In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Genesis 1:1
“Republicans and Evangelicals are stupid.” So proclaimed a work colleague of mine one day, seemingly out of the blue.
Since I fell into both groups and was a bit curious as to what prompted his outburst, I asked him, “Why do you say that?”
My colleague pointed me to an article he was reading in a newspaper he had brought with him – yes this was way back in 2007 before everyone had smartphones and still read physical newspapers. The article was about the opening of the Creation Museum here in the Cincinnati area.
Having lived in Cincinnati, I was well aware of the Creation Museum project. Several years in the making, the museum had garnered extensive press coverage both locally and nationally. Most of it was negative. Denunciations galore poured forth from various mainstream news organizations about the mass enstupification of the of the American public that was nigh upon our doorstep because of museum’s opening.
One example of that hostility is a Los Angeles Times editorial from May 24, 2007 title “Yabba-dabba science,” which, as you may gather from the title, makes great fun of the Creation Museum, likening it to an episode of “The Flintstones.”
Apparently, my work colleague bought the propaganda.
Science, we are told by the L.A. Times and other voices of “reason,” is all about hard facts and logic. All which, we are confidently told, militate against any possibility that the earth is a mere 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs and men walked the terra firma at the same time.
But is science so-called really the arbiter of truth? Think about just the past year and all the contradictory science we’ve heard. Some of the most blatantly contradictory statements have come from the same supposed scientific experts. For example, in a March 2020 interview with 60 Minutes, Dr. Anthony Fauci said,
Right now, in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks….there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is, and often there are unintended consequences – people keep fiddling with the masks and they’re touching their face.
Now, this same Dr. Fauci is out there saying that we may have to wear masks until 2022. And not only that, he’s stated on the record that double-masking makes “common sense”! And all this despite a great deal of scientific evidence that mask mandates do nothing to slow the spread of Covid.
Clearly, Dr. Fauci has contradicted himself. In fact, his statements often seem to be driven by some hidden political agenda rather than the scientific facts at hand. Yet we are told that he is a coolly rational scientific mind and that anyone who doubts him is, in the words of Joe Biden, a Neanderthal.
Or take the matter of the uber trendy cause of Transgenderism. Facebook offers members a palette of 58 gender options. Fifty-eight! Supporters of transgenderism are often the same people who loudly announce their love of science and are quick to denigrate those who disagree with them as “science deniers.” Yet it is the progressives themselves who are the science deniers.
If we consider the most up-to-date scientific opinion, the most reasonable conclusion is that there are only two sexes, and that the notion that there can be 58 genders is an absurdity. Yet, the transgender folks will argue that one’s gender identity is not tied to one’s biological sex, and that a biological man really can reasonably identify as a woman and a biological woman really can identify as a man. And yet, even if a man successfully “transitions” to a woman, every cell in his body is still genetically coded as male, with a both an X and a Y chromosome. This seems like a hard case of science denialism on the part of transgender activists, but it’s rare for anyone to point this out.
As Christians, we don’t rest our argument that there are only two sexes, male and female, on the findings of geneticists. We believe this, because it’s revealed in the Word of God. But it is interesting that today’s ideologically confused progressives will, on the one hand, lecture Christians about their supposed “science denialism,” while on the other hand, denying the science they claim to love so they can indulge their transgender fantasies.
Lux Lucet 