Christians that believe the bible is authentic, and then no, evolution and Christianity are not compatible to each other.
What is Evolution?
Biological evolution is change in the characteristics of living
organisms over generations.
The Creation Story
The story of how God made everything very beginning of the
Bible:
That was the first day of God's creation.In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the Spirit of God was hovering over its surface. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And God saw that it was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." (NLT, Genesis 1:1-5)
On the second day, God created the sky.
On the third day, God created the land, the oceans and all the plants.
On the fourth day, God created the sun, moon and stars.
On the fifth day, God created the birds, fishes and other sea creatures.
On the sixth day, God created all the land animals and people.
On the seventh day, God rested:
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. (NIV, Genesis 2:2-3)
Weekly cycle, Sunday to Saturday, 7 days, 24 hours each
Theologians have attempted to reconcile the biblical creation story with evolution. In order to do that, those six days will be of an indefinite period.
There would be no explanation if life was created over millions of years for the weekly cycle. The day, month and year based on natural movements of the earth, moon and sun. There is no astronomical basis for the seven-day week. The fact that the bible does not mention the weekly cycle, or that there would be 7 days in each week, of that there would be 24 hours in each day.
Basically it was man that decided that, and again nothing to do with the God's creation or evolution!!!
When did the weekly cycle begin?
Well no one knows for certain. The common explanation is that the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman Empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide.
One viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn.
The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar
periods. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5
days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term
fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than
the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen
because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 =
7.3825).
If we looked at the biblical creation account, we come to the conclusion that Moses, describe the 24 hour days. Moses also used the following expressions, evening and mornings. He could hardly have made it more clearer that he was referring to literal days.
How did Moses come to this knowledge that the earth was created in 6 days? This happened 2000 years before him and there was nobody to witness this. Clearly the only observer to the Creation was the Creator. One hypothesis is that God instructed Moses, not only what to write on the stone tablets, but also what to write on the scrolls, while Moses communed with God during the 40 days on Mount Sinai.
Evolution does not allow for a Sabbath that celebrates a Creator God who created our world in one week. Theistic evolution, the belief that God created through the process of evolution, has no reason for a weekly memorial of Creation.
This is also untrue; this not part of evolution. This was man's choice to have a Sabbath. Again Scientist work on facts only, and only where is can be proofed.
If each day in the Creation account is actually a long period of time, plants would have been created long before insects, since plants were created on the third day and insects were created on the fifth day. Yet many plants cannot survive without the pollination provided by insects.
This is not entirely true, plants do not need pollination provided by insects to survive. There is pollination by wind and water. There are also many plants that don't need pollination. This is called parthinocarpic.
What is parthinocarpic?
In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy (literally meaning virgin fruit) is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilization of ovules. The fruit is therefore seedless. Stenospermocarpy may also produce apparently seedless fruit, but the seeds are actually aborted while still small. This would evolution in plants. Plants that grew from seeds and needed to evolve because of no insects for pollination!!
The clear intent of the biblical account is that each day of Creation week was a twenty-four-hour day. If not, then the basis of the fourth commandment is wrong. The fourth commandment (see Exodus 20:8-11) says that the Sabbath is based on the Creation week when God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day and blessed it.
This is also untrue; this not part of evolution. This was man's choice to have a Sabbath. Again Scientist work on facts only, and only where is can be proofed.
If each day in the Creation account is actually a long period of time, plants would have been created long before insects, since plants were created on the third day and insects were created on the fifth day. Yet many plants cannot survive without the pollination provided by insects.
This is not entirely true, plants do not need pollination provided by insects to survive. There is pollination by wind and water. There are also many plants that don't need pollination. This is called parthinocarpic.
What is parthinocarpic?
In botany and horticulture, parthenocarpy (literally meaning virgin fruit) is the natural or artificially induced production of fruit without fertilization of ovules. The fruit is therefore seedless. Stenospermocarpy may also produce apparently seedless fruit, but the seeds are actually aborted while still small. This would evolution in plants. Plants that grew from seeds and needed to evolve because of no insects for pollination!!
