And thus man was born.

I just had an argument with a complete lunatic. A year or so ago I spoke in front of about two hundred and fifty upper teen – early twenty types at a church seminar. One of the questions I received in the question and answer part was “How can you deny that man was put here by God?”

Okay, good question. One people have been asking for ages. My response:

“I’m sorry young man, but when did I say man was not put here by God?”

Now mind you that I never speak about my own beliefs. I only offer alternate ways of approaching an idea or theory.

He answered:

“Well you said that evolution was undeniable.”

Now I will put my conversation with that young man on hold and bring you up to my meeting today. I was standing in line at the book store when I was recognized by the parent of a young man in attendance that evening. This woman was very polite at first.

“Excuse me sir. Are you [DK]?” she asked.

“Why yes ma’am I am,” I shook her hand like a gentleman would.

“You told my son that God did not create man,” her tone had changed.

Now you see folks this is why I always tell people not to go off believing what I say. I have never uttered the words

“God did not create man.” Nor have I ever said “There is no God.”

Let me take you back to the conversation with the young man.

“That is true. The defense of science has won the case. The jury has been dismissed and the judge has gone home to his wife. There is too much evidence that supports evolution that it would be ignorant to argue against it.”

“But the Bible says God created man.”

“Also true. Your point?”

“They can’t both be true.”

“Why not? The entire thing is open to interpretation. Are you saying that God in his infinite wisdom could not create us from a single celled organism?”

“But it says we are created in his own image.”

Let me just say I hate when people that have not read the entire Bible quote it to me.

“Yes and what does God look like?”

“Like us.”

“And where does it say that?”

“Well….”

“Who created God?”

“What?”

“Who created God?”

“He did. I mean he was already here.”

“Okay so God created himself. maybe that was his image. Maybe he created us as single celled organisms so that we too could ‘self evolve’. Maybe he created us to create ourselves. Maybe he gave us not only the free will of choice but the freedom to evolve our species into a loving breed.”

Now how in God’s name is that saying that God did not create man? But the lady today sure thought that I had poisoned her son’s mind and forced him into becoming a biology major and a very nice university instead of going to seminary. This was all I had to say to her.

“Ma’am, I am sorry. Your son was looking for answers and all I was doing was asking questions. Now he is studying to look for answers instead of spending his life asking questions.”

So the lesson for today is, if you see me out and about and you have something to say, say it. But make sure you know exactly why you are saying it.

Thanks for reading.

~DK