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The Creation Letter Project
February 11, 2009
The admonishion of Peter in his first epistle “always being ready to make a defense” is so important in today’s age of information and advertising. The world comes at us with such veracity that we can easily be bombarded with too information and how often is this information not based in sound Biblical principles? It is so important to be able to navigate through this information overload. This is done when we have the right foundation under us and a sound Biblical worldview built into our way of thinking. Then we can properly respond to the world.
Five years ago a website was launched called “The Clergy Project Letter,” this site was set up not to help inform pastors about God, but to promote an anti-God position called evolution. Their work was an attempt to claim that evolution was good science and Christians should not be afraid of good science and therefore pastors could and should teach their congregations about evolution.
The problem quickly comes to the surface when a Christian recognizes that evolution is not good science and its teaching is in direct conflict with the clear teaching of the Bible. Christians have nothing to fear from science, but science that makes a prior committment to evolution is not good science at all. The Bible and evolution are not compatible and when there is a position in science that stands against the authority of the Bible then it is not good science and should be reevaluated.
Let me share with you five reasons why the idea of evolution is wrong. These are from the Institute of Creation Research. http://www.icr.org
• The Bible has absolutely no hint of ages of evolutionary development.
Forcing the “days” of Genesis 1 to mean “ages” can be done, but there is no support for that idea in the rest of Scripture (Psalm 33:6-9, 148:5-6; John 1:1-3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:3; Revelation 4:11; etc.).
• Evolution is not observed at all today.
Empirical science is based on observation and verification. Nothing (from bacteria to people) is “evolving” into a “higher order.” Period.
• Fossil data does not show any transitional forms.
If evolution occurred prior to recorded history, it can only be documented by the fossils embedded in the water-deposited rocks of earth. Those “missing links” are still missing.
• God’s character absolutely forbids evolutionary methods.
God’s holiness demands truth, and His omniscience demands perfection. He cannot know what is best and then “create” something inferior. He wrote that He took six days to create the universe (Exodus 20:11). And He cannot lie!
• God’s stated purpose for creating excludes evolution.
The creation reveals the Creator (Romans 1:20, Psalm 19:1-4), gives authority to the message of Jesus Christ (John 1:1-14, Colossians 1:16-18), and is the foundation for the gospel and for worship (Revelation 14:6-7). Creating is what God does at the moment of the new birth (Ephesians 2:8-10).
1 Peter 3:15
In staying true to Peter’s words in 1 Peter 3:15, “always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you.” There are answers for Christian leaders in this day of too much information from too many sources. In response to “The Clergy Project Letter” a new website has been launched called “The Creation Letter Project” http://kcsg.wordpress.com/
This website is full of resources for Christians and non-Christians alike to read and gain a better understanding of the battle between evolution and creation.
There are answers to questions of life, there is a right way to think; we are to have the mind of Christ who is the author of the Bible.
Tommy
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