If we take the first three chapters of Genesis, we find many
contradictions between them and the Darwinian narrative, like the existence of
death and sin prior to the Fall. Because of these many contradictions, Professor
Karl Giberson, the former co-head of the Biologos
Foundation, a group committed to advocating for evolution to the churches,
had written:
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Acid is an appropriate metaphor for the erosion
of my fundamentalism, as I slowly lost confidence in the Genesis story of
creation and the scientific creationism that placed this ancient story within
the framework of modern science. Dennett’s universal acid dissolved Adam and
Eve; it ate through the Garden of Eden; it destroyed the historicity of the
events of creation week. It etched holes in those parts of Christianity
connected to the stories—the fall, “Christ as the second Adam,” the origins of
sin, and nearly everything else that I counted sacred. (Karl Giberson, Saving Darwin, 9-10)
In view of this gutting of the teachings of the Gospel, how
then is the “Christian” evolutionist (CE) able to continue to call himself a “Christian?”
Giberson claimed that the acid would cease to dissolve his remaining faith any
further. However, some years later, he confessed that he thought that the God
of the Old Testament was a malicious tyrant, proving that Darwin was still at
work.
Other CEs have found other ways to preserve what is left of
their faith. They claim that Genesis chapters 1-11 are mere myth or parable.
Therefore, they are teaching spiritual truths not physical ones. Consequently,
any apparent contradiction between the Bible and evolution disappears.
There are many problems with this “reconciliation.” I will
just mention one – Whenever the NT provides commentary on these chapters, it
always recognizes their historicity that these events actually happened. To
simply make my point briefly, I will list NT quotations from Genesis chapters
1-3 in order: Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6; Hebrews 4:4; Revelation 2:7; 1
Corinthians 15:46; Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:8; 1 Corinthians 6:16; Ephesians 5:31;
2 Corinthians 11:3. This short list doesn’t even include the many references to
these three chapters, like those affirming the historicity of Adam, Eve, and
the Fall (Romans 5:12-19; 1 Corinthians 11:8-9; 1 Timothy 2:11-14; Luke 3:38).
If these verses reference Genesis 1-3 as history, then the CE’s problems have metastasized throughout the entirety of the Bible and even to the OT’s references to these first three chapters. I was not able to find even one reference that had dismissed their historicity. Consequently, if any of these verses are affirming the historicity of Genesis 1-3, then the CE “reconciliation” or the Bible must be rejected. However, none of their references provide any reason to believe that Genesis 1-11 is merely mythological, as the CE claims. We are therefore left with a clear choice. Either we embrace Jesus’ Gospel or we reject it.
The evidence of the Bible should force us to agree with chemist Bruce Malone, founder of Search for the Truth:
If these verses reference Genesis 1-3 as history, then the CE’s problems have metastasized throughout the entirety of the Bible and even to the OT’s references to these first three chapters. I was not able to find even one reference that had dismissed their historicity. Consequently, if any of these verses are affirming the historicity of Genesis 1-3, then the CE “reconciliation” or the Bible must be rejected. However, none of their references provide any reason to believe that Genesis 1-11 is merely mythological, as the CE claims. We are therefore left with a clear choice. Either we embrace Jesus’ Gospel or we reject it.
The evidence of the Bible should force us to agree with chemist Bruce Malone, founder of Search for the Truth:
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Acceptance of evolution is a poison which will
destroy true Christianity. The evidence for this can be seen in the decline of
the evangelical belief in Europe as the acceptance of evolution has increased.
The CE and the Biologos
Foundation promote a false gospel, against the warnings of Scripture:
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But even if we or an angel from heaven should
preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be
accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to
you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. (Galatians
1:8-9)
They deprive the Bible of its historical foundations, and
this consistently contradicts the NT commentary, thereby taking away from the
Word of God:
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“You shall not add to the word that I command you,
nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that
I command you.” (Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32)
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