Evolution or Creation
How the Jewish people have become God’s most potent argument against evolution
We bought a puppy a few months ago . Not just a pound puppy but a pure bred papers and all. Expensive, too. Breeders make a big issue about how they control the process to emphasize the desirable traits of the breed and minimize the negative ones.
A client happened to be buying a dog at the same time. Returning home after a visit to her business, I saw her in the airport. She was meeting the plane I was leaving on. The puppy she had bought was arriving … from Maine. “What’s the matter,” I asked, “don’t they have any German Shepherds in Montana?” She told me that the Shepherd population in Montana had developed a tendency toward arthritis, whereas the ones from Maine didn’t have that problem.
Selective Breeding
The whole theory behind selective breeding is to improve the breed. In their effort to do that the Montana breeders had also created a problem. It got me thinking. If evolution works, why do we need selective breeding. Isn’t that manipulating the process? Left alone wouldn’t natural selection produce the desirable traits everyone wants? The simple answer is no. Left alone the dog population would soon consist solely of mongrels, and would sink to its lowest level, not soar to its highest.
The breeder has to be a kind of creator, intervening in the process to create an animal that meets the specifications. It’s the same through out the domestic animal kingdom, whether it’s dogs, horses, or farm animals that produce a crop like eggs milk, meat, wool, etc.; man intervenes to improve the breed.
These breeders can’t create traits that don’t already exist in the gene pool. They can only select from available traits and emphasize certain ones. And that gets me thinking, too. Do you suppose breeders are really working to reverse the very effects of evolution many so staunchly defend? I mean, if the desired genetic traits are already resident in the breed, then was the breed once a perfect specimen?
Is This Also True of Man?
Suppose we apply that same idea to humanity? Was man once a perfect specimen? The Bible says man was created in the image of God. By the way it also says there was both a male and female man (Gen 1:27). Later it says that Adam’s children were created in his image, not God’s (Gen 5:3). Between Adam’s creation and the procreation of his children, sin entered into the world. And so all Adam’s children inherited the sin nature. From the earliest times that nature was evident.
Raising Cain
When Cain murdered Abel, God sent him away from his people. When Seth came along he was told to remain separate, and the Bible distinguishes between the line of Seth and the line of Cain. When the two lines mixed and naturally sank to their lowest level (Gen 6:5), God chose Noah and his family to begin the New World. The Bible says Noah was perfect in his generations (geneology Gen 6:9). Does that mean his genetic make-up was uncontaminated?
Later Seth’s descendants (sons of Abraham) were commanded to remain separate from the gentiles. God told Abraham where to find a bride for Isaac, and later Jacob (Israel) followed the same instructions. Elaborate laws were given the Children of Israel to maintain this separation and demonstrate the need to keep unlike kinds apart.
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall …
Man was created in the image of God. With Adam’s fall the image was shattered, as a mirror shatters when broken. Looking into a broken mirror you can still see pieces of the image, but it’s fragmented, no longer complete. Each of Adam’s children had fragments of God’s image, but no one had it all.
Much of humanity was left to mix indiscriminately, but from the beginning, the people who would later become the Jews were commanded to remain separate. Was God practicing selective breeding to preserve His image in man? Through out history in the face of overwhelming odds, the Jewish people have remained separate, never integrating with the Gentile nations among whom they were scattered. Numbering about 10 million in a world population of nearly 6 billion they comprise only .167% of humanity. But in nearly every field of artistic, scientific, intellectual, or philanthropic endeavor you can name they are represented all out of proportion to their number and usually at the top.
Your Mission, If You Choose to Accept It …
The Prophet Isaiah identified the four-fold mission given Israel by God; to be a witness for Him (43:20), to show forth His blessing (49:3), to transmit His Word (42:9), and to be a channel for the Messiah (49:5).
He said if they were faithful to Him He would make the world envy them, and it did. He also warned that if they rejected Him they would be a reproach to the world until they returned, and they have been. According to the theory of evolution, they should have disappeared long ago. By Divine Providence they survive as God’s most potent argument against it. They remain and are prominent today; a singular achievement among the nations of history, as a witness to God’s faithfulness.
When asked the question, “How can you prove that God intervenes in the affairs of man?” a famous theologian replied, “Two words …The Jew.”
