Allowing secular theories of origins and of the age of the universe push us back from a straightforward reading of the Bible - especially its own account of the creation and history of the universe and of the origin of man and animals - has destroyed the moral foundation upon which this nation was built. Generations of people have been taught as fact that the earth exploded into being out of nothing, that man is the accidental by-product over billions of years of impersonal physical laws and chemical process that have no purpose or design, and that human history is utterly meaningless and destined to ultimately die a massive heat-death described by Bertrand Russell in these words:

That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins—all these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair can the soul’s habitation be safely built.

Enter into this mix the Christian committed to the Word of God who says, “Man could not have evolved, he’s only been here for 6000 years! God’s Word says....” To which the world of unbelief that has captured the educational institutions, the media outlets, and the reigns of power simply replies by pating our heads and telling us how scientifically illiterate and foolish we are.

Instead of standing our ground upon the firm foundation of the infallible truth of God’s revealed Word and fighting this, the majority of Christians have chosen instead to either compromise their views of the history of the universe and the origin of man in order to gain the approbation and respect of the world, or they have chosen to retreat into a Christian ghetto and subculture.

The moral anchor the Word of God once gave this culture has been drawn up, cut, and thrown overboard because the trustworthiness of that Word has been severely undercut by the worldview of philosophical naturalism which demands an explanation for the rise of the universe, the earth, life, and mankind without God. And they know that the chronology given in the Bible makes such an explanation impossible. Time is magical. If you hold up and earthworm and say, “tomorrow, this will be a human being capable of writing a novel,” you’ll be laughed to scorn. If you hold up an earthworm and say, “In 350 million years, this will be a human being capable of writing a novel” you’ll be handed a department chair in the biology department of an ivy-league school. Because the church has made a catastrophic error with regard to geology by bowing to and accepting the speculation of millions of years, we have undercut the very foundation upon which the rest of the Bible rests thereby undermining everything else it says. The church has effectively sawn off the tree branch it was sitting on.

We should be thankful that in recent times, God has raised up various Creation science ministries where faithful and dedicated biologists, astro-physicists, astronomers, and Bible scholars have worked long and hard to answer to challenges of philosophical naturalism that handed the church millions of years of the last 2 centuries.

What is remarkable, is that the Word of God foretold this day - when earth’s obvious history would be denied by scoffers. And let us close with that great passage from:

2 Peter 3:1-7 Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder), [2] that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior, [3] knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, [4] and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. [uniformitarianism - a denial of catastrophism]" [5] For this they willfully forget: 1] that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, [6] by which 2] the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. [7] But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

⇒ God, through Peter, warned all future believers of the importance of the foundational history of Genesis 1-11. Why would this be the place of so much attack?

1. Because if man can deny his creation by God, he can free himself of obligation to his Creator.

2. Because if man can deny the global flood, he can quiet his conscience and continue unfettered in his pursuit of his lusts and sins.