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Understanding creation is fundamental to one's faith, when we understand our origins, we can better comprehend man's purpose, authority and future.
Tells us that man has evolved from lower life forms. Assuming that the beginnings of life originating from the seas, (simple cell forms, progressing to fish, to birds, to animals and then to man).
Evolution assumes that single cell structures combined with other cells to form complex structures. Thus we have simplicity going to complicity and disorder going to order. This contradicts the scientific definition of entropy, defining a steady degradation of a systems matter and energy.
Why did some animals stop evolving in their development? For we still have lower level species, (fish, birds, monkeys, apes, etc).
The theory assumes that certain fish became birds, birds became mammal-animals, and then the mammal-animal became man. This directly contradicts scripture: for when God created living species, He created them after their own kind, Genesis 1:21, 24-27.
If man evolved from monkeys, either man is no more, and equivalent, with all the other animals. Or at some stage in the evolution process, the "human man / animal" formed a soul or at least became superior to the animal species. Scripture tells us that, God made man a bit lower than the angels..., Psalm 8:5. God did not make us a bit higher than the monkeys! Scripture also tells us that, God gave us dominion over all living things on the earth, Genesis 1:28.
If we perceive that we are no more than an animal. We will look to the animal kingdom for our purpose, and soon start acting like the animals. If we believe that we are made in the image of God, we will look towards Him for our purpose, and attempt to also act like our Father God.
Tells us that the earth was formed by a cosmological event and is billions of years old.
The big bang occurred due to an unexplained explosion within a dense atmosphere thereby creating the planets and the stars, or through the collision of several planets and or stars. The questions are: Where did the matter come from? And what triggered the explosion?
Scientific American magazine acknowledges the age of the earth to be 4.5 billion (10 9) years old, v261 p90(6) August, 1989. Other books and publications merely say that the earth is millions (106) of years old, not confining themselves to a window of time.
If we assume all days to be of equal length, using the 4.5 billion year figure and using a seven daytime period, one day would equal about 640 million years. This would allow for the earth to cool down from the massive heat produced from the big bang. However, it is unrealistic to think that once higher forms of life were created, such as fish, insects, birds, animals and man. That they could survive a day lasting 640 million years. Therefore, when the big bang theory is combined with the Genesis creation account, it is explained having days of variable lengths.
The big bang theory minimizes the attributes of a personal God. Although the big bang theory can be used to try and explain parts of the Genesis creation account, to satisfy our earthly logic. When we do this, we deny a portion of our faith, believing that God was limited to natural forces to create the earth. If God created the first man, (Adam) a fully matured man, why should we limit God in the creation of the earth?
Looking at creation in a literal approach is the best way to view creation. For Without faith it is it is impossible to please Him [GOD]..., Hebrews 11:6. Faith cannot be analyzed or explained, if it could, it would not be faith.
Believing in a literal seven day week having 24 hours tells us that the earth was made having the appearance and the effects of age. God the Father gave us this earth as a temporary home and He supplied it with minerals for us to use, fuels to burn, etc.
Both theories minimize and try to explain away the powers of a personal God, assuming that God was restricted to occurrences of nature. The Big Bang theory in the development of the earth and Evolution in the development of man. Nether theory takes into account the super-natural power of the Word of God. And both theories infer that God is an impersonal God, who wound-up the world and is simply watching it run, as opposed to a personal God who is there for us and is ever present in our lives. I will never leave thee nor forsake thee, Hebrews 13:5. Both theories, (in part or whole), dilutes one's faith.
The Big Bang theory takes our focus off the Creator God, bringing the super-natural creation of the universe and galaxies into the natural that man can comprehend and explain away God's creation. This theory causes one's focus to be solely on physical events that can be explained through our logical reasoning, leaving no room for faith. For without faith it is impossible to please God, Hebrews 11:6.
The theory of Evolution views man as one step above the animals. Scripture tells us that man is a moral being having a conscience and a free will, whereby animals do not have either of these abilities. Animals function off of instincts, (whereby man might have urges and desires, regardless of the outcome), his choice is always a willful decision.
The first defiance of man against God was the fall of man, recorded in Genesis Chapter 3. God allowed us to defy His command, proving that He has given to man a free will. If man was just another beast, in the animal kingdom, eating from the tree of good and evil would have had no consequences.
The great harm within the theory of Evolution is that: if man believes himself to be a descendent of the animal kingdom, he will then look to the animals for his purpose and behaviors, Rather than look towards God as our Father. Thus they exchanged their glory from God, for the likeness of an ox that eats grass ... and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things, Psalm 106:20 & Romans 1:23.
Yes, we need to accept the creation account by faith and not limit God by natural processes. For without faith it is it is impossible to please God, Hebrews 11:6.