| EVOLUTION – FACT OR
FALLACY?
A Realistic look at the theory of Evolution
EVOLUTION: WHAT IS IT?
In short, the theory of evolution boils down to this: It claims
that all forms of life derived by gradual modification from
earlier and simpler forms, or from one rudimentary form, to its
present status. It teaches a process in which something complex
is developed, by itself, from a simple beginning. It accepts the
principle of successive transformations from a lower to a higher
form of matter and life.
The theory of organic evolution teaches that the plant and
animal kingdoms evolved from lower forms of life to what they
are today.
The theory of cosmic evolution claims that from lower units of
matter (atoms and molecules) the vast material stars, moons,
planets, galaxies and universe were formed, by themselves.
IS IT FACT OF FALLACY?
Let’s answer this question immediately: Evolution is a fallacy.
The theory of evolution is exactly that – a theory. A
large cluster of theories, to be exact. That it subtly moved
from ‘theory’ to ‘fact’ in the minds of people is one of the
biggest misconceptions in our history (right up there along with
the flat earth-theory). Although thousands of books have been
written about it, not one fact about evolution has really been
proved. Evolution became a house of cards built up of theory
upon theory, supposition upon supposition, and conjecture upon
conjecture until people thought and believed it to be proven, to
be true. But a theory does not become truth until proven so.
That the theory of evolution is very dubious is made quite clear
when the supposed ‘evidence’ is examined again, a new look
taken. But, a new look at the real evidence, not the evidence
based on conjecture. As one researcher has put it: “… tons of
conjecture and very little evidence”.
SOME POINTS ON WHICH EVOLUTION FALTERS: -
• The problem of First Cause. Evolutionary theory begins with
the supposition that some matter or substance were already in
existence somewhere at the start of time. ‘Some tiny bag of
chemicals twitched and became animated’, someone adroitly
observed. Evolution does not try to account for how these
original chemicals (or the ‘bag’ for that matter) came to exist,
how molecules got their so-called inherent powers, or how there
came to be definite laws governing these molecules so that they
could produce, without failure, all things as we now have them.
Their theory does not indicate what created these original
substances in the first place. In fact, evolutionists do not
deny First Cause, they just can’t explain it.
• The problem of Nothing creating Something. If it is argued
that there needn’t have been a First Cause, that no matter or
substance were needed at the beginning, that there were nothing
to start with – then, while the evolutionists reason that
nothing working on nothing created Everything, true science have
long ago accepted that nothing working on nothing create …
Nothing. Nothing cannot create Something. Only Something can
create Something.
• Ah, the evolutionists say, but there were already something
there, some dead matter. Well, science has proven that dead
matter cannot generate life. This is a problem for the
evolutionists. Life can only come from pre-existing life.
Numerous experiments were done with test tubes filled with
various organic matter. The end result was the same every time -
all life-germs in the tubes were completely destroyed – not one
vestige of life appeared. All attempts and tests to get the
living from the dead utterly failed. Evolution’s theory of
spontaneous creation and generation has had to be given up. It
is now recognized that life can only come from life and all life
is dependant upon other life: the lower upon the higher, the
simple upon the complex, the powerless on the powerful, the
unintelligent upon the intelligent, and so on.
On this point the evolutionists also say random events did this
or that. That’s very unlikely. For random events to produce even
just a single protein – a difficult job under any circumstances
– would seem a stunning improbability. As astronomer Fred Hoyle
described it: “It would be like a whirlwind spinning through a
junkyard and leaving behind a fully assembled jumbo jet”.
• While the evolutionists talk about evolvement through resident
forces or impersonal eternal energy, science have long since
come to the conclusion that the exact opposite is true:
regeneration on a large scale is only possible by outside power,
external intervention. (“These are very close to religious
questions” said cosmologist, Dr. Andrei Linde). Whether this
intervention is divine, human, or alien, it is clear that higher
intelligence plays a factual role in improving a lower
life-form. As Bill Bryson so aptly puts it: “It is rather as if
all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and
baked themselves into a cake – but a cake that could moreover
divide when necessary to produce more cakes”. No matter how one
looks at it, it is evident that no life-form can create or
improve itself by itself. The vast creations of matter and life
had to come into existence by a superior power, not an inferior
force.
