Creation Biologists

The term "Creationism" is often associated with a belief in a young Earth of several thousand years. However, all Christian Creationism indicates a belief that God created our universe, life and diverse species. Therefore, some Creationists think a Big Bang, billions of years ago, started things rolling. The question many are grappling with is how, in the sense of in how much time and by what means, God did it.

Some Christians don't think it is very important for us to know the details. They say that faith in the Trinity (Father, Son, Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit) is the focal point, and they are right about that. However, in the culture of our day, two of the factors that draw many people away from our faith are philosophical materialism and scientism, which go hand in hand. Scientists in general insist we may not even consider that God formed anything physical, such as a species (much less life), directly. Science, they say, has all the answers and religious belief only gets in the way. Many Christians therefore emphasize the need to be precise about where they think God truly came into the Creation process.

Humans are complicated and honest motives vary, much less accusations of dishonest motives from various sources. Christians are suspected of disguising the truth no matter our knowledge of facts, or being so unintelligent that we fail to see that scientists will figure it all out in the end. To make things worse, among Christians there are some deep disagreements of opinions, especially when it comes to evolution of life.

In contrast to Christians who believe God directly created life and at least some of its types supernaturally, there are advocates of "Theistic Evolution" (TE) who think God made species, including humans, through the Darwinian processes of mutation and natural selection. Their science is basically the same as the secular scientists' version, except that we are supposed to imagine God was somehow involved.

One of the main proponents of TE has been Francis Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. He has made it a mission to convert Christians to Theistic Evolution. Why would this difference matter so much?

Dr. Collins promotes research that includes the use and destruction of human embryos and human fetal tissue. He encourages human cloning and human-animal chimeras, that is, the mixing of animal and human genetic material in single individuals. David Prentice, PhD, and vice president and research director of Charlotte Lozier Institute, a life-promoting agency, called for a replacement of Collins as director for NIH in an article in USA Today (April 25, 2017), linked HERE. Prentice provided background material that clearly documented Collin's stance on these issues. The link is HERE. Information on Dr. Prentice is HERE.

Collins says research on human fetal and embryonic tissue is needed for the sake of improving medicine. But this falls into the category of those in power profiting from the helpless and oppressed. Anyone who considers the human fetus and embryo “real” humans can see the problem.

Many people are convinced that the worldview of totally materialistic evolution blunts the idea of the dignity of humans and their worth. Though some think this reasoning does not follow, those who don’t see the value of the forming yet unborn humans may have subtly obtained this mindset from the very pervasiveness of the Darwinian theory, which is based on random events. How seriously should we take ourselves if we came about by accident? Even Christians become confused, especially with the emphasis our culture has, not only on science, but on philosophical materialism.

Another aspect of evolution in the devaluing of human life is the potential for racism. I have an article from a prominent research journal that describes a study about DNA. Though the “Out of Africa” human evolution and migration theory pervades our thinking, I was still shocked to see that the DNA of people of African descent was actually used as research material for “less evolved.” There have now been fossils of humans found in other areas of the world that have put this long and hard-held theory into question (see article HERE), and the whole theory of humans from non-humans should be put to rest this instant.

Many people fear Creationism stops science. But in just one example, Darwinian evolutionists had insisted that much of our DNA was “junk,” and this is turning out to be untrue. This belief had stopped science for many years, as well as other similar cases. An atom is an atom, no matter your faith. We can all make progress together.

“Creation Biology” (CB) is a catch phrase, since it doesn’t spell out all aspects of Creationism, including age of the Earth. But CB points out the falsification of Darwinian evolution no matter whether the Earth is 4-some billion years old or several thousand. CB infers that no human being was born of any other species. “Creation Biologists” can advocate that life itself was created supernaturally by God and that not all of the other diverse life forms came from a single origin. We can believe all human life is very special, created directly by God in His own image.

Creation Biology is obviously a subject of great interest to me. I would like to someday get involved in discussions at Catholic Answers Forums about Creationism now that I finished the latest CB series on the blog, with the related posts since October of 2019 in particular. Though I’ve been writing about biology a long time, I learned a lot in doing these recent entries and I am glad for the time and opportunity I had to do them. I’d like to share them more than I am doing by writing my blog alone, and yet I want to learn about some other subjects before getting tied up at the Forums, which looks pretty inevitable if you get involved with anything related to the subject of Creationism or evolution. I ask God to guide me, so I do my best to try to follow Him and trust He will use this work as He will. Thanks to anyone who has taken time to read my posts.