Asexual reproduction in plants
Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals or offspring in plants, which can be accomplished by sexual or asexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction produces offspring by the fusion of gametes, resulting in offspring genetically different from the parent or parents.
God did not create plants but planted seeds, seeds that would take time to grow!!!
Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals or offspring in plants, which can be accomplished by sexual or asexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction produces offspring by the fusion of gametes, resulting in offspring genetically different from the parent or parents.
God did not create plants but planted seeds, seeds that would take time to grow!!!
Creation is the basis for the equality of all humans
If the theory of progressive evolution from lower life forms to humans is true, there could be a biological basis for considering some human races inferior and others superior, because some races would have advanced further up the evolutionary scale than others.
America’s founding fathers said that all men are created equal—and they were right. All human beings are equal. All are children of God. All have the same origin. Racial intolerance has no basis for those who believe in Creation. Those who believe in evolution have reason to believe that some races are more highly developed than others.
Yet Scientist had never said that man was not created equal. Just created differently, and there are many reason that man all over the planet will differ to each other. There are many things to take into consideration that does not mean that man can be judge on this only.
However, other markers of these unique evolutionary histories are perfectly obvious, perhaps most notably skin colour. It's clear that people whose ancestors hail from different parts of the earth have differently coloured skin and that this is related to how much of the sun's radiation hits that part of the planet. The less radiation, the lighter the native population's skin colour tends to be. This is a great example of recent evolution in human populations. But what if we go back deeper in our evolutionary history, back to when all of humanity lived in Africa? At that time, all humans had darkly pigmented skin. A new study sheds light on how and why this skin pigmentation evolved.
Equality has nothing to do with outside appearances, that is what equality is all about. What because you are short or fat, or your skin colour is different? That means you were not created equal in the eyes of God?
Evolution was responsible for the change in man. Equality has nothing at all to do with God's creation or even evolution. This is of man's doing!!!
Origin of sin and death
The idea of gradual evolutionary development of living things until humans finally appear makes it difficult to understand sin and the origin of evil. The fossil record gives much evidence of death, disease, predation, and cruelty—all supposedly taking place eons of time before Adam and Eve evolved and sinned.
Yet the Bible clearly tells us that God said everything He created was “good” or “very good” (see Genesis 1:10, 12, 18, 25, 31, etc.). The Bible teaches that sin originated in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve disobeyed God (see Genesis 3) and that death is the result of sin. But if parasites, predators, disease, and death occurred before the creation of Adam and Eve (as the theory of evolution requires), then death would be part of God’s original plan.
Something I don't understand, if God only created "good" or "very good" then who created the snake that offered the apple to Eve.
Death would be part of God's original plan, if we were to live forever, how, then one day could we go to heaven and be with God for eternity? Is that not one of the rewards God offers us for living how he wanted us to?
Sin is another creation of man and its man that sinned, and it has nothing to do with evolution!!!
Salvation
The theory of evolution raises questions concerning the purpose for Jesus’ death on the cross. The Bible says that death is the penalty of sin (see Genesis 3:3, 4, 19; Romans 6:23). Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for sin that we should have paid. If the Creation narrative, including the origin of sin, is only myth or allegory, what is sin? And was Jesus’ death necessary? Scripture calls death an “enemy” (1 Corinthians 15:26, NKJV), and the whole plan of salvation was designed to eliminate death and bring humans back to God’s original plan of eternal life.
Furthermore, if evolution involves the gradual, continuing improvement of the human race, the atonement of Jesus is quite unnecessary. Given enough time, undesirable characteristics, physical weaknesses, social unrest etc. will be eliminated. Even disease and dying could be overcome. History fails to support such improvements. The Bible clearly indicates that mankind’s nature is basically evil. Only through the power of God can human beings have a future of hope.
