ControScience: Science & Christianity -- Enemies or Allies
Here's another Christian who makes many good points to demonstrate that there is no conflict between Christianity and legitimate science. But again, he does little to challenge the humanist assumption that scientific endeavor is a neutral arbiter of ultimate truth.
He leaves his audience with the self-satisfying feeling that, well OK, maybe we can allow for some kind of god to co-exist in our universe, but it's only on our terms and we are the judge of what is true and even if there is any objective truth, or not.
The Bible makes it crystal clear that Jesus Christ is the Creator of and sustainer of the universe: "For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities -- all things have been created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together" (Col. 1:16-17).
The Lord Jesus Christ is therefore the ultimate authority on the subject. So what exactly did Christ say about the creation during His earthly pilgrimage?
In Mark 10:6 Jesus said, "But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female," exactly as Genesis 1:27 records it. The geneological records in Genesis start with Adam and can be traced unbroken over a period of several thousand years to the time of Christ.
There is no room for the various theories that Christians have manufactured to accommodate the eons required for Darwin's theory to minisfest:
- The "gap theory" of the Schofield Reference Bible between Genesis 1 and 2
- The "day-age" theory allegedly taught in II Peter 3:8.
- The "framework hypothesis" in which the unusual mix of poetry and history in Genesis allows for lengthy periods of time.
Confer: https://www.ligonier.org/blog/what-rc-sprouls-position-creation/
That should settle it, but even common sense recognition of the irreducible complexity of the human body should tell us the obvious (cf. "Darwin's Black Box"). That is, a newly evolved "Adam" couldn't live the millions upon millions of years required for his female counterpart to evolve to the same degree of complexity.