As I checked into my Twitter account on Tuesday, I saw a tweet that linked to a story about a 17 year old “HERO.” After clicking on the link, I found that the boy was being applauded for his efforts to stop the teaching of creationism in Louisiana schools. In 2008, the state passed a law that, according to the article, “permits creationism to creep into the public schools under the cover of scientific openness.” He decided that it was simply unacceptable for schools to teach creation. As he put it, “If you reject evolution, you reject all of science.”
The world has made itself very clear over the centuries – religion is a fantasy made up by stupid, insecure people. They tell us that God is like our Santa Claus in the sky. It’s all just a figment of our imagination because we don’t want to think hard enough to deny God’s existence. After all, the smart people don’t believe in God. All the scientists and Ph.D. holders don’t believe in God, right? Self-important college professors challenge students who stick to their belief in a Divine Being by using practiced rhetoric to belittle the students for disagreeing with “the obvious.” Because only stupid people believe in God, right?
Intellectual elitism has run amok in the world of research and academia. Professors, scientists, doctors, and other “intellectuals” look down on people like me because of our narrow-mindedness. They roll their eyes at people who put any stock in the Bible. They snort when they see someone bow their head to pray. Basically, they do everything in their power to make us look like idiots. One would have to wonder if Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Nicholas Copernicus, Sir Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein (in short, the greatest minds of the last half-century) would brow-beat and belittle modern scientists for their lack of belief in God.
Today’s scientists base their work entirely on the foundation laid by those men, and yet somehow we’re stupid for believing in the same God that those legends believed in. If we’re keeping score, I think Newton (the smartest person to walk the earth since Jesus, in my opinion) is probably a little bit smarter than today’s “intellectuals” who just “can’t suffer the ignorance of people who believe in God.” Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a cover-up of a lack of argumentation. When it comes down to it, scientists can’t give any dates for sure. They can’t tell us where the matter involved in the big bang originated. They can’t explain how something as complex as the human brain could be developed naturally from a cosmic accident. They can’t tell us how a single-celled organism could suddenly start adding organs and bones and intelligence. But that doesn’t deter them – they just yell louder and belittle us all the more.
God exists. Just pointing to “smart people” as a reason to drop my belief in God is not sufficient. The 17 year old labeled as a “HERO” is not standing up to anything. He’s simply believing the lie that has been fed to us for decades, that only stupid people believe in God and creation. Not only can I smarter point to people who also believed in God, I can point to a world that is completely inexplicable apart from Divine design. Just saying “I’m smarter than you, so I’m right” doesn’t hold up anymore. It’s time the scientific world started backing up what they say.