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Submitted to Christopher Strevel, in partial fulfillment of the course requirements for "The Apologetics of Cornelius Van Til"

Throughout the course of human thought, there occasionally arise men, used as tools in the hands of God, whose ideas and insights affect good in the world for centuries after their death. Such a man was John Calvin. Yet in the same course of events, there will also arise men, used as tools in the hands of Satan, who affect inestimable evil for centuries after their death. Such a man was Charles Darwin. Today, hundreds of years later, in the year 2009, we continue to feel repercussions from the works of both John Calvin and Charles Darwin. In America, no less than anywhere else in the world, we feel the blessing of the biblical founding of our nation resulting from the reformation teachings of men like John Calvin — 500 years ago. Yet unfortunately, we also feel, perhaps more keenly, the erosion of our Christian beginning and once-Christian culture, caused by the denial of Creator God spread through the writings of men like Charles Darwin. Our experience of these repercussions should powerfully teach us the lesson that ideas have consequences. But more than that, it should convince us of the gravity attached to the ideas we ourselves propagate — knowingly or unknowingly. And even more than that, it should motivate us to purge ourselves from any remains of anti-Christian thought, revealed, not only in the words we say, but more tellingly, in the way we live our lives.
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