Understanding and believing the doctrine of creation in the book of Genesis is foundational

in accepting, listen carefully, that the holy Bible is to be taken seriously when it

speaks to the real world.

A well-known scientist, himself an evolutionist, made an observation about amino acids, the

building blocks of life.

He said that for amino acids to have originated by random chance, would be as likely as a fully

assembled Boeing 747 being formed by a whirlwind blowing through a junkyard of airplane parts.

That anecdote illustrates this.

Even evolutionists have questions about how the world and everything in it got here.

But does that mean that the theory of evolution is absurd?

And if there truly is evidence for a young earth and a literal six-day creation, why is

that evidence so often ignored, even in churches?

Keep those questions in mind today on Grace to you as John MacArthur continues his study

titled The Battle for the Beginning.

Now here's John.

Modern evolutionary theory has demanded and received almost universal acceptance in the world.

The theory that no one created the universe as it is, but that it came into being by chance

and it progresses through constant changes, mutations and transitions upwardly from simplicity

to complexity, completely through a random process, basically, rules human thought.

I suppose we expect those people who reject God and those people who reject the Bible,

those people who do not love the Lord Jesus Christ, who do not know Him, those people who

love sin, those people who don't want a moral judge or a moral law, we expect those kind

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