Anyway, let me invite you to, turning to turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 5. Genesis chapter 5 for a time of study in the word, this morning. We're doing a verse by verse study through the book of, Genesis, and as we continue in our study of this book, we come this morning to Genesis 5:1, and my goal this morning is to look at verses 1 and 2, and we're gonna pull one thing out of verse 3 and we'll content ourselves with that, for today. And if you want to give a title to the message this morning, it would be Anthropology 101.
Anthropology 101. That's a big word, but basically anthropology is the study of man or the science of humanity. And we're gonna learn this morning some very basic, fundamental truths about humanity, about mankind. And if there ever was a day in which we need a reminder of these basic truths about humanity, it is today.
Back in May, I believe it was, Bill Nye, the Science Guy. delivered a commencement address to the graduating class at Rutgers University and in his speech, he challenged them all to do something about climate change, and he warned that if something is not done, we as human beings will find ourselves on an overheated, in an overheated, no way out world. And he talked at length about this with hope and with vision and with great concern. and much of what he said was wonderful.
Given his worldview though, a person might legitimately ask, what's the big deal about saving the human species? What is it about humans that makes them worthy of a future anyway? If someone believes that we as humans are the product of random evolutionary chance without a God who created us and made us special, then what is it about man that makes man special enough to be worth saving? Bill Nye actually in his address seems to anticipate....
