One of my biggest regrets, and one of my greatest strengths...

…I used to be an evolutionist. I taught it. I believed it. I fought for it. I demeaned others that thought ill of it. I was the “Saul to become Paul” zealot of evolution if there ever was one. But I also considered myself a Christian.

I believed there was a God. I believed Jesus Christ was His son. I believed that God created the world and everything in it. And I ascribed to any and every theory that I could either find or invent myself that would somehow integrate billions of years and evolution with the Biblical account. But it was just bad theology. Was I a saved creature? I believe so. But I was definitely living on the milk of Christianity and not ready for the solid food!

Proper theology is actually what got me started researching the debate between Creation and evolution. And it was proper theology that convinced me that the evidence we see in nature points to creation and the Biblical account.

What I found out was that I had it backwards! I was trying desperately to mold and shape and change the Bible such that it fit with what I believed about evolution. I learned that was completely backwards! I studied about the sovereignty of God. I studied about the infallibility of God’s Word. I studied the historicity of the Bible. Over time, I completely changed my outlook. I started looking at science and seeing where it fit the Bible, as opposed to looking at the Bible and seeing how I could make it fit science.

The Bible is not a science textbook. This is one of the favorite arguments from the evolutionist crowd against Creationism. I agree that the Bible is not a science textbook. However, the Bible does touch on science issues. And where the Bible touches on science issues, we must see what the Bible has to say about it! What I found out over time was basically this…Everybody has the same evidence! Creationists and evolutionists don’t have different sets of fossils to look at. They don’t have different sets of bacteria to look at. All the evidence is the same. The same Grand Canyon, the same animals, the same genetics, the same rocks, the same fossils, the same magnetism, the same stars, the same moon, the same gases in the atmosphere, the same coral reefs, and on and on and on and…

So I began to ask…If all the evidence is the same, then how are there such drastically different explanations of the evidence? Well that question basically answers itself now doesn’t it? People must interpret the evidence.

All the evidence is the same so people must be interpreting the observed evidence in different ways. And if that is the case, then there is bias involved. I came to learn what that bias was…it is the worldview of the individual!

Many people do not have proper Christian theology. And since they do not have proper Christian theology they will interpret the phenomena in nature from a different perspective than someone with proper theology. The bottom line is that the science on both sides of the debate is fairly sound (the Creation vs. evolution debate). But the debate really isn’t about science. It’s about philosophy. And there really is no winning that debate! Only God can change someone’s philosophy/worldview from a secular one to a Godly one.

Proper science philosophy, which is what “The Debate” is really about, can only come about because of proper theology. Yes, there are plenty of people who ascribe to some sort of “Intelligent Design” or “Creationism” strictly based upon the evidence given by nature itself. However, if we believe in the one true God, and we believe that He is infallible, and that He created the universe, the Earth, and all the living things after their kinds, then our science, proper science, will flow from our proper theology.

I loved science from the time I was a kid. But I had absolutely NO ONE that could explain to me the evidence of that science from a Biblical point of view. I turned to Carl Sagan. He was awesome! As a family we used to watch him during prime time hours! He would speak of the Big Bang beginnings of the universe in a completely naturalistic manner and I had NO ONE that could explain the beginning of the universe, scientifically, to me from a Biblical point of view.

I watched David Attenborough as often as possible. He would talk about how different organisms evolved into other different organisms in a completely naturalistic manner…and again, I had NO ONE who could explain what he was saying from a Biblical point of view. My science, from a very young age, was skewed by evolution, uniformitarianism, and naturalism. And I used to get paralyzed with fear when dwelling about what happens after death because of the indoctrination of naturalism…that there is nothing but nature.

In the midst of the post-modern era we live in today where there is no absolute truth, and in the midst of the educational era we live in today where evolution and naturalism has taken over all educational philosophy, it is quite hard to be a parent, a teacher, a student, a child. I’m convinced that parents, teachers, and pastors/preachers need to be more fully educated in Creation science in order to counter the naturalism/evolutionism that is being spread. Where is the preacher that can explain the science behind radiometric dating methods? Where is the history teacher that can show that there is at least as much evidence to support the validity of the Gospels as there is evidence to support the validity of other ancient historical events? And where is the parent that can Biblically explain to their 1st and 5th grade boys that humans are NOT animals…that humans are NOT related to chimps…that humans are, in fact, created by the only God that there is, and created in His image! That humans are the pinnacle of Creation! Where is that parent that can Biblically, scientifically, and historically present the Biblical account to his 2 sons such that he has done his job to “train up a child in the way he should go?” I pray fervently that parent is me!