EVOLUTION:  Is It a Threat   Each day we hear more and more about the theory of evolution and scientists would have us believe that it is a fact and not a theory.  Is this theory a threat to Christianity?  In some ways, yes, and in others, no.   The only way it is a real threat to believers and the Christian faith is if people are convinced of the idea that science is the final authority over life and they replace God and His word as their guide to life.   Science is a wonderful tool, if kept within its scope, and has informed us of many details concerning this world which the Bible could not do for if it did, its pages would be so numerous no one would want to pick it up and read it.  Not even the most fanatical of believers.   God, in His wisdom, knew this and provided enough detail to show His creation what He did in the beginning of human existence and time.  At no time was He going to bore or over-whelm the reader of His words with facts that are redundant to His purpose.  His purpose in writing Genesis 1 was to inform mankind of what HE DID not how He did it.   How He did it is not pertinent to our lives and has no effect on how we live except to give believers confidence that God is so powerful our enemies do not stand a chance.    The main problem with evolution is that its origin is in secular man who have rejected genesis one and have sought to find alternatives to that reality and those Christians who advocate marrying the theory of evolution with God  ignore the fact that they are denying what God has said in the Bible.   That is a dangerous position to take.  The other problem is why would God wait 1900+ years to reveal the details of His creative work through a self-confessed unbeliever?  Why would He let billions of people die without knowing the truth?  Such an idea flies in the face of Whom God is and undermines and denies His self-confessed characteristics.  Who can have a faith in such a God?   Scientists also make the mistake of thinking that the field of science can do no wrong and that all science is good.  How far from the truth as the Bible says otherwise.  1 Timothy 4:1 tells us: ‘The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come from hypocritical liars…”then in verse 4 it says: “…For everything God created is good…”   The in 2 Timothy 3:13 we read: “…while evil men and imposters will go from bad to worse deceiving and being deceived…”  Science is subject to the fall of man and is corruptible, fallible and prone to deception and this includes the theory of evolution.  All the fields of science have limitations and we believers must keep this in mind as it is not the final authority concerning life, it is not God but it has been made a god as sinful men seek alternatives to the Bible.