Is there a Bible passage or verse to help people believe in God and creationism despite the scientific evidence of evolution and how the world was created?

Answer 1

There is no single verse in The Bible that will end all discussions on Creationism and Evolution. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, does give an account of how the world was created.

Even Creationists believe in some forms of evolution, such as a population of lizards who spends its entire life in a cave, in total darkness. The lizards will eventually develop ways to see in the darkness, so they evolve and adapt. The theory of Evolution however is far more drastic than this, stating that all life was created from a single cell, although it offers no explanation or any evidence for the cell or what forces began the process needed to form life from that cell.

If you are truly interested in learning more about how the Bible teaches Creationism and explains life, you will find researching Apologetics, which is Greek for "the defense", or as the Apostle Paul said "defending the gospel". There are many books available on the subject and they give a counterpoint to the explanations that science has for the subject of how the world was created. Answer

• Physical universe: The Bible describes the designer of it as the true God; "the Creator of the heavens and the Grand One stretching them out." Isa. 42:5; 40:26; Ps. 19:1.
• Planet Earth: The Bible's conclusion is reasonable when it states: "Of course, every house is constructed by someone, but he that constructed all things is God." Heb. 3:4.
• Human brain: Bible writer David said to God: "I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, as my soul is very well aware." Ps. 139:14.
• Living cell: The words of Psalm 104:24: "How many your works are, O God! All of them in wisdom you have made"!

AnswerYou will find evidence of creationism in the first two chapters of Genesis, wherein God creates the world and everything in it. Interestingly, most people who point to this as the infallible word of God tend to ignore the fact that there are two different versions of the creation story in Genesis. Genesis 1:11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. (1:11-13)

"Let the earth bring forth grass" Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). Notice, though, that God lets "the earth bring forth" the plants, rather than creating them directly. Maybe Genesis is not so anti-evolution after all.

Answer: Wait a minute . Firstly it is unfortunate that so many feel that they have to believe "despite the evidence". In fact the evidence of modern science is being shown to be very much in support of creation. One of the best known Atheists of the 20th Century Anthony Flew actually gave up his Atheism because of the evidence for design, which he saw in DNA (this is of course not to assume he became a Christian before his death). The bible itself encourages us to 'ask, seek and knock' (Matthew 7:7-8) and this is what led many of the great scientists of the past such as Keppler, Newton, and Maxwell to seek to understand God's creation. Many PhD scientists today also believe in biblical creation, whether they are involved in specific creationist research or other science. It is important to understand this before we go on to some extra Bible verses.

One of the best passages actually prophecies many of the current attitudes toward the bible and the creation.

2 Peter 3:3-6 " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished:"

Willing ignorance is the attitude the Bible here uses to describe those who ignore the evidence which is before their eyes.

Another good verse is found in Jeremiah 10:12 "He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and has stretched out the heavens by his discretion."

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Here is something to think about: despite decades of research, scientist have yet to come up with an explanation evolution that they can all agree on. Scientists cannot agree on evolution-and they are supposed to be experts.

Scientist claim everything in the universe came as a result of a random big bang

1. Who or what caused the big bang?2. Which makes more sense-that everything came from nothing or that everything came from someone?

Scientist claim humans evolved from animals.

3. If humans evolved from animals-from apes, for example-why is there such a huge gap between the intellectual abilities of humans and those of apes?4. Why are even the most "basic" forms of life so incredibly complex?

Scientist claim evolution is fact.

5. Has the person making this claim investigated the evidence for himself?6. How many people believe in evolution simply because they have been told that all intelligent people believe in it?"If you were walking through the forest and discovered a beautiful house, would you think: 'How fascinating! The trees must have fallen in just the right way to make this house.' Of course not! It's just not reasonable. So why should we believe that everything in the universe just happened to come about?""Imagine that someone told you that there was an explosion at a printing plant and that the ink spattered onto the walls and ceilings and formed the text of an unabridged dictionary. Would you believe it?"

