Of course you didn’t! Why? Because it’s not flat – it’s round, just like the Bible says, Isaiah 40:22. Still, some people think it’s flat, and they even put their views on public display. In the late 70’s, the Chicago Tribune ran an article by a man named C. K. Johnson, and here’s what he had to say:
“The sun is a kind of spotlight, thirty-two miles across, that moves in a spiral orbit just 3,000 miles above the center of the earth, or what people call the North Pole.”
Johnson, then president of the 1,400 member Flat Earth Research Society, said there are members in “just about every nation on earth.” The person interviewing Johnson asked, “What about all the space exploration, and what about all those pictures that show the earth is a globe?” His answer? “Faked, all faked,” Johnson said. “The moon walk was done in a Hollywood set as part of a gigantic hoax.” Pretty weird, you say? Yes, that’s pretty weird - very weird!
It is hard for me to imagine more than a thousand people really believing such foolishness. Some may just keep the card in their pocket to make jokes about and pass around at parties. Whatever their reason, that’s really “weird.”
How did those who espouse organic Evolution respond to this announcement? It gave them an opening to make themselves just as foolish. They pointed their proverbial fingers at those who believe in the Bible, saying, “Creationists ignore all of the facts and cling to old out-dated superstitions.” In other words, Christians who believe in the Bible are just as irrational, just as illogical as are those who believe the earth is flat.
Are those views worthy of a response? I must first say that the Evolutionist’s opinion is sheer nonsense. There are many people who believe something without any rational reason to do so, but Christians are never encouraged to believe something without sufficient evidence. When Jesus proved His resurrection, He gave evidence for it – He “showed them His hands and His side,” John 20:20, and though we often criticize Thomas as a “doubter”, he just wanted to see the evidence the other men had seen, John 20:22. Jesus did not refuse to do so, but said,
“Reach your finger here, and look at My hands: and reach your hand here, and put it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing,” John 20:27 [NKJV].
Christians have never been encouraged to believe anything without evidence. Rational people reach only those conclusions that are warranted by the facts. See 1 Peter 3:15. Words like “defense” and “reason” clearly seek evidence, not just blind acceptance without evidence. Where is the evidence for Evolution that is anywhere comparable to that which proves the rotundity of the earth? Humans currently are observing proof of the shape of the earth, but where are those who have observed Darwin’s theory of “Natural Selection” or modern day “punctuated equilibrium”?
Modern attempts to prove Evolution usually try to bully everyone into assuming it has already been proved. Note this from “Mr. Evolution”:
“No space is devoted to proofs that Evolution has in fact occurred. Such proofs are not only ample, but also overwhelming. Of course, no amount of proof can convince those who simply don’t want to accept the truth,” George Gaylord Simpson.
That sounds very much like “evidence” given by our “flat-earth” believers. Simpson will not provide any “proofs” – we must simply accept his assertion that such evidence exists.
Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, another ardent advocate of Evolution, states:
“From the mere fact that we are here we are forced to assume that once upon a time at least one case of spontaneous generation took place.”
Forced to assume? Harvard’s George Wald made this interesting statement in favor of spontaneous generation, or life coming from non-life, dead matter, rocks, dirt, etc:
“To make an organism demands the right substance in the right proportions and in the right arrangement. We do not think anything else is needed, but that is problem enough. One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. But, here we are, as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.” (emphasis mine, CBG)
Science and its study is an important part of every child’s learning process. We would be foolish to make light of education, of science, of philosophy or any legitimate academic discipline. Without those minds capable of discovering cures for dreaded disease we would not be all we can be as a nation. But if we deify man’s devices we err grievously. Until all men fear and reverence God, Who created man’s mind, we will be called upon to do as did Paul in Philippians 1:17, to be “set for the defence of the gospel.” Let’s all be prepared to do so
