U.S. Rep. Paul Broun

Georgia Representative Paul Broun made some news with comments he made during a speech on September 27 at a sportsman’s banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell. The Congressman claimed that evolution is “lies straight from the pit of hell.”

An AP article about the speech presented the matter as if people should be astonished and outraged that there are some people who still do not believe that mankind evolved from tiny living molecules as a result of a lengthy series of amazingly fortunate mutations that occurred over a period of billions of years.

I, for one, am astonished and outraged that some people still believe in molecules-to-man evolution, an idea that has been called “a fairy tale for grownups”.

Genetic mutations are rarely beneficial, and they can’t explain the highly complicated systems that are found in the human body. It is much more logical to assume that there is a Creator who is responsible for human life.

This knowledge gives us a hope and a purpose for living that cannot be found in an evolutionist’s worldview.

Some Christians have tried to reconcile their faith in Jesus with a belief in evolution. This is a dangerous balancing act. While Jesus didn’t use the term “evolution”, he expresses the truth about the creation of mankind in Mark 10:6—“But at the beginning of creation God made them male and female.”

Jesus doesn’t believe in evolution; neither should we.