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Before we proceed further, it is important to understand what kind of evidence will be presented below. There are two important points in this regard. First, the Holy Bible, God’s Word, proves these theories wrong. This also applies to all manner of Framework Hypotheses and long-day creation theories. God said it. That settles it. And also, rightly evaluated, the observable creation shows God’s power and divinity. “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse” (Romans 1:19–20). To state the truth again: the Holy Bible infallibly proves that evolution, the Big Bang theory, all Framework Hypotheses, long-day creation, and similar ideas are lies and foolishness. Case closed. Period.
Most people are in rebellion against God and the Lord Jesus Christ as He is revealed to us in the Gospels. If you are in this category, please be advised that you are merely one heartbeat, one breath away from the eternal torments of Hell. You should stop reading here and go to Appendix B; the rest of this book will do you no good unless you come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, repent, and believe in Jesus Christ as your own Lord and Savior.
There is indeed a large body of literature that addresses the bad science and presents evidence for why the universe is the designed, manufactured product of a personal God. You may want to start with https://answersingenesis.org/. There is no reason for this small book to attempt to duplicate the many fine efforts of others, so only a bare summary follows, so as to make this book complete.
There are a number of people, many of whom are true believers in Jesus Christ, who have been taken in by the claims of bad scientific theories of origins and various Framework Hypotheses. Such brethren are not necessarily weak Christians, but some are truly holy and godly disciples of our Lord Jesus who have been victims of bad teaching. The evidence presented below is largely directed to that audience.
Adolf Hitler was a talented and skilled propagandist who used the technique of the big lie and is probably most responsible for popularizing that phrase. This technique is frequently summed up (possibly by Joseph Goebbels) as, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”53 The lies of Big-Bang cosmogony and Darwinism are massive and pervasive Big Lies that have duped many. They are presented as settled facts and settled laws of nature on the same level as the law of gravity, Newton’s laws of motion, the fact that white light from the sun is a spectrum of all the colors of a rainbow, or the fact that a liquid will assume the shape of its container. Since this is the situation, charity demands we recognize that not all people who have been duped by this massive satanic lie are themselves liars; they may more or less innocently propagate what they genuinely believe. But belief in this Big Lie can cause great mental confusion for those who otherwise take the Holy Scriptures seriously, seeking to accurately determine authorial intent according to the genre of the passage. If you are in this category, the rest of this book is definitely for you. May God bless you and grant you clarity of mind by the working of the Holy Spirit.
The material presented below is not as an alibi that proves the impossibility of an accusation. Rather it is as the kind of evidence a defense attorney might use to induce reasonable and significant doubt in jurors about the prosecution’s case. By this means, the jurors are then free to believe in evidence in favor of the innocence of the accused. The Holy Bible is definitely not guilty of teaching scientific falsehood! This book does not attempt to use detailed scientific arguments because, “Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself” (Proverbs 26:4). At the same time there is value in showing that the claims of science with respect to Darwinism and Big-Bang cosmogony are not true. We will thus “Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes” (Proverbs 26:5), and for the comfort of the brethren in Christ.
53According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#Hitler’s_use_of_the_expression (Accessed March 26, 2020), Hitler did address this propaganda method in his Mein Kampf. According to https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hitler-on-the-big-lie (accessed March 26, 2020), apparently Joseph Goebbels or someone associated with Hitler said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
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