Questions, Questions . . .

Have scientists ever made life in a test tube?

Can one type of life change into another?

Did dinosaurs evolve into birds?

What about the evolution of the horse?

Have mutations produced new species?

What about natural selection?

GENESIS CHAPTERS 1 and 2 record what God did in six days to create a perfect world. These chapters and the rest of Scripture also claim that God had specific purposes for all the things He made. However, the creation was tainted by sin because of man's disobedience in the garden of Eden, and the curse on the ground initiated by sin has had physical as well as spiritual consequences, not only on earth but also throughout the universe.

The curse on the ground brought death and decay and destruction to the physical universe. These bad things were brought by sin. They were not part of God's originally perfect creation. We see then that death and decay are not part of an eternal conflict between good and evil, but rather that evil is an intruder. Evil is not part of the eternal plan of God for His creation, and in fact the Bible teaches that one day God will purge all sin from His creation.

Because God made all things good, there is really nothing in the creation to prove that death and struggle have always been, and will always be, necessary facts of life. For example, dinosaurs, often thought to prove evolutionary development by way of death, struggle, and extinction, were in fact creatures in God's creation, a creation that was perfectly good until man sinned. On the other hand, as we will see, the idea that life evolved is really a myth. The idea that apes became men, for instance, is truly a fictitious idea. According to the Scriptural record, all parts of God's creation originated perfect and good, not primitive and backward. If man ever became primitive, this was a consequence of sin later in history.

Of course sin has hurt man and the world in many ways. Many creatures, like the dinosaurs, have died nearly to extinction, and the earth has suffered as deserts have formed, making it harder for any kind of life to survive. Sin has affected all parts of the creation, and creatures like dinosaurs, rather than being some kind of evolutionary phenomenon, are simply a part of God's creation that has followed the same history of sin-caused struggle as the rest of the universe.