A few years ago Ken Ham debated Bill Nye, “the science guy.” Creation vs. Evolution. I admire Ken Ham, the founder of the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky. We all ought to go there and support this Biblically accurate work. But my question is: Why bother to debate a non-debatable position? What do I mean by that?
God said in Romans 1:19-20, “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.”
God has said that everyone has had the truth of God manifested or made evident to their conscience. So there are no true atheists. Those who deny God are blasphemers. Do you not blaspheme God when you deny His written word? Is it not also blasphemy when you don’t believe in the Biblical story of creation?
So if we know God exists, why do we even ask, “How could God do that?” Huh? God can raise the dead. He can do anything He wants to do. He is the God who makes something out of nothing. Duh!
That is what I mean by presuppositional creationist. I believe in the evidence of God put in my conscience that He exists and has revealed Himself to us in His Son Jesus Christ. Therefore I believe that the word of God is true and that creation happened just like the word of God says that it did. That’s it. Pretty simple.
Ken Ham could have stopped right there and pounded away at Bill Nye’s blaspheming of God and the denying his own awareness of God, but instead he tried to prove through science that God is the creator. Which I agree we should be able to answer the Godless evolutionists because creation makes sense. But the real battle is not between creation and evolution but between the creator and His enemies.
Why do people even have to say “I’m an agnostic” or “I don’t believe in God”? They must label themselves because they are denying the very basic depth of their conscience. They are fighting against their own soul and the spirit of God that cries out to them, “I am.”
Why do we struggle so much to keep toddlers in clothes? Because they are innocent. When a child starts to be ashamed of being naked, then he has become aware of sin, just like Adam and Eve were naked and ashamed. They realized that they were in sin. Why do I remember as a little boy knowing nothing about the Bible and God, yet talking to Him? How did I know to do that? It was in my genes. It was in my DNA. He made me, and even in a lost, sinful state, I knew He was there.
I am a presuppositional Creationist. Presupposition means to suppose beforehand. To take something for granted. What is it that I presuppose? What is it that I take for granted? That everyone believes in God. Therefore there is no need for debate. We have the truth of God in our hearts, minds and the pages of the Word of God.
Jack Ward is the pastor of Tomahawk Missionary Baptist Church.