously connected them as Hitler’s fascination with the process of Natural Selection, but his desire to speed up the process to create a more evolved human or a master race. He toured a hospital in The Nazi Empire where undesirables were slaughtered . The place is hollowed ground where thousands of innocents were massacred.
A common thread for all the scientists and advocates that continue to spread the gospel of Darwin is unbelief in any God, whatsoever. And that many of them once had faith in God, but in studying and exploring the theory of Evolution they found the natural process to become their new god.
There was no mention of Genesis chapter one or the bible in any of the discussions. Just the foggy notion that some intelligence was behind the creation of life–and there is the new out for science. Admitting a designer of life, but keeping that designer removed and apart from what was made. The old recycling of the Theist-an absent clockmaker. It will be a slow rising tide, but evidence will eventually lead to Intelligent design just because of the myriads of unanswered questions that continue to go without logical answers or supporting evidence from the Darwinist. Therefore Religion and Science will still be separated and the world will swallow the next lie that does not deny god, but puts god into a little box of being a now absent designer without any regard for the science experiment began in a small petri dish and has now walked away from it and even may have forgotten about it.
In an aside, I still continue in my disciplined study, meditation, and teaching of the bible. I still hold that God–reveal in the Bible–Is the creator of all life and all things. And that I belief in a young earth and that creation was a six day supernatural event, and at the beginning of my academic career studied geology and found the Theory of Catastrophism more in line with the laws of physics than uniformitarianism–particularly the second law of thermodynamics. In fact, this week I have been reading and studying from the Prophet Isaiah. I will share a brief explanation and then shall quote him afterward, these words affirm God as the creator of life and Sovereign of All, even the unbelieving.
God tells the world both a timely message to the Ancients of Judah and to all the world though his prophet. Three basic truths that are still in the headlines more than 2,700 years later.
1) God is the Creator of everything including human life in the womb. (Isaiah 44:24; 45:8, 12)–affirming that human life begins in the womb and each life is a special creation of God. (Isaiah 44:24)
2) God is the only true God there is no other. (Isaiah 45:5)
3) God is the Sovereign of the Universe (Isaiah 45:1-4)
Each of these Truths about God are implied in each verse and throughout the rest of the bible.
The death and decay of the world including America that started with a single taste of the forbidden fruit in paradise will continue as our society blows around in the wind without a solid anchor. Chasing after the pursuit of knowledge but denying wisdom when they see and hear it screaming to them from the complexity of what was suppose to be simple and the simpleness of the answer. In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. God is still supreme, He was able to use a pagan Persian King to rebuild his holy city and temple, who else will God use for His divine and righteous purposes, even the unbelieving and uncooperative? Maybe even an evolutionist.
I am still waiting for the Evolutionist to explain to me the mechanism for the creation of a seed and its ability to grow into a giant redwood tree or a blade of grass. So much time and effort is made in making man into an animal, that half of the life on this planet continues with no “scientific” theory for its origin? What is the origin of species for a tree? Even the smallest child knows that only God can make a tree.
Isaiah 44:24-45:13 (New King James Version)
24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer,
And He who formed you from the womb:
“ I am the LORD, who makes all things,
Who stretches out the heavens all alone,
Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;
25 Who frustrates the signs of the babblers,
And drives diviners mad;
Who turns wise men backward,
And makes their knowledge foolishness;
26 Who confirms the word of His servant,
And performs the counsel of His messengers;
Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’
To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’
And I will raise up her waste places;
27 Who says to the deep, ‘Be dry!
And I will dry up your rivers’;
28 Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd,
And he shall perform all My pleasure,
Saying to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,”
And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.”’
Isaiah 45
1 “Thus says the LORD to His anointed,
To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held—
To subdue nations before him
And loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
2 ‘ I will go before you
And make the crooked places straight;
I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron.
3 I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
That you may know that I, the LORD,
Who call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel.
4 For Jacob My servant’s sake,
And Israel My elect,
I have even called you by your name;
I have named you, though you have not known Me.
5 I am the LORD, and there is no other;
There is no God besides Me.
I will gird you, though you have not known Me,
6 That they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting
That there is none besides Me.
I am the LORD, and there is no other;
7 I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and create calamity;
I, the LORD, do all these things.’
8 “ Rain down, you heavens, from above,
And let the skies pour down righteousness;
Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation,
And let righteousness spring up together.
I, the LORD, have created it.
9 “ Woe to him who strives with his Maker!
Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth!
Shall the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’
Or shall your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?
10 Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What are you begetting?’
Or to the woman, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
11 Thus says the LORD,
The Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
“ Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons;
And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.
12 I have made the earth,
And created man on it.
I—My hands—stretched out the heavens,
And all their host I have commanded.
13 I have raised him up in righteousness,
And I will direct all his ways;
He shall build My city
And let My exiles go free,
Not for price nor reward,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
