End Time Delusions Part I: Evolution

Evolution: Fact or Fiction?

In his second of two letters he wrote to the early church at Thessalonica, the apostle Paul reasoned that lies succeed and metastasize because people accept them without investigating them.

For example, Paul explained that heresy spreads rapidly in the absence of biblical accountability. But deception only prevails because people are willingly to accept it without testing it. Here's what Paul wrote: 

"They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness." (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12)

Paul wrote that in the context of an end time prophecy concerning the dreaded Antichrist who is going to appear and dazzle the world with supernatural powers. (2 Thessalonians 2:9-10) Though this man will be extremely evil, he will be embraced by the world as a savior because the world will refuse to investigate him to find out who he really is and where his power comes from.

However, Paul's wisdom applies to much more than spiritual deception. It applies to many things, including science. Perhaps the biggest lie that's been perpetuated across the world for the past 150 years is Charles Darwin's atheistic theory of evolution.

That theory proposes that life wasn't created by God, but occurred naturally in a primordial mud-pond hundreds of millions of years ago when enzymes, chemicals and proteins came together to form the first living cell.

Though even Darwin admitted that evolution was merely a theory, it's been taught as proven, factual science in grade schools and universities across the world for a long time. Millions of people accept it as truth, even though it's never been observed to occur and paleontologists have never discovered a single example of a so-called transitional species.

Who was Darwin? He was a theologian and an amateur scientist who didn't understand the diversity that existed within animal species. And he was angry with God because he lost his young daughter Annie to death. And so, some believe that Darwin took out his revenge against God by conjuring up a theory that explained the existence of life in purely natural terms.

Obviously, the existence of DNA wasn't known during Darwin's time. DNA is the blueprint for life. Each living cell contains about 1.5 gigabytes of data, or digitally coded information (DNA). Each gigabyte contains about two billion bits of information. And the human body contains about 100 trillion cells and 150 trillion gigabytes of information.

World renowned microbiologist Michael Behe knows a thing or two about the complexity of human life. Concerning cells, he said this:

The typical cell contains about 2,000 mitochondrion components. Each of the little compartments contains machinery necessary to capture the energy of foodstuffs and store it in a chemically stable and yet readily available form. The system uses a flow of acid to power its machines, which shuttle electrons among a half-dozen carriers, requiring an exquisitely delicate interaction between components. The cell controls how much and what kinds of chemicals it makes; when it loses control it dies. (Darwin's Black Box, pp. 188-193)

Needless to say, the human body contains a staggering amount of information that's arranged in a specific order that enables the human body to function. And yet proponents of evolution want us to believe that life resulted from a random, unintelligent source. Behe continues:

Life on earth at its most fundamental level, in its most critical components, is the product of intelligent activity. The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself--not from the sacred books of sectarian beliefs.

Furthermore, science has no explanation for life itself. What makes an organism live? We know that an electrical appliance or a computer can't operate without electricity or battery power. What's the energy source of life? It's the spirit. As the apostle James wrote, the body is dead without the spirit. (James 2:26) And so, life is the ultimate mystery that science will never be able to solve.

Had Darwin known about DNA in his day, he undoubtedly wouldn't have written such a foolish and dangerous theory. Even the eminent scientist Albert Einstein dismissed Darwin's theory as impractical and unworkable. Einstein reasoned that if the physical universe originated from a "Big Bang," as evolution postulates, then all the organic matter necessary for life would've been destroyed by the intense heat from such an explosion.

What makes evolution so dangerous? It denies God. And if God doesn't exist, then His commandments and transcendent moral laws are merely human constructs that can be changed or eliminated without any divine repercussions. There's a direct correlation between the increasing acceptance of Darwin's theory and the metastasizing crime and depravity that's plagued the western world for the past 60 years.

Even worse, if God doesn't exist, then no one's morally accountable for their behavior and there's no judgment awaiting anyone after they die. In other words, if evolution is true, then mass murderers such as Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin fare no worse in death than Pope John Paul II or Mother Teresa.

Atheism isn't a modern phenomenon. It existed in the ancient time of King David who wrote this 3,000 years ago: "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no god.'" (Psalm 14:1) Why is evolution so popular? Because it offers rebellious people an escape from God's judgment. That's a terrible delusion.

When he was asked to critique his own theory, Darwin gave an honest answer: If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. (Origin of the Species p. 154) 

Indeed it has broken down. Unfortunately, those who prefer delusions over hard evidence continue to embrace it. And unless they come to their senses and repent, they're in for a terrible surprise after they take their final breath.

