We Follow the Crowd
Most people are sheep or cows following the backside they see in front of them
I live in a 15-story condo building in Thailand, and there are three elevators on each floor. I get amused because, nearly every time the elevator stops at a floor, a person getting on will automatically reach out and push the button that closes the door. That happens at least 90% of the time, and I’m not exaggerating that figure. I used to do it, too, when I first moved here, and then I realized that, if I push that “close door” button, that door might—might—shut half a second quicker. I don’t push the “close door” button anymore because I’m not in half-a-second faster hurry to get wherever I’m going.
Why does nearly everybody push the “close door” button when they get on the elevator? There is certainly nothing wrong with doing so, but why do they do it? They do it for the simple reason that everybody else does it, and most of us, as humans, are sheep or cows and follow the sheep or cow backside in front of us. We don’t think for ourselves, we just accept the “zeitgeist” of our surroundings and do and believe what everybody else does and believes.
Why do most people believe in man-made climate change? It’s not because the scientific evidence—and certainly not the historical evidence—leads to the conclusion that mad-made activity is warming the planet. So, why do most people believe in “climate change”? Most people believe in climate change simply because they have been told that most people believe in climate change and we don’t want to be out of the “crowd” and be thought stupid or peculiar. It’s easier to just “follow the crowd to do evil” (Exodus 23:2), or whatever the crowd is doing, like believing in climate change. Or pushing the elevator “close door” button.
Why do most people believe in Darwinian evolution (they actually are not the same thing)? It’s not because the scientific evidence leads us to believe that small, graduated, microscopic changes over time have produced new species. That species “evolve” in the sense that there is adaptation within a species, or “kind” of animal is obvious and has never been denied by anyone. I’m different from my father and mother (taller than both and with blonde hair), and I don’t look anything like a Chinese person or African. Those are “evolution,” changes, adaptations within a species. But that’s not Darwinism. Darwin’s book was entitled “ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION,” the emphasis being mine. There is absolutely, positively no evidence that new species are being created, or ever have been created, by natural selection. Honest evolutionary scientists admit that, and we certainly do not see it happening today, nor has any scientist, since Darwin, performed any experiment creating a new species (that would take intelligence anyway, not be by natural selection). Whether Darwinism is true or not is not my point here. My point is there is no scientific, observable proof, using the “scientific method” that Darwinism—molecules to man—is happening or ever has happened. I invite the reader to read Tom Bethel’s Darwin’s House of Cards and Jonathan Wells Icons of Evolution (neither of whom are Biblical creationists), among other such analyses of the fallacies of Darwinism for further enlightenment on this matter. You’ll probably be shocked. Neither book is difficult to understand for lay people.
So, why do most people believe Darwinism? Most people believe it because they have been told that most people believe it. And we are mocked, ridiculed, and thought “stupid” and “unscientific” if we don’t believe it. And nobody wants to be thought of in those terms.
The “zeitgeist” of my condo building is to push the “close door” button when you get into the elevator. The “zeitgeist” of our modern world is to believe in man-made climate change, Darwinism, secularism, democracy, and a host of other historically and/or scientifically or philosophically dubious theories or ideas. Very few people can rise above the “zeitgeist” of their age—and every age has its “zeitgeist” and much of it is usually erroneous as is much of ours—and truly see things from a God’s-eye perspective. We are sheep, cows, following the backside we see in front of us.
I leave you with one final thought: don’t take my word for anything, either. Study and think for yourself. But draw only conclusions warranted by the evidence. God gave you a brain; use it.