Two years ago in November I climbed into the most unlikely place for an intense debate, a hot tub in a hotel in Portland, Oregon. The water was a bit hot, so as I waited for my body to adjust to the temperature I caught some interesting conversation. I can’t recall exactly what the topic was, but a father, son, and daughter-in-law were discussing something about evolution.

It wasn’t too long before I posed my first question, and plunged into an hour-and-a-half-long discussion with a college professor. 5 minutes in, his daughter-in-law got out saying something along the line of, ‘this is beyond me’. His son followed a few minutes later with a shake of his head and a, “Have fun guys.” Maybe it was beyond her, but apparently it wasn’t for the skinny 15 year-old that was set to overcook himself in the tub.

After that debate I discovered that believing in evolution for this man lead to some very corrupted views of God. The consequences were frustrating. First off we fell to debating, you guessed it, evolution. As we went along I discovered he was a ‘Christian’ and believed in God.

When I learned that, I was a little setback for a moment. Then I started pounding him with questions. Did he believe that God created the world? Firstly, no, but after following him all the way back to the big-bang, I asked, “Who created that first tiny everything-molecule?” He smiled, and pushed his hand slowly back and forth over the foam, “Well,” he said, “I guess you could say God created that.”

This is the first major consequence of believing in evolution and believing in God. You use God as an excuse to what cannot even be theorized. As long as there can be a theory other than God, there will always be one. But bring it back down to something where you absolutely have no idea, and, “Oh, I guess God did it.”

That reflects on the type of God you believe in. Honestly. My next question was, “Who is God to you then?” So he started metaphorically, “I think God could be explained as a presence, a universal being, a… something, a power, a presence of good.” I looked at him for a long moment while I pushed my hair back off my forehead.
“Do you believe in Jesus Christ? You said you were a Christian, what does that mean?” He replied, “I believe Jesus came to bring a good message to the world and to change how people thought. Etcetera.” After explaining some of my disagreement with him, I asked, “Have you read the Bible?”

“Yes!” he quickly replied, “every book of the Bible, all the way through.” Then in addition, “except for Revelation, I don’t believe Christians ought to know where they are going, or about the future like that.” As I thought some confused thoughts, I replied, “Well then, what do you believe happens after you die?” He replied, “I believe in re-incarnation…” “You believe you’ll come back as an ant,” I finished for Him. “Well,” he said, “not necessarily as an ant, you could come back as a human, or an animal yes.”

I shook my head in disagreement, “What can I say? I have a much greater hope for my future than that. I believe when I die, I will be given the gift of eternal life, because of my Savior Jesus Christ who died for us, for the whole world. The bible teaches this. Christ taught it. I’ll believe it.”

I’ll confess, I know I wasn’t talking to a theologian. But, the consequences of believing in evolution are almost certainly to destroy your God. Why? Because a God that isn’t your creator is what? An ethereal presence maybe? A good something? A presence? Or who is He? Is He the creator, ruler, and savior of the universe? Is he interested in our personal lives? Or do we reincarnate as our nephew’s cow? You see, the reason why the choice between God and evolution is so clear is not because of theories. Yes there are theologians that do believe in evolution, and have all the theory worked out. The choice is not distinguished by theories—it’s distinguished by your source of truth.

If the Bible is not taken as the source of right, of unequivocal truth, then what stops somebody from developing theories for everything? Evolution, in my mind, is greatly responsible for the spreading disease of relativism. Theories, theories are all that exist. Or are they? Is there a greater purpose, a greater source, and a greater end to the Christian life? Thank God there is.

The choice lies clear, it’s not a presumption. God or Evolution? God and His Word, or man and his word?

Mat 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

And may I add, you cannot serve God and evolution. It is not an accusation, it is a basic principle. If you serve the goals of the theories of corrupted humanity, you do not serve the living God. You cannot.

As for me, I will follow God—and debate evolutionists.

My dear readers, I was once a strong believer in Biblical creationism. I was at one time a strong defender of the Bible. But now all has changed for me. Science has finally come up and proven itself. They have filled the missing holes in evolution. I now have sufficient understanding to base myself entirely upon the evolutionary theory.

It is totally amazing, I couldn’t believe it myself, we have done it. We have gotten the 12th frame—the frame that fits into the gap between 11 and 13. It landed in there and stuck snugly, and so… it has answered all you foolish creationists once and for all.

“It’s like 12 frames of a home movie, but a home movie covering 6 million years,” said study lead author Tim White, co-director of Human Evolution Research Center at University of California at Berkeley.

Oh sorry, I think I’ll have to recant. I just realized something. That is actually the one that fits between frame 11 and frame 5,676,480,000,000,000. Now we have progressed from frame 11 to frame 12. And frame 12 has filled the gap. Frame 12 has filled the gap that actually needs 5,676,479,999,999,988 (five and a half thousand trillion) frames to fill. Frame 12 has filled the gap. Frame 12 has filled the gap. Frame 12 has filled the gap. No. Don’t use intelligence, listen to the scientists. Frame 12 has filled the gap.

My friends. That leaves 99.9999999999999999999999…% of the frames to be filled yet. Do I smell a desperate attempt here?

“This appears to be the link between Australopithecus and Ardipithecus as two different species,” White said. The noticeable difference between the phases of man can be seen in Australopithecus’ bigger chewing teeth to eat harder food, he said.

The Link:
I mean seriously, are we beginning to realize that man just doesn’t have the ability to do a thorough job, let alone jab? Do we realize that when God created the world, he created it without any gaps, but when man created the world he created it with a gap that cannot ever fathomably be filled?—That it would take 6,000,000 years to fill that gap if they found one every second, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year?

My God is an awesome God folks. I recant, I mean, after all, I can do my math. I am homeschooled.

Others Blogging on this Topic:
David Macmillan: A “Missing Link” Is Found – And Lost
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