Did Scientist say that evolution improves the human race? I doubt that very much, Scientist only report facts, man has to involve in order to survive, certain things that had to evolve. People living in hot climate have darker skins to those that live in mild climate, who have fair skin. Social unrest and racism is not part of evolution, they belong to human traits. Human traits that we have because of "free will"!!
It has a nice ring to it, God gave his only son to us, and so his son could die for our sins. This in my view was pointless, man will never change. God did this to proof how much he LOVED us.
Again nothing to do with evolution and God's creation
World-wide flood.
Evolution makes no allowance for a world-wide flood. The concept of uniformity that has dominated evolutionary thought declares that the present is the key to the past. In other words, the gradual processes of nature that we currently see slowly eroding seashores, reducing the height of mountains, and shaping the course of rivers, etc. happened in the past at the same rates we see today. Thus there is no need for a universal flood as described in the Bible. Yet Jesus clearly accepted Noah and the flood as historical fact (see Matthew 24:37-39).
The great floods was God's punishment against mankind, again nothing to do with evolution, but how God got angry with mankind and decided that man need to be taught a lesson!! Why Jesus would not accepts the acts of his father?
Noah and the great floods
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord.
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Bible authors believed in Creation narrative
Many of the authors of both Old Testament and New Testament clearly accepted the creation account as accurate history: David (Psalm 33:6, 9), Nehemiah (Nehemiah 9:6), Isaiah (Isaiah 45:18), and Paul (Colossians 1:15-17). Jesus, Himself, accepts creation as a literal historical event. Referring to the creation of Adam and Eve, He said, “He who made them at the beginning, ‘made them male and female’ ” (Matthew 19:4, NKJV). The expression “at the beginning” is the same expression used in the first three verses of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. If each day of creation were a long, indefinite period of time, the creation of humans, occurring as it did at the end of the sixth day of Creation, would not have been at the beginning of creation, but after six long eons of time.
How long has man been on earth?
While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s. While we’ve accomplished much in that short time, it also shows our responsibility as caretakers for the only planet we live on right now.
How long ago did God create the Universe?
The Bible claims that the earth is 6000 years old.
If the theory of progressive evolution from lower life forms to humans is true, there could be a biological basis for considering some human races inferior and others superior, because some races would have advanced further up the evolutionary scale than others.
America’s founding fathers said that all men are created equal—and they were right. All human beings are equal. All are children of God. All have the same origin. Racial intolerance has no basis for those who believe in Creation. Those who believe in evolution have reason to believe that some races are more highly developed than others.
Yet Scientist had never said that man was not created equal. Just created differently, and there are many reason that man all over the planet will differ to each other. There are many things to take into consideration that does not mean that man can be judge on this only.
However, other markers of these unique evolutionary histories are perfectly obvious, perhaps most notably skin colour. It's clear that people whose ancestors hail from different parts of the earth have differently coloured skin and that this is related to how much of the sun's radiation hits that part of the planet. The less radiation, the lighter the native population's skin colour tends to be. This is a great example of recent evolution in human populations. But what if we go back deeper in our evolutionary history, back to when all of humanity lived in Africa? At that time, all humans had darkly pigmented skin. A new study sheds light on how and why this skin pigmentation evolved.
Equality has nothing to do with outside appearances, that is what equality is all about. What because you are short or fat, or your skin colour is different? That means you were not created equal in the eyes of God?
Evolution was responsible for the change in man. Equality has nothing at all to do with God's creation or even evolution. This is of man's doing!!!
Origin of sin and death
The idea of gradual evolutionary development of living things until humans finally appear makes it difficult to understand sin and the origin of evil. The fossil record gives much evidence of death, disease, predation, and cruelty—all supposedly taking place eons of time before Adam and Eve evolved and sinned.
