A SNAKE, ALLIGATOR, CROCODILE,
TURTLE AND A BIRD
This past weekend my wife and I had an opportunity, through her work, to go to IMAX Theater, Indiana State Museum, the zoo and White River Gardens with all the butterflies. At the Indiana State Museum there was a live play put on about reptiles. The first character came out dressed like a frog. It was his job to interview different creatures to find out what a reptile was. The first one was a snake, followed by a turtle. After them were the crocodile and the alligator. They had a real cute little song and tested the audience about what they had learned.
At the close of it, however, they had one more creature come out. It was something to represent a "bird", whereupon all the characters were on the stage singing about the reptiles and closing the song about the bird. The audience laughed and was fairly well entertained. I, on the other hand, was disturbed almost to the point of being angry. I saw little children there who had just been taught that reptiles turned into birds. To see cute characters dressed up in funny clothes entertains children. The reality is that reptiles with scales somehow manage to turn their scales into feathers and their short legs into wings.
Here is what God tells us. There is one kind of flesh for man, another for animals, another for fish and still another for birds (I Corinthians 15:39). Why go to all that trouble and list the different kinds of flesh? The Bible is God’s Word (II Timothy 3:16). Because it is God's Word it is right. God tells us that not all flesh is the same. To those who chose to be cowards and try to be something called, theistic evolutionist, what do they do with this passage? If an alligator or a snake got up into a tree and changed into a bird, why then do we still have alligators and snakes? If after the alligator or snake got into the tree and changed into a bird, what about all the other alligators and snakes left on the ground?
You see, at this point there arises a major problem. What made the alligator or the snake decide to get into the tree to begin with? Whatever caused them to get into the tree, made them different intelligent wise than those who remained on the ground. You see it is not just getting in the tree but it is staying in the tree long enough to develop wings so that they could fly out of that tree. Now while the alligator or the snake is waiting for wings to develop what do they eat while they are waiting? This creature in the tree, which is changing into a bird, is “smarter” than the ones on the ground. The ones on the ground that are “dumber” than the ones in the trees continue to eat the things on the ground. The alligator or the snake in the tree, changing into a bird, learns how to eat the leaves off of the tree they are sitting in waiting for their wings to develop.
This certainly sounds like nonsense does it not? Yet this is the kind of things that our children through twelve years of public education are exposed to. As we went through the first floor of the Indiana museum, it was nothing but more of the same. The Christian who chooses to accept God and His Word is at odds with the world in which he lives. Jesus warned the disciples that the world hated Him and they would them hate the apostles because of Jesus (John 16:1-5). If we continue steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine, the world will, likewise, not care for us (Acts 2:42).
Birds were created on day five (Genesis 1:22,23). The land animals, and man, were created on day six (verses 24-31). Is this in accord with the idea that a reptile (land animal) turned into a bird? It certainly is not. What then are we to do? On which side do we come down on, in favor of? God said He created birds on day five and land animals on day six. Our children are taught that the land animal turned into the bird. You cannot have it both ways. If the bird is first, then it cannot turn into a land animal. If the land animal is first, Genesis is wrong.
As Paul declared in Romans, "let God be true, but every man a liar." (Romans 3:4). Amen and amen.