Recently, in our local newspaper's "letter to the editor" section, the battle of Evolution vs. Creation has been a popular topic which has caused name-calling and going as far as comparing some people with Hitler.  It is a heated issue for many reasons to be sure, but I think the battle is more about the existence of God rather than creation.  However, there are issues directly related to Evolution and being a Christian.

Can a Christian actually believe in evolution?  That is, does not evolution break the foundation of Christian beliefs?

First, if we are to believe in evolution, this would mean that humans developed from animals and contradicts the Genesis account of God directly creating mankind.  Some may say that God may have just taken His time and created man slowly developing (evolving) him over a long period of time.  If you actually believe this, then there is yet another problem to continue believing the biblical account as you would have to solve how woman was not found until God made Adam sleep and used one of his ribs to create her while Adam slept.

Even if you throw out the creation account, you have another problem.  Animal do not have souls as far as we know (would seem hard to believe among other things that God would have them slaughtered for sacrifice if they had an eternal soul).  At what point did man "receive" a soul (or spirit)?  If you believe evolution, mankind came from primates (at least at the last step of the ladder) thus primates would either have an eternal soul or somehow we developed one.

People can justify about anything if they really want something bad enough.  This appears to be a large problem nowadays as many are desperately trying to combine the man made sciences with the biblical beliefs.  The two will NEVER completely fit.  If you take out the creation account, you still have many things in the biblical history that science says is emphatically impossible:

• How can a man live in the belly of a large fish (story of Jonah)?
• How can there have been a worldwide flood that covered past the highest mountaintop if there currently is not enough water on the planet to reach that far?
• How could the sun remain in the sky for 24 hours (Joshua's battle)
• How could the Jordan River (full at the time) dry up as the priest's feet touched it allowing them to cross over on "dry" ground?
• How about the simple story of the Axe Head made of iron that "floated" on the water (one of the stories of Elisha)?
• How about the mighty works God performed delivering Israel out of Egypt?

The Bible is scattered with these events that are impossible as far as science is concerned.  If we try to make the Bible and our beliefs fit man made science for the sake of science, then we will be removing a good amount of scriptures from the Bible.  If those are removed, then just where do we stop?  If the simple account of creation can be stretched to the point of even "allowing" the possibility of evolution, then there is no "belief".  You might as well just throw your Bible away if you can believe such "theories" based on the knowledge of man along with all their proven frauds (yes there a many frauds in the supposed evidence of evolution).

We do not need to bend our Christian beliefs to try fitting them to manmade sciences.  Why should you even bother?  Evolution, which is key to those that do not want to accept the idea of a creator, still forces those who believe in it to take everything on faith with large gapping holes. 

Just ask an evolutionist where did it all come from and many will push the "Big Bang" theory, which believes that a small piece of hot matter expanded into everything in the universe.  That sounds hard to believe when you consider the size of the universe, but the bigger question is, where did that matter come from?  Where is it all going to end?  What is on the outside of all space?

We all know that no one knows these answers and space is so large, it is hard for us to comprehend all on its own.  The point though is that evolutionists still will end up with an "I do not know" regardless of the path they take.  What is harder to believe, something that you do not and cannot know in your entire lifetime or that there is a God and He is willing to prove Himself to anyone providing they give Him a chance?  Simple existence testifies that God is here (I will post much more on that topic in the near future). 

The entire issue about evolution and creation being taught in the schools together should not be based on the position that theory of evolution is based on science and that creation is based on religion, they are both based on something you "must" believe in and know that we will never have all the answers in our lifetime.  As such, creationism should be taught in schools just as much as evolution, if you do not allow creationism, then neither should the religion of evolution be allowed.