Doctrines of Devils

In his first of two letters to fellow apostle Timothy, the apostle Paul warned that in the end times directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ, "some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron." (1 Timothy 4:1-2)

Most biblical scholars believe that Paul was referring to heretical doctrines that would invade the church under the banner of "new revelations." And certainly, that's part of what Paul was referring to. However, he was also referring to other aberrant teachings that would affect the church and the entire world as well.

Such as? Such as Charles Darwin's theory of evolution that lent scientific credibility to atheism. Until he published his dubious theory in 1859 (On the Origin of Species) that attempted to explain the existence of life in purely natural terms sans God, atheism was the belief system of experientialists who refused to believe in God because (1) they couldn't see Him and (2) because of the prevalence of evil in the world.

Certainly, atheism isn't a recent phenomenon. It's existed since the dawn of human history. Nearly 3,000 years ago, King David wrote this: "The fool says in his heart, 'there is no God.'" (Psalm 14:1)

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Paul wrote this concerning those who rejected God: "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles." (Romans 1:18-23)

Both David and Paul lived long before the advent of modern science and microbiology that was made possible by the invention of the microscope that allowed the human eye to study the complex mechanisms that make up the cells in every living organism. Certainly, Darwin's atheistic theory came just before the invention of the microscope. And that's why evolution prevailed, because there was no scientific answer at that time to rebut it.

However, microbiology has allowed science to prove rather than disprove God's existence. But how? Because it's revealed the vast network of DNA the contains the digital blueprint for every living being from simple amoebas to complex human beings. Not only does each cell contain enough information to fill thousands of books, but that information is arranged in a specific order that enables the cell to function along with billions of other cells that make up living creatures.

If evolution is true, then life came from nothing and the information (DNA) that determines the unique characteristics (size, shape, color, species etc.) for each organism arranged itself without a designer. The odds of that occurring are mathematically impossible.

Even the brilliant scientist Albert Einstein, who was an agnostic, called evolution a terrible and impractical theory. Einstein explained that if the universe originated from a primordial explosion (Big Bang), then the heat from such an explosion would've sterilized all organic matter making life impossible.

Furthermore, Einstein reasoned that the physical universe displayed remarkable organization with the rotation of the galaxies and the planets around stars. Einstein stated that a primordial explosion would've scattered material haphazardly across the universe.

But the discovery of DNA and its complex design proves Darwin's theory as bogus. World renowned microbiologist Michael Behe explained it best: DNA, the most famous of nucleic acids, is made up of four kinds of nucleotides; A,C,G and T. The first building block, A, can be in several forms, designated AMP, ADP or ATP. The form that is first synthesized in the cell is AMP.

It is comprised of 10 carbons, 11 hydrogens, seven oxygens, four nitrogens, and one phosphorous. The formation of biological molecules requires specific, highly sophisticated molecular robots. To make AMP, we also need very high tech equipment: the enzymes. In the absence of enzymes, AMP is simply not made. AMP is required for life on earth: it is used to make DNA and RNA, as well as a number of other critical molecules. The problem for Darwinian evolution is this: AMP is required for life. Either it immediately has a way to produce AMP, or the cell is dead.

No one has a clue how the AMP pathway is developed. And no one has written about the obstacle posed by the need to regulate a cell's metabolic pathway immediately at its inception. AMP is not the only metabolic dilemma for Darwin. The biosynthesis of the larger amino acids, lipids, vitamins, heme, and more run into the same problems, and there are difficulties beyond metabolism; mountains and chasms that block a Darwinian explanation of life. (Behe, Darwin's Black Box)

Behe best summed up his analysis of evolution with this statement: The cumulative evidence shows with piercing clarity that life is based on machines--machines made of molecules which are enormously complex. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it. Faced with such complexity beneath even simple phenomenon, Darwinian theory falls silent.

But even beyond the complexity of life that Darwin knew nothing about is this question that science can't answer: What makes organisms live? When an organism dies, all the necessary ingredients for life are still prevalent. And yet the organism no longer lives.

Why? A good analogy is an appliance or machine that runs on electricity. Although all the components are installed to operate the machine (computer, television, refrigerator etc.), it can't run without electricity.

Thus, a living organism can't live without the spirit or soul that gives it life. (James 2:26) Science has no explanation for that and never will because to admit that life contains a spiritual dimension is to admit that something exists beyond the physical realm.

