WHAT DOES GOD THINK ABOUT Part 4: Evolution
- Read Genesis 1:1 In recent months our consciences have been shocked by what we’ve seen going on among our fellow citizens. We have seen vivid pictures of how a few of our troops have immorally treated the prisoners they were charged to guard and interrogate. We have seen reports of states and cities where homosexual marriages have been legalized. We have watched as our judges have legalized sodomy and have continued to allow partial-birth abortions. In our papers we have continued to read of business leaders charged with stealing from the investors they’ve been called to serve. We hear of parents who have killed their children.
Why do we see such an increase of immorality? Why the sudden increase in violence? Why do so many seem to live without valuing anyone but themselves? I believe the primary reason is that we in America have forgotten that God is the Creator.
I. GOD IS THE CREATOR
Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created.” There was no preamble, no introduction of God. The Bible simply begins, “In the beginning, God created.” My friends, if we could only get that one fact straight, the rest would come easy. God has created all things.
1. God created the universe – Think for a moment of that first encounter between Satan and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Look for a moment at Genesis 3:1. - Read Genesis 3:1
Here were Adam and Eve in the garden. They had no problems, they had no worries, no disease, no suffering, they had no pain and no death; then came the Devil. In verse 1 he asks, “Has God said . . .?” Then he moves to step 2 of his plan. In verse 4 he says, “Ye shall not surely die.” Then he concludes in verse 4 by saying, “You shall be as gods.” My friends, all of this stuff about the Big Bang, and evolution is nothing more than the same old lie the Devil has been telling from the beginning, “Ye shall be as gods.” The Devil wants to do all he can to convince us that we are nothing more than the result of a cosmic burp that took place some 41/2 to 5 Billion years ago, and he has done all he could to reinforce the idea that there is no Creator, no One that we are responsible to by instilling that lie in the minds of our children.
Adolph Hitler once said, “If you tell a lie long enough and loud enough, and often enough, people will believe it.” By repeating the lie that the world was created by chance again and again and again, over billions of years, some have come to the conclusion that all of life is the result of chance and so there is no Creator to be responsible to.
My friends, I want you to know that the world is not the result of chance; it is the result of Creation. Our Creator spoke, not billions of years ago as some teach, but rather thousands of years ago, and the world came to be.
We know that because of:
*the moon. Each year, the moon gets a little further from the earth. Not much, just and inch or so. That means it used to be closer. Now, if you go back a few thousand years, that’s no big deal, but if you go back 1/5 as long as they say the universe has been around, the moon would have been so close to the earth that our gravity would have broken it into pieces, which would be circling our planet like the rings of Saturn.
*the comets. The comets we see are made up primarily of rock and ice. They are basically “dirty snowballs.” Now each time they circle our sun, part of them is blown away by the solar wind, thus giving them a tail. Now, with the amount of material they lose each time they circle our sun, it is estimated that none of them could exist for more than 10 thousand years, yet they are here.
* the magnetic field. The Earth is surrounded by an invisible magnetic field. This magnetic field is what makes compasses point north. Now, our magnetic field is getting weaker all the time. Now, since it is getting weaker all the time, that means it used to be stronger. Dr. Thomas Barnes is a physicist who has studied our magnetic field in great detail. He estimates that 830 to 1400 years ago our magnetic field would have been twice as strong as it is now. Go back another 830 to 1400 years and it would have been 4 times as strong as it is now. According to Dr. Barnes, if we went back 10,000 years, our magnetic field would have been as strong as the sun’s, and would be burning like it. So, our earth could not be any more than 10,000 years old.
* It is has been calculated that our rivers carry 300 million kg of nickel into the oceans each year. The oceans have an estimated 3000 billion kg of nickel in them. If all of this nickel was carried into them by the rivers, the earth could not be over 10,000 years old. Since some of the nickel was probably in the oceans to begin with and some enters the oceans as dust from meteorites, the earth could not be over 8000 years old.
*My friends, there are countless evidences for a young earth. I don’t have time to go into all the reasons, from science, we know the earth is young, so study it for yourself, but know this, God is the Creator of the universe. Many have forgotten that. They have also forgotten that God is the Creator of people.
2. God created people – Evolutionists would have us believe that you and I are the result of random chance. That somewhere, millions and millions of years ago, a few chemicals got together, and then, somehow, by chance, life evolved.
- Hebrews 11:3
This verse says that what we see in the world was made by Christ and that it was not created by what it is seen. In other words, it did not evolve out of something that was here. Jesus Christ made it all, instantaneously.
Genesis 1 tells us God created us, man, in His image. We are special. Evolutionists try to tell us that we evolved from apes, that we are not special, and they trot out “missing links” to prove it.
* Java-man, ½-man, ½-ape. They forget to tell you that this whole animal was constructed from 1 skull cap found in 1891, and 1 human thigh bone found a year later, 46 feet away.
* Nebraska man, which was used in the “Monkey trial,” against creationists in the early 1900’s. They don’t tell you the entire man was invented from 1 tooth they discovered. Years after the trial, the rest of the skeleton was found and it turns out the tooth came from a now extinct kind of wild hog.
* Piltdown Man. Around 1900, he was discovered. That entire man was built around a few bone fragments found in a gravel pit. It was 40 years before researchers discovered that he was nothing more than an elaborate hoax. Several bones were taken from a human skeleton & an ape. They were aged with chemicals to look older, and then they were buried in a gravel pit, only to be uncovered 3 years later by the same man who hid them.
- Genesis 3:20, Eve the mother of all living
- Romans 5:12, by 1 man, sin entered the world, & death by sin.
There is no evolution. Though scientists have tried countless times in their laboratories to create life, they have been unable to. As far as anyone has been able to see, pigs come from pigs, cows have baby cows, ducks have baby ducks, and people have baby people, ever since God made them all. My friends, God is the Creator. He is the Creator of the universe and He created us.
But, because of the Devil’s subtleness, his lies and man’s desire to be his own boss, his own God, many have willingly chosen to deny, in spite of the evidence, that God created them. What does God think of evolution? He thinks it is a sin worth punishment.
II. EVOLUTION IS A SIN WORTHY OF PUNISHMENT
- Romans 1:18-32
Why do we see so much ungodliness, so much immorality in the world today? These verses tell us it is because man has chosen to worship himself, to make himself god, instead of worshipping the Creator.
III. OUR RESPONSE TO OUR CREATION
1. We should worship our Creator – Psalm 136:1-9; Revelation 14:6-7
2. We must be responsible stewards –
-Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, The world, and those who dwell in it. We are to be responsible stewards of all we have and all around us, because God created and owns everything.
3. We must respect life – Genesis 1:26-28
IV. CONCLUSION
Over the past few weeks we have examined several questions. We have asked, “What does God think about abortion? What does God think about homosexuality, what does God think about gambling, and what does God think about evolution?” It all revolves around Genesis 1:1 and what we think about God. If God created everything, including us, then we are accountable to Him. If He is not our creator, if He is not our God, then we can do like they did in
