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Author Topic:   Where do Creationists think the Theory of Evolution comes from?
Zhimbo
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Message 12 of 109 (259955)
11-15-2005 1:04 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Whirlwind
11-11-2005 11:12 AM


Well, Henry Morris, founder of the ICR, has seriously suggested that evolution originated with Satan, meeting with Nimrod and his priests, at the Tower of Babel:
"Its top [the Tower of Babel] was a great temple shrine, emblazoned with zodiacal signs representing the hosts of heaven, Satan and his 'principalities and powers, rulers of the darkness of the world' (Ephesians 6:12). These evil spirits there perhaps met with Nimrod and his priests, to plan their long-range strategy against God and his redemptive purposes for the post-diluvian world. This included especially the development of a non-theistic cosmology, one which could explain the origin and meaning of the universe and man without acknowledging the true God of creation. Denial of God's power and sovereignty in creation is of course foundational in the rejection of His authority in every other sphere. . . . If something like this really happened, early in post-diluvian history, then Satan himself is the originator of the concept of evolution.
"One question remains. Assuming Satan to be the real source of the evolutionary concept, how did it originate in his mind? . . . A possible answer to this mystery could be that Satan, the father of
lies, has not only deceived the whole world and the angelic hosts who followed him--he has even
deceived himself! The only way he could really know about creation (just as the only way we can know about creation) was for God to tell him! . . . . He refused to believe and accept the Word of God concerning his own creation and place in God's economy . . . He therefore deceived himself into supposing that all things, including himself and including God, had been evolved by natural processes out of the primordial stuff of the universe. . . ." (Morris, Troubled Waters of Evolution, 1974, pp 74-75).
I pulled this text from this website:
The Alternative to Creation and Evolution:
but I've read the original text. One of my first exposures to Creationism. Funny how I tend to think of creationism as religiously motivated anti-science.

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