If you know me, you know that my brain seems to work extra hard on things that, well, I just want to call ideas. I have so many ideas. Most are just an idea and then it just passes by. One thing that I think about a lot is creation. I guess I can’t really grasp the theory of evolution. Satan tries to put in my brain some pretty crazy things sometimes. He always gets me with the dinosaurs. I think how could there be dinosaurs. Why do I think this--I don’t know? In the bible it says creation was done in 7 days by God. It says there was day and night, so the theory that each day was a huge period of time is what I believe to be wrong. But I mean, who really cares about dinosaurs anyway. My brother says he thinks God put the bones in the ground. Well I don’t know if that’s correct or not, could very well be.
Being a very health challenged person, I have a lot of knowledge about how the body works. When I think about something like dinosaurs my mind comes back to this. How in the world can you look at the kidney that does only one very small function in the body and think that we are from a very small atom. If you think we came from a fish, think about our brain or our veins and the intricate way they wind through our body in the perfect way. I think that the evidence of creation far out weighs the evidence for evolution. In fact is there any for evolution. Doesn’t seem like there is much.
I think most people think that there is a God. They choose to rebel against him for some reason. Probably because they are so consumed in selfish gains and worldly problems that they can’t see the truth. Actually most people see the truth just don’t want the responsibility that comes with it. Check out this video below it’s kind of funny and very true.
I think that it takes faith to believe in creation or evolution, and to tell you the truth, I'm not sure that the two are necessarily exclusive. I definitely believe that God is the Creator of the universe, and that through creation God displays his beauty and glory and creativity. The question of how he did it is another story. I'm not sure whether God created in seven literal days or over longer periods of time (billions of years). After taking a lot of biology and geology classes I can see that scientific evidence definitely points to the later. Often people pit science and religion against each other, but I don't think that it has to be that way. God could have used the process of evolution to create this beautiful world, and that would be just as amazing as if he did it in seven literal days. Obviously we don't really know how he did it, and maybe it isn't that important. I think it is great to think and wonder about and discuss, as long as we keep an open mind. And as long as we acknowledge that He is the Creator and that He loves us and is still actively involved in His Creation. You can see I have a lot to say on the subject (it was a frequent discussion at Au Sable and in my science classes at Calvin). Thanks for you posts, Joe. I enjoy reading them.
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