It’s bad enough that bad science leads to false theories. It’s worse when a “Christian” pastor speaks ignorantly and denies God’s holy and inerrant Word. Such is the case with the Rev. Robert R. Richardson, senior pastor of Interbay Community Open Bible Church.
In an interview with Fox News (click here to see it), he makes the claim that Holy Scripture and the Big Bang theory are completely compatible with each other. He downplays the language of Genesis 1, which repeatedly states: “there was evening and there was morning the [number] day.” Actually, he broadens the definition of the word day to mean a very long time period, all in an attempt to accommodate the theory of evolution. Click here for a video commentary on the Genesis text, the false assumptions of science, and a scholarly presentation of the Hebrew word day (yom).
What Richardson fails to see is that evolution completely contradicts Holy Scripture. The evolutionary theory is built on the assumption that man evolved from lesser creatures over a series of millions or billions of years. Countless species died as time progressed.
Do you see the contraction? Holy Scripture teaches that death did not enter God’s very good creation until after Adam and Eve fell into sin. Evolution teaches that death was part and parcel of this world long before humanity came into being. Both cannot be true. Creation and evolution are not compatible. Holy Scripture teaches the truth. Bad science teaches a false theory.
I don’t expect a non-Christian to take God or His Word seriously. I do, however, expect a Christian to take both seriously. God is the Creator. All things came about as the Father, through the Son, spoke them into existence. It is that simple and that complex. True science does not contradict God’s Word, but bows to God’s Word. What’s more, faith adds its Amen!
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” [Genesis 1:1ff]
“In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.” [Exodus 20:11]
“From the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’” [Mark 10:6]
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” [John 1:1-3]
“By Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible.” [Colossians 1:16]
“By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.” [Hebrews 11:3]
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they existed and were created.” [Revelation 4:11]
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