The simple answer to the question is both creation and evolution require faith. Either faith in the theory invented by man or the infallible truth revealed in the Bible. There are only 2 possibilities: either God supernaturally created by speaking the universe into being or things have evolved through the millennia through natural processes. Biblical creationism states that God created the heavens and the earth. Evolution means that a specific species has undergone change over time. The basic concept of evolution isn’t controversial. We see visible changes within a species. This is called microevolution. Evolutionary theory encompasses much more than the idea of change over time. The theory of evolution is a set of propositions that seek to explain how all of life on Earth evolved from a simple primitive species that lived 3.5 to 4.5 billion years ago.
This is where the controversy lies: can the same mechanisms that facilitate change within a species create every specie on earth? This is called macroevolution. For most biologists there is no difference between micro and macro evolution.
Evolutionary theory says the mechanism that drives change within a species today also drives change from one specie to another over the past 4 billion years-from fish to amphibians, amphibians to reptiles, from reptiles to birds and mammals. If evolution is true, we should find the transitional forms of one specie becoming another in the fossil record. We do not find any evidence that species have evolved from one to another. We do see fish spawning other fish, we see birds laying eggs to produce other birds and we see humans conceiving other humans. Species produce after their kind.
The Bible in its most simple straight forward interpretation teaches that God created everything in 6 24 hour periods. The age of the earth is only 6 to 10,000 years if we calculate its age by using Biblical genealogies and chronologies. Noah’s global flood explains many geological formations like the Grand Canyon and the fossil record. Something more catastrophic than the natural processes explains these things.
Evolution is man’s attempt to explain origins (that is, how did it all begin) by leaving God out of the picture. Every zoo, every biology class, every astronomy or paleontology lecture will assume evolutionary theory to be fact. We must teach our children how to think critically and not swallow evolution line, bait and sinker.
There is a better explanation. God created the heavens and the earth. Mankind was man in his image. God spoke the universe into being. Then he took the dust of the earth, made man and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Adam and Eve walked and talked with God in the garden in the cool of the day. They were made to have a relationship with the living God.
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