Could God have used the Evolutionary Process?

.  During an analysis of “Paradise Lost” by John Milton, this question came up.  Here is a summary of my reply: What we have in Genesis is the only eye-witness account of creation, Genesis 1:1 to 2:3. It is not allegory. There’s nothing in the Hebrew text or in the English text, for that matter, to indicate that this is a fanciful story, that this is some kind of an allegorical picture. There’s nothing here to indicate that this is some kind of mystical poetry, that this is some kind of lyrical literary style that is something other than actual God breathed history. To put it to you, this is purely expressed history from God, written down by Moses. The creator Himself gave Moses this accurate account of history. And I accept the Scripture as inspired of God and inerrant and there’s nothing in this text to indicate that it’s anything other than plain history. The Bible opens with a monumental statement, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” And with that statement the Word of God, Holy Scripture, affirms the existence of the universe and everything in it as the product of God’s created act. It’s a very important statement. We are here shown in this verse that evolution, the dominant theory of science, is not true. What exists, exists not because it evolved but because God created it. Evolution is not scientific. Evolution is not reasonable. Evolution is impossible and irrational. There has never been one shred of evidence that matter on any level chemically can, or will, can or will organize itself, all by itself. It was over a hundred years ago that Louis Pasteur proved that spontaneous biogenesis cannot occur. A cell cannot increase its complexity. A cell cannot add information necessary in its DNA, or its genetic code, to take itself to a higher level. That is impossible. It has never been done, it has never been seen. Nothing mutates upward.   Inevitably they die at the cellular level. Natural selection then is only downward, not upward, and natural selection actually prevents evolution from taking place. No species is capable of moving up. It can decrease itself by a decrease in its information by some enotropic event that sends it into disorganization, but it cannot increase what it is, because it cannot come across new information. Evolution with the advent of DNA is now so preposterous and so impossible, and so scientifically inaccurate that no honest person could believe it. Evolution is a violation of all that modern science knows to be true. But my students persisted since this is a very popular view today…but, “Couldn’t God have used evolution after creating the original matter? Couldn’t God have used evolution in the sense of theistic evolution?” No, God couldn’t have used evolution because evolution is impossible. Evolution assumes that matter can organize itself upward by itself. Now, starting in verse 2, the first chapter of the Bible expands on verse 1. Verse 1 says that God created the heavens and the earth, and starting in verse 2 we find out how. “And the earth was formless and void and darkness was over the face of the deep, or the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. God saw that the light was good and God separated the light from the darkness and God called the light day and the darkness He called night, and there was evening and there was morning, one day. “Then God said, ‘Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate the waters from the waters,’ and God made the expanse and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse and it was so. Now there is the accurate eye-witness account of the creation of the universe. The creation account is laid out from Genesis 1:1 to Genesis 2:3  1:1 to 2:3, starting in 2:4 and then you start to follow the history of man all the way to the end of creation. Behind the creation of everything in the universe stands the living God who had eternally existed as God but had not always been creator. But here He becomes creator and He creates everything…absolutely everything. Hebrews 11:3 says, “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” The things that we see in the created universe were not made from something else. They were made from nothing, ex nihilo, without pre-existing material. It’s a way of saying everything around us,  all came into existence instantaneously out of no pre-existing material. It didn’t come from things that do appear, it came from nothing. And Genesis is the only record of creation. It is the only source of creation information. How did God do this? What was His method? He spoke…He spoke…He spoke it into existence out of nothing. This is…this is God.  Psalm 33:6 and 9, “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of his mouth for He spoke and it was done, He commanded and it was established.” That is the psalmist’s affirmation of the Genesis account of creation. God said, “Let there be…let there be…let there be…” and every time He said it there was. This is what we call fiat creation, He willed it and spoke it into existence. Psalm 148:5 says, “He spoke and they were created.” This is where everything came from. It didn’t exist. God willed it to exist. He spoke and it came into existence. That is the divine account of creation. In Mark 13:19 it talks about the beginning of the creation which God created…just in case somebody might question. And you have that all through the New Testament, the emphasis on the fact that God created. Matthew 19:4, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female?” Again and again the Scripture makes reference to God as creator.  