Debunking Evolution Clip: Religion of Death

Genesis Apologetics

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The biggest problem

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I have with natural selection, being able to create new kinds of animals, is found right here in our biology textbook.

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Let me see if I can find it. You're starting to see really well. I am. Now, Charles Darwin is credited for discovering natural selection and describing how it led to the evolution of different animals and plants.

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Right here it tells the story. After reading Malthus, Darwin realized that if more individuals are produced than can survive, members of a population must compete to obtain food, living space, and other limited necessities of life.

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Darwin described this as the struggle for existence. Malthus? Oh, I remember him from history.

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He believed much of the world's problems were due to people reproducing faster than our food supply. Right. Evolution claims that a never -ending chain of struggle and death is what created life.

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But the Bible paints a different picture. Genesis 3 says that death, pain, and suffering came from man's rebellion against God.

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And Romans 8 is clear that Earth is under a curse because of our sin. But God didn't leave it there.

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First Corinthians 15 says that one day, death will be conquered. O death, where is thy sting?

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O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our

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Lord Jesus Christ. So death is a horrible thing. The Bible calls death the punishment for our sins and the last enemy.

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Because Jesus Christ took that penalty in our place, we beat death by getting to spend an eternity with God. Evolutionary history says death of the unfit over eons changed fish into humans.

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But Biblical history says that death changed already created humans and fish and the whole universe into a place with problems that Jesus will one day solve.

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Wow, it seems so strange that the things our textbook says could have so much to do with what we believe about the past and about reality.

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Okay, speaking of beliefs, how would you define religion? I know this from class. It's basically defined as a system of beliefs.

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Right, so would evolution qualify as a religion? Well, okay, the struggle for survival over millions of years of death is what supposedly created the different kinds of life on earth, including humans.

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The Bible tells us death is an enemy, not the hero. But Jesus the creator promises us life if we choose to follow him.

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He's overcome death by rising from the grave. So natural selection has no intelligence and can't even select what's happening on the genetic level.

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It can only subtract from what is already present in DNA and it relies on death to create new kinds of life.