Charles Darwin’s argument that plants and animals have within
themselves tendencies to vary of their own accord in many and
all directions to an unlimited degree, has been disproved many
times. (Interesting to note that Darwin never used the phrase
‘survival of the fittest’ anywhere, he preferred ‘descent with
modification’. The choice of words ‘descent’ and ‘modification’
is quite apt). Ironically, considering that Darwin called his
book On the Origin of Species, the only thing he couldn’t
explain was how species originated. Gregor Mendel’s experiments
prove conclusively that plants and animals, even under man’s
selective skills in breeding, do not tend to vary in all
directions and to an unlimited degree; but that the variations
are within strict limits and work according to fixed laws
producing unvarying results. The theory of natural selection and
of inheritance of acquired characteristics has failed of proof.
• Evolution teaches that one specie evolved into another, that a
hop or leap was made from one specie to another. That is simply
not the case. When interbreeding is attempted between different
kinds of specie there is an impossible gulf which cannot be
crossed. It is a law of nature that each species has power only
to reproduce its own kind. No one thing could break this law and
produce any other thing. The sponge is still a sponge, and has
not become an oyster, octopus, a turtle, frog, fish or crab.
None of these have ever reproduced anything except their own
kind. No lowly earthworm has ever turned into a lizard, a
spider, scorpion, snake or crocodile. No insect, bird, or animal
has ever changed from its own kind, or reproduced another kind,
which was fertile and could produce a new kind. The crossing of
a donkey (containing 62 chromosomes) and a horse (with 64
chromosomes) will get an offspring with a reproductively useless
number of 63 chromosomes. The mule, as we all know, is sterile
and thus the unnatural pairing of donkey and horse ends there –
by natural law.
Life multiplies abundantly. One bacterium in 24 hours can
produce 281,500,000,000,000 descendants. An oyster lays
100,000,000 eggs in a season; 2,000 young spiders can be found
in one cocoon; a loggerhead turtle lays 1,000 eggs at a time; a
pair of mice can produce 1,000,000 offspring in a year; an elm
tree produces 1,584,000,000 seeds. But, out of the billions of
yearly reproductions of nature, not one monkey’s tail has been
produced by anything except a monkey.
• Another problem area the theory of evolution face is the law
of nature that nothing reproduces anything greater than itself.
No single specie has evolved from a lower to a higher plane of
life. One thing is certain: all intelligence and matter could
not have come from one or any number of molecules of
unintelligence. The most that has ever been done by the
evolutionists is to demonstrate the law of improvement of a
specie through breeding and cultivation. Many people confuse
evolution with this simple law of improvement. But the law of
improvement cannot produce a new specie. The intelligent and
innumerable self-producing specie of creatures, each with its
own eternal and consistent traits, distinct flavours and
infinite combinations of chemicals, could never be the product
of unintelligent matter. No amount of unintelligence could
produce intelligence or intelligent beings, anything greater or
higher than itself.
• All species exist in great variety, and the so-called ‘proofs’
of evolutionists are merely variations, or minor changes within
the same species. When Charles Darwin observed these changes and
variations he postulated that all species evolved from another.
But in the ensuing 150 years, closer observation brings forth
another conclusion: out of billions of living organisms and
fossils there is no evidence of the slightest tendency to evolve
out of the original kind to which each belongs. There is only
evidence of development and normal growth - but these are not
‘evolution’. Improvement of a species and new varieties within
the species does not indicate an evolutionary system. That
theory teaches transmutation, a change in nature, substance,
form, and alteration of essence by a slow and gradual process of
transforming from one species to another, and from the lower to
the higher. This has never been the case.
