By Bruce Malone
Prior to founding Search for the Truth
Publications, Bruce Malone was a as a research
leader for Dow Chemical for 27 years and holds 17 patents. He lectures
frequently on the subject of creation and biblical history, and has spoken over
600 times in 12 countries. His company has given away over 50,000 books to
students and prisoners. For more information, visit
www.SearchForTheTruth.net.
There is much effort by well-meaning Christians to blend the
belief in evolution with Christianity in order to make both the Bible and
Christianity “more credible” to the world. Well-funded organizations such
as BioLogos, and superficial fluff articles such as “10 Things I Wish
Everyone Knew about the Creation vs. Evolution Debate” by Michael
Lehmann on Faithstreet.com, are working hard to convince Christians that
evolution and the Bible blend seamlessly. Yet the exact opposite is true.
1. Evolution is NOT a fact
of science
First let’s define our terms. “Evolution” can mean change
and biological variation due to the genetic variability built into the DNA
coding of any given type of creature. This type of “evolution” is a
biological fact which no-one disputes. When evolution believers state
that evolution is as strongly supported by a “vast body of evidence” as the law
of gravity, they are referring to change within a kind. Yet the same
word, “evolution” is then used to support the belief that bacteria have turned
into people. This has never been proven and there is a “vast body of
evidence” showing that it is a scientifically impossibility. Furthermore,
using the same word to mean two completely different things is both deceptive
and dishonest.
2. The Bible claims to be
God’s divine revelation to man and starts with an account of creation.
God goes out of his way to make important and relevant facts
crystal clear. Ten times in the first chapter of the Bible it states that
different kinds of creatures reproduce “after their own kind”. This does
not exclude variation within a kind, but clearly means that fish stay fish,
cattle stay cattle, trees stay trees, birds stay birds, etc… This forms
the very foundation for understanding biology, and if denied, biology is going
to be misinterpreted because the only alternate explanation is that one kind of
creature turned into a completely different body structure. Yet this has
never been demonstrated by either the fossil record or any known observation.
3. If the Bible cannot be
trusted at the beginning, when does it start meaning what it says?
The Bible describes the creation of the universe in six days.
Every time a numeral or the words “morning/evening” are used with the
word “day,” it means a normal literal day. Furthermore, Exodus 20:11
states that, “In six days God made the Heavens and the Earth…”. This
statement is part of the Ten Commandments and was written by the very hand of God. If this does
not mean what it says, why believe the commandment? For that
matter, who gets to decide when we should start believing what the Bible
actually says vs. making it mean whatever we want it to mean? The entire
book rapidly becomes very fluid and any basis it provides for morality,
history, and reality becomes blurred.
Furthermore, the vast majority of scientific methods for measuring
the age of the Earth support its recent creation and there is no valid
scientific reason to not accept what God’s Word says about the recent creation
of the Earth and life upon Earth.
4. Every modern culture
which accepts evolution as a fact, Biblical Christianity declines
Almost every country in Europe came from a strong (albeit often
distorted) Christian heritage. It has only been in the last 200 years
that the belief in God’s Word as a clear straightforward document has become
questioned. And not coincidentally, as molecules-to-man evolution has
become accepted by the masses at large, the belief in Christianity ALWAYS falls
away. Church-attending, Bible-believing Christians have fallen from over
60% in all European countries to under 5% in the same time period as evolution
as become accepted as a fact in these same countries. To miss this
correlation is pure blindness. The same trend is under way in America.
5. The Bible’s account of
creation is NOT filled with inconsistencies
BioLogos (and others out to justify their belief in
macroevolution) promote misinformation about Genesis with the ultimate result
of undermining trust in God’s Word. There are not two stories
of creation in Genesis chapters 1 and 2 but an overview in chapter 1 and an
amplification of the most important event (the creation of mankind) in chapter
2. This is a common practice in Hebrew writing.
Genesis 1:7 states that God divided the waters under the “firmament” from the waters above the “firmament”. One meaning of this Hebrew word “firmament” is “dome.” Thus skeptics have stated that the Bible teaches that the
sky is a “solid dome.” The Bible does not teach a solid dome was
created over the Earth, but uses understandable language just as a weatherman
referring to “the rising of the sun” is not denying that the Earth rotates but
is simply using common, understandable language.
