I Help College Students Understand the Case for Creation Over Evolution

uh my name is Jaden um and the topic I want to raise is about like Evolution versus creation um so it's not as political but it certainly has political implications uh and for reference I was raised Catholic um and it never really resonated with me it always felt a little overbearing and I could never find like truth in in uh a Catholic or a Christian worldview um and I started just like reading books and listening to podcasts that talk a lot about Evolution and natural selection and those principles uh and I find that's a much better lens to look at the world like for instance you talk about like a meritocracy all that is is uh natural selection like the cream Rises to the top I mean it it's apparent in so many fields like look around at all these beautiful buildings this that comes from architecture like the good ideas stick the bad ideas Fall Out of the gene pool um and I I want to know why like your thoughts on natural selection and why it doesn't apply to humans yeah this not this is not a topic I know the best but I have strong opinions on so you have to understand I'm not as literate as I should be but I'm a strict creationist but that's fine but there's there's spectrums on creationism and evolution so do you do you acknowledge that maybe God created the evolution as a shepherded Evolution throughout time because that that's a nuanced opinion I acknowledge that there's a distinct beginning to the universe um every like Albert Einstein for instance against his original view believe is there a beginner that's the question and what who is that beginner why is Christ it has to be right uh yeah just by because the laws of L okay great so then there is that beginner is God or the idea of God right and so then we as creationists believe Universe has a beginning end point right a beginning point and an end point yep we believe it's God I can walk you through why I believe that in the shortest period of time but as far as creation um Evolution hinges on far more faith than creation to believe that the way that we are currently composed and having species change is an Act of Faith now Darwin was more of an adaptionist than an evolutionist in the sense that he proved adaptation but he did not prove Evolution he theorized Evolution he could be right I don't think he is but he he through his finches he wrote that yes animals or birds will adjust to the environment of which they are in we do not have any evidence nor can you you can guess in the fossil record of actual species change does that make sense yep there's a lot of like uh psychological things too in humans like one example I'll bring up is I mean would you say as a general rule of thumb uh like women are the sexual Gatekeepers and men are the sexual pursuers this like that distinction can be explained by Evolution right uh a female's eggs in her body is a finite resource whereas a man's sperm is basically infinite meaning the woman has to protect there's more of a cost when she has to raise a baby but maybe God God maybe God God made it that way right maybe but a lot of things like that uh Point towards evolution of some sort for sure but I think you would I I think you're close because you're marveling in the design yep and and therefore we believe it it was designed I think Evolution can give off the impression of design because it is so intricate um even like something like religion I could I would explain in terms of evolution and natural selection like over time religions change for instance there's plenty of denominations of Christianity um so like religion is not a uh I don't want to spend too much time on this but I think you would agree with our perspective that even looking at this subjectively with reason there's something improbable of our existence yeah right yeah and that in probability could be a rooll of the dice of chromosomal gene mutations over trillions years or it actually could be something a lot simpler which is there's something above us that just designed us and so I actually think the designing argument is far more rational because you look at how we're built you look at the trillions of chromosomes within us how our body works the DNA sequencing it's hard to believe all that is an act of the dice and that is what evolution contests is that it's a lot of it would be like rolling Snake Eyes 23 billion times in a row that's how that's how improbable evolution is uh my contention with that would be like evolution is like it's unchanging it's not it doesn't put us at the center of everything um so a lot like a lot of people explain it's like the good of the species but truly it's just the good of the gene passing on the genes that stick it can be subconscious course I don't disagree with any of that we just think all of that was designed into us right so so is your belief that God made the universe and then I I believe I believe what the scriptures say which is that God created the Earth and then God created man and that we are here the the period of time I don't get into strong opinions is 6,000 years 6 million years I don't really care that much I think it's more important morally that God predated the universe the universe was made at his Direction then nature was made then animals were made then man was made in that sequencing and I think that's an important sequence thing yeah and I agree that there should be if we believe that there's a start of the universe there has to be a beginner um and I also like disagree with like ethical subjectivism where that's like you're entitled your own moral I feel like there is one truth there has to be there has to be right and your argument is God provides us that truth Through the Bible but then why is your truth the truth yeah no that's a great question so because with both through both reason and Revelation though so God gives us both revelation of of course is the scriptures reason is our ability to interact with the natural world to see if the scriptures are actually true so why is Christianity true well first let's just test the Ten Commandments if you follow the ten commandments your life will be objectively better and your Society will be objectively better right I mean not killing not murdering not stealing honoring your parents not having anything above the idea of a sovereign God right resting for one day a week um you know not lying these are things that we can all agree like okay that's a good way to build Society but let me just one thing the whole the the two Miracles that Christianity hinges upon is creation which I think you're almost there is that there was a beginning to everything in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth and then the resurrection and the resurrection is the greatest most documented miracle in human history and we believe of course it to be true uh it defies every other historical explanation that like so in order for an atheist to be able to wrestle with the resurrection you must answer who is Jesus Christ okay what happened to his body why did all of his followers die a death voluntarily afterwards uh why were all the original Witnesses women which in the old world you never would have had women Witnesses right a lot of misogyny back then um why did we have all these people that from for from first from the first threshold the second threshold uh eyewitnesses say that Jesus Christ rose from the dead so all of this you know Cannon and I don't expect you to believe it is hinging on that one event so it's not about Jonah the whale it's not about part of the red SE it's creation Resurrection that's it and if those two things are true everything else in the Bible can be true does that make sense yeah and I agree that uh like as from for an atheist to try to disprove theism or or at least Christianity it would be almost impossible to say why why would people die to say Jesus died on the cross for me and I saw it why would I admit like I I'm from your perspective like why would I admit yeah yeah I saw him die and rise from the dead well yeah for example and so again the the the answer people would give is like the Jonestown cult that people could do really crazy stuff if they're convinced by a certain leader I don't I'm not convinced by that argument but for example like James the half brother of Jesus Paul who had no reason whatsoever formerly Saul persecuted Jews laid a great life converted to Christianity died a terrible death in prison um from the upside down uh resurrection of Thomas like these people had no reason to Die the way they did yet they saw something that compelled them to all of a sudden put everything on the line which was the belief that Jesus rose from the dead now believe this is what's crazy the Romans gave them an opportunity saying you can believe in Jesus you just can't say he rose from the dead they said no I refuse to give an inch on that and so there's something there so powerful that inspired an early church across an entire region and religion that swep the world and so that's enough for me to believe that it's true yeah not to not to mention we have four different actually you count acts five different eyewitness accounts Matthew Mark Luke and John and then acts of different perspectives of This One Singular event and then we have Josephus and then we have the second and third rate um historians that say that something happened in this region at that time and and then also I don't expect you to be persuaded by this but accepting Jesus in my life changed everything for me it changes your perspective changes your worldview changes who you are from within and it gives you purpose that nothing else can explain so I I appreciate hearing your input on it thank you so much y