In nature we find endless variety within each species or
kind, but no change or jump from one species to another. In
fact, the only ‘jump’ that was made was in the evolutionists’
conclusions.
• The problem of what came first: the egg or the chicken. An egg
cannot produce an egg. The power of reproduction is only in
things that are already in existence, already living. Since
reproduction is a prior condition to evolution, it cannot be a
product of it. The power of reproduction is not in the embryo,
but only in the mature parent. Only the parent can produce the
egg. It is also true that the egg is not improvable by itself.
Improvement can come only in and through the mature form.
Therefore, the parent form of life must have been created in the
beginning to have produced an egg from which alone the offspring
can come. (This bringing us right back to First Cause, Nothing
cannot create Something, Higher intervention, Intelligent
Design, etc.)
• Evolutionists’ main argument is that man and monkey are so
similar that they must have come from a common ancestor. This is
neither sound logic nor sound science. Resemblance proves
nothing but resemblance. Similarity proves nothing but
similarity. Resemblance and similarity run throughout all nature
in things that have no connection with each other. Resemblance
and similarity on some points is to be expected: we live on the
same planet, existing in the same air and on similar foods. All
animals and men have the same kind of faculties to breathe, eat,
and perform other bodily functions, but such similarities do not
prove close relationship. To use a simple yet telling example:
the wheel is the same in the wagon, the car, locomotive, and
plane. But such similarity does not prove that the wagon evolved
into an automobile, then into a locomotive and finally into a
plane. We know that life was drawn up from the same set of
blue-prints, and so of course there will be a lot of
similarities and dove-tailing, but that surely does not indicate
or proof evolution.
The dissimilarities between man and lower animals, not only in
body, but also in brain, spirit and mind faculties, prove that
they are not vitally related. The differences between man and
monkey are so wide that any single bodily part is sufficient in
itself to prove whether it is a part of man or part of a monkey.
• The important point of Degeneration. Nature has shown that, if
neglected and left alone, it will degenerate, go back, degrade –
quite simply, a process of de-evolution is actually more in line
with true nature, than evolution.
The forms of vegetables, plants and animals that man succeeds in
improving by human selection and cultivation revert rapidly to
type as soon as man’s directing skill is removed. In all man’s
selection and cultivation he can work only within the limits of
the species. No change into new species has been produced either
by natural or artificial selection. The iron law of sterility
stands guard at this frontier and everything continues to
reproduce after his kind.
There is a certain potency of development implanted in all
things, but such potential powers are not through resident
forces as evolution teaches, but only through outside
intervention and intelligent help. Man can develop the wild rose
into the American Beauty, or the wild pony into a thoroughbred,
by selection, better environment, breeding, etc. But it is most
significant, the above improvements do not continue to increase,
or even persist, when things are left to themselves. The rose
reverts to a wild rose if left alone, and the horse goes back to
its degenerate type the very minute man’s skill and intervention
is taken away. If one takes a flock of highly developed pigeons,
with all their shades of colour and variety of markings, and
turn them lose in the forest to see if they will improve (even
just retain their new-found changes), or degenerate – you will
find in a few years that they have all returned to one type.
Compelled by an unfailing natural law, all will revert to common
colours in stead of being a variety with beautiful markings.
This is the same with all vegetation and animals. Once higher
intervention is removed, degeneration and regression sets in.
The offspring of Pavlov’s dogs, or any circus animal, forget
their parent’s tricks and lessons. Improvements brought about by
care and selection in breeding and training will be gone,
proving the law of evolution a failure. And that, in actual
fact, quite the opposite is true.
Thus the theory that hair is just elongated scales of
pre-historic animals, the legs of all animals developed from
warts on aboriginal amphibians, ears came about by the air waves
calling to spots on early reptiles, eyes are but accidental
development of freckles on blind amphibians that responded to
the sun – all this is rejected as far- fetched and untrue. Even
Darwin conceded that “it seems, I freely confess, absurd in the
highest possible degree, that natural selection could produce
such an instrument as the eyes. To this day the eye still gives
me a cold shudder”.
