What about parasites? Evidence for creation? Sir David Attenborough has often been asked why he does not give the credit to God when he describes the wonders of creation. This was his reply on one occasion: “When Creationists talk about God creating every individual species as a separate act, they always instance hummingbirds, or orchids, sunflowers and beautiful things. “But I tend to think instead of a parasitic worm that is boring through the eye of a boy sitting on the bank of a river in West Africa, [a worm] that’s going to make him blind. “And [I ask them], ‘Are you telling me that the God you believe in, who you also say is an all-merciful God, who cares for each one of us individually, are you saying that God created this worm that can live in no other way than in an innocent child’s eyeball? Because that doesn’t seem to me to coincide with a God who’s full of mercy.’”4 Notice that Attenborough did not give a scientific reason for rejecting belief in a Creator. He gave a theological reason for rejecting belief in the good and loving God of the Bible. The first question, therefore, is “Why did God, if He is good and loving, create disease-causing parasites—not to mention all the other disease, violence, suffering and death which we see around us in nature?” The straightforward, biblical answer is that these evils did not exist in the original creation. They came into the world only after the Fall, when Adam and Eve disobeyed God (Genesis 3:14–24; Romans 8:18–25). They were part of the “Curse” (Revelation 22:3). Six times we are told that God saw that His creation was “good”, and the seventh time He saw that it was “very good” (Genesis 1:4–31).
Posted on: Sun, 09 Feb 2014 22:31:25 +0000
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