The Big Lie of Evolution
by Jason Shepherd
I’m a bottom line kind of guy. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind getting involved in details, but I always try to keep the bottom line in mind.
There are a lot of details when it comes to evolution. People can spend hours exposing problems with different aspects of the theory. There are the problems presented by microbiology—the complexity of the cell. Darwin never envisioned a cell that possessed micro-machines that decoded DNA and others that delivered pieces of DNA to the rest of the body. Related to microbiology is the problem of irreducible complexity. Evolution doesn’t even make sense when you realize that a photosensitive cell could not retain its mutation as beneficial when the very concept of an eyeball did not exist. There is also the problem of morphology. Just because the skeletal structure of a whale’s fin shares some similarities with that of a land mammal’s hand does not mean they have a common ancestor. Similar problems exist over the Cambrian explosion and the criteria necessary for a planet to support sentient life. As you can see, I don’t mind wading into the waters of minute detail.
Still, there is the issue of the bottom line. What is the bottom line of evolution? It’s the idea that all life forms, including humans, are becoming better. The truth is the opposite. We are deteriorating in every way. Not so long ago, I read a book by an investigative journalist who had uncovered volumes of archaeological evidence of highly advanced societies in the ancient world, and these people were BIG, physically. They were crude technologically speaking, but they were able to figure out things that we today do not understand. The point of the book is that all of this archaeological evidence had been buried or supposedly discredited because it did not support the scientific community’s narrative that humanity is evolving.
The mitigating factor in our de-evolution is that we are accumulating knowledge, which can give us the appearance of evolution. The ancients didn’t have smart phones or wireless technology. They did not have modern sanitation or air conditioning or electric vehicles. How could anyone compare the world of 2025 to the ancient world and say that we are devolving? The truth is that accumulating knowledge gives us the appearance of evolution, while the opposite is true. Here’s one idea to contemplate: a hundred years ago, it was common for Bible preachers to be fluent in ancient Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin and theological French and German. I challenge you today to find more than a handful of biblical scholars who hold Phd’s worldwide that can match that criteria. You won’t find that many.
You can’t get past the first verse in the Bible without being faced with evolution versus creation debate. Genesis 1:1 says, “In the beginning, God created . . .” Creation is there, and its essential to our faith in God and our understanding of Him.
I noticed the importance of creation while I was teaching Old Testament to high school freshmen. Can you imagine a more difficult task? Freshman are preoccupied with the football game on Friday night and their date on Saturday night to be thinking about church and the Bible on Sunday morning. They’re worried about how their hair looks and the shine on their truck rims. They’re not thinking about God or the Old Testament. Yet, I found success teaching it to them because I promised them that they would find information relevant to their lives there. One of the most relevant pieces of information I showed them was that God always reminded His people of two things when He spoke to them. He would say, “I the Lord your God am 1) the Creator of all things and 2) the One Who delivered you out of slavery in Egypt.”
This is God delivering the bottom line. If He wants us to remember two things about Him, it is that He is 1) the Creator, and 2) the One Who delivers us out of slavery. For Old Testament believers, slavery came in the form of the Egyptians. For us today, slavery comes in the form of our own sin. Romans 3:23 says that “all have sinned and missed the mark” of God’s holy standard. Romans 6:17 says that we all are “slaves to sin,” but it also says “Thanks be to God” that we have become “obedient from the heart” to the teachings of Christ. By expressing faith in what Jesus Christ did on the cross and walking in obedience to His teachings, we can be freed from the slavery of sin.
Back to the bottom line: Satan wants us to believe that humanity is getting better all the time, that we are getting smarter and bigger with the idea that we will one day evolve into God’s equal. The opposite is true: we are deteriorating in every way: physically, mentally, and spiritually. We will not evolve into divinity. We must be saved from our depravity.
Don’t buy the Big Lie of evolution. Instead, bow your knee in faith and repentance—this is the only path to actualization. The Bible calls it glorification.
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