Several years ago, I wrote a public piece jokingly advocating that Charles Darwin’s body be exhumed and sent to a lab for DNA analysis. I mentioned that I believed the results would show no direct relation to tadpoles, monkeys, or apes, although a correlation to dust would be found.
I was immediately besieged by harsh comments from scholarly critics who said I knew nothing about DNA. They were mostly right, as I understood little of the subject. I can’t remember DNA even being mentioned in my early 1970s high school biology classes.
I wasn’t a Biblical scholar back then and knew little of what I’d just written, other than it sounded logical. If anything, a song composed in 1976 spurred my idea forward as music sometimes does.
The song “Dust in the Wind” was penned by Evangelical Christian Kerry Livgren of the band Kansas. Its message reflects on the fleeting nature of life, the limits of wealth and achievement, and the reality that human accomplishments are temporary.
I believe that Livgren’s final message in this tune is that our bodies are made of dust and will return to it. For those questioning things, simply turn to Genesis 7:7 and 3:19, as well as Ecclesiastes 3:20. Kerry Livgren evidently knew these verses well. The next time you sing along with this song, remember the story behind it.
Evolution is something that some instructors tried to cram down my throat in my last years of public school, although in Alabama and Texas, not so much. These states were considered the Bible Belt back then and still are. Liberal ideology had infiltrated the curriculum in Alaska, and NEA officials, along with selected teachers, spoon-fed it to students. I was one of those who regurgitated.
As young parents, and with our eyes wide open, my wife and I elected to send our children to Christian schools, while at the same time still having taxes taken from our pay for public school. It was tough, but we paid double for their education through all 12 years without complaining. We believe it paid off as they avoided the secular brainwashing.
I did some studying on Charles Darwin to see what his religious beliefs were. Baptized and raised in the Church of England, Darwin at one point was headed toward becoming a clergyman. Somewhere along the way, he changed and became agnostic. Darwin died in 1882, some 144 years ago.
It is claimed by some that he recounted this viewpoint while on his deathbed. Those same scholarly critics who attacked me say this is poppycock because it sticks a dagger into their evolution theory. Because Charles is deader than a mummified Egyptian, there are only two ways to prove they’re right.
His body needs to be exhumed, DNA removed from it, with an attempt to clone his existence. Only then can we ask him. The only other way is to wait until we die.
If I find Charles Darwin in Heaven, I’ll know for sure that these anti-creation experts were wrong. Something tells me, ultimately, those evolution scholars might find that information not so gratifying, especially when they go looking for him elsewhere and discover Charlie is not there.
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