Thursday, April 4, 2013

Endangered Species


     You know something I think is interesting?  How Darwinian evolutionary scientists will gripe, moan, and use tax dollars to protect or study species which are endangered or extinct.  If you’ve read Darwin, you’ll know that the overlying philosophy of why species come and go is “survival of the fittest.”  There is some truth to this, but have you ever asked why those weak species evolved in the first place?
     Today I was reading about two species of sharks in the Gilbert Islands who had been fished until they no longer lived in the area.  Ecologists were all worried about their existence as they always are.  But I ask myself, if scientists (particularly ecologists) are so hell-bent on justifying evolution, why do they care what happens to a species?  As pertains to human interaction with ecology, if we are only higher-order mammals, why do they care what we do to the earth?  If there is no God who is love, why should anyone be concerned about the preservation of a universe for people who will be left after we are cold and dead?
     Have you ever thought that their concern for the earth may be biblical?  It started with the command given to our first parents, Adam and Eve.  “And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’” (Genesis 1:28)  God put it in the heart of mankind to subdue, take care of, and have dominion over creation.  As such, man is a steward with an ingenious mind, who is to make wise use of what God has made.  Because we are made in God’s image, mankind makes things, figures things out, and has an innate inclination to take care of the Universe.  This is a good explanation for why we have modern medicine, huge buildings, various energy sources, cars, modern farming methods, and prolific amounts of food.  It’s only because of the presence of sin, that those technologies are misused or withheld from being shared with others.  Sin is also the reason science makes a god out of what the Living God has made, often at the expense of the human beings who were intended to benefit from it.
     That misguided liberal ecologist may be going overboard oftentimes, but as pertains to taking care of the world, he or she is only instinctively doing one of the things they were made to do.  The other thing is to be in a relationship with God, and Jesus is the only way the ecologist (or anyone else) can have that too.  God is in control, regardless of how species come and go.  But only a relationship of love in submission to God in Jesus Christ will outlast this temporary earth.  

Join us for Wednesday Student Night as we talk about biblical poetry!  Snack supper at 6:30 in Covenant Hall.

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