God's Creation Creation or Evolution? |
A Helpful Chart Considering Foundational Differences Between Biblical Creation and the Theory of Evolution
Creation
|
Evolution |
In the beginning God |
In the beginning Nothing |
God is the source of space, time, & matter |
Unknown origin for space, time, & matter |
God made everything from nothing: Ex Nihilo |
Physical world must have made itself |
The Lord made everything in six 24-hour days |
Billions of years necessary for current life |
Man and woman were made in God's image |
Man and woman evolved from rocks (over time) |
Man and woman uniquely created on the same day |
Male and female must have evolved simultaneously |
Mankind has dominion over the animals |
Humans came from animals |
Order created: plants, sun, fish, birds, land animals, man |
Order evolved: sun, plants, fish, birds, land animals, man |
Living beings created with a special structure & function |
From nothing to rocks to primordial soup to life into other life |
All the organism's components created complete & functional |
Has no explaination for irreducable complexability |
God spoke the world into existence |
Big Bang: nothing exploded into existence |
God made rules for man and decides right & wrong |
People decide their own rules and there is no right or wrong |
Creation cannot scientifically be redone (it is a religious belief) |
Science does not observe evolution (it is a religious belief) |
Fossil evidence agrees with creation model of the universe |
Fossil evidence in conflict with evolution model of the universe |
Mutations are only scrambled information & normally fatal |
Mutations are a source of change from one being into another |
Great variety is expected within all kinds of animals |
Variety is proof of one animal changing into another animal |
Medical science based on non-changing anatomy/physiology |
Evolution has not contributed to medical advancements |
Predictable natural laws consistent with the Bible and God of order |
Unchangeing natural laws inconsistent with evolution |
Monkeys cannot change into humans |
The Missing Link is still missing |
Who am I? God made me and I am special |
Who am I? I am just a part in the evolutionary process |
How did I get here? I am created unique by God |
How did I get here? From primordial soup and I am insignificant |
Why am I here? I am to know God and glorify Him |
Why am I here? There is no special reason why I exist |
Where am I going when I die? Heaven or Hell |
Where am I going when I die? No place, just to the dirt |
God created people with a spirit |
When strictly adhered to must reject that man has a spirit |
God is love and wants us to have joy & peace |
Cannot define abstract things such as love, joy, and peace |
God is life and life comes from God |
Has no definition of life & cannot explain death |
There was no death before the sin of man; sin brought death |
Believes there was death before man was ever evolved |
The intelligent Lord designed the universe |
Random chance made order from disorder |
Life comes from life; living beings make living beings |
Life comes from non-life; living beings come from non-living |
The record of Creation in Scripture never changes |
The theory of evolution is constantly evolving |
God is in control over all and people are subject to God |
Man is in charge of himself: humanism |
Has history from the beginning of time (nothing is prehistoric) |
Claims there was history before there was history (prehistoric) |
A truth given of God easily found in the Holy Bible |
A recent man-made belief not found in the records of time |
Creation gives glory to God the Creator |
Evolution gives glory to man |
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth Ecclesiastes 12:1a
James Utter 2/2012
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