Romans 1 says it’s so evident that God is the creator that if you don’t see it you’re without excuse.  Colossians, that great first chapter, verse 16 where it says, “By Him all things were created both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things have been created by Him and for Him.” That sums it up. That is always the biblical, the New Testament and Old Testament, affirmation of God as creator. Hebrews 1:10, “And Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the works of Thy hands.” I mean, Scripture just continually affirms God as the creator and He created simply by willing it and then speaking it into existence. Listen to Romans 4:17, this is another testimony. It says, “As it is written, a father of many nations have I made you, in the sight of Him of whom he believed, even God…and here is the definition of God…God who gives life to the dead…listen to this…and calls into being that which does not exist.” That’s Romans 4:17. Creation is God calling into existence what does not exist. There’s no room in that for evolution. Evolution is something appearing that has mutated from something else. That’s not creation. John 1:3, “All things came into being by Him and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” There isn’t anything that exists that God didn’t create.There was no pre-existing material. And nothing is in existence that God didn’t create. That’s a very, very clear Scripture. God created everything in six days. There’s no evolution in that chapter. There’s not a hint of evolution anywhere in this chapter. There’s no place for an evolutionary theory because you havedays. Verse 31, “And God saw all that He made and behold, it was very good.” Now God finished His creation, six days, and He said it’s very good. Then what does that mean? Nothing was bad. Nothing was bad would mean nothing was inferior. Nothing didn’t survive. Nothing sort of, you know, like the plants you plant, nothing died out. You know why? There was no death..there was no death. You see, when God finished His creation He looked at all of it…in fact it says several times He saw that it was good. And He looked it all over in verse 31 and saw that it was very good, nothing was inferior, nothing didn’t survive, nothing had died out or been killed in the struggle for the survival of the fittest. If creation had involved some evolutionary process, then God would have had to said, “Well, the good made it to the end.” He didn’t say that. And how could there have been billions and billions of evolving years, billions of years of struggle and death and survival in a world where there was no curse? In a world where there was no death? You don’t even have death till Genesis chapter 3. The Apostle Paul makes it absolutely explicit in the book of Romans that it was through sin that death entered the world. There was no sin in that perfect creation. There was no sin, there couldn’t have been death. So there’s no place for plants and animals to die…no Fall no sin, no sin no death, no death no evolution. The Fall came and introduced death, death introduced the law of thermodynamics, entropy, the disintegration and disorder. At this point no such thing existed. So there’s no way that you can inject evolution legitimately into this text. And just another thing, when God made everything He made everything full grown. You know, the old, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” You want the answer, you know the answer?  – The Chicken -God didn’t just throw seeds in every direction and unborn life species, He created an absolutely and completely full-grown, fully matured creation that was capable then of reproducing itself, sustaining its life and that’s why He said it’s very good. So how did God create? He spoke it in to existence and He did it in six days. “Well what about the word ‘day,’ can’t it mean something else?” It’s the plain old Hebrew word yom, it means day. It’s used in the Bible to indicate a 24-hour normal solar day or sometimes to refer to the daylight portion of a day. When yoms modified by a number, universally, without exception, in Scripture it refers to a normal solar day. Now sometimes “day” is used in Scripture to refer to some period of time not precisely defined. Job said, “My days are vanity.” Psalm 90 verse 9 says, “Our days are passed away.” And that’s not defined, but we understand what that means, a period of time. But even at that, day still means some finite succession of normal days, not some vast age of millennial years, or millions of years. And I think maybe the strongest affirmation, and I need to do this because you can ask the question about, you know, why God took six days, why didn’t He do it in six minutes or six seconds? Well, the answer is He took six days because He wanted to establish a pattern. In Exodus chapter 20 He gives us the pattern. “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, six days you shall labor, do all your work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall not do any work, you or your son, or your daughter, your male or your female servant, or your cattle, or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” God wanted to establish a pattern for mankind. And that pattern was, you work six days and you have one day when you set it aside to rest and replenish your body and focus on worshiping God. My prayer is that this will help you see that God did not lie to us in Genesis, but just gave us a plain eyewitness account of what he did, and how he did it. Brian  -Sola Scriptura –

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