by Cinda Smaagaard

Created on: January 07, 2011   Last Updated: January 09, 2011

Creationism and evolution do not need to be mutually exclusive, although many make you think so. These two are either true or not true and we know they both are.  First, why faithful believers feel they need to abandon Creation to appease Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection is a mystery.

The Bible tells us that God took a rib from the side of Adam to create Eve not to mention the limited number of animals Noah was permitted to bring aboard his boat during the Great Flood.  It stands to reason that "like does beget like" and even unlike as the lowly mule shows us - and probably why that animal carries the stigma of being the most stubborn.

The problem arises when one adheres strictly to the account of six days in Genesis.  God has already said in the Bible that "one day is as a thousand years" in God's sight - but evolution, as we know, took millions of years to evolve.  It helps to understand that time can be relative (think about time zones and day-light savings for example and leap year).  Why a day millions of years ago has to be literally a 24-hour period when we know even atomic clock specialists today tinker a second or two around every so often due to the change in the sun's orbit is a quandary.  The only thing we know for sure is that there was a revolution of the sun which according to Genesis apparently did not show up right away.  Light could have been referring to other sources like electromagnatism, protons, nuclear or even metaphysical.  If the universe was smaller at the time of the Big Bang, maybe there were several suns or moons nearby to push and pull and motivate.

Evolution or natural selection from base organisms appears to discount God's creation of man and woman, but how many times has God said "from dust you were taken" or that he is the potter and we are the clay? Apparently when we die our base elements return from whence they came.  It is the spiritual nature of mankind that no one can destroy, where neither rust nor moths can enter in.  God would not have to be so reassuring about "decomposition" robbing us of our Godly inheritance, if it were not a scientific fact that we will in fact decompose back to the soil. Our bones and teeth may take a little longer, God understood good engineering, however, they go too eventually and sometimes simply as we age.

Creationists want nothing more than to support the Creator, who creates each and every day. If at the

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