These are some of the most popular questions asked over the centuries and are still being debated today:

1. Where did I come from? (origin)
2. What is my purpose? (reason for existence)
3. Where am I going? (destiny)

In the Bible we find answers to these questions, and from the very beginning God laid out His design for humankind. This original blueprint was perfect, but humans messed it up, so God instituted a “rescue” plan that unfolds throughout the Bible. In the end God’s rescue plan will be completed and we can read about it in the book of Revelation, but first we need to get a solid foundation of the ‘why and how’ that begins in the book of Genesis:

Last week we looked at Genesis chapter one and the creation week, along with some of the human theories taught about that week. In Genesis chapter two we find a re-telling of the events on day six, specifically the creation of humans. Hebrew writings often give an overview of an event and the re-tell it with more detail emphasizing something important, and this is what we find in Genesis chapters one and two.

What is important in Genesis chapter two is the answer to the question of purpose. Humankind was made to be in relationship with God (they walked and talked with God in the Garden). Humans were given rulership over the earth (they were to take care of the Garden). God created humans in His image and no other living thing was created with special attributes like the ability to love, to choose (freewill), and to reason. Humans also have traits unlike any other created thing and we see that expressed in emotions, intentionality, and motives.

As Christians our purpose goes even deeper:

Jesus gave us a model throughout His ministry…

When asked: “What is the Greatest Commandment?”

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”  Matthew 22:37-40

The last command Jesus gave to His Disciples (“The Great Commission”)

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,  and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”  Matthew 28:18-20

God also created us with the ability to be in relationship with each other. Adam and Eve are the first major historical players found in the Bible and from them we get the answer to this question: What is the purpose of marriage? 

So God created mankind in his own image in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number “  Genesis 1:27-28a

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”…  The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. . Genesis 2:18, 21-24

Jesus speaking to the Pharisees:

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”  Matthew 19:4-6

Paul gives the same command from Genesis in his letter to the Ephesians:

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”  Ephesians 5:31

A popular question often asked of this part of Genesis: Where did the families come from (how did Cain get a wife)?

When God said “be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28, 9:1) it was to a creation that had begun in perfection, there was no corruption to the DNA, and no laws or regulations on intermarriage – that would come hundreds of years later when God established the “Law” with Moses and the Nation of Israel. Even though it seems “yucky” today, it was perfectly fine to intermarry between family members at the beginning of the human race (Genesis 4-5). We also see long life spans in early Genesis which would make it easy to populate the earth fairly quickly (after the “Flood” life spans declined rapidly).

Secularism in education:

However, we are not taught the Biblical worldview in our secular run public schools, instead we get a distinctly different story being taught. This story is just the opposite of the Biblical account:

• Random chance evolutionary mechanisms and natural selection are responsible for life today, not a God who loves us and created all that we see
• Humans are no more important than any other animal and are a danger to them and the environment
• This life is all that there is so make the most of it and be successful at what you do (and thus the high suicide rates for many who do not reach their idea of success)

The problem: Evolutionary theory is taught as fact and creation or intelligent design as a competing theory for the origin of life is not allowed in under the guise of separation of church and state. However, evolutionary theory uses philosophy not science and has become a religion itself. Questions of origin require forensic science and cannot use empirical science alone and therefore all reasonable evidence should be allowed in the door.

Evolutionary theory is the greatest deception foisted on us today and it is one of the top reasons many young people walk away from the faith. Those who promote evolution as a means for the origin of complex life will misuse the term. The word ‘evolution’ is overarching and broad in its scope and definition and its meaning is often convoluted, for example:

Microevolution:

• Evidenced in the changes seen in nature and in the diversity of species that are measurable and observable (different kinds of plants, dogs, cats, horses, etc.). This is also referred to as adaption and/or natural selection.

But does this observable evidence lead to the next conclusion?

Macroevolution:

• Takes the evidence of microevolution and infers that species today have evolved through gradual series of changes becoming newer and better (humans and monkeys come from ape-like creatures, amphibians come from fish, and birds comes from reptiles, etc.)
• Taken back far enough, we are taught that we all began as single cell bacteria-like organisms in a primordial fluid (how that came about is not answered as they defer to abiogenesis=life originating from non-life, appearing out of nothing)
• Macroevolution has never been observed and is not a result of the scientific method, it does not have the required evidence in the areas that it claims to such as the highly regarded fossil record and there are no intermediate links between the “kinds” of major life forms we see today

Important take away:

Microevolution: Changes within species. This is true based on observation.

vs.

Macroevolution: A change from one “kind” of living thing into a new “kind” of living thing. This is false because it cannot be, and has never been, observed.

