Happy Evolution Sunday! Or Happy Darwin Sunday! Over 1,000 churches around the country are celebrating Darwin today. Organized by a professor from Butler University, Michael Zimmerman, Evolution Sunday is growing every year. This is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth and his Origin of Species was published 150 years ago. Check out the Clergy Letter Project on Google if you want to see who is celebrating and some of the sermons being preached to bridge the gap between the Bible and Darwin.
My question is how many churches dedicate one Sunday a year to Creation? Not just a sermon in praise of the great Creator (that should happen much more than once a year) but a sermon that explains that "In the beginning, in six days, God created the heavens and the earth and all that in them is (Gen 1:1, and Exodus 20:11)" are still the most scientific explanation of where we came from.
I was reading a book called Counterknowledge yesterday. He is blasting Americans for buying and believing things that are demonstrably not true. He attacks the 9/11 conspiracy theorists, the daVinci Code, the Chinese discovered America in 1491, Alternative medicine, the Book of Mormon, Afrocentric history books, and Creation. He views the world through a modernist view that science can determine absolute truth, challenging the post-modern "believe what you want" and the pre-modern "believe what God said."
But what bothers me is that most Christians really can't defend their beliefs intelligently. We are told to be "ready to give a reason for the hope that is within us." But our hope is based on the reliability of God's Word, the omnipotence of the Creator, the fallenness of man, and the redemption of God. If we can't defend God's Word and the Creation, than we have sidelined ourselves in the modern world. And if we can't defend the existence of an absolute truth, we have sidelined ourselves in a postmodern world. Either way, we will not be storming the gates of hell.
This isn't very cohesive, just some frustrated thoughts.
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CreationLetter.com has been encouraging churches to hold a Creation Sunday each year on the same date that atheist Dr Michael Zimmerman urges churches to preach Darwin from our pulpits. We have a lot of ideas for how folks can celebrate a Creation Sunday on our site and we're open to further suggestions. http://kcsg.wordpress.com/how-to-celebrate-a-creation-sunday/
In particular, we'd like to build a database of Creation sermons [such as Zimmerman has on his site albeit to preach evolution!] to give preachers a better idea of what a specifically Biblical Creationist sermon such as the one you mention in this post should look like.
Too many of our clergy, Sunday school teachers and even Christian educators simply don't know the basics of Creation doctrine - or worse they've been taught compromise with evolution and millions of years!
God bless you!
Rev Tony Breeden
http://creationletter.com
PS - If you or a clergyman would like to sign a letter that affirms Biblical authority rather than Zimmerman's letter, we'd welcome your signature!
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