Creation vs. Evolution

I've posted this cartoon before, but after watching an episode of Morgan Spurlock's "30 Days" yesterday, I felt the need to expound upon it.

I like "30 Days". It places people that have a strong view on a subject in the lives of someone who believes the exact opposite for 30 Days. The show is completely unbiased. It lets the people present their views and never casts any editorial content on it. (Unlike Michael Moore who has to put "his" spin on everything)

In an episode I watched yesterday, an atheist lives with a family of Christians for a month and they both learn from each other. It was well done and each participant walked away with a better understanding of the other's views and stance. What struck me in the show was the debate about teaching evolution versus creation in America's schools.

It showed that in a National History Museum somewhere in America (I forget where) a Christian group conducts "BC Tours", Biblically Correct versus Politcally Correct. They deny the scientific facts that man and dinosaurs never existed on this planet at the same time. They say that since God created the Earth in 7 days, man and dinosaurs must have existed on this planet at the same time.

Frankly I think both the Evolutionists and the stanch Creationist are pigheaded.

I believe that God created evolution.

The Bible tells us:

Day 1: creation of light, and the separation of light from darkness

Day 2: creation of sky, and the separation of the waters above the sky and the waters below

Day 3: creation of earth, and the separation of earth from the waters below; creation of vegetation and the separation of different kinds of plants (each after its kind)

Day 4: creation of the sun, moon, and stars to separate day and night, and to order seasons

Day 5: creation of non-land animals and the separation of different kinds of animals; the command to be fruitful and multiply

Day 6: creation of land animals and the separation of different kinds of animals; creation of human beings, command to be fruitful and multiply, given dominion over the earth

Day 7: God rests and blesses the seventh day

What I have to ask the stanch Creationists is: are we so egotistical that we think that God, an infinite being, measures his days in our man made 24-hour time period? I think not.

In my opinion, God is infinite, so a day to him is like a million years to us. On God's first day in creating our planet, he made light. Then on His second day he created the sky and the waters. While this was only a day to Him, this could have been several MILLION years to us.

He then created the earth and then on His next day, the sun, moon and stars.

Science states that the first living creature was an amoebae that climbed out of the ocean and onto the land. I say God caused this to happen and over the course of His 5th and 6th days (which to mere mortals like ourselves, would be measured in BILLIONS of years) this evolved into all the animals and eventually He created Adam and then Eve choosing to give us the freedom of choice rather than making us blindly obedient to Him. They were tempted by sin, causing them to be cast out of Paradise.

For Evolutionists to declare that there was no intelligent design in our universe, so infinitely perfect....well the odd of that are trillions to one. Science tell us that if the Earth were even a mile closer or further away from the sun, it couldn't support life. How could this be an accident?

For Creationists to deny all the scientific facts is like sticking their heads in the sand. God created us as extremely intelligent beings, to deny information derived from this intelligence and to believe so literally words that have been translated by man over so many generations...well I don't have words for such egomanical thoughts.

So that's it. That's Wendy's Lessons on the Creation of our Universe. Take from it what you will.