Yesterday we learned the creation/evolution battle isn’t about evidence—it’s a battle over two different interpretations of the same evidence.

Consider that we all study the same plants and animals. Now evolutionists interpret what they see through the lens of the evolutionary tree of life, believing all of life is related to each other.

Creationists look at the same plants and animals through the lens of the Bible’s history, that God created living things according to their kinds. We understand God put massive amounts of diversity into each kind so they can adapt to a changing world.

Same evidence, but different views.

Creationists and evolutionists both study the same universe and come to very different interpretations! Why? Well, as we’ll see this week, it’s because it’s not really about the evidence. It’s about how you interpret the evidence, based on your worldview.

You see, when it comes to interpreting the world around us, there are really only two options: man’s word or God’s Word. Either we start with the eyewitness account of history given to us by God, or we start with the reasoning of sinful, fallible human beings who weren’t there!

Your starting point determines your worldview and your worldview, well, that determines your interpretation.

All this week we’ve looked at supposed missing links and found that, well, missing links keep going missing! It seems every time something is called a “missing link” it’s just a matter of time before more research shows it wasn’t a missing link after all.

So why do they keep looking? Well, because evolutionary scientists, in their own foolish wisdom, think they can use the present to explain the past. But they’re neglecting the eyewitness account of history in God’s Word!

And why is this? Well, because they have a heart that suppresses the truth. And the only answer is the gospel of Jesus that opens eyes to see the truth.

In the evolutionary story, birds evolved as dinosaur arms slowly became longer and then transitioned to wings. Well, that’s the story anyway.

A number of years ago a group of researchers studied a wide range of bird fossils and concluded birds—and their limbs—appear abruptly. There’s no slow and gradual change just birds that look like birds all of a sudden!

In the biblical worldview that makes sense. Birds have always been birds. And it wasn’t until later in the flood that birds were overwhelmed and buried so it makes sense their fossils just appear out of nowhere.

Missing links, well, they’ll always be missing!

In the 1970s scientists discovered, “Lucy,” a new species they claimed was the missing link. Now creationists read the papers and easily concluded: Lucy was an ape!

Her skull, hips, and knee all looked ape-like. And later fossils showed she had ape hands and feet—something evolutionists didn’t expect!

So why the label of missing link? Well, she has some unique features. And whenever evolutionists find variety, they claim that’s evidence of evolution. But variety exists in every kind God made—including the ape kind!

Nothing about Lucy’s skeleton says “sort of human,” unless you’re determined to make it fit evolution.

In the evolutionary worldview, millions of years ago a fish sprouted legs and crawled out onto land, beginning the evolution of amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds. And one fossil has been held up as the “proof” for years.

Tiktaalik is a fish fossil that supposedly had the beginnings of “legs.” Is this creature the missing link? Well, no. Like many other lobe-finned fish today, it had unique fins, but they’re still fins, designed for swimming, not crawling. And as more research has been done, scientists are realizing there’s problems with the “missing link” idea.

Missing links are missing because we didn’t evolve!

When researchers uncovered the first Archaeopteryx fossil they were puzzled. It looked like a bird, had feathers like bird, but also had teeth and a long bony tail. What was it?

Well, evolutionists have long upheld Archaeopteryx as a missing link between birds and dinosaurs. But what’s the evidence for that? Well, this creature had a few features that are different from today’s birds. But we expect variety within kinds. After all, God’s creation is bursting with diversity!

And it’s worth noting those unique features were fully formed. This creature wasn’t slowly changing into anything else—no, it’s a bird that stayed a bird!

Climate change is one of today’s hot topics, influencing everything from policy to couples’ decisions about children. When you really dig into it, the whole climate change discussion is really a religious one—are we God? Do we control the fate of the earth?

The Bible says no—God created this earth, it didn’t evolve, and ultimately the future is controlled by the sovereign God. Our job is not to force the results we think we want. Our mandate is to be good stewards, taking godly dominion over creation.

And God has promised seedtime and harvest will continue as long as earth endures. We don’t control the future—God does!

Our culture is very confused about the value of human life. They claim to value everyone but then celebrate the murder of unborn children, promote racist ideas, and support euthanasia. It’s all so inconsistent!

But we can be consistent when we start with God’s Word. God has created each person, in his image, fearfully and wonderfully. And since we all descended from Adan and Eve, we’re all one race.

Now we live in a sin-cursed world, so every person is a sinner, that explains the hatred, intolerance, and evil humans inflict on each other. And the answer to that’s the same for every person—salvation through Jesus Christ!

What is a woman? Well, that question’s sparked a lot of debate. One Justice even said she couldn’t answer because she’s not a biologist!

But you don’t need a biology degree because God has told us in his Word. You see, God created a male and a female at the very beginning. And they were clearly different! Adam was made first from the dust and then Eve from his side. Adam was commanded to tend the garden, Eve was created and described as a “helper” and a “mother.” Yes, man and woman are different—by design!

Our culture is confused because they’ve left God’s Word. When we start with Scripture we have answers beginning in Genesis.