Who Is Our "Intelligent Designer"? Part 6

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Intelligent Design Movement (IDM) theorists insist that they want Darwinian evolutionism to disappear and for truth to prevail in the academic and scientific world.

They believe this can and must be done without any appeal to the Word of God. “In contrast to traditional creationism, the ID proposal relates only to a designer, without identifying the designer or specifying whether the designer is natural or supernatural.” Furthermore, “Intelligent design is not anti-evolution” (H. Wayne House, ed., Intelligent Design 101 [Grand Rapids: Kregel Publishing, 2008], pp. 212, 175). But note the infinite difference between the IDM strategy and God’s plan: their strategy collapses in the presence of human depravity, while His plan includes a perfect solution to this problem and will therefore succeed. That is why God can assure us that when His Kingdom comes “the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea” (Isa. 11:9 KJV).

At last, everything in creation will be seen in the light of God’s perspectives, and all forms of evolutionary and materialistic thinking will be totally removed from the world. But only God can accomplish this, and it will be done exclusively through His Son, the Messiah of Israel, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. These are some of His qualifications: “The spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him [the Messiah], the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD” (Isa. 11:2).

All other “gods” or “designers” have failed and will fail. As God announced to Jeremiah, “The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens” (Jer. 10:11).

To qualify as the true God and worthy of worship, one must have created the entire universe! That narrows the competition to one Person—Jesus Christ, God’s Son. As God continued to explain to Jeremiah, “He hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by His discretion” (Jer. 10:12).

But how do we know that this Creator is Christ, the Messiah of Israel? The New Testament is crystal clear on His identity. “For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him, and for Him: And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist … that in all things He might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell” (Col. 1:16-19).

The apostle John, speaking of “the Word … made flesh,” confirmed: “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made” (John 1: 14, 3; cf. Heb. 1:2).

But many Old Testament passages predicted that Christ our Creator would be “despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief” (Isa. 53:3; cf. Psalm 22:11-18; Zech. 12:10). This is exactly what happened when He came to earth and presented Himself as the Savior of the world. His claims and His gracious offer of the Kingdom were rejected, and He was crucified. But God the Father honored His Son, and “hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:9-11).

Thus, ultimate truth cannot prevail in homes, schools, or governments until Christ returns. Until that day, God warns us: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in Him, which is the head of all principality and power” (Col. 2:8-10).

Dr. John C. Whitcomb has been a professor of Old Testament and theology for more than 50 years and is widely recognized as a leading biblical scholar. He taught at Grace Theological Seminary (Winona Lake, IN) from 1951-1990 and gained much recognition for his work on The Genesis Flood (Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company), which he co-authored with Dr. Henry Morris in 1961. That book has been credited as one of the major catalysts for the modern Biblical creationism movement. His ministry homepage is Whitcomb Ministries, and his sermons are available at SermonAudio.com.