Do Only Christians Believe in Creation?
This will shock some, but a person does not have to be a Christian in order to believe in Creationism. One of the geniuses in our history believed God created the universe and he was not a Christian. Know who I'm talking about? Thomas Jefferson!
Respect for the name Thomas Jefferson reaches far beyond the United States and far beyond the English language. By the time Jefferson was 14, he could read four languages. He later learned three more. Jefferson's legacy goes far beyond his accomplishments in law and government.
He also made his mark in the fields of mathematics, architecture, medicine, agriculture, literature, education, music and science.
He earned three doctorates. And he served as president of the American Philosophical Society, America's leading scientific organization of the time, for nearly 20 years.
One might think that Jefferson would have accepted the evolutionary ideas that were being circulated then by such people as Charles Darwin's grandfather. However, while Jefferson was a deist rather than a Christian, he spoke and wrote against evolutionary ideas and in favor of a Creator.
He based his argument that belief in a Creator is more scientific than evolution on the precise and interrelated design that is visible everywhere in the creation.
If you would like more information, I recommend the book The Real Thomas Jefferson (American Classic Series), published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies in 1981.
I thank God that His handiwork is so clear in the creation that one does not even have to be a Christian to know that He is Creator!
2011 Christian Nature
For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
Romans 1:20
Respect for the name Thomas Jefferson reaches far beyond the United States and far beyond the English language. By the time Jefferson was 14, he could read four languages. He later learned three more. Jefferson's legacy goes far beyond his accomplishments in law and government.He also made his mark in the fields of mathematics, architecture, medicine, agriculture, literature, education, music and science.
He earned three doctorates. And he served as president of the American Philosophical Society, America's leading scientific organization of the time, for nearly 20 years.
One might think that Jefferson would have accepted the evolutionary ideas that were being circulated then by such people as Charles Darwin's grandfather. However, while Jefferson was a deist rather than a Christian, he spoke and wrote against evolutionary ideas and in favor of a Creator.
He based his argument that belief in a Creator is more scientific than evolution on the precise and interrelated design that is visible everywhere in the creation.
If you would like more information, I recommend the book The Real Thomas Jefferson (American Classic Series), published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies in 1981.
I thank God that His handiwork is so clear in the creation that one does not even have to be a Christian to know that He is Creator!
2011 Christian Nature
For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
Romans 1:20
