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If evolution has really occurred, we ought to be able to see the evidence in the fossil record.
After all, that's the record of the past. But if we look at that fossil record carefully,
we see that there are no recorded instances of one type of an animal ever changing into
another. There are no transitional forms. One of my advisors is working in the field of
paleontology and has been working on the distribution of fossils in the record and has found that there
are no interspecific transitional forms, something that of course the creation model would have
predicted and did predict long before this research was done. Let's go to the British
Museum of Natural History to the man who wrote the book there on evolution, Dr. Colin Patterson.
I wrote to Dr. Patterson and asked him why he didn't put a single picture of an intermediate
form or a connecting link in his book on evolution. Dr. Patterson now, who has seven million fossils
in his museum, said the following when he answered my letter, quote, I fully agree with
your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If
I knew of any fossil or living, I certainly would have included them, unquote. Later,
he said, I will lay it on the line there is not one such fossil for which one might make
a watertight argument.
Thank you.
Hello, I'm Chuck Smith.
And I'm Carol Matricciana. Welcome to this edition of The Pagan Invasion.
For nearly a century and a half, evolutionary thinking has made tremendous inroads into
the hearts and minds of our scientific community. This is ironic considering the fact that science
defines itself as the ability to observe and test things. Yet no one has ever observed
evolution taking place and there is no conceivable way in which evolution can be tested. And
as we have learned from a previous program, no hard evidence exists in the fossil record
or anywhere for that matter to prove that evolution has ever occurred. Still, the idea
that nonliving chemicals changed into life and that one life form can change itself into
another life form continues to be presented to the public as proven scientific fact. To
promote evolution as strictly science is especially deceiving when one considers its religious
roots. Evolutionary thinking has been around for thousands of years and it forms the basis
of many of the world's pagan religions. While Charles Darwin is often referred to as the
founder of scientific evolution, he himself was actually a theologian having been trained
in England's Cambridge University, not in science but in theology. Darwin was also a
high degree freemason whose religious belief was in direct opposition to biblical creation.
John Dewey along with other signers of 1933's Humanist Manifesto were by their own admission
members of a religious movement which they called Humanism. Their militant goal was to
get their religious beliefs in evolution placed in science courses and indeed all courses
throughout America's public school systems. Today, many leading evolutionists do recognize
the basic religious attributes of evolution and concede that their belief in it is in
essence a religious one. British biologist L. Harrison Matthews writes that a belief
in the theory of evolution is exactly parallel to a belief in special creation with evolution
merely a satisfactory faith on which to base our interpretation of nature. Physicist H.S.
Lipson states, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion. Almost all scientists
have accepted it and many are prepared to bend their observations to fit in with it.
Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist of the British Museum of Natural History and
who was by all accounts one of the world's leading evolutionists, goes so far as to say
that evolution is positively anti-knowledge.
With today's cry sounding even louder for separation of church and state, we have to
ask why one religious thought, evolution, is being advanced with our tax dollar in the
public schools and museums while the other perspective, special creation, is being censored.
In the year 1925, school teacher John Scopes was on trial for presenting evolution as science.
Scopes was eventually found guilty, but not before a dangerous precedent was established.
For the first time in a U.S. court of law, the existence of a creator god was challenged.
In July of 1925, the trial of the century took place in Dayton, Tennessee. For the first
time in educational history in this land, the concept of a creator was totally challenged.
This was the great turning point. Up until 1925, all of your science classes taught creation.
Today all that you have taught in the science classroom is evolutionism.
John Scopes, a school teacher, was found guilty of violating Tennessee law which prohibited
the teaching of human evolution. Less than ten years later, by 1933, the humanist manifesto
was signed by a small but powerful group of people presenting themselves as a non-profit
religion. Their religion was humanism, and it swept through the educational system through
the zealous pursuits of John Dewey, a socialist and first president of the American Humanist
Association. Today, public schools are the seminaries for Dewey's religion of humanism
and its doctrine of evolution dominates the educational system.
Now, today we do have religion being taught in our public schools. The fundamental tenet
of humanism, for instance, as listed right in the humanist manifesto. Tenet number one,
religious humanist regard to the universe as self-existing, it was not created. Tenet
number two, man is the product of a long natural process, that is evolution. A very few people
originally got control of our education system in this land. One of the things that was imperative
for them to push through their programs was evolutionism. Most people do not believe that
evolution happened. The fact that most scientists do, or practically all scientists do, is in
a sense neither here nor there because, in fact, we would like the ideas to get across
to our students. The thing that the average Christian in America has never realized is
that his tax dollars pay the school teacher's salary, they pay for the textbooks, and yet
most parents still will not say one word about anything that happens in that classroom that
disturbs them. For parents to allow a godless indoctrination in evolutionism is just unthinkable.
