I always find it interesting when someone who freely admits they know very little about the Bible wants to warn me I'm a fool for believing in it.

Then there are those who clearly haven't studied much on the theories of evolution but are adamant humans evolved from lower life forms and that anyone who doesn't grasp such a no-brainer is lacking basic reason.

In a great little paperback book I have, "Scientific Facts in the Bible," author Ray Comfort succinctly points out how the belief that creatures evolved without a Creator poses enormous dilemmas for "scientific" evolution.

"Take for instance the first bird," Comfort writes. "Did the bird breathe? Did it breathe before it evolved lungs? How did it do this? Why did it evolve lungs if it was happily surviving without them? How did it know what needed to be evolved if its brain hadn't yet evolved? Did the bird have a mouth? How did it eat before it had evolved a mouth? Where did the mouth send the food before a stomach evolved? How did the bird have energy if it didn't eat (because it didn't yet have a mouth)? How did the bird see what there was to eat before its eyes evolved? Evolution is intellectual suicide. It is an embarrassment."

Among the volumes and volumes of written material pummeling gigantic gaping holes all through Charles Darwin's evolution theories, I like Grant R. Jeffrey's arguments in his 1998 book, "The Signature of God."

Jeffrey writes, "Darwin admitted that millions of 'missing links,' transitional life forms, would have to be discovered in the fossil record to prove the accuracy of his theory that all species had gradually evolved by chance mutation into new species. Unfortunately for his theory, despite hundreds of millions spent on searching for fossils worldwide for more than a century, the scientists have failed to locate a single missing link out of the millions that must exist if their theory of evolution is to be vindicated."

In another book passage, Jeffrey reasons, "The evolutionary scientists who believe that man existed over a million years have an almost insurmountable problem. Using the assumption of forty-three years for an average human generation, the population growth over a million years would produce 23,256 consecutive generations. We calculate the expected population by starting with one couple one million years ago and use the same assumptions of a forty-three-year generation and 2.5 children per family. . .The evolutionary theory of a million years of growth would produce trillions x trillions x trillions x trillions of people that should be alive today on our planet. To put this in perspective, this number is vastly greater than the number of atoms in our vast universe.

"If mankind had lived on earth for a million years, we would all be standing on enormously high mountains of bones from the trillions of skeletons of those who had died in past generations. However, despite the tremendous archaeological and scientific investigation in the last two centuries, the scientists have not found a fraction of the trillions of skeletons predicted by the theory of evolutionary scientists."

Often when detailing the Bible's irrefutable revelations on all facets of creation, my pastor will remind people, "The Bible is the only absolutely accurate scientific textbook you'll ever get your hands on."

The Book of Job, for example, was the very first book written in the Bible and yet by examining even just one of its chapters, chapter 38, there is the potential for tremendous scientific discovery today.

Take what Job 38:35 reveals about the planet's energy sources. God asks Job, "Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?"

What He's saying is, "Can you say to the lightning, 'Go there,' and have the lightning come to you and say, 'Here I am, I'll serve you. What do you want me to do?' "

The message, in part, is that there are clean energy sources available in nature that have nothing to do with destructive petrol-chemicals or nuclear power.

"If I was a young man and wanted to be a scientist, I wouldn't sit around and say, 'Well, there's a God, uh, no, there isn't a God. Never seen God; must not be,' " says my pastor, Richard Jordan (Shorewood Bible Church, Rolling Meadows, Ill.), in a study I have on tape. "I'd wake up. Look around at creation. Where did it all come from?! How come it's so complex and complicated in design? If you just beat on a typewriter, every now and then you're going to get one or two words out, but a whole thesis? No, you know it takes a designer.

"Somebody asked me years ago, 'What's going to happen when they create life in a test tube?' and I said, 'Oh, that will be wonderful—it will scientifically prove that it requires a creator to create life. It doesn't happen unless you've got a creator.' "

In Job 38:37, God continues his line of questioning by asking, "Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?"

He's asking, "Job, can you control the climate?"

In all, God asks Job 35 questions about creation in the chapter. The underlying message is, "I want you to act like I created Adam to act. I want you to think like I created a man to think. Gird up your loins. Let's get on with it, Job."

Whenever the Bible mentions men "girding up their loins," it's a reference to preparing for battle.

"When God was doing all that He did in Genesis 1, He wasn't just creating a universe that was, 'La, la, la, la, it's all so wonderful and sweet,' " says Jordan. "He was creating a battlefield and pre-positioning the artillery—His munitions—to be ready to do battle."

The battle is the Second Coming and the terminology God uses for it can be found, in part, in His question to Job, "Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?" (Job 38: 12-13)

"God says, 'Job, have you ever gone out there and told the sun what to do? That sun that I already prepared in such a way that it can reach down and just shake the earth and shake the wicked out of it. You ever do that Job?' " explains Jordan. "He's saying, 'When the day of battle comes, everything's already ready to take care of the Adversary. I won't have to devise any more plans. I've already got it staged.' "

Jesus Christ makes reference to this Second Advent in Luke 21 when He warns, "And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring."

Isaiah 24:20 says God will cause the earth to "reel to and fro like a drunkard."

"The waves are roaring; their sloshing back and forth and bouncing around and you can't trust anything anymore," explains Jordan on this Isaiah analogy. "Why do you have a tide in the sea? It's the gravity of the moon that makes the tide. Now if the moon isn't exactly in the orbit it is now, or the earth shifts on its axis a little bit, what happens to the tide? Big trouble's coming and nobody's going to know what's going on for 'mens' hearts are failing them for fear.'

"They're watching the Weather Channel, CNN, Fox, CNBC. Old Bill O'Reilly's pulling his hair out and Chris Matthews doesn't know what to tell anybody to think.

"They don't know what's going to happen because all the rules are up in the air. Nothing's working according to the way it was always supposed to work. Why? God fixed it that way when He made it.

"All that stuff that's going to happen in the "last day," He's telling Job, 'I already got it fixed to work. I fixed it when I made it to start with, so when it comes to the 'last day' over there, it's ready to nail the sucker.

"That's why Gen. 1:1 has 'last day' terminology. Because the whole of creation in Gen. 1 is a 'last-day' focused creation. Everything God's done in the six-day creation was to set the stage for that one 'last day' where He's going to destroy Satan and show him to be just the fool that he is."

So much for arguing "Big Bang" evolution at this particular point in history!

As my pastor says, "Darwin had it backwards. Rather than it being from the puddle to paradise, man, because of sin, is going from paradise (where creation started in the Garden of Eden) to the puddle."

In Comfort's book on scientific Bible facts, he quotes Professor Louis Bounoure, Director of Research, National Center of Scientific Research, who states, "Evolution is a fairy tale for grown-ups. This theory has helped nothing in the progress of science. It is useless."