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Is Evolution evidence of God?


Evolution is impossible. And I think everyone who has ever put any depth of thought into the issue knows it. Even those who believe it actually happened often admit that the chances of it are astronomically slim. They are amazed that, in their view, it happened. You would think the impossibility of Evolution would cause Theists of all kinds, and Christians in particular, to breathe a sigh of relief. This "theory", designed, as Michael Ruse called it, "...as an ideology, a secular religion—a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality", turns out to be so intellectually destitute, no one in their right mind needs to acknowledge it. Woohoo!


Unfortunately, even in this area, sin corrupts human thinking, and so in spite of its impossibility, many Christians think "but God can do the impossible", and so here we have an opportunity to witness to Evolutionists, using their own myth (though of course, they would not call it a myth) to do it. Evolution, they say, is evidence of God.


The first and most important thing to remember is that although God can do the impossible, there are still things that are impossible for God. Hebrews 6:18 says it is impossible for God to lie, for example, and Titus 1:2 reiterates, God cannot lie. Similarly, 2 Timothy 2:13 tells us if we are faithless, God remains faithful, as He cannot deny Himself.


Thus, while we see God's sovereignty over His own creation, and it is this that Scripture means when it says "nothing is impossible for God", God is still a limit on Himself. There are some things God cannot do, simply because they are not Godly things to do. God can, and we must be grateful for this, forgive a sinner. In the same way, God absolutely can, without any effort, cause a barren woman, or even a virgin, to conceive. These are non-issues. But we are explicitly told that He cannot lie.


This immediately tells us that Evolution, if it happened, is evidence against the Biblical God. Why? Simply because the Biblical God is a "young" Earth Creationist. His word plainly tells us that He created the heavens and the Earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th, even basing the doctrine of the Sabbath on this fact. It plainly tells us the order of creation, which in no way fits any Evolutionary narrative. It plainly tells us living organisms reproduce according to their kinds, not that they started as one organism and gradually reproduced into numerous other kinds. It plainly tells us the human race started with two independently created people, a man and his wife, and even bases the doctrine of marriage upon them. It plainly tells us of a global flood, which spared only 8 people, all the land creatures, and obviously aquatic life forms (fish, whales etc.) capable of surviving such a flood. It plainly tells us of an event where all people spoke one language, but God confused their languages, splitting them off into many groups.


The Bible tells us all of that as plainly as it could possibly do so. It is so plain, in fact, that although Old Earth narratives did exist in pagan cultures surrounding the Church, and although many of them are suspiciously close to modern Evolution, the Church always stood against them, at least until atheists started calling them "science". It is so plain that Theistic Evolutionists and their ilk can only really attack them, or defend their own views, by admitting that the Bible seems to say these things, but instead attacking (their perceived) implications of such interpretations, as well as applying strange and arbitrary interpretation methods specifically to Genesis 1-11. They say "well maybe that actually means this", and "maybe this actually means that", always with no evidence or justification beyond "if we don't take my new and arbitrary interpretation, then Young Earth Creationism is the only realistic interpretation left". But there are only so many times Scripture can point so clearly to a given position before it becomes irrational to take other interpretations.


So already we see that either Evolution is a lie, or Genesis is. Since Genesis is the word of God, and the Biblical God cannot lie, Evolution and the Biblical God are incompatible. There is, therefore, no possible way for Evolution to be evidence of God. But it gets worse, because Evolution says a lot about the character of its god, too.


See, Evolution is a process of blind, pitiless indifference. It doesn't care if an animal gets a crippling and fatal illness. It doesn't care if prey animals suffer unbearably as their predators devour them. It doesn't care if large numbers of species die off in mass extinction events. Much like our fallen world, Evolution is pitiless. In a fallen world, this makes perfect sense. A sparrow may not fall to the ground without our Father's care, but it still falls, simply because He has withdrawn His sustaining power due to sin. God's withdrawal is both a judgement against sin, and a part of redemption. Suffering is not nice, but it has a cause, and a purpose. It is, therefore, consistent with the justice of God as seen in Scripture.


But what of Evolution? This view would suggest that such blind, pitiless indifference is not the result of sin, but the very method by which morally accountable creatures came into being! Worse than that, they "fell" into the very thing that God used to create this "very good" world. And tell me, is it very good? A lion might think a baby zebra tastes "very good", but I can assure you the zebra didn't think the same. The dinosaur fossil found with cancer certainly didn't think its debilitating illness was "very good". The countless humanoids that would necessarily have had to exist prior to Adam didn't think fighting for their lives, using primitive technology and non-existent medical techniques, would not have considered this non-punishment for sins they were never told they committed "very good". According to Scripture, death is an enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26). It is a result of sin, so it cannot be the origin of sinners. Therefore, the Biblical God simply cannot have used it. It would not be consistent with His character.


But there is one being whom Scripture defines as a murderer, and the father of lies. That being is Satan, the devil. The ancient serpent (Revelation 20:2), the very same who tempted mankind into sin and death in the first place. Coincidentally, scripture also calls him the "god of this age" (2 Corinthians 4:3-4). So, if Evolution is evidence of a god, we would have to ask which god? It cannot be the God of the Bible. This God explicitly tells us He did not use Evolution, that He cannot lie, and that such a brutal process is not even within His character to use. But if Satan is anything like the Bible describes him, it is quite within his character to not only lie about origins, but also to use such a brutal process as Evolution.


For this reason, I thank God that Evolution is impossible. I thank God that the evidence for it is so scant, even Evolutionists admit their only real hope of getting people to believe it is to brainwash them as children. I thank God that it is nothing more than a man-made religion designed as an alternative to Christianity. I thank God that it fails as such an alternative, because there are no facts that would compel a man to accept it over Creationism. Basically, I thank God that Evolution is one of the most easily refutable lies the devil ever told. Because if it was true, I would be asking that ancient question, "did God really say"?

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