Botanical Conundrum

I have been enjoying a lot of driving time through the hills of north Georgia and Tennessee for several weeks and have watched as the leaves have changed from green to all sorts of yellow, orange, red, and brown.   Yesterday, I found myself thinking about evolution and how it is such a thoroughly childish “scientific” idea.  The more I thought about it the more disappointed I became in the wasted years of the past century that many people have devoted to studying something so patently absurd and so easy to disprove.  The evolutionists are not even aware of the childlike nature of their position. 

Think about it for a moment.  Why is all evolution centered on animal life?  Look at the way all evolutionary doctrine presupposes a certain botanical background.  Never mind that (if evolutionists are correct) it would be necessary for the botanical background to come up from an evolutionary process as well.  The evolutionist establishes his workshop of development squarely in the midst of trees and grass and shrubs and a fruity/nutty environment that just so happens to agree with the digestive systems of the animal things. And what a lucky coincidence that the carbohydrates and proteins are already properly developed and stable in their abundant support for the MILLIONS of years that it takes to get animals to the upright and rational stage.  It’s as if someone coordinated the effort on the part of plants to be wholesome for the benefit of the animals that would come along.  Sounds suspiciously like the order of creation in Genesis 1.

 And then we have the same absurdity in the realm of theology.  Calvinists think they are so grown up in their understanding of God vs. most of mankind.  Their development of the limited and limiting notions of pre-determination is all processed in a framework of love.  It’s very much like the botanical background above.  Calvinists skip over the part about God caring for that which He created to try and advise Him on what few things in His workshop are worthy of Him.  They want to get all the developmental details of what is worth having in the Eternal Realm firmed up without noticing that God’s love was put into operation before there was any sense of what is worthwhile.  And then, of course, all the Calvinist hype is designed to avoid the crazy notion that God/Jesus (Jesus IS God) is willing to BECOME sin itself in order to cleanse that for which He declared His love.  We are all better off continuing to be confessing sinners while we remain in the workshop of Grace (1 Corinthians 3:10-11).  Our only alternative, it would seem, is to become so “good” that we turn Pharisee and lock in our homeland as Hell (John 8:33).  There is one remedy: cling to the cross.