Old Earth Creation Science
Plausible Deniability
By Greg Neyman
© Old Earth Ministries
First Published 20 April 2007
Why would the God of the Bible create hominid species prior to creating Adam and Eve? This question has been a stumbling block for believers, and for non-Christian critics of the Bible. A possible solution for this problem is the term commonly known as “plausible deniability.”
Normally,
plausible deniability applies to any act which leaves little or no
evidence of wrongdoing or abuse, or knowledge of a fact.
It is often used in reference to government organizations.
To protect a person at the top of the chain of command, their
knowledge may be limited so that they cannot be blamed for an
incident.
This
can also be used to discuss God’s creation.
God created mankind with free will.
He did this for a very specific reason.
If God wanted to, he could have created mankind to worship
Him, and forced them to do so.
But God did not want an army full of slaves.
God wanted people in heaven who would choose to worship Him.
Therefore, they must have the option not to worship Him.
In
order to give people this option, God needed to have some form of
plausible deniability.
Mankind had to have the ability not to attribute the creation of the
world to a supreme being.
An old earth, with an alternative to believe in naturalistic
evolution, gives mankind an option for plausible deniability of a
creator. Hominid
species prior to Adam and Eve add to the plausible deniability of
God as the creator, and they can only be reconciled with the Bible
if you assume an old earth creation.
Young earth ministries spend countless hours (and money) trying to
prove from science that the earth is young.
If they were successful scientifically, it would force
everyone on earth to admit there was a creator who made the world.
People would be forced to believe, whether they wanted to or
not. There would be no
more “free will” to believe in a creator.
This is the main reason that young earth ministries fail.
God, through His infinite wisdom, designed the world so that
we could not prove His existence.
We cannot prove a global flood, we cannot prove the earth was
created in six 24-hour days.
Thus, young earth creationism is a lost cause.
We
can, however, prove that the earth is billions of years old, and
that there was life on the earth for billions of years.
It can be reconciled with the Bible, and you can believe in
God…if you choose to.
Belief in God requires faith, and the consistent story that appears
throughout the books of the Bible, written over a span of thousands
of years by many authors, lends credibility to the truthfulness of
God’s Word.
People can also deny God, and believe we are the product of chance. God will not force people to believe by providing them with proof of His existence. It is your choice…choose wisely.
If you are not a Christian, and you have been holding out on making a decision for Christ because the Church always preached a message that was contrary to what you saw in the scientific world, then rest assured that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, and you can believe in Christ and receive salvation, while still believing in an old earth. Click here for more.
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young earth creationism? Now that we have shown the many
difficulties of the young earth creation science model in this and
many other articles, how does this impact your Christian life?
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