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Creationism/Evolution Title: Does It Really Take More “Faith” to Believe Evolutionary Ideas? Many Christians with the best of intentions make the claim, It takes more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in creation. On the surface, this sounds like a plausible argument. But how does it correspond to the teaching of Scripture? How does the Bible define the word faith? The book of Hebrews offers a definition of faith that most believers should be familiar with: Here Faith, then, generally involves trust or belief in someone or somethingin this case, Godthat is faithful: Scripture teaches that God is true (John 3:33) and cannot lie (Titus 1:2). He has communicated His truth through the apostles and prophets: Lets apply this biblical definition of faith to the claims of John 3:16, where it is written: Here we see that the eternal, transcendent God took on the form of human flesh, Jesus Christ. He came to earth to live a perfect life, to die a criminals death, and to rise again three days laterall because We as believers can have faith in Gods Word because God is who He claims to be (Hebrews 11:6), and He has given us His revelation through His Word so we can know about Him. He promised that His words would never pass away (Matthew 24:35), and we know that God never fails (Joshua 21:45). Therefore we regard Scripture as the reliable and sufficient revelation of the one true God. Moreover, God has proven Himself true over and over again. We expect this since He is the standard of proof and truth! We read eyewitness accounts and fulfilled prophecy recorded in the Word of God. We also find that operational science (observable, testable, and repeatable experimentation) is consistent with Scripture. The basis for our faith comes from God and His Word, as Romans 10:17 says, Based on the Bibles description of faith, it does not seem accurate to say that it takes more faith to believe in evolution and millions of years. In fact, its not likely that it takes any faith at all. Biblical faith is based on a someone or something that is faithful, but evolutionary ideas are anything but faithful. Additionally, Romans 10:17 clearly indicates that evolutionwhich does not come from Scriptureis not based on biblical faith. Merriam-Websters Dictionary has multiple definitions for faith, but we have given one definition that originates with Scripture. But there is a definition of faith that does describe the evolutionists: firm belief in something for which there is no proof.1 Clearly, this definition of blind faith has a much different meaning than biblical faith. Unlike biblical faith, blind faith has no substance, and there is no evidence or assurance of things Biblical faith is defensible because our Creator is faithful. Using Gods infallible and inerrant Word as our starting point, we can teach the truth about the world around us and show how the evidence we see is consistent with His Word. As Scripture states, we must Of course, we all have a limit to what we will believe. In other words, every person is willing to accept some things based solely on the word of another. For example, a stranger might tell you that he flipped a coin three times and that it came up heads all three times. Would you believe him? Most likelyit does not take much convincing to believe such a claim. But what if the same person then told you that he flipped a coin 100 times, and it came up heads every time? Would you believe him then? Because of the improbability that what he is saying is true, its unlikely that anyone would believe the coin came up heads 100 times in a row by chance. You might suspect that he somehow rigged the coin toss, or that he was lying to you. At that point, you have reached your limit of blind faith. The above example, however, only demonstrates a very small amount of chance. If a person is not convinced that a coin could come up heads 100 times in a row (for which the chance is 1 in 2100, or 1 followed by 30 zeros), then how then could he possibly believe in the evolutionary idea that the entire universe came about by chance? If were disinclined to accept even a small amount of chance, then we can forget about evolution entirely. Even some evolutionists are willing to admit that their ideas about origins depend almost exclusively on chance. Jacques Monod, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, once admitted as much in his book Chance and Necessity: While it takes a blind faith to believe in evolution, what does it take to believe in the creation account given in Genesis? For example, look at the human body. We know it did not come about by chance, or at least, it should be beyond our limit of blind faith. So, chance fails to provide a sufficient ground of faith in that it bears no authority, personhood, or purpose. Scripture gives us the best evidence for creationan eyewitness account from the Creator Himself. Furthermore, the Bible tells us that the experiential evidence for Gods handiwork has been made plain to man, so that he is without excuse: Not only do we have the Word of God, but we also can see and experience the evidence for creation all around us, from the birds of the air to the fish of the sea. So the next time you hear someone say, It takes more faith to believe in evolution than creation, remember that biblical faith is based on the faithfulness of someone or somethingspecifically, the Creator God and His Wordand without that, all you have is blind faith.
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