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| Extinct? Really?? |
by
Brian Thomas, M.S. | Aug. 11, 2014
Many professors at private
religious universities cling to secular views of the past despite the clear
anti-Christian consequences. Theological inferences from a recent study on
dinosaur extinction illustrate this dilemma.
...The group seems confident that they helped answer the long-debated
question of what caused dinosaur extinction, but their answer leaves key
scientific questions dangling...
...According to Genesis—the foundational book of the Bible and thus
of Christianity—God’s original creation experienced no death, and this
separation of spirit from body only began after Adam and Eve committed the
first sin. God even warned the first couple that they would die if they sinned.
Did God fail to understand that death had already been occurring for millions
of years—or was He lying?9
What could be more Christian than the gospel, which presents God’s
offer of eternal life to dying sinners through the substitutionary death and
resurrection of Jesus Christ? But if dinosaurs died 66 million years ago, then
death has been part of the world all along instead of entering in as sin’s
consequence. Did Jesus die and rise from the dead for nothing?10
A
theologically and scientifically superior alternative considers dinosaur
fossils and their rock layers as water deposits from Noah’s year-long,
globe-covering Flood.
...Knowingly or not, when Christians accept secular perspectives, they run
two significant risks. First, they risk bad science, ignoring observations that
break the secular mold the way Dr. Peppe and his colleagues failed to mention
the lack of frog, salamander, and turtle extinction with their impact story.
Also, they risk propagating ideas that undermine Christianity—like how millions
of years of death undermine the gospel.
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