Jesus Believed In Evolution

I recently was engaged in a topic with a friend regarding the trials and tribulations of Evolution-ism versus Creationism. While I am myself someone who believes in Jesus Christ, I do have some ideas that stray from the conventional notions of "right wing" christians.

NO SUCH THING AS PROOF
Many times people want PROOF on one side or the other that Evolution and The Big Bang started everything, or that God Created everything. Let's be clear. There is no such thing as PROOF in religion or theory. It will either be based off of an educated guess or simply on faith. But on to the topic.

USING THE BIBLE WITH/AGAINST SCIENCE
To be entirely objective, you need to look at the bible as a book that is historically very accurate but still written by man and the theories of evolution and the big bang also the same. If you contend that a writing of man is being put to a writing of God, you are simply undone by a narrow reply that "God said it" and the like. I personally believe the Bible is the written word of God, but for the topic at hand, let's say it was written by man and is historically pretty accurate.

ARGUMENTS FOR CREATIONISM

1. No transitional fossils have been found to prove a phase of transition of one evolutionary form to another

1. Evolution as a theory posits that everything was created from nothing (i.e. the big bang)

1. In Genesis the Bible speaks to a creation as a literal six (seventh day rested) venture

1. Evolutionary reasoning is circular and therefore flawed

1. Certain animals do not exhibit evolutionary traits

ARGUMENTS FOR EVOLUTION

1. Dinosaurs (and their lack of mention in a scriptural text matching fossils)

1. The age of the earth (approx. 4.54 billion years)

1. Observed adaptation of animals based on surrounding areas

1. Mathematical formulation regarding the expansion and contraction of the universe

1. Biblical inconsistency regarding creation

1. M Theory

So rather than tackle each individual topic for each argument I am going to pose a series of thoughts and questions supporting how I think these two theories can work together. 

COULD GENESIS BE AN ALLEGORY FOR CREATION?

In the bible, Jesus is referred to as "The Word" several times. In Genesis it begins, "In the beginning there was the word and the word was God, and the word was with God." This lends most scholars to the theological notion that Jesus (who is the spoken word of God) was with God at the time of creation. My personal belief on this is that if it can be written allegorically regarding Jesus at this point, why can it not be that the creation story is an allegory explaining a larger concept? 

The literal story in Genesis DOES have some inconsistencies. For instance, it says that there was light on day one. Light comes from stars, which were not created until after day two. So where did this light come from? Additionally, Genesis posits the idea of a "day" but in the same context says that the first day the earth was formless and empty. A day is our interpretation of how long the earth revolves on its axis. If the earth was formless and empty, how could it revolve and create a day? Some people contend that there was morning (12 hours) and evening (12 hours) as is written in Genesis but the concept of morning itself is based on the time that the sun is rising in the sky. In fact, morning changes for each different time zone on the earth that you are in. So then morning and evening could not have existed on day one either, but then there could not be a day? Another idea that Genesis could be an allegory for a larger concept that was hard to understand.

Jesus in the new testament teaches us primarily using stories and parables. Each of the stories is used to teach a point that has a larger value and meaning than the actual context of the story. In fact, almost every time He has something to say He uses a parable. Would it not seem fitting that the Word of God, which is Jesus, would maintain the same mode of operation? Doesn't Jesus say that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever? This is yet another idea lending to the idea that Genesis could be an allegory. 

DINOSAURS?

If Genesis is an allegory then we are justified in our other thinking to resolve such conflicts as dinosaurs, the age of the earth, and biblical inconsistencies. Those simply dissolve because the time factors ascribed to that book are now open and suggest that God is a loving God who has compassion on people who cannot possibly understand existence outside of time, since we ourselves are bound to time.

Some Christians refer to monsters of the Bible as dinosaurs, but it's simply not compatible with what we currently know as a fact about some dinosaurs. They site Behemoth and Leviathan specifically because they are termed as monsters in the bible, but the bible itself refutes the idea that these could be the predator dinosaurs that we are speaking of:

Many people think Leviathan was a dinosaur. Specifically this is not plausible because not only is the etymology for the monsters name indicative that it was a sea monster that was not on land (mind you we have many "sea monsters" nowadays and we know less about our oceans than we do about space) but also  in Isaiah 27:1 he is called the "wriggling serpent" who will be killed at the end of time. If dinosaurs are extinct, then this verse cannot be true or Leviathan cannot be a dinosaur. 

