Why Should I Care?

Question 4: Why should I believe God created the world?

Lesson 4 Introduction: Many questions revolve around the concept of a worldview – a lens through which someone views the world. Such presuppositions are held by all people whether they realize it or not. Many people have an evolutionary worldview which does not allow for the existence of God. They are told that Science can explain the origin of the world and that God is a fairy tale. A fundamental change in the way the unbeliever views the world is a frequent first step that leads to salvation. Believers should be able to argue for their worldview and in so doing expose cracks in the foundation of other worldviews.

1. Evolution vs faith

a. Christianity is up front that it requires faith for salvation.

We take God’s word as truth by faith, and that faith in the work of Jesus on a cross saves us. Evolution claims that science and reason are its basis for belief, but Evolution cannot prove its’ base claim that the universe came from nothing. Nobody was there to observe a big bang, and it is not a repeatable, testable phenomenon. Science cannot prove that basic claim. It must be believed by faith just as Christianity must be believed by faith.

b. Evolution is a religion just as Christianity is a religion.

Like any religion, it has figures who have founded it, organized it, and led it. Darwin popularized Evolution in the 19th century and it spread from there. It has people who evangelize it by teaching it in schools and popular cultural settings. If you can reveal to people that they are following a religion rather than a legit science, that can begin to open eyes.

2. Order vs Chaos

a. Evolution asks us to believe that nothing created something.

Nowhere in nature does nothing create nothing. Such a claim is not repeatable and testable as science demands. Classical apologetics as explained by Thomas Acquinas asserts that there must be some original cause or first mover that set the universe in motion. The evolutionist claims it to be a big bang and the Christian believes it to be God.

b. Evolution asks us to believe that order came from chaos.

Such a phenomenon never occurs in nature. Order degrades into chaos and requires intelligence to rearrange it into orderliness. The earth’s orbit is degrading; stars are losing energy rather than gaining it. Our sun is on a dying trajectory rather than an eternal one. Our bodies run out of energy and need food and water to replenish it. The laws of nature move against the logic of evolution.

3. Source of morality

a. For the Christian, morality is derived from God and his word.

We know what is good because God is good. Whatever God is like is what we strive to be like. We know evil because it is the antithesis of God. It is everything that God is against. Anything that God labels as evil, we label as evil. God says lying, committing adultery, and murder are wrong – so we declare those things to be wrong as God did.

b. Morality for the evolutionist has no point of origin.

It varies from person to person. The evolutionist borrows his morality from the Christian worldview. Why is it wrong to murder? The evolutionist has no answer. The Christian answers that man is made in the image of God and possesses a soul. Ending someone’s life is defacing the image of God taking and playing God by deciding to end a life – something only God has the right to do. The evolutionist needs to face the reality that their view of morality has no anchor in reality according to their worldview.

Conclusion

Evolution is a religion cloaked in science. Do not be bullied into thinking that it is any different. Create doubt in the evolutionary mind by showing them how their worldview contradicts itself. They believe in science, yet they believe things that are not observable, testable, or repeatable. They borrow their morality from Christianity while trying to deny the God from whom it originates. Lovingly point out these inconsistencies and pray the Holy Spirit removes the veil from their eyes.

Forrest, Benjamin K., Joshua D. Chatraw, and Alister E. McGrath, eds. The History of Apologetics. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic. 2020.