Summary Statements - 13 of X - The Evolutionary “Creation” Story
The “creation” story of evolution consists of the following three integrally related evolutionary parts:
Cosmological evolution: The story that the Big Bang (“all is speck” exploded into the “cosmos”) occurred approximately 13.8B years ago via “natural causes.”
Geological evolution: The story that approximately 4.5B years ago our solar system was formed, and then over the next billion years the earth eventually became the inhabitable planet we have today.
Biological evolution is the story that approximately 3.5B years ago non-living matter “suddenly” formed the first living, single-celled creature which eventually by natural selection and mutations produced all the different kinds of plants and animals and man.
This evolutionary origins story is based on two naturalistic (atheistic) assumptions, as follows:
Nature is all there is.
The origin of everything can be explained by three things:
(Deep) Time
Chance &
The [mathematical] “laws” of nature working on matter.
(T. Mortenson (ed.), Searching for Adam, pgs. 471-2) [Add Figure 1, or adaptation of it, from Mortenson]
Questions to be answered:
What is the evolutionary story of creation?
What is cosmological evolution? Geological evolution? Biological evolution?
Why did the geologists and biologist assume an old earth?
Where did the idea of an ancient earth (deep time) come from?
How does one reconcile chance with God?
Other questions ….
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