Evolution

Flashback:

I was five years old, sitting in kindergarten, the only year I ever went to public school. I had finished my written report early, and my teacher Mrs. Gonzales had allowed me to go on the class computer while I waited for everyone else to finish. It was quite the honor.

We had been learning about dinosaurs that week, and on the computer was an interactive program that allowed me to investigate theories about how the dinosaurs had disappeared. I watched the videos and weighed the evidence, then finally decided that dinosaurs had been killed by a giant asteroid that had come through and taken them all out hundreds of millions of years ago.

I was so excited when I came home from school; I could not wait to tell my mom that I had figured out how the dinosaurs had all died! I told her, nearly jumping out of my skin in childish excitement. I could not understand her reaction, why she did not share my glee. Then she sat me down and explained to me about creation and evolution.

In class today, the students behind me were laughing about a conversation one of them had had with a creationist. They thought it was hilarious that his only rebuttal against any claim of evolution was to employ passages of scripture. This meant nothing to the student behind me, as he does not believe the Bible to be true. They went on to talk about how religions have died out as science proved them wrong, citing the Egyptian god, Ra. They were shocked that anyone can believe in anything besides evolution, since “the evidence has proven it to be true.” They said it was a 99.9% proven theory, which made evolution law. Their words, not mine.

What struck me as terrifying, and has always done so since I became aware of evolution as a five-year-old, was that the theory of evolution was and is being taught to students in school as the only theory of how everything came to be. They might stick “theory” in the title, but the way teachers and professors talk about evolution, and the way they back it up with fossils and evidence that “prove” the millions and billions of years everything took to evolve, no child without a firm foundation otherwise would or could believe anything else.

The irony is, today during a lecture about the evolution of plants, my college biology professor used terms like flawlessly created and impeccably designed in the same breath he used to tell us that all of this happened by accident and for no apparent reason. He explained to us that angiosperms are so masterfully fashioned that flower petal cells have traction to allow pollinators to grip while they collect nectar and pollen. Compared to animals and their biological systems, plants might be considered simple, yet even down to the most miniscule detail their every particle was purposed.

I think if people were honest with themselves, they would realize that the intricacies of life cannot be a mistake, that there is no way this universe came from nothing, and that nothing evolved into radioactive sludge that evolved into bacteria that evolved into fish that evolved into everything we see today.

Evolutionists laugh at creationists because they say we do not have evidence. The Bible might be our textbook, but the universe is our evidence. I pray for a day that the scales will be lifted from their eyes, and they will be able to see how incredible God is for creating a world like ours, a world that even riddled with sin is so intricate, so carefully designed that only willful ignorance could disguise His fingerprints.

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth,” and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind, and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. 

Genesis 1:11-13