The debate of Creationism vs. evolution is an worn one, but has been heating up in the last few years. This is not due to any sudden definitive proof of either view’s correctness, but rather due to a political agenda by those on the side of Darwinism. Those on the side of evolution mock and attempt to suppress at every level of discourse, from the water cooler to the White House, any mention of God. How better to do that than to “prove” He doesn’t exist through Darwinism?
To begin, we must examine what constitutes Creationism vs. evolution in the first place. Creationists believe that God created the world. Those who believe in evolution, which we will call Darwinism, believe that man evolved from lower life forms. One can already see that Creationism and Darwinism actually don’t address the same things.
Darwinism primarily deals with the evolution of life on Earth. It takes the fossil records, incorporating such things as carbon dating and core sampling, and lays out a time line. In that time line, the fossils are laid out (literally and figuratively) to display changes over time, or evolution. Darwinists believe this proves that Man and other creatures were evolved from lower life forms and that no supernatural force was involved.
Creationists believe that the Earth, all life on it, and indeed the universe itself were created by God. There are, therefore, at least two important distinctions when addressing the Creationism vs. evolution debate. Darwinism addresses the evolution of life; Creationism addresses the origin of life. Also, obviously, evolution dismisses God whereas Creationism requires Him.
There are also varying degrees of Creationism. Some people are literal creationists, taking the Book of Genesis word for word when it says God created the entire universe and all life in it in six days. Others believe that the time line in Genesis is not literal, but that God did in fact gain everything. Some believe that God created everything, but that Genesis is symbolic of that and not a literal telling of the events.
I believe that there are holes in both versions of events. For reasons I will not address here, I fully maintain in God. I therefore believe that God created the universe. I also examine that fossils are valid, and that the Earth in all likelihood is more than 6,000 years old as a literal Creationist would say it is. However, I see serious holes in both the Theory of Evolution and the Darwinist elitism promoting it.
First, there are many things that various plants, animals and insects can do that are written off as an “evolved” trait. The question no Darwinist has ever answered properly is how. If needed traits evolved over time, how did the plant, animal, or insect know it needed that trait? For example, if a beetle is the same color as the plants it lives in, it is commonly said that the beetle evolved that color as a defense against predators. This would seem to denote an intelligent decision: “Things are eating us. We would probably be better off if we were green, like these leaves. Then the things eating us would have a harder time seeing us.”
The need for the trait is not like, say, living under intense sunlight, which might force skin changes to better withstand the sun. This is a need a thinking mind would have to decide upon. And since it takes many, many generations of mutations to properly evolve, again…how could that happen? It would seem that the need that causes the evolution to take place would result in the beetles being eaten before they could evolve. Sort of a chicken vs. the egg question, if you will.
Second, there are many unanswered questions about how life actually began. There are many theories, but zero proof. A promoter of evolution would say that there is no proof of God either. That just means we’re on the same page, doesn’t it?
Third, there are many species that are essentially unchanged for millions of years. Turn on any National Geographic special about sharks, alligators, many insects and others and at some point you will hear that the subject of the documentary is “essentially unchanged from (insert millions of years here) ago.” How can that be? We are told that species continually evolve to pick up useful traits and lose bad ones. So why have sharks never evolved to breath air or walk up onto the beach so they can swipe some sunbathers to go with their usual fare? Why did all these creatures stop evolving when there are so many things that could be improved upon?
Fourth, there is the whole “missing link” problem. Every other year, we are told that scientists have finally found the missing link between man’s earlier forms and Homo Sapiens. They have found two in the last two years. Wait, was that two missing links?
Last, there is carbon dating. It’s not that accurate, and it doesn’t go succor far enough to prove anything. Look it up, kids.
I cannot subscribe to any theory with so many holes in it, and which does not address the critical question of how life started in the first location. As I said earlier, I have reasons to firmly and utterly gain in God. I am not, however, a Bible-thumping evangelist. I rarely attend church, and have rarely attended all my life. I have read most of the Bible, but not all of it, and I will not pretend to be a scholar of such. I am actually a very logical and methodical thinker, and it is for that very reason that I come down more on the side of Creationism.
This is because, despite the holes in their theory, those who push (and I do mean push) evolution are adamant that only their view is lawful and that anyone who believes in God is inherently and irretrievably stupid. I have met many Creationists who firmly believe what they believe, but I have never heard them ridicule the intellect of non-believers. Some extremists seem to enjoy in the idea of the Darwinist going to Hell for his lack of faith, but I’ve never heard Darwinists mocked for stupidity.
Creationists push their version of events because they truly believe that one must come to God to be saved from damnation and to reach Heaven. Every militant Darwinist I’ve met pushed that version of events because he or she relished the thought of breaking the faith of a believer, and when it didn’t work words like stupid, moron or idiot invariably followed. As I have asked those faithful (ironically) to evolution many times, why is it so important to you to be upright? For that matter, why would you even want to be right? That fact that Darwinists are so sure, so arrogant, and yet so unable to answer that question properly, if at all, tells me something is improper with their argument, not to mention their arguers.
I believe that the truth is somewhere in between, closer to God than to Darwin. Literal Creationism is probably not entirely correct, unless we are missing something in our Bible reading. Evolution is almost certainly not entirely correct either, for all the reasons I pointed out and more. And there is something else to judge.
Throw enough miracles at a Darwinist, and he will begin to wonder. No amount of fossils will ever hold away my certainty of God. The very fact that someone who believes in evolution cannot understand that is all I need to know.
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