Yet the Bible clearly tells us that God said everything He created was “good” or “very good” (see Genesis 1:10, 12, 18, 25, 31, etc.). The Bible teaches that sin originated in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve disobeyed God (see Genesis 3) and that death is the result of sin. But if parasites, predators, disease, and death occurred before the creation of Adam and Eve (as the theory of evolution requires), then death would be part of God’s original plan.
Something I don't understand, if God only created "good" or "very good" then who created the snake that offered the apple to Eve.
Death would be part of God's original plan, if we were to live forever, how, then one day could we go to heaven and be with God for eternity? Is that not one of the rewards God offers us for living how he wanted us to?
Sin is another creation of man and its man that sinned, and it has nothing to do with evolution!!!
Salvation
The theory of evolution raises questions concerning the purpose for Jesus’ death on the cross. The Bible says that death is the penalty of sin (see Genesis 3:3, 4, 19; Romans 6:23). Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for sin that we should have paid. If the Creation narrative, including the origin of sin, is only myth or allegory, what is sin? And was Jesus’ death necessary? Scripture calls death an “enemy” (1 Corinthians 15:26, NKJV), and the whole plan of salvation was designed to eliminate death and bring humans back to God’s original plan of eternal life.
Furthermore, if evolution involves the gradual, continuing improvement of the human race, the atonement of Jesus is quite unnecessary. Given enough time, undesirable characteristics, physical weaknesses, social unrest etc. will be eliminated. Even disease and dying could be overcome. History fails to support such improvements. The Bible clearly indicates that mankind’s nature is basically evil. Only through the power of God can human beings have a future of hope.
Did Scientist say that evolution improves the human race? I doubt that very much, Scientist only report facts, man has to involve in order to survive, certain things that had to evolve. People living in hot climate have darker skins to those that live in mild climate, who have fair skin. Social unrest and racism is not part of evolution, they belong to human traits. Human traits that we have because of "free will"!!
It has a nice ring to it, God gave his only son to us, and so his son could die for our sins. This in my view was pointless, man will never change. God did this to proof how much he LOVED us.
Again nothing to do with evolution and God's creation
World-wide flood.
Evolution makes no allowance for a world-wide flood. The concept of uniformity that has dominated evolutionary thought declares that the present is the key to the past. In other words, the gradual processes of nature that we currently see slowly eroding seashores, reducing the height of mountains, and shaping the course of rivers, etc. happened in the past at the same rates we see today. Thus there is no need for a universal flood as described in the Bible. Yet Jesus clearly accepted Noah and the flood as historical fact (see Matthew 24:37-39).
The great floods was God's punishment against mankind, again nothing to do with evolution, but how God got angry with mankind and decided that man need to be taught a lesson!! Why Jesus would not accepts the acts of his father?
Noah and the great floods
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favour in the eyes of the Lord.
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” Noah did everything just as God commanded him.
Bible authors believed in Creation narrative
Many of the authors of both Old Testament and New Testament clearly accepted the creation account as accurate history: David (Psalm 33:6, 9), Nehemiah (Nehemiah 9:6), Isaiah (Isaiah 45:18), and Paul (Colossians 1:15-17). Jesus, Himself, accepts creation as a literal historical event. Referring to the creation of Adam and Eve, He said, “He who made them at the beginning, ‘made them male and female’ ” (Matthew 19:4, NKJV). The expression “at the beginning” is the same expression used in the first three verses of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. If each day of creation were a long, indefinite period of time, the creation of humans, occurring as it did at the end of the sixth day of Creation, would not have been at the beginning of creation, but after six long eons of time.
How long has man been on earth?
While our ancestors have been around for about six million years, the modern form of humans only evolved about 200,000 years ago. Civilization as we know it is only about 6,000 years old, and industrialization started in the earnest only in the 1800s. While we’ve accomplished much in that short time, it also shows our responsibility as caretakers for the only planet we live on right now.
How long ago did God create the Universe?
The Bible claims that the earth is 6000 years old.
