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This is a post for Christians who believe in evolution, using Scriptural evidence to show why evolution cannot be harmonized with the Biblical creation account. I am not interested in debating the scientific points of atheistic evolution. I already know atheistic evolution is 100% false because I know God, and that's that. Here is why theistic evolution and/or belief in the Big Bang is unbiblical:
Gen 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Unless someone can think of an alternate interpretation for "in the beginning" it seems pretty clear that God made the earth IN THE BEGINNING. Yet, Big Bang supporters say that the earth wasn't formed until the latter third of time as we know it.
Gen 1:2- Evolutionists are certain that the earth was created 4.6 billion years ago and the waters did not exist on it for about a billion years. Instead they say it was a molten rock. Also, this verse describes earth as a dark abyss, clearly different from the molten fiery rock evolutionists describe it as.
Gen 1:3- According to Big Bang supporters and most evolutionists as well, light was formed about 10 billion years prior to the earth being formed. Yet in Scripture, light was formed after the earth.
Gen 1:5, 1:8, 1:13, 1:19, 1:23, 1:31- In every verse it clearly says "there was evening and morning," which means indeed, the days of Genesis are real 24-hour days, unless evolutionists want to say the earth rotated only once every 100-500 million years until humans were created.
Gen 1:16- God made the sun on the fourth day. Since there was already light, it is possible for there to have been living plants and night/day cycles. But according to evolutionists/Big Bang supporters, the sun was created long before the earth, about 5 billion years ago. Also, God made the stars even later, but evolutionists/Big Bang supporters say that the stars were made anywhere back to 12 billion years ago.
Gen 1:20- Fish and birds were made on the same day. Evolutionists claim that a period of nearly 100-300 million years separated the fish and the birds. Also, the reptiles, like the dinosaurs, were made a day later.
Gen 1:24- The land animals (beasts of the earth) and reptiles (beasts of the earth/creeping things) were created on the same day. This presents a real problem for theistic evolutionists because according to evolution, the reptiles came between the fish and the birds.
Gen 1:26- First of all, God says, let us CREATE man in our image; He does not say, let the animals evolve into men. Second of all, God says that man should have dominion over the earth and rule over all animals. But according to evolutionists, humans have only had dominion over the earth for a tiny fraction of the time it has supposedly existed. Most atheistic evolutionists also promote the idea that the earth will outlive humanity.
Gen 1:29-30- Another huge problem for theistic evolutionists; according to these verses all humans and animals were originally herbivores. Evolutionists claim that carnivores existed for hundreds of millions of years before humans. In fact, evolution/natural selection cannot work without having carnivores exist from the beginning. This is an irreconcilable discrepancy between Scripture and what evolutionists like to call science.
Gen 2:5- According to this verse there was no rain in the beginning. Another real problem for evolutionists/Big Bang supporters is that they think that rain formed the oceans 3-4 billion years ago, but in the beginning days a mist watered the earth rather than rain.
Gen 2:7- This is a clear description of how God formed the first man and yet another irreconcilable difference between theistic evolutionists and Scripture. There is no symbolism used here; nothing here implies that this is symbolic. In the Bible, it is always clear when symbolism is being used, and this is not a part where it is. It is clear that Adam was never an ape or evolved being; He was directly created from the dust of the earth
Gen chap. 3- Like chapters 1 and 2, there is no hint that symbolism is being used here. This is a real, literal story.
Gen 3:18- According to evolutionists, harmful plants always existed. But it is clear in the Scriptures that all plants were good until Adam sinned.
Gen 3:19- According to evolutionists, man and animals always had to work and toil just to survive. But again it is clear that work was not necessary until Adam sinned.
And last but not least, is one of the most basic beliefs of Christianity--The earth was a relative paradise in the beginning, and death and bloodshed were not always existent but resulted from Adam and Eve's sin. Evolutionary theory cannot work without death and bloodshed throughout all time.
So how about progressive creationism? What if God created all the animals in the evolutionary order in the evolutionary time periods but they did not evolve? This is also pretty hard to reconcile with Scripture as well as simple logic. Since we know that death and bloodshed were the result of Adam's sin about 5-10,000 years ago in the garden of Eden, nothing could have died before then. But the earth would then be overpopulated with different animals if not one had died for 500+ million years. This is why the earth, or at least life itself, must be young.