Pointing out these tiny misunderstood issues while denying that
the specific, crystal-clear text means what it actually says about the big
issues of history (the creation of separate forms of life in six literal days,
the entrance of death into creation because of mankind’s actions, and the real
world-restructuring flood as a primary cause of the Earth’s geology) is like
focusing on the bark of a single tree in order to deny that there is an entire
forest in your face.
6. If Evolution is true,
then God is the “Author of Death”
Evolution required millions of years of death, disease, bloodshed,
and extinction to explain the development of life without God. This is
the exact opposite of the God described in the Bible who declared all of
creation not just “good”, but “VERY GOOD”, after the creation of mankind.
It was mankind’s rebellion against God which brought death into all of
creation so that we would not live forever separated from our Creator.
Where does this fact fit into an evolutionary scenario of history?
7. The fossil record is the
result of a real, factual, historic globe-covering flood
Genesis chapters 6-9 spends more time talking about a world
covering flood than the creation of the entire universe, “…all the high
mountains, UNDER HEAVEN were covered…” (Genesis 7:19). This
event has enormous geological consequences and would have formed the
sedimentary rock layers of the Earth, filled with dead plants and animals
(which subsequently turned to fossils and coal seams), recently and rapidly.
If the flood is denied, then these rock layers and fossils have to be
explained some other way and they will be misinterpreted.
The flood would have included enormous volcanism and cloud cover,
rapid land movement which created new ocean floors and pushed up the current
mountain ranges of the Earth after the flood, and guaranteed an enormous Ice
Age following the flood as warmer ocean water evaporated and condensed as snow
for centuries following this event. Even Mt. Everest is covered with
sedimentary rock (formed under water) and has sea shells at its peak. Did
these sea creatures crawl up there? By denying the flood and accepting
macroevolution as a fact, the cause of all these Earth features and the timing
of the Ice Age will be misinterpreted.
8. Every culture of the
world has a remembrance of this flood.
Over 250 global flood accounts have been collected from
essentially every ancient culture of the world. This is because all
cultures of the world spread out after this event from 4350 years ago.
They would have taken with them a remembrance of this event which would
have become more distorted with time. This is exactly what we find in
cultures throughout the world. Highly advanced, civilization-exploding
cultures appeared around the world, fully formed and fully functional, only
4000 years ago.
Often repeated dates placing cultures such as the Egyptians and
Chinese older than 4000 years are the result of misplacing the Ice Age,
misinterpreting fragmented ancient documents, or misunderstanding the
assumptions of carbon-14 dating.
9. Mankind has lived with,
and has knowledge of, dinosaurs
The word “dinosaur” was not even coined until 1841. Before
that time these creatures were commonly referred to as dragons. Their
fossilized bones are found in flood sediment but they would have survived the
flood along with other animals taken on the ark and exact depictions of these
creatures can be found in ancient cultures (which arose after the flood) in
cave drawings, burial stones, and literature. They are frequently
referred to in the Bible but under a variety of different names since the word
“dinosaur” had not yet been invented. Job 40:15-24 describes an enormous
creature with a tail like a cedar tree. This could be neither an
elephant nor a hippo. Furthermore, many dinosaurs have been found with
undecayed tissue remaining within their bones. This is a scientific
impossibility if these creatures were buried 60 – 200 million years ago but
makes perfect sense if they were buried during Noah’s flood only 4350 years
ago.
10. Neither majority nor
authority determine truth
As Christians, we are to accept God’s Word as truth, yet the vast
majority of experts and scientific authorities claim that they are right and
the Bible is wrong. The truth exists
whether it is believed or not and neither scientific consensus nor human
authority determines truth. But how can so many intelligent people
believe in molecules to man evolution if it is not true? Dr. William James
(commonly known as the “Father of Modern Psychology”) made the following
observation, “Nothing is too absurd to be believed - if it is repeated often
enough.”
Millions of years and the evolutionary story of life’s development
is the ONLY explanation for life shown to students within our schools and
museums. Thus generation after generation has become blind to any other
possibility and evolution becomes the “fact” through which they view history. Even
God’s Word eventually needs to be distorted to fit this belief system, and that
is exactly what BioLogos and other compromising Christians are unwittingly
doing.
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