The debate between creation and evolution feels like a clash between faith and science. But what if that’s a false choice?

After years of scientific research, Dr. Manahan reached a profound conclusion: True science and God’s Word confirm each other.  Yet most people never examine the evidence themselves. They accept popular narratives without scrutiny. And that’s a tragedy, because the honest, evidence-based case for creation is far stronger than most skeptics realize.

The Problem With “Evolution” as We Know It

Before diving into creation, it’s important to distinguish between two very different claims:

Microevolution (variation within species) is observable and uncontested. A population of beetles develops darker coloration to gain a camouflage advantage against soot-stained backgrounds. Finches in the Galápagos show variation in beak size due to natural selection, differing food sources, and changing environmental pressures This is simply adaptation—life responding to its environment.

But there’s an unobserved critical leap made by evolutionists between microevolution and macroevolution (one species transforming into a fundamentally different species). And this is where honest science must pause and face the fact that macroevolution has never been observed.

What The “Big Bang” Theory Actually Says (And Doesn’t)

The Big Bang theory describes the expansion of the universe from an extremely hot, dense state. It does not explain the origin of that state.

Ask yourself: Where did the initial energy come from? What caused the Big Bang itself?

Here, science reaches its limit. Physics has no answer. The law of cause and effect—one of science’s most fundamental principles—suddenly ceases to apply. The universe itself seems to be exempt from the rule that “everything that begins has a cause.”

Yet we accept this philosophical leap without question, because the alternative—an eternal, intelligent Creator—is deemed “unscientific.”

But consider: If the universe required a cause, why doesn’t that cause require a cause? At some point, you arrive at either:

1. An eternal, uncaused cause (which is what God is), or
2. An endless chain of causation (which is logically impossible)

Scripture proposes the former: “In the beginning, God created…” An eternal, self-existing being who requires no explanation outside Himself.

The Information Problem

Here’s where the evidence becomes striking: Life is defined by information.

Every organism carries genetic instructions—DNA—a molecular code that specifies how to build living systems. This code is so precise that scientists use it to identify and classify species. It is, fundamentally, information.

Now ask: Where does information come from?

In our entire experience, information arises from intelligence. A written sentence comes from a writer. A building’s blueprint comes from an architect. A computer program comes from a programmer.

Yet when confronted with the staggering complexity of genetic information—a code more sophisticated than any human invention—science insists it arose by accident, through blind processes over billions of years.

This isn’t a rejection of evidence. It’s an observation that the materialist worldview forces us to accept a premise that contradicts what we observe everywhere else—information arising spontaneously without intelligence.

What True Faith and True Science Share

Here’s what Dr. Manahan discovered after a lifetime of research: The honest scientist and the sincere believer share the same conviction—that order, information, and complexity point to intelligence.  No one was around when the universe was created.  It is impossible to scientifically prove any theory on the origin of the universe.  This is because science requires repeatability, and the origin of the universe cannot be repeated.  So, Creation theory and Big Bang/Evolution theory both have scientific basis and both require faith since neither can be proven.

A Better Question

Instead of asking “Creation or Big Bang/ Evolution?” ask: “What does the scientific evidence best agree with?”

In Chapter 8 of The Great Contest, it has been argued that acceptance of either creation or evolution theory requires faith, since no cosmogony can be proved with scientific rigor. However, credible evidences are available which support a young earth (~6,000 years old) consistent with the creation narrative in the Bible. The principles of science can be used to study and evaluate theories of the origins. The laws of thermodynamics are robust and get to the heart of the issue. Since the Bible presents creation in terms that are consistent with the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and evolution/big bang does not, it can be argued that it requires significantly more faith to align with the evolution/big bang theory.