When You Can't Deny God

Brother, I agree that God uses the evolutionary process to bring about the diversity we now observe in living things on our planet, however, I don't believe that the root of this diversity was a single organism that formed in the primordial soup of an ancient ocean, while it was being bombarded by meteorites during the Hadean Eon. The anthropic principle that "Life will find a way" in my opinion is a cop-out from really questioning whether or not the accepted evolutionary science narrative is right when it's based on the results of radiometric measurements derived from the major assumption that radioactive decay has always been constant.

Just keep in mind, the English Bible is a book with a long history. The love God has for us is not based literal interpretations of Genesis. Be careful to not rob ancient scripture of its allegorical meaning. Christ himself only taught in parables.

I doubt if there's a heaven people will be arguing with God about how He made the universe and how many animals can fit on a boat.

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Creation is evidence for a creator; I would agree with that, though it's worth considering that we can't really know if naturally occurring systems/entities were 'created' the same way we can observe design in artificial systems. Additionally, the things we invent all came from a natural source at some point. It would really make more sense to argue that a creator is evidence of creation and not vice versa.

Brother Mike, I read the scriptures in context to the best of my ability. The first and second chapter of Genesis hints to a deeper truth. In the first chapter God created man both male and female in His Image and Likeness (Gen. 1:26). God's image is that of a King. To be like God meant that mankind was responsible to name and protect nature. Possibly something went wrong so that be chapter 2, God called out from the dust of the ground, a particular man named Adam and woman named Eve to start a new royal priesthood. I could be wrong but that's what I see when I read the Creation account and Psalm 104.

I totally agree that what we believe about Creation and Noah's Ark will not get us into heaven. What matters is whether or not we're willing to give the God claim the benefit of our doubts and gladly accept (588. apodechomai) the Gospel like the first 3,000 people did in Acts 2:41. They weren't convinced, but they welcomed the message and God responded with grace to be saved.

The deeper you dive into the science the more sufficient and necessary of cause for the universe God becomes.

1. Asymmetry of matter to antimatter https://home.cern/science/physics/matter-antimatter-asymmetry-problem
2. Dark matter to Dark Energy balance https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230970-600-cosmic-coincidences-matter-and-energy-are-in-balance/

The order, precision and complexity science states occurred in less than a second after the Big Bang began to expand the universe is significantly far beyond what anyone would expect to the point I find it highly reasonable to reject the null hypothesis which says that everything we observe is indistinguishable from a set of random events.