Evolution and Creation

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1

 “For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.” Romans 8:19-21

   Evolution as a process of change in species, or even of species can be found.  OK, I believe that.  The "theory" of evolution is a scientific fact.  There is God in heaven that created and designed the earth in its complexity (and age), and initiated life.  I believe this also.  Yet there are many teachings in the umbrella of Evolution which I do not believe.

   Most, if not all of us, have heard the issues and slanders thrown at Superintendent Line.   He raised issue with a new plan for educators to spend an expanded portion of classroom time, teaching about evolution.  As I mentioned above, evolution as a process of change is evidenced in science.  However there are many teachings associated with evolution which do not have the same support.

   One of the main problems is that educational mandates have forced Creationism out of the textbooks, and thereby excluded the idea of a creator (and the Bible.)  Attempts of evolutionist to explain the origin of life, without a divine creator, take more faith than believing in the Divine Creator.  Yet under the umbrella of evolution, these hypotheses are taught as having the same level of truth.  They have not received the evidence (nor will they) to be accepted as fact.

   Darwin’s writings included the phrase “breathed life into.”  There are many scientists today that still embrace Christianity, in a branch called “theistic evolution.”  (I would fall into this broad category.)  These scientists look at science through the eyes Christianity. God and science do not have to be independent, as many of the detractors to Mr. Line seem to advocate.  (One possibility would be that God created the earth to appear millions of years old.)  The Bible is not a science textbook, but is the handbook to life.  I do not know all the details of science, nor do I know how the evolutionary process and creation interact; and this is OK (his ways are higher than mine. Isaiah 55:9) 

   In the world we live, there are many groups of people who do not accept the Bible, or any theology.  As they find objections to the Bible, we must be careful not to close their minds completely by closing our minds to the advances in science and other knowledge, because we know where all wisdom comes from.  (Proverbs 1:7)