Hey Andre they are some interesting questions you pose and in regards to evolution being the possible tool that God used to create the universe and lead eventually to life as we know it is a nice idea, and looks to be a peaceful compromise but it only works if you are a general deist, i.e you believe in a God but not the God of the Bible.

Evolution is diametrically opposed to the Bible.

Let me explain.

Firstly the Bible claims that the world was created perfect. There was no death until Adam's sin, all the animals, and man ate only plants, the Bible is explicit on this.

Evolution of course requires the Garden of Eden to be built upon the bones of millions of ancestors, God's 'perfect' creation coming about as the result of billions of years of death and a brutal natural arms race between predator and prey.

If you are a deist or a theist then such an idea is acceptable but it's completely incompatible to the Biblical God of love.

Secondly the Bible makes it clear that death came as a result of sin, and that that sin is spread to all of the human race as we are all children of Adam.

Christ came to redeem us from that sin, and he came as the Second Adam as the New Testament calls him.

Without a literal Adam and Eve and a literal fall in sin then Christs redemptive mission makes no sense. He came to redeem us from our sin, a sin that if evolution is true, we never contracted in the first place, as there was no perfect world, no fall from grace, no Adam, no Eve etc.

So to your question, if you a deist, a believer in a God of your own making, or you believe in an intelligent 'energy' if you will, then there is no problem in grafting evolution and God together.

If you believe the Bible however you can only accept evolution by disregarding and relegating to myth much of the essential Bible message.

Suprisingly athiests like Richard Dawkins understand this much better than most Christians who don't realise the contradiction and attempt to accept both beliefs.

Dawkins has only contempt for those Christians who profess to accept evolution and delights in pointing out the illogical nature of their position. I for one completely agree with him on this.

Like athiestic scientists Christians should be fundamentalists and stand up for their faith, basing their beliefs on God's Word over man's opinions.

There is an abundance of evidence to suggest that macro evolution (from molecues to man) is a completely failed theory and Christians should be bolder in their faith and stick to what they believe despite what the scientific experts tell us.

Sadly few people have faith in their convictions any more and, largely as a result of watered down religion have by and large turned into sheep and will accept uncritically what the men in white coats tell them.

As for God creating light being a feature of the Big Bang, again you can try and reconcile conflicting ideas in this way if you wish to try and force a round peg into a square hole but there is no need.

I believe in creation by God and therefore any ideas of a Big Bang are meaningless to me.

When God said 'Let there be light' he meant 'Let there be light', I see no reason to speculate a massive fiery explosion.

I understand that my convictions seem almost backwards and retarded in this modern age but I have no shame in saying what I believe.

Mortal man is born into this world blind and helpless, groping futiley for the corners of a circular room.

The reality is man on his own is no closer to understanding the how's and the why's regarding our existence than they were several thousand years ago.

There were Greek evolutionists over 600 years before the birth of Christ. The idea is nothing new, as the Bible says 'There is nothing new under the Sun'.

Regarding evolution, the best I can say is what Paul said to Timothy

'For the time will come when man will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead to suit their own desires they will gather around themselves teachers who tell them what their itching ears want to hear'.

Or as he told the Romans

'For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.'


So whilst I respect your opinion regarding an unlikely marrying of the two diametrically opposed belief systems, I reject it totally and put my faith soley in what God says, rather than man.

Of course I try not to think about the bits that would condemn sex before marriage, the selling of illegal pirate dvd's, the endless lust for porn but hey that is what forgiveness is for right?