Thousands of children are bussed daily to our museums as part of school-sponsored field
trips where they're given crash courses in evolution. And just like in the Soviet Union,
this religion of atheism is presented as fact with no alternate viewpoints allowed to be
expressed. Attorney Wendell Byrd argued the case for balanced treatment of creation science
and evolution before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is author of the book, The Origin of Species
Revisited. To me, the basic issue is academic freedom because no one's trying to exclude
evolution from public schools while teaching a theory of creation. Instead, the evolutionists
are trying to exclude alternatives while, in general, defending the exclusive teaching
of evolution. Well, I think creationism should be taught in schools simply because all good
ideas should be taught in schools. I think we shouldn't be afraid of ideas whether we
oppose them or whether we're for them. I think we should expose everyone to both sides of
the issue. Eighty-six percent of the American public believes that the theory of evolution
ought to be taught along with the scientific theory of creation, according to an AP NBC
News nationwide poll. I think creation should be taught in schools because it's a part of
what we are and I think it should be taught with an open mind, without religious intonations.
Lawyers nationwide, more than 2 to 1, agree that it is constitutional to teach the theory
of creation along with the theory of evolution. And lawyers better than 2 to 1 believe that
both should be taught in public schools. Yes, creation should be taught in schools. Equal
time should be given to evolution and creation. Forty-two point three percent of biology teachers
believe in teaching a theory of creation along with the theory of evolution. And the same
is true of school board members, two-thirds, according to a poll by the American School
Board Journal. The fact is that contrary to all of the smoke, the great majority of the
American public feels that it is unfair to teach just the theory of evolution. No more
than six percent have ever wanted only evolutionism taught, but there is such total domination
and control in the scientific community that we still are placating the six percent of
the people in this land who believe there is no God and believe that the universe created
itself. Well, since there's no one answer and you can't prove the past yet, then both
ideas should be taught. The only fair approach is to let the children hear all of the scientific
information and make up their own minds. The Finding Fathers of Evolution based their theories
not on scientific evidence but simply on wishful thinking. The goal was to disprove the existence
of God. The lack of evidence is something which has haunted evolution's devotees ever
since, yet incredibly hasn't diminished its promotion. Roger Oakland, who co-authored
the book The Evolution Conspiracy with me, is a former evolutionist himself and biology
teacher. Recently I asked him about evolution, its history, and its impact on education.
Evolution is man's perspective on the origin, the history of the universe, and the origin
history of life, and really it's an attempt to explain away a supernatural explanation
for the beginning of all things. So man attempts to come up with his perspective of why we're
here, where we've come from in the past. Who are some of the founding fathers of this
evolutionary thought? Well first of all, I think it's important to understand that the
founding fathers were not overwhelmed with facts which caused them to question the reality
of a creator. They were individuals who were looking for an explanation to explain away
God the creator. They didn't want to have to rely upon a supernatural event as the beginning
of all things that exist in the universe. One of the key individuals was a man by the
name of Erasmus Darwin who was actually Charles Darwin's grandfather. The interesting thing
is that his views seem to be directly related to some of the eastern mystical views. In
fact, he headed up a group which he called the Lunar Society. They met once a month on
the full moon, hence the name Lunar Society, and some metaphysical eastern ideas were actually
incorporated into his beliefs and Erasmus Darwin wrote two books called The Zoonomia
in which he laid out his view on the origin and history of life, that life came into existence
from non-life and then progressed and developed over time from lower levels of complexity
to higher levels of complexity. Another significant founding father would be Charles Lyell. He's
been called the father of uniformitarianism or the belief that the earth is billions of
years old and that the layers of the earth were laid down gradually over very long periods
of time. His whole objective was to explain away the view that there had ever been a catastrophic
global biblical flood in the past and so his view was that these layers or strata were
laid down gradually uniformly over long periods and as a result was then able to cast doubt
on the authenticity of a global flood which the Bible talks about. The major founding
father of evolution would be Charles Darwin himself who popularized the idea that life
could be traced to a common ancestor, a simple form of life that then developed and progressed
over long periods of time to bring about the existence of every form of life which we see
in the earth today. Have today's educators actually advanced the theory of evolution
in a systematic formal agenda? I believe so Carol as you look back through the history
of education and specifically the last forty or fifty years there literally has been a
program to use the public schools to advance evolution without being challenged by any
alternative views on the subject of origins and really when you look at this you see that
there's some key individuals who propagated an idea back in the 1930s who actually wrote
up an agenda called the humanist manifesto which basic objective was to advance evolution
and to question the reality that there is a creator. And some very interesting individuals
were part of this organization. You've heard of John Dewey who is called the modern father
of progressive education, one of the most influential individuals in education in North
America. He was a signer of this humanist manifesto along with another gentleman by
the name of Francis Potter. An interesting quote could be gleaned from a book that Francis
Potter wrote in 1930 called humanism, a new religion. He stated, education is thus a powerful
ally of humanism. What can a theistic Sunday school meeting for an hour once a week and
teaching only a fraction of the children do to stem the tide of the five day program of
humanistic teaching? So it was literally the objective of some of these individuals to
use the schools to advance their belief in man which is based on humanistic belief which
is basically a religion and to use evolution as the means of explaining away a creator.
