Fiddling With Creation

July 31, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com

Man’s determination to look for causes, other than the obvious, for the most
burning questions about life is only leading him further up a blind
alley. BY RON FRASER

“K eep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings,

and oppositions of science falsely so called” (1 Timothy 6:20). That was the advice given
by one of the most educated men of the time in Asia Minor to a young student of
metaphysics during the first century A.D.

Sound advice indeed.

That advice applies even more so today in an age when science is being misused to steer
man away from basic cause and effect to false ideas as to the source of life, the reality of
the human mind with its incredible true potential, and the reason why humans behave
the way they do.

During the first half of this year, there has been a plethora of articles in the popular press
on the subject of seeking to explain the human condition through what Jim Manzi, CEO of
Applied Predictive Technologies and a frequent science contributor to National
Review, describes as “this biology-explains-all ideology” (National Review, June 2, 2008).

The fusion of the Darwinian theory of evolution with the political and economic theory of
Karl Marx, in tandem with outgrowths of the Freudian theory of human psychology
together with the 21st-century science of genetics, is drawing humankind along a highly
dangerous path. It is a path leading to the total breakdown of all that was once
foundational to our understanding of basic human behavior and the fundamental moral
principles that are necessary to maintain an orderly and decent society.

The result is a sea change in the approach of science to the study of human behavior, of
why we are the way we are.

For generations it has been considered a given in scientific circles that human beings turn
out the way they do as a result of a combination of heredity and environment. It seemed
innate to our understanding of human behavior that environmental factors such as
prevailing societal culture, family circumstances, nutrition, education, training and
development opportunities mold a person into the type of character and personality that
makes them who they are. Now we are increasingly being told that it’s genes that are the
dominant influence on why we become what we are. Everything from happiness to
homosexuality is being attributed to an individual’s dominant genes.

Science is increasingly at odds with millennia of human experience in this respect.

As Jim Manzi observes, life scientists’ conviction that we can explain human behavior by
increasing our understanding of the human genome is producing a media-driven, even
government-sanctioned, mindset that reduces mind-body interactions to scientifically
explained physical phenomena.

Failure of Science

It’s an old failure of science that too often it observes correlations between various
phenomena to draw a conclusion, to explain the effect, rather than seeking to isolate and
prove the cause. This avoidance of studying and proving the true and ultimate cause is
the foundation of shifting sand upon which the science of genetics is shakily founded.

Evolutionary science, the science of the psychologist, and the science of the biologist all
draw conclusions based on observation. They cannot work beyond the observable,
physical realm. They all have to start with something that is observably extant, yet they
refuse to seek out the cause of how that something came into being. They are hence
reduced to wild guesswork and pure fiction when attempting to explain the ultimate
cause of all things. They refuse to admit to any provable cause that cannot be perceived
by the senses. They therefore rule out from contention in their studies the most basic
cause of all … GOD!

When the Apostle Paul gave that sage advice to the young evangelist Timothy, it was
based on his deep knowledge of the chief cause of all that is observable and all that is
not. The great awe which that knowledge embedded deep in his psyche inspired Paul to
live one of the greatest of lives of self-sacrifice to the benefit of his fellow man. It is
reflected in his words, “Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God,
be honor and glory forever and ever” (1 Timothy 1:17).

Paul was very much aware that those who sought to discount the Creator from their
studies had taken a conscious decision to ignore the greatest reality underpinning true
science, that “the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen,
being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so
that they are without excuse” (Romans 1:20). That was the basis of the science that gave
depth of understanding to four young Israelite princes brought before the king of ancient
Babylon in the seventh century B.C. to teach Nebuchadnezzar’s court the basics of true
knowledge for which ancient Israel was world famous (Daniel 1:3-4).

The beginning point of true science is to recognize, “For by him were all things created,
that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible … all things were created by
him, and for him” (Colossians 1:16).
The problem is that by recognizing a supreme Creator, it naturally follows that man is
subject to the authority of a higher power than himself. This raises a conflict for those
who wish to follow their own will rather than that of their Maker.

You see, it takes an act of faith to believe in and to believe God, the type of faith that was
exercised by Moses, that historic figure of the 15th centuryB.C., who “by faith … forsook
Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who
is invisible” (Hebrews 11:27).

It is faith in God that, since the 17th century, has motivated the most heroic of feats
emanating from our Western society which today allows science the freedom to practice,
unrestricted by tyrannical regimes. Conversely, absence of such faith, to the point of
sheer denial of the Creator’s existence, has perpetrated the greatest of tyrannies in our
time. It was under Nazi tyranny that the pseudo-science of eugenics, precursor to today’s
studies of the human genome, was developed and practiced on enslaved peoples! These
facts alone ought to silence the peddlers of “science” falsely so-called.

