In much of the scientific and educational community today, evolution evolution is the main view given for the origin of life and the universe. Bible-believing Christians should consider these four observations about evolution.

Observations About Evolution

(1) Evolution is a naturalistic effort (i.e., without any supernatural activity or element) to explain the origin and development of the universe. This view assumes that there is no personal, divine Creator who designed the world. Evolutionist believe that everything came into existence by a series of chance happenings, random events, that occurred over billions of years. Proponents, those who believe the idea of evolution, claim to have scientific evidence that support their hypothesis.

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(2) The teaching of evolution is not truly scientific. According to the science method, all conclusions must be based on indisputable (i.e., unquestionable) evidence. That is evidence that cannot be duplicated , or repeated over and over, with the same end results. however, no experiments could test and prove assumptions like the "big bang" theory about how the present universe started. Nor can it be proven that living beings developed gradually from the simplest to the most complex forms. (This last point defies the second law of thermodynamics that describes how physical matters tends towards disorders-not higher orders-as it changes.) Evolution is a hypothesis without scientific "evidence". Any hypothesis is a well-stated idea that lead to more study in the search for proven, testable fact. but in science, a hypothesis is not evidence for offering something as fact. Accepting evolution requires faith in human theory. In contrast, God's people put their faith in God's inspired and time-tested Word. God's Word reveals that he is the One who made all things out of nothing (Hebrew 11:13).

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(3) Change and development will occur within various species (i.e., a related group distinct from other groups of living things). For example some species are becoming extinct. In fact, some species no longer exist at all. on the other hand, we occasionally see new developments or mutations within species. but there is no evidence, not even in earth history or fossil records, which supports the theory that one kind of living thing ever evolved from another kind. Existing evidence support the Bible, which says that God created each living creature "according to its kind" (Genesis 1:21, 24-25).

(4) Bible-believing Christians must also reject the theory called theistic evolution. This belief accepts most of the conclusion of naturalistic evolution, which is a belief in the development of the species from the first living cell to the present diversity of plant and animal species without intervention from God. Theistic evolution only adds that god actually started the evolutionary process. the problem for the Christian is that this theory contradicts the biblical revelation of God's active role in all aspects of creation, not just that he started the process. For example, God is the subject of every action verb in Genesis 1, except Genesis 1:12 (which fulfills God's command from verse 11), and the repeated phrase "there was evening, and there was morning". Therefore, the Bible teaches that God is not an uninvolved or passive supervisor of an evolutionary process. He is the active Creator of all things (Collosians 1:16)

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