Creation According to Plan The natural world around us offers compelling proof that it was made by a Supreme Intelligence with foresight and purposeful intentionality. Will you embrace the purpose intended for you? by Peter Eddington
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any of us are facing serious struggles. We are looking for solutions, for healing, for help. We try to make sense of our world and want to believe there is a Creator behind what exists—a great God who cares about us. But in our troubled world we can so easily lose focus, especially with so many respected academics urging us to reject this view as primitive superstition and false hope. Those who believe in God need at times to look deeper to reaffirm our faith. And those who’ve been convinced out of faith need to see that there are valid reasons to believe— not blindly but based on evidence and sound logic. And the evidence is everywhere. As the Bible tells us, “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 people are without excuse” (Romans 1:20, New International Version). How much more is that true now? More is coming forward every day to show that our universe is not random but was purposefully designed—the product of a Creator who planned ahead before implementing His plan. And His plan includes you. Darwinism collapses as creation evidence builds Probably the most destructive deception of modern times—which our youth in primary schools and up through prestigious universities have been brainwashed into accepting—is that of Darwinian evolution, a theory that’s become a curse on our educational systems and society. But its grip is weakening as its falsehoods are exposed.
We can see a figurative picture of the shift that’s occurring in a recent news story about a famous rock formation in the Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin voyaged and conducted studies of nature prior to developing His evolutionary theory. Discovery Institute reported: “For generations, ‘Darwin’s Arch’ in the Galapagos Islands stood as an unmovable monument to the life and work of Charles Darwin. A few weeks ago, on May 17, the arch collapsed. While the loss of this landmark is sad, it’s also fitting—for Darwinism as a scientific and social theory is collapsing as well. Just look around: “In March, Nobel Prize–winning physicist Brian Josephson declared that ‘intelligent design is valid science.’ In April, researchers writing in the journal Current Biology asked whether Darwin’s ‘tree of life’ [showing supposed evolutionary links] should ‘be abandoned.’ “In May, it was reported that Sheffield University has stopped hiding Darwin’s deadly social views from students. A university handbook now accurately notes that Darwin ‘believed . . . his theory of natural selection justified the view that the white race was superior to others, and used his theory of sexual selection to justify why women were clearly inferior to men’” (June 15, 2021). As Darwinian theory faces decline, the title of a pivotal new book announces, Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In it, bestselling author Stephen C. Meyer, who holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in the history and philosophy of science, lays out powerful scientific evidence for the Creator of the universe and of life. No other theory or hypothesis—even belief in other gods or in religions other than what we find in Scripture—offers B Tm a g a z i n e . o r g
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