Dealing with Doubts - Why I Believe in Creation, Part 1
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
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Did you know that some of the most severe critics of evolution are not Christians, not creationists, but leading scholars…non-believing, scholars who say the scientific evidence simply doesn’t support evolution? Chip explains that the premise that science and faith are mutually exclusive is patently false!
Main Points
Defining our terms:- Microevolution: The small changes that only happen within a species. Some examples of microevolution are the mosquito’s ability to resist DDT after years of exposure, and the ability of different bacterial strains to resist penicillin.
- Macroevolution: The vertical transition between species (from one kind of species to another kind) evolving to account for all animal and human life.
- Creation: The belief that God created all things out of nothing, as described in the Bible in the book of Genesis. All of life in its rich complexity happened as the result of the all-powerful, all-knowing, sovereign God of the universe who is Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
- Group 1: Classic Creationism - The literal biblical account
- Group 2: Classic Evolution - Random change and natural selection
- Group 3: Theistic Evolution - God-supervised evolution
- Group 4: Intelligent Design - A designer of some kind
- Evolution: Life’s beginning was unsupervised, impersonal, unpredictable, a natural process. The beginning of life was random, undirected without either plan or purpose.
- Creation: Defined by the Bible. God spoke.
- Evolution: Life began as a pure accident. It was random chance. There was no design, no plan, no meaning, no emotions, no purpose, and no value.
- Creation: You are the special creation of a good and all-powerful God. You are the climax of His creation. Not only is your kind unique, but you are unique among your kind.
- Evolution: A simple cell evolved to more complex plants and animals through the process of time, chance, natural selection, mutations, and survival of the fittest over a period of billions of years.
- Creation: God created various plants, animals, kinds, and species in a harmonic balance to reflect His attributes and character.
- Cells: Thanks to today’s more powerful microscopes, we know that a single-cell organism, the most basic unit of any living thing, is incredibly complex.
- DNA: Is like the software of the cell, the computer program that makes it work. In fact, if you took a tablespoon and filled it to the top with this DNA, your tablespoon could contain the precise instructions to build every single species of organism that has ever existed on the planet.
- Astronomy: “Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.” - Robert Jastrow
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About Chip Ingram
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm sure you've heard that science and Christianity are not compatible or that facts and faith |
| 0:07.2 | don't go together. |
| 0:08.2 | Well, I want you to stay with me today, and we're going to explore what history's greatest |
| 0:13.1 | minds had to say about faith and science. |
| 0:17.0 | It might surprise you. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. We are a discipleship ministry devoted to helping Christians worldwide live out their faith for the glory of God and the benefit of all. |
| 0:33.6 | Thanks for being with us as we continue our series dealing with doubts, reaffirming your personal faith. |
| 0:39.6 | Today, Chip delves into the spirited debate between creation and evolution by defining |
| 0:44.6 | key terms and identifying the various beliefs that make up each side of the discussion. |
| 0:50.0 | And be sure to keep listening after the teaching, as Chip will share how we can take all of this head knowledge |
| 0:55.0 | and apply it to our day-to-day lives. |
| 0:57.0 | You won't want to miss it. |
| 0:59.0 | Okay, here now is Chip with today's talk, |
| 1:01.0 | Why I Believe in Creation. |
| 1:04.0 | A few years ago, we had a little Bible study in our home. |
| 1:08.0 | It was called Love, Sex, and Last and lasting relationships. My daughter was a young |
| 1:12.5 | professional at the time, and she invited a number of her friends. And I'll never forget the young |
| 1:17.0 | man who came. He was a scientist from Stanford, PhD. And he was late 20s and really bright, |
| 1:24.6 | really smart. And he didn't have much of a social life. He'd been in school for a long time. |
| 1:29.7 | And so after the Bible study that he was invited to, he was sort of skeptic, but just came. We had a |
| 1:35.5 | conversation, you know one of those where you get into the kitchen and leaning against the |
| 1:39.1 | counter? And he said, I just want to thank you for opening your home and the people were really |
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