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A Biblical argument against human evolution:
1. When God created Adam, he created him in His own image.
2. God’s image is infinite and immutable.
3. Therefore, our original form was infinite and immutable.
With this argument, we can clearly see that we have not evolved. Adam was very
intelligent, for example, he named all the animal types. From Adam as the archtype
of human intelligence, to now, intelligence has remained constant throughout
the course of history. (Or it may be argued that even de-evolution has occured.)
The average Intellegence Quotient is 100. Given a bell curve of I.Q. scores
there are statistical "outliers". Outliers are the extreme values
of a data set. On the uppper end, these outliers have been the geniuses who
have helped changed the course of human history. Some of the people who have
advanced the human race are Socrates,
Galileo, Marie
Curie, and Albert Einstein. The
bell curve has not evolved upwards. It has only been the collective history
of geniuses that have given the appearance that I.Q. has evolved. As Sir Isaac
Newton said, "If I have been able to see further than others, it is
because
I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Because we do not evolve, we need some way to progress our collective civilizations. We do this by building on the shoulders of the men who came before us. Another good way to describe it is the snowball effect: All snowflakes are the same size, but roll them together, and you get a big snowball. This provides an argument for increasing population. For example, discoveries in agricultural rice technology in Asia increased as did population.
By working together, society has been able to advance. Even though there are enormous populations that suffer in harsh environments and have greatly reduced life spans, this is not a result of lower intellegence but rather the misuse of intellegence. Either through corersion or volition, individuals follow leaders who are "puffed up" by their knowlege (1 Cor. 8:1) and act in vain self interest rather than in love for their followers. When a commnity refuses to acknowledge the Creator and instead turns toward created things as the ultimate end, their foolish minds are darkened (Romans 1), resources are wasted, and the members "bite and devor one another" (Gal.5:15).
A few people have explored the bottom of the ocean floor, the tops of the tallest mountains, and sent vessels to Mars and beyond. Yet these capabilities deceive millions who believe humanity is somehow more intellegent than it was 5000 years ago. Intellegence is not the same as knowledge. In this age of the the Information Explosion, there are many learned persons but these are not unique in the course of history. 1 Kings 4:29-34 records:
29 God gave Solomon wisdom and very great insight, and a breadth of understanding as measureless as the sand on the seashore. 30 Solomon's wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the men of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt. 31 He was wiser than any other man, including Ethan the Ezrahite-wiser than Heman, Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations. 32 He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five. 33 He described plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also taught about animals and birds, reptiles and fish. 34 Men of all nations came to listen to Solomon's wisdom, sent by all the kings of the world, who had heard of his wisdom.
The most intellegent course of action is to follow Solomon's maxim which was, “The fear of the lord is the beginning of knowledge" (Proverbs 1:7). God has given us the ability to seek understanding. Solomon's father, King David wrote, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:13,14). God has given us wonderful and creative minds – some are more gifted than others. Today's society is no less able to understand that the stars declare the handiwork of God than the writer of Psalm 19, three thousand years ago.
Jesus said in Matthew 22:37, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." Using intelligence for anything less that pursuing knowledge for the glory of God is fruitless and temporal.
Quick Quiz:
1. How has human intelligence evolved?
a. It hasn’t
b. We gradually get smarter and smarter
c. Very slowly
d. Geniuses
2. Who said, “If I can see further, it is because I stand on the shoulders
of giants”?
a. Socrates
b. Isaac Newton
c. Einstein
d. Galileo
3. Which effect best describes the advancement of human intelligence?
a. The tornado effect
b. The gestalt effect
c. The snowball effect
d. The unnamed effect
4. Which of following DOES NOT help progress civilization’s intelligence?
a. Agricultural rice technology
b. Acknowledging God
c. Fearing God
d. Loving God
Answers: 1d 2b 3c 4a
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.
20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities–his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator–who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, Godhaters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
31 they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
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