In Chemistry, which is closest to the deeper facts and forces of
inanimate matter and life, there is no evidence of a surge
upwards. Not only are the laws of chemical affinity static and
unchangeable as to their operations, but there is a
disintegrating tendency downward in stead of upward that seems
to characterize all matter. The tendency of atoms of high atomic
weight to break up into other atoms of lower weight seems to be
the universal modus operandi in all matter.
This is true of man as well. If he neglects himself he will
revert to a worse and lower type of man. If the mind is
neglected it will degenerate into imbecility and ignorance. So
with the conscience and soul, if neglected it will spiral down
to lawlessness, ruin and depravity. “Wind back the tape of life
to the early days, let it play again from an identical starting
point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything
like human intelligence would grace the replay”. – Stephen Jay
Gould. The chances of the evolutionary process to be at all
anywhere near successful, is so astonishingly slim that it
defies believability.
• Fossil remains have been referred to as one of the strongest
proofs of evolution. But evolutionists themselves acknowledge
that this so-called proof is extremely fragmentary, limited and
obscure, due to the fact that only a few fossil remains have
been found. More likely it will never be found, simply because
it just isn’t there. When asked about the size of the total
world archive of bones, Ian Tattersall, curator of anthropology
at the American Museum of Natural History, replied: “You could
fit it all in the back of a pick-up truck”.
The Piltdown Man consisted of 3 bits of skull bone, a piece of
jaw- bone, and a tooth. From these scraps, anthropologists
constructed a man and named his era the Dawn-man. Later it was
acknowledged that the jaw-bone and tooth did not belong to the
skull. The Java man was built from a skull bone, leg bone and
two molars. The Heidelberg man was built from a jaw-bone, the
Peking man only from skull fragments, and the Nebraska man from
a single tooth, later found to be the tooth of a pig. Ian
Tattersall again: “In Georgia, Europe, you’ve got hominid skulls
dated to about 1.7 million years ago, but then you have a gap of
almost a million years before the next remains turn up in Spain,
and then you’ve got another 300,000 year gap before you get homo
heidelbergensis in Germany – and none of them looks terribly
much like any of the others. Nobody can even quite agree where
truly modern humans first appear in the fossil record. Between
Iraq and Vietnam – that’s a distance of some 5,000 km’s - there
have been just 2 human fossils. It’s not surprising that
palaeontologists have trouble connecting the dots”.
Take away the plaster of Paris used to build all these ‘men’ and
the bones are exactly what is left: pieces of bone that do not
form any missing man or proof of a missing man. “A mountain of
theory built on a molehill of evidence” as journalist Geoffrey
Carr suggested.
• The problem of the word “link” as in “missing link”. Although
evolutionists manufacture multiplied drawings of beings, rising
from a molecule, through various stages of vegetation, to a
gorilla and urang utang, and then to man – adding guess upon
guess of how life was in each stage – there is actually no proof
of any of these ‘links’. There is no proof of man in various
stages from a molecule to a monkey to a man. The fact is
that no single example of any link of evolution from any one
species to another is found.
From monkey to man: Here the word ‘link’ is at its weakest, a
total misnomer. ‘Link’ indicates something small, a short step.
Well, between monkey and man we are not talking just about a
link or step, we are talking about a giant jump, a chasm of
gargantuan proportions, a quantum leap that boggles the mind.
