The Origin of Our Origins

There is no conflict between the Bible and science that is evidence-based. The conflict is between belief in the Biblical Worldview and belief in a non-biblical worldview. If a claim about nature is not testable or observable and then confirmable, it is not science.

Evolution requires belief. In his On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin wrote about his "belief in the transmutation of species" (p302), that "The theory of natural selection is grounded on . . . belief" (p320), and that he believed we descended from one common ancestor (p484).

Darwin believed in evolution because he had no evidence. He admitted that "the whole volume is one long argument" (p459). Observations show that biological change is limited and research indicates that evolution is/was not by chance mutations. Additionally, chance does not cause anything. It is a philosophical term and may not even exist.

Finally, experiments have repeatedly shown that life does not arise from non-life. Similarly, we did not descend from stardust either. Besides violating the principle of cause and effect, astronomical discoveries are proving that the Big Bang is science fiction. Like evolution, chance, and life from non-life, the Big Bang has to be believed.