Biblegems #252
Question: How do we answer the criticism
that the order of events in the Creation account contradicts scientific
evidence?
It is
important to note that the order of events in the Genesis account of creation
does not contradict scientific
evidence; it does, however, contradict current scientific theory.
Compare the
order & origins of the universe from both worldviews:
(Note: y.a. =
years ago. M. = million, b. = billion, etc.)
Genesis Secular
[10,000 –
6,000 years ago] [13.5 – 14 billion years ago]
Day 1 (1:1-5) 0 sec. -300,000 years
Time, light
& darkness, Eternal.atter
& energy.
Big Bang (13.7 m.y.a.): time,
shapeless
earth & water, expanding radiation,
space,
first 24 hour day elementary
particles,
intense
heat.
Day 2 (1:6-10) 300,000 – 150 million years (m.y.)
Sky & Ocean Universe
dominated by “dark Matter”
Day 3 (1:11-13) 150 – 1 billion years (b.y.)
Land &
seas, mature Reionization:
vegetation
reproducing Gravitational
collapse
it’s own
kind. forms
quasars &
ionized
plasma.
1 b.y. – 9 b.y.
Day 4 (1:14-19) Star & galaxy formation,
gas
Heavenly bodies pockets collapse
& trigger
nuclear fusion.
Solar System (4.5 b.y.a.)
Day 5 (1:20-23) 600 m.y.a.
Water
creatures and birds Fish
Reproducing
their own kinds.
500 m.y.a.
Day 6 (1:24-31) land plants
Land
creatures produced from
the ground
reproducing 400 m.y.a.
according to
their kinds, Amphibians, reptiles, forests
man
separately created
to oversee
the earth and 300 m.y.a.
reproducing
according to Dinosaurs
evolve,
human kind. Mammals evolve
200 m.y.a.
Bees,
birds, flowering plants
100 m.y.a.
Apes evolve, homo-sapiens evolve
Discrepancies
between the biblical and secular views go well beyond the order of events and
differences in time. The biblical worldview does not allow for long epochs of
evolution, nor does the secular view allow for man to be created uniquely
separate from the animals.
The
question, however, is whether the Bible contradicts scientific evidence for the
secular worldview. And the answer is that there is no evidence for human evolution from apes—none. That is speculative
theory. There is no evidence for the
evolution of dinosaurs from some other kind of creature— none. That is
speculative theory. There is no
evidence for the evolution of amphibians from non-amphibians— none. That is
speculative theory. And there is absolutely no
evidence of our solar system evolving from pockets of ionized gas expanding
from a Big Bang 14 billion years ago— none. That is speculative theory.
These
secular theories are based upon a host of false assumptions, such as the
Uniformitarian Principle. That principle holds that all the processes we see at
work in the universe today have been uniformly at work throughout all time.
Based on that principle, it is assumed that since light travels at
approximately 186 miles per second, we can determine how long it takes light
from a star to travel to earth, estimate the stars distance from earth, and estimate
the star’s relative age.
If,
however, God cast the stars into their relative positions in space at His
command as the Scripture reveals, time and space at the moment of creation
exceeded the speed of light by a vast degree, canceling out the carefully
constructed mathematical formulas based upon speculation and assumption.
Rom. 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s
invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from
what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
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