Over the years, as I pondered the debate between Creationists and Evolutionists, I have come to see many areas of the debate that evolutionists make great “leaps of faith” that simply do not work for me. The only faith I need to believe that Creation is true is to believe that God created everything. After that everything falls into place. I do not have to take the wide path of popular philosophy and continually skip over missing facts like the Evolutionists do.
My core belief starts with the first five words in the Bible; “In the beginning, God created”, the narrow path. My life has proven the validity of Scripture to me repeatedly. I find the Bible to be the source of truth and therefore stand on those five words. Looking at those five words, the first thing that jumps out at me is the word “beginning”. Being a person that seeks facts and clear definition of concepts, I ask myself “in the beginning” of what? The answer is time as we work through the rest of Genesis. Adam was created on the sixth day and his timeline, and the timelines of those that followed him, are clearly defined in Genesis.
So how does an evolutionist describe the “beginning”? I have heard the Big Bang Theory but ask… really? I heard a creationist say, “Given enough time something can come out of nothing.” Out of nothing something created a Big Bang. I can’t believe any logical person can believe that. My mind asks what was here before the beginning. If I asked a Creationist, they would probably say empty space. I would ask them where did the empty space come from? Even if it is empty, it is there. The other question about space I struggle with is where does it end? Can it logically go on forever? A better question is can it logically end? If it did end, what is on the other side of where it ends? The definition of what happens to me when contemplating things like this is best said by singer/ song writer Michael Card. In one of his songs, he has a line that helps me deal with the unknown. The line is, “Sometimes the questions bring us better answers than our answers ever will”. Space is a mystery that is beyond my understanding, but not beyond the Creator of space.
I find the step-by-step concept of evolution to be full of huge questions. The evolutionist explains the questions away by saying we just have not figured out what happened yet, or we have not found the missing link. I guess that is why it is called the Theory of Evolution. But if evolution is a theory with many yet unexplained transitions from one step to another, why is it taught in schools like it is a fact? Scientifically should not all opposing theories be studied and debated? Why do we sweep creation under the rug and teach evolution like it is fact? “Sometimes the questions bring us better answers than our answers ever will”. If people do not want to believe in a Creator God, they must deny the possibility that God created.
In my business career I have seen many problem-solving methods. The one that fits this question the best for me is the method called “proving the null hypothesis”. This method is used if you are not sure how to prove something is true. Therefore, you try to prove it is not true by forming a hypothesis that opposes the original thought and then prove it is true. If the opposing thought is proven true, then the original thought is proven false. If you cannot prove the null hypothesis is true, then the original hypothesis cannot be proven false.
I see evolution as an attempt to prove the null hypothesis of “In the beginning, God created”. Darwin believed creation was wrong and created the Theory of Evolution as the null hypothesis, even if he didn’t call it that. My problem is he, and subsequent evolutionists, have never proven his theory to be true. Therefore, when you cannot prove the null hypothesis to be true, the original thought, creation in this case, cannot be proven false.
Here are just a few leaps of faith on the wide path that evolutionists believe that I just cannot buy into.
1. The “Big Bang” or other unexplained beginnings from nothing
2. Plant life came from energy or something else
3. Living things like amoebas, one celled animal, came from plant life
4. Amoebas randomly started to reproduce by splitting into two separate amoebas
5. Some amoebas randomly creating additional cells and changed into a multi-cell creature
6. Some of those random cells then randomly became cells for different organs in the body
This list goes on and on. Things “just happened” for no explainable scientific reason. The only thing that I know that can change a species is some change in their DNA. Accidents or birth defects do not change the next generation. I had polio when I was five. My kids do not have a deformed right arm. The sickness did not change the DNA that was passed to my children. Species do not just randomly change into something else.
I saw a TV program on evolution years ago that made me laugh. They were explaining what caused creatures to leave their life in the water and become land animals. There was this cartoon showing a small fish swimming wildly to get away from a bigger fish that was trying to eat it. While the small fish was swimming as fast as it could, it grew four legs and crawled out of the water to safety. There was no conversation about how this creature happened to grow legs on the fly or was able to breathe once out of the water. As I watched this, I thought how could anyone believe this. Legs do not just suddenly grow on a fish. It was one of the most preposterous things I have ever seen, but it was presented as fact.
The scary thought to me is people just believe things like that as fact. If someone with “credentials” makes a statement people simply believe it. People seem to think that the person knows more than they do so they must be right. I cannot do that. When things do not make sense to me I either research the thought deeper or reject the thought. Evolutionists cannot bridge the gaps so I just cannot blindly follow their thoughts and take their leaps of faith on the wide path.
Probably the greatest challenge to evolution I have ever heard came from the evolutionist himself on the program I watched. The speaker had just finished giving a half hour talk on evolution and after his speech, like an afterthought he was struggling with, with his mic unknowingly still on, he said under his breath while picking up his papers, “We never have figured out how male and female happened”. The statement shocked me. He was teaching a theory like it was fact with that huge gaping hole in his understanding. How can intelligent people do that?
As I have pondered that statement repeatedly it became the “nail in the coffin” for me with the Theory of Evolution. I simply cannot believe that the intricacies of a male and a female have simply happened by accident. Not only that but all that intricacy happened in close enough geographic proximity and at the exact same moment in history that the male and female were able to find each other, be driven by an instinct to mate (wherever that came from), and a new way of conceiving life was started; all by some random set of occurrences in two beings at the same time. It would take a creature turning into a female by randomly growing all the many necessary female reproductive parts. And at the exact same time and in the same location another creature grew all the needed male reproductive parts. Do you get my point? How can anyone honestly believe that? However, that is taught as fact on the wide path.
I simply cannot believe this happened; an amoeba that came from a plant that before that had come from nothing in some kind of a big bang, somehow evolved into males and females at the perfect time to create new life in a new way. To me that is simply unbelievable. The evolutionists cannot even explain it themselves. Evolution does not prove the null hypothesis and therefore Creation is the only plausible answer. In the beginning God created. A Creator amazingly beyond our comprehension who was able to create the intricacies of all we know by simply thinking them into existence. That is the narrow path of truth.
So, what do you believe; “In the beginning God created” or “The Theory of Evolution”? I challenge you to think deeply about the question and know why you believe what you believe. If you come to the same conclusion I have, run the rest of your beliefs through the filter of Scripture. You will be glad you did.
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