Watch this short clip by It’s A Fact Videos, debunking evolutionary theory for the origin of complex life:

“In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!” 

– Ron Carlson, U.C. Irvine Professor and Author 

Who was Darwin and where did this theory of evolution come from?

In the mid 1800’s Charles Darwin, an English Naturalist, took the idea of evolution and wrote books called The Origin of Species and Descent of Man. In these books Darwin took his studies from the Galapagos Islands and transferred observable changes he saw within species (kinds) to the theory of the origin of species (kinds). This theory takes an awful leap of faith from the observable microevolution to the unobservable macroevolution.

Evolution’s Icons that are still taught as examples of evolution in the textbooks today, even though they have been proven false:

Galapagos finches:  There are only beak size changes and no change of kinds, they are still finches

Haekel’s embryos:  These are forgeries in the textbooks and are not representative of the actual embryos

Ascent of Man Chart:  These are misleading drawings because they use ape skeletons not actual humans

Bones of Lucy:  Assembled from bone fragments from different animals, mostly ape

Fruit flies changes:  Mutations here are not beneficial and the flies do not survive

Bacterial mutations:  Cause genetic limitations not improvements

Peppered moths:  They adapt and change color not species

Homologous structures:  Same designer (allows for optimal performance); not because of a common ancestor

Vestigial Organs:  Now known to be functional and not remnants of evolutionary transitions

Biblical creation and the theory of “Intelligent Design” has by far the most reasonable evidence for origin, and in abundance, so why is it so quickly dismissed in the scientific community?

Michael Ruse, (Ardent evolutionist and ex Christian) Professor of Philosophy and Zoology at the University of Gwelth in Canada has said:

“Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than a mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion—a full fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality…Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning and it is true of evolution still today.”

“Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, and the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever! In explaining evolution we do not have one iota of fact.”  -Dr. Newton Tahmisian, Atomic Energy Commission

Jonathan Wells wrote the book “Icons of Evolution,” watch the Icons of Evolution documentary on these icons and what happened to a Biology Teacher that tried to present the evidence:

Jonathan Wells has a new book called “Zombie Science.” Watch this presentation on current research that debunks evolution and why so many of the false icons are still being taught in school today:

Twelve questions Darwinian evolutionary theory cannot answer:

There are only two possible causes for life: a) A supernatural intelligent cause that demonstrates design and purpose, or b) an undirected cause that came about by random chance conditions. Which one can best answer these questions?

1) The origin of first life. Why is there something rather than nothing at all—where did it all come from originally?

2) Life does not consist merely of chemicals. If this were true mixing the chemicals of life would produce life—What is the missing ingredient?

 3) There are no known natural laws that produce specified complexity. There is information in the cell that codes for the performance of specific functions—where does this information come from?

 4) There are many human functions and actions that are immaterial. In modern science the search for the cause of origin does not allow for anything immaterial or supernatural, it is built upon a philosophy or presupposition that there is no God. How then can you address the immaterial nature of life (like the soul, intentions, emotions etc.)?

5) Spontaneous generation of life has never been observed. How can something come from nothing, and how can non-living materials give rise to living materials?

Genetic limits:

6) New and beneficial information needs to be added to the DNA to create a new or different kind of living organism. Adding information to the DNA or the cell itself is genetically impossible from an evolutionary perspective. Where is the evidence of new or beneficial genetic information being added that creates a new kind of living thing from another kind?

7) Mutations in the genes do not make improvements in the species and almost always have a negative effect. Mutations take away or cause the loss of information in the cell. Cancer is caused by mutations in the DNA of the cell, this is an example of a negative effect not a positive one. Where are examples of mutations creating new kinds of living thing or contributing in a positive or beneficial direction?

8) Cyclical changes within species never produce a new life form. Birds are still birds, bacteria are still bacteria, and fish are still fish. Where are the new kinds of living things created by beak size changes, wing size changes, or other changes within a species?

9) Irreducible complexity in biological systems and their parts exist in all living things. Transitional forms would be non-viable and would die out. All pieces must be there simultaneously otherwise an organism would not survive. Where is the evidence of a living thing existing in a transitional stage with missing pieces in their functional parts?

10) Molecular isolation—outside similarities do no match up with inside similarities. Similarity in structure on the outside does not support the dissimilarity of molecular structure internally. Even though they look similar on the outside, they are molecularly different on the inside. How do you get new molecules added to completely different molecules, and DNA codes, that are isolated inside different kinds of species?

The fossil record: 

11) The fossil record is scare for transitional forms—Morphology suggests tens of thousands of transitional forms should be seen if evolution was true, and they are not. The Cambrian explosion has exposed that the earliest fossils ever discovered have body plans identical to what we see today. Where are the transitional fossils (missing links)?

