by Susie Battle, Director of Ministry Teams @ MBC Loudoun

Some suggest that maybe a day is like a thousand years, and that maybe the 7 days of creation (or 6 with a day of rest!) were really ages, and so maybe creation and evolution can co-exist.

Lon addressed this question with an argument about the Hebrew word for day, yom. He taught that 7 days mean 7 days – that evening and morning make up a day, not an age.

Our road trip to the Creation Museum supported this conclusion and highlighted another challenge to creation and evolution co-existing.

Evolution purports that we started as amoebas and such, then became animals, then ended up with man, right? And along the way, natural selection and survival of the fittest result in weaker animals dying off and stronger ones surviving…all the way to man. So in evolution, we have

Death (with bunches of Species, then) Man

But the Bible claims a different order. Romans 5:12 tells us: “sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin.” So first we have man, then sin enters the world through man, then death enters the world as a result of sin. The order of events according to Scripture is

Man (then Sin, then) Death

So either death came first or man came first. But it seems that both orders cannot be simultaneously true. It seems chronologically impossible for evolution and creation to co-exist.

… just one illuminating tidbit from the Creation Museum! Many more are waiting for you.

Road trip!!