If evolution is true, then how do we explain death? Why do organisms grow old and die? Thus, death provides the ultimate rebuke and contradiction of evolution's theory of Natural Selection. If random evolutionary forces are driving life toward perfection, then organisms shouldn't be aging and dying off. But they are. There can be no such thing as survival of the fittest as long as death exists. Why would Natural Selection program aging, sickness and death into the DNA of every living organism? Science has no answer for that either.

And how does science explain human behavior? If human beings are evolving toward perfection, then moral and crime statistics betray that belief. The human race is becoming much more wicked and immoral, and the evidence proves that. Natural Selection should be eliminating the morally unfit from society. However, only a fool would argue that the world is becoming a safer, friendlier, more benign place to live.

The apostle Paul explained the real reason why human beings become violent, and it has absolutely nothing to do with science. Paul wrote: "Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." (Romans 1:28-32)

Indeed, evolution is one of those doctrines of demons that Paul warned of nearly 2,000 years ago. But why? Because it denies the existence of God. And if God doesn't exist, then the 10 Commandments and God's transcendent moral laws recorded in the Bible are nothing but human constructs than can be changed or eliminated.

Even worse, if evolution is true, then no one is morally accountable for their actions, and no judgment awaits anyone at death. Certainly, heaven and hell can't exist and death becomes the ultimate escape for even the most wicked people. If God doesn't exist, then such evil monsters as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin fare no worse in death than Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa.

Indeed, evolution has been perhaps the most demonic doctrine that has encouraged depravity and evil across the world since it was introduced in 1859.

Concerning the increase of evil in the last days, Paul prophesied this: "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people." (2 Timothy 3:1-5)

That describes a world that no longer believes in God. And that's a terrifying world where fascism eventually takes over after the world has fallen into complete depravity. Paul's prophecy in his second letter to Timothy is directly related to the world's embrace of Darwin's terrible theory.

Ironically, Darwin himself admitted that if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. (Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 154)

Science has indeed proven that life was designed and created by God and did not come about by accident in some primordial pond millions of years ago. Indeed, Darwin's theory has broken down and can't be fixed. Tragically, for atheists, a broken theory that dismisses God--no matter how bad it is--is better than the evidence for God.

Evolution and Tyranny

Three proponents of evolution

Of all the scriptures recorded in the Bible, perhaps the most pertinent one that explains why evil prevails is this one: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." (Proverbs 1:7)

Thus, those who don't fear God are often willfully ignorant of his laws and commandments. As such, they're contemptuous of law and order, decency, and respect for human life. Most folks who fall into that category are atheists who, for whatever reasons, hate God and refuse to acknowledge His existence.

That was a point that King David made about 3,000 years ago when he wrote this: "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good." (Psalm 14:1)

Atheism has been a human malady since the beginning of time despite the proliferation of evidence that proves God's existence. Even during the time of the apostle Paul 2,000 years ago, there was more than enough evidence for God, a point that Paul made: "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." (Romans 1:18-20)

Atheists claim that there's no evidence to prove that God exists. That's nonsense. The genome of all living creatures great and small proves God's existence. Each cell of every creature contains a vast and complex amount of information known as DNA that shows intelligent design and order. To suggest that such information came from an unintelligent chemical process and arranged itself without any design is preposterous. Indeed, only fools believe that.  

And there are a lot of fools who want to believe in evolution. Why? It's not because of a lack of evidence for God. Rather, it's because fools despise authority and moral accountability, and they don't want to live under someone else's rules. That's why Charles Darwin became the messiah of humanists when he published On the Origin of Species in 1859. Darwin's pseudo-scientific manifesto attempted to explain the existence of life in purely naturalistic terms apart from God. 

Though Darwin's work was amateurish and mostly theory, it eventually caught on with people who were looking for a way to assuage their consciences and escape divine accountability for their evil behavior. Evolution has been taught as "settled science" in schools and universities throughout the world for many decades. Even many Christians believe in evolution, not realizing that Darwin's theory completely contradicts the Bible's account of God's creation of the physical universe and life in six literal days.

Though the proponents of Darwin's theory vehemently deny it, evolution provided the intellectual inspiration for three of the 20th century's worst mass murderers. Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong were atheists who embraced evolution's theory of Natural Selection. 

