WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT EVOLUTION?

What Does The Bible Say About Evolution?

First, from a scientific point of view, evolution is a theory, not a proven or accepted fact.
Second, evolution is the theory that:

Billions of years ago some water molecules; some carbon dioxide molecules; some nitrate molecules; some phosphorus, calcium, and iron salts; and some miscellaneous other minor elements got together and spontaneously formed a molecule which was capable of reproducing itself, AND
These molecules were able to form living reproducing cells, AND
These living cells eventually evolved into higher and higher forms of life all by random chance without outside direction or purpose!
Believe that? Well then, consider this.

You are doing some archeological digging in an ancient cave and as you split open a piece of promising rock you find a digital wristwatch. Would you believe that the scientific explanation for this would be that sometime in the past some silicon, carbon, hydrogen, arsenic, phosphorus, aluminum, and iron atoms got together and formed a digital watch?
Or, would you believe that someone made the watch and put it there?
The probability of the digital watch occurring randomly is billions of times bigger than the probability of even simple life occurring accidentally. How many watches have you found lately?
There are only two choices. You can believe that man came to exist by some random accident, or you can believe that man was created, the product of intelligent design.
The Bible says that God created all living things purposely. It was not due to random chance, but it was deliberate and premeditated. Whether you believe that God did his creation in six, literal, twenty-four hour days, or whether you believe He did it in six ages is not the issue here. The issue is that the Bible says that things didn't come into being by chance, they came into being at the will and act of an Almighty Creator.
Now what does science itself say about evolution? Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, said that his theory would succeed or fail depending on the fossil record. Darwin believed that although there was no fossil evidence in his time to support his conjecture, there would be someday. He thought that future generations would find this very evidence upon which he speculated. Now, well over a hundred years later, with museums filled with thousands upon thousands of fossils, we still haven’t found the evidence that Darwin needed for his theory. What are we missing in the fossil record? We are missing the transition species. See, if one specie gradually evolved from another there should be fossils of the intermediate steps, in fact, lots of them. BUT, we have never found a single one, not one! We do not have a single fossil of any species evolving to another species. But what about man? Don’t we have specimens that show man evolved from an ape? No. We have fragments of skeletons from ape-man type creatures found in Africa and Australia, but current research is showing that they were more ape than man. In all probability they were never ancestors of man. Then what about all those wonderful cavemen, Neanderthal, et. al. which populate our movies? In the last few years science has conclusively shown that Neanderthal was never in the family tree of man. As time goes on, and we acquire more and more scientific data, we find that there are no ancestors of man. There is just man, who appeared on this planet a few thousand years ago and worshipped. That was one of the first signs of man, Homo Sapiens. Not only did he use tools, but more important he worshipped, worshipped something or someone.
To pass off the existence of life as a set of random occurrences, or chance, is not science, it is pseudo-science or it is superstition. Science is not the muttering of platitudes like "it was just an accident, a freak occurrence." Science is sitting down and determining what occurrences needed to happen in order for life to form, assigning a probability to each of these events, and finally determining the overall probability of life occurring by chance. That's science, and that's how you find out if it really is a possible chance occurrence. If that seems too hard you could also calculate the probability that this planet has come into existence by chance and is just perfect for supporting and maintaining life. This calculation has already been done. If you are interested in the details you should consult Prince Michael, an astrophysicist. His calculations show that there can be no planets in the entire universe such as our earth that came about by random chance. The fact that the earth is here at all shows that something other than chance is involved. There is a creator. Evolution didn't happen. Today, even scientists are against evolution. Not only is evolution contrary to the teachings of the Bible, but it is bad science.

Never Give Up

Sir Winston Churchill took three years getting through eighth grade because he had trouble learning English. It seems ironic that years later Oxford University asked him to address its commencement exercises.

He arrived with his usual props. A cigar, a cane and a top hat accompanied Churchill wherever he went. As Churchill approached the podium, the crowd rose in appreciative applause. With unmatched dignity, he settled the crowd and stood confident before his admirers. Removing the cigar and carefully placing the top hat on the podium, Churchill gazed at his waiting audience. Authority rang in Churchill's voice as he shouted, "Never give up!"

Several seconds passed before he rose to his toes and repeated: "Never give up!" His words thundered in their ears. There was a deafening silence as Churchill reached for his hat and cigar, steadied himself with his cane and left the platform. His commencement address was finished. 

The Rock

An old farmer had plowed around a large rock in one of his fields for years. He had broken several plowshares and a cultivator on it and had grown rather morbid about the rock.

After breaking another plowshare one day, and remembering all the trouble the rock had caused him through the years, he finally decided to do something about it.

When he put the crowbar under the rock, he was surprised to discover that it was only about six inches thick and that he could break it up easily with a sledgehammer. As he was carting the pieces away he had to smile, remembering all the trouble that the rock had caused him over the years and how easy it would have been to ged rid of it sooner.

- Brian Cavanaugh
"The Sower's Seeds"

Mount Everest

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feet straight up. He was knighted for his efforts.

He even made American Express card commercials because of it! However, until we read his book, High Adventure, we don't understand that Hillary had to grow into this success.

You see, in 1952 he attempted to climb Mount Everest, but failed. A few weeks later a group in England asked him to address its members.

