Could God have Used Evolution?
On February 12th many people across the world will celebrate Darwin Day. It's the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth in Shrewsbury, England. 2009 is also the 150th anniversary of the release of his infamous work, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection on the Preservation of the Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
What are we as Christians to think about evolution? Could God have used evolution as a tool to bring about mankind over billions of years?
Answer these questions and determine what it would mean to our Christian faith if God used evolution.
- Was Adam a real person of just a mythical character? If Adam was only mythical, then why is he included in the lineage of Jesus? If Adam were only mythical, then how do we logically reconcile the passages in Romans 5 contrasting Jesus' sacrifice to Adam's sin? If everything evolved from a single-celled organism then Adam would have been the culmination of millions of years of death and bloodshed as natural selection somehow shaped humanity from lesser creatures. So would Adam's parents, who were not quite human, be subject to eternal punishment, or were they just animals?
- Did Adam's sin bring the curse of death upon the universe? Evolution requires the death of the lesser creatures, the unlucky, and the unfit so that the favored species can pass on their genes. Were death, disease, and bloodshed around before Adam sinned? Did millions of years of death and bloodshed create mankind, or did mankind bring death and bloodshed upon creation? If evolution brought about mankind through countless generations of death, then why did Christ have to die?
- What grounds for morals exist if God used evolution? Could someone with no morals or different morals claim to be more highly evolved and not subject to biblical morals? Can we really punish someone for making "bad" choices when his natural instincts pushed them to: steal/rape/kill/assault/insult/deceive? Are some races more highly evolved than other races?
- What is the practical difference between "Evolution created everything without God" and "Evolution created everything while God watched" ? Is it not a slippery slope to start removing God from his place as rightful Creator? Did God not say that He created man in His image from the dust of the earth and breathed life into his nostrils?
There are many questions. The answers exist in a comprehensive view of the Bible as cohesive. So, the heart of the matter may go back to "What do you believe about the Scriptures? Is God's word a collection of myths and stories, or is it the inerrant Word of Creator God?"
It's a sad testimony of our culture that many churches across the world, who proclaim Christianity, will celebrate Darwin Day and his godless evolutionary worldview.
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