Evolution, but not all the time.
When the Apostle Paul went on his first missionary journey, he had
the Judaisers biting at his heels, telling him that the Gentiles could
not become believers in Jesus until they had fully converted to
Judaism and been circumcised. They were very persistent, following him
everywhere he went, and he wrote about his frustrations in his Epistle
to the Galatians. At the end of his first journey, he went to
Jerusalem to have the matter resolved, an event that is described in
Acts 15.
Sometimes, in my discussions of ancient history, I feel as if I am
in a similar position to Paul, being followed around by evolutionists
who constantly demand that I should "prove" that my
histories are correct. I have to explain to them that ancient history
is not like that. You have to work from a number of records from
various sources, sometimes originating from oral traditions, and you
have to look for the basis of fact that lies behind them. The Bible is
the most complete account of the early history of the world, and other
histories are found to agree with it when we look behind the facade of
mythology.
Those who constantly demand proof of ancient historical facts are
actually contributing nothing to the discussion. Their agenda is not
even the pursuit of history. They are just hecklers with an
evolutionist agenda, who feel threatened by the possibility that
ancient history might not lead them back to ape-like hominids.
My response to this is "I'm not interested".
I spend enough time already in philosophical and scientific
discussions about creation and evolution and I do not need to present
my histories in the sanitised framework of evolution just because some
people would prefer to have it that way. None of the histories point
in the direction of evolution. I frequently use the term "Creation
History", but there is no such thing as "Evolution
History" because no records have been passed down to us from
scribes who sat on high cliff-tops, writing down their observations as
dinosaurs evolved at a safe distance in the valley below.
If people want to pursue an evolutionist agenda, there are plenty of
opportunities for them to do so, but they should not imagine that
their theory has a basis in history, because it doesn't.
Mike Gascoigne
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