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
Anno Mundi Books