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Living in an era when literally dozens and dozens of television channels are at the whim of my choice and the thrust of my thumb on the selector, I stumbled across two programs promoting ideas on the origin of the universe.
One was on a Christian broadcast and was making a divine appeal about the creation of the universe by God. The other, more secular, was called Cosmos, and was explaining the Big Bang theory, with very expensive graphics and computer-generated images.
They shared only one thing in common: they both ignored each other.
I thought how foolish it was for us to choose sides when it comes to discussing the origin of our species. Here’s what I think:
The universe is a sandwich: you have bread, meat and if you’re smart, a really nice condiment, like mustard.
- I happen to believe that God is the bread of life.
- Science is the meat, providing the protein for our meal.
- And nature is the mustard, tying the two together and granting us flavor.
All you have to do to understand evolution, and even consider something like the survival of the fittest, is allow for the concept that there was an “Our Father who art in heaven,” who provided the “ready, set, go.” Feeling the need to eliminate “Dad” baffles me.
By the same token, believing that the earth was created in six actual days so that you can tout how powerful your Divine Being truly is, is equally as obtuse when there is ample evidence not more than seven miles down the road from me that the rock formations have been around for more than seven thousand years.
Stubbornness is the best way to remain ignorant. Whether you’re a preacher displaying that nasty vice or a scientist with a multitude of degrees, “stupid” is still pretty ugly.
I believe that God is alive and created everything.
I also believe that evolution was His choice in doing so.
I also contend that the process seems to have actual, factual basis — up until you arrive at the time of the creation of human being.
Why is it so difficult to think that a creative God could use science until He wanted to create personal caretakers in His image — a little less than the angels and a little smarter than the monkeys?
So here’s what I hold out as reality to you this morning:
A. I want a Creator
B. I need science
C. I will listen to nature.
To me, this three-step process permeates every piece of truthful knowledge that’s ever been propagated in the human race.
Without a Creator, we’re stuck with science and nature–educated but lost.
Without science, we have a Creator and nature, and we become smug in our lack of information.
And without a Creator and science, we worship nature and become overly superstitious.
So when the logos, which is the word of God, meets up with the cosmos, which is science, you have our atmosphere–which is nature.
The universe is a sandwich–bread, meat and mustard.
And you and I, just like at Subway, get to decide for ourselves what other fixins’ we want to put on it.
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