Professor Bain is wrong to eschew Christian concepts and teachings of the word of God

PROFESSOR Sir George Bain stated (Saturday Review, November 24) that he no longer accepts the key Christian concepts, such as God as creator and the Bible as his infallible word. He is now an atheist.

Atheists believe that evolution is the only show in town. Natural selection explains everything, including the origin of life. The gap between life and non-life is unbridgeable by any known process.

The structure of DNA has been known for 65 years. One would have thought that, with numerous scientific minds focused on the problem, the steps required to produce a self-replicating entity would now be known. However, reports to date mean, “We haven’t a clue”. Since Richard Dawkins cannot provide a plausible journey from non-life to life, he is in no position to calculate such a happening.

Natural selection is an easily demonstrated feature of nature, but it is not creative. It can only work on information already existing. It can not add any.

DNA bears all the attributes of a language, including a four-letter alphabet, which forms words bearing instructions recognisable and translatable by cell machinery. How could a language arise from chaos without a creator?

A question often posed by atheists is: “Who made God?” Dawkins holds that to claim God as creator involves an infinite regress, which gets us nowhere.

However, the Bible (God’s self-revelation) declares that God is Spirit (John 4). This changes everything, as God being Spirit is far above his creation and beyond our comprehension.

But we can understand the call to repentance in Isaiah 55, where God says: “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

God finally revealed himself in the person of Jesus, who saves us if we put our trust in him and repent.