Creation vs. Evolution

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Creation vs. Evolution

                Everyone likes to argue about the battle between evolution and creation.  Most people assume that these two views are totally separate, clashing, non-overlapping opinions that each person must choose between.  However, I think both are true, and that they mesh together perfectly.  I think that everything in the Bible can be linked to science, and everything in science can be linked to religion and God.  Alright, maybe you should take a five to ten minute break just to absorb and accept what you think is craziness.  Come back to read the rest of this post whenever you’re ready.

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                Okay, let’s start from the beginning.  The Christian seven-day creation story, and the Big Bang Theory up until now.  First of all, the seven days explained in the Bible are not literal Earth days.  How long has Earth and our specific solar system been around?  Describing time in this strange random sense of our particular system would make no sense.  Therefore, these seven days are very long periods of time, and aren’t even equal amounts of time.

On the first day, God created the earth, Heaven, light and dark.  This directly corresponds to the Big Bang.  Basically, these are two ways of saying the same thing.  The Big Bang was created by God, and it created the earth, Heaven, light and dark.  Easy enough to understand. 

On the second day, God created the sky and the sea.  This corresponds to the ‘scientific’ beginning of our particular planet.  How long ago it happened is irrelevant; it still corresponds.  God created the beginning of our solar system, and created the slow forming of water on the earth and its atmosphere.

On the third day, God created land (earth) and vegetation.  This corresponds to the beginning of life on Earth, and encompasses the evolution of plants and microscopic organisms, arguably in other kingdoms of life, perhaps even the animal kingdom.  However, the Bible is not as strict in its nomenclature, and doesn’t refer to these extremely small animals as ‘animals’ yet.  Anyway, God created life on the third day.

On the fourth day, God created the lights.  The sun was created to govern the day, and the moon was created to govern the night, and the stars were around always, but only visible at night.   Our solar system came into existence.  It’s still all the same thing.  The heat from the sun enabled a much wider range of life to grow than before.

On the fifth day, God created creatures of the sea and sky.  There were great sea monsters and giant winged birds under the sky.  This corresponds with the evolution of previously microscopic life into large organisms that are colloquially called ‘animals.’ 

On the sixth day, God created every kind of land animal, tame animal, and all animals that crawl the ground.  This corresponds with the period of time in which some sea animals came onto the land and eventually adapted into land animals.  Not a big deal; no controversy.  Then God created humans, who had dominion over everything.  Clearly, we do today.  Man gave names to every species of animal and plant, and it took a very long time.  We have named pretty much every plant and animal we know of, have we not? 

On the seventh day, God looked at everything he had created, and found it very good, and decided to have a day of rest.  Has anything happened since then that hasn’t really been mentioned in the creation story? No.  Is it currently the sixth or seventh day?  Nobody really knows; it might be both; what difference does it make?

                Yes, all this was explained very briefly, and without specifics, but I assure you:  No matter what degree of specifics I use, everything will still go together perfectly, because that’s how it is.  I hope that I have maybe enlightened you a bit, or started you on your way.