Why I Believe in Creation
My personal experience that convinced me that life came from an intelligent designer.
My first encounter with the theory of evolution was in the seventh grade. MY science book had a picture depicting evolving life starting from the sea with a fish walking out of the ocean on finlike legs progressing up the line to the modern image of a man. The idea of evolution at that time (1950’s) was taught as a theory and so when the teacher asked for a paper on how we believed life got here…..I submitted my own science fiction based idea. Religion did not enter the picture at that stage in my life as to the explanation of life’s origin, although I regularly attended church and Sunday School and believed what I knew of the Bible……which was not much. I got a C on the paper…..with a rather derrogatory note from the teacher. I either didn’t understand the assignment or he didn’t like my idea. I can’t remember the details….but I included an explosion of a planet somewhere in a remote galaxy and some aliens.
My next memorable encounter with the theory was in college in the late 1960’s. I took a taxonomy class and the professor “proved” the evolution of plants through a very convincing array of comparisons between plants from different families. Since there were some religious students in the class who rejected the idea of any part of life evolving, the professor explained rather eloquently that a person could believe in evolution and in a Creator. He claimed that Adam simply means “Creature with Blood”…..and that evolution could very well be used to explain “how” God created man. At some point in man’s evolution HE simply gave man a soul and that distinguished him uniquely from the animals. My take on all of this was one of skeptical acceptance. I conceded that this might be the way life got here….but my Bible knowledge had increased and I thought it interesting that evolutionists had man emerging in original form from the sea and the Bible said God made man from the dust of the ground. I didn’t have a clear cut belief in evolution, yet I couldn’t deny the evidence provided in the biology classes I took.
As I increased my Bible knowledge, I gave up my inclination to believe any part of the evolution theory….but even though there are arguements galore for either side, what really convinced me beyond any doubt that evolution is not the way life got here was an insect. One day when I was knocking on someone’s door….I noticed something highly unusual on the screen. It was a moth…..but the most awe inspiring moth I had ever seen. It had antennae that looked like a brown fern. Its wings were a green the color of leaves when they first start to appear in the early Spring…..that delicate yellow green. It had a swallowtail…..and what I saw along the outer edge of the wings is what convinced me that life has a designer. Around the edge of the wing was a brown twig with a node on it……like someone had very realistically painted the noded twig on the outer rim of the moth’s wing. The twig was so real looking, with the node placed exactly like they are on a budding tree, it could have been a photograph. How did that get there? I went home immediately and looked on the internet to find that moth. It took a while, but I learned that it was a Luna Moth. It only lives a few weeks and doesn’t have a mouth…..It doesn’t eat at all during it’s lifetime. It only mates, and then dies. It’s larvae have a much longer lifespan. That moth shouted to me….”I have a designer”…..I did not evolve from a single cell in the ocean…..I was designed by a thoughtful Creator.”
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4 Responses to “Why I Believe in Creation”
On November 26, 2008 at 8:39 am
Yeah, dude, that was extremely convincing. God must exist and Creation is how everything must have taken place, merely because you saw a weird-looking moth with a novel life cycle. Maybe it’s more like your (and generally, humans’) measly little hominid brain can’t grok the path that led from single-celled organisms to the moth on an intuitive level. Fortunately, the theory of evolution, and the evidence supporting it, does not stem from one person’s “intuition,” but rather the collective synergy of thousands of scientists over more than a hundred years amassing enormous amounts of information that point towards the fact of evolution, of change over time. This is especially true in the one of the newer sciences, genetics.
On December 1, 2008 at 1:08 pm
no really, what is this supposed
to add to a science website
to me this looks more like a chain of lazy decisions,
after all constant testing, revision and improvement
is way more annoying than just absorbing a dogma.
or is it maybe some form of arrogance? would explain
why one of the most often brought forward arguments
to masses of ID followers is… “do you really believe,
that you decent from a monkey?”
On December 10, 2008 at 12:15 am
As the two previous comments pointed out, this article is a classic example of the complete irrationality of the intelligent design (i.e. creationism) movement, which is absolutely NOT a scientific theory on par with evolution by natural selection. This word “theory” frequently confuses non-scientific people like the author of this article, who think that it means the same thing as the word “theory” as used in everyday language, meaning an educated guess; on the contrary, in science an educated guess is called a “hypothesis,” whereas a scientific theory is the best explanation for ALL EXPERIMENTAL DATA in a given field, and if even one experiment contradicts any part of a scientific theory, then the theory must be either modified or completely discarded. In the case of Darwinian evolution by natural selection, no such contradictory evidence has been found and the existing evidence is so compelling that all competent biological scientists accept evolution as a truth on par with the “germ theory of disease,” the “theory of plate techtonics,” and the “theory of general relativity (gravity).” Note that all of those are labeled “theories” just like the “theory of evolution by natural selection,” so the next time you hear an ID/creationist argue that evolution is “just a theory,” you can tell them that so were the equations that NASA used to send men to the Moon…oh wait, they probably don’t believe in the moonwalk either. Such is the invariable way of pseudoscience, superstition, and religious faith: believe what you are told by the authorities (i.e. the bible, the pope, the preacher), regardless of any evidence to the contrary, and above all else NEVER question what you’ve been told or try to think for yourself. This article is an insult to scientific and rational sensibilities, and it has no place on any respectable science website among other good pieces of scientific journalism.
On May 23, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I was very inspired by this story. Why is it that believers can acknowledge the validity of science, but scientist struggle against the validity of a divine creator?
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