by Daniel Reneau

Created on: August 16, 2009   Last Updated: August 18, 2009

Evolution creationism, two apparently contradicting theories (I say theory because none of us were there to observe) that are argued in pulpits and classrooms across the nation.

I remember one Wednesday night at church the pastor was teaching out of Genesis. He read from the first chapter pausing for discussion after a few verses. Sitting on the front pew I watched and listened intently to what he had to say. He alluded to evolution but never openly said it took place. Many of the congregation would have scoffed and ridiculed him if he had done so, so I held my tongue. At many points he almost let slip what was on my mind: these were not man's days but Gods, and they could have lasted for hundreds of millions of years. One main point he put across is it is irrelevant to one's salvation what cosmology one believes to be correct. When he got to man being created, he branched off and talked a little about Cain and the land of Nod; this is were he surprised me most. He said that in the land of Nod Cain knew his wife this only means that they had relations there, she could have been from elsewhere or Nod. He alluded to there being other peoples in this land and other places. The hard part of teaching Genesis this way is; one it is in America, two it is in the Bible Belt area.

Why limit God by saying that he had to create the world as a genie, poof there it is. Why could not God create systems and run his experiments in an environment with parameters. A game is not fun unless there are rules.

In the beginning, so we will say, this consciousness of a singularity was like "Dude, I exist" and that sparked the big bang. After aeons of guiding the spheres and nebulae around with his spirit-science, God decided "Man I am kind of bored, let us make a place where things can live" so he did and it was called Earth. So according to the rules of the game he created a planet and on that planet he allowed for things to happen. Plants and animals came forth, seasons and cycles past and God got board again, so he said to the subjects of his hyper-dimensional court "Dudes what if there were beings that had freewill. I will make many of them and take a few and place them in that garden that tethers Heaven to Earth." So in the garden he placed a man and woman; and the rest is history.

Why could not God use evolution to make man and the diversity of life that populates the Earth. Things change, that is the basis of Darwin's theory. Why would God place non-changing creatures in

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