Here is a simple true statement about our modern times: The evidence must fit the narrative.

That means, we decide what is true, and then we only accept evidence that fits our belief. Evidence that contradicts any idea that we want to be true, is dismissed and ignored. Contradictory evidence is laughed at and mocked. These are just nutty people trying to invent something that is just not true, and not possible.

That is our modern culture.

I am writing as a Christian, and I could be one of those nuts who believes old things that just could not be true. Some people treat the stories in the Bible like fairy tales. That is their narrative and the evidence must fit. The stories in the Bible could not possibly be true, for them.

There are two examples of this narrative problem:

Cave men: This story starts with Charles Darwin and his theory of the origin of the species, known as “Evolution.” Darwin gave us a universe with no God, and made religions useless. In his narrative, all life evolved from a biological accident, and that include humans. We were not created and there is no God, in that model.

In 1856, in Germany’s Neander valley, some human remains were found. The experts identified these ancient people as Neanderthal humans, also known as cave men. In the scientific narrative, they were a less evolved species of humans, more primitive than us. 

We all know about large ugly cave men who spoke in grunts and hit things with clubs. They were inferior and we are superior, and there is no God; that is the narrative.

Now, scientists are learning that those primitive, simple minded people, who spoke in grunts and hit things with clubs were actually human. They made pictures and carvings, and they probably spoke in languages and prayed to some God. 

The growing evidence does not fit the narrative:

Ancient Egyptians: I recently saw a picture of the Egyptian Sphinx, that gigantic statue with the body of a lion with the head like an ancient Pharaoh of Egypt. Behind the statue was the great pyramid of Egypt. It was very impressive to see that the two ancient structures were lined up, with the Pyramid at the back, and in the picture it looked like a triangular frame behind the Sphinx. 

Someone, in ancient times, did some very impressive survey work, and precise construction work. 

That was just me looking at a picture, but their is a debate among scientists about ancient Egyptians. People who lived long ago were supposed to be less evolved with more primitive technology. We are supposed to be the best and most intelligent people who ever lived.

That is the narrative, and the evidence must fit.

Scientists, Egyptologists specifically, are part of a growing debate. The really ancient people of Egypt seem to have been very intelligent and skilled. According to the narrative, the evidence should not support the new ideas about ancient people with skills almost as good as ours in modern times. There is even a theory that ancient aliens came from other planets and taught our ancestors impossible things. 

That might be a stretch, but those ancient people no longer fit the standard narrative:

And there is one other narrative with stories that don’t fit; the Bible. We are told “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1)

That is the beginning of an old story, and that story is not convenient for the expert critics, who don’t want a God in this universe, and in the history of humans. 

The Bible doesn’t fit the narrative.

We also have these words:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. The Word was with God in the beginning. All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it. (John 1: 1 to 5)

There is a lesson that we should learn, on our modern culture. We have information that doesn’t fit the narrative: