The Missing Link Between Creation and Evolution?

Is the missing link between creation and evolution a no man's land and mine field destroying all that dare traverse the space between spirituality and science?

Over the years what mine sweepers there have been were targeted by whichever camp they have ascended from. If they step forth in faith from the Church seeking diligently to express the biblical text accurately but cross the threshold of evolution and an initial creation time longer than six days they are considered heretical by many pew sitters.

Likewise scientists that prize the truths of science more dearly than espousing a philosophical Darwinism requiring more faith than facts are quickly labeled as traitors of evolutionary dogma and are cursed to the flames of Bunsen burner and beaker purgatory.

There is a popular and intellectual warzone to this conversation as it seems so much hinges upon the outcome. Atheists often decry any and all spiritual solutions even when science may point towards a Creator…because if there is a Creator we have the ultimate game changer. Those of the spiritual community often are so frightened to recognize any scientific solutions that conflict with long held Church micro-culture ideas that they often mistake those ideas with biblical facts.

Thus it is with some trepidation I step into the target zone, yet there is freedom in the mystery of creation…for mystery there is. Science cannot nail down all of the pertinent facts unequivocally and empirically. Also it should not lay enthralled with the latest’s hypothesis or theory nor be bound by those on the deathbed of philosophical first causes or supposed biological linkages.

The Church should not lay prone in churchianity, internal Church politics and false unbiblical historical suppositions and misconceptions but instead should embrace the linguistics with biblical history in regards to the accounts of creation within the scriptural text.

The best science of the day cannot prove a universe that lacks a Creator. Science also cannot move into the space of “without a shadow of doubt” with the initiation of universal biology. We lack sufficient data and cannot relive the beginning of creation in our present state. I strongly suspect we shall never be able to garner the information needed to make an absolute statement that there is no Creator…and I am guessing that most people feel the same about this…we shall need to await the end.

However sophisticated the science is in regards to these topics the theology is perhaps even more complex. Science is dealing with the finite realm of creation whereas the Church speaks forth truth from the scripture about the Creator Who is infinite. The Church response would be that although it speaks of the infinite it does not do such blindly as the Creator has chosen to interact with the finite with His own words and interventions in creation…specifically with humans and we have those records that are well preserved.

I am of the Church spiritual community, I devoutly hold to the biblical text because I believe it is true. I recognize that both the scientific community and the Church have a felt need to seem like they have all the answers. Yet the truth is they do not, both takes steps of faith…and at times both go well beyond their ability in attempts to prove their ideas.

The amount of time that the initial creation took is unimportant and the text lends itself to more than the one consideration than a six literal twenty four hour days of creation…indeed there are many ways of devoutly unfolding the biblical text in understanding creation. One could even say it seems there is an intentional mystery built into the text that disables the possibility of certainty of time on this topic…it seems that a “need to know basis” is presupposed…and we need not know…Yet we do know the Creator created, Adam and Eve charged into the Fall of the universe fruit in hands. The rest of the story of scripture then unfolded with God Himself becoming incarnate in the person of Jesus. If the Creator created everything the rest of the miracles are a piece of cake.

I find no conflict between genuine science and genuine biblical exposition. How God created the cosmos and biology of the universe is not presented with sufficient detail in either science or scripture for us to declare we know all of the facts. Mystery enriches the biblical text on the topic of creation…mystery that is an unbridgeable gap for science…

Could it be that this mystery is the missing link between creation and evolution?

Now for another point of view turn the page to my simulblog colleague the mystery girl MAX.