And where are these interim animals, these hominids, these
beings, these whatevers, to bridge this chasm? Nowhere. Even if
we, for arguments’ sake, accept the ridiculous notion that a
monkey may have, over billions of years, derived from a
molecule, why is there nothing, absolutely nothing to fill the
void between monkey and man? Where are the urang utang species
that can talk, write a book, and cultivate food? Where are the
gorillas or animal species of whatever kind, that is anywhere
near man, to give us the slightest indication that there is no
gap. Animals who can reason, farm, read, build bridges, fly
planes, create cities, etc. In Star Wars we find many of them, a
sort of combo between man and animal. But that is science
fiction. Where are they in real life? Where are the half-man,
half-beast dentist, engineer, bus driver, writer, etc? There are
nothing, nothing to bridge this great divide between man and
animal. Nothing alive, nothing dead, nothing fossilized. The
mere fact that they are looking for fossils, and not something
amongst the living, beings that are still alive and living
amongst us, is very telling. We have living examples of
molecules, earthworm, crocodiles – but no man/monkey combination
or ‘link’!
The average species on earth lasts for about 4 million years.
Why is it that this most important of all intermediate stages,
the one between man and animal, provides no evidence. Are they
extinct? If so, why is the most recent ‘link’ so conveniently
extinct? Where are the fossil remains? Or has it never existed?
Although there are hundreds of similarities between the bodies
of man and urang utang and other animals, there are also
thousands of differences. And there are unaccountable
differences between these two in mental, moral, spiritual and
habitual matters.
On this point alone the impossibility of evolution of man from
apes and lower life is proven.
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NOTE: The previous points all deal with organic evolution. No
one branch of organic evolution has been proved. Let’s look at
the theory of cosmic evolution.
• The old geological scheme to prove evolution has also been
repudiated. Instead of the older rocks being found at the
bottom, and the younger rocks at the top, as would be the case
if evolution were true, it is now found that the opposite is
often the case. This explodes the evolution theory of natural
building up of the strata.
• The earth’s perfection as a place of habitation. About 64
kilometres up from the surface of the earth is a protective
covering – the ozone layer. This umbrella has just the right
density to sustain life on earth. The sun throws out various
kinds of violet rays – some deadly, some life-giving. We are
shielded from at least 8 harmful rays by a layer of ozone just
over ½ centimetre thick. If this ‘thin curtain’ (as Shakespeare
called it) was removed, life on earth would come to an end, for
the harmful rays would blind, blister and kill. If it were
thicker it would prevent the needful rays coming through and
life would perish accordingly.
We are also shielded from a constant barrage of meteors and
asteroids from outer space, the majority of which burn up before
reaching the earth. Billions of meteoric bodies are said to
invade the atmosphere each day to be destroyed by friction
(about 30,000 tons of space dust are accumulated on earth every
year). We live at the bottom of an ocean of air which provides
us with life-giving oxygen; and the atmosphere is a perfect
blanket of insulation against both heat and cold. It prevents
the rapid escape of heat that keeps us from freezing; and it
also acts as a great reservoir and distributor of heat and light
from the sun. The troposphere, the part of the atmosphere that
we live in, is only 10-16 kilometres thick. In this thin band,
this narrow belt, we all, humans, plants, animals, all – live.
These and other laws of nature, strongly point to an Intelligent
Designer.
So, did all this come about as pure happenstance? It boggles the
mind to think that all this just sort of happened on its own.
“God does not play dice” said Einstein.
• “It’s perfect, it’s almost uncanny” – Astronomer Geoffrey
Marcy, describing our solar system. One of the biggest problems
facing the evolutionists is the one of the Infinite Perfection
of the whole creation, the whole universe, with all its galaxies
and other worlds.
Let’s just take a look, as an example of other solar systems, at
the only solar system we know – our solar system: The earth
rotates ± 1, 600 kilometres an hour, if it were 1, 400
kilometres an hour our days and nights would be longer, and the
hot sun would likely burn up our vegetation, while surviving
sprouts would freeze in the longer night. The earth is the exact
distance from the sun to give it the right amount of warmth. 5%
nearer we would roast, 5% further we would freeze. Furthermore,
the slant of the earth, tilted at an angle of 23 degrees, gives
us our seasons. If it had not been tilted, vapours from the
oceans would move north and south, piling up into massive
continents of ice. If our moon were nearer than its
355,589,407,077 kilometres, the tides would cover all the
continents twice daily, the earth would wobble out of control.
