Creationism Versus Evolution: A Case for Intelligent Christianity

By Aerik Vondenburg

Traditional Judeo-Christianity would have us believe that God simply uttered some words and the universe was born in one week, some 6000 years ago. Unfortunately, it is this type of ancient thinking that turns many people away from Christianity.

Just because the creation records do not extend past thousands of years does not mean that creation itself is that old.

Scientific study has confirmed that our planet has developed over the course of millennia. The author of the book of Genesis used the description of “days” in order to describe the different stages that the planet went through as it was formed. This reasoning also applies to the creation of the first man and woman as well (which would explain why physical evidence of half primate, half homosapien hominids have been discovered.)

What should be considered is that the author of Genesis was not present during the creation of the world. Nor was he there for the creation of the first human-beings. Instead, the author used metaphorical descriptions in order to convey certain key primary points.

Proponents of creationism—under the banner of “Intelligent Design”—will only accept scientific theories that they can make fit into a pre-established belief system; while at the same time, automatically rejecting any evidence that indicates the contrary.

Conservative Christians have been using the airplane/tornado argument to support their claims about evolution (based on a theory by astronomer Fred Hoyle, in his 1983 book The Intelligent Universe), saying that: Darwin's theory of evolution is the equivalent of a tornado whirling up spare metal fragments in a junkyard into a fully-formed working 747 jet airplane. The problem with this theory is that metal parts are not organic, and therefore, do not mutate and adapt over the course of millennia the same way that biological organisms do.

We must also remember that it was the old world Dark Age Christianity that rejected the science of its time as well. History tells us that it was the narrow-minded guardians of the traditional fundamentalist Judeo-Christian interpretation that rejected the idea that the Earth revolved around the Sun, and that the Earth was not flat, but round. We have also seen this type of reaction manifested in our own time in the traditional fundamentalist Judeo-Christian attack on the scientific theory of evolution as well.
Science is not heresy. Christianity will only grow and succeed when it is made more acceptable to the intelligent, the rational, and the informed.

It could at least be said that the energy of God is what ignited the Big Bang. In other words: it could be said that GOD CREATED EVOLUTION!