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How do we know that God didn't use evolution as part of His creation? This is one of the most misunderstood arguments in the entire "creation vs.. evolution" debate yet it is the most fundamental in terms of the Christian doctrine. In many instances, those people who have a very limited working knowledge of science and of the macro-evolutionary theory end up believing in something that is entirely exclusive of their faith and without realizing it. Once they understand the difference between micro-evolution (the observable) and macro-evolution (the unobservable) they began to realize the genetic canyons that exist between these two processes and therefore are less likely to believe evolution's "frog to prince" story. Because the outside influences are so great, some will still say, "Both views are really telling the same story!" Of course, these folks, referred to as Theistic-Evolutionists - that is, people who believe God used evolution as the processes for creation, are the ones committing the biggest crime in the church by promoting themselves as Bible believing Christians while simultaneously supporting this "Anti-God" religion. In this "theistic-evolutionary" circle exists the folk that promote the lie that argues "the order of creation given in Genesis is the same as the order of evolution as determined by the fossils." Thus, they say if we ignore the issue of time, we can believe in both evolution and Genesis. While there is general agreement (such as fish preceding land mammals), there is much disagreement in the details. For instance, Genesis 1:27 describes to us that "God created man in His own image….", and Genesis 2:7 tells us where man came from, "…from the dust of the earth." The Bible is very clear that we were not created as acids in some primordial soup billions of years ago which slowly evolved from a single cell organism into a fish, frog, reptile, and eventually man. No, the Bible is very clear and God used the term "man" for a reason. He created the man we are today from the beginning in His image. If we examine the whole issue of death, the lie of Satan, has always included that there is no penalty for sin. In convincing Eve to disobey, "the serpent said unto the woman, ye shall not surely die" (Genesis 3:4). As we know, both Adam and Eve believed the lie, therefore, the penalty for sin denied, and hence, sin entered the world. But even though the authority of God was disputed and ignored, that authority remained, and He acted in His holy justice. The resultant curse on all of creation was the curse of death, and touched, not only mankind "for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return," but the animals, the plants, and even the earth itself. At that point, the "creation was made subject to vanity (or futility)"— the "bondage of corruption." Indeed, "the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now" (Romans 8:20-22). Paul reminded us in his letter to the Romans that it was "by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin" (Romans 5:12). This death not only entails spiritual death, but also physical death, as Paul made abundantly clear in his letter to the church at Corinth in dealing with the physical resurrection of the dead. "For since by man came death, by Man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive" (I Corinthians 15:21-22). If Adam's sin did not bring physical death, Christ's resurrection from physical death does not bring eternal life. It is obvious then, that death is very important to the Christian worldview. Death is the result of the entrance of sin into the world. But it is much more than that, for it is also the atonement for sin—the just payment for sin. Later, we see that the system of blood sacrifices for sin had been instituted, for God accepted Abel's animal sacrifice while rejecting Cain's bloodless sacrifice (Genesis 4:3-5; Hebrews 4:4). As developed in both Old and New Testaments, "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin" (Hebrews 9:22, see also Leviticus 17:11, etc.) and this is fundamental to the Christian doctrine. Thus we can see that God was not only acting in His justice in pronouncing the curse of death for sin, but in His grace, as well. For, by establishing the penalty for sin to be death, He made it possible for Himself to come in the flesh and die to pay the ultimate penalty for sin as a substitute. The "wages of sin" may be death, but "Christ died for our sins" (I Corinthians 15:4). Only God Himself could be the sinless Substitute. At this point, the evolutionary religion and Christianity go in exact opposite directions with respect to their views of death. If the fossils and their death are billions of years old and predate man’s sin, then death in natural and it therefore produced man. Most importantly, in this view, death is not the penalty for sin, for it preceded man and his sin. But if death is not the penalty for sin, then the death of Jesus Christ did not pay that penalty, nor did His resurrection from the dead provide eternal life. What purpose then does Jesus Christ serve if Creation and evolution are both telling the same story? Based on this Biblical evidence, if evolution is right, if the earth is old, and if fossils pre date man's sin, then Christianity is wrong! These ideas destroy the foundation for the Gospel and negate the work of Christ on the cross. Christianity and evolution are mutually exclusive concepts. I could go on and list a considerable amount of more differences between the two religions but the Bible is quite clear in pointing out that the evolutionary religion is not compatible with Scripture. Here are some obvious contradictions between evolution and the Bible:
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