So What?

by Tas Walker

Why should anyone be interested in biblical geology?

Because geological ideas do not operate in a vacuum. They provide the foundation for our worldview, and our worldview affects us at the deepest level.

You may have never studied geology, and not have much interest in the subject. However, if you believe that this world is millions of years old you have unconsciously picked up significant geological ideas from our culture, and these ideas affect lots of things.

Frank Press and Raymond Siever in their geology textbook, Earth, (1986), explained the worldview of modern geology thus: ‘As modern geology started gathering momentum through the work of James Hutton and others … there was an obvious return to the old Greek way of looking at things.’

Note, 'old Greek way of looking at things.'

F. Sherwood Taylor, Curator, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford said the same thing on BBC radio in 1949, ‘In England it was geology and the theory of evolution that changed us from a Christian to a pagan nation.’

Note, 'to a pagan nation.'

And that has consequences for you and your family.

Long-age geology basically says that the Bible cannot be accepted as reliable history. So if you can't believe the Bible's history, why should you accept the Bible's morality and salvation? Hence we have seen the collapse of Christian values in the West, in places like the UK and Europe.

With the collapse of Christian values we see rising crime, domestic violence, abortion, drug abuse, alchoholism, homosexual behaviour, sexual slavery, family break down, and disturbed children.

Dahmer

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer's life, as well as his victims and their familes, were tragically impacted by his worldview. When interviewed in prison about the people he murdered he said 'If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what’s—what’s the point of—of trying to modify your behaviour to keep it within acceptable ranges? That’s how I thought, anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth that we all just came from the slime. When we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing …' (Dateline NBC interview with Stone Phillips, Aired November 29, 1994.)

Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University, made this sobering observation on ABC Radio, Australia, in April 2006.

'I myself, although I was not brought up in a religious household, and I suppose if I were pressed, would have to admit to being a kind of incurable atheist, I’m nevertheless strongly convinced that religion performs important social functions in the transmission say, of ethical values between generations, and that a society that does away with it, that ceases to engage in any kind of formal religious instruction, is a society that’s likely to be less good at maintaining social order than one which maintains a measure of religious faith and observance. And that is based purely on historical observation.

'The experiments with atheism as the basis for political order, say in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution, did not produce happy results. So I think one really does away with Christianity, or indeed one does away with God at one’s peril. Human beings do seem to behave better when they have some sense of moral authority in the world, and indeed some kind of formal system for inculcating good ethical behaviour.'

But no one, not even Niall Ferguson, can hold onto a worldview that they believe is untrue, no matter how beneficial they think it is.

That is part of my motivation for this site. The fact is, and I hope you will come to appreciate it, that the Bible is true. Geology is an incredibly important issue that needs to be founded on biblical principles to provide the historical framework for the biblical worldview.

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