Have teachers who promote another theory of the origin of life been suppressed or opposed
in any way? That is actually a fact Carol as you look back over the last ten years there
literally has been an organized agenda to advance evolution and to suppress anyone who
had come up with a creationist perspective labeling a belief in creation as religion
and the belief in evolution as something which is science. Actually in 1981 there was a meeting
that was held in Washington DC where the National Academy of Sciences along with the National
Association of Biology teachers because they were concerned that evolution was not being
advanced quickly enough and that creationism was presenting itself in the schools and the
public schools together decided that they would come up with some kind of a strategy
to attack the creationist movement and this meeting you can read about it in a science
publication science volume 214 November 6th 1981 describes some of the people who were
at the meeting and what their objectives were and Frank Press who is the head of the National
Academy of Sciences then was instructed that he should meet with influential people to
see what they could do to stop creationism from being presented in the public schools.
It's interesting that ten years later in the state of California for example there has
been an agenda to try to improve the quality of science education by allowing only evolution
to be presented in the science classrooms with no mention whatsoever of an alternate
view based on creation and I'm sure you've seen some of the new curriculums science framework
which is just put out by the California Department of Education which basically states that in
order to teach life science, earth science, astronomy, evolution should be a fundamental
central concept of the curriculum. Evolution which Darwin described as descent with modification
is the central organizing principle in life science so evolution is being promoted as
science and that it shouldn't be questioned that it is as much a fact as gravity. Roger
are there any other key individuals who have organized a campaign to discredit creationism
or creationists? There are many individuals but let me just mention a few one of the most
important individuals who has done everything he can is zealous against the creation movement
is a man by the name of Isaac Asimov of course well-known science fiction writer he is a
signer of the Humanist Manifesto in the updated 1973 version. After the 1981 meeting in Washington
D.C. Isaac Asimov wrote an article called the Dangerous Myth of Creationism in which
he basically says that those who believe in a creationist view are dangerous to our society
today because they are literally trying to push a belief in society that there is a creator
that there is a god and they are pushing science back into the dark ages and these individuals
like Asimov believe that if we implement a view in our public schools an alternative
view to evolution that our children's education is going to be destroyed. There are countless
examples of individuals qualified individuals that have either lost positions or tenor have
been fired simply because they are not willing to go along with the world evolutionary view
in stating that the facts support evolution. They'll say that the facts don't support
evolution and as a result of that they are removed from their positions. Let me give
you a couple of examples. Forrest Mims a well qualified science writer with Scientific American
recently removed from his position because it was found out that he believed in a creationist
perspective although he had not written articles from a creationist perspective he was fired
from his job. Just recently in the Capistrano Unified School District in Southern California
a public school teacher a high school teacher because he was teaching that there were facts
that didn't support evolution was being attacked by other biology teachers and by superintendents
that say that he cannot continue teaching the way he is teaching because of the new
science curriculum which says that evolution must be advanced without any opposition. Institute
of Creation Research of course well known around the world for advancing a creationist
view based on scientific observable evidence has come under attack by the California Board
of Education claiming that they do not teach evolution properly and therefore could not
be accredited as a private institution. So you can see there's all kinds of major confrontations
which are occurring evolution is being advanced and a belief that there's a creator is being
attacked and literally abolished from the school system. Teaching our children to think logically
and to think clearly isn't this the job of our educational system? Yet as the result
of the exclusive teaching of evolution students sense of logic must be discarded. For example
if the intricately precise design of a Swiss watch is the result of a designer what about
say the human eye? Is it logical to assume that the eye had no designer even though it
is billions of times more intricate and precise in its design than a watch? And what about
the DNA code found in each living cell? The purpose of that code is to prevent one life
form from changing into another type of life form and yet evolution is based on the idea
that life forms must change into other types of life forms. Is that logical? Students are
taught evolution as fact from kindergarten through university. Scientific evidence making
evolution look bad is not permitted and no opposing views on origins are allowed.
