“Why I am Not an Evolutionist …”

              The Science Lecture Class Handout

 By Andy Carmichael © 2003

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15.   The idea of evolution is totally incompatible with God’s character and the Christian gospel

Is origins – Biblical creation versus evolution – essential to the Christian gospel or is it just a side-issue for the scientific specialists ? Biblical creation is an essential doctrine of Christianity because if you do not believe the book of Genesis you do not believe the Bible :

“If evolution happened, then death was widespread long before man evolved. But if death preceded man and was therefore not a result of Adam’s sin, then sin is a fiction. If sin is a fiction, then we have no need for a Saviour.”

(Dr Walt Brown, PhD in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T., National Science Foundation Fellow, Chief of Science and Technology Studies at the US Air War College, Associate Professor at the US Air Force Academy, creationist scientist, In the Beginning, 2001 [62] )

People (such as theistic evolutionists) who try to remove the Bible’s claim to authority and truth in the realm of science and history remove the Bible from all relevance to the real world. This is what the theory of “theistic evolution” has done to the thinking of Christians and non-Christians. Surveys among both students and the general population of a country show that the major reason people reject Christianity is they think science has proved the Bible to be wrong, especially on this critically important topic of origins :

“… with what we know about science, anyone who thinks at all probably doesn’t believe in fire and brimstone anymore. So organized religion has lost that voice to hold up their moral hand.”

(Bruce Willis, Hollywood actor and evolutionist, USA Weekend, February 2000 [63] )

“… the ‘ordinary’ practical atheist … doesn’t see merely a conflict between science and Christian belief, but rather the total invalidation of Christian belief by science. They simply believe that the theory of evolution … has eliminated recourse to the supernatural for explanations of our origin and therefore our purpose and destiny.”

(David Green, creationist scientist, 1998 [64] )

“At first sight it may seem that the creation versus evolution argument is a side issue. It is a matter for the scientific specialists. It has no apparent bearing on our eternal salvation, and it is possible to believe in evolution theory and still be a good Christian.

Surveys among students and the general population have shown that the major reason why people reject Christianity is that they think science has proved the Bible to be unreliable, especially with regard to origins.”

(Dr David Rosevear, creationist scientist, chemist, senior lecturer at Portsmouth University and Chairman of the Creation Science Movement, Creation Science, 1991 [65] )

“During my years as a teacher [in Australia], and many times since then as I have spoken around the world, I’ve had people use evolution as their excuse as to why the Bible couldn’t be trusted. In fact, I’ve found that evolution is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, stumbling block to people being receptive to the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

(Ken Ham, teacher, author and international creationist speaker, Creation Evangelism for the New Millennium, 1999 [66] )

Does evolution versus creation matter ? Is Biblical creation versus evolution just a “side issue” as most (theistic evolutionist) Christian leaders maintain ? Or is it one of the most fundamental and important issues for all of society and all of life ? Either everything created itself or everything was created. Either creation is a false, unreal account of history or evolution is a false and unreal account of history. One of them must be true and the other must be false, as creation and evolution are exhaustive, diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive theories of origins and there is no third alternative. Is there a Creator God to whom we are morally accountable for our thoughts, actions and lives ? If so, how then should we live … ? :

“… the average young Australian, who believes what he is taught, believes the evolutionary dogma that he is only an animal who arrived by chance, lives by his wits, survives to breed and will die ... without hope of personal immortality. Of course many intelligent young people examine the evidence and reject the theory of godless evolution, but the majority of ordinary folk … accept this theory and live like animals. Many come to see the utter futility and stupidity of struggling to survive, so after they have tasted sex and every other thrill of a purely animal existence, they decide to opt out of life into the oblivion of drugs or suicide. Others go on living like animals. They satisfy every animal desire that wells up within them. If they want sex they have it immediately. If they feel aggressive they show it. The crunch comes if they rape, harm or kill. They then fall foul of the law, and are jailed and punished for being the animals they were taught to be.”

(J.G.L. Wedge, What Do You Think of the Bible ?, 1991 [67] )

“If you believe what you like in the Bible, and reject what you like, it is not the Bible you believe but yourself.”

(Augustine)

“If God is not limited in power and could have created the world [recently], if He has given man a record of what He did, and if the scientific evidence does not contradict it, then what prevents you from believing that it actually happened ?” (Malcolm Bowden, creationist scientist, engineer, The Rise of the Evolution Fraud, 1982 [68] )

For further information :

Read Creation School Online with Andy Carmichael : www.SloppyNoodle.com/ev.html. Other highly recommended websites are : www.CreationScience.com, www.AnswersInGenesis.org and www.ICR.org. For an outstanding 12-tape series Dr John MacArthur covering the full Biblical textual evidence for a recent six-day creation, contact Grace To You Ministries at www.gty.org and order Dr John MacArthur’s 12-tape series and book titled Battle For the Beginning. Dr John MacArthur is pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, president of The Master’s College and Seminary, and featured radio teacher on Grace to You.

Or contact Andy Carmichael by email at : Andy_Ally@hotmail.com