If the crust of the earth had been only two metres thicker there
would be no oxygen, and thus no human or animal life could
exist. “All over earth, you’ll find just the right materials in
just the right measures to keep it bubbling away – to our
advantage.” (Bill Bryson)
The four laws of physics – the strong and weak interplay of
forces, electromagnetism, force of gravity – if any of these
were a fraction out of balance, or not aligned exactly with each
other, there would be chaos. The universe just wouldn’t exist.
It is evident from these and countless other facts that there is
not one chance in trillions that life on our planet could be a
work of itself.
“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its
architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some
sense must have known we were coming”. (Freeman Dyson)
• The sheer size of the Universe. When one stops to survey the
infinite details of creation and the plan of eternal sustenance
of all things from the smallest atom to the huge creations of
material and livings things, one is forced to reconsider and ask
questions.
Can we really believe that evolution is responsible for all the
vast creations in space and the endless varieties of species of
life on the innumerable planets? That all the moons and stars
and planets that form the 80,000 billion galaxies in the
universe came from a single compressed proton? And some 13.7
billion years ago, there came that moment known to science as
t=0, the Big Bang, when a primeval atom bursted into glory. We
know now the Big Bang, or various Big Bangs, could only form
light gasses, and an exploding star – supernova - is needed to
form the heavier particles, so vital to our being. All this may
well have happened, although the co-incidence ratio is getting
higher and higher with each additional explanation.
And what preceded the Big Bang?
What law made the proton shrink?
Can we truly believe that the laws by which all the heavenly
bodies continue in constant and eternal motion around one
another as they race through the universe happened by itself?
That it all just started in Darwin’s “warm little of pond of
water”.
The centre of our solar system of 9 major planets, 90 or so
known satellites or moons and innumerable meteors, is the sun –
149.597870691 million kilometres from earth. Our sun is
considered to be a dwarf star compared to others. There are more
than 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (40 sextillion) stars, which
are suns to other planets. Most of them believed to be larger
than our sun. Our solar system is about 9,654,000,000 kilometres
across. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, alone contains roughly 400
billion stars, each with its family of planets. It is estimated
that there are 140 billion galaxies like the Milky Way, and
trillions solar systems, most of them larger than ours. Space is
enormous, to put it mildly.
Our nearest neighbour in the cosmos, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3
light years away (speed of light is 300,000 kilometres per
second). To reach it by spaceship would take at least 25,000
years.
The Universe’s size, its complexity, as with Nature, is proof
of its Intelligent Design (I.D.).
Not chance, not fate, not by accident.
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• The next and final problematic area for the fortress of
Darwinism is not about organic or cosmic evolution. In fact, it
is easily ignored by the evolutionists: Man’s spirit. As has
been said: “Man is a spiritual being having a human experience”.
Somewhere, somehow, in all that has occurred, it happened that a
certain mysterious élan vital resides in certain beings. This is
actually a short and sweet point: either you believe man is a
spiritual being, or you don’t. If you don’t, a lot of your
questions will remain unanswered. If you do, most, if not all,
your questions are answered.
When A.R. Wallace, the man known as the co-founder of evolution,
came to believe that man is a spiritual being, he changed his
mind, causing great concern in evolutionary circles.
In evolutionary thinking: did a molecule or a gorilla decide
that a spirit should be ‘added’ to man? Is it man’s spirit, or
the absence of spirit in animals, that is the reason for the
unapproachable gulf between man and the animal kingdom? As with
First Cause no evolutionist can explain the spirit-ability, the
spirituality of man, what it is, how it came about.
If evolutionists deny man’s spirit, why then are there such a
huge gap between man and its nearest animal? If the
evolutionists accept man as a spiritual being, they must deny
all their own theories. And a lot of their theories just do not
make sense because of their denial.
No wonder it is called “the miracle of life”.
