Evolution has long been a source of contention between Children of the Light and atheists, and much time and effort has been wasted in arguing what is essential a moot and meaningless point--an apples and oranges straw-man, as it were.
IT IS INDEED TRUE THAT ALL ANIMALS HAVE EVOLVED. God states in the beginning of all things, " 'LET THE WATERS BRING FORTH abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.' " (Genesis 1:20)
This is followed by God's pronouncement, " 'LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.' " (Genesis I:24)
When it comes to the subsequent CREATION of man, however, God's written Word states, " 'And God said, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, andover the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
" 'So GOD CREATED MAN in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female CREATED HE THEM.' " (Genesis I: 26-27)
Animals were "brought forth"--i.e., evolved upon the earth--while man was "created"--i.e., called into life as God's "hand-made CREATION" as per, "And the Lord God FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND, AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7)
Thus, ludicrously holding that human beings to be merely "evolved animals" as the worshipers of Darwin are wont to do is, to say the least, an inaccurate misrepresentation and, at worst, a grievous slander against mankind and their Creator.
i well understand atheists' desperate need to find a way around the existence of a Creator God, but i'm just saying . . . .
PEACE AND JOY TO ALL GOD'S CHILDREN!
OPENED EYES AND MINDS AND REPENTANT HEARTS TO ALL WHO ARE NOT!
ABBA'S FOOL,
ephraim
IT IS INDEED TRUE THAT ALL ANIMALS HAVE EVOLVED. God states in the beginning of all things, " 'LET THE WATERS BRING FORTH abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.' " (Genesis 1:20)
This is followed by God's pronouncement, " 'LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.' " (Genesis I:24)
When it comes to the subsequent CREATION of man, however, God's written Word states, " 'And God said, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, andover the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
" 'So GOD CREATED MAN in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female CREATED HE THEM.' " (Genesis I: 26-27)
Animals were "brought forth"--i.e., evolved upon the earth--while man was "created"--i.e., called into life as God's "hand-made CREATION" as per, "And the Lord God FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND, AND BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; and man became a living soul." (Genesis 2:7)
Thus, ludicrously holding that human beings to be merely "evolved animals" as the worshipers of Darwin are wont to do is, to say the least, an inaccurate misrepresentation and, at worst, a grievous slander against mankind and their Creator.
i well understand atheists' desperate need to find a way around the existence of a Creator God, but i'm just saying . . . .
PEACE AND JOY TO ALL GOD'S CHILDREN!
OPENED EYES AND MINDS AND REPENTANT HEARTS TO ALL WHO ARE NOT!
ABBA'S FOOL,ephraim
. Also the point about Evolution being an Atheist strawman makes sense. A majority of Scientists who accept Evolution are Atheist, and even Atheist Richard Dawkins makes the point that Evolution is a key to an "intellectually fulfilled Atheism." Thus in fact by definition from the leading Evolutionary Biologist himself in today's society, we have Evolution defined as Atheism. To the latter side, I can read Hebrew well enough to know that evolution is not taught at all in Biblical texts and that is what is key to this particular discussion 
