Genesis ≠ Evolution: It's All Good

            There are a couple more biblical arguments for a literal Genesis, but I will stop with this one. It is the biggest obstacle for theistic evolution (TE), for if explained correctly, this argument against TE will demonstrate that TE is an attack on God’s character.

            TEs believe that the Big Bang happened billions of years ago. The world was then formed, eh, like four billion years ago or so. Then, however many years ago, lightning struck a pool of goo, and the first cell was formed (another theory is life formed on crystals). Then, it evolved and evolved and evolved into… a human! Wonderful, right? Maybe for atheistic evolution, but not for TE, unfortunately.

            As more and more creatures were formed through procreation and other means, and those creatures became more advanced, sad things started to happen. You see, they started dying. Terrible stuff, but that’s not all. They killed and ate each other and they got sick. There was violence as “survival of the fittest” lived itself out. Before humans even evolved, there was death, violence, and disease. This, my friends, is TE’s downfall.

            Let me read to you the beginning of Genesis 1:31, the last verse of chapter one. “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.” It was very good. Mankind was created, the earth was complete, and God said, “It was very good.”

            How is this a problem for TE? This is a problem because if there was death, violence, and disease before God’s creation was complete (after man was created), does God think those things are good? Think about it. According to evolution, how did we evolve to this point? Survival of the fittest along with natural selection. But that entails death and suffering, which, if you ask any Christian, is not good. According to TE, though, death and suffering existed at the same time God called His creation good.

            This means three things for God. 1) He is a liar (calling His creation good when it is not). 2) He thinks death, violence, and disease are good (which is completely inconsistent with the rest of the Bible. We can discard the Bible if this is true). 3) Evolution is not true (which means there was no death, violence, and disease when God said, “It was very good.”)

            Do you see the position this leaves TE? For evolution to be true, survival of the fittest has to be true (from the beginning of life up to now). For the Bible to be true, there had to have been no death, violence, and disease before and directly after God had finished creating the universe. As anyone can see, these two things are polar opposites. Only one can be true.

            When talking to a TE, ask them if they believe there was death, violence, and disease before humans evolved. They will say yes (because that is how we got here). Then tell him or her, “In Genesis 1:31, after God had finished creating the universe, including humans, He called His creation good. Do you mean to tell me that you believe death, violence, and disease are good to God? For you to be correct, those things had to exist at the same time God finished His creation and called it good.” They will be forced with the options I mentioned above.

            I tried this on a TE, and he never answered :/

P.S. Sorry, I about pounded this anti-TE argument into the ground. But it is the strongest Biblical case against TE, so it is worth it.