The age of the universe
The age of the universe is approximately 13.77 billion years
The age of the earth
The age of the earth is 4.568
How did they come up with this figure on how old the earth is?
The age of the Solar System (including the Earth), on the other hand, is
measured by the radioactive decay of certain isotopes in rocks and meteorites.
These isotopes (principally Potassium and Uranium) were created with the solar
system. By measuring how much has decayed, we can very accurately determine how
long it's been since they (and the rest of the solar system) were formed. The
oldest rocks on Earth have been destroyed by plate tectonics, so to get the age
of the solar system, we turn to meteorites instead. The oldest such meteorites
we have found suggest the age of their formation, and thus the age of the solar
system, to be 4.568 Billion years.
What were the very first animals to set foot on the earth?
The first animals on earth actually appeared about 400 million years earlier than dinosaurs and they were discovered in Canada. The first multi-celled animals evolved about 600 million years ago. Known as primitive metazoa, there are three basic groups: sponges, cnidarians (e.g. corals, sea anemones, and jellyfish) and worms.
So there we have it - the first animal on earth was a marine organism. It was
not until 240 million years later that the first animal showed up on land. This
was a four-legged amphibian called Ichthyostega, which is a Greek term
meaning "fish roof".
Credibility of God’s Word.
If the Creation narrative is only an allegory, what about other parts of the Bible such as the translation of Elijah to heaven, Jonah and the big fish, and the miracles and resurrection of Jesus? If we dismiss the accuracy of the biblical Creation account, we are free to dismiss other parts of Scripture and thus become the judge of what is or are not true in spite of what Jesus and the Bible authors say.
The creation narratives are parables, told so that we would understand how the universe was created by God. It's told in such a way that even young children can understand.
What are parables?
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
The second coming
The creation of earth and human life some six thousand years ago—rather than millions of years in the past—makes believable the soon second coming of Christ as promised in the Bible. If the Creation narrative is only an allegory, what about Jesus’ promise to come again (see John 14:1-3)? If a spark of life was created millions of years ago and organisms evolved over those many years, what is to keep us from thinking that Jesus’ promise of His return is also just an allegory?
That is pretty obvious. Our FAITH in God!!! Would God only keep his promise if the earth and human life was only created some six thousand years ago??? The only reason why we would think otherwise is our lack of faith in God!!!
Free will
Carried to its logical conclusion, evolution—the undirected, random evolving of living things—eliminates the power of the human will. Darwin, himself, came to the conclusion that free will is an illusion. If evolution is true, then it means that all our choices are merely actions or behaviours determined by our genes or our surrounding environment and are conditioned by past choices—either successful or otherwise. Such a view eliminates the power of choice. But God gave humans free will with the power to choose. Adam and Eve could choose to obey God or not to obey Him. God want His human creation to worship, love, and obey Him because they want to—not because they must. Humans are not robots.
Evolution does not work on human traits, free will is a human trait and free will always exists. This again is not part of God's creation, is something that God blessed us with it. Free will is not a physical object, it choices we make.
The Bible says that God created this world perfect in the beginning, but that since the entrance of sin, it has become more and more degenerate (see Genesis, chapters 1-3). Again nothing to do with God's creation or evolution!!
This is completely opposed to the evolutionary idea that the world is evolving and progressing upward. Jesus has promised to come again and restore this world to its original perfection (see Revelation 21:1-5). God does not require the slow process of evolution and the cruel method of “survival of the fittest” to create.
When we look at the flowers, the birds, the trees, etc., we see the evidences of a great Creator God who loves us and created these things for our happiness.
Much more could be said to show that the theory of evolution is incompatible with the Bible and with the beliefs of a Christian that are based on the Bible. Evolution is based on “survival of the fittest” and the reign of tooth and claw. Christians are persons who understand that God is both their Creator and their Saviour. They believe that God is eager for as many of His children to be saved as possible. They believe He will return soon as He promised to bring an end to the tragedy and sorrow and evil that exist in the world today.
