WARNING: This is quite possibly the MOST controversial topic I have ever written about. I an not in anyway presenting this as doctrinal. It is a combination of observations I have made over the years, nothing more, nothing less.
Three important background facts before I get started:
1. I believe the whole Bible from front to back, verse for verse. I believe that its coming to existence was divinely directed. I know that the Bible is 100% uncontradictable truth.
2. Number 1 has not always been true. I went to a small southern public school in the country and, though a self proclaimed "Christian," I passionately avoided FCA and their morning flagpole prayers, I fought with an English teacher over a Pagan in our class having to complete her literary lesson over Psalms and Proverbs, and I hated every last hypocrite that walked the halls. Between the church of Christs and the Baptists, we were all going to hell anyway.
3. I LOVED controversy. The whole class groaned as our young science teacher wrinkled her nose and dutifully taught the chapter of evolution. And while they sniveled and whined, I clung to every word.
Now, the rest of this is neither fact nor even necessarily my opinion, but more or less a compilation of random Bible verses, potentially faulty scientific "facts" I learned almost 10 years ago, possibly a few assertions that could be (offensively) taken the wrong way, and the formulation of a sloppy hypothesis that is meant to do nothing more than make you think.
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I see a lot of videos by Christians against evolution and they are almost as bad as the evolutionists against Christianity. Both sides think the other is stupid and ignorant. Both sides haughtily talk down to or about the other and neither side accurately presents the side they are attempting to shoot down. You can't present a rational argument against something you don't know. At least you can't and expect anyone to listen to you.
Statement 1:
The problem with evolution is life cannot come from nonlife.
In the theory of evolution, life evolves from single celled LIVING organisms CONFIRMED to exist on asteroids, meteorites, and other spacial matter. This same spacial matter is confirmed to contain water...
Genesis 1:20 KJV
[20] And Elohim said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Statement 2:
The Bible says Yah created man therefore man could not have evolved from apes.
Evolution is simply the gradual development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form not the less educated more popular belief, "Man came from apes."
Secondly, there is no actual skeletal link connecting man to apes. There are actual skeletons of every stage of a horse losing a webbed foot. There is proof of a man very similar to apes and vice versa but almost only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.
Genesis 2:7 KJV
[7] And Yahweh Elohim formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
But Genesis says it was in 7 days (I theorize that was primarily to express the importance of Yah's Moediim)...
Ecclesiastes 3:15 KJV
[15] That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and Yah requireth that which is past.
2 Peter 3:8 KJV
[8] But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with Elohim as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
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Man and his consciousness and/or purpose changed in the Bible in such a way that, chronologically speaking, is not far off from the theorized intelligence and/or ability inferred about the early skeletons and cranial structures of man utilized in evolutionary theory:
Genesis 3:7 KJV
[7] And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Genesis 9:2 KJV
[2] And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Genesis 11:7 KJV
[7] Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech
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Evolution would also solve the age old argument that "it would be impossible to carry two of every animal and seven of every clean animal on one ship (i.e. Noah's Ark):"
"Another factor which greatly reduces the space requirements is the fact that the tremendous variety in species we see today did not exist in the days of Noah. Only the parent “kinds” of these species were required to be on board in order to repopulate the earth. For example, only two dogs were needed to give rise to all the dog species that exist today."
https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/global/was-there-really-a-noahs-ark-flood/
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So, before you go slandering the "slandering idiots," consider:
Why do I think Evolution COULD be valid?
Three reasons:
1. The Bible does not, to my knowledge, say that it's not
2. The Creation declares a Creator and evolution would be pretty miraculous
3. Free Will - without a logical explanation to appease the finite mind, you wouldn't have a choice but to choose to believe in a Creator. One of the most important things about salvation is you have to WILLINGLY believe, WILLINGLY love and serve and follow. You must WILLINGLY surrender.
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