veryone has an opinion in this war. Most people either believe in a creationist God or believe in evolution without a god. However, there are some who believe that God used evolution to create the world. Let’s delve into some possibilities or scenarios using facts and logic.

Alright, first let’s take a look at two different types of evolution: gradual change and punctuated equilibrium. We’ll start off by taking a look at gradual change. Gradual change was originally thought up by Darwin. These changes, according to him, occurred throughout all the animals and at a constant rate. I have not even skimmed the surface of all of Darwin’s research of possibilities, but I will stop talking about gradual change here. The main reason for this is because of its major flaw: there are not enough intermediate links, if any, to prove that this change happened. There are also other reasons which I’ll state later on.

Please note that punctuated equilibrium can and actually is considered a form of gradual change. Let’s just assume, though, that this punctuated equilibrium is different. Normally, scientists consider a slow mutation or evolution to be gradual and a fast one to be punctuated. Punctuated equilibrium, which is much more likely to be true than gradual change, is the fast mutations in different animals over a short period of time. For mutations to occur in an animal’s DNA, the environment that the animals are in must be perfect and its DNA must randomly change. This type of evolution could explain why we don’t have any intermediate links between the species, since there was not enough time for the intermediate links to fossilize, which the conditions for that are rare. However, there is another problem and here it is: DNA rarely mutates and when it does, it does not do it all by itself. Not only that, but there has also never ever been a mutation recorded in history that has been beneficial to an animal or creature. All mutations either harm or have a neutral effect on the “mutationee.”

Scientifically and theoretically, it is possible for evolution to have happened; however, the definition of “evolution” is “change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.” [Dictionary.com] So therefore, we can logically conclude that there had to have been one organism which was there before all the others.

There have been numerous arguments and theories over the past several hundred years. In my opinion, none of them have made sense. Not a single theory. Something can not be made from nothing. The “Big Bang” supposedly caused the expanding of our universe (nothing ever exploded), which therefore created an organism, but there are still a numerous amount of aspects which scientists still have not figured out yet. Also, I’m sure that everyone has heard or seen, at one point or another, how difficult it would have been to create a single protein. If the scientists are correct, it would be similar to winning 270 slot machines in a row at a casino, so it is possible. We just have not figured out all the details of how this might have happened.

The other possibility is that there is a God, and yes, I do believe in Him. (I would rather believe in Him and that he created the earth with a meaning for me, rather than believe that I am just some stupid monkey that will die sooner or later.) Whether or not you want to believe it, there are more scientific facts backing Christianity than there are evolution. (God created science, right?) Here is a fact: the earth’s rotation is slowing down at a constant rate. It takes 118,000 years to lose one solar day. If we went back just 39 million years ago, the earth’s annual orbit would have been 3,650 days a year. Each year would have been 144 minutes long. The earth would have been rotating 10,000 mph! The primary cause for this slowing down is the moon’s gravitational pull, which is acting like a braking system. Another fact is that the moon is also receding from the earth at a constant rate. At 1.4 billion years, the moon would have been touching the earth. So there is no possible way that the earth could be four billion years old!  [Has God Spoken?]  (My grandfather actually wrote this book, look it up!)  Unfortunately, I do not have enough room to get into all the physics of these two facts.

One last issue that should be concluded relatively quickly, God did NOT use evolution to create the earth. God created the earth in six, twenty-four hour days (the seventh day was rest). The word “day” is used the same throughout the entire Bible. “Day” is used a few chapters later talking about Adam and Eve. They did not live to be millions of years old.

In conclusion, it is possible for evolution to have happened, but creation makes much more sense. Once again, I would go deeper into these reasons, but I am limited on space. I am going to dub this theory as a “myth.”

If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them! Thanks for reading!