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God and Evolution may sound like an acceptable mix, but this concept of Theistic Evolution, or the belief that God guided a process of evolution during the Genesis Creation does not stand up to science or the Bible. So many Christians have been sold the lie of evolution that they feel they must accept it as truth or else they are somehow denying science. In fact, if you boldly declare that God created the Heavens and the Earth in 6 literal 24 hour days just about 6000 years ago, you will likely be laughed at and accused of also believing the Earth is flat. (By the way, the Bible does not say the Earth is flat. It describes it as a sphere suspended upon nothing, which of course, is true. It also does not claim the Earth is the center of the Universe as Galileo's persecutors believed)
First, keep in mind that God certainly could have used evolution if He wanted to. However, had He have used evolution, the fossil record as well as the rest of the scientific evidence would be different, but also, the Bible would have been written differently.
Of the many Biblical evidences that God did not use evolution, let's take a look at just one small example: Adam and Eve. To examine whether God created Adam and Eve through evolution, we need to first examine just how evolution says Adam and Eve would have been created and then compare that to how the Bible says Adam and Eve were created to see if they both can logically be reconciled.
According to evolution, hominids would have been evolving over millions of years, getting a little more “human” like over the years until eventually the first fully human man was born. That's when God would have said “okay, we now have 'man', and I'll call him 'Adam'”. Let's now compare that to how God told Moses he created Adam in Genesis. Genesis 2:7 says “the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground”. Here's where a little simple logic is required. How can anyone honestly interpret Adam being “formed from the dust of the ground” to mean “Adam was conceived and born of a part human, part monkey hominid mother”? The Bible then says that God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being”. However, if God really used evolution, and Adam was born of a part monkey mother, he would have been alive from the moment of conception. Medical science has now confirmed that a human embryo is a living being long before the nostrils even form. So did God breathe the breath of life into Adam's nostrils as a fetus? If so, was Adam not “alive” as he was developing in the womb up to that point before his nostrils developed?
Then there's the issue of Eve. The Bible say in Genesis 2:21-22 that Eve was created by God putting Adam into a deep sleep, taking out one of his ribs and creating Eve from that rib. This has incredible spiritual significance throughout the rest of the Bible with regards to marriage, because by making woman from man, she was to Adam “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Genesis 2:23). God used the way he created Eve to establish marriage as a bond between a man and a woman who would become “one flesh”. Woman came out of man, so when a woman and man are married, “the two become one flesh”. (Genesis 2:24) Jesus even reiterates this creation account and it's significance in Matthew 19:5 and in Mark 10:8. Now compare that to Theistic Evolution which says Eve really wasn't created from Adam, but that instead, she was created in the womb of her part monkey mother, developed into a fetus, was born and raised by her hominid parents, then ran into Adam one day and said “hey, do your parents look as freaky as mine?”
First, keep in mind that God certainly could have used evolution if He wanted to. However, had He have used evolution, the fossil record as well as the rest of the scientific evidence would be different, but also, the Bible would have been written differently.
Of the many Biblical evidences that God did not use evolution, let's take a look at just one small example: Adam and Eve. To examine whether God created Adam and Eve through evolution, we need to first examine just how evolution says Adam and Eve would have been created and then compare that to how the Bible says Adam and Eve were created to see if they both can logically be reconciled.
According to evolution, hominids would have been evolving over millions of years, getting a little more “human” like over the years until eventually the first fully human man was born. That's when God would have said “okay, we now have 'man', and I'll call him 'Adam'”. Let's now compare that to how God told Moses he created Adam in Genesis. Genesis 2:7 says “the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground”. Here's where a little simple logic is required. How can anyone honestly interpret Adam being “formed from the dust of the ground” to mean “Adam was conceived and born of a part human, part monkey hominid mother”? The Bible then says that God “breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being”. However, if God really used evolution, and Adam was born of a part monkey mother, he would have been alive from the moment of conception. Medical science has now confirmed that a human embryo is a living being long before the nostrils even form. So did God breathe the breath of life into Adam's nostrils as a fetus? If so, was Adam not “alive” as he was developing in the womb up to that point before his nostrils developed?
Then there's the issue of Eve. The Bible say in Genesis 2:21-22 that Eve was created by God putting Adam into a deep sleep, taking out one of his ribs and creating Eve from that rib. This has incredible spiritual significance throughout the rest of the Bible with regards to marriage, because by making woman from man, she was to Adam “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh” (Genesis 2:23). God used the way he created Eve to establish marriage as a bond between a man and a woman who would become “one flesh”. Woman came out of man, so when a woman and man are married, “the two become one flesh”. (Genesis 2:24) Jesus even reiterates this creation account and it's significance in Matthew 19:5 and in Mark 10:8. Now compare that to Theistic Evolution which says Eve really wasn't created from Adam, but that instead, she was created in the womb of her part monkey mother, developed into a fetus, was born and raised by her hominid parents, then ran into Adam one day and said “hey, do your parents look as freaky as mine?”
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Brother and sisters, I am moved to tears.
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