My dear readers,

Today, we continue with Dr David Cloud’s article.

Theistic Evolution

David Cloud, Way of Life Literature

Genesis 1-3 forms the foundation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. If Adam was not a real man and there was no literal Fall, the gospel becomes an empty religious myth.

Jesus’ human genealogy is traced from Adam (Luke 3:23-38). We know that this genealogy is populated with the names of real historical people, and there is no reason to treat Adam differently. Further, there is no room within this genealogy for millions of years of time.

Adam is compared to Christ (Romans 5:12-19; 1 Cor. 15:45). It is obvious that the apostle Paul considered Adam an actual man and the Genesis account literal history.

Second, the teaching of Genesis cannot be reconciled with the teaching of evolution.

a. Genesis says God created the world and everything in it in six days. The days of creation in Genesis 1 were regular 24-hour days, days with an evening and a morning (Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31). This is repeated in Exodus 20:10-11.

b. Genesis says everything was made to reproduce after its kind. The statement "after their kind" is repeated ten times in Genesis chapter one (Gen. 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25). This is precisely what we observe in the world. Dogs reproduce dogs, spiders reproduce spiders, birds reproduce birds, and peanuts reproduce peanuts. Animals can interbreed and adapt within kinds (e.g., dogs can be interbred to produce different kinds of dogs), but kinds cannot be bridged. This is what the Bible teaches and this is what we can observe everywhere in nature, yet evolution teaches that the kinds are not stable, that the fish evolved into the amphibian, and the amphibian into the reptile, and the reptile into the bird, etc.

c. Genesis says the first man was created directly by God (Genesis 2) and was not the product of gradual evolution from the animal kingdom. The Bible says Adam was the first man (1 Cor. 15:45). And Eve is the mother of all men (Gen. 3:20).

d. Genesis says man is made in God’s image and is not a part of the animal kingdom(Gen. 1:27). Evolution says man is an evolved animal.

e. Genesis says the world was created perfect, then fell under sin and has been deteriorating ever since. This is consistent with everything we can observe. Everything is moving from order to disorder. Everything is deteriorating, running down. This is what the Second Law of Thermodynamics describes, as even secular evolutionists admit. Isaac Asimov was an evolutionist, but his definition of the Second Law of Thermodynamics actually refutes evolution and proves the Bible: "The universe is constantly getting more disorderly! Viewed that way, we can see the Second Law all about us. How difficult to maintain houses, and machinery, and our own bodies in perfect working order; how easy to let them deteriorate. In fact, all we have to do is nothing, and everything deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, wears out, all by itself and that is what the Second Law is all about" (Asimov, "In the Game of Energy and Thermodynamics You Can’t Break Even," Smithsonian Institute Journal, June 1970, p. 10). How contrary this is to the doctrine of evolution, which says that things have gradually evolved from chaos to order, from non-life to life!

g. Genesis says man had the ability to use language from the beginning, so that he might communicate with God. But according to evolution, language evolved from animal grunts and squeals. It is important to understand that even modern archaeology says that writing began about 5,000 years ago, which fits the Bible’s record exactly (Joseph Naveh, Origins of the Alphabets: Introduction to Archaeology, Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Publishing House, p. 6).

h. Genesis says man had the ability to create an intelligent civilization from the very beginning. Adam’s first children built cities, raised cattle, created musical instruments, and worked in brass and iron (Gen. 4:17-22). Evolution, on the other hand, claims that man’s civilization began with a "stone age" during which "cave men" lived like animals. – The End.

Yours faithfully in the Saviour’s Service,

Dr SH Tow, Sr Pastor