The Fool has said in his heart...
We were struck with an Associated Press release on 15 August. It read as follows:
Harvard University is joining the long-running debate over the theory of evolution by launching a research project to study how life began.
The team of researchers will receive $1 million in funding annually from Harvard over the next few years.
The project begins with an admission that some mysteries about life’s origins cannot be explained.
“My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention,” said David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard.
The “Origins of Life in the Universe Initiative” is still in its early stages, scientists told the Boston Sunday Globe. Harvard has told the research team to make plans for adding faculty members and a collection of multimillion-dollar facilities.”
Harvard’s Dr. Liu is indicating that as of 2005, there is no known simple series of logical events that could have produced life initially. After the decades of private and government funded study prior to 2005, he admits that, as of 2005, all the human intelligence devoted to the study of life’s origins has been unable to understand how life could have formed without some intelligent designer combining atoms and molecules in ways that we haven’t seen occur spontaneously in nature.
We marvel at the extraordinary FAITH of the Harvard scientists that their multimillion dollar research facilities and their 1 million dollar annual budget will allow the puzzle to be solved without invoking an intelligent designer.
How much money and how many intelligent scientists will it take over how many years to show there was no necessity for an original Intelligent Designer?
One can’t help but think of some ancient words that powerfully apply to our present culture:
Why are the nations in an uproar and the peoples devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, ‘Let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us!’ He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them. (Psalms 2:1-4)
Our final conclusion echoes the psalmist in Psalm 53:1: “The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God,'"