With other concepts of how life got started to be taught in the public schools I don't
think creationism should because creationism is a thinly disguised religious doctrine
which has got no place in the separation of church and state. The main issue that is always
raised in opposition to teaching all the scientific evidence on the subject of origins is that
it violates separation of church and state to teach evidence that doesn't happen to
support evolution. People should simply be able to hear the truth. A fact is a fact.
You don't throw it out just because it happens to agree with the Bible. That doesn't make
it religious. Teaching a theory of creation is constitutional because the constitution
was written in the context of the Declaration of Independence which refers to creation and
even to a creator. In response to public outcry for the presentation of creation science alongside
evolution Louisiana and Arkansas were the first states to pass laws mandating balanced
treatment for both theories. It was agreed that only scientific data minus religious
doctrines be presented in the classrooms. The Louisiana legislature in 1981 passed a law
for quote balanced treatment of creation science and evolution. The law also defined what evolution
is quote scientific evidence supporting evolution. It defined what creation science is quote
scientific evidence supporting creation. Immediately aggressive litigation was put into action
by a powerful organization which is firmly directed against traditional Judeo-Christian
principles. The influential ACLU or American Civil Liberties Union equipped with over five
hundred active attorneys invested huge amounts of money and successfully protested the law.
One of the biggest problems you have with the ACLU is that they're so well funded they
get millions and millions of dollars from large foundations and from wealthy people
all across America. That's what they did to us. They tied us up in court in Louisiana.
We filed a slim brief of six hundred thirty pages with two thousand footnotes arguing
that creation science is constitutional to teach, scientific in content, and as non-religious
as evolution. The U.S. District Court judge entered a summary judgment against us nonetheless
saying that creation science involves the concept of creation which implies a creator
which is inherently religious. The ACLU was able to convince the Supreme Court that creation
science was basically religious. The Court violated the Constitution by redefining the
First Amendment author's intention which is against favoring any one religion above another.
In their decision the Supreme Court favored naturalistic evolution, a belief of religious
humanists. The scientific community is very seriously worried about the growth of creationism
as an attack on the validity and the autonomy of science and particularly in the insistence
that creationism be taught in the public schools and science courses. There's a very strong
network and general feeling that creation, theories of creation, maybe theories of abrupt
appearance are a menace to science. Let me mention several organizations that actively
today try to prevent it from being taught in public schools. Committees of Correspondence,
People for the American Way, the American Humanist Association, the American Civil Liberties
Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Academy of Sciences,
the National Education Association, the National Association of Biology Teachers, and the Biological
Sciences Curriculum Study. There is one anti-scientific theory today that most threatens the whole
nature of scientific inquiry. It is creationism. Today we really have an organized conspiracy
in this country in every state that is organized to fight the open hearing of scientific evidences
on origins. The result was the forming of a loose network of active organizations that
will cooperate to combat the creationist intrusion into the public schools, public museums, national
and state parks, and the governmental funding of science research. They have a very specific
desire to preserve the exclusive teaching of evolution and to exclude any teaching of
a scientific theory of creation or a scientific theory of abrupt appearance. That's censorship
in my view. We have today what is unquestionably the worst case of censorship, good scientific
data that happens to make it look bad for evolution, but that is meticulously censored
from the textbooks. In an American society where we have always taken great pride in
freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of belief, freedom of press, it's
just so unfortunate that we have such great censorship in our scientific community today.
