M-G: 6.23.17 // What Rock Are You Standing On

Secular (atheistic) evolutionists and theistic evolutionists (the belief that God utilized evolutionary processes) share a common belief that the earth is very old, ~4.5 billion years of age. This is quite a contrast to the view posed by creationism that our planet is a far cry younger with a span of ~10,000 years of age, causing evolutionists to laugh us to scorn. If God Almighty reveals to us in His Word through Moses that He created the heavens and the earth in six solar days (Gn 1:31; 2:2), I am going to believe Him over those who say differently.

For empirical evidence to mean anything substantive, according to legitimate scientific investigation, it demands experimentation and unbiased observation, not theory. But how can this be since the bedrock view of evolution is that life came from non-life, and yet, no one to date has been successful in creating life from non-life. It takes life to make life. Since this is true, and everybody knows it, all those years of evolution are bogus, too! Life does not evolve from a rock, which is what you have with the Big Bang and hundreds of millions of years.

Biblicists are intellectually honest enough to say that creation is a theory; evolutionists are not. I would go so far as to say it takes more faith to believe in evolution than creation, but I am biblically biased. Yet, evolution is taught as a fact in our government, our state parks, and schools. Creation is thought of as religion and not a viable alternative to explaining the origins of the universe.

Both cosmologies believe they are factual, and the authority behind evolution is human thinking; whereas, the authority behind creation is the Bible, the Self-revelation of the Creator. My prejudice is admittedly the belief that the Bible is the supreme and final authority in all matters of faith and practice that supports good and honest science, not evolutionary bias that cannot even live up to its own secular scientific standards.

Many purported “facts” by evolutionists are nothing more than outlandish “leaps of faith” statements based on mere theories, but they are always treated as an established, undeniable fact of science. That is about as reckless as believing if it is on the internet it must be true! Just go to any National Park and listen to the Park Service people babble on like evolution is factual or teachers in public schools and universities or governmental agencies claiming separation of church and state.

If you read the Scriptures closely, you will never find where God wants anything to be separated from Him in our lives because Christianity represents a relationship, not a religion of rules. The Pharisees promoted religion; this is not a case of semantics. The world calls Christianity a religion, but actually, it is vastly different. All the belief systems in the world other than Christianity are religions. Genuine Christianity is based on the merits of Jesus Christ’s incarnation, life, death, and resurrection.

Evolution is like a tick bored into the skin of science. It actually takes more faith to believe that life came from non-life than life coming from the Creator of life! Evolutionists are always making gross assumptions about what is factually based upon the predilections for a godless universe. In fact, the whole superstructure of evolution collapses because it is predicated on life coming from non-life. Since that has never been proven or ever will be, evolution is merely theoretical and not factual as claimed.

For an evolutionist, faith has no scientific value because it cannot come under the scrutiny of empirical evidence; hmm, have they ever scrutinized life from non-life yet? There is some good science out there; Christians are not opposed to science that represents truth. We are in opposition to those who would ram a godless worldview down our throats, and convince everybody else it is science. We simply question a corrupt science that revels in contradicting the Scriptures, distorting the truth to fit their agenda, and treating or rejecting the idea of intelligent design as absurd, or if they acknowledge intelligent design, it is not the same Designer of the Bible. They only damage their own credibility.

I see theistic evolutionists as the classic example of riding both sides of the fence, holding both the hand of Darwin and God in order to explain a hybrid cosmology. According to them, God used evolution as a tool for His design of the universe. Instead of “God said” and “there was,” it became “God said” and it took untold millions of years later. It’s like attempting to mix light (creation) with darkness (evolution); it will not mix.

Another theological problem I have with non-theistic and theistic evolutionary positions is death, decay, and destruction predating the Fall of man in the Garden. So-called transitional life forms of evolution had to die to evolve to human form.

Yahweh made it very clear to Adam, a direct creation of God (Gn 2:7), that partaking of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil will bring about certain death (Gn 2:16-17; cf. Rom 5:12), not through some natural process of evolution but disobedience to God’s one prohibition. Evolutionists remind me of the serpent’s words to Eve in the Garden when refuting the Creator’s warning, “You will not surely die” (Gn 3:4; cf. Gn 5:5, “and he died”). Like the devil, evolutionists are not going to shoot straight with you. I have a serious problem with interpreters treating Genesis chapters 1-11 as allegorical and not literal.

After an indeterminate amount of time, Adam disobeyed God – “and he ate,” (Gn 3:6). Death, decay, and destruction (Rom 5:12-21; 1 Cor 15:21-22) made its entry into the physical universe, and all of creation (animate and inanimate) came under a curse by Divine decree (Gn 3:17-19; cf. Rom 8:19-22). I get why evolutionists think our view is nonsensical (1 Cor 1:18; 2:14; 2 Cor 2:4).

Unlike creation, the 3-D’s of evolution would already be in operation with mutation of the species once “inanimate became animate,” making the historical narrative of Adam and Eve superfluous.  According to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, homo sapiens began evolving in Africa 200,000 years ago.1 

Boy, are they spot on …! If you believe that, well, I have some property in the swamps around 4 billion years old; I think; I need to sell. I have been trying to unload it for the longest. 

Seriously though, the fundamental problem with evolution is that life only comes from life, not from rocks as a result of the Big Bang theory, or whatever explanation secular scientists come up with on how the universe came into existence. We maintain life came from an Intelligent Designer by the name of Yahweh, the Rock of Ages! What rock are you standing on? <><

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1 http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-sapiens