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THE BIGGER THE LIE

During the years 1936-38, the National Socialist Party of Germany was seeking was whereby they might justify their military and social actions. Among other things, Adolph Hitler wanted possession of Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Poland; and he wanted to annihilate the Jewish race. Joseph Goebells was assigned the responsibility of accomplishing these tasks, and that of creating good "reasons" for doing so. It was then that Goebells adopted the phrase: Tell a Lie That is Big Enough, and Repeat it Often Enough, and the Whole World Will Believe It. He assumed the world would not be gullible enough to believe "little lies," but the bigger the lie, the more likely it is that people would eventually accept it as true. By the use of misinformation, negative propaganda, movies, and various dramatic presentations, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda was successful beyond the generation's realization.

Goebells was right, at least about the "Big Lie." We have seen this to be true in politics, ethics, science, industry, and advertising. Make it big enough and repeat it often enough, and a lot of people will believe it. For decades there have been those proclaiming that man is merely the result of millions of years of EVOLUTION. You will see it in textbooks and magazines, hear it on PBS, "observe" it at the Smithsonian Institute, and be taught this theory at virtually every public school and university. In light of what everyone is told and taught, a 1991 Gallup Poll on religious beliefs in the United States revealed that an amazing 47% of the respondents declared their belief in God's creation of man within the last 10,000 years! But the Theory of Evolution is just that ­ a theory ­ and a theory with neither proof nor the capability of proof.

Evolutionist Sir Arthur Keith correctly commented, "Evolution is unproved and unprovable." Dr. H.W. Conn said, "Evolution, by its very nature, is beyond the possibility of proof." The Bible says, "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth," (Gen. 1:1). However, if you tell a big lie to enough people, some are going to accept it. Half of our population does believe it to this day, even though there is no mechanism ­ scientific or otherwise ­ to prove it. Perhaps the truly amazing thing is that not everyone believes it, given the blitz of publicity and teaching evolution receives. Maybe the population is not as gullible as we thought.