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JESUS COMPARED TO ALL OTHER RELIGIONS
Whether you are an atheist, agnostic or believer in some form of religion you must first answer the age old question. "Where did man come from?" At this point you are left with two choices. (1) All life came into being by pure chance. Then through the chain of evolution man evolved from some sort of organism. Those that hold to this position actually exercise more faith than those who hold to the belief of Christianity. I say this because throughout all known history no one has ever seen evolution take place. A tadpole may turn into a frog, but for a frog to turn into a prince is a fairy tale not science. In the book "what is Creation Science?" by Henry Morris & Gary Parker we find some interesting quotes and comments concerning this. (pg.2, 86 & 88) "However, as the eminent Harvard biologist, Ernst Mayr, one of the nation's top evolutionist has observed: "Darwin never really did discuss the origin of species in his On the Origin of Species " (Niles Eldredge,1985a). Not only could Darwin not cite a single example of a new species originating, but neither has anyone else, in all the subsequent century of evolutionary study" "Darwin himself was acutely aware of this evidence of creation and the problem it posed for his theory. In a chapter of Origin of the species called "Difficulties With the Theory," he included traits that depend on separate meaningless parts. Consider the human eye with the different features required to focus at different distances, to accommodate different amounts of light, and to correct for the "rainbow effect." Regarding the origin of the eye, Darwin wrote these words: "To suppose that the eye, (with so many parts all working together)....could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd to the highest degree." "Absurd to the highest degree." That's Darwin's own opinion of using natural selection to explain the origin of traits that depend on many parts working together." One could go into much more detail on evolution, but that is not our purpose here. It is sufficient to say evolution is based upon faith not science.
(2) The second choice is we were created by some sort of God. The fact that everything from the universe and stars down to the simplest little flower seems to have some sort of design to it brings many people to the logical conclusion then there must be a designer. As already pointed out even Darwin did not believe that the complexity of the human eye could happen by pure chance. Even if you believed we were transported to this planet by aliens it still would not answer how mankind originally came into being. A designer that much more advanced than mankind would naturlly be thought of as a God of some sort by mankind. This of course leads to the question, does this God communicate with mankind? Most people will logically say yes to this. Otherwise they are left with the dilemma of, why would a supreme being bother to create at all only to then ignore his
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