It Takes a Whole Lot of Faith to Believe in Evolution

Happy Earth Day to everyone. You know there has been a lot of discussion about how the earth was formed. I personally believe that the earth was created by God and I am happy to say that I have an up-to-date relationship with Him.

However, there are a lot of well meaning folks who firmly believe in the theory of evolution. In relationship to the forming of the earth, they believe in what is called the "big bang" theory. I looked up the "big bang" theory to try to find out what they really believe.

Actually, they don't really believe a whole lot. They "think" a whole lot. Some "think" everything started with a big bang some 13.7 million years ago and some chunks of rock started circling each other some how. Then somehow, some atoms of something collided with something and it made water. Then years later some other atoms and particles might have gotten together to form things that got together and formed other things.

Then, some think that our solar system was formed out of something. Then for millions of years is expanded to real cold and then shrank to real hot. Then they think it settled into something in between that made stuff start growing.

They have no evidence that any of this really happened. It's just something that they thought of. Evolution is just something somebody thought of and there has never been any concrete evidence to prove to me that evolution really happened.

I believe that God created the universe, the earth, man, and every living thing. I don't blindly accept what I believe just because some book called The Bible says so. I don't blindly accept it as fact just because my grandma told me or some Bible thumpin' preacher tells me that's what I HAVE to believe. I believe it because it is the only thing that makes sense. My mind tells me that it is the logical thing to do.

Take, for example, the stars and the planets. Our sun is one of the smallest stars in the universe. I can't believe that something exploded and shot particles of hot something-or-other in a random manner. If that was true, we would be seeing explosions in the sky from time to time as these flaming orbs flew aimlessly through space. I would have seen them, my daddy would have seen them, my grandpa would have seen them and so on back through the generations.

There had to be a Supreme Being that created the stars and the planets by design. Through sheer mathematical genius, this Supreme Being plotted courses for these objects to fly through space. Some, like the earth and our sister planets, have been orbiting the sun ever since any of my kin folk can remember. For hundreds of years, scientists and astronomers have been able to plot the courses that they run on. They can tell you exactly where certain stars will be fifty or five hundred years from now. Nothing has been done by chance.

Let's take the largest whales in the ocean. They are called baleen whales because they have no teeth. They have thick hair-like bristles instead. They eat by sucking in sea water, blowing the water out of their blow hole and swallowing what is stuck in those bristles. These 60-100 foot giants live on small 2" marine animals called krill. It takes 2,200 pounds of krill to fill one whale's stomach.

Think for a minute. If the whales had evolved and the krill didn't evolve fast enough, then these baleen whales would have died from starvation. But, they don't. The Supreme Being that we call God created enough krill and caused them to multiply in the appropriate proportions to feed every baleen whale that has ever lived.

If evolution was true, then there would be millions of fossils of animals that only lived for a short time but for some reason died because it couldn't sustain it's own life. People that dig up and study fossils have failed to come up with anything of the sort.

Trees grow and reproduce with measured precision. I plant my roses and they bloom the same every year. Cats always reproduce cats that look the same as they always did. Paintings of cats 500 years ago look just like the cats we see today.

If there was such a thing as evolution, it would be going on today. But it doesn't and it hasn't. That's why I say that it takes a whole lot of faith to believe in evolution. It doesn't make sense. Different people see it differently. And there is no concrete proof of evolution. It's just a theory.

The only reasonable answer that I can come up with is that, "In the beginning God..." It all started because God spoke the stars and planets into existence. He gauged each one and gave it a course to run. Astronomers can plot their movements with precision.

Because I believe that what God said about things I can see and feel is true, I also believe what He said about the future of the human race. He declared that there is a Heaven to gain and a Hell to shun. Man was created to live eternally and he will spend the rest of his eternity in only one of those places. I believe that His Son, Jesus Christ, died on a cross and rose from the dead for my sins to give me the opportunity to spend eternity in Heaven. Why? I trust what God said about creation is true. Therefore, if I can believe what He said about the past is true, I can believe what He said about the future of mankind is also true. And it's my intelligent choice to serve Him all of my days.