An Analogy to Evolutionism

I wanted to share with you a little analogy I thought of to describe the ridiculous idea of Evolutionism. For this, you’ll have to depart from your Christian mindset and pretend that you are simply part of the world’s system.
Imagine that you are a writer, and for the past 6 years, you’ve devoted yourself to finishing a novel that you believe is your greatest work. You now try to publish your beautiful story, and introduce the world to an idea so profound and complex, that no matter how closely you examine the details, it only gets more amazing. Immediately, you run down to the publisher’s office and give him the story. He has never published anything by you before, but the comments he makes on the storyline you gave him sound promising, and he says he’ll look it over. Only a day afterwards, the publisher writes you back and says he loved your book. In fact, he loved it so much, that he read the whole thing that very night. He also says he can’t wait to publish it, and, after quite a bit of rambling, finishes the letter with the remark that he thinks it will go down in history as a work of art equal to that of DaVinci.
The publisher has it edited and checked for mistakes, but strangely finds none, and leaves the rough draft unchanged. Very soon after that, you begin to see advertisements everywhere, and you see reviews for it in many magazines. By six month’s time, it seems like the whole population of America has read it, and you see in the news a story on movie producers who are fighting for the rights to make a movie out of it. You see reviews everywhere on the internet by people who absolutely love it. Some experts claim its popularity will succeed Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, even Star Wars. Everything seems to be going fine, until something happens. While looking through a local bookstore, you notice a section of your books. You examine a copy, and realize that your name is nowhere to be found on the cover, and you have to look in the back of the book, where you only find a tiny biography that certainly doesn’t give you the credit you deserve. You write an email to the publisher stating your concern, but he never replies. As you follow up on this occurrence, you notice that news channels are starting to discuss rumors that you didn’t actually write the story, but just found the idea and developed it into a book. This, of course, is not true, but the rumor progresses on anyway. It begins to seem that the media thinks it was originally a folk story passed down and developed through years of storytelling, and that you were trying to take credit for it. Soon, they decide that you were really a con artist, using a phony identity to gain fortune through this story, which has been around since the ancient times. This is ludicrous, since your story relies on numerous elements of technology that could never have been thought of back then. The book continues in popularity, but your name is no longer in it at all, and it becomes taboo to speak of you in schools while discussing your book. It now seems like you do not even exist. You never saw any money for your work, and it is hard for you to continue life, because your name is no longer respectable.
Here’s the key: the writer is God, and his book is all of creation. The publisher and the media is popular culture. Even though there is endless proof against it, the common idea has now become that everything came from nothing, evolving over a absurd amount of time. Most people now days teach that God does not exist.

Back On!

Sorry, guys. I've actually been grounded from computer for the last month and haven't able to write more blogs. I'll see if I can start writing them again, but that may end up only being once a week.

First Video Up

I finished the first Michigan Propaganda Video and I posted it on a different blog for security's sake. There should be a link to it in your email. If you have trouble getting to the site, drop me a comment, and I'll try to fix it.

Conference Update 2

Well, the conference continues, and a couple of us were having trouble keeping our eyes open during the seminars--not that they're boring, I guess we're just a little tired from traveling.
The worship is still exciting (and no, were not falling asleep during that.) Pat Schzebel and his boys led worship this morning, and Denon Kauflin (Bob's son) led it in the evening, introducing us to some neat songs from the New Attitude CD.
Mark Altrogge's announcements were especially hilarious, even though he had no formal announcements to make. He continued his theme on "Heroic Worship" by reminiscing on some of the old songs written by him, Bob Kauflin, and Steve and Vicky Cook.
We ended the day with Mark Dever's sermon on Seeing Christ in the Psalms, which was informative, but deep enough that it was hard to follow. And the fact that our heavy eyes were catching up with us again didn't help either. My hope is that they'll make a DVD of the conference so we can share the excitement and the fun with you guys.

Conference Update 1

Hey, guys! We made it to Maryland, and the drive wasn't as long as I thought it would be. The conference got off to a great start, and I'm sure the rest of it will just be awesome. I wanted to share something really cool that happened while we were singing. Because there were so many musicians there, we seemed to be able to clap in perfect unison. Then we started singing The Doxology just acapella, and though it was rough at first, I thought we sounded like a 1600-piece choir. What a way to start off the Worship Conference!

To the Worship Conference

In case you haven't heard, my dad, my brother and I are going to the Sovereign Grace Worship '08 Conference in Maryland, so don't expect to see any Michigan Videos in the immediate future. I've finished videoing the Tour of the Lakeview Lodge, but I've got to finish editing it. I'm taking my laptop to Maryland, so maybe I'll be able to post some things about the Conference from the Hotel.

Christian Unity and the Entertainment Industry

Here’s another example. We all know that the entertainment industry is going downhill, and it’s hard to find a decent, clean movie our whole family can watch now days. Imagine if all Christians decided not to watch any movie rated above G. Think about how their business would drop! They would frantically search for wholesome things, and they would come to us, begging for help and ideas!

I finished the first Michigan Propaganda Video yesterday, though it won't be the first one you see. Were going to video the tour of the Lakeview Lodge today, so I'll be posting it soon!