I Believe in Evolution

Scripture Reading

Psalm 139:14 (ESV)

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

OH 245 = More About Jesus

CH 385 - Crowning Jewel of Creation

“Bush Man”

Intro - I think the greatest challenge we face as christians is that of identity. And it goes to the heart of our origin story of whether we were created or we evolved over millons of years.

Tim’s Story

Aparthied Museum

Science is used as a justification for racism

I’m a child of God made in His image

Scientific Racism

Tr. evolution is a bed fellow to racism

Definition

Evolution

Darwinism

Natural Selection

Revelation vs Evolution

Tr. - Why is evolution a big issue and why should it affect me?

Pew Research

The Other Evolutionist

Tr. - With less people believing in a Creator-God, some have adopted the idea of Evolutionary Theism.

Evolutionary Theism: A perspective that believes in God as the creator and also accepts the scientific theory of evolution as a means through which God's creation occurs.

What Do We Believe?

Tr. - What is the position of the SDA Church in matters of identity?

Official Statement

EGW

What Do I Believe?

Tr. - I believe in evolution, but in the other definition of evolution

Dictionary definition

“The Evolutionary Ladder”

Transition

“The evolutionary ladder is a spiritual process rather than a biological one. It is characterised by evolutionary steps that leads to character transformation from the debilitating consequence of sin to the upward advancement of God-likeness as demonstrated in the Second Adam project whose founder though tragically killed evaded death after three-days by the actualization of divine love. The evolutionary ladder is often refered to by its proponents of the Second Adam project as santification.”

Is there a basis for this evolutionary ladder concept?

2 Peter 1:5–7 (ESV)

For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

Conclusion

“Known Unknowns. …Unknown Unknowns”

Transition - there are many questions that evolution asks

Question

But this is what I do know - Scripture reading