Natural Selection teaches that only the fittest survive, and Hitler, Stalin and Zedong believed that they could create a paradise on earth by ridding the world of "undesirables." One of Hitler's greatest influences was Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood who advocated sterilizing and eliminating "mutant strains" of human beings that included blacks and Jews. 

Darwin's terrible theory not only gave rise to mass-murdering totalitarian regimes, it undermined moral and civil authority, and led to the debauched and depraved culture that's plagued western civilization for over 60 years. The collapse of the nuclear family; the breakdown in civility; the rise in crime, violence, drug, gambling and alcohol addictions etc. is directly linked to evolution's destructive influence on society.

How so? Because if God doesn't exist, then His laws and commandments are nothing but human constructs that can be ignored, changed or eliminated altogether. If God doesn't exist, then no one is morally accountable for their actions in this life and no judgment awaits them at death. Thus, mass murderers such as Hitler, Stalin, Zedong etc. fare no worse in death than Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa. 

Commenting on Darwin's theory, eminent scientist and microbiologist Michael Behe said this: The cumulative evidence shows with piercing clarity that life is based on machines--machines made of molecules which are enormously complex. The complexity of life's foundation has paralyzed science's attempt to account for it. Faced with such complexity beneath even simple phenomena, Darwinian theory falls silent. (Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box, pp. 4-5)

Indeed. Unfortunately, despite the lack of evidence for evolution, many will continue to embrace the delusion that life originated in a primordial mud-pond millions of years ago. They're entitled to believe that if they want to. But they'll eventually find out otherwise. Unfortunately, when they do, it'll be too late for them to escape their eternal fate. 

End Time Myths

Charles Darwin: The man who inspired Adolf Hitler

Concerning false teaching and demonic doctrines that would plague the world in the last days, the apostle Paul wrote this: "For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

The apostle Peter echoed Paul's prophecy with this: "But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping." (2 Peter 2:1-3)

While false teaching and myths have existed since the beginning of time, the apostles warned that in the last days preceding the return of Jesus Christ, dangerous heresies would plague the Christian church and proliferate throughout the world.

Perhaps the greatest modern example of that is the theory of evolution that was introduced by Charles Darwin in 1859. A failed theologian and an amateur scientist, Darwin sought a purely natural explanation for the existence of life apart from God. 

Some believed that Darwin devised his dubious theory because he was confused by the abundance of species and the diverse characteristics among the species. Others speculated that Darwin became angry at God with the death of his young daughter Annie, and sought his revenge by explaining away God through his theory of evolution.

Whatever the reason for devising his theory, Darwin unleashed a monster on the world that's manifested in the explosion of depravity, violence and moral decadence over the past 60 years. Though he introduced his theory (On the Origin of Species) over 150 years ago, it took nearly a century before that theory began to bear fruit.

And bear fruit it did. Evolution denied the existence of God which rendered His laws and commandments human constructs that could be ignored, changed or eliminated. That gave birth to relativism, multiculturalism and situational ethics. And that gave millions of people the illusion that they were morally accountable to no one but themselves and no judgment awaited them at death.

Beginning in the late 1950s, crime and depravity began to skyrocket. For example, in 1961, New York City recorded about 100 homicides for that calendar year. By 1991, that city recorded about 1,000 murders for that calendar year with virtually the same population it had in 1961. Nearly every city across the United States and in Europe experienced a similar increase in homicides and other major crime during that time period.

What's wrong with evolution? It's a bogus theory that masquerades as factual science. How so? Because it teaches that intelligent life sprang from unintelligent matter. In other words, each cell of every living organism has 46 pairs of chromosomes that collectively contain over 300,000 bits of DNA.

What is DNA? Think of it as digitally-coded information that contains the instructions for a cell's operation. That information is arranged in a specific order that allows the cell to function, convert food into energy and multiply in an orderly fashion. If some of those DNA molecules are removed or rearranged, the cell would die.

Evolutionists want us to believe that such a vast and complex design came about by accident when random chemical forces interacted in a primordial mud pond millions of years ago. The odds of that happening are so astronomical that you would have a better chance of flying to the moon in a Cessna than Darwin's theory being true. And yet, evolution is taught as scientific truth in schools and universities all across the world.

Even worse, evolution has no answer for what life is. For example, your television, smart phone and computer can't run without energy. Though all the internal components necessary for those devices to operate are present, they're useless without energy. And it's the same with living organisms, from simple amoebas to complex human beings. They can't live without energy. What's the source of that energy? Where does it come from? What activates it? Science has no answer for those questions. And it never will.

