Well, the associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota–Morris, P.Z. Myers, who has been obsessed with me and my ministry, Answers In Genesis, for years, recently wrote a blog about me titled, “Waiting for Another Creepy Old Man to Die.”
He ended the blog stating: “That’s a problem with authoritarian cults. They are ruled for life by unpleasant, weird people who alienate everyone around them, and maybe instill in them the ambition to be in charge on their own. I hope I outlive Ken Ham, because I’d really like to see the chaos that will follow on his death.”
As we know, God’s Word states that, “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die” (Ecclesiastes 3:1–2).
So when any one of us dies is not up to what some atheist professor wants. God is in control of both Myers’ life and ours.
But this pagan university professor, who has continually blasphemed and mocked God and Christians, needs to wake up and take note of God’s warning: “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
And if Myers continues in his willing ignorance and rebellion against God, he will suffer a second death after the first death: “But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death” (Revelation 21:8).
I would ask us to all pray for P.Z. Myers as he is well on his way to a Christless eternity. He is 68 years old (younger than me), but God could end his earthly life at any second.
I thought I would start off with this today, as I want to remind us all that we are in a spiritual war. And this war is raging about us even more aggressively now than we’ve experienced in the past here in the West.
Years ago, someone said to me, “If you stand on the devil’s toes, he reacts. You guys must be kicking him in the shins.”
Recently, I’ve seen a level of hate against us that seems to be growing. And really, we should expect this. As we see the enormous number of people saved through Answers in Genesis, including over 100,000 a year at the attractions alone, we know the devil will be active. Actually, I believe that because we are in a war, if we’re not getting opposition, we should ask ourselves what we are doing! As we move the battlefront forward, proclaiming God’s Word and the gospel, we expect the enemy to fight back.
Just to give you a sampling of the enemies of God lashing out (reminding us of this spiritual war we are in), I will include just a sampling of the 20,000+ comments on one of my Facebook posts. The post was short: “Man did not evolve from ape-like creatures; the first man was made from dust, and the first woman was made from the man’s rib.”
Now, there were over 20,000 comments on this post, the majority from enemies of God! Let me share some with you:
“Daily reminder that Christianity is the mentally ill belief that a mud-man and a rib woman got tricked by a talking snek into eating a magical apple that gave them a hereditary illness which can only be cured by joining a human-sacrificial blood-cult so you can forge a psychic connection with a 2000-year-dead Jewish zombie ON A STICK..” [sec]
“It’s a shame a dingo didn’t eat Ken as a baby”
“If you take a flashlight and put it against this dudes ear the full light bundle wil shine on the other side”
“COMPLETE NONSENSE All…ALL..ALL LIARS SHALL TAKE THEIR PLACE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE Instead of preaching the gospel of Jesus AS HE COMMANDED YOU You have chosen a subject YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT”
“Just another Fake Christian Inbred KKKlan nut. He’s upset because his Sister divorced him when she turned 13 years old”
“And lizard people run the government and little mice make the wheels in your head go round and round. Silly science denier. I bet you also think the world is flat”
“Your level of religious fanaticism is equal to Muslims who put suicide vests on children. Your delusions are yours. Do the sane demographic a solid ad keep it to yoyr whack self”
“With an intellect as sharp as your’s, perhaps stick to debating dustmites?”
Okay, you get the idea! There were thousands like this, many of which I would not put in this article because they are so perverse. But should we be shocked at such a response from the world? Actually, we shouldn’t. But this last one I’m including is extremely sad because it highlights the state of the majority of our Christian institutions:
Hey! Theologian here. Ken Ham – I used to respect you vision. Your belief that there are answers in Genesis. Then I went off to Bible college, studied the book for myself, then compared that to what science tells us. Why are we still fighting this? There was no contradiction. Nothing at all in the text that should make us fight science. Genesis 1 WAS A RETURN to science… and you have made Christianity worse off by pretending science presented some type of jedpordy to the Faith. All it really shows is that you believe God didn’t have the foresight to write a Bible built on truth. Or worse, you don’t think God wrote Scripture at all.
So many young people from the church have gone to a compromising Bible college/university and come out believing no different than those who posted the comments I included above. A sad state of affairs but a situation that has greatly contributed to a lukewarm church that is, by and large, not impacting the church and culture as it should.
We really are in a raging war. That’s why Apostle Paul uses so much war terminology, reminding us to put on the whole armor of God so we can fight in this battle.
Now we also need to be reminded that this is a religious war.
Consider the atheists and other secularists (and even some people who identify as Christians) who went “ape” over my post. Over 90% of the comments were negative and most of them were highly emotional in attacking me and what Scripture teaches about origins—blaspheming God, attacking the Bible, many mocking me with the worst kind of profanity, and questioning my intelligence (the word idiot was used hundreds of times!). The emotions on display exposed thousands of evolutionists passionately defending their belief system. So many were so profane or blasphemous that we hid their comments. Obviously for them, origins is more than a science issue. Their worldview is challenged by the Bible.
The evolutionary worldview is a religion, one that’s practiced by those who attack Christianity. They have a nontheistic religion; in fact, evolution fits one of the Merriam-Webster dictionary definitions of religion: “a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith.” The dictionary definition of religion certainly describes the worldview of evolutionary naturalism. The beliefs of evolutionism purport to explain the entire world’s existence by means of evolutionary naturalism, and thus, it is an all-encompassing faith—a religious worldview.
Furthermore, the secularists who publicly argue against biblical Christianity (like the thousands on my Facebook post) have their own religious cause to promote as they zealously defend their belief in a naturalistic system of origins. What else would you call what they practice but a religion?
And following the definition above, because zealous evolutionists hold their beliefs with “ardor” and “faith,” they can be described as evangelists for their worldview—defending a belief system that informs how they wish to lead a life apart from God. So by this definition and what we saw from the zealous, angry evolutionists on my Facebook page, evolution is a religious faith. And thus, its avid proponents are religious.
As I say in my talks, in an ultimate sense, there are only two religions in the world—one based on God’s Word and the other based on man’s word.
