Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
A fish has made a "big splash" in the news [when this message was written in 1998]. It's 4 feet long, weighs 64 pounds, and doesn't belong in our modern world say the scientists. Well-preserved fossils show that this identical fish lived at the same time as the dinosaurs, the same fish that has been caught off the coast in Indonesia. And scientists have told us that was 60 million years ago.
But here he is, coelacanth (SEE-le-kanth), found in deep water in our modern ocean, unchanged by these supposed 60 million years during which evolution was supposed to have occurred. By now, that's long enough for this "animal" to be looking like a humanoid! But no, here he is looking just like his ancient friends when they frolicked in the waters side by side with the dinosaurs. No progress.
It would probably be easier for Christians to go to prison or even the stake standing for their faith than it is to stand alone in the intellectual trial facing the ridicule of the scientists. The latter tell us that the Genesis story of Creation and the Flood is false, and they quote reams of supposed scientific evidence. You're just naive if you believe the Bible, they say.
It would be absurd for this tiny tidbit of Good News to try to adduce scientific evidence to support belief in the Book of Genesis. But we must face the test of faith, like the apostles having to face ridicule because they believed the Carpenter of Nazareth to be the Son of God. The real issue now underlying all others is not trying to interpret scientific "evidence" this way or that, but appreciating agape--a love that cannot originate on planet earth. Ask any evolutionist where he thinks agapehas come from. (If he is ignorant of its existence, that would indicate the church has not told him the truth about it!)
The Bible idea of agapeis a love that no human could invent or develop through social evolution. It is expressed at the cross of Christ. The evolutionist is silenced by it. Reaching the heart by that simple story can bypass the impact of a library of "scientific" literature.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: September 26, 1998.
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