How can mankind truly think this, God is all powerful, YES? Why must evolution be in conflict with Christianity? Why is it never thought possible, being that God is all powerful he would of created evolution to take care of the Universe? Christians seem to rebel against evolution but what they don't really agree on is the scientist that have tremendous proof of evolution. Scientist don't come to conclusion without hard evidence, yet Christian believe on blind faith. Believe everything that is writing in the bible. Parables, told in such a way that even children can understand the bible!!
When did dinosaurs live?
Dinosaurs lived between 230 and 65 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared. Scientists divide the Mesozoic Era into three periods: the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous.Credibility of God’s Word.
If the Creation narrative is only an allegory, what about other parts of the Bible such as the translation of Elijah to heaven, Jonah and the big fish, and the miracles and resurrection of Jesus? If we dismiss the accuracy of the biblical Creation account, we are free to dismiss other parts of Scripture and thus become the judge of what is or are not true in spite of what Jesus and the Bible authors say.
The creation narratives are parables, told so that we would understand how the universe was created by God. It's told in such a way that even young children can understand.
What are parables?
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.
The second coming
The creation of earth and human life some six thousand years ago—rather than millions of years in the past—makes believable the soon second coming of Christ as promised in the Bible. If the Creation narrative is only an allegory, what about Jesus’ promise to come again (see John 14:1-3)? If a spark of life was created millions of years ago and organisms evolved over those many years, what is to keep us from thinking that Jesus’ promise of His return is also just an allegory?
That is pretty obvious. Our FAITH in God!!! Would God only keep his promise if the earth and human life was only created some six thousand years ago??? The only reason why we would think otherwise is our lack of faith in God!!!
Free will
Carried to its logical conclusion, evolution—the undirected, random evolving of living things—eliminates the power of the human will. Darwin, himself, came to the conclusion that free will is an illusion. If evolution is true, then it means that all our choices are merely actions or behaviours determined by our genes or our surrounding environment and are conditioned by past choices—either successful or otherwise. Such a view eliminates the power of choice. But God gave humans free will with the power to choose. Adam and Eve could choose to obey God or not to obey Him. God want His human creation to worship, love, and obey Him because they want to—not because they must. Humans are not robots.
Evolution does not work on human traits, free will is a human trait and free will always exists. This again is not part of God's creation, is something that God blessed us with it. Free will is not a physical object, it choices we make.
The Bible says that God created this world perfect in the beginning, but that since the entrance of sin, it has become more and more degenerate (see Genesis, chapters 1-3). Again nothing to do with God's creation or evolution!!
This is completely opposed to the evolutionary idea that the world is evolving and progressing upward. Jesus has promised to come again and restore this world to its original perfection (see Revelation 21:1-5). God does not require the slow process of evolution and the cruel method of “survival of the fittest” to create.
When we look at the flowers, the birds, the trees, etc., we see the evidences of a great Creator God who loves us and created these things for our happiness.
Much more could be said to show that the theory of evolution is incompatible with the Bible and with the beliefs of a Christian that are based on the Bible. Evolution is based on “survival of the fittest” and the reign of tooth and claw. Christians are persons who understand that God is both their Creator and their Saviour. They believe that God is eager for as many of His children to be saved as possible. They believe He will return soon as He promised to bring an end to the tragedy and sorrow and evil that exist in the world today.
“And immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, and caught him, and said unto him,
O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Matthew 14:31.
How can mankind truly think this, God is all powerful, YES? Why must evolution be in conflict with Christianity? Why is it never thought possible, being that God is all powerful he would of created evolution to take care of the Universe? Christians seem to rebel against evolution but what they don't really agree on is the scientist that have tremendous proof of evolution. Scientist don't come to conclusion without hard evidence, yet Christian believe on blind faith. Believe everything that is writing in the bible. Parables, told in such a way that even children can understand the bible!!
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