Evolution and Easter
Why evolution and at least one religion are incompatible.
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If evolution is the true explanation for human existence, then Easter is a farce.
How unscientific by modern sensibilities is it to believe that a human being, once dead for three days, became alive again?
And how utterly scientifically embarassing is the notion that this man was raised from the dead by his invisible father, whom the man claimed was the transcendent creator God of the universe?
And can we even dare in the 21st century to entertain the idea that this man was who he claimed to be: God himself, Emmanuel, a God-man, if you will?
And what about the claim of his biographers that this man can trace his lineage back to Adam, of all people?
What are we to make of such claims, especially among those who actually believe the claims are true, specifically about a man named Jesus?
Alternatively, what about those who choose to believe by faith that there is no God? For such people, if Jesus was a real person he must have been a liar or a lunatic (and, by extension, his followers must be liars or at least lunatic-ish).
Modern sensibilities—if not modern science—demand only one logical outcome: we must conclude that Jesus was a lunatic.
Modern sensibilities—if not modern science—demand only one logical outcome: we must conclude that Jesus was a lunatic.
Why?
Because modern science has thrown its lot in with those who choose to believe by faith that there is no God. At least there is no God who created human beings; human beings are the result of purely natural processes that never had us in mind. And for those true believers, evolution is the true creation story for human beings because it must be, because it is the only believable creation story for human beings.
And, if those who choose by faith that believe there is no God have chosen correctly, then all the claims of Jesus are not only false, they are nonsensical.
Liars and lunatics abound.
If evolution is true, there is no mechanism in nature to bring back to life that which is 3-days dead.
If evolution is true, Jesus was not "Emmanu-el, God with us." At best he appeared on earth as an evolved human, merely emmanu-is, man with us. Or more properly in evolutionary categories, Jesus arose as emmanu-behemah, beast with us. In evolutionary terms, it remains impossible for the fullness of a non-human (and likely non-existent) deity to dwell in any earthly body.
Further, if evolution is true, Jesus' lineage does not go back to Adam; a true Adam never existed. According to evolution, Jesus' lineage, like yours and mine, goes back to a sea sponge in the animal line (yes, look it up), and even further back to something like a bacterium as a first life form.
Finally, if evolution is true, Jesus was not risen, he remains dead. And Easter is a farce.
It seems that the popular notion that "evolution and religion can co-exist" is not true for all religions. The notion is definitely not true for a religion that claims a saviour who was a God-man came to earth, born in the lineage of the "first Adam" and who himself was called the "second Adam" in his cosmic redemptive work, and who was raised from the dead on behalf of all God's created image-bearers to save them from death and destruction caused by the sin of the first Adam's fall.
There is a lot in that last sentence; it may not even be gramatically sound. But what it means is that Easter and Evolution are incompatible; they cannot co-exist. One must be a lie proclaimed by liars and possibly lunatics, whether knowingly or not.
What are we to do?
Which one of Easter and Evolution should we rightfully reject as a lie, and possibly lunacy?
Think about it.
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