Have you ever wondered how the earth came to be? Maybe you have been told it came to be through a big bang over billions of years. Have you ever thought how amazingly intricate something was, and you didn't know how it could have possibly been by chance? Well today we are discussing how the earth came to be. Over the years Creation and Evolution, as well as theistic evolution, have been a big debate. Creation is the belief that God created the earth and universe in six days, while Evolution is the belief that the big bang and billions of years created the earth. Theistic evolution tries to compromise God's word, Creation and man's word, Evolution. Theistic evolution states that God created the matter the made the big bang and used other natural processes to create the earth.
First Creation is the belief that God created the earth in six days. The Bible clearly states this in Genesis 1:1 which says, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is stated many times in Scripture. In Exodus 20:11 it states, “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in the them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” In this verse it clearly states that the earth was created in six days. These six days and the seventh day, the day of rest, created the foundation of our week. In the Bible the Hebrew word yom was used which means “day”. If, as theistic evolutionists believe, each day had lasted a thousand years, the Hebrew word dor, which means time, period, or generation, could have been used. In Genesis 1 it clearly shows that there was evening and morning and that was a day.
Second Evolution states that the earth came to be through a big bang and 13.8 billion years. Evolutionists believe that all living organisms came from a less complex state to a more complex state. This does not follow the Second Law of Thermodynamics. According to Dr. Norman, “Evolution is just unscientific. It violates the laws of chemistry including the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the laws of probability, and information theory.”(Evolution 'Unscientific', AnswersinGenesis) While testing DNA molecules, Dr. Norman discovered that the molecules broke down instead of becoming more complex. Evolution is said to be able to be tested since it is a scientific theory. But how can you test something that happened at the very beginning of time.
And the last argument, theistic evolution, tries to compromise God's word, Creation, and man's word, Evolution. his argument presents that God created the matter that created the big bang and used natural processes to create the earth. Theistic evolutionists try to use 2 Peter 3:8, which states, “With the Lord a day is like thousand years, and a thousand years is like a day”, as proof that when God said he created the earth in six days that each day was actually a thousand years. This is not correct, though, because in Genesis yom meant literal 24 hour days. Even though theistic evolution tries to compromise Evolution and Creation it doesn’t work out because in the Bible the stars where created on the fourth day while Evolution states that the stars were created billions of years before the earth. And lastly “the Bible tells us that the earth was made from water (2 Peter 3:5; Genesis 1:2–9; Psalm 24:2), but the standard secular model teaches that the earth began as a molten planet which cooled over millions of years, and that the oceans were the result of asteroid or meteor impacts, or from dissolution of comets as they entered earth’s atmosphere”, states Answers in Genesis, "The Big Bang". The main problem with theistic evolution is it is willing to deny the Bible to compromise with the secular view of Evolution.
While all three arguments are presented only one can be right–Creation–
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