There are major problems with evolution: it can’t explain the origin of life, multicellular organisms, or morality. Well, here’s another problem: irreducible complexity.

In creation we see systems that are essential to life that can’t work without every part being in place at the same time. For example, every living thing needs information to flow from three very different kinds of molecules: DNA, RNA, and proteins. Each needs the other two to function. If they weren’t all in place from the beginning, the system would be useless.

Slow, gradual changes can’t explain it. Only an all-wise Creator makes sense.

We all know certain things like kindness and justice are right and other things like cheating or self-centeredness are wrong. But why?

From an evolutionary perspective, morality must have evolved along with us. But how does an immaterial concept evolve in a supposedly naturalistic universe? And if we’re just animals, why is there such a thing as right and wrong anyway? Animals don’t have any concept of ethics. And if morality evolved, it can just evolve again so right and wrong aren’t absolutes but mere arbitrary standards.

Morality didn’t evolve. It came from our eternal Creator and is revealed in his Word.

There’s a rock layer called the Cambrian where, seemingly out of nowhere, pop fossils from forty major animal groups. It’s an explosion of life and diversity. But where did these lifeforms come from? The fossils in the layer below them are very different so even evolutionists don’t pretend they were their evolutionary ancestors.

Actually, the Bible explains this “Cambrian explosion.” As the floodwaters rose during the global flood, environments were buried one at a time, starting with the seafloor. These layers don’t represent different times in history, they represent different environments buried as the waters rose.

Yesterday we learned life can’t come from non-life. But let’s pretend for a moment it did . . . then what? How does the rest of life come about? The typical answer is “by natural selection and mutations.”

But most mutations are either harmful or neutral. A few have some positive effect only in certain environments. So, natural selection is only going to select for a very small number of mutations in very specific environments.

And both mutations and natural selection work with already existing genetic information. They can’t create anything!

Life didn’t arise by naturalistic processes. Life was created by God.

How did life begin?

You may’ve heard it happened in a small, warm pond or maybe an undersea vent. Or it began on another planet and life just happened to make it to earth at some point in the distant past. Well, these are interesting stories but they’re nothing but that—stories.

You see, one of the laws of nature is the law of biogenesis. This law says life only comes from other life. An exception to this rule has never been observed in nature or in the lab.

So how did life begin? It couldn’t have started from non-life. That’s impossible. Life came from the all-powerful life-giver, the Creator, just as he said in Genesis.

Many Christians today are questioning the existence of a historical Adam because of evolutionary ideas. Is this okay? Definitely not!

A historical Adam is foundational to the gospel. In the New Testament, Paul says, “The first man Adam” and “as death comes through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.” It’s because of the physical actions of the first man that there’s death in creation.

Without a physical Adam who sinned, why did Jesus need to come and die physically to save us from sin? And why did he need to rise physically to conquer death? Rejecting a historical Adam actually destroys the gospel!

This week, we’ve been looking at why we should teach our kids evolution. One: They’ll run into it eventually and they need a firm foundation in truth. And two: They have to know it to show why it’s wrong! And here’s a third reason:

If you don’t know what the other side believes, you’ll probably end up using some bad arguments. For example, some Christians argue, “If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes around?” Well, evolutionists believe we evolved from apelike ancestors, and apes are our cousins. So this is a bad argument.

Knowing what evolution teaches will certainly help us avoid mistakes like these.

The idea of evolution and millions of years is in direct opposition to what God’s Word teaches. It’s in Scripture that we get the true history of life and the universe. So, does this mean we shouldn’t teach our kids evolution?

Well, not exactly. You see, our young people need to be able to articulate the opposing position as well as demonstrate why it fails. This shows respect and intelligence. If you don’t know what those who disagree with you believe, how can you effectively dialogue with them or show why their ideas are wrong?

We need to show kids how the evidence confirms God’s Word and the weakness of the evolutionary view.

Evolutionary ideas directly contradict God’s Word. So, should we teach them to our kids? Well, eventually kids will run into evolution—and they need to be prepared with answers.

The Bible gives us the true history of the universe, and science confirms what we see. Instead of hiding opposing viewpoints from our kids, we should engage with them. We can show what the Bible says, how science confirms the Bible, and how bankrupt evolutionary ideas are.

It’s better for our kids to learn about evolution from someone who’ll point out the weaknesses and inconsistencies, rather than from someone who teaches it as dogmatic fact.

Have you ever been asked, “If there’s a good God, why is there so much death and suffering?”

Well, Genesis tells us. God created a perfect world. Then he gave the first man, Adam, a command and told him the penalty for disobedience was death. Adam chose to disobey, and his actions brought death and suffering into creation.

The bad things of this world aren’t God’s fault. Death and suffering exist because of Adam’s sin, and our continued sin. But we can look forward to the day when they will be gone—when Jesus restores creation to what it once was and all who trust in Jesus’ death and resurrection will live with him forever.