See Jehovah's official website for something to think about.

Answer 2

People who accept the Bible as a reliable source are, almost by definition, already people who believe in God, although they do not necessarily believe in creationism.

Many Christians are also all too ready to believe strained interpretations of various passages in the Bible, so an almost endless number of passages can be put to good use in that regard. Burton L. Mack (Who Wrote the New Testament) describes a trick that he sees happen all the time in the classrooms of the School of Theology at Claremont, and which seem to come naturally when studying the Bible. One can ask any question of the Bible and get some kind of answer. At first the study of a text may not seem to support a traditional Christian conviction, or the answer one hopes to find in the Bible. But with a little ingenuity, one can set up the comparison again with other emphases and make the answer come out right.

What is lacking in the Bible is a passage or verse that will provide actual proof of creationism. It is not to be found in either Genesis chapter 1 or chapter 2.

For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation

Answer 3

See: Fulfilled prophecies.

Also, why not examine the scientific evidence of Evolution? Here are some arguments for Creation or against Evolution.

These point to Divine Creation:

• The staggering complexity of every organ and every cell in the human body.
  
• The vastness of our minds and emotions.
  
• The fact that the universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. (This is how Abraham, without benefit of teachers, came to reject the chaotic world-view of idolatry and the possibility of atheism). For example, theoretical physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies (whose early writings were not especially sympathetic to theism) states concerning the fundamental structure of the universe, "the impression of design is overwhelming" (Davies, 1988, p. 203).

• The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical.
  

See: More detailed evidence of Creation

Also:

1) The glaring lack of transitional fossils has been noted by the evolutionists themselves, such as this statement from the famous paleontologist and evolutionist George G. Simpson; quote: "The regular lack of transitional fossils is not confined to primates alone, but is an almost universal phenomenon."
"The lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material. The deficiencies are real; they will never be filled" (Nilsson, N. Heribert).
"To the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation" (Corner, E.J.H., Contemporary Botanical Thought).
2) Instances of falsifying of evidence by evolutionists, such as Haeckel's drawings, Archaeoraptor, the Cardiff "specimen," and Piltdown Man.
"Haeckel exaggerated the similarities [between embryos of different species] by idealizations and omissions, in a procedure that can only be called fraudulent. His drawings never fooled embryologists, who recognized his fudgings right from the start. The drawings, despite their noted inaccuracies, entered into the standard student textbooks of biology. Once ensconced in textbooks, misinformation becomes cocooned and effectively permanent, because textbooks copy from previous texts. We do, I think, have the right to be both astonished and ashamed by the century of mindless recycling that has led to the persistence of these drawings in a large number, if not a majority, of modern textbooks (Stephen Gould).
Dr. Jonathan Wells published a book in 2002 entitled Icons of Evolution. Dr. Wells states that the book shows that "the best-known 'evidences' for Darwin's theory have been exaggerated, distorted or even faked."

3) Creationists see the "survival of the fittest" and the dating of rock layers by fossils as being perfect tautologies.

4) The fact that some qualified, educated, normal scientists do not believe in evolution. Or at least question it, even if they still preach evolution: "Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. In all this great museum, there is not a particle of evidence of the transmutation of species" (Dr. Etheridge, Paleontologist of the British Museum).
"To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts. It amazes me that this is swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without murmur of protest" (Sir Ernest Chain, Nobel Prize winner).

5) The fact that there is a shared, worldwide tradition among every ancient society that the world was created.

6) Evolving of new organs or species has not been witnessed during known history.

7) Mutations are harmful, not beneficial. One of the tasks of DNA and of long-term breeding is to avoid or repair any changes brought about by mutations. This means that our genetic apparatus is programmed to resist change.

8) Mutations, even if beneficial, do not create new organs.

9) The fact that a great number of fossils have been found in the "wrong" rock-layers according to what evolutionary Paleontology would require.

