In last week’s lesson, I briefly referred to Theistic Evoution.  Within this theory there is an attempt to merge the creation account of Genesis and the Theory of Evolution.  In his article entitled, “Are Genesis and Evolution Compatible?” (www.christiancourier.com/

articles/read/are_genesis_and_evolution_compatible), Wayne Jackson produces 19

distinct differences between the two.  Here are several of them:  (If you would like to read the entire article but aren’t online, let me know and I’ll print it for you.) 

“Moses affirmed that God’s work of “creation” was “finished” with the completion of the sixth day (Genesis 2:1-2). Evolution, however, requires that some sort of “creative” process has continued to hammer out new forms of living organisms across the on-going eras of history.

The Genesis account affirms that the Earth was created on the first day of that initial week (Genesis 1:1), and that the Sun and stars were created later—on the fourth day (Genesis 1:14-19). Evolution asserts that the Sun and stars existed billions of years before our Earth came into being.

The Scriptures teach that the first biological forms of life upon the Earth were the plants (Genesis 1:11), whereas the theory of evolution argues that the initial life forms were marine organisms.

The Mosaic narrative reveals that living creatures were created according to individual groups, and that thereafter, each reproduced after its own “kind” (Genesis 1:11-12,21,24-25). According to the evolutionary myth, all living organisms derive from a common primitive source.

The Scriptures teach that mankind has existed “from the beginning of the creation” (Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6; Romans 1:20), thus, virtually “from the foundation of the world” (Luke 11:50-51). Evolution contends that humanity’s age is but a tiny fraction of the Earth’s, thus, man is a “relative newcomer” to the planet.

The Bible announces that God made man in His own image (Genesis 1:26; 1 Corinthians 11:7). Evolution scoffs at such, and suggests that man, because of his fears of natural forces that he could not understand, created God in his own image.”

For these reasons and others, creation and evolution are clearly incompatible.  The two cannot be merged.  Therefore, Theistic Evolution should be rejected.