Creation Theory

A friend a few weeks ago asked me to send them evidence that evolution wasn't real, and that creation is. After delving into the subject on wikipedia (I know, not the most accurate source), I've noticed that virtually everyone has a different theory. That's probably what makes it so hard for them evolutionists.

So I'm tempted to write out what I believe here, and then maybe all you readers can tell me whether I'm totally out in left field, or whether it makes some decent sense; and also, what you believe. (Alright, maybe tempted is the wrong word, seeing as I'm actually doing it.)

I believe that God created the world in six days, then rested on the 7th. I also believe that the Earth existed before creation--without form, and void--for God had to kick the evil angels somewhere, did He not?

I am a subscriber to the "Omphalos Hypothesis:" that is, that God created trees with rings, people with belly buttons, and rocks with "age." I do not, however, believe that all my memories of anything before 10 days ago are part of God's creation of me (and therefore never really happened)--I know and remember experiencing both them and the time they occurred in.

I believe that all dogs descended from a common pair of dogs; all seagulls from a common gull; and so forth--in other words, in microevolution. But until someone can show me evidence of a drastic mutation/change resulting in a brand new species, I cannot accept macroevolution.

All this I believe because I believe there is a God. Too much has happened to me in my life for me to rationally believe otherwise.

Am I certain that this is the way things happened? No. God could certainly have done it another way--but He has chosen to hide His ways from us for now (save Genesis 1 & 2), and when a more powerful Being chooses to hide, no one with less power is going to find Him.


"It's not the results that change us--it's the effort."