Eric keeps bringing up in comments to me about how he doesn't see a conflict between Christianity and evolution. So i decided to do a post on that subject.
There are many, many, many, many reasons why evolution and creationism collide i will only touch on two "Life" & "Death".
Life -
Genesis 1:25-28 And God made the beasts of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and all creepers upon the earth after their kind. And God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.
And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it. And have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heavens, and all animals that move upon the earth.
Gen 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
God created man
in His own image. He formed man
from the dust of the ground and gave him life by
breathing life into him. Thus man was not alive until that breath of life was breathed into him. This is what makes man different than any other creature. This is why of all of the creatures of the earth, only man has art, poetry, a recorded history, a society, an extensive education system, and can grow and develop well beyond the individual. Every other creature of the earth lives off of instinct with little culture. Man came alive with the breath of God. This is a premise that exists and defines much of the Bible.
The problem then comes with evolution in that evolution teaches that man was not created in God's image. Man is just another animal that evolved from other animals (monkeys). He was not created from the dust of the earth after the other creatures, and the breath of God did not bring life to man because he is just an evolutionary extension of monkey.
The Scripture says that God created man uniquely from other animals.
Evolution says man is an evolutionary extension of monkeys.
The Scripture says that man's life came from God's personal breath.
Evolution says that man had life before he existed, in the form of monkeys.
DeathGen 2:15-17 And Jehovah God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.
And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, You may freely eat of every tree in the garden, but you shall not eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. For in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die, for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasing to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make wise, she took of its fruit, and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
Rom 5:12 Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:
Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offense death reigned by one, much more they who receive abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by One, Jesus Christ.)
1Co 15:21 For since death is through man, the resurrection of the dead also is through a Man.
Death did not exist before man sinned. This is another basic principle of the Bible. Death entered the world because of the sin of man. Therefore man needs a redeemer from death.
This is a problem with regards to evolution because evolution teaches that before man existed many, many species lived and died. In fact, according to evolution, man only came to be because previous generations and species died out and a form of monkey evolved with each new generation to slowly become man.
The Scripture says death came because man sinned and Christ came to abolish death.
Evolution says death existed long before man existed. It is a part of the formation of everything thus there is no need for a redeemer.
Thus the theory of evolution undermines these two principles that are at the very core of Biblical teaching and understanding. These principles of life and death are foundations of most of the religions of the world including Christianity, Judism, & Islam. Thus evolution undermines almost every major religion in the world. The theory of evolution was formed and is at it's very core anti-religious as it's founder was. When evolution alone is taught in public schools those schools reinforce an anti-religious viewpoint. Thus this goes against the concept of the right to religious freedom without cohersion and the seperation of church and state.
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