Missing the Point of Genesis 1-2

Aaron Armstrong:

This is the real reason people get in a tizzy about creation vs evolution. 

It’s less to do with the particulars of how the world came into being and more to do with an issue of autonomy. 

If the world came into being through happenstance, and we’re merely the result of the equation of time + matter + chance successfully adding up again and again and again, then we are beholden to no one. 

But if the Bible is true, then Jesus is over us, having made purifications for sins, seated at the right hand of the Most High (Heb. 1:3b). We are not little sovereigns free to run amok. 

We are under authority. That’s why people really reject the creation account, and it’s the point that we so often miss. 

Jesus is the Creator, and His command for all the earth is clear: Yield.

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William Lane Craig in the Washington Post

William Lane Craig:

The American Humanist Association is promoting a new Web site that is designed to furnish children with a naturalistic or atheistic perspective on science, sexuality, and other topics. The stated goal of the Web site is laudatory: “to encourage curiosity, critical thinking, and tolerance among young people, as well as to provide accurate information regarding a wide range of issues related to humanism, science, culture, and history.”

The problem is that those values have no inherent connection with naturalism, which is a philosophical viewpoint that holds that there is nothing beyond the physical contents of the universe. One doesn’t need to be a naturalist in order to endorse curiosity, critical thinking, tolerance, and the pursuit of accurate information on a wide range of topics.

Ironically, the AHA has been remarkably uncritical in thinking about the truth of naturalism and of humanism in particular.

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