Day 29.

It’s very likely you have heard this phrase before. Unfortunately, it’s only half. That is, “Creation is faith” is true. As Christians we affirm that creation is indeed a matter of faith. We accept by faith that God created this world; and we can’t do otherwise. None of us was there when this world was created, so we only have God’s word for it; or rather, His Word. However, it takes more faith to believe in evolution. The Bible does affirm that belief in creation requires faith.
Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is, “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” And what’s the very first thing on the list that needs to be accepted by faith (v. 3)? “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” As Christians, we accept that we believe in creation—it’s a faith statement. Yes, there are many scientific facts that assure us that our faith accords with reality—but our faith rests ultimately on the Word of God.
However, I cannot say that the second part is true as well: “… evolution is science”. Yes, this is what evolutionists want us to believe; yes, this is what they teach our children in schools; yes, this is what they present as truth in movies and TV programs, even on the news from time to time. Yet this part of the statement is simply not true! Why would I say such a thing? My university days made this abundantly clear to me. While sitting in Biology lectures, I became acutely aware of the amount of faith that is necessary to accept evolution. For example, phrases like, “it just happened that …” did not sound very convincing as a scientific explanation of how the DNA code arose. Cell chemistry is incredibly complex.
Consider the enormous faith of an evolutionist: By faith they believe that the universe was formed in a Big Bang, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible; by faith they beleive that the universe made itself from nothing. By faith they think they know that stars were formed out of gas clouds. By faith they acknowledge that heavy elements were formed from stars that exploded; proudly affirming that we are all ‘star dust’, ‘sons of stars’.
By faith they claim that first life appeared in a ‘chemical soup’—although there is no geological evidence that this soup ever existed. By faith they accept that the genetic code appeared through a mindless and unguided process of chemical activity, that the coded information got corrupted by many copying errors, and that this led to the production of new and better adapted types of organisms. This, despite the scientific evidence that mutations never add anything, only remove. TBC