New ideas are just that: new ideas. Evolution is a new idea, but I don't think that it has been properly thought out. For example, consider God. God changes all the time, but does evolution apply to Him? The fact is that it does not.
"Wait," I hear you say "God doesn't reproduce, so evolution can't apply to Him." Well, that is interesting, isn't it? The one who created all things can't experience what He created. It's like God creating a rock that He can't lift: something doesn't make sense and it's not God.
What if God did reproduce, do you think that evolution would apply to Him then? Would His children gradually change so that they are nothing like Him? The problem with this is that you would then be saying that there are people more evolved than God. Does that make sense? No.
God is bigger than the changes that take place. It's not a question of whether He reproduces or not: He doesn't need to evolve. Selection pressures don't exist for God because He cannot die. Moreover, if God had children they would inherit this fact.
The fact that we can inherit eternal life from God is what makes it great to be a Christian. Having eternal life is also why Christians so easily see that evolution does not make sense, from an eternal perspective. If life were evolving all the time, our eternal destiny would be changing all the time. Our eternal destiny stays the same until we change something, for or against God.
That our eternal destiny does not change is just the tip of the iceberg. All sorts of questions come up if you start saying that we evolve all the time. Like who did Jesus die for if He could not predict what evolution would be next? Or how did God know that what He created was good if He hadn't seen it survive yet? Or how would God judge on Judgement Day what was good and what was bad if one evolution was the same as another?
The questions above are all red-herrings; you should be able to tell that the above questions are red-herrings from reading them. Its the deeper questions that really hurt when it comes to evolution. Like how do you tell your kids that you care if you believe evolution makes them significantly less like you than they could be? Or how do you ask your parents for advice if they don't know what it's like to be your particular evolution? Even how do you reconcile your morality with the fact that at some point you believe your ancestor was lower than you are? It's questions like these and the answers to them that make me as a Christian want to avoid evolution.
"Wait," I hear you say "God doesn't reproduce, so evolution can't apply to Him." Well, that is interesting, isn't it? The one who created all things can't experience what He created. It's like God creating a rock that He can't lift: something doesn't make sense and it's not God.
What if God did reproduce, do you think that evolution would apply to Him then? Would His children gradually change so that they are nothing like Him? The problem with this is that you would then be saying that there are people more evolved than God. Does that make sense? No.
God is bigger than the changes that take place. It's not a question of whether He reproduces or not: He doesn't need to evolve. Selection pressures don't exist for God because He cannot die. Moreover, if God had children they would inherit this fact.
The fact that we can inherit eternal life from God is what makes it great to be a Christian. Having eternal life is also why Christians so easily see that evolution does not make sense, from an eternal perspective. If life were evolving all the time, our eternal destiny would be changing all the time. Our eternal destiny stays the same until we change something, for or against God.
That our eternal destiny does not change is just the tip of the iceberg. All sorts of questions come up if you start saying that we evolve all the time. Like who did Jesus die for if He could not predict what evolution would be next? Or how did God know that what He created was good if He hadn't seen it survive yet? Or how would God judge on Judgement Day what was good and what was bad if one evolution was the same as another?
The questions above are all red-herrings; you should be able to tell that the above questions are red-herrings from reading them. Its the deeper questions that really hurt when it comes to evolution. Like how do you tell your kids that you care if you believe evolution makes them significantly less like you than they could be? Or how do you ask your parents for advice if they don't know what it's like to be your particular evolution? Even how do you reconcile your morality with the fact that at some point you believe your ancestor was lower than you are? It's questions like these and the answers to them that make me as a Christian want to avoid evolution.
