Theistic Evolution

Not everyone who believes in evolution is an atheist. Some Christians reason that the book of Genesis—said to have been authored by Moses or compiled under his direction— was originally written for a primitive people. So instead of confusing them with a lot of scientific explanations that they wouldn t understand, God kept it simple with this charming little Creation fable. Let s examine that supposition in context. 

There was no reason for God to have handed Moses and the Hebrews a line with regards to the beginning of all things. If all of this had evolved over billions of years. He could have said so. But He didn t. 

And the reason He didn t is because it didn t happen that way. God had His reasons for making the world, and the main one was for it to be a proving ground for humankind to prepare us to be His companions in the infinitely better world He has made as our ultimate home. 

Nevertheless, ever since the theory of evolution became popular, there have been attempts to harmonize the biblical account of Creation with evolution— what is known as theistic evolution. ln short, theistic evolution holds that God used the evolutionary process to bring about creation. The two most common theories of theistic evolution are the Gap Theory and the Day-Age Theory. 

This theory supposes that evolution occurred during an enormous time gap between the first two verses of the book of Genesis. This theory has eight basic assumptions  

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Others try to sit on the fence. Many believe in the God of the Bible, but contend that the Creation was the result of evolutionary processes. These are the proponents of theistic evolution. A later chapter takes a closer look at the theistic evolutionist s attempts to synthesize the polar opposites of the Bible and evolutionary theory, but in short this middle ground requires twice as much faith as the two other belief systems because it requires faith in both. 

The theistic evolution theories are both scientifically and Seripturally bogus. 

For more details on this subject, see Theistic Evolution and the Day-Age Theory, by Richard Niessen, published by the Institute for Creation Research. http //vmw. icr.org/pu bs/im p/i m p-081. htm... 

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