Theistic evolutionists think they can ride along with the naturalist until
it is just too uncomfortable anymore to keep riding with them. They know there
is some point in which they must say "God", but they want it to be
all-natural until that mysterious point. They want to be able to keep moving
the goal line behind them as all-naturalists come up with more that they think
they can explain with all-natural processes. They want to be very flexible with
that goal-line behind us where the field of time starts, and they don't care
how much bending and distorting of the owner's manual (the Bible) it takes to
get along with the all-naturalist. This simply is not good thinking, and is
certainly not God's story on the matter.
You either allow God to give His Supernatural testimony and allow it priority
over all-natural human opinion or you surrender the very premise of God entirely.
There is no logical place for the theist to bend the creation story so that
it fits the naturalist's theory of Evolution. Theistic-Evolutionists simply
believe man and man's naturalistic premise more than they believe God.
Adam did not come from a race of almost human-looking animals. There is no place
you can bend the creation story and still bring Adam into existence by all-natural
processes. The theistic evolutionist does not know the scriptures, nor the power
of God.
He compromises the revelation of God because of his total trust and faith in
the Naturalist of the all-natural-scientific processes. God actually CREATED
everything in six days just like He said. The all-naturalist says, "lets'
study the instantly created universe and human life as if it came through natural
processes". It is as foolish as trying to explain a watch, and the only
rule allowed to explain the watch is without human wisdom and power and allowing
only non-human natural processes to be used in the explanation. The premise
is wrong and the conclusion will be set-up to be wrong. Even though he uses
the "scientific method" (which is good for most things we observe
in the present, but not the distant past), his analysis and study will only
lead into deeper time errors as he determines to ignore and disallow the Divine
Testimony to "taint" his "objective" study that is confined
to all-natural explanations.
Genesis and the entire Bible refutes atheism, and it refutes the premise of "all-naturalism". It refutes the all-natural scientific method for studying origins. It basically says to mankind that you can study the universe, but the present that you are in now is not the key to all of the past. The natural processes you observe now had a supernatural beginning and you cannot study the Creator or His power or wisdom using only human wisdom and a pre-commitment to only accept natural explanations for the things seen. That method of study is only good for history back to the time of Adam, and only good for things seen, but no good for things not seen. Further back than that your method will be entirely flawed and your conclusions wrong. "Let God be true and every man a liar"(Rom.3:4). Only God can tell us how it really came together, and He tells it in perspective of His Supernatural power, and does not tell it as though He was limited to all-natural processes. The creation is no more natural in origin than Jesus' resurrection has a natural explanation. All theory of man that commits to all-naturalism will of necessity be in error.
Before God acted upon the formless and uninhabited mass of water and pre-planetary
materials, he put energy, light into the dark mix of materials and then separated
the light into a divided area from the dark areas. The Light was God's energy
empowering the materials of the formless mass to have the beginnings of it's
own energy and light.
Now part of the formless mass was glowing with the fire of energy and that part
of the mass was separated into a separate area from the dark matter, each ready
to be further formed by the mighty power and wisdom of God. The light He called
"day". The dark He called "night". God did this so that
mankind would later have an adequate language with which to describe the days
and nights, the evening and mornings of their world experience. It was a unique
day one. It was not measured by the light of sun shining upon a rotating earth.
It was measured by God separating out the energy mass from the dark mass and
the dark mass having motion that caught the light on one side but did not catch
it on it's far side until it turns around with evening and morning rotation.
At this point the energy mass is not yet formed into a sun and stars for seasons
and measuring months. It is still a radiant mass shining upon another mass that
is rotating. The separating of glowing light mass from other non-illumined material
and letting the illumined material to shine on one side of the non-illumined
matter with rotating motion gave an evening-morning, first day.
God did this by His power. God told us that this is how He did it, and he let us know to measure it in terms of the evening-morning days that we know. Were the days actually long ages? At the time of creation, the eternal God was preparing the stage for man and the stage for the Messianic Redeemer king. God was relating these seven days with evenings and mornings experience that man could relate to. Man could understand day one in terms of time with illumined energy shining upon a rotating mass that has evening and morning, day and night experience in rotating sequence. Did it need to spin at the 24 hour rate on day one? Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows? But, at some point within these seven days plant-life and earth-life is going to need the 24 hour spin. It cannot be allowed thousands of years of dark awaiting thousands of years of light in slow rotation. It would need immediate balance of night and day. There is no reason to think that God did not measure his activity equally to a 24 hour program of evening-morning days as we know them. There is good reason to believe that the beginning was so unique, totally involved with God's activity and wisdom, and once accomplished would not need that same measure of activity from day to day afterwards. Adam would not need years of sunlight while the other side of the earth gets years of darkness. It is nothing for God to measure His work in measured time and doing day one in the same amount of time as the days that depended upon the shapened sun, moon and stars.
The truth about how the world began cannot be discovered in a science class
that is already predetermined to examine things using only natural explanations.
The heavens and the earth did not evolve naturally. It was created in 6 evening-morning
measured days. After that it had natural processes that would be dependable
and predictable. Man can study the past, and he can theorize about origins in
an all-natural program of thought and examination, but once he gets back to
the first man, Adam, his natural explanations will be totally erroneous. In
the beginning GOD created the heavens and the earth. That is the TRUTH about
how the world began. Naturalists can be very smart, but God has made foolish
the wisdom of this world (Rom.1:20-22; 1 Cor.1:18-29). His ways are past finding
out. Every theory that imagines a natural beginning and determines to explain
all things naturally will make a huge mistake in the calculations of pre-Adamic
time. God's word is truth. He was there. He knows what He did and He knew how
to relate to man how much time He took to prepare an earth for man. They were
six evening-morning days as we know them now. Moses wrote this after the fact,
and he wrote this by aid of God's revealing these things in terms that Israel
and all others could know how to measure their own seventh day of rest. God
knew how to tell the truth and it was impossible for God to lie or be deceived.
God said it and God is far wiser than even our smartest men. The Bible simply
does not have room for the time-program of the General Theory of Evolution.
The Bible is right, and it is right even if men choose to ignore it and take
up all-natural explanations. They may not know that they are wrong, but they
are. God did what He did in ways "past finding out", and He let us
in on the fact that He measured His creative work in terms of six evening-morning
days, using his power in rapid speed to bring about a fully matured and operational
world for man to have what he needs. Nobody ever thought otherwise until the
1800's when man started schooling themselves to start looking through the lenses
of Naturalism and accept only what human wisdom could explain in all-natural
terms. Man has again professed to be wise and have largely become fools (Rom.1:19-22).
Terry W. Benton 4/28/2011
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