Category: EVOLUTION

Two Basic WORLD-views:

What is the Creation/Evolution Debate all About?

Time is Crucial to Evolution. Creationists believe with GOD all things are possible. Evolution is interpreted in light of the Geologic Column.

In the GEOLOGIC COLUMN* each rock layer represents a different geologic age. Everything is interpreted in light of the Geologic Column. It becomes like the Bible to Evolution.

EVOLUTION’S GEOLOGIC COLUMN
Millions of
Years ago Period Life Forms
2 Quaternary Humans
70 Tertiary Mammals
135 Cretaceous Dinosaurs dying out
180 Jurassic 1st mammals and birds
225 Triassic Reptiles – dinosaurs
275 Permian Reptiles plentiful
345 Carboniferous 1st reptiles – amphibians
405 Devonian 1st amphibians – trees
435 Silurian 1st land plants – scorpions
480 Ordovician 1st fish
600 Cambrian Invertebrates
Pre-Cambrian Simple life forms

*Who designed this chart? Who made it official? When did it first come into being?

(1) Adam or Ape?
Was your great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandpa a Tasier monkey?

(2) Mixing Truth with Error.
Example: Evolution & Textbooks – Adolf Hitler said, “If you tell a lie long enough, and often enough, the people will believe it.”
Billions of years ago… (Fact or Faith)?

(3) What is TRUE SCIENCE?
Science must be observed, tested, and reproduced in the laboratory, or else it is not true science. (The Nature of Science – Prentice Hall – 1993)

The basic steps in the scientific method are:

1. Stating or defining the problem.
2. Gathering information on the problem.
3. Forming a hypothesis (or trial answer).
4. Performing experiments to test the hypothesis.
5. Recording and analyzing data.
6. Stating a conclusion.
7. Repeating the work.

(4) Define the problem.
How old is earth?

(5) Gather the information.
Data: Maximum Age

1. Planets cooling Should be cold
2. Moon leaving 30 million years (?)
3. Stalactite formations 1 inch per year
4. Salt in Ocean 62 million years
5. Ocean sediments 14 million years
6. Sun shrinking 7 million years
7. Helium in atmosphere 2 million years
8. Mississippi river deposits 30,000 years
9. Earth slowing (under) 30,000 years
10. Magnetic field (under) 10,000 years
11. Oil pressure (under) 10,000 years
12. Saturn’s rings (under) 10,000 years
13. Short-period comets (under) 10,000 years
14. Niagara Falls eroding 9,900 years
15. Longevity chart 6,000 years
16. Moon Dust 6,000 years
17. Oldest tree 4,300 years
18. Coral reef 4,200 years
19. Population chart 4,000 years

(6) Forming A Hypothesis.
What kind of hypothesis would one form from the information? Here’s where the problem is, Evolution is not formed on the information. All the data is interpreted in the light of the assumption that the geologic column is true.

(7) Testing the Hypothesis
“It started with a BIG BANG!”

1. The First Law of Thermodynamics: Matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed. None taking place anywhere in the universe today. Where did it come from?
Evolution says: “MAYBE it created itself.” Then at some point in time you have to start with nothing. Can nothing create something?
Hebrews 4:3 – God’s works were finished on day six.

2. The Second Law of Thermodynamics: Everything tends toward disorder. Evolution proposes upward trend. Basic trend in nature is downward. Psalms 102:25-27 Sign of the curse.

3. Problems with the “Big Bang”:
a. Where did all the matter and energy come from?
b. Explosions cause chaos, not order.
c. The galaxies are not arranged haphazardly.
d. The stars and planets would keep going, not stop and start orbiting a fixed point.
e. Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum. Anything that flies off from something spinning fast, will be spinning in the same direction as the original object. Example: kids on a merry-go-round.

(8) Don’t All Scientists Believe in Evolution?
NO! 10,000 professional scientists in the USA believe in Biblical Creation. In a 1993 Gallup poll, only 11% of the United States population believed in atheistic evolution. Why do they control what goes into the textbooks?
“No matter how reasonable the hypothesis seems, it cannot be accepted until supported by a large number of testing. The research worker must be open-minded enough to change or drop a hypothesis if the evidence does not support it.” (Modern Biology – Otto, Towle, and Bradley – 1981)
Why is the idea of an old earth so intensely protected by the evolutionists?

