It is too easy in today's pop culture to think that Christians are not intellectually up to the modern world. What some folks think is the newest and best truth is actually the oldest untruth. We are all different, and some of us are not as dumb as some folks think. God made our brains, and He expects us to use as much of it as we can. He also made us curious, and that can get out of hand. I am constantly amazed at what we can come up with--not just in the last century or so, but all the way back to as early as we have any information.
We have several thousand years of artwork, literature, inventions, even tax records and student's homework. Cowrie shells, used as currency in ancient Indian Ocean trade have been found in the North Sea. It seems that when very ancient buildings or monuments or just about anything showing the touch of mankind, we find some kind of artwork, something that appears to be writing, and trade goods from surprising places. We have interminable lists of hundreds of civil servants and the builders and staffing lists from Solomon's Temple: to me they look like real bureaucrats rather than fictional characters--who would bother to make that up?
We live in a world produced by a Creator that is open to our questions; also a world that is full of wrong answers. Some of them are merely incomplete; some are our own guesses; some are deliberate attempts to lead us down a bad road. We can spend a lot of time and effort observing this universe and looking for the right answers, or we can make up our own answers for our own reasons or for misleading others into "answers" that lead away from the real search for truth. Some folks are satisfied with "truth" that serves their own purpose; we are called to Truth that is always beyond us but is a strait and narrow path to the real door with all the real answers.
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