Bible Basics

Genesis and Evolution

There are many in the religious world that claim to believe the Bible to be the word of God but who also believe in the theory of evolution. Feeling the pressure of academia and society in general, they feel the need to somehow reconcile the Genesis record of creation with this human hypothesis. Therefore, the Scriptures are manipulated to embrace evolution. Let’s look at one attempt to combine evolution and the Bible. The Bible clearly says that God “created the heavens and the earth” (Gen. 1:1). Furthermore, this creation is accomplished in a six-day period of time (Gen. 1:2-31). In an attempt to bring the Bible in harmony with what is believed to be scientific fact, many take the evolutionary chronology and attempt to apply it to this six-day period of time. To do so it is said that the word “day” in Genesis chapter one does not refer to a literal twenty-four hour period of time, but represents millions of years during which the evolutionary chain of events occurred. There are, however, powerful arguments that force the objective Bible student to the position that the days of the creation period constitute an ordinary week – six twenty-four hour periods of time. The fact is, the theory of evolution and the Bible are contrary to one another, and any attempt to combine the two perverts the word of God.

                                                                                                               -- Clark Dugger

Bible Basics