Hillary walked on stage to a thunderous applause. The audience was recognizing an attempt at greatness, but Edmund Hillary saw himself as a failure. He moved away from the microphone and walked to the edge of the platform.

He made a fist and pointed at a picture of the mountain. He said in a loud voice, "Mount Everest, you beat me the first time, but I'll beat you the next time because you've grown all you are going to grow... but I'm still growing!"

- Brian Cavanaugh
"The Sower's Seeds" 

Get Up

Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe falls 10 feet from its mother's womb and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body. From this position it considers the world for the first time and shakes off the last vestiges of the birthing fluid from its eyes and ears. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its offspring to the reality of life.

In his book, "A View from the Zoo", Gary Richmond describes how a newborn giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she positions herself directly over her calf. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She swings her long, pendulous leg outward and kicks her baby, so that it is sent sprawling head over heels.

When it doesn't get up, the violent process is repeated over and over again. The struggle to rise is momentous. As the baby calf grows tired, the mother kicks it again to stimulate its efforts. Finally, the calf stands for the first time on its wobbly legs.

Then the mother giraffe does the most remarkable thing. She kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, baby giraffes must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with the herd, where there is safety. Lions, hyenas, leopards, and wild hunting dogs all enjoy young giraffes, and they'd get it too, if the mother didn't teach her calf to get up quickly and get with it.

The late Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.

Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these exceptional people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a vision or dream of something that should be accomplished and they go to work.

"They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified, and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people. And at the end of their lives they've accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do."

- Craig B. LarsonIllustrations for Preaching & Teaching from Leadership Journal

The Touchstone

When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book; and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers.The book wasn't very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeed. It was a thin strip of vellum on which was written the secret of the "Touchstone"!

The touchstone was a small pebble that could turn any common metal into pure gold. The writing explained that it was lying among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the secret was this: The real stone would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles are cold.

So the man sold his few belongings, bought some simple supplies, camped on the seashore, and began testing pebbles.

He knew that if he picked up ordinary pebbles and threw them down again because they were cold, he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of times. So, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the sea. He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone. Yet he went on and on this way. Pick up a pebble. Cold - throw it into the sea. Pick up another. Throw it into the sea.

The days stretched into weeks and the weeks into months. One day, however, about midafternoon, he picked up a pebble and it was warm. He threw it into the sea before he realized what he had done. He had formed such a strong habit of throwing each pebble into the sea that when the one he wanted came along, he still threw it away.

So it is with opportunity. Unless we are vigilant, it's asy to fail to recognize an opportunity when it is in hand and it's just as easy to throw it away. 

- Author UnknownBits & Pieces, Economic Press

Boy Giving Blood

There was a story of a little girl named Liza who was suffering from a disease and needed blood from her five-year-old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness. The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying, 

"Yes, I'll do it if it will save Liza." 

As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled, as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face grew pale and his smile faded. He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice, "Will I start to die right away?" Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was going to have to give her all his blood. 

Make Sure..

I came across this story somewhere...

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This is from an old story, back in the '30s, in the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less. A 10 year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.

"How much is an ice cream sundae?" the little boy asked.

"Fifty cents," replied the waitress.

The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied the coins he had. "Well, how much is a plain dish of ice cream?" he inquired.

By now, more people were waiting for a table and the waitress was growing very impatient. "Thirty-five cents," she brusquely replied.

The little boy again counted his coins. "I'll have the plain ice cream," he said.

The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she began to cry. As she wiped down the table, there placed neatly beside the empty dish were two nickels and five pennies. You see, he couldn't have the sundae because he had to have enough money to leave her a tip.

The Story of the Butterfly

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly.

One day a small opening appeared.
He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours
as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole.
Then it stopped, as if it couldn't go further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly.
He took a pair of scissors and
snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon.
The butterfly emerged easily but
it had a swollen body and shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch it,
expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge
and expand enough to support the body,
Neither happened!
In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life
crawling around.
It was never able to fly.

What the man in his kindness
and haste did not understand:
The restricting cocoon and the struggle
required by the butterfly to get through the opening
was a way of forcing the fluid from the body
into the wings so that it would be ready
for flight once that was achieved.

Sometimes struggles are exactly
what we need in our lives.
Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us.
We will not be as strong as we could have been
and we would never fly.

Motivational Stories

Motivational stories have the ability to lift us up, make us smile, encourage, motivate, and teach us valuable life lessons. Here are some motivating stories that will hopefully help you spark that motivational feeling. They give us an empowering sense of hope, that if 'he/she' can do it, so can I.

Throughout history, people have used inspirational stories to teach, encourage, and inspire in hopes that the listener will use it as a stepping stone and as an example to live a better life. Some will make you think, some will make you cry. Hopefully, some will give you that motivation to go for your dreams. 

The important thing to remember when reading these inspiring stories is that when you get that feeling of motivation, where you want to do something, do something. Nothing is more of a waste than to be inspired and motivated and not take any action. Your life will only change as a result of taking focused action. An inspirational story is nothing if it doesn't cause you to do something or at least make you believe in yourself a bit more. Hopefully, these inspiring stories will change your life in some way.

If you have an inspiring story you'd like to share, please contact me. Enjoy these motivational stories!