Evolution and the Woman
"For the man
is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
Neither was the man created for the woman; but the
woman for the man." (1
Corinthians 11:8-9)
In spite of the
overwhelming scientific evidence against
evolution, "Christian evolutionists" still argue
(or, at least, allow) that evolution could be
God's method of creation.
Such a
fence-straddling position is logically untenable,
and gravely dangerous spiritually. There are
numerous biblical and theological reasons why
evolution, under any guise, must be unequivocally
repudiated by Bible-believing Christians, and one
of the most obvious is the unique biblical account
of the formation of the body of the first woman.
By no stretch of the imagination or device of
spiritualizing exposition can this account be
harmonized with the assumed evolution of human
beings from some earlier group of hominids.
God "formed man of
the dust of the ground" (Genesis
2:7). Many
theistic evolutionists have asserted that this
phrase could be applied to the long process of
evolution, as imagined by modern
paleoanthropologists. This, of course, is fantasy,
not exegesis. But whatever argument might be made
for this
strange interpretation, there is simply no way at
all for the record of Eve's
subsequent
formation out of Adam's side (Genesis
2:21-22) to be so
interpreted. All they can do with this
passage is ignore it, trying to pass it by with
some comment about woman being close to man's
heart or something of that sort. It is not only
clearly spelled out in Genesis, but is confirmed
by the apostle Paul, both here and in 1 Timothy
2:13. The Lord Jesus Christ Himself quoted from
the Genesis account of the creation of man and
woman (Matthew
19:4-6)
as literal history. Both man and woman are special
creations of God, with no evolutionary connection
whatsoever to any kind of animal ancestry. HMM
INSTITUTE FOR CREATION
RESEARCH
www.icr.org
P.S. Can evolution
explain why there is a male and female in every
type animal without exception? No! Think about it.
A Creator with intelligent design is the only
possible answer. Do not allow yourselves to be
deceived and mislead by the numerous unbelieving
deceivers.
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