Could God Have Used Evolution?

(This is an email to a friend, who believes that God used evolution to create life, in reply to a previous debate that we had.)

Could God have used evolution to create life? I guess He could have, He is God, He can do anything. But that doesn't mean that He did.

You said that you don't take the Bible completely literally. Do you believe that Adam and Eve were two actual people, the two original humans, the parents of all of humanity? Do you believe in Jonah and the Whale? Do you believe the story about Cain and Abel? What about Noah's Ark and the Flood? Do you believe that Jesus existed? Do you believe that Jesus was crucified? Do you believe that He was resurrected? Do you believe that Jesus is God? Do you believe in a literal Heaven? Do you believe in a literal Hell, where God sends sinners to be punished for all of eternity? If there is no literal Hell, then why do Christians share their faith? Why did Christ die, if there was nothing to save us from? If you don't take the whole Bible literally, where do you draw the line?

Hebrews 6:18 says that God cannot lie. Proverbs 30:5 says that His Word is flawless. Why do you not believe Him when He says that He created the Universe in 6 days? Are the verses about Him not lying and His Word being perfect not literal? Why not believe the only eyewitness to creation?

Do you think that the Creation story in Genesis is referring to God creating everything by Evolution? Why are birds and fish created the day before land animals were? Did God mess up and forget that fish evolved into reptiles, which evolved into birds? Why are there no missing links? Evolution requires death. Survival of the fittest (or luckiest). God said that after Adam and Eve were created that creation was perfect. That there was no death. Adam brought death into the world when he sinned. This completely contradicts evolution.

You can be an ignorant Christian and believe in evolution. Why do you try to manipulate God's word to fit with evolution. The "theory" of evolution changes almost every day, with new evidence and discoveries that contradict previous beliefs. Christians should place their faith in God alone, not in man. Man's heart is deceitfully wicked, who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) Evolution is just an excuse to deny the existence of God. Why would a Christian embrace such a "theory." I say "theory" because it is barely a hypothesis. You know that a hypothesis is an educated guess, evolution is uneducated. The more actual evidence that scientists find, the stupider evolution looks. Evolution in no way, should be considered a theory. Theories can be tested over and over again in a lab and are always found to be true. We have never been even close to replicating evolution in a lab, even with all the technology available to us.

The bottom line is- Could God have used evolution? Yes, but why would He take billions of years, when He could speak everything into existence.


Rick

The God Who Wasn't There? What!!!

I was just clicking on random links, "surfing the web," when I came across the homepage for a movie entitled, "The God Who Wasn't There." I read the little paragraph that told a little about the movie. There whole argument was based on the belief that pagan religions before the birth of Christ, had their own messiahs, and that early Christians stole the idea from them. They also present the claim that Jesus may have never existed.

First off, I'll start with the previous sentence. Jesus never existed? What are you smoking? We base our years from His approximate birth. We have extra-Biblical references to Jesus Christ that were written during and shortly after His life on Earth. These were pagans writing about a Jew that was crucified on a Roman cross. Uhhh... duh. That has to be one of the most idiotic claims to say that Jesus Christ never existed.

Next, I will discuss the claim that Jesus was based on earlier pagan messiahs. If you look for them, you will find them. They are found all over the place, not bound by culture, religion, or continent. If you look at the general plot of a god coming to earth to be a sacrifice to save humanity, and then to be raised from the dead, you will find many that fit that description. The reason for all these saviors is the innate knowledge in humans that we are sinful and require a sacrifice to atone for our sins. The more perfect a sacrifice, the more that its blood covers. So they came up with gods that heroically came to Earth to be their sacrifice. However, on closer inspection, they have many differences from what the Bible tells us about Christ.

Jesus, is the only documented Savior. Out of the hundreds of pagan "saviors," there is not evidence for a single one of them to have walked the Earth. Out of all the "saviors," there is not prophecies foretelling their coming. Jesus Christ, on the other hand, fulfilled 60 major prophecies, and 270 minor prophecies, all from the Old Testament of the Bible, which was completed hundreds of years before Christ was born. How many of the pagan "saviors" did that? None.

So in conclusion, I have demonstrated that Jesus Christ was not a "copy cat" of previous pagan "saviors," but the unique and only savior of all of humanity, if we would repent of our sins and place our trust in Him alone. There is so much more information on both the pagan "saviors" and Jesus Christ that I did not include in this post. For further information on this topic (and when I say further, I mean that there is pages of information.), visit http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/156 and all your answers on why Jesus Christ is different than these false saviors will be answered.

Liberals: "Our Carbon Emissions are Killing Future Generations"... But Murdering Babies Isn't.

Greenhouse gases are causing global warming (or climate change as it is now being called since it is now Winter), which is going to change the climate of Earth so that it will be less hospitable for humanity. Basically what liberals are trying to tell us is that our factories, our cars, our fireplaces, and pretty much everything else that we depend on to make a living, is going to end up ruining Earth for future generations. Wait a tick... so abortion... I mean choice... I mean killing defenseless children isn't ruining future generations? Come on, how stupid can people get. There are so many things that are wrong and illogical about about this idea, even from a liberal viewpoint.

First off, since when did liberals care about anyone other than themselves? Why do they care about future generations? They'll be dead by then. If they care so much about future generations, why are they allowing millions of unborn children to be executed each year? Do unborn children not count as future generations? Why do they call it a woman's "choice" to murder her unborn child? If you don't want a child, don't have sex. It is as simple as that. A woman gets raped and gets pregnant, so she kills an innocent child. Where is the logic in that. If a clerk at a gas station gets robbed, does he go home and kill his son? No. You don't punish innocent people just because you got hurt. Yes, I realize that getting raped and getting robbed are completely different things, but nonetheless, innocents shouldn't be punished. Why don't you let the child decide if it should be aborted. Wait until it is eight years old and then ask it if it is alright to kill it.

Secondly, because of their faith in evolution, why do liberals care about future generations? Even if there is global warming, future generations will evolve and adapt to it. It is just a continuing process. It is just another evolutionary step. Why worry about climate change? "But global warming could make different species endangered and extinct." So, evolution teaches that extinction is part of the evolutionary process. Why stop it now. Liberals' beliefs contradict each other so much, yet liberals never take notice.

I could go on about how there are no facts that support the belief that human activity has affected Earth's climate in any way, but I will leave that for a future post. Liberals contradict themselves on almost every issue. They believe that the elderly and other "useless eaters" should be euthanized, until they themselves or someone in their family becomes elderly or a "useless eater." Global warming and abortion are just two more in the endless line of liberal issues. I'm not telling you to be a conservative, all I am asking you is to please think about the issues. When you have issues or beliefs that contradict each other, it would be a pretty good idea to drop the issue or change your belief.