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Creation or Evolution, What’s the Big Deal? (Endnotes)

1. Webster’s Dictionary, Random House, 2001: Natural selection; the process by which forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures, such as predators, changes in climate, or competition for food or mates, will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than others of their kind, thus ensuring the perpetuation of those favorable traits in succeeding generations. Close

2. The Evolution Cruncher, Evolution Facts, Inc., Box 300, Altamont, TN, 37301, 2001, Brief History of Evolutionary Theory, pp. 50-51. Close

3. One of the major problems with “Theistic evolution” (that God “created” life via the process of evolution) is that then God, who is good, kind, and loving, would be using the cruelty of “survival of the fittest” to “improve” life on Earth. In other words, our “good” God would use the healthy and strong to kill and eat the young, the old, the sick, and the defenseless. But it is precisely the weak and defenseless that God in the Bible commands us to protect and provide for. Does it make sense that God “improves” the world by doing what He forbids us to do? Of course not—instead He commands us to imitate Him (Eph. 5:1). Close

4. Evolutionary theory teaches that life began on an earth that had just the right atmosphere (something different than we have now), with just the right combination of chemicals (something different than we have now), using an unknown source of just the right energy, to produce the precise type of amino acids in sufficient quantities that were able to reform themselves (in just the right way) to produce life as we know it now. Close

5. Romans 8:22 Close

6. See Acts 17:22-33; Paul’s brilliant articulation of the Gospel begins with his message of creationism, without which the Gospel is foolishness. Close

7. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 Close