In the last several years we have been inundated with movies, books and teaching about dinosaurs. I want you to know that I don’t have trouble believing that dinosaurs lived on our planet at some point in time. But I also want to point out to you that I have a serious problem with those who proclaim the Theory of Evolution as truth, and have managed to annex the finding of dinosaur bones as evidence of their theory. You see, Evolution, although it’s taught and accepted as truth in our schools and in our society, is only a theory. That is a FACT. Those who have studied the science of the Theory of Evolution (including those who believe in it) admit that there are many large holes that make it far from being anywhere close to the proverbial gospel truth.
I want you to know that I’m not an expert in this field of study. However, I am very clear on this fact – the Bible is Truth (Jn. 17:17; Ps. 119:160). So when the Bible says God created… that’s what I believe! Which means that any teaching that tries to suggest otherwise is not true.
In an attempt to understand how to live out the truth of the Bible in a culture that doesn’t accept it, I have read many books and articles on the subject of creation and evolution and listened to some good teaching on the subject. But when it comes to the vast amount of questions in this debate, I often feel inadequate in my ability to engage in the dialogue. Part of the problem, from my point of view, is that the belief in Evolution, is just that – a belief, not a proven fact. But it is touted as reliable science and therefore hard to debate. As Biblical Christians we are often looked upon as inept thinkers if we choose to believe in anything other than evolution. Parents have come to me with questions about how to deal with the unabashed teaching of Evolution in our schools and universities. All of us face this same attitude whenever we engage in conversations with those who don’t believe in the God that we serve. The reason is that if you don’t believe the Bible, you’ve automatically chosen to believe the only other option touted in our culture – evolution.
I believe it is important for me to share with you some of the resources I have found helpful in this area. One of the really good resources concerning the Creation – Evolution debate from a Christian perspective is an organization called Creation Ministries International. In the past we’ve had some people from this ministry come and bring us resources also teach us some of what they have learned in their study.
This week I also had the opportunity to do a little research in this area and found some more good teaching on this subject. I discovered a video sermon called, “What does the Bible say about Dinosaurs?“, given by Pastor Willie George of Church on the Move, in Tulsa, OK. You can skip the first 12 minutes of the video if you want to get right to the teaching (you may have to wait a little for the video to load so that you can skip the first part – which is a band playing music). Pastor George gives some strong points in helping us understand what scripture says about creation. The teaching is a little over 60 minutes in length, but is worth a listen (there’s a good question and answer time given at the end). George also mentions some other resources that might be worth a look (I’ve listed these below).
If you have any other good resources on this subject please let me know about them and even post them on this blog.
As always, I appreciate hearing what you think regarding the topics we post on this blog. Enjoy! Remember Jesus is Lord of All!
Click Here to start video – What does the Bible say about Dinosaurs? Once the page loads – Press the Play Arrow to start video.
Resources
- In Six Days by John Ashton (for children and teens)
- Coming To Grips With Genesis: Biblical Authority And The Age Of The Earth by Terry Mortenson
- Answers in Genesis Website
- Creation Ministries International
Bruce Archer
Bernd Heyde
Someone replied to my teaser email with the following question:
Good questions…. My reply was as follows:
These are great questions asked by many people. I’m sure if you had posted what you did below as a “comment” on the blog, you would have many people questioning right along with you. I’m not sure that there’s a way to absolutely prove beyond a doubt an answer to such a question biblically, because quite frankly, the Bible just doesn’t try to address your question.
However, I simply typed “cain’s wife” into the CMI Search Engine (the link was at the end of the blog) and came up with these links in explanation.
http://creation.com/images/pdfs/cabook/chapter8.pdf (also attached in case you can’t get the link)
http://creation.com/one-blood-chapter-1-cain-s-wife
http://creation.com/cains-wife-explanation-gross-and-disgusting
As I wrote above, I don’t think there’s absolute proof on this one. I did however, like how Willie George said that he believed that the first men and women did look different than we do today because they had all the components of Caucasians, Asians, Africans, etc. rolled up into one. He believed the races came as the people moved into different parts of the world because God confused their languages at Babel.
There are questions, and there needs to be “faith” in whatever you believe. What I want to say is that I believe that Scripture is true.
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I am not attempting to side step the value of your questions or the tension that they afford in our attempt to believe or share our beliefs with others. I’m merely providing you with some possible tools to suggest the probability of answers to at least some of these questions. I’m not afraid of “unanswerable” questions when it comes to the things of God. He is above and beyond us – and that’s as it should be. That does not mean that I can just “shrug off” the seeking of answers to good questions. Nope – there’s a dialogue of belief to participate in with everyone. Again, the fact is those who hold to the Theory of Evolution have “a faith” in their belief system. I think it’s OK to at least remind people of that rather than just accept that a biblical position is somehow less scientific or provable…
There is also a scholarly article about the writing of the book of Genesis at the following link:
http://creation.com/who-wrote-genesis-are-the-toledoth-colophons