(9) There Are Only Two Options:
1 – Somebody made the world, or
2 – The world made itself
If there wasn’t enough time for the world to make itself, then that only leaves one option, somebody made it. The Bible says that somebody is the Lord Jesus Christ.

(10) Have We Been Brainwashed?
If we see something mixed in with something else long enough, after awhile we begin to think it belongs there.

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Isn’t Creation just a religious belief?

I. What is Evolution?
A gradual emergence of present life kinds over aeons of time, with emergence of complex and diversified kinds of life from simpler kinds and ultimately from nonliving matter, all through natural processes.

II. What is Creationism?
Creationism says that all basic animal and plant types (the created kinds) were brought into existence by acts of a supernatural Creator using special processes which are not in operation today.

III. What is Science?
Science comes form the Latin word scire meaning to know. Science has to do with investigation and substantiation.

The basic steps in the scientific method are:

1. Stating or defining the problem.
2. Gathering information on the problem.
3. Forming a hypothesis (or trial answer).
4. Performing experiments to test the hypothesis.
5. Recording and analyzing data.
6. Stating a conclusion.
7. Repeating the work.
   (The Nature of Science – Prentice Hall – 1993)

SCIENCE must be observed, tested, and reproduced in the laboratory, or else it is not true science.

IV. Science has to do with the present.
We can only observe what exists right now. No living scientist was alive to see evolution taking place in the past, no have they observed it taking place today. They can BELIEVE that it did, but they cannot prove it. It takes an act of faith.

We cannot prove that divine Creation took place. We weren’t there. There was someone else there however, and He gave us a written record of how it happened. But we cannot prove it. It takes an act of faith.

V. Is evolution science?
Can evolution be observed? “Evolution, at least in the sense that Darwin speaks of it, cannot be detected within the life time of a single observer.” (nor in the life time of many observers).
… David B. Kitts, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma “Paleontology and evolutionary theory”. Evolution, vol. 28, Sep 1994, p. 466

Can evolution be tested in the laboratory?
“It is easy enough to make up stories of how one gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favored by natural selection. But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test.”
… Personal letter (written 4-10-79) from Dr. Colin Patterson, British Museum of Natural History, to Luther D. Sunderland

Does evidence support Evolution?
a. “I know that, at least in paleoanthropology, data are still so sparse that theory heavily influences interpretations. Theories have, in the past, clearly reflected out current ideologies instead of the actual data.”
… Dr. David Pilbeam (Anthropologist, Yale), “Rearranging our family tree”. Human Nature, June 1978, p.45
b. “Facts do not speak for themselves”; they are read in the light of theory. Creative thought, in science as much as in the arts, is the motor of changing opinion. Science is a quintessentially human activity, not a mechanized, robot-like accumulation of objective information, leading by laws of logic to inescapable interpretation.”
… Stephen J Gould (Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University), ‘The validation of continental drift’ in his book “EVER SINCE DARWIN” Burnett Books, 1978 pp.161-162

VI. Is Evolution Religious?

“In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to bend their observation to fit in with it.”
… H.S. Lipson, FRS (Professor of Physics, University of Manchester, UK), ‘A physicist looks at evolution’. Physics Bulletin, vol. 31, 1980, p. 136

“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory – is it then a science or a faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation – both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up the present, has been capable of proof.”
… L. Harrison Matthews, FRS, Introduction to Darwin’s The Origin of Species, J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1971, p.xi

“One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not yet been written.”
… Hubert P. Yockey (Army Pulse Radiation Facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA), ‘A calculation of the probability of spontaneous biogenesis by information theory’. Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 67, 1977, p. 396

Fossils exist in the present. However, they do not come with dates stamped on them to tell us how old they are. Evolution is a belief system about the past based on the words of men who were not there, but are trying to explain the existence of the world we live in, without the existence of God or any divine acts of His part.

VII. But is Special Creation Scientific?
Creation is, of course, unproven and unprovable by scientific method. Creation therefore, as evolution, can only serve as a hypothesis, or, trial answer as to how and why life came into existence. Creation, therefore, would be no more religious and less scientific than evolution. However, to many well informed scientists, the creation model seems to be far superior to the evolution model as an explanation for origins.

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