Are You Clever Enough to Explain Away the Truth?

 © 2018 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Have you ever known normal people who grasp obvious truth better than some who’ve learned to explain it away?  The Apostle Paul once instructed Timothy with a fascinating piece of advice.

“O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:” (1 Timothy 6:20)

Recently, I had a conversation with a medical researcher.  He has devoted several decades to studying kidney functions.  He marveled that, in all that time, he had studied one particular chain of interactions within the kidney.  Yet, to his amazement, there are millions more not yet studied.  He mentioned the assumptions, of some, that biological evolution probably started with a “simple single-celled organism.”  “There’s no such thing!” he said.  His studies have taught him the extreme complexity of a single cell.  Each is far more complex and intricate than the most complex factory ever built by man.

Even a child knows that a functional wrist-watch must be designed by an intelligent being.  Yet, a PhD biomedical engineer co-worker once described, to me, the enormously greater complexity of the human body.  Then he suddenly stopped and said, “Of course, this is not a valid argument in support of intelligent design.  Any designer, who would build something so complex, would have to be insane.”  I think he may have realized that he had backed himself into a corner with his discussion of biological complexity.

Scripture points out God’s wisdom and intelligence in His design of the universe.

“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.  Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.  There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.” (Psalm 19:1‑3)

“For 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)

God the Son, Jesus, the Messiah, came and offered Himself as the pure sacrifice to save sinners.  However, only those who trust Him as Savior and Lord are saved.  Rejecting the very idea of an intelligent creator will prevent such trust.

Have you rejected Christ because credentialed “experts” have been clever enough to explain away the truth?

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