Gender: Evolution’s greatest mystery

Let’s just suppose for a moment that everything we have heard about evolution is true.

Not that I am an evolutionist, mind you, but let’s just suppose that billions of years ago there was a Big Bang, and from this Big Bang our earth appeared, and swirled and swirled for who knows how long until things were just right for the first creature to be formed, just by accident.

While I know that one-celled creatures were supposedly first to form, for the sake of time, let’s advance a bit to the first fish. After the first fish was formed, how long did it take evolution to figure out that not only did this fish need another “accidental” fish in order to start populating the oceans, but this accident needed to be of another gender?

Evolution is predicated upon accidents upon accidents happening all at just the right time in order for creatures to evolve from one form to another. And while the textbooks are all busy telling us how lower life forms changed to more complex forms through tiny changes over lots of time, I have yet to read any that deal with the issue of gender.

How did gender come about? How did evolution so consistently choose procreation as the means of propagating the vast majority of species?

In the case of fish, the oceans are large and if accidents ever occurred, they would be rare. But once an accident did occur, in order for the species to survive, there would have to be a second accident in the immediate proximity of the opposite gender. Accidents happening at opposite ends of the world would not work, neither would two boy accidents or two girl accidents close at hand. In order for mating to occur, nature would have to accidentally stumble upon gender in order to be successful.

While this is problematic enough in the case of the fish, this process must be replicated continuously on up the food chain. Each time a new species popped up — by accident —the death of that species would occur within the lifespan of that single member without the accidental formation of its mate in close proximity. Talk about mathematical improbabilities. Who said evolutionists don’t really believe in miracles?

What is easier to believe? Is it easier to believe gender as we know it came about as a result of a series of accidents? Or is it easier to believe that God purposefully created gender?

The fact is, gender is a function of design. The Bible says in Psalm 139, “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.” In short, what the Psalmist is conveying here is that God put a lot of thought into how he made us, right down to our gender.

And in Genesis 1, the Bible says, “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.”

The significance here is that everything was made correctly the first time around. When he made the creatures of the sea and the fowl of the air on the fifth day, he made from the outset with gender so that they might multiply and fill the seas and the heavens. And again, on the sixth day when he created all the creatures that would walk upon land, including man, he created them all with gender so that they would fill the earth.

Although it is easier to believe gender was created by an intelligent creator, evolutionists would prefer believing in the miracle of accidents, because if there is a creator, then he has a purpose. And in the case of gender, his purpose is clear: procreation. As in Genesis 1, where he created male and female, and blessed them, and told them to be fruitful and multiply, the act of procreation remains the exclusive domain of heterosexuality.

The truth is that need not be so great a mystery. It simply is a great gift given to us by a loving creator who started out with two people, but wanted many more.

Ron Hamman is pastor of Independent Baptist Church of Wasilla. Contact him at 357-4229 or ron.hamman@gci.net.