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CPT: God created creatures according to their kinds and man according to his own image.
Purpose: Persuade the audience of the perfection of God’s word against worldly ideologies.
CPS: God’s creation offers a better answer for mankind.
Introduction
Attention
Which is right—evolution or creation?
I don’t believe this is a minor question.
The question of how we came about teaches us about ourselves and about our Creator.
From the outset, it’s important to know what we are talking about.
When I am talking about evolution, I am not talking about variations within a species.
I’ll talk more about that later.
But what I am talking about is Darwinian evolution, which describes slow gradual change over time.
It says that life started off as a simple celled organism in a primordial soup.
That cell changed and evolved into more complex life forms, with a species evolving into a different species.
So you end up with a fish evolving limbs, crawling out onto the beach, and on dry land, becoming another species, all over enormous amounts of time.
Illustration: This is personal for me.
As a new Christian, this was one of the first questions that I needed to answer.
I took a college class that really impacted me.
This college professor spent a lot of time going through the wonders of Darwinian evolution.
He then described the creation myth in the Bible, which he said was just like other creation myths.
We had to do a paper on Darwinian evolution.
In New York, we have a museum called the Metropolitan Museum of Natural History.
I went to this museum, and they have a whole exhibit on evolution.
There is the artistic representation of this ape-like creature that has the amazing human eyes.
They call this thing Lucy.
It’s based on some old bone fragments.
As I was in the museum, I overheard a conversation next to me.
They said, “You know, can you believe my co-worker still believes in Adam and Eve?”
Well, if you read your Bible from the beginning, we have a problem.
As a new Christian, I would say, “If I can’t trust this thing in the beginning, how can I trust it at the end?”
Now, I am not a scientist.
But I do know a bit about systems of faith.
As a new Christian, I actually got more interested in science.
Christians celebrate science.
Science is looking in a microscope, observing the natural world, and making observations about what we see.
Christianity is not anti-science.
It is anti other systems of faith.
You will here people say, “I don’t believe in the Bible.
I believe in science.”
Now, I know a bit about systems of faith.
The more you look into evolution, you will see a lot of faith statements dressed up scientific jargon.
You know they say, “If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it’s a duck.”
How can we understand this question of evolution versus creation?
We are going to look at this through Genesis 1:20-28.
Scripture Reading
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God created living creatures in days according to their kinds.
State the point; Anchor the point; Validate the point; Explain the point
Text: Gen. 1:20, 24-25
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The meaning of a day
When we pick up in Genesis 1:20, we are in day five of the creation week.
Now when we are discussing the question for today, evolution or creation, it’s important that we talk about time.
The theory of Darwinian evolution needs time, lots and lots of time.
The theory needs billions and billions of years to allow for slow gradual change over time.
For a single-celled organism to evolve into something of a fish to something that grows legs and walks on dry land, you need an enormous amount of time for that to happen.
But it’s important that, as we look at Scripture, we don’t force a nineteenth and twentieth century idea into the text.
Charles Darwin didn’t live until the 1800s.
Darwinian evolution is an idea that’s relatively new in history.
Yet, there are some well-meaning Christians who have attempted to make the text mean something that it doesn’t say.
They try and say, “Well, maybe you can stick a billion years here between day one and two,” and they will attempt to justify it with Scripture.
“Doesn’t it say in 2 Peter 3:8 that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day?”
Well, yes, but in that verse Peter is talking about salvation there.
He is not talking about creation.
We serve a God who knows how to communicate.
He is the author of communication.
He knows how to communicate to his people in a clear and understandable way.
If you think you know how to say something clearly, God is better at doing it.
And its like God could anticipate that people would question time periods here, because he puts sort of an emphasis, an exclamation point on the fact of it being a regular day.
Each day has an evening and a morning.
The word “day” is the Hebrew word yôm.
When you are translating from one language to another, you look at the context and how the word is used to understand how to interpret it.
Let’s look at another place where yôm is used in Genesis.
Now, you wouldn’t say, on the third billions of years, Abraham saw the place?
No, that’s ridiculous.
See, the context tells you the author’s intention.
You allow the author to mean what he means.
When you are looking at creation then, there is no reason, no matter how badly you try and twist it, to understand the day to mean anything by what we we understand as a day, with an evening and a morning.
There is no evidence in Genesis 1 to understand the word “day” as anything other than a normal, twenty-four hour day.
The meaning of a kind
What is God doing on these days?
There is an interesting statement made about each creature created.
For instance, in Genesis 1:21:
Look down at Genesis 1:24-25:
All of these creatures are created according to their kind.
God creates sea creatures according to their kind.
He creates birds and winged creatures according to their kind.
He creates creatures that crawl and wildlife according to their kind.
Each creature that God creates is made according to their specific type.
Now, as Christians, we don’t disagree that their is a variation within a species.
When people are trying to prove Darwinian evolution, they will point to a variation within a particular species or type of animal.
They will say, “Look, there are different types of dogs, and you can mate two different kinds of dogs to create a third kind of dog.”
For instance, here are some mixed-breed dogs.
The Chug is a mix between a chihuahua and a pug.
The Golden Doodle is a mix between a golden retriever and a poodle.
The Morkie is a mix between a Maltese and a Yorkshire terrier.
Now you all want to go get a puppy.
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