Opus 2025-092: Why Evolution Does Not Bother Me

I don’t come unglued at the mention of the word “evolution.”  Things change.  Things adjust to their environment.  I have no trouble with that.  The part that sets me on a different track than the secular community is that I believe that God is in charge.

Keep in mind that the difference between Christians and non-Christians in the area of creation/evolution is not in the process which science is working to uncover but in the statement and Genesis 1:1,

Genesis 1:1 (KJV) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And,

Genesis 1:27 (KJV) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

The difference is not in the six days in between.  The difference is not between 15 billion years and 4004 years.  The difference is not in literal history or figurative legends.

The difference is and whether God is in charge or not.

I can deal with a concept of evolution because I watch God and how He works today.  Do you notice that He doesn’t deliver to us full grown children, out of college, cured of acne, on their way with successful careers.  For some people He takes years before they can even conceive a child.  It takes nine months to develop the child that is born.  When the child is born, it doesn’t even know that the object moving in front of his eyes is his hand.  He cannot control his bowels.  My son, the perfect genius that he was, could not figure how to suck.  All of that takes a long time.

If that’s how God develops us, there must be something in Him that likes the process of growth and development.  I don’t have any trouble with Him looking at the universe that way.  You say, “You mean you don’t believe in the six days of creation?”  I believe that God created the heavens in the Earth.  The question I would ask you is, “Why didn’t He do it in one day?”  Or I could ask you “Why didn’t He do it all instantaneously?”  I don’t have an answer and neither do you.

Do you believe God created the heavens and the Earth?  Then you are creationist.  If you believe it took Him 15 billion years simply because He enjoyed the process, you are still at creationist.  The key is not the process but the processor.

Learn not to freak out.  They love it when you do that.  Send them back to their video games mumbling and disoriented.

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