I came across a simple statement the other day.
To believe in evolution is to ignore the fact that evolution cannot be believed.
What does that mean?
Basically, evolutionists claim that everything about us, including our brains, is the product of natural selection over the course of billions of years. In that time, nature selected what was needed and rejected what wasn’t, slowly picking up and putting down various aspects of what would become the “human” person, until here we are today, the “result” of that evolutionary process. The problem with that is it includes the mind, but if our minds are merely (and only) shaped by an evolutionary process, then we have no reason to believe our minds regarding something as abstract and philosophical as “truth.”
Or, to put it another way, the atheist says his brain told him atheism was correct, and he is gullible enough to believe it!
Why should we believe our brains, if they are merely the product of billions of years of an evolutionary process whose sole purpose was just “survival”? A creature in that case could survive with wildly false beliefs, as long as those beliefs lead to useful actions. Therefore, if evolution is true, then the reliability of our minds becomes questionable, including everything our minds tell us about our origins. The “evolved brain” has no need for “truth,” so why trust it about anything?
On the other hand, a belief in God offers a much more stable foundation on which to place our minds. If our minds were designed by a rational Creator, then we have good reason to believe our brains would be interested in “truth.” And since our brains ARE very much interested in truth, that calls into question the whole idea of evolution. Evolution should not select a people curious about philosophical things, meta-physical things, and things related to the “why.” Those things are needless for survival, and thus should have been “selected” by “nature” for removal long ago. Instead, people are curious. We have been curious. We continue to be curious. Evolution is not interested in the “why.” God, however, is, and God created us to be curious, to wonder, to ask questions, and to grow. Evolution can’t be believed because the brains that supposedly resulted from it can’t be trusted.
Belief in God is far more rational, because at least it accounts for a mind that dares to ask, not just “where did I come from” but “why am I here?” And unlike evolution, which cannot supply an answer to that question, God can, and does…
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
(Ephesians 2:10)
~Matthew