Creation vs Evolution; Part 1

An Unbalanced Debate

Psalm 14:1 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God."

Part 1 of a 3 part series discussing the evil fruit of evolution and the dangers of it's infiltration into the Christian church.

In our present evil age, there is a war over the minds, hearts, and souls of a very fallen humanity. The Lord desires to lure us out of a self imposed darkness into his light, but the world, guided by the evil one, seeks to extinguish that light. As believers in Christ we accept that the Bible is authoritative, that it is timeless, and that it is without error, because it is given by inspiration of God. One of the ways the evil one seeks to dim that light is by undermining the authority of the Bible with a toxic lie called evolution. This lie has brought death with it, on a scale that is difficult to grasp due to it's breadth.

Evolution (the belief that all life arose by chance without God) obviously contradicts the Genesis account of creation (also called Intelligent Design). No unbiased person reading Genesis would come to the conclusion that it was secretly hinting at evolution, yet some within the church in order to accommodate popular culture, have cast aside the obvious literal interpretation of Genesis in favor of an artificial “symbolic” interpretation. The Genesis account, they argue, is figurative, like a parable, and not literal, but this “interpretation” introduces several more toxic lies. Not only did Jesus speak of the creation account as factual history but if there was no “literal” Adam and Eve, then there was no literal original sin to be atoned for. This would mean that Jesus was crucified for a mere parable and not to atone for our sins.

Self determination:

“Sovereignty” is the right to rule, judge, reward and punish. The Bible teaches that God has sovereignty over the whole earth and that he will one day judge the living and the dead, punishing some and rewarding others. We like to imagine that we sustain ourselves but this is not true, as it is God, who causes the sun to shine, the to rain fall, and the food to grow. Referring to God, one of Job's friends said:

If it were his intention and he withdrew his spirit and breath, all mankind would perish together and man would return to the dust. Job 34:14 – 15:

Just as parents gives birth to children, provide for them, and so have authority over them, so God's authority over humanity is based upon the fact that he both created and even now sustains us. Evolution denies God's supernatural creation, and therefore denies his claim to sovereignty over humanity. If God did not create us, then we owe him nothing, and we are free to do as we please, rather than as he wills.

Right and wrong:

If evolution is true, then there is no meaningful argument for “right and wrong” so your ethics can change according to your circumstances, or what is called “situational ethics”. Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin's Bull Dog”, was an enthusiastic early champion of evolution. His grandchildren, Aldous and Julian, stated that one of the reasons they accepted evolution was because it liberated them from the commonly held beliefs of right and wrong:

"For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom."

(Aldous Huxley, noted author)

"I suppose the reason we leaped at the origin of species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores."

(Sir Julian Huxley, President of the United Nation's Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO).)

Hopelessness and Meaninglessness:

The flip side of this liberating coin is perhaps even more dangerous. We are made in God's image and God calls us his children. Evolution denies that divine spark in humanity and reduces us to only a more evolved “animal” with no special meaning or purpose.

Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." Genesis 1:26

God made Adam and Eve ruler of the earth and gave them very simple instructions.

God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." Genesis 1:28

The earth and everything in it was created for our benefit and God intended for us to rule the earth as his children with the command “fill the earth and subdue it”. The Lord never gave any indication that we needed to stop at a certain number of people, nor did he suggest that we should play god and regulate the world population ourselves. The Lord plainly stated Israel's borders when they entered the promised land, in the same way, If the earth's population was something we were supposed to regulate then God would have said so. On the contrary, we know that The Lord is fully capable of controlling the world population himself and will regulate it as he sees fit.

Part 2: Environmentalism, Communism, Racism and Eugenics