Dr. David Berlinski, Mathematician and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, Poses this question about transitional forms not found in the fossil record:  “How many changes should we see if a complex life form goes, for example, from being a sea dwelling creature to a land dwelling creature? Most Morphologists suggest that even with a modest estimate you would need roughly 50,000 morphological changes to make that adaptation which requires specific changes in physiological features and evolutionists hold up maybe two. What happened then, to the other 49,998 forms that we should see in the fossil record? We simply do not know, but neither do the other guys.”

Charles Darwin, said this about his own theory:

“Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory.”

Charles Darwin also admitted:

“If it should be determined that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”

-As we now have available to us, through the abundance of evidence from modern science and technology, Darwin’s theory does absolutely break down.

Mathematics—the nail in the coffin:

12) Mathematical probability proves that even if you allow for billions and billions of years there is not enough time for random chance to cause first life; even after first life there is not enough time for evolutionary changes to produce new kinds of living organisms from other kinds. Evolutionists keep moving their historical clock back and dating methods for the age of the universe and are all over the place depending on the institution. How do you account for the origination of first life—can moving the clock back ever answer the origin question?

Probability of evolution by chance?

Walter L. Bradley, Mechanical engineering professor at Texas A&M University and co-author of the book The Mystery of Life’s Origins, said:

“Since evolutionary scientists have estimated the age of the universe at 14 billion years old and the earth being less than 5 billion years old the mathematical odds of assembling a living organism, even if you optimize the conditions here on earth in those early days, wouldn’t work. …If you took all the carbon in the universe and allowed it to chemically react at the most rapid rate possible, and left it for a billion years, the odds of creating just one functional protein molecule would be one chance in 10 with 60 zeros after it!”

What does that number look like?

That’s one chance in…

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000, 000,000, 000,000,000,000,000

Francis Crick, Nobel Prize winner and co-discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA said:

“To produce the miracle of molecular construction, all the cell needs to do is string together the amino acids (which make up the polypeptide chain of DNA) in the correct order. This is a complicated biochemical process. Suppose the chain is about 200 amino acids long and, since we have just twenty possibilities at each place, the number of possibilities is twenty multiplied by itself some 200 times. This is conveniently written 20 to the 200^th power, that is, a 1 followed by 260 zeros? This number is quite beyond our everyday comprehension.” 

What does that look like?

To create this one single strand of DNA (by chance) is mathematically one chance in…

1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

To simplify the astronomical odds of complex life forms developing over the course of the earth’s history, astronomer Fred Hoyle and mathematician Chandra Wickramasinghe have said…

“The current scenario of the origin of life is about as likely as the assemblage of a 747 by a tornado whirling through a junkyard.”

Phillip Johnson, U.C. Berkley Law Professor and Author of “Darwin on Trial” said: 

“Darwinism is based on an ‘a priori [prior] commitment to materialism, not on a philosophically neutral assessment of the evidence. Separate the philosophy from the science, and the proud tower collapses.”

Evolutionary Biologist and Harvard Professor Richard Lewontin admits: “

We take the side of science in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises…because we have a prior commitment to materialism…Moreover that materialism is absolute for we cannot allow a divine foot in the door.”

Our Creator God has warned us:

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.  Colossians 2:8

Going Deeper:

Additional Recommended YouTube Presentations to help you go deeper on this topic

-“Evolution vs. God,” by Ray Comfort and Living Waters Productions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=124&v=U0u3-2CGOMQ

-“Understanding Intelligent Design,” by Sean McDowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqEzRapv5LU

-“Human Evolution, (a brief presentation)”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=B9taCPkleWo

-“Darwin’s Dilemma,” by Stephen Meyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=xxh9o32m5c0

Bible study and review:

Note: Always pray before you study God’s Word. Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you and lead you into all truth…

Read/re-read Genesis chapter 2:

1. In Hebrew literature the authors often give an overview of a story and then retell it with emphasis. Genesis chapter one is the overview. What is being emphasized in chapter two?
2. In Genesis chapter two, notice the great relationship Adam had with God when they were in the Garden together, and God let Adam name all the animals! Why is it important to know that we were made in the image of God compared to the rest of creation? What is our role in relationship to the rest of creation?
3. Re-read Genesis 2:19-25 then cross-reference by reading Matthew 19:4-6. When is the only time God uses “it is not good” in the creation account and what does He say? From these passages what do you think God’s desire and design for marriage is?
4. What is the difference between microevolution and macroevolution?
5. Pick two or three examples from above that debunks the theory of evolution and write them down (try to commit them to memory for sharing)

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Teri Dugan

TeriDugan@truthfaithandreason.com

1 Peter 3:15