Compromising Creation

Everybody has their own ideas about everything. You have your favorite colors, food, cars, clothing styles, and your own view about religion. Even people from the same religions have differing theologies. The date of the earth is a highly debated object, which is far more important than your color or your style. Whether you believe in a Big Bang or a 13.5 billion year-old universe and a six billion year-old earth, or if you believe in divine inspiration and an earth that is only a few thousand years old, you have your own idea. You may think that only evolutionists believe in millions and billions of years, but even some Christians believe in that too.

           

            Where you’re coming from affects your decisions and your beliefs. If you start with the Bible, your conclusions about the earth’s age will be radically different than if you start with Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. If you start with the Bible, you may believe in a six-day creation, or you may believe in a 13.5 billion year-old universe (6 billion year-old earth). Some have argued that the Hebrew word “Yom” is the word used in the Genesis account of creation, and “Yom” can be translated into any length of time. I contend that if you believe this, then it makes it difficult to accept the translation of Jesus’ resurrection in three days.

            Also, the Genesis account is the only place in the Bible that the words “evening and morning…” follow the word “day”. If you cannot take the word “day” literally in the Genesis account, God put in the words “evening and morning”. In recent years, the gap theory has become popular. If you are unfamiliar with the gap theory, I will fill it in as best I can. The gap theory is basically where some people mix evolution with creation and end up with this theory where they squeeze the millions of years in between the first two verses of the Bible (See Genesis 1:1 and 1:2). The problem is that this is an attack on the Genesis account of creation, and an attempt on finding compromise between the theory of evolution and the creation of our universe by a divine inspiration (aka God), and when someone attempts to mix these, we see a compromised creation.

            A quick point that I want to make is that billions of years and creation are like two puzzle pieces that are from different puzzles. They cannot go together. Also, evolutionists have claimed that they have chosen science over religion, but the fact is that they have chosen religion over science. They have accepted atheistic views, and formed their own ideas about science that contradict science. If the earth were truly even millions of years old, the oceans could literally be walked across on foot, because of the salinity input rate of the oceans. I could go on about several other scientific facts that contradict the theory of creation, but I need to wrap this article up.

            To finish this off, I could write a number of statements, but let me just simplify this entire article in this one paragraph. You have a worldview, whether you know it or not, you have a worldview because you are a living entity who was created in the image of God. Your worldview is affected by the lens that you see everything through. If billions of years passed between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2, then the Bible contradicts itself; if that was true, then the Bible should’ve read, “and there was billions of years, the 2,190,000,000,000^th day…” Evidence for evolution doesn’t exist, and science doesn’t disprove creation, but instead it validates it.