The energy source that transforms organic matter into life is something that human beings will never discover, despite their best attempts to do so. And phony theories that masquerade as factual science can't and will never explain the existence of life and where it came from. Instead, those phony theories destroy life by rendering it cheap and meaningless.

Thus, Darwin's terrible theory spawned some of the worst totalitarian regimes of the 20th century from Lenin's Bolshevik Revolution that led to the Soviet Union to Hitler's National (Nazi) Socialist Party to Mao Zedong's murderous People's Republic of China. All these movements and their wicked leaders embraced Darwin and his theory of evolution.

As the old saying goes: All it takes is a match to start a massive forest fire. And all it takes is one terrible theory to foment evil and destruction across the world. And Charles Darwin did just that.

The Lie That Never Dies

Homo naledi: The latest "missing link"

Remember Lucy, the apelike creature that was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974? Lucy became known as Australopithecus africanus, and she was promoted to the world as the missing link between lower primates and human beings.

Unfortunately for researchers who were determined to use Lucy to prove evolution, Australopithecus africanus turned out to be a monkey that walked upright. And it turns out that Lucy belonged to a group of monkeys that were known to walk on their hind legs long before Lucy was discovered. So much for Lucy.

There was Ramapithecus, another apelike creature that was promoted as the missing link between apes and human beings because Ramapithecus had a jaw similar to human beings. It turns out that Ramapithecus also had a jaw similar to an orangutan, and orangutans are still around and show no signs of changing into human beings.

Historians may also remember the Piltdown Man hoax that grew out of a skull that was discovered in Germany in 1907. Piltdown Man became the wishful thinking of an amateur paleontologist named Charles Dawson who, probably out of self-aggrandizement, sought fame and fortune by promoting Piltdown Man as Charles Darwin's missing link between monkeys and human beings.

How did Piltdown Man meet his end? 

From hoax.org: For over three decades the Piltdown skull was accepted by the scientific community as an authentic artifact. But as more skeletons of early man were found, it became clear that the Piltdown Man was radically unlike anything else in the fossil record. Therefore in 1953 a team of researchers at the British Museum (Kenneth Oakley, Wilfred Le Gros Clark, and Joseph Weiner) subjected the skull and jawbone to a rigorous series of tests. What they found was shocking. The skull was a fake. Using a fluorine-based test to date the skull, the researchers determined that the upper skull was approximately 50,000 years old. The jawbone, however, was only a few decades old. A second test, using nitrogen analysis, confirmed the first test. They also found that the jaw had been artificially stained with potassium dichromate to make it appear older. The British Museum researchers argued that someone must have taken the jawbone and teeth of a modern ape, probably an orangutan, and stained them in order to make them look ancient. These artifacts, the jaw and skull fragments, must then have been planted at the Piltdown site.

And now we have Homo naledi, another apelike creature that was recently discovered in a cave near Johannesburg, South Africa: Scientists from the University of the Witwatersrand, the National Geographic Society and the South African Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation revealed Thursday morning (9/10/2015) that they'd found a huge trove of fossils believed to be from a previously unknown early human ancestor — one that could have used tools and may have even figured out how to bury its dead.

Like Lucy, Ramapithecus and Piltdown Man, Homo naledi is being promoted as a missing link between monkeys and human beings. And, like the other three breakthrough discoveries, Homo Naledi will prove to be another hoax. 

Why? Because evolution is a myth. It never happened and it can't happen. But don't take my word for it. Take the word of Antony Flew, a scientist and a former atheist who said this: What I think the DNA material has done is that it has shown, by the most unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements to work together. It's the enormous complexity of the number of elements and the enormous subtlety of the ways they work together which looked to me like the work of intelligence. (Antony Flew: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind: New York: HarperOne, 2007, p75)

Lee Spetner, a biophysicist, said this about evolution: The failure to observe even one mutation that adds information is evidence against the theory. My main arguments against evolution are well illustrated by the human eye: Where would the new information come from to provide the genetic blueprint for this structure? (Lee Spetner: Not By Chance: Shattering The Modern Theory of Evolution: New York: Judaica Press, 1997)

To believe in evolution, you have to believe that life wasn't designed but rather resulted from random chemical processes that occurred over millions of years. That's so absurd that only fools believe that. For example, human DNA is made up of specific protein combinations. 

