April Fools’ Day post on April 2. I feel like such a fool.

The psalmist declared, “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’", (Ps 14:1) so I’ve always been tempted to suggest that April 1 is the founding feast of Atheism. But then Jesus came along and said “...anyone who says, 'You fool !' will be in danger of the fire of hell. (Matt 5:22), so we all have to be very careful here. Jesus does have a knack for spoiling the fun sometimes.

Anyway, this idiotic battle between Evolutionists and Creationists has been going on since long before any of us arrived, and I’ve spent my ministry just staying out of it. There are serious questions about God’s existence, but these folks seldom get to them. They’re actually all about science and politics. But every once in a while the battle rises to a level of slapstick that’s worth watching.

The actor Kirk Cameron, (TV series Growing Pains and movie series Left Behind, which I always thought was a Christian show about turning the other cheek), together with his friend Ray Comfort, have been dissing Charles Darwin lately. They have a bunch of stuff on Youtube, an ongoing battle with Richard Dawkins, and recently they released a very funny bit called the Atheist’s Nightmare. Click on the link and check it out, it really is pretty funny.

Well, I’m afraid the humour was lost on Richard Dawkins and his friends (surprise, surprise), and now they are calling Comfort “Banana Man”, and spending their time teaching the actual history of the development of the banana. Interesting, but dumb.

Now, if you’re one of those who didn’t get that this is a joke, don’t feel too bad; it took me a while too. So much of the “serious” Creationist stuff is so ridiculous that it’s hard to pick out the jokes. In fact, if you’ll click on the link, Richard Dawkins’ Nightmare, Comfort, himself, admits that you really need a laugh-track to tell when a Creationist is joking.

Look here fellas – Creationists and Evolutionists alike – JUST SETTLE DOWN!!! It’s only fun till somebody loses an eye. And use your indoor voices. Some of us are trying to think.

The Bible says that God created the heavens and the earth; that’s everything, folks. But it doesn’t really say much about how he did it. It’s fun to speculate about the “how” questions, but it’s just speculation. And the “specs” keep changing.

For a while the earth was on the back of a turtle, then it was floating in water, then it was fastened to whatever, with everything going around it, now it’s fastened to nothing, with everything going around everything. People have always had theories (the dreams that stuff is made of) but they’re theories, just theories.

And here’s my theoretical contribution:

On the eighth day God got tired of resting,

so he created Evolutionists and Creationists.

Evolutionists to test our faith;

Creationists to try our patience.