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The Biologist

One of the
best aspects of my wife JoAnne's Bed and Breakfast is the chance for
conversation with an interesting guest. People fascinate me, and the
laid-back atmosphere of the bed and breakfast allows me to get to
know our guests well. I was with a congressman the moment the Monica
Lewinsky story broke, and discussed the possible impeachment. I
enjoyed visiting with a Russian attorney who wrote the
post-communism Russian Constitution. But all our guests have good
stories, and I like to hear them. I 'replay' them later, and I have
the ability to remember conversations nearly word for word. That
memory skill comes from either thirty years as a financial planner,
or six years as a touring rock musician.

One of the
most interesting, and disturbing conversations, was with a molecular
biologist. Sam and his wife were in from New York to celebrate the
2000 New Year. I think they just wanted out of New York City, and
Lynchburg is about as "out" as they could get! Sam described himself
as a "secular Jew" and was not into practicing his religion.

(There seems
to be a lot of secular Jews and secular Christians around these
days.) I asked Sam about his profession and he told me that he was a
molecular biologist, specializing in genetic research. He and his
team were scientific "detectives" tracking down the cause of
disease.

Our
conversation went as follows.

G: "Sounds
like pretty complicated work."
S: "You can't imagine how
complicated!"
G: "Try me."
S: "I'm a bit like an editor,
trying to find a spelling mistake inside a document larger than four
complete sets of Encyclopedia Britannica. Seventy volumes, thousands
and thousands of pages of small print words."
G: "With the
computer power, you can just use 'spell check'!"
S: "There is no
'spell check' because we don't know yet how the words are supposed
to be spelled. We don't even know for sure which language. And it's
not just the 'spelling error' we're looking for. If any of the
punctuation is out of place, or a space out of place, or a
grammatical error, we have a mutation that will cause a
disease."
G: "So how do you do it?"
S: "We are learning as we
go. We have already 'read' over two articles in that encyclopedia,
and located some 'typo's'. It should get easier as time goes
by."
G: "How did all that information happen to get there?"
S:
"Do you mean, did it just happen? Did it evolve?"
G: "Bingo. Do
you believe that the information evolved?"
S: "George, nobody I
know in my profession truly believes it evolved. It was engineered
by 'genius beyond genius', and such information could not have been
written any other way. The paper and ink did not write the book.
Knowing what we know, it is ridiculous to think otherwise. A bit
like Neil Armstrong believing the moon is made of green cheese. He's
been there!"
G: "Have you ever stated that in a public lecture,
or in any public writings?"
S: "No. It all just evolved."
G:
"What? You just told me ---?"
S: "Just stop right there. To be a
molecular biologist requires one to hold on to two insanities at all
times. One, it would be insane to believe in evolution when you can
see the truth for yourself. Two, it would be insane to say you don't
believe in evolution. All government work, research grants, papers,
big college lectures - everything would stop. I'd be out of a job,
or relegated to the outer fringes where I couldn't earn a decent
living."
G: "I hate to say it, Sam, but that sounds
intellectually dishonest."
S: "The work I do in genetic research
is honorable. We will find the cures to many of mankind's worst
diseases. But in the meantime, we have to live with the 'elephant in
the living room'."
G: "What elephant?"
S: "Design. It's like
the elephant in the living room. It moves around, takes up an
enormous amount of space, loudly trumpets, bumps into us, knocks
things over, eats a ton of hay, and smells like an elephant. And yet
we have to swear it isn't there!"

I got to
thinking about Sam, and the implications of what biologists are now
learning. God Himself in Genesis 1:21 told us that He "created every
living creature AFTER ITS OWN KIND." (emphasis added) He told us
that He used a specific genetic code for each creature, but it took
science 6,000 years to discover, or even acknowledge a
code!

I didn't use
Sam's real name, although I doubt many New Yorkers read the "On the
Right Side". After all, Sam is a good man who deserves to earn a
good living. I am just a bit angry that we allow him to be bullied
by evolutionists. It makes me yearn for the day when all molecular
biologists will be able to say:

"Hey, there's
an elephant in our living room! Maybe we can make friends with
it!"

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