Psalm 14 - The Fool

For the director of music. Of David. 1 The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is not a good man left. 2 The Lord looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if any are wise, if any seek God. 3 "All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is not a good man left, no, not one". 4 Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on the Lord. 5 See how the just tremble with fear, but they need not be afraid, for God is present in the company of the righteous. 6 You evildoers mock the poor man's hope, but the Lord is their refuge. 7 Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the Lord restores his people, then Jacob will rejoice and Israel will be glad!

Psalms not only make good poetry and good songs - they also make good ballet.  This Psalm is another lament, a sorrowful song. Psalm 14 by Sons of Korah & David's Heartbeat In Psalm 1 we contrasted the god-less and the righteous man. Here, the godless is called a fool and the righteous man is called wise. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” [God looks] to see if any are wise, if any who seek God. In Psalm 1 there was a progression from being godless - being without God, to being a sinner who no longer needed to keep God's commands, to being a scoffer - someone who mocks God's people. In v6 the evildoers are mockers. You evildoers mock the poor man's hope Everyone has been given sufficient evidence that God exists.  The 2 main ways God reveals Himself are His creation and His revelation through scripture. A fool is different from someone who is just stupid.  A stupid person, just doesn't know.  A fool knows and denies what he knows, he denies what his common sense is telling him. Romans 1:18 The wrath of God; is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made,so that people are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools. With the advent of darwinism, man had finally hit on some "evidence" that gave him a "genuine" reason to ditch the God he'd always wanted to ditch. He no longer needed to stick to those pesky commandments about lying and adultery. And as long as you don't look to closely or think too deeply, and keep telling yourself, well the evolutionist scientist believe it so it must be true. It is a bit like the Emperors new clothes where the dodgy tailor's told everyone that only wise people could see the new clothes so everyone, wanting to be wise, went along with it - even though no one could see a thing. What happens when an atheist Professor refers to the evolution worldview as an "“heroic triumph of ideological theory over common sense.”?  He is branded a heretic or called crazy! Link to National Post article. Link to NY Times article. The idea of darwinian evolution has to be clung to for dear life, it cannot be challenged - because if anyone points out that the king is in his altogether - there is only one alternative.  To seek the truth and find God. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools. No one has seen an animal evolve into a different animal - Google says there are to 8.7 million species now. 99.9% of species are extinct. So there have been 8.7 billion species. If the earth is 4.54 billion years old, and the first life appeared 2.1 billion years ago - then that is 4 new species a year - who presumably all would need a mate.....  So it should be a fairly common occurance and easy to document.  Yet no one has seen it or documented it. Haley's comet happens once every 75 years - yet many people over 30 will have seen it for themselves, others will have seen videos or photographs. For evolution - we have artists impressions: When challenged for an example of observable evolution, P Z Meyers could only think of the cave dwelling stickleback fish who over time, lost their ability to see.  Still a stickleback.  And no new information was gained, just a loss of information. For more see the Evolution v God movie.