The Stalemate
Science has NOT been able to "create life." Scientists have succeeded in the laboratory in combining certain elements to manufacture amino acids, which produce various substances resembling organic proteins. But these combinations of elements are NOT LIVING.
Create LIFE? — they have NOT! Their bubbling broths and mysterious "witches' brews" have never produced a single LIVING CELL! That is a FACT! Let's not become "bug-eyed" about fantastic claims!
Researchers have NOT found the key to life — nor have they even come close to finding it! They have been looking in the WRONG PLACE!
Each new scientific discovery, rather than pointing the way to the key of life, has led scientists FURTHER AWAY from the real key to LIFE! The plain truth is that the "key of life" CANNOT be found in the test tube or scientific laboratory. It is NOT there!
Science is on the WRONG TRACK!
The Life-Giver Revealed
As long as man seeks to find his OWN way to obtain immortal life, by changing and controlling human heredity, he is bound to fail! Only the Almighty GOD can impart LIFE.
God declares, without reservation, "See now that I, even I, am He, and there IS NO GOD WITH ME: I kill, and I make ALIVE; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand" (Deut. 32:39).
The Almighty God of the Bible is LIFE GIVER! And He reserves this divine prerogative for Himself.
In Genesis 1:1 we read that GOD created the heavens and the earth. He is the all-powerful CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE! All things were not created by the process of evolution. All things were created by the hand of GOD! "In the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth" (Gen. 1:1). God is CREATOR! Science cannot duplicate the creation of God!
When will men learn? When will they come to understand?
When will they recognize that God alone reserves the right to CREATE life — He alone gives life — He alone is LIFE GIVER!
As long as men ignore the God of Creation, who alone possesses the "key of life," they will continue to stumble and grope in ignorance!
We also find in Genesis one that God created LIFE upon the earth — both plant life (vs. 11) and animal life (vs. 20-25), and then, the greatest MYSTERY of all — human life! (Gen. 1:26-28) How plain! YOUR marvelously intricate, fantastic body — with its billions of living cells, each specialized to perform certain necessary functions, all working TOGETHER in a wonderfully complex way — was created by GOD. It did not "evolve"!
Genesis reveals that each plant reproduces "after its kind." Each animal also reproduces "after its own kind" (Gen. 1:24, etc). Animals did not later give rise to man! From the time of creation the great LAW of BIOGENESIS has been in effect. Each kind reproduces after its OWN kind, just as it does today. Each kind has its many lesser varieties, but all the varieties reproduce after their one kind. They do not become some other kind.
God set these laws in motion. They never fail! Never, for example, do catfish give birth to other than catfish. Cattle give birth only to cattle. Amoeba never to something other than amoeba. The testimony of nature shows that, always, without alteration, without fail, each Genesis KIND reproduces after its OWN created KIND! Variations and mutations may sometimes occur within a Genesis kind — but NEVER can Genesis kinds "cross" or jump gaps to give rise to totally NEW kinds!
Truly, as David was inspired to write: "O Lord, how manifold are THY WORKS! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is FULL of thy riches" (Ps. 104:24).
In the light of the testimony of CREATION, "The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firmament sheweth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is NOT heard" (Ps. 19:1-3).
In the undeniable light of this fantastic witness, "The FOOL hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Ps. 14:1). God calls doubters and skeptics just what they are, in His sight — unmitigated fools — blithering idiots!
Yes, it is time you understood how God in heaven views the pseudoscientific blathering of today's educated, scholarly, erudite "men of science" who DENY His existence! The perverted "wisdom" of this present evil world IS FOOLISHNESS WITH GOD! (I Cor. 1:19-25)
Science Gone Amuck!
Long ago the forebears of modern science, the "wise" men and "learned ancients" of yesteryear, jumped the tracks of sound reasoning. The amazing story is found in your Bible, chapter one of Romans.
Notice! The apostle Paul wrote, "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold [i.e., suppress] the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be KNOWN of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the CREATION OF THE WORLD are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal POWER and Godhead; so that they are without EXCUSE" (Rom. 1:18-20).
"Without excuse"! But why? Read on: "Because that, when they knew God" — yes, at one time those ancients KNEW of God — "they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became VAIN in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was DARKENED" (vs. 21).
