Published on July 7, 2024, 1:23 am

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With the rise of modern science, some researchers and academics yield to pride, attributing scientific wonders solely to human intellect while dismissing religious perspectives. Notably, esteemed cosmologist Stephen Hawking expressed an inherent distinction between religion, reliant on authority, and science, stringent on observation and reason. “Science will win because it works,” he once proclaimed.

However, the ironies that echo through the annals of intellectual history are noteworthy. Modern science was founded on principles deeply aligned with a Christian worldview – belief in an eternal, omnipresent Creator endowed with rationality; an understanding that humankind’s cognitive abilities flow from being crafted in this Creator’s image; and recognizing the inevitably flawed nature we carry due to our origins in Adam.

In arrogance akin to that exhibited by King Belshazzar during Babylon’s downfall to the Medes and Persians as recounted in Daniel chapter 5, some of today’s scientists dismiss or actively resist divine influence in their work. Some protect themselves from God like those sheltering within the metaphorical Babylonian walls. Their shield? Biological evolution.

Proud non-Christian scientists revel much like King Belshazzar partaking merrily from goblets seized from Jerusalem’s temple while ancient Babylon teetered on collapse under Medo-Persian pressure. Today’s academics seem intoxicated by scientific discoveries birthed from Christian ideologies while rejecting their spiritual roots.

While prominent advocates of evolution like Richard Dawkins credit Darwinism for fulfilling them intellectually as atheists, numerous inconsistencies persist within evolutionary theories regarding life origins or even simple mechanisms like sexual reproduction. To relate back to our Babylonian parallel, for these academics who’ve erected walls around biological evolution doctrines stands a vast moat indicative of billions of years spanned by cosmic and geological evolutions.

How does one bypass this barrier? By redirecting narratives surrounding billions of years through physical proofs advocating for a relatively younger Earth – data handily reachable via credible sources such as answersingenesis.org or creation.com, for instance.

Simultaneously, an appeal to the Bible’s precise and literal interpretation of Genesis counters arguments for billions of years. The Hebrew word “yom”, as employed in Genesis 1’s grammatical framework, unmistakably denotes an ordinary day. A consensus reverberates among Hebrew scholars on this fact.

However, in defiance of these truths, non-Christian scientists have constructed a false binary between the Bible and science. For almost three centuries now distinct from Spinoza’s articulation that only scientists can unearth truths regarding physical origins, theologians persistently refashion Genesis to fit current scientific hypotheses. From gap theories to cosmic temple ideas – variations are limitless.

Rejecting unproven speculations about billions of years does not equal forfeiting collective wisdom like Augustine or Galileo’s prudent advice against proposing scientific theories without corroboratory observation – assuming all these luminaries universally upheld revelation’s infallibility as recorded in the Bible concerning origination.

Embracing long ages compromises God’s character from a Christian perspective and denies death its true identity: an enemy not included in God’s original magnificent creation as suggested within biblical passages of Corinthians and Genesis.

In conclusion, we must draw inspiration from the Medes who diverted Babylon’s life-source – the Euphrates River – navigating beneath proud Babylonian walls to cease King Belshazzar’s intoxicated merry-making. We can redirect repetitive doctrines about ‘billions of years’ supplying false narratives around evolution and retake our rightful ownership over stolen Christian goblets utilized erroneously by practitioners claiming objective science yet espousing warped worldviews devoid of divine input. This is today’s real news relayed through trusted news sources echoing authentic Christian principles.