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We frequently hear that belief in evolution is "scientific" while belief in creation is "faith". However, we have seen that this is not true. Creationists acknowledge that variation caused by natural selection is a proven fact (which demonstrates good design). But once we get beyond this, there is much about evolution that requires great faith (such as believing that dead chemicals became living on their own), while the evidence for creation is in accord with all scientific facts, especially the broad principles of thermodynamics and information theory. There is good reason to believe that the creation and a global flood took place exactly as described in Genesis.
Ultimately, evolution/naturalism is man's attempt to eliminate the need for God, and thereby His rule over us. If there is no God, something like evolution MUST be true. However, the obvious complexity and design of the creation shows otherwise, as it says in Romans 1:19-20 (NIV):
"… what may be known about God is plain to them (godless and wicked men who suppress the truth), because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities - his eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse".
Remember: "Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made" (John 1:3, NIV)