I believe in evolution. I just believe that God created and directed
evolution. I wonder how many folks in this newsgroup share my belief?

I used to believe in evolution, basically because in grade school and high
school and college that's all I was taught. Because that's what is
displayed in museums as though it is a proven fact. Theistic evolution
attempts to say that both the Bible and evolution are true, that God used
evolution to bring about life as we know it. I tried to believe that, too,
for a while, but the two systems won't mesh.

Nowhere in the Genesis account is there room for long ages of time. In
fact, on the other hand, each day of creation is clearly delineated as a day
with an "evening and a morning." I also point out that vegetation was
created on the third day, before the Sun, Moon and stars on the fourth day.
If the days were long ages, the plants would have died without light on the
night of day three!

I also point out that evolution requires death, and random, violent death at
that. Yet Genesis explicitly says the results of each creation day were
good or very good. Random, violent, continuing death over billions of years
does not fit with this good, ordered creation of a loving God. In fact,
death only came into the world only after Adam brought sin into the world
(Romans 5:12, I Corinthians 15:21). Thinking on these distinctions, and
many others, lead me to turn away from theistic evolution, and then
evolution.

Books like Henry M. Morris' Genesis Record, Walter Brown's In the Beginning
(found on the web at www.creationscience.com/), or Lee Strobel's Case for
Creation do an excellent job of showing that evolution and biblical
creation are two distinct models for the world and how it came about. In
fact, the only two.

Steve