Yesterday we talked about the UN’s push for Americans to eat less meat to help stop climate change. Well, here are three truths to think about when you hear such claims:

One. God gave man dominion over the earth—not the other way around!

Two. After the flood God changed our diet so that we were given permission to eat meat.

And three. After the flood, God made a promise that clearly shows man cannot destroy the planet. God will do so at the end of time.

“While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”

That was a promise for Noah and for us today!

Last year the United Nations said they’ll soon call on Americans to eat less meat to reduce emissions. Now this idea has big scientific problems but where does it really come from?

Well, the “climate change” the UN talks about is actually an anti-God religion that believes man can save himself and that he must save the planet. They’ve given creation dominion over man instead of recognizing man’s God-given dominion over creation.

Really, it’s an anti-God worldview that destroys. We as Christians need to have a truly biblical worldview, understanding we’ve been given dominion over creation for man’s good and God’s glory.

Yesterday I shared a study that found male and female athletes have different race times, and that’s true no matter how they choose to identify. Well, that’s a study only considered necessary because we live in a world that has rejected the obvious truth from both God’s Word and creation.

But it’s no surprise this study confirmed God’s Word—men and women aren’t the same, and simply declaring oneself to be a male or a female doesn’t change reality. Truth is found in God’s Word and, ultimately, in the person of Jesus, who gives those who come to him a new identity—not rooted in self but in being made a new creation in Christ Jesus.

Earlier this year I wrote on my blog about a study of race times achieved by athletes who identify as neither male nor female. And the study found that, well, there’s a difference between the race times of men and women—and their subjective gender identity didn’t change that. In other words, the men ran like men, and the women like women, no matter what they believed about themselves.

Well, that’s a study no one really needed! It’s obvious from biology that men and women aren’t the same. And yet so many try and ignore biology. But, really, they’re ignoring God’s Word. And when we do that, we’re left with foolishness!

Have you ever traced your genealogy to discover who your great-great-great grandparents were? Well, go back far enough and you’ll find some biblical connections!

Yes, everyone’s ancestry goes back to Noah and his three sons. And this is even acknowledged in some secular sources! One people group in China traces their ancestry back to a man and his three sons, and Anglo-Saxon records trace six royal houses all the way back to Noah.

Why do we find Noah and his family popping up around the world? Well, because the flood really did happen, and every people group really is descended from Noah but divided up at the Tower of Babel.

Where did language come from? Well, in the evolutionary worldview, languages evolved over time as mankind slowly learned to communicate. Did that happen just once or many times? Well, they don’t know.

Now what they do know is today’s seven thousand languages came from about one hundred language families. And the Bible’s history explains those language families. Genesis says God divided mankind at Babel, creating around—you ready for this?—one hundred new languages. Over time, those one hundred languages have become all the languages spoken today.

Yes, the Bible’s history in Genesis explains our world; and science, it confirms the Bible!

Yesterday we learned that, in the evolutionary worldview, humans lived for tens of thousands of years without doing much at all. They couldn’t even figure out farming or building permanent settlements!

That makes no sense. But when we look at history through the lens of God’s Word, well, mankind was created intelligent, quickly learning farming, herding, and even metal working. But that world was destroyed by the global flood. Mankind started over again and, after the Tower of Babel, they scattered around the world. That’s why we see a sudden explosion of civilization all over the world at much the same time.

In the evolutionary view, modern man has existed for two hundred thousand years. For millennia, small bands of humans did, well, nothing, really. They drew on a few cave walls, hunted some animals, and discovered fire but that’s about it for tens of thousands of years. Then suddenly, a few thousand years ago, in a burst of creativity they created pyramids, ships, and cities.

Now consider that we went from the horse and buggy to man on the moon in less than a hundred years. The evolutionary story of hundreds of thousands of years of nothing makes no sense!

The Bible’s history does. Mankind was created just thousands of years ago!

Have you ever heard a sermon on Genesis chapter 11? Most Christians haven’t, and yet this event is important for properly understanding the world around us.

Okay, what account is found in Genesis 11? The Tower of Babel! After Noah’s flood, all of mankind was gathered in one place, rebelling against God. So God confused their languages, forcing them to spread around the earth. It’s this event that gave rise to different civilizations and people groups around the world. So we’re all one race, but there’s people groups because of Babel.

Yes, the Bible’s history really is the key for understanding the world around us!

Our world’s a mess. So, what do we do about it?

The secular worldview says better education, better access to resources, better government oversight. Fix man’s environment, fix man’s problems—though that never seems to work, does it?

The Bible says the opposite—the problem is us and we can’t save ourselves! That’s why Jesus died on the cross, in our place, taking our sin penalty upon himself. Then he rose from the grave and now offers forgiveness, new life, and freedom from sin to all who will repent and turn to him. And someday he will make a new heavens and new earth where everything that’s wrong will be forever made right!