Fact or Fiction?

Is evolution fact or fiction?

A response to an article in TIME (April 8, 1996) included the following: “Creationists would have us believe the ‘theory’ of evolution is questionable. In fact, evolution is as incontrovertible as the orbiting of the earth around the sun. A vast majority of educated people agree that evolution and heliocentrism are correct, although both contradict a literal interpretation of the Old Testament.”

A lot of people will read a statement like that and never question it, but I am not one of them. This article presents evolution as fact, but is evolution fact or fiction? The fact that a lot of educated people believe something in no way makes that thing right. Further, there is nothing in the Old Testament which would suggest that heliocentrism (the earth orbiting the sun) is incorrect. We speak of the sun rising every morning and setting every evening, but we are not denying heliocentrism when we use such expressions. The Bible is not a science book, but when it addresses scientific issues, it is remarkably accurate. Isaiah wrote of the rotundity of the earth long before Columbus sailed to the New World (Isaiah 40:22). Job eluded to gravity centuries before the concept because a scientific fact (Job 26:7).

Further, if evolution is an established fact, where is the proof? Fact or Fiction?

• There is no proof of evolution, only assertions!
• Is there any evidence that life came from non-life?
• Is there any evidence that monkeys became men?

Evolution literally means change. Within nature there is room for a lot of change. There are many different kinds of dogs. They come in all shapes and sizes. But, no dog every changed (evolved) into a cat. No fish every changed (evolved) into a bird. And, no monkey ever became a man. If they did, where is the proof? By that, I mean real evidence, not merely an artist’s conception!

It takes a whole lot more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe in creation. The complexity and design in our universe demands a designer (Psalm 19:1-3;139:14). Our existence demands an explanation. “Every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God” (Hebrews 3:4).

Fact or fiction? Evolution is not a viable explanation for origin, a fact, no matter how many educated people argue to the contrary. It remains just an unproven theory, a fiction, with no evidence. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). That’s not fiction, but fact!