The Absurdity Of Theistic Evolution

Darwinian Evolution, or Neo Darwinian Evolution, can be simply defined as molecules to monkeys to men. Darwin’s theory, established in 1859 and permeating the educational systems shortly thereafter, teaches that man has evolved. To be more specific, man has evolved from lesser forms of life. Life on earth can be traced, says the theory, from molecules that somehow became a living thing, which over the course of time developed in complexity from amoebas to fish to amphibians to reptiles and so on. Now this is horridly simplified for the purpose of expediting laying out the premise. In short, evolution’s theory rests on the endless progressive cycle of improvement for given species, with death and new life being the catalyst for said improvement.

I state these admittedly simplified points to stress the valuable role death plays in Darwin’s theory. The purpose of this discourse isn’t to explain Darwinian Evolution in detail, but to contrast one of its primary tenets–namely the importance of species death–with the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Scriptural account of Adam, and how the Bible places extreme importance on Adam’s role as the first man and death’s entrance through his sin.

Yes, a great divide exists between Darwinian Evolution–which asserts that death has existed in this world billions of years prior to man, and that death is not the result of sin, but a natural component to evolutionary progress–and Biblical Christianity, that affirms that mankind was not the product of untold trillions of chance processes over billions of years, but was created in God’s image, mature and intelligent, emotive and creative, just as we see modern man today.

Death, as explained in Scripture, exists because man sinned. Sin separated man from God, who is the source of life. When this occurred man spiritually died; when we are physically born we are spiritually dead because of the curse of sin. Spiritual death results in our inevitable physical death; which means from a Biblical standpoint, death is not progressive and beneficial to a species, improving it over countless generations. Rather, death is unnatural, the result of Adam’s sin, bringing mankind into the bondage of sin, and passing on sin’s curse cosmologically to the creation, which mankind was meant to be God’s stewards of. Injecting Darwinian Evolution’s belief that death equals improvement and ultimately macro evolutionary gains over eons of time sharply disagrees with a fundamental Christian worldview that death is not in any way good, normal, or natural. It is a constant reminder that man is a sinner in need of God’s redemptive grace, and without it we remain in spiritual death, will eventually suffer physical death, and be separated from God forever.

Many professing churches teach that Adam was not real, the first chapters of Genesis are parables or allegories, and that Eden and the Flood are not to be taken literally or seriously. Read in: Adam did not exist, and God did not create man the way Scripture clearly and very plainly describes. Why has the church accepted this terrible, tragic doctrine that perverts and warps the very foundation of the Bible? Because too many professing Christians are too frightened, intimidated, or ignorant of the facts to understand that Darwin brought a toxic Trojan Horse into the church. But with Adam turned into a happy myth meant to teach some vague moral truths, where does that leave the New Testament? Where does that leave the gospel and the person of Jesus Christ Himself?

To begin with, Luke’s chronology in Luke 3:38 is awkward and wrong, to be polite. In fact verses 36 through 38 are all academic embarrassments if we accept Darwin’s word on the matter. But more to the point, Luke insists that Christ is the descendant of Adam, who was himself created by God’s direct agency, making him a son of God. If Adam is not real, then our Lord’s genealogy is not traced to Adam but to monkeys, and from monkeys to amoebas. In fact Adam is directly mentioned by name 9 times in the New Testament,and alluded to many more times. Jude, in his brief letter, mentions Enoch, a patriarch that lived prior to the Flood, as being the seventh generation from Adam, Jude 14. This entire passage is rendered moot if we subscribe to the theory that special creation, Eden, and the Flood are myths that less enlightened Christians naively cling to because they refuse to accept that empirical science has long since debunked them. This cannot be farther from the truth, however the popular media likes to spin whatever comes out of the pulpits of modern academia.

Paul in Romans contrasts Jesus and Adam. “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned,” Romans 5:12. Paul began his thought with this telling comment. Because of Adam sin entered the world, and sin gave license for death to follow; and since then death has plagued mankind and we have been terrified of it and all it represents. The Bible is abundantly clear that death is the result of sin; it is not the result of poorly explained processes that have governed the universe since its inception, and supposedly prior to it. Death is not the ladder a species climbs on its ascent to godhood, which is ultimately evolution’s goal. Interesting theories abound regarding alien life beyond our planet, with some well meaning people invoking evolution as a reason that aliens can be so far advanced, traveling impossible distances and perhaps even shedding their own physical bodies as progress makes them more than material beings. This is the lie of Eden, when the serpent promised godhood to Eve, telling her that rebellion was fine because death was a lie.

Rather, Adam’s gift of death is contrasted to our Lord’s gift of salvation in our Lord through the gospel, Romans 5:12-21. The passage is suddenly an opaque mystery if we refuse to allow Adam to be a real, historical figure. Who then is being compared to Jesus? Adam, who passed on death through sin, so that through his disobedience we became condemned sinners, is the opposite of the second steward, the Lord Jesus Christ, who brought sin’s remedy and death’s destruction through the gospel, which is the free gift of God’s grace. Both men brought massive cosmological changes to our race and creation. But if Adam never existed, who exactly is Christ undoing the damage of, since not Adam but evolution (presumably used by God?) brought death as an instrument that was not to curse, but bless all species with vertical advancement?

Moving on, 1 Corinthians chapter 15 delves deep into the relationship between Adam and Christ, highlighting the two men. In verse 45 we read, “And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving spirit.” How does one honestly reconcile this discrepancy if Adam was never real, but a myth or allegory? Then Christ isn’t the last Adam, because there was never a first one. Verse 47 further examines this contrast by referring to Adam as, “of the earth, made of dust,” while Jesus is, “the Second Man…the Lord from heaven.” Doctrinal integrity, the Genesis account, and the gospel itself collapses under the weight of this compromised position. Paul finalizes this examination by stating that as humanity currently exists, we bear the image of the man of dust (Adam) whose nature we inherited. By receiving eternal life through the rebirth via the gospel we bear the image of the heavenly Man, the Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Corinthians 15:49.

In summary, the gospel itself–the singular message that makes someone Christian–is entirely compromised by Darwinian Evolution’s entrance; a reality not at all ignored by Atheistic philosophers that point it out with the utmost glee when the saints are willing to sacrifice the core of their faith at the altar of Darwin. Part of the gospel message is that Christ died for our sins; but death is a natural process, not a supernatural curse, if we subscribe to evolution. Christ then died for nothing, because death existed eons before man, and was the instrument God Himself used (according to Theistic Evolution) to guide the development of our species to our current state. Then Jesus Himself was deluded and found to be fighting God and His intentions for human advancement. Worse, there was nothing to even save us from since death is quite natural, and the improvement wrought through generational genocide is God’s gift to future species. Evolution is a mockery of what the Bible tells us is true, including and most especially the nature of man’s creation and the gospel of Jesus Christ, who died the death we deserve to save us from the very real penalty of sin. No amount of scholastic acrobatics or mental gymnastics can honestly rectify this calamity. Even a moment of conscientious thought will shed light on the absurdity of the compromise so much of the church is endorsing and either teaching or being complicit to by their deafening silence.