TO SUM UP:
Evolution Evidence
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1. Matter already in
existence – no explanation |
1. First Cause – only
explanation |
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2. Nothing created
Something |
2. Nothing cannot create
Anything |
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3. Random events created
Everything – spontaneous creation |
3. Something created
Something – no life can arise from dead matter |
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4. Resident forces,
impersonal energy |
4. Outside power, external
in- tervention
|
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5. Leap from one specie to
another |
5. Specie can only
reproduce its own kind |
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6. Can produce greater
than self |
6. Cannot produce greater
than self (Only natural Law of Improvement at work) |
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7. Transmutation,
transformation from lower to higher |
7. Only variations,
development, minor changes and normal growth |
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8. The ‘egg’ cannot create
itself |
8. The ‘chicken’ must have
been created |
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9. Man and Monkey –
similar (proves evolution) |
9. Man and Monkey –
similarities proves resemblance only |
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10. Evolution, progression |
10. De-evolution, regression |
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11. Fossil remains - proof |
11. Fossils – too few to
prove anything |
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12. Missing link |
12. The ‘link’ is missing |
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13. Geology – natural
building up of strata |
13. Geology – opposite is
often the case |
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14. Earth’s perfection as
a place of habitation – by chance, fate, accident |
14. Earth’s perfection as
a place of habitation – not by chance, or fate, or accident but by Design |
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15. Infinite Perfection of
Universe – a work of itself |
15. Infinite Perfection of
Universe – not work of itself |
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16. Size of Universe –
happened on its own |
16 Size of Universe –
proof of Intelligent Design |
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17. Man’s Spirit – no
explanation |
17. Man’s Spirit –
Explained (from God) |
A FEW LAST THOUGHTS:
“The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age
we can’t quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances form
us and each other we don’t altogether know, filled with matter
we can’t identify, operating in conformance with physical laws
whose properties we don’t truly understand” - Bill Bryson.
So what made the evolution theory stick?
Human nature is a factor in all this. Scientists have a natural
tendency to interpret finds in the way that most flatters their
stature. As John Reader says in the book Missing Links: “It is
remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence
have confirmed the preconceptions of its discovery.”
It is also clear in this instance how blind devotion to a
theory supplanted real science.
One of science’s building stones is critical analysis. But
evolution does not tolerate that. There was a thinking of ‘let’s
cut short all further observation and conclude that this is the
truth, the whole truth etc’. And anybody trying to indicate the
opposite was quickly labelled as a bad scientist, or even worse,
a Creationist – so there was a holding back, a fear of
ostracization. But all of this started to change in the last
four decades or so. In these years Man has found out more about
the universe than all the previous centuries together. Many
modern scientists find the evolution theory unacceptable and are
astounded by the number of educated people (many of them
biologists and anthropologists, etc) who still think that
offering suggestions for human behaviour in terms of evolution
somehow disproves the facts that human behaviour can be
explained in non-evolutionary terms. Fortunately, recently a
controversy about evolution is raging, the fortress of Darwinism
has come under heavy attack, it is crumbling, and evolution is
fast losing its untouchable status.
Darwin himself stayed a faithful man until his death. He never
believed that his theory supplanted a Supreme Being. In the last
sentences of his book, On the Origin of Species, he wrote that
the whole evolution theory exists because of “its several powers
having been originally breathed by the Creator in a few (life)
forms or one”.
Furthermore, people have an overwhelming desire to have an
answer, to pinpoint something, to view the past in a certain
way. But certainly, in this case, a faulty way.
CONCLUSION:
The cosmos, the wonder of life, the amount of different life
forms, the unaccountable, unexplainable wonder of conciousness,
man’s spirit didn’t all come about by chance.
The evolution theory just does not hold together. It breaks
under the weight of contrary evidence. It owes more to
Supposition than to Science. It is wide off the mark and has
overrun its course.
In short, it is a miscarriage of truth, speculative, erroneous
guess-work, pitifully myopic, absurd, contradictory, a blunder,
defunct and bankrupt.
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