Stupid Brilliant People
How do I know the Bible is true? One of the reasons I know that the Bible is true is how the Bible describes people. People are not described as basically good with an occasional “bad day,” but wholly bad with a bent towards pride, jealousy, and lusting for everything that is not Godly. What man would write that about men? Not one!
And how do I know that what God wrote is true? I have no need to look further than my own heart and the hearts of those around me. Pride is the mother of all sins and we can’t get past the first chapter of the great letter to the Roman church before we run into it.
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.” Romans 1:18-23
Case in point from an article posted on Yahoo news of April 26, 2011:
A refreshingly simple new idea has emerged in the complicated world of high energy physics. It proposes that the early universe was a one-dimensional line. Not an exploding sphere, not a chaotic ball of fire. Just a simple line of pure energy.
Over time, as that line grew, it crisscrossed and intersected itself more and more, gradually forming a tightly interwoven fabric, which, at large distances, appeared as a 2-D plane. More time passed and the 2-D universe expanded and twisted about, eventually creating a web — the 3-D universe we see today.
This concept, called “vanishing dimensions” to describe what happens the farther one looks back in time, has been gaining traction within the high energy physics community in recent months.
This is an amazing idea which has no basis in fact and is a gigantic stretch in an effort to figure out the origin of the universe. Later in the article, it says,
According to the theory, for the first thousand-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang, up until the moment when the universe cooled to an average temperature of 100 teraelectronvolts (TeV are actually a measure of energy, but energy and temperature correspond), it was a 1-D line.
Note that this theory happens after the Big Bang- something that also requires an imagination that must go “light years” beyond facts. Then we also had a new report from AP Science Writer Alicia Chang, on Wednesday, April 27th: Scientists who reject creation by God must create their own reasons to support the false theory of evolution so they came up with the following:
The first stars that dotted the universe were not only immense, but probably also fast-spinning, according to a new study that sheds light on the nature of stellar evolution. These early stars died out long ago, but astronomers can get a glimpse of what they were like by looking at later generations of stars.
A team of scientists led by Cristina Chiappini of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam in Germany reanalyzed data from the Very Large Telescope of a 12-billion-year-old star cluster. They found high levels of metal in the stars — a chemical signature that suggests earlier generations, perhaps even the first stars, were massive and rotated much faster than their present-day counterparts.
Speaking of large telescopes, you would think that the views of the universe through the Hubble Space Telescope would only declare louder that there is a God, but wait; men who deny God are not deterred from making up something that will allow them to avoid the truth.
Back in January of this year, AP Science Writer, Seth Borenstein wrote about a new finding of the earliest galaxy yet based on a smudge of light that they say existed 13.2 billion years ago. Funny, the article said that research had not been confirmed and some astronomers were skeptical, but they printed it anyway!
In fact, one of the co authors of this study said that he and his colleagues confused what may have been real light from billions of years ago and background “noise” from the process of looking so far away, so they redid the study and found a new galaxy that was more likely to be real than the previous ones.
Yes, I am not making this up; they are. As they refuse (suppress the truth) to look at God’s creation (plainly before them) and confess that there is a God that is great and awesome, their hearts grow hard and their minds come up with foolish ideas about how the universe came about. Sadly, the truth of Romans 1:18-23 comes to life right before our eyes!
When people with years of education and lots of letters after their name continue to suppress the truth, they are no more than stupid brilliant people. Let’s pray that Christian parents do all they can to make sure their children are not educated from that perspective by enrolling them in great Christian schools.
