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CHOOSING TO BELIEVE WHAT'S IMPOSSIBLE

Evolutionists say that life arose as a result of spontaneous generation; that it all began as inorganic matter, or pre biotic soup, a puddle of green slime. They call it a "fortuitous concourse of atoms." Doesn’t that sound intellectual? A flash of lightning hit the puddle of scum and life began. Now why would intelligent people believe that?

Dr. George Wald (Nobel Prize winner in Biology and professor of Biology at Harvard) said, "There are only two possibilities as to how life arose; one is spontaneous generation arising to evolution, the other is a supernatural creative act of God, there is no third possibility. Spontaneous generation, that life arose from non-living matter, was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others. That leaves us with only one possible conclusion - that life arose as a creative act of God. I will not accept that philosophically because I do not want to believe in God, therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution."

(From a sermon by Joseph McGaha, Something From Nothing, 12/8/2009)

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