Many prestigious scholars argue that human beings are simply another evolved life-form, brought into existence by evolutionary influences that are completely random and have never been guided by rational thought. If this assumption is true, then humans are the first discovered life-form that displays intelligence, making humans far superior to any other life form discovered by science. I suppose that would make humans: me, for example, master of my own destiny and maybe endowed by evolution to control the destinies of other less-well-endowed life-forms. If this presumption is really true, then it doesn’t take much speculation to posit that we humans are “gods,” the only manifestation of intelligence so far known to science.
A contrary opinion has been handed down to us that an intelligent God really exists, creator of the universe and everything in it, who endowed us humans with intellect and commands us how we should serve God. This is a very different explanation of why humans have intelligence. Both explanations cannot be true. I think it is important for me to recognize which position is true and to appreciate what I must really be in light of what is true.
If it is really true that God created me, endowed me with all the abilities I have, and expects me to serve him and obey his commands, then I must be far more than a randomly evolved life-form. There is an intelligent source for my existence that offers me a destiny that I can accept and fulfill or ignore to my own detriment.
Maurice A. Williams
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