Hey guys, after a very long debate on my brother's Facebook page he created, I came to realize some things. 1) Debates do nothing but cause arguments, and God called us to be at peace with the world. So, for this reason alone, I am staying out of the debate from now on and writing this blog instead. If someone wants to argue with me, whatever. 2)Man created evolution. From now on, I will be keeping the word evolution in lowercase letters because it's a man made philosophy. I won't call it a religion, because that was one of the arguments that happened in the debate. 3) Debating isn't the best way to win people to Christ. We can argue with someone until we're both blue in the face, but if we are both so sure that our worldview is the correct one, we won't persuade the other. So, this being a blog page, all I'm doing is sharing what I have learned.
I guess all I really want to blog about is how man created evolution. Evolution, in theory, is the process of the origin of life through adaptation due to the change of environment. At least, that's a simplified definition, not the official one. I tried copy/pasting the full definition on here and it messed up my formatting, lol. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. Evolution.
If the only proof for evolution they have today is evidence of things adapting to their environment, then, heck, I'll accept evolution. That's just micro-evolution, which evolutionists don't even mention anymore btw. I think they realized that Creationists were accepting it and using it as an argument against them. Because micro-evolution + time does not = macro-evolution. However, that's not the argument I'm making today. My argument is this. Man created the evolution we see happening today, which is micro-evolution(aka - adaptation).
Let's see, the first event to kick off micro-evolution would have to be the fall of man. Sin entering the world changed everything. Man was kicked out of the garden and the first animal's blood was shed to cover sin. Until then, everything lived in perfect harmony. Everybody was a vegetarian and animals were there for our enjoyment and as a responsibility to care for. Then Satan came in and messed everything up by tempting Eve. Well, we humans had to adapt to a new environment. We learned to create clothes (based on the ones God first made from that cowhide he sacrificed to cover Adam's and Eve's sin), we learned to create tools to till the land (which was the curse that God put on man) and women had to learn to deal with the pain of childbirth (one of the curses he put on women). That looks like adaptation and/or micro-evolution.
The next time micro-evolution happened was after the flood. The earth was destroyed by flood waters. Waters from both the sky and below. Probably mostly from below. Did you know there is still water beneath the earth's crust? Wait, you did? Duh! (smacks forehead) That's where we get fresh water for drinking and hot springs! Man, what a mind blower right? Well, until the flood, the land (not the earth itself) was relatively flat. Meaning, there weren't really any mountains. Possibly rolling hills. Why? Probably to make the landscape look pretty. IDK, take it up with God. However, when the floodgates opened, meaning, the earth's crust broke open and released a crap-load of water, it was able to cover the earth fairly quickly. Probably took weeks, it wasn't instantaneous. Anyway, once the waters receded and there was dry land again, there wasn't much vegetation left to eat, so man had to adapt and eat more animals. Some may have been eaten before, but I don't think there is much mention of meat consumption before the flood. Until then, cattle was used primarily for its milk and for sacrifices to God to cover sin.
So, how did man adapt? They created tools to hunt and cook meat with. Because we're cool that way and God gave us a brain to figure this stuff out! So, that's really where micro-evolution really took off. The environment changed, so man and animals a like had to adapt. They had to find a new way to sustain themselves, to shelter themselves, and possibly to clothe themselves. Before the flood, I'm pretty sure man had figured out how to make clothes out of more than just animal hide. We already knew how to farm, because farming is just really big gardening. Which is what God intended man to be in the Garden of Eden. Gardeners who took care of the animals! How cool is that? We could have spent our days hanging out in a beautiful garden, taking care of the plants so we and the animals had food to eat! We probably could have played with lions like a house-cat! Imagine that! A pet lion that won't swipe your head off! Because it wasn't until after the flood that animals feared man.
So, what was the reason for the first major adaptation? Sin. Adam and Eve sinned and were banished from the Garden. What was the reason for the second adaptation? ......Sin! God had grown to hate man and their sin, so He decided to start over with Noah and his family. Let's fast-forward to today.....
Charles Darwin studied these finches on the Galapagos Island. He saw that the island was full of finches, but they were different sizes and colors and had different beak sizes. Cool huh? He discovered different types of finches. Just like we have different kinds of dogs, or cats, or horses, etc., etc. How did man come to the conclusion that everything started off as a single-celled organism? Well, because of the direction Darwin's book pointed them in. Because of his book, people stopped believing that God created the earth in six literal days. This ideal began to spread like crazy. I'm sure it met some adversity at first from Christians and Jews who were still faithful to God and His Holy Word. But even THEY began to fall away, convinced by this lie.
Evolution teaches that a bunch of perfectly lined up random acts created all we know.... Huh? Random acts that just happened to line up perfectly? On the first try?!?! No, someone intelligent had to get things started in the right direction at very least, right? Nope. It was all random with no help whatsoever.
You know, it's no wonder it takes more faith to believe in evolution than in God and His hand in creating life. All those perfect, random events happening and making mistakes until humans were around. Us, perfect, genetic mistakes. Do you know why we fear death? Because we were originally created to never die! That's why Adam lived to be 930 years old! He only died because of sin. Sin entered the world and brought death. Death is both a blessing and a curse. It's a curse because it goes against God's original plan, but it's a blessing because it would be utterly depressing to have to live with sin in our lives forever! To never get to truly be with God in his full glory!
So, the end of this blog will be summed up as this. God created man, man did not create God. Man created evolution, evolution did not create man. It's because of sin that evolution exists today. Things adapt because the environment changes. God made it happen because of sin, and today, we make it happen because we destroy the environment, forcing things to adapt. Any "new" creatures that exist were created in a lab. But even then, they're just copies and mixes of other creatures. The liger? Made by man's perversion of creation. A mule? Similar. A mule cannot reproduce because man decided to see what would happen if they combined a horse and a donkey. It's a hybrid. Hybrids are all we can come up with. We don't know how to create anything new because our minds are too finite.
