By Russell Standish
I have never met an individual who truly believed in evolution.
I put my impression to the test on one occasion. I was conversing with an evolutionist who was quite dogmatic in his view that mankind originated through the process of natural selection and chance accumulation of molecules.
I looked around me and noticed a soft-drink bottle. Picking it up, I held it in my hand and said to the evolutionist, “I can see what you mean, for here is a perfect example of evolution.”
He assumed that I was being humorous, but I insisted that I was deadly serious. I asserted that a chance accumulation of silica and borax under intense heat had formed the glass. I acknowledged that normally this would have resulted in a shapeless blob of glass and that countless billions of such chance phenomena had produced no object of recognizable or useful shape, but here
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The late Russell Standish was a physician, an ordained pastor, and an administrator who served on three continents. He and his twin brother, Colin, co-authored 76 books together on a variety of topics. Visit www.standishlibrary.org for more information.