Creation and Evolution- Satan’s having a lot of fun with this one
Posted by Steve on September 17th, 2007 filed in Faith
Growing up in church, I always heard about how Satan worked in very discreet ways. He distracts, tells little lies, and uses half-truths in order to keep Christians from advancing the kingdom. I believe this is true. Here’s a thought-
The whole creation/evolution debate is currently one of Satan’s most successful attempts to distract Christians from doing God’s work.
I would go even further and say that not only is it distracting us, but it is truly damaging our efforts to spread the gospel.
Last May a group called Answers in Genesis opened The Creation Museum. Through interactive displays the museum portrays a strictly literal interpretation of the creation and flood stories from Genesis(although I would say that the word literal here is up for debate, we can talk more about that later). Their website says this about the museum,
“The Bible speaks for itself at the Creation Museum. We’ve just paved the way to a greater understanding of the tenets of creation and redemption. Our exhibit halls are gilded with truth, our gardens teem with the visible signs of life.”
I cannot help but feel bitter as I read, “Our exhibit halls are gilded with truth…” What if they are not? What if this Creation Museum is actually spreading lies about God’s creation?
Part of me wonders what it will be like when the people who built this museum get to heaven. “Well done my good and faithful servants. You spent 25 million dollars building this museum when 1/6 of the world lives in extreme poverty, thousands of children are dying each day of preventable diseases, and countless have not even heard of my good news. But you built a high tech ‘Creation Museum.’ Way to be.”
I grew up hearing and affirming the most common arguments against evolution. There were times when I felt very strongly about it, although I generally kept quiet in my Biology class when we talked about evolution. Later in high school however, I started having doubts about the strength of these arguments. However, I held on to them believing that true Christians had to believe in a literal 7 day creation story. I avoided reading more about the topic fearing that my faith would be in jeopardy if I started to believe in evolution.
My sophomore year at Seattle Pacific University I started studying Biology in hopes of becoming a doctor. I was slightly surprised to learn that at SPU the biology department teaches the same evolution that would be taught at any secular school. However it was clear that these professor still had strong faiths. They just believed that evolution was God’s miraculous way of creating life. I finally had role models that showed me that Christ and evolution were not mutually exclusive beliefs.
While I’m happy with where my story is now, I still think it is sad that I lived in fear for all those years. And it kills me that this is still going on. It kills me that Christians feel compelled to build museums that contradict overwhelming scientific evidence. It kills me that we have wasted so much time, money, and words fighting a battle against truth. We have much more important things to focus our efforts on.
Please, let’s start advancing God’s kingdom. While we flounder through the evolution/creation debate sometimes I can almost hear Satan laughing at us. Let’s shut him up.
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September 17th, 2007 at 9:53 am
I posted about this a few weeks back here: http://tinyurl.com/2h78za. Definitely agree that the kingdom is more important than battling over petty foundationalisms.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Hi Steve,
You have hit the nail on the head. The Evangelical focus on attacking evolution is damaging the gospel. As you pointed out, it distracts us from more important tasks. I’d like to add two other ways that it damages the gospel: 1) we cause some to lose their faith because they believe they need to choose between modern science & Christ (you actually implied that in your post) and 2) we put a stumbling block in the way of others who might consider the claims of Christ.
September 17th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Thom,
Thanks for the comment. I tried your link, but it didn’t work.
And Steve- thanks as well. I agree completely, I think more people would look at Christianity a little more seriously if some Christians were not so hostile towards science. *sigh*
September 18th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Very nice well written post Stevie.
September 19th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
Whether creation, evolution or a combo of both are true, that really isn’t the point to me regarding the Creation Museum. The point is - how in the world can Christians spend this kind of money on this stuff? I just do not get it.
Thanks again for a really good post.
September 30th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
It is hard not to get involved when the atheist challeges you to prove that Jesus existed. Or that God is real. Many Christians back away because they are afraid that they may make all Christians look stupid. I did this for awhile but I grew tired of letting them go by unanswered. WE must give account for the hope that is within us. WITH LOVE.
The Church today spends to much time helping Christians feel good about themselves and not enough to defending the truth.
And be careful of critizing Christians on spending money on something God may have told them to do. God is not running out of resources. If people starve it isn’t because someone built a ministry building they felt lead to do. Remember Mary with the box of perfume. Be careful you do not fall into the trap and critizes your Brother in front of the unsaved therefore giving them something else to hold against us. More good will come by us supporting this ministry than speaking against it. How would the world react if they actually saw us agreeing on something and helping each other.
January 11th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I don’t think you are right. I think it is important to feed the hungery and all that crap but i also think that it is important fot people to get the message out about the lies of evolution.
the reason creationist are hitting out at evolution is cuz the church is unbelievable. Church says: HEY! WELCOME TO CHURCH!WE LOVE TO HAVE YOU HERE! JESUS LOVES YOU!AND BY THE WAY, EVOLUTION IS CRAP AND NO ONE SHOULD BELIEVE IT!
guess what? no one listens. the world has consistently shown more evidence of evolution than church does. The evolution lie has been out there too long… and the church does nothing about it.if someone bombards the church with evolution crap, i can almost garantee no one will have a winning argument. Unless it goes like this: DUDE, NO ONE BELIEVES IN EVOLUTION! ITS TOTALLY FALSE, MAN! OH, AND GOD LOVES YOU!
