Virgin Birth Evidence of Evolution?
Interesting thought, huh? It kind of makes you think of a woman, the first woman in the world, capable of conceiving a baby without the need for a man… a new trait for humanity, which Natural Selection would select either for against as a desiralbe trait for mankind. Except Jesus never had kids by which to pass it on… and we’re unaware of Mary’s other children or desendents repeating a virgin birth. Well, that isn’t what I was tallking about anyway.
What I noticed about Jesus’ conception is the balance between humanity and divinity. On the one hand, Jesus has a physical ancestry going all the back to Adam and beyond. On the other hand, God took one of Mary’s eggs and added a extra somethin’ somethin’ for Jesus to be conceived. The result? In the same way that all of Mary’s human lineage is Jesus’ lineage, all of the God the Father’s divine “lineage” was Jesus’ lineage. When given the choice between creating Jesus naturally or super-naturally, God did both. Amazing, huh? Yet, we Christians believe it.
So then, why do argue amongst ourselves between whether God created the plants, fish, birds, mammals, beasts, and man naturally or super-naturally? Why couldn’t He have done both? I have been proposing that God created every species from a different species. I do not believe this because God had to, and I am unaware of any natural law by one species is proven capable of producing another. However, I do know that whether or not a mechanism can be found, the Fossil Record indicates it happened. Whatever else science can find out, it has been unsuccessful at bridging that gap.
Genesis on the other hand records the creation of species from other species (fish teeming “according to their kind” for example). And Genesis even records God empowering the earth to help Him out. Let the earth bring forth such-and-such according to their kind. There was a kind, and the earth was not creating anything new from it… but God commanded that it be allowed to. Natural mixed with super-natural, yet completely under God’s active control. That is what the Gospel teaches.