Would you talk about some of the ways that today's scientists are promoting pagan thought
or metaphysical theories through evolution? I found, Carol, that there is another trend
that's occurring in our society today. While creationism has been labeled religious and
every effort made to remove it from the public school classroom, Eastern religion is being
advanced as science and is being accepted and endorsed. They're also saying that in
the future man will take another step of evolution to a higher level of consciousness, literally
advancing onwards towards a new species. So we're talking about a new dimension, an elevation
of consciousness into a higher dimension, which is basically a metaphysical idea. And
these ideas are being advanced by many prominent people and are literally being endorsed by
many educators. This idea of an elevation to a higher level of consciousness is an ancient
idea. It originated in Babel. It was a belief of the Hindus who believed that a serpent
force or a psychic force would lead one on upward into a higher dimension, a higher elevation
of consciousness. In this book here called Kundalini for the New Age by Gopikrishna,
the author states, I've sown the seeds of what I consider to be the most pressing need
of mankind, namely information about the evolutionary mechanism in human beings slowly drawing the
race to a golden future of harmony, peace, and happiness. And he says that Kundalini
yoga, a practice by ancient Hindu practice, is something that needs to be incorporated
into our society today, should be introduced by science to our generation to make this
next step of consciousness occur in our time. So metaphysical ideas are being endorsed as
science and believe me, they are being welcomed by many educators and being advanced in the
education system. What are some of the examples and ways that today's educators are bringing
paganism into our schools? Well Carol, in my office I have shelves of material and documentation
that parents have brought me from various public schools of how their children are being
indoctrinated with Eastern religion. But let me give you one example. Here is a book that
has been used in a public school classroom in Southern California. It's entitled Meditation
for Children. And the author, by her own admission in the back cover of the book, claims that
she is an educational consultant for many school districts. She has taught transpersonal
psychology and meditation to all age groups in the California public schools. Her books
have been sponsored by superintendents of several school districts and by church leaders
as effective educational tools. Then she says, much of knowledge from which we draw in learning
to use meditation to get in touch with this great wisdom inside us comes from Eastern
meditators, many Hindu and Buddhist. So religious ideas are being accepted in the public school
classrooms and they are masquerading as science. And the author goes on to say that these techniques
and these therapies are necessary in our educational system today to allow us to take another step
of evolution. This is exactly the same deception, the same lie that has been repeated throughout
history over and over again. Ancient pagan practices are being reincorporated into our
society today and the public schools are being used to spread them and propagate them.
It's apparent that evolution is playing an important role in the pagan invasion today.
From your perspective, what are the reasons? Solomon, the Bible claims as one of the wisest
men that ever lived, said there's nothing new under the sun. History merely repeats
itself. And in the past when man willingly removed God from his thinking and trusted
in himself, the pattern was that he turned to a metaphysical, supernatural, fallen spiritual
dimension. It has happened many times. And every time that that occurred, when man trusted
in himself rather than God, he turned to the fallen spiritual realm. Evolution today has
been the means by which God has been removed from our thinking. Evolution is literally
a gateway to the gods and this New Age belief that elevation of consciousness can attain
godhood is the same belief that the ancients believed in. It began in the Garden of Eden.
It was repeated at the Tower of Babel and it occurred over and over throughout Old Testament
history. Once more, history is repeating itself in our generation.
Today many students are not only being denied good science, they're being force fed a pagan
Hindu occult religion in its place. In giving credibility to evolution, science has moved
from the realm of physics to metaphysics.
I think that man is evolving into a state of higher awareness, higher consciousness,
higher vibration. And I think that the best representation that we have of man's movement
in that direction is what's going on in the consciousness movement, New Age movement.
Reincarnation is going on all the time. Many people believe and I believe that the purpose
of life is to grow and that you grow as much as you can in each lifetime and of course
we believe in reincarnation.
One prominent world religion today gaining much popularity through celebrities like Shirley
Maclean is known as the New Age movement or the New Consciousness movement. At its heart
is reincarnation and karma, both part of evolution which is based in Eastern mysticism.
The New Age movement is asking us to recognize our oneness by accepting the idea that we
all evolved from the same pond. And if we can unite our minds and spirits using techniques
such as meditation and channeling, we can supposedly get incredible powers, achieve
global unity.
New Age is an interrelated network of various philosophies and political causes. Its goal
is to promote an awareness of global oneness physically and mystically.
Everybody from Jesus Christ to Adolf Hitler would be seen as someone who we can identify
with because we are all one.
I think that certainly there is every potential for all of us as spiritual beings to merge
as one.
We've mastered the evolution of the physical body. We've mastered the evolution of the
mind or we're moving in that direction. So we're coming to a time where we're using
this perfected, quasi-perfected body, this opening and perfecting mind to access the
true perfection of the universe which is the spiritual dimension.
According to New Ages, the next phase of mankind's evolution is elevation to Godhood. They see
the human race as a transitional form between apes and God.
That's I think our purpose on earth and I think we're understanding that. It's to make
ourselves whole, to become one with ourselves and then to realize our Godhood.
