You may not even realize it, but this question strongly affects your life. It greatly defines your actions and goals, imperceptibly forming your opinions. No matter the importance, it is often ignored. This question is the origin of the world.

Where did I come from and why am I living on this earth? How did it all happen? Is God, Who created everything (including each person) – a reality, or is it just a myth that has been long refuted by science? Is death the final end? What has meaning in life? What should we dedicate our time, talents, and resources to? Our life is a reflection of our answers to these and many other questions related to the origin of the world. What we believe about creation (or evolution), and what we think of the origin of the earth and about the book of Genesis, has colossal consequences in understanding life and our place in it. The question of origins is the key to all of a person’s thought patterns. Without the correct answer, it’s impossible to understand the meaning of our existence.

Worldview Conflict

It’s important to realize that neither our earth nor the sun is eternal. This simple fact means that a specific historic process happened here on earth, the result of which is ourselves and all that surrounds us. What was it? What kind of forces were activated? The goal and value of our life depend on these questions. It’s important to also realize that there are only two options; either everything including animals and plants was supernaturally created by the Creator, or all has occurred naturally, without any divine power. There is no third option, and this is an objective reality.

Today, evolution (from molecules to a person) is presented as a historical fact. The theory of evolution is woven throughout school subjects and all modern education. From the very first grades, we are taught that evolution is a scientific fact, and we all are a variety of animals that “evolved” from a broth by the way of an accidental naturalistic process spanning millions of years. We are persuaded to believe that nature, using its own powers, created everything; molecules, stars, planets, mountains, lakes, oceans, air, hundreds of thousands of species of life-forms, and the person himself.

The point is what we believe: the Word of God, Who was present during the amount of everything, or the words of people who were not there when it happened.

The Bible says that in the beginning God “created the heaven and the earth”. By the power of His word He made the animals, fish, and plants; after which He created the first people, Adam and Eve.

The question of the origin of the world is key for human thinking. Without the correct answer, there is no way to understand the meaning of our existence.

Did the story of evolution happen here on earth, from the first cell to a human, where nature is the creator? Or was there a supernatural creation where God is the creator of nature?

Most people have the wrong idea on the subject of evolution vs. creation. They don’t understand that evolution is not a scientific fact that is based on observation or experiments.

Evolution is a belief system about the past, which no one ever observed. All plants, animals, fossils, planets, stars, the universe, all exist in the present. We cannot go back to the past and conduct an experiment. Nobody ever witnessed the big bang, the formation of stars and galaxies, the earth and sun, the origin of life, or the evolution of the reptiles. Evolution is a belief that all the present was created by nature.

Creation is also a belief. The only difference is that this belief is based on the Bible, which many times tells us that it is the Word of God. This Word belongs to Him, Who knows it all and Who was present when the world was created. Only God is able to tell us the true story of the creation of the universe, the earth and the person. We also know that nature doesn’t have the power to create, all that nature does is testify that it was created!

What is Biblical Creation?

First of all, it is a supernatural creation, a direct act of the Creator. Creation happened in the beginning and was finished. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” Genesis 2:1

It wasn’t stretched out for an indefinite amount of time and doesn’t continue today. Creation happened by the Word of God.

Biblical Creation is also the creation (ex nihilo) which means “created from nothing”. First, there was nothing, then appeared everything. The Creator had no need in previous matter, energy, or time. He created that also. In heathen religions, the gods create from matter that already exists, and simply transform it. The Bible is unique in such, that it teaches of the eternal God. “Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” Psalm 90:2

Biblical Creation is historical creation. The Bible teaches us that historically Adam was the first human created. “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him.” Genesis 5:1

All genealogy in the New and Old Testament leads to Adam. Eve was the first real created woman. Cain and Abel were also real people.

Besides that, the Holy Scriptures teach of the historical global flood that happened in the days of Noah. From Noah and his sons, the earth was inhabited again, and nations and languages formed. According to the Bible, the early first civilizations (Sumeria, Egypt, and Assyria) were founded by Noah’s successors. The whole Bible story of the creation contradicts the evolution story and strongly differs from it.

Moreover, the Scriptures teach of a recent creation, (less than 10,000 years) and the fact that humans existed from the very start. “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.” Mark 10:6

Beware of half truth, you may have gotten the wrong half.