One of the most important questions a person has to ask himself, as he comes upon certain ethical dilemmas in his life, is: Why is this wrong, and this right? I imagine that, for very many people in our day and time, they have a troublesome time arriving at an answer. In fact, many of them seem to act upon the principle that nothing is right and nothing is wrong. The only right is what I want to do. “Might makes right,” is the operating principle of many, in an age that is becoming increasingly immoral, or even amoral.
Why is this? Why have people lost their moral base? The answer is simple. Ultimate authority has been rejected, from the top levels of society, down to the bottom. When did this happen? It happened when people decided that the Bible did not contain the answers as to what is right and wrong, and took on Evolution as their theory of world origins. Charles Spurgeon aptly summed up their new religion: “The god of modern thought is a monkey. If those who believed in evolution said their prayers rightly, they would begin with, ‘Our father which art up a tree.’ ” In other words, they measure themselves by themselves, and the only restrictions on their consciences are the ones they set for themselves.
It is very clear to see that Evolution gained acceptance because it gave men a way to avoid the reality of God. If the world came about by accident, through a miraculous explosion of matter that created millions of planets and stars, and life forms complex beyond all imagination (all by accident, of course), then there is no need to fear a supreme authority who will call us to account for our deeds. One is tempted to wonder, when thinking in relation to the “Big Bang,” whether a tornado tearing through a junkyard could create a jumbo jet. I daresay that, if it happened a million times, it would do nothing except create more junk. Explosions destroy, they do not create. A Big Bang would not have created life, nor would anything else, except something that is already living. What was already living was the eternal God.
But this has been rejected. Darwin gave men a way to get away from God, putting a scientific face on naked unbelief. And now our government has accepted Evolution, to the complete exclusion of God. To even say “God” in a government structure is highly dangerous, and even more dangerous to mention the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, unless that holy Name is used as a curse word.
Why do people invent ways to exclude God, and try to convince themselves of the fact of atheism? Obviously, because they do not want to be called into account for their sins. But if there is no God, then there must be no sin. If there is no divine authority, and we all happened by accident, evolving from a series of apes, then how on earth can there be such a thing as right and wrong? If we are all just highly evolved monkeys, then what can we do to another monkey that is sinful? It may be against the dictates of our highly formed ape society, but who are the other apes to tell us what we can and can’t do? Survival of the fittest is the logical conclusion of evolutionary doctrine. Everything is relative, and there are no absolutes. There is no divine punishment of sin, no divine law, and therefore the person can invent his own laws, and might makes right.
I often wonder, Why do the college textbooks I study, that promote evolution, and scorn any idea of Biblical creation, also condemn Hitler, Stalin, or any other monstrous tyrants? Those dictators were simply acting out Darwin’s doctrine. How can an evolutionist/atheist say that racism is wrong? (I do not include in my argument here those who believe in deistic evolution; though I do strongly believe that they err, not knowing the Scriptures or the power of God, and in all likelihood are unbelievers). Is it not logical that some humanoid apes are more highly evolved than others? Then why should not one group, if it can accumulate the power, lord it over another group? Why can they not slaughter them, if they think that other group stands in their path to power? After all, it is only survival of the fittest. If they don’t kill them now, that other tribe of apes may some day gain enough power to kill them. So, we should issue an apology to all the dictators who have received our calumny in time past. They were only fulfilling the will of the Monkey-god.
In short, if Evolution, as propounded by Darwin, and taught in government-funded schools, is true, then there is no clear-cut right and wrong. The only definition of right and wrong is what the powers that be say that it is. It is no wonder that children raised in government schools are filling the prisons at alarming rates, school shootings have become almost epidemic, families are destroyed almost as quickly as they are started, and drug abuse is rampant. After all, mere monkeys act only on instinct—even the more highly evolved monkeys; and if their instinct dictates they gun down a few classmates, so what? It is only survival of the fittest. How could the teacher of evolution in a college classroom protest if a student came in one day with a loaded gun, and put it to his head? “This is murder!” Yes, but what harm is there if one ape kills another ape? The only ones who can say it is wrong are other apes. They may punish him, but that’s all the punishment he’ll get. Good thing that professor taught him that there was no God who created them both in His image, or he may not have been so quick to pull a gun on his professor.
Are there any conclusions to be drawn from this for us? I say yes. Cling more strongly than ever to Biblical accounts of creation. I don’t encourage you to become a scientist (I don’t discourage you from that either), but get a good Creation science book, and find out how some of the best scientists of our day are proving the Genesis account of world origins. And for parents, and those of us who hope to be parents, my strongest message is, GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS! The solution is not to be found in getting Intelligent Design taught in the classroom. Such a Pyrrhic victory would not begin to countervail the damage done in sex education, or the damage done by the evolution that no doubt would still be taught, in most cases, as the more accurate science. If you want your children to fear God, and keep His commandments, give them an education that teaches them to do so. Don’t let Big Brother indoctrinate them with atheistic evolution, so that they will grow up thinking that whatever they want to do is right… or, equally as bad, thinking that the only arbiter of right and wrong is Government. I greatly fear that, unless parents wake up to the real dangers that arise from the teaching of atheistic evolution in government schools, we will join the ranks of those so frightfully condemned in Psalm 9:17: “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
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