The ancient philosophers had the testimony of Creation as a PROOF of God. They could look at the Creation around them and know there had to be a Creator. But, in their own esteemed intellect, they rejected the proof, and, as a tragic result, they became VAIN, their understanding was darkened, and they went ASTRAY from the truth! "Professing themselves to be wise, they became FOOLS"! (vs. 22)
And today, evolutionary scientists are following the SAME WRECKAGE-STREWN PATH, accepting the same old evolutionary theories, burying them-selves in the fruitless, futile search for an evolutionary "key" of life! What does the Word of Goo say about this fantastic search?
Again, the answer is in YOUR BIBLE!
Speaking of these end-times, the apostle Paul wrote, "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and WORSE, deceiving, and being deceived" (II Tim. 3:13). Men engaged today in a futile quest for the key of life are just as DECEIVED! The lure of immortality has blinded their minds to the plain TRUTH! Their attempts to create LIFE as destined to end in catastrophe.
Speaking of such "men of science," the apostle Paul declared: they would be "EVER LEARNING, and NEVER able to come to the knowledge of the TRUTH" (II Tim. 3:7). They are simply headed in the WRONG DIRECTION! The real key of life CANNOT be found lurking in a boiling, bubbling, soupy broth under the inquisitive eye of a microscope!
Man's Futile Ambition
The real meaning behind today's fantastic quest for the "key of life" is simply this. Mankind has REJECTED the revealed knowledge of God's Word. Scientists have IGNORED the revelations of the Word of God. The Bible is ridiculed in today's classrooms.
Man has REJECTED God's Way and is striving to find his OWN way to achieve IMMORTALITY! Scientists hope that present investigation will lead them to control of human heredity, control of human characteristics and the aging process so that this knowledge can be used to control the LIFE OF MAN — and lead to HUMAN IMMORTALITY!
Already one biologist has pronounced it "not really fantastic" to think in terms of a human life span stretching across TWO CENTURIES! Research, they dreamily hope, will lead to new weapons in the battle against genetically caused diseases which today baffle mankind. Hemophilia, birth defects, cancer — these are a few of the scourges which further research is promised to eliminate.
Research in medicine and biology is to lead to man's replacing failing organs of the body, even as worn-out automobile parts can be replaced! Scientific hopes and aspirations are AWESOME! But it is all a perverted dream.
Research in fetal development may someday enable scientists — so is the claim — to improve the physique, mentality and talents of children — before they are even born! "Super-babies" are the dream! That was also Hitler's demented dream! And the result, if God does not intervene to stop it, will be a race deformed, demented and plunging to utter extinction. Remember thalidomide?
The scheme will NOT work! Science has IGNORED God!
Today's frantic search, in reality, is merely man's latest feeble attempt to devise his own IMMORTALITY — to out-promise God! It is man's newest attempt to find the mystical "fountain of youth" — the fabled "pot of gold" at the end of the rainbow. But the secret of ETERNAL LIFE is not to be found in the test tube!
Science has gone amok in a wild-goose chase leading nowhere!
The truth is — God freely offers YOU the GIFT of eternal LIFE — if you are willing to believe Him — surrender to Him, keep His commandments, and OBEY Him!
The REAL Key of Life
Jesus Christ declared, "He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of LIVING WATER. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Spirit was not yet given . . ." (John 7:38-39).
Jesus said, "But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into EVERLASTING LIFE" (John 4:14).
Did you notice it? What is the REAL "key of life"? It is the HOLY SPIRIT OF Goo! The Eternal God Himself will impart eternal LIFE to those who surrender to Him, repent of sin (Acts 2:38) — acknowledge that Christ died to pay for their sins and who now keep His commandments (Acts 5:32; I John 3:4) — through the Holy Spirit!
God's free gift — ETERNAL LIFE in the God Family — is available to you! Science, snooping among test tubes, has gone berserk. But, if you turn to God, the Creator of the Universe, and surrender to Him, He will GIVE you the gift of everlasting life — divine IMMORTALITY!
Research, of course, goes on. Every tiny, minute new discovery — lingering in the offing — gives scientists further encouragement. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. Tomorrow, they dream, may bring the final fantastic biological breakthrough!
But "tomorrow" will never come. That "final discovery" will never be made. God will cut short these mad experiments that could lead to a race of degenerate babies — not super-babies! Scientists will be forced to concede that they have not found the answer.
They have not "ALMOST" succeeded.