10) The fact that you need DNA to make DNA. No genetic code can be demonstrated to have arisen by chance, together with the ability to read that code and carry out its instructions. Information does not arise spontaneously; and there is an incredible amount of information in even the tiniest cell.
"A living cell is so awesomely complex that its interdependent components stagger the imagination and defy evolutionary explanations" (Michael Denton, author).
"The astounding structural complexity of a cell" (U.S. National Library of Medicine).
Concerning a single structure within a cell: "Without the motor protein, the microtubules don't slide and the cilium simply stands rigid. Without nexin, the tubules will slide against each other until they completely move past each other and the cilium disintegrates. Without the tubulin, there are no microtubules and no motion. The cilium is irreducibly complex. Like a mousetrap, it has all the properties of design and none of the properties of natural selection" (Michael Behe, prof. of biophysics).

11) The problem of the impossibility of abiogenesis in general. "The concept of abiogenesis is not science. It's fantasy" (J.L. Wile, Ph.D.).

12) The fact that evolution was once used as support for the belief that Blacks (or others) are less than highly-evolved humans. "Darwin was also convinced that the Europeans were evolutionarily more advanced than the black races" (Steven Rose, author). He also "reasoned that males are more evolutionarily advanced than females" (B. Kevics, author).

13. The first and second laws of thermodynamics point clearly to a Creator, since things undergo entropy rather than get more orderly over time.

14. "Radiometric techniques may not be the absolute dating methods that they are claimed to be. Age-estimates on a given geological stratum by different radiometric methods are often very different. There is no absolutely reliable long-term radiological clock. The uncertainties inherent in radiometric dating are disturbing to geologists and evolutionists." William D. Stansfield, Ph.D., Instructor of Biology, California Polytechnic State University.

15. "Even total rock systems may be open during metamorphism and may have their isotopic systems changed, making it impossible to determine their geologic age." Prof. Gunter Faure (Department of Geology, The Ohio State University, Columbus.)

16 a). At current rates of erosion the amount of sea-floor sediments actually found do not support a "billions of years" age for the Earth.
b) The amount of Sodium Chloride in the sea, also, is a small fraction of what the "old Earth" theory would postulate.
c) The Earth's magnetic field is decaying too fast to extrapolate a long age for the Earth.
d) The rate of accumulation of Moon-dust has been measured; and the amount of dust on the Moon was found to be vastly less than what scientists had predicted before the Moon-landings.

See: Problems in Evolutionary astronomy

And: Evidence of a young Earth

e) Helium is generated by radioactive elements as they decay. The escape of this helium into the atmosphere can be measured. According to the Evolutionary age of the Earth there should be much more helium in the atmosphere, instead of the 0.05% that is actually there. The only way around this is to assume that helium is escaping into space. But for this to happen, the helium atoms must be moving at above the escape velocity, of 24,200 miles per hour. The usual speed of helium atoms is only 5,630 mph. A few atoms travel much faster than the average, but still the amount of helium escaping into space is only about 1/40th the amount entering the atmosphere.

This is an unsolved problem, concerning which the atmospheric physicist C.G. Walker stated: "There appears to be a problem with the helium budget of the atmosphere." Another scientist, J.W. Chamberlain, said that this helium accumulation problem "… will not go away, and it is unsolved."

Also see:

God's wisdom seen in His creations

More about God's wisdom

Dissent against Darwin

The facts

Discovering Creation

Understanding Creation

Answer 4

One verse that may help individuals reconcile belief in God with scientific understanding is Genesis 1:27, which states that humans are created in the image of God. This can be interpreted metaphorically rather than in a strictly literal sense, allowing for the acceptance of scientific evidence while maintaining faith in God as the ultimate creator. Ultimately, finding a balance between faith and scientific knowledge is a personal journey that may not inherently have a single specific verse to resolve all tensions.