Response to the Creation versus Evolution Debate on 2/4/14 between Bill Nye and Ken Ham

Who won?  I didn't see it put to a vote. It's probably for the best.  I don't tend to go with the majority, as a rule.  So I will proffer my own little judgement, with a prayer that each person will be persuaded in his own mind as to the truth.

One of the closing questions prompted Bill Nye to say that the meaning of "Survival of the fittest", a key philosophical premise of the theory of evolution, isn't physical strength or even mental strength, but the ability to "fit in".  I assume by "fit in" he means to not stand out, but to conform to ones environment. To me this was the most enlightening moment of the debate. I give Nye high marks for his honesty, though I don't believe it was intentional.

This definition of "survival of the fittest" has far reaching philosophical implications, as does evolution itself.  It may be just the kind of mentality that makes secularists and evolutionists, in general, so characteristically hostile toward creationists---willing to drive creationists out of academia and lump them all in a class opposed to science and academia, as one of the quotes early in the debate showed.  If we don't conform to the secular majority, we're doomed! And sure enough, Mr. Nye kept coming back to dire his message of: "Parents, don't teach your kids creationism or the USA will never have enough scientists and engineers to remain a great nation.  Teach them only evolution.  Teach them to fit in, so we all may survive."  Here is Washington propaganda at its finest!

This notion of fitting in condemns the very independent thinking required of true scientists and engineers. With such a philosophy, naturally Bill Nye's primary concern is for the future economy of the State rather than objective truth. Objective truth is the domain of true scientists, not conformists, men like Copernicus, not Bill Nye. Copernicus was anything but a conformist. Why?  Precisely because he feared God above man.  Today those who believe in God are categorically viewed as scientifically illiterate.  But we are in good company.

This conformism, which Nye's evolutionary world-view stands upon, is one that, not surprisingly, the majority espouses.  It has gained the upper hand, albeit in contradiction with so many emerging proofs and abundant conundrums of its own making. These abound in the fields of astronomy and microbiology, medicine and geology. The flourishing life and vitality of Earth testifies to a planet that is still in the flower of its youth, not billions of years old, especially if that pesky Second Law of Thermodynamics is still in force, as it always has been.

There will always be questions as to the origins.  But let's not brand theories about origins as scientific "fact", as evolution is so mislabeled. Evolution is not fact, it is dogma, dogma argued entirely on incredulity toward the Creator. Teachers and their students are being forced to conform to this dogma, or forced out of the classroom. Nowhere is the conformity enforced more strictly.  And Bill Nye shows us why: It's a matter of nationalistic survival, rather than a quest for truth.  

Bill Nye has (unwittingly) put his finger on the answer to the question: "Is creationism a viable world-view for our times?"  His answer is, of course, "No."  And in one sense, he is right, not because his world-view is true or even demonstrable, but because creationism is a justification for God's sovereignty, while evolution is merely a justification for man's dominion.

Nye is right, but only because his goal is not eternal life, but mere survival. He aims to be in the Majority, not in The Right. Free-thinking people have always been persecuted and ridiculed by the majority, so scientists today who will not conform to the majority view pose a threat. So those who champion it will probably not survive long.  But as long as we proclaim what is true, the world will have no excuse before God on the Day of Judgment.

Power corrupts, so the saying goes.  If knowledge is power, then in many a fallen man, knowledge also corrupts. This is exactly the assertion of Romans chapter 1, where Paul of Tarsus states, "Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man." The secularist has man as his god, man as judge, man as the only creator. To him, everything in the universe, even he himself, is undesigned and uncreated.  Man alone has supreme intelligence, and thus supreme power. Man is answerable only to man.  Christians like Ken Ham realize that what they are up against is a majority who feel cornered by the message of a God who will judge them personally for their unbelief and sins. The only way to escape this fear is to replace it with a new message that man is the ultimate animal, and no more.

These same brilliant scientists, many of them, love to speculate about aliens and far-off civilizations, and star-dust which fell to earth and caused man to become a living being. There were moments when it seemed such stories were just about to fall from Bill Nye's lips.  And he actually did say, "We are the products of this vast universe," as if he truly believes the most intelligent creature was fashioned by the rocks and empty space or by lesser animals climbing and fighting for survival over the aeons.  It's as if he's ready to believe the birds and reptiles and beasts somehow willed to be better, and by their sheer will, became human.  Pure mythology!

"Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the primordial muck: the amoeba, the tiktaalik, the chimpanzee!"  This is the proclamation of Evolution.

Let's be clear then: to say, "I believe God created the world because the Bible says so," is not observable science; it's faith.   What Nye confesses is also a faith:  "I believe the world created itself because the majority says so. Those who will survive in this world are those who will fit in with the majority view."  Most creationists don't want to silence evolutionists, they just want them to teach creationism and let people judge for themselves. 

Indeed, Nye may be spot on! Time will tell.  Survival of the State usually trumps religion, or tries to, especially when a religion teaches the individual as answerable to God.  But if we have come to a day when truth is to be suppressed by man, and mankind handed over to a convenient truth of his own invention, it is certain that the Christian world-view will no longer be tolerated.  We are comforted as we see in this the fulfilment of prophecy, and that these anti-christ worldviews are nothing new, mere chaff which has not withstood the test of time.