On Creation

Hello everyone!

If you are reading this, you have found my serious blog. Some of you may know that I aspire to do multiple things, and among those multiple desires is the desire to one day hold a political office. For those who have talked to me on this subject, you may know I am adamant on my views politically. Most of this blog will be devoted to my those views (I will back all my views with Scripture, where possible).

However, I want to talk about a different topic today and build upon a conversation I had with my grandfather recently. Some of you may know how strongly I feel about the creation-evolution debate (actually, some of you may know that I feel strongly about a wide variety of topics). My grandfather believes the same things I do regarding Creation, and we have several times expressed our feelings about this topic.

I don’t believe in evolution…  Okay, that’s not really true.  I will be terminologically correct and say that I believe Macroevolution is false. I believe there is much proof for Microevolution, but the differences between Micro- and Macroevolution are many and profound. If you don’t know what microevolution is, feel free to ask me in person or leave a comment below and I will answer to the best of my ability.

Macroevolution is a lie meant to distract people from the truth about the universe. I could talk for days with my scientific, biblical, and experiential proofs about why this is. The list of proof goes for pages and pages: molecular biology, chemistry, complexity, and entropy – all are proofs against macroevolution. Just to give an idea of my personal proofs against macroevolution, here are a few.

Entropy. During my conversation with my grandfather, I thought of this. Entropy is the physical law that states that all purely random processes cause things to become more and more unorganized as time goes on. To give an example of this, an explosion does not make a house appear; rather, it scatters parts of house over a large area. Thus, the completely random processes in our universe could not possibly form a living thing. However, an intelligent being, such as a human, can make some sense out of the world we live in. Of course, a human can only do so much, so there must be a supreme intelligent being that has created the world we live in.

Biology (and botany). This is one of the biggest proofs for creationism. The “simplest” organism is so complex that biologists are still trying to figure out how it could even be produced by macroevolution. The simplest part of a human is even more incredible. And when we look at things like the human brain and the eye, the mind bursts with the incredibleness and wonder of it all. And we have only seen a small portion of the wonders that can be revealed! I can look outside and see a leaf. What a wonder a leaf is! The fact that such a small object could possibly make food using sunlight and water is truly amazing. When I search closely, I see even more amazing things. There is a bug under that leaf that can fly. How incredible! These short glimpses at “ordinary” things make me realize how small I am and how great and awesome our God is. I could go on and on about the many, many things that we take for granted every day. If you want to hear more, just ask me and I’ll be happy to tell you.

Chemistry. All life could be reduced to a matter of chemicals, but I don’t think it is helpful to view life as stuff. Life is so much more that a jumble of chemicals thrown together. Of course, even if you viewed life as a conglomeration of chemicals, you would still discover things that would blow your mind. If you have ever studied chemistry, you will have found that there are so many characteristics of chemicals that would change drastically if even one thing was changed. If there was no water tension, for example, resulting from hydrogen bonding, there would be no way for trees to receive their water from the ground. If there were no hydrogen bonding whatsoever, then life as we know it would be impossible to sustain. And this is ONE TINY PART of the structure of our world. As in other subjects, there is so much meat to take from chemistry.

These are just a few examples of how wondrously complex our world is. Of course, man does not want to be subordinate to a God who created anything, and who, in the blink of an eye, could cause all creation to cease to exist. Man does not want to know how hopelessly lost he is. As a Christian, though, I know that I am hopelessly lost on my own. It is only through the death, resurrection, and strength of Christ that I have hope. And so, even if I could convince a macroevolutionist to believe in creation, it means nothing if he does not trust in Christ.

These are my thoughts on this subject. Please, share your thoughts with me! I encourage all conversation. If you believe me wrong in anything I have said, don’t hesitate to say something! As Proverbs 27:17 says, “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.”

In closing: no post is complete without Scripture. I leave with the following passage:

Isaiah 40:6-8

All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. 

Casey