The idea that God created through evolution is not supported by the Bible or science.
Could God have created through evolution?
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The best way to find out whether God used evolution as His method
of creation is to ask an eyewitness to the event. The Bible tells
us that God was the eyewitness, and He tells us He created —
He did not set the world to evolve.
God could have used evolution to form life on earth (theistic evolution) if He had wanted to. But He didn't. If the Bible truly is the revealed Word of God, as Christians believe, then what God tells us in the Bible must be true.
He tells us He created everything in six days — not “evolved” them over billions of years. He tells us He created the various kinds of animals and plants “after their kind.” This means He created mature animals and plants ready to reproduce more of their own kind. He tells us He created the first man from the dust of the ground — not from an ape-like creature.
When reporters from newspapers or television stations want to find out what happened, they try to find an eyewitness who can tell them. In the same way, if we want to find out what happened at the beginning of the world, we should find out what the eyewitness says.
Eyewitness says creation!
God the Creator was the only eyewitness, and He tells us in the Bible's book of Genesis that He created things — they did not evolve.
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was never meant to harmonize with the Bible, but to replace it. Encyclopaedia Britannica says in its biography of Darwin: “There was no place in Darwin's world for divine intervention …” In fact Darwin put the point in strong terms in his book The Descent of Man: “But the time will before long come, when it will be thought wonderful that naturalists, who were well acquainted with the comparative structure and development of man and other mammals, should have believed that each was the work of a separate act of creation.”
Prominent anatomist and
anthropologist Sir Arthur Keith was another to recognize that
Darwin saw evolution not as something to combine with creation, but
a way to replace it. Sir Arthur wrote the Introduction to the
Everyman's Library edition of The Origin of Species (E. P.
Dutton and Company 1928): “Darwin's aim was to replace a
belief in special creation by a belief in evolution and in this he
did succeed, as every modern biologist will readily
admit.”
Consider this major problem: Someone who believes that God used evolution is in a scientific and scriptural “no man's land.” Evolutionary textbooks and encyclopedias, like Darwin, don't use God as an explanation for the evolution theory. Likewise, the Bible doesn't imply in the slightest that evolution is an explanation for God's creation. Those who say the two ideas can be combined are being naïve.
Skeptic sees the problem
Even skeptics will usually agree that it is impossible to harmonize the Bible's account of creation with evolution. We found this comment on a skeptics' bulletin board early in 2002:
“I don't see how you can reconcile the facts of evolution and an old earth with Genesis … I mean really, Adam and Eve, though fictional, are described as real people in Bible genealogies, as is Noah. There's nothing in the creation and flood stories which indicates it's to be treated differently from stories of identical context like David and Goliath, Elijah going into heaven, and so on.
“Some say the creation story happened over millions of years. But it says 'there was evening and there was morning, the _th (whatever) day'. Seems to mean a real day. Also the order of creation is way out of line: sun & stars after the earth and vegetation; flying creatures before land ones; domestic animals (cattle) created before humans, just to name some. And how do you reconcile billions of years of death and suffering of animals with a perfect, death-free creation?”
Christians who say they believe the Bible but then try to water it down by saying they also believe evolution and an old earth are doing great damage to Christianity. That kind of Christian will never influence skeptics who can see through their contradictory arguments.
So theistic evolutionists — those who think that God used evolution to create the world — are really stretching the facts, and are left trying to defend a theory that harmonizes with neither textbook evolution nor with the Bible.
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