I believe that everyone has Christ consciousness within themselves and all they need to do
is go inside and realize that and bring it forward and be that Christ consciousness.
Evolution whether biological or mystical is man's way to explain away God and His creation
and put man in God's place.
Man has basically got the biological future of the earth in his hands. He can control
evolution.
We're in a time now where man is literally taking control of his own evolution, taking
control of where mankind goes both individually and collectively.
I believe that the New Age movement is heading into the mainstream of American consciousness
and I think that it's going to get there by exposure in the mass media.
The ideas, the concepts, the principles, the psychology, the spirituality. I think that
this is a movement that will go all the way around the earth and ultimately serve as a
vehicle to transform levels of consciousness that will allow us to live in a more natural
harmonious way with the elements and with the universe.
The desire for Godhood which is the goal of the New Age consciousness movement is the
same thing that brought about the fall of man. In being our own gods we can justify
our behavior and are accountable to no one.
In the Bible, Romans chapter one warns us about the natural consequences of rejecting
God the creator. It results in man becoming involved in wickedness and moral corruption.
If there is a moral governor in the universe then each person in this universe is responsible
to that moral governor. The easiest thing in man's mind to do is just to dismiss the
possibility of that moral governorship.
Adolf Hitler used the Darwinian thesis of natural selection, the survival of the fittest,
to weed out who he considered to be the inferior strand of humanity.
He brutally tortured and killed 12 million people, 6 million Jews and 6 million non-Jews.
In effect we are doing the same thing today with abortion, euthanasia and infanticide,
weeding out those whom we consider to be unwanted persons.
Since 1973 in the USA alone nearly 25 million unborn human beings were killed by abortion.
It is one baby every 20 seconds.
If we deny that man is created in the image and likeness of God then we lose the dignity
and purpose of life. If we agree with the evolutionary premise that we are no more than
evolved animals then humankind loses all moral perspectives.
We can either choose to look to evolution for the answers or we can choose to consider
an alternative. Just look at the vastness of the universe with its galaxies, solar systems,
the planets all circulating in perfect precision. There are more stars than grains of sand in
all the world. Just think of the complexity of life, the intricacies of the eye, the ear,
the heart or the human brain. Is it logical to assume it all happened by random chance
or was there an awesome creator and designer behind it all? The Bible says that man is
without excuse because all around him he can see through the evidence of nature the mighty
workings of a creator God.
Our public school system has been described often as a zoo and is it surprising when you
teach the children that they are animals that all of a sudden they begin to act like animals
and out of control? If when a child is first able to understand or to learn anything you
begin to teach that child that 2 plus 2 equals 5 and as they get into kindergarten and go
on through school they are taught 2 plus 2 equals 5. That child will come to believe
that 2 plus 2 equals 5 and yet that child will be destroyed from ever able to understand
or to learn math. When you start with an illogical basis it destroys you from being able to ever
think logically or clearly on the subject. When you take the premise that you can have
design without a designer that is an illogical premise but if a child is taught that from
kindergarten through university then the child will begin to believe that you can have life
forms and the design in life forms without the designer but they will be destroyed from
ever being able to think logically and clearly. The Bible clearly teaches that in the beginning
God created the heavens and the earth and all the way through the Bible there is the
assertion that God has created man and all of the life forms within it. That is logical
because of the design that demands actually the designer and it is important that we not
only see the design in creation but you can come to know the designer himself and that's
what he intended when he designed you. Within all of us there is a God shaped vacuum. Throughout
the ages man has attempted to fill that void with the things of the world but it is only
through a relationship with our creator that we can be truly satisfied. His holy scriptures
reveal the way in which we can be reconciled to God and that is through the provisions
of his son Jesus Christ. I'm Chuck Smith and I'm Carol Matricciana. Join us again
for another edition of The Pagan Invasion.
The Pagan Invasion is an explosive new 13 part video series providing a thorough behind
the scenes examination of today's new age movement and neo-pagan revival. Each superbly
produced volume features rare footage from around the world along with expert analysis
by noted Christian leaders and authors. For more information contact your local Christian
bookstore or call 1-800-828-2290. California residents call 1-800-633-0869.
The Pagan Invasion is an explosive new 13 part video series providing a thorough behind
the scenes examination of today's new age movement and neo-pagan revival. Each superbly
produced volume features rare footage from around the world along with expert analysis
by noted Christian leaders and authors. For more information contact your local Christian