Reproducing a Controversy

Spirituality Column #45
September 18, 2007
Current! In Carmel (IN) Newspaper

Reproducing a Controversy
By Bob Walters

In a recent Sunday morning Bible study on Genesis 1 my friend Tom, a scientist, posed a great creation-vs.-evolution question:

How did sexual reproduction evolve?

That’s a real stumper. Cells (maybe God’s most underrated miracle) can divide to the satisfaction of an evolutionist who’d rather not accept the Creator God’s existence, but sex isn’t just a dividing; it’s a joining then a dividing. How could it evolve? No room there for evolutionary trial and error. Either you reproduce on the first try or you don’t get another generation to, um, evolve.

Like they taught in journalism school, you can’t get a little bit pregnant.

The first chapter of Genesis of course is the story of how God in the beginning over six days created 1. the heavens, the earth and light, 2. land, 3. seeds and vegetation, 4. the stars, sun and moon, 5. birds and fish, and 6. animals and Man (male and female; created Man in His own image).

You have to read Genesis 2 to get details of Adam and Eve, which – I guess – is the detailed version of Day 6. A lot of people stop right there and start arguing about man versus woman or how all that could happen in one day or in one week.

They forget it’s about God, not about them.

I think it’s easier just to believe Genesis and move on to what the story says to us about God in this one life we live.

In the unfallen and perfect world of Genesis 1 and 2 (the “fall,” aka “sin,” happens in Genesis 3), morality wasn’t yet an issue. Since the “fall,” morality – knowing right from wrong – is mankind’s second biggest issue next to our salvation in Christ.

If God created it – sexual reproduction, that is – He must have thought it was pretty important. Maybe we should respect all that He has to say about it.

Walters (rlwcom@aol.com) notes that God created light (Day 1) before creating the stars and the sun (Day 4). So then, what is light? Hint: Jesus Christ.