The Wise Have Become Fools

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote on one of the virtues of living a holy life by exercising belief by faith and not by man. In the post, I explained how new scientific discoveries occur on an on-going basis and, often, the new discoveries overwrite the previous scientific discovery used as an explanation for certain events. While I do find science fascinating and, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I find astronomy particularly interesting. But as one who believes in the infallible word of God, I know that the Christian Bible is absolute truth. The events described in the Bible are true; any attempt to cast a shadow of doubt on their origins is purely deception.

How many scientific “truths” have you heard or learned over your lifetime? The Big Bang created the universe, right? How about the evolution of all species from a primordial soup? What about the demise of the dinosaurs? Weren’t they killed by an impact of extraterrestrial origins off the Yucatan Peninsula?

You could soon be unlearning that one.

A new study conducted by Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University and a team of researchers may have determined that an impact to the Yucatan Peninsula wasn’t what killed the dinosaurs after all. A mysterious basin found off the coast of India could be the impact site for a projectile that really killed the dinosaurs. The basin, which may be the largest known crater on Earth, is suspected of being created by the impact of an object about 25 miles in diameter. By comparison, the impact site off the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula is thought to have been created by something a little smaller, perhaps between 5 and 6.2 miles wide.

The Bible tells us that the wisdom of this world is foolish before God.

1 Corinthians 1:18-19 says, “For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it is written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.’”  1 Corinthians 3:18-19 reads, “Let no man deceive himself.  If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.  For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God.”  1 Corinthians 3:20 reads, “…’The Lord knows the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless.’”

As Christians, we know the Bible is true because God cannot lie (Titus 1:2). There is nothing new under the sun, and there aren’t revised editions of God’s word being published periodically that rewrite the foundations of the Christian faith. For science, “truth” is only as good as the evidence on which it is based. Once a better, and more widely-accepted theory comes along, it replaces the old “truth” with new “truth,” until the new “truth” becomes obsolete by another new “truth.”

I have the only book of truth I need that’s the same yesterday, today and forever: God’s word.