Uniformitarianism
“And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers
fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the
creation.” 2 Pet. 3:4
In Peter’s time, the early Christians were really looking
for the Lord’s return, and there have been sporadic periods of prophetic
interest in the twenty long centuries since. The far greater part of the
world’s population, however, is utterly indifferent to this hope, and even most
of those who are working for global change today are working to bring in a
world system based on evolutionary humanism rather than looking for God to
return to His creation to restore His creation to its original perfection and intent. In fact, most of the world’s people do not even believe
in a personal Creator God at all, let alone His divine incarnation in Christ
and His great plan of salvation. They are too busy “walking after their own lusts.”
beginning of the creation. The pseudo-scientific rationale for
this indifference to the promised consummation of all things when Christ
returns is their belief that there was never any real creation of all things in
the beginning. The things that continue today, they say, are the things that
have always been, and therefore always will be. This is the so-called principle
of uniformity. According to this principle, it is assumed that the processes
that govern nature today have always been the same in the past, so that the
present is the key to the past. Since no creation is occurring today, it never happened
in the past either.
All things continue. Not just after creation was finished, but
“from the beginning of creation.”
Thus, what people have called “creation”
was accomplished by the same natural processes that continue to operate today.
This means, then, that “creation” has
been proceeding so slowly over long ages as to be quite unobservant in the
mere few thousand years of human records. This remarkable belief is
evolutionary uniformitarianism, and it completely dominates the scientific and
educational establishments of every nation in the world today. It has been made
the basic premise of origins and meaning, not only in science and history, but
also in the social sciences, the humanities, the fine arts and practically
every other discipline of study and practice in the world. This indeed is a
most remarkable fulfillment of Peter’s prophecy, and surely must indicate that
these days really are “the last days,”
unless somehow the Lord brings about a great revival of truth in the world’s
schools. Global warming fits their agenda to gain a global government to fight
the warming caused by man's influence in the environment. A single government
is not enough to fight this global phenomenon they say is dominant from their
twisted science.
Uniformitarianism error
begins with a twisting of Genesis records. Their shallow thoughts they believe
they can account for how our world came into being, and we may determine how it
will continue forevermore into the future, purely on the basis of our present
observations of nature and its processes. Observational experience which we
call empiricism, things which we can learn from our five senses alone. We don't
need the Bible. We don't need God's special revelation in Scripture. We can
project backward and forward by our own imagination without God's word, the
whole story of how the universe got here and how it's going to end on the basis
of what we see with our eyes before us today. These are called the scoffers
that shall come. The moral problem with these people has just been discussed in
the previous verses, they walk after their own lusts and you can be sure no one
ever adopted uniformitarianism evolution because the "FACTS" forced them to. The facts get twisted and it
is because they don't want God in their life; after his own lusts, self-centered
person, not God-centered and not wanting God in his life, not wanting God's
interpretation or explanation of the world. He has deliberately excluded God
from his world view, from his cosmogony, from His eschatology. No place for
God's word on how the world began and how it is going to end and how it must be
interpreted and understood today.
These are not pagans from less educated nations but
theologians who know what the Bible teaches, but who deny it by twisting it out
of recognition. These say, "Where is
the promise of the second coming?" The theologies they promote and teach leave out the truth that teach against their stances. They therefore know the Bible
teaches the 2nd coming of Christ, but they simply deny that it is to be
understood literally. No scientific person of today would take these things
seriously today, they would say. We take these as poetic, beautiful thoughts
but not literal, historical, prophetical statements. Their proof of a
non-literal 2nd coming with global catastrophe is, "All things continue as they were from the beginning of the
creation." There has never been any divine intervention ever,
everything has basically been as it is, kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall,
occasional local catastrophe, floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, yes, but no
supernatural intervention to completely transform and disrupt the world system,
introduce new laws and processes, and relationships between God and man and
natural forces. All things basically continue as they were from the beginning.
That is the uniformity of nature gone to seed.
continue One of the big
errors of the evolutionary concept is that creation continues, of new things, always
everywhere, but gradually appearing through endless ages of time. Genesis says
there was a beginning of creation alright, but that there was also an end of it
6 days later, and there has been no creation since, except for the
supernatural, miraculous acts of Jesus in the Gospels. Not so with modern
science and its evolutionary thought.