Well, that guy goes away knowing he’s way more smart in evolution than you. He also finds the church doesn’t know the argument. well if the church can’t present any facts, how can it ever move forward? they say, “BELIEVE THIS!” spiritually but they can’t prove anything physically? who is going to ever join the church if we don’t have a firm, scientific, fact-built foundation? cuz if we don’t have a firm physical foundation, who will believe us in the spiritual part of it?
June 13th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I was saved by someone who was willing to refute evolution and show some facts as to why it wasn’t true. Certain people aren’t called for this type of ministry, but the lies of evolution must be exposed for what they are. If fruit is being produced and souls are getting saved, then that is what matters. I for one are one soul who is very grateful for the Christian who refuted the lies of evolution for what they are.
November 29th, 2008 at 6:41 am
What is the bibilical support for evolution?
March 23rd, 2009 at 4:22 pm
I think the whole creation/evolution debate is useless and complete nonsense and so does the bible. Read it for yourself. Remember God gave them over to a depraved mind.
Again I say, don’t get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights. A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach, and be patient with difficult people. Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. PERHAPS God will change those people’s hearts, and they will learn the truth. Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil’s trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants. 2 Timothy 2:22-23
April 12th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Hi I believe that our loving, sovereign, infinite God could create the world literally as in Genesis. I also believe that the same God could just as easily do it exactly the way evolution says. I also believe that it could be something in between. I also do not see any difference between evolution and creation, except for the time line. Our Bible shows that God exists outside of time and has actually stopped time and has intervened in “nature” and also experiences time differently than we do. We don’t understand, and even if we have the exact truth I suppose we still couldn’t fathom it in these finite minds. How can we understand infinity and eternity? I am OK with a literal or allegorical explanation. God created time and will do away with time. God is outside of time. One day I will be too. C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity does a brilliant job at hypothesizing a way to just begin to understand time and eternity from God’s perspective. What is most awesome to me is, ‘creation’ and ‘evolution’ are two ideas, and there is the hint that maybe God had millions of ideas how to do this, and there are a million different realities God could have created, but He chose the ways He chose, maybe for no other reason than it gave Him pleasure. Maybe there are ideas and dreams and plans that God has never revealed to any created beings — maybe there are dreams that God has that He has never told angels or anybody or anything. I am too intoxicated by the possibilities! I am excited about eternity, it will take that long to understand what all has happend, and why. And then when we know everything that is, and everything that was, we still have an eternity of the pure joy and delight of God revealing to us His dreams, things that could be, things that will be. I am intoxicated with the fragrance of possibility that God only hints at. And it is delicious to anticipate things that I don’t have the capacity to anticipate in this finite mind of mine. There are things that are so wonderful we are not capable of believing even if God told us. That is amazing — the amazing gift of salvation, God’s amazing plan for us in the Bible, Christ’s amazing atonement for us, all of these things that we know about are almost too wonderful to believe. And yet there are even more wonderful things, infinte things. For all we migth know, we still have no clue, we do not have even the slightest speck of the wonderful, the love, the joy, the things that we do not even know exist, the things for which we do not even have the language or even the biology to describe or comprehend! Whatever is amazing to us, we have no idea what amazing is!!!!
April 12th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
When Darwin first put out the theory of Evolution (Not really him, he got it from his grandfather and another contempary) the great preachers of his time, Moody and Spurgeon egnored it as foolishness. Now see were we are. Morals deterarating,whole races being killed off, and death of the unborn. How is it stupid to show the evil of this teaching. And there is a big difference in the two. One the Bible states and if we can not beleive it, then trow the whole book away and forget the discussion. The bible sayes that God measured the days by day and night. So the Bible states planly that it was done in days not “timeless”. People get off the fence. Either have faith or forget it and get out of the way.
They only real reason for the debate is to show others the love of God. Not to condemn to Hell. But we must use our minds guided by the Holy Spirit.
May 20th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Evolution sucks! We did not come from monkeys!! People that belive in this evolution crap is degrading human beings!
Ridiculous!!!!
June 1st, 2009 at 12:14 am
hey guys. why do you follow darwin?. we know that he didn’t know what chromosoms were, and how they worked, we know that DNA gives information to mRNA to give it to tRNA to make protene based on DNA, now tell me how darwin knew all this ? the scientist are stupid. they should give a REAL fact about it so the world can believe it. instead they make baseless theories about it. and gregor johan mendel proved that evolution is a HOAX through his experiments with garden peas. wake up ! don’t follow the stupid english naturalist. because he will lead you to hell
September 11th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
tony_007 said: “gregor johan mendel proved that evolution is a HOAX through his experiments with garden peas”
May I suggest that you take a college biology class before you make uneducated statements like that.
April 15th, 2010 at 9:41 am
mary was a lying whore, jesus may have been real but he wasnt this xman like figure people speak of and dont you think its ingnorent to belive that just because you where raised to belive in your religon that your religon is correct out f all the other billions of religons, for exampel christianity not the oldset religon ever, then why is it correct? hinduisam is older then christianity yet christians still gawk at the idea of an elephant god and say thats propasteras theres no way my religon is incorect OMG what are they thinking how could they say that, leme tell you this that there is a one in ten bazzilion the man maid creating that is christianity is real because there arent these wierd magical things like burning talking bushes or freaking white people that lived in the middel east and was not related to any eroupean people where abel to come back to life!
August 9th, 2010 at 10:51 am
I like what you have said, this makes me happy.
August 11th, 2010 at 3:26 am
Ok can anyone tell me how on earth the Universe happen and I know Big Bang but my quiz is What was there before Big Bang? And What is Existence? Scientists DON’T know what is Existence, But I know That Existence is God and God is Existence and he gave it to us.