Moral Corruption

The shame of the geneticist’s attempt to explain away human behaviors by attributing
every action and thought to our genetic makeup is that it removes the responsibility of
the individual for his or her actions from the scene. Taken to its ultimate limit, this would
do away with any concept of right and wrong, any need to penalize criminal behavior.
How could any judge argue that a person was fully accountable to society and morally
responsible for his or her actions if those actions were simply dictated by a unique
combination of inherited genes? This insidious theory implies that we have no control
whatsoever over our basic drives. Thus the concept of self-control flies out of the window
and with it goes any notion of personal responsibility for one’s actions.

Already anticipating the impact of such a theory on traditional moral codes of human
behavior, both Time magazine and the New York Times have run articles this year on how
morality evolves in parallel with human “advancement” in knowledge. This is based on
outright denial of any higher moral authority! It’s even beyond the moral relativity that
generated the breakdown of social standards in the ’60s and ’70s. It ultimately does away
with any foundation for moral standards. That’s the route to the total breakdown of
society!

Such a crazy notion produces the present ridiculous scenario where the killing of animals
is seen as “murder,” on the same level as the killing of human beings. It permits aberrant
and perverse behavior to be regarded as normal to the extent that cohabitation and the
social benefits that prevail in marriage—which by derivation and definition can only really
exist between man and woman—can be transferred to two people of the same sex.

This “advancement” in knowledge of science, falsely so-called, teaching that morality is

part of the evolutionary process, is designed to do away with the classic definitions of
modes of behavior. How can violent or perverted behavior be classified as such if that
behavior is considered part of an individual’s genetic makeup? That which once was
classified criminal is neutered by the natural genetic makeup of man.
Perhaps nowhere is this effect more apparent than in the fields of arts and fashion, where
the mood, emotions, morality and inclinations of society are expressed by a limited
number of individuals who influence the taste of the masses. Extremes in the art world
have been a common theme as moral standards have devolved. Yet the recent publicity
given to an alleged art project by a female Yale student crossed all bounds of human
decency, morality and feeling for her fellow human beings: “When an exhibition of art
projects by Yale University seniors opened on Tuesday, one was missing: that of Aliza
Shvarts, whose performance-art project reportedly involved artificially inseminating
herself repeatedly and then self-aborting” (New York Times, April 25, 2008).

Shvarts later indicated that the project was a fiction. Then she later denied her denial.
But the point is that a student has had her mind so warped through the “evolution of
morality” that she did not even consider the pain that publicity given to her project, be it
real or fiction, would bring to the many mothers who had suffered miscarriages in the
genuine attempt to produce a human life. The concept of the very sanctity of human life
is thus completely trashed.

Yet Shvarts treads the tradition of an increasingly developing descent in morality within
academia. “Lee M. Silver, a professor of molecular biology and public affairs at Princeton
University, recalled an undergraduate student in evolutionary biology who after hearing
lectures about the closeness of the species, proposed that she inseminate herself with
sperm from a chimpanzee” (ibid.). Recently, science has gone beyond perverted art
projects to successfully lobby government in Britain to legislate the confusion of mixing
animal and human genes in the interests of “advancing” the progress of medicine.

Spiritual Blindness

The missing dimension to which science is blinded is the invisible dimension of

the spirit realm. Knowledge of the spirit realm—the third dimension beyond the physical
and intellectual—is only available by revelation from the Creator of man. It cannot be
deduced by scientific method, for “the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit
of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned”(1 Corinthians 2:14).

Thus the knowledge of the true cause of human behavior is denied to these geneticists
who seek to explain mental and social phenomena as having a genetic basis.
The cause is spiritual. It involves a spirit in man (the human intellect) under influence by
other spirit-based forces.

The fact is that far from the society of man evolving to a higher order of life possessing a
capability to ascribe human behaviors to genetic factors, it has actually devolved! Society
both intellectually and morally has tended to always descend from a state of alliance with
its Maker, in general submission to His laws that govern moral behavior, to a state of
degeneration and immorality.

Man was originally in tune with his Maker in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1:27, 31) only
to fall from God’s grace. He was retuned to his Maker after the Flood (Genesis 9:1) only
to fall into the confusion of Babylon within less that two centuries of the waters abating
(Genesis 11:6). Israel, as a nation, came under the law of God when its kings were
righteous, only to fail repeatedly under bad leadership. Throughout history, every empire
of man has ultimately descended into moral corruption and the collapse of the prevailing
society.

That is the very mode the Anglo-Saxon nations are in right now, the most powerful nation
of all being technically broke and deeply in debt to its historic enemies, its society at sea
in an increasing moral vacuum, its government lacking the will to use its power, the whole
nation unable to admit to its own self-induced demise.

Yet still we play God, fiddling with the basic building blocks of creation, unheeding the
whirlwind that is about to engulf and enslave us.

If this article is plain foolishness to you, you simply fall into the category of those whom
the Apostle Paul, one of the most learned men of his age, described as becoming “vain in
their imaginations,” with their “foolish hearts” darkened. If it rings true, then you are
accountable to do something about it.

A great start would be to come to an understanding of just what it is that influences men
to be as they are. Request a copy of The Incredible Human Potential. It explains
the cause of all human behaviors, lifts the blind on the cause of human failure, and shows
the way to incredible human success! •

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