What about the Gap Theory? As far as I know, there is nothing in Scripture for or against the Gap Theory. However, there is a lot in Scripture against evolution and the Big Bang, and the Gap Theory is basically just a conservative version of these theories. There's nothing wrong with the Gap Theory, but there's nothing real right about it either.
Gen 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Unless someone can think of an alternate interpretation for "in the beginning" it seems pretty clear that God made the earth IN THE BEGINNING. Yet, Big Bang supporters say that the earth wasn't formed until the latter third of time as we know it.
Gen 1:2- Evolutionists are certain that the earth was created 4.6 billion years ago and the waters did not exist on it for about a billion years. Instead they say it was a molten rock. Also, this verse describes earth as a dark abyss, clearly different from the molten fiery rock evolutionists describe it as.
Gen 1:3- According to Big Bang supporters and most evolutionists as well, light was formed about 10 billion years prior to the earth being formed. Yet in Scripture, light was formed after the earth.
Gen 1:5, 1:8, 1:13, 1:19, 1:23, 1:31- In every verse it clearly says "there was evening and morning," which means indeed, the days of Genesis are real 24-hour days, unless evolutionists want to say the earth rotated only once every 100-500 million years until humans were created.
Gen 1:16- God made the sun on the fourth day. Since there was already light, it is possible for there to have been living plants and night/day cycles. But according to evolutionists/Big Bang supporters, the sun was created long before the earth, about 5 billion years ago. Also, God made the stars even later, but evolutionists/Big Bang supporters say that the stars were made anywhere back to 12 billion years ago.
Gen 1:20- Fish and birds were made on the same day. Evolutionists claim that a period of nearly 100-300 million years separated the fish and the birds. Also, the reptiles, like the dinosaurs, were made a day later.
Gen 1:24- The land animals (beasts of the earth) and reptiles (beasts of the earth/creeping things) were created on the same day. This presents a real problem for theistic evolutionists because according to evolution, the reptiles came between the fish and the birds.
Gen 1:26- First of all, God says, let us CREATE man in our image; He does not say, let the animals evolve into men. Second of all, God says that man should have dominion over the earth and rule over all animals. But according to evolutionists, humans have only had dominion over the earth for a tiny fraction of the time it has supposedly existed. Most atheistic evolutionists also promote the idea that the earth will outlive humanity.
Gen 1:29-30- Another huge problem for theistic evolutionists; according to these verses all humans and animals were originally herbivores. Evolutionists claim that carnivores existed for hundreds of millions of years before humans. In fact, evolution/natural selection cannot work without having carnivores exist from the beginning. This is an irreconcilable discrepancy between Scripture and what evolutionists like to call science.
Gen 2:5- According to this verse there was no rain in the beginning. Another real problem for evolutionists/Big Bang supporters is that they think that rain formed the oceans 3-4 billion years ago, but in the beginning days a mist watered the earth rather than rain.
Gen 2:7- This is a clear description of how God formed the first man and yet another irreconcilable difference between theistic evolutionists and Scripture. There is no symbolism used here; nothing here implies that this is symbolic. In the Bible, it is always clear when symbolism is being used, and this is not a part where it is. It is clear that Adam was never an ape or evolved being; He was directly created from the dust of the earth
Gen chap. 3- Like chapters 1 and 2, there is no hint that symbolism is being used here. This is a real, literal story.
Gen 3:18- According to evolutionists, harmful plants always existed. But it is clear in the Scriptures that all plants were good until Adam sinned.
Gen 3:19- According to evolutionists, man and animals always had to work and toil just to survive. But again it is clear that work was not necessary until Adam sinned.
And last but not least, is one of the most basic beliefs of Christianity--The earth was a relative paradise in the beginning, and death and bloodshed were not always existent but resulted from Adam and Eve's sin. Evolutionary theory cannot work without death and bloodshed throughout all time.
So how about progressive creationism? What if God created all the animals in the evolutionary order in the evolutionary time periods but they did not evolve? This is also pretty hard to reconcile with Scripture as well as simple logic. Since we know that death and bloodshed were the result of Adam's sin about 5-10,000 years ago in the garden of Eden, nothing could have died before then. But the earth would then be overpopulated with different animals if not one had died for 500+ million years. This is why the earth, or at least life itself, must be young.
What about the Gap Theory? As far as I know, there is nothing in Scripture for or against the Gap Theory. However, there is a lot in Scripture against evolution and the Big Bang, and the Gap Theory is basically just a conservative version of these theories. There's nothing wrong with the Gap Theory, but there's nothing real right about it either.