There are literally millions of protein combinations that exist, but only a specific type forms DNA which is the foundation of all life. To believe that the DNA protein combination formed by itself via unintelligent random evolutionary forces is to believe that one can fly a Cessna to the moon.  

Why does the theory of evolution continue to thrive despite the fact that it's a bald-faced lie? Because it offers people an escape from moral accountability to a Holy God and His subsequent judgment of sin. But that's a delusion that inevitably leads to eternal doom. And tragically, countless people have embraced that false hope, only to realize they were living a lie once they die and enter eternity.

Nearly 3,000 years ago, King David wrote this: "The fool says in his heart; 'there is no god.' They are corrupt, their deeds are vile, there is no one who does good." (Psalm 14:1)

Sadly, despite the evidence to the contrary, evolution will continue to be promoted as factual science. And millions of people will continue to fall for its seductive lies.

The Beginning of the Last Days

Charles Darwin and Karl Marx

Certainly, evil has existed since the beginning of time when the first couple, Adam and Eve defied God by eating fruit from a deadly tree that was located in the primordial Garden of Eden. 

Though the fruit didn't make them physically ill, it permanently corrupted their souls, and that corruption has been passed on to every human being who has ever lived. That corruption, that's better known as depravity, has contaminated history with multiplied murders, crime, wars and violence. Though everyone possesses that sin nature, they also possess a conscience instilled by God to make them understand the clear difference between right and wrong.

Without a conscience, human beings would be nothing more than intelligent beasts. The human conscience serves to impart God's laws and commandments to each person so they will realize that they're held accountable by God for their behavior. 

Let the apostle Paul explain it: "All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as the gospel declares." (Romans 2:12-16)

One of the manifestations of man's depraved spiritual nature is denial. Denial of what? Denial of God and His transcendent moral laws. But what's behind that denial? Rebellion and the refusal to submit to God's authority. When people embrace sin, their consciences begin condemning them. That causes guilt feelings. While that motivates some folks to repent, others refuse and they go looking for reasons to dismiss their guilt and remain in their sin. 

Denial of God's existence isn't a modern phenomenon. It's existed for a long time. Nearly 3,000 years ago, King David wrote this: "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They (all human beings) are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good." (Psalm 14: 1) For thousands of years, people who denied God's existence were indeed considered fools. Atheism was the malady of people who were morally bankrupt and in denial.

But along came a lapsed theologian and an amateur scientist in the 19th century by the name of Charles Darwin. Darwin began to doubt God's existence after his daughter Annie died, and he sought to provide a purely natural explanation for life sans God. In 1859, he published On The Origin of Species, a purely speculative and terrible theory that dismissed God and postulated life as the product of random evolutionary forces that began in an ancient mud pond. 

The odds of intelligent life originating from chemical processes in a primordial mud pond were so remote and astronomical, they were considered impossible. The late eminent scientist and astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle placed the odds of Darwinian evolution being true at one in ten to the power of 40,000. Mathematicians will tell you that anything beyond the power of 800 is mathematically impossible.

Nevertheless, Darwin's theory became music to the ears of those who hated God and desperately sought to escape moral accountability to His laws. Though Darwin's theories were as dangerous as they were bad, they became popular with atheists who finally had a life-preserver to hang onto. Darwin's theory of evolution gradually spread across the world and began to be taught as factual science in public school and college classrooms. Millions of young people, who had grown up believing in God, were now taught a terrible theory disguised as scientific truth that life had appeared naturally without God.

One of Darwin's disciples was a German philosopher named Karl Marx who was convinced that capitalism was an evil byproduct of the Judeo-Christian worldview. He believed that capitalism created economic classes of rich and poor, with the wealthy getting wealthier by ripping off the poor. He believed that capitalism created poverty that resulted in conflict between the classes. Marx believed that taking the wealth from rich people and giving it to the poor would solve crime, poverty and end class strife.

Needless to say, Marxism doesn't work, has never worked and will never work because it denies the spiritual depravity inherent in all human beings. Taking away wealth from successful people via confiscatory taxes, ruins their incentive to succeed. Giving that wealth to those who are lazy, uneducated and unmotivated ruins their incentive to escape poverty. Why get educated and work hard when you don't have to? 

What do evolution and Marxism have to do with the last days? They arose because of an apathetic and morally weak Christian church that either couldn't or refused to counter these demonic ideologies. In part two, the rise of evil on the collapse of the modern church.