Why Creation / Evolution?
My father was a lay preacher. My mother, at 87, still runs a house meeting and plays the organ for her church. I grew up thinking it was normal to have Christian parents. I grew up thinking it was normal to go to church each Sunday and to read the Bible before going to sleep. I first believed what the Bible told me because my parents believed it, then as I grew I could see no reason not to believe it for myself.
That is, not until my early years in High School. I must have been 13 or 14 when I was first introduced to the idea of evolution. Over the next three years I was, in the name of ‘Science’, brainwashed into believing that evolution was a fact you just couldn’t escape.
At first I struggled with it, not wanting to relinquish my belief in God, for it seemed to me that if evolution were true, the Bible couldn’t be true.
Then one day, in a light bulb moment, I suddenly saw how the two could be reconciled. I became convinced that God created by the process of evolution. I felt satisfied that Creation and Evolution could be married in this way and it appeased my need to make sense of what I was learning. God was still the Creator, and His process must have been evolution.
My Dad would sometimes surprise me by picking me up from school. He would always say that he was, ‘Just in the neighbourhood’ so thought he’d swing by and get me. I came to understand that ‘just in the neighbourhood’ meant that he could have gone several miles out of his way and been waiting half an hour for me. His gesture always made me feel loved, and though the ride home was usually unimpressive in its conversation, it was comfortable and homey. I liked it that way.
One day when I was 15 or 16, my Dad was waiting for me outside the school gates. My science class that day had presented what seemed to me to be pretty convincing evidences of evolution and because I had been thinking about it, I mentioned it to Dad. We had never discussed the subject before. I think I had assumed that he, being so much older and wiser than I, must have long ago come to see that God had created by evolution.
So I was quite shocked to hear his concerned response. “…. Evolution is not proven. It’s just a theory….”
I countered by telling him all the things I had learned. Perhaps he wasn’t aware of all these wonderful scientific discoveries, and once he knew about them he would be convinced.
It turned out that nothing I said was revelatory or new for him. It was pretty much the same stuff they had tried to brainwash him with when he was at school.
He hadn’t bought it though - and I had.
The discussion continued all the way home and the closer we got to home, the more the tension in the car rose. Poor Dad. He was quite frustrated with me by the time we turned into the driveway, but he never swayed. I stood for compromise and couldn’t see it. Dad stood for what was right simply because he believed the Bible to be true.
It was another 20 years before the veil was taken from my eyes and I could see evolutionary theory for what it really is - bankrupt.
Fast forward about 26 years.
My third child, a son, visited the USA for eight weeks of training. During that time he had opportunity to testify about his faith, and send a recording to us.
He was homeschooled for his first two years in High School, during which he successfully sat for the entrance examination to attend a prestigious Public High School for boys.
In his testimony he tells of his Christian upbringing, and of the struggle to hold onto his faith because of the evolutionary indoctrination that took place at his High School. He came to the place where he was seriously saying to himself, “If evolution is true, then the creation account in Genesis can’t be true. And if that isn’t true, how much more of the Bible isn’t true?”
Neither my husband nor I knew he was going through this struggle, but God knew and was already preparing to give him the needed answers.
Our son said that one day as he walked past the lounge room, he heard the word ‘evolution’. As the issue had become a vexing one for him, his interest was piqued and he entered the room to find me watching a video where a scientist was answering questions on the subject of creation and evolution.
He sat down, and we watched the video together.
At the time, I had no idea of the impact the next 45 minutes had on my son’s life. Nearly three years of High School evolutionary indoctrination was swept away and he was transformed from a young man teetering on the edge of giving up his faith, to one who confidently took hold of his faith with new strength, conviction and purpose. He says that nearly every one of his questions was satisfactorily answered in that single video.
The same ministry that turned my son’s life around also strengthened the faith of the rest of our family. This was the ministry that took the veil from my eyes and showed me my unnecessary compromise. This was the ministry that equipped our children with answers to many of evolution’s deceptions and taught them to discern evolutionary ‘speak’ in books. This was the ministry that brought new conviction to my husband so that he could stand unashamedly and declare the Bible to be the wholly inspired Word of God.
It’s for these reasons that I want to support this ministry through my blog. My ‘Creation/Evolution’ section will have a lot of articles that link back to the Creation.com site. That’s because I really couldn’t do a better job writing out the articles in my own words. My purpose here is to spread the news ….. science confirms the Bible.