Other people refer to Behemoth as a dinosaur. While initially I have to say that it was a tempting thought to jump into, when you look at the actual evidences it proves less plausible. Even the bible itself says "Behold now the behemoth that I have made with you; he eats grass like cattle" which is directly opposite of any of our dinosaurs that were meat eaters. 

By all factual data and word written in our own Bible, it is very unlikely that humans lived during the time of the dinosaurs. There is no recollection of men needing to slay dinosaurs and no archaeological findings that are consistent with the time periods and anything regarding humans and dinosaurs together. 

SETTLING THE BIG BANG AND THE CONCEPTS OF EVOLUTION

So there is never any one thing that will make people happy regarding evolution and creation. If you follow M Theory, it basically boils down to the concept of everything in the universe being determined by a vibration and how the tiniest organisms vibrate determines what they are. Look at this a little deeper in the context of Christianity.

A voice is nothing but your vocal chords VIBRATING. In the bible Moses cannot even look into God's face or he could very well be blown off the mountain. How much more do you think his voice could do? I look at this personally and I think that M Theory perfectly supports creationism. When God spoke the Word (Jesus), the vibrations that came from his mouth into our universe became everything that we know and they way they vibrate, which would vary depending on what He said, determines what they are. Some people say that this is silly, but Jesus said himself that if we kept quite that the stones would cry out, which means they would vibrate with the frequency of God. You can make any substance speak if you vibrate it at the right frequency - that's the basic concept of primitive vocal recording. 

If you get into the concepts of evolution, the actual theory is that : the phylogeny of all species is wholly ascribable to the combined effects of random variation (mutation) in genotypes of the members of a stock as a result of the operation of undirected accidents with consequences to their phenotypes and the operation of preferential (but by no means certain) survival of those resulting phenotypes most suited to survive in the contemporary environment. The proposed system survives largely because of genetic factors that avidly conserve the ontogeny of the stock.

Well here is the breakdown:  change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.

So the concept that things change over time you find that it is observably true. Things will change over time due mutation, survival of the fittest (natural selection) or genetics simply winning out. Darwin studied several birds that changed from generation to generation based simply on their location and the vegetation available to them. Things DO change over time, people, places and things. 

Jesus actually calls us to be changed ourselves by the renewing of our mind. Paul also suggests that Christians start on Milk and then move to solid food - suggesting that we change over time. The bible also says that when we accept Christ that we are a NEW creation. The OLD has passed away - another homage to evolution - the process of changing over time. The bible also says to daily repent, take up your cross, and follow Him. This again suggests that we need to be changing over time because we keep repenting of sins over time. 

If the concept of change over time in the bible is prevalent, change over time is prevalent in the observable universe, and the common consensus is that change over time is a reality, then why try to fight it?

THE DIALED DOWN VERSION OF ALL OF THIS (WHAT I BELIEVE)

I believe that my God is bigger than we can ever imagine. I believe that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to get to heaven. I believe that in the beginning, God spoke some sets of words and out of obedience our universe came to be and that (Similar to a comic book Multiverse) God can exist both inside and outside of this universe. I believe that since our universe is bound by time and space that any universes or areas beyond our universe are impossible to conceive. As a result, I believe that Jesus/God dial the concept of creation of our universe into a story that is much easier to dissect because I believe our God wants us to know things and gave us minds to think for a reason. I believe that when he spoke, matter of all kinds burst forth from his mouth which to our human mind and eyes might appear as coming from nowhere since we are bound by space and time and he was speaking from beyond space and time - which could be the formation of a singularity - that is God. I think that God told everything to go forth and reproduce because he created everything to change over time and by obeying Him they are furthering the purposes of His creation and show us beauty in the divine art that is evolution and the change that He commands of not only His creation but us. I believe that God is always the same and as a result when He speaks in parables and stories in the Bible it would make sense that He is the MASTER story teller so if he chose to make that story in Genesis loop itself like that He would then be lending that we look further with the spirit that He gave us to see that what we observe in his creation is His intent.