Evidence

last night I watched an episode o the "Big Bang Theory" in which Sheldon rebuffs his mother's belief in "Noah's floating zoo" against the evidence of Darwinian Evolution. This morning I was reading the biblical account of God's call to Noah to build that boat. Which am I to accept, the evidence of science or the testimony of Scripture?  Both!

Evidence does not mean proof. The fact that a man and a monkey have similar features and attributes can be seen as evidence that man came from apes but it is not proof that such an evolutionary path actually exists. When I was young, we had an outhouse. The house we lived in had similar features and attributes but the house did not evolve from the outhouse, they were simply designed similarly.

The evidence of the similarity of man and monkey is as much evidence of similar design as it is evolution. The proof of either is not in the evidence. There must be a leap of faith in either case to arrive at a conclusion.  By the way - where is all the archeological evidence for all the intermediate forms from monkey to man?  There are millions of monkeys and millions of men, so where are the millions of evolutionary forms in between?  Yeah, they aren't there.

On the other hand, I see design and evidence of a common Designer everywhere I look. Why wouldn't there be similarities between species if the same Creator is responsible for them all. Would we expect God to use legs only once and then scrap them after that?  Aren't lungs a pretty good idea for most land dwellers?

Noah's ark, by the way, isn't without evidence. There ish evidence for a world-wide lid such as aquatic fossils in mountains and a catastrophic shift allowed once temperate areas to become tundra.  I've climbed on huge clay deposits in Kansas that have evidence of aquatic life forms embedded in them. Just how did they get there?

So no, Sheldon, evolution is not proven - far from it. You, like your mother will have to step out in faith based on the evidence of the world and universe around us.  And I, for one, accept the biblical testimony that "...since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities---his eternal power and divine nature---have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made..." (Rom 1:20).  Jus' Say'n.