A close look at the
fallacy of the Evolutionary theory
Every day a child comes home with excitement
about their newly taught information of 'how we got here'. Our schools teach, that
the creation of man is the result of a misunderstood science, or as my wife puts
it, "from the goo, through the zoo, to you". It absolutely amazes me how much emphasis
is placed on the theory of evolution compared to the thinking of creation from God.
There is a refusal to consider anything else about our origins except the fallacy
of the evolutionary theory.
The writings here were inspired by several recent
books and a video I saw by Dr. Del Tackett (president of the Truth Project- thetruthproject.org)
who gives a wonderful lecture in one of his series on these false theories. Also,
because of the recent teachings I see going on with children in my own family and
friends, I feel compelled to write this page. Our children are bombarded daily with
the presentation of these unproven theories as facts and it pains me to see that
God, or the notion of a creator (or what scientists refer to as "intelligent design")
is left out of their teachings.
This page attempts to accomplish one goal.
To declare, as a witness that;
"The heavens declare
the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork." Ps. 19:1
There are
several people in the scientific arena that have given their theories as to the origins
of the species and I will quote some of them here. (Remember, to simplify, a theory
is an idea about something that is neither accepted nor rejected until proven true
or false by fact, data or irrefutable evidence.)
First here is one of my favorites;
stated by a British Molecular Biologist and physicist;
".....the first living cell
must have been transported to earth from some other planet outside our solar system".
(Francis Harry Compton Crick)
Interesting! My only response is "Scottie, beam me
up, there are no intelligent life forms down here (sorry, I couldn't resist)
Then
there's Carl Sagan in his series "The cosmos" where he states; "We will follow the
evidence no matter where it leads us." Except (as Dr. Del Tackett puts it) "when
it leads us to a creator, then we just can't go there."
I found a few quotes from cbsnews.com that stated;
“Fred Hoyle is the atheist astronomer who coined the term “Big Bang.” He once confessed that his disbelief was “greatly shaken” by the undisputed science, writing that “a common-sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super-intellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology.
And in another quote;
” Albert Einstein, who is often dishonestly characterized as having been an atheist, agreed that God-denial is foolishness. He once said of non-believers: “The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after a hard struggle. They are creatures who – in their grudge against traditional religion as the ‘opium of the masses’ – cannot hear the music of the spheres.”
Because they can not agree on exactly how creation started, some in the scientific
arena state or imply everything began randomly or creation started by itself. An
American Scientist gives a statement that shows how blind and disconnected this so
called scientific theory is. I am referring to what is called Spontaneous Generation.
Spontaneous Generation is the theory that life forms from nothing. In the above mention
lecture from Dr. Dell Tackett, he gave a simple example of Spontaneous Generation.
He spoke about how when we saw maggots form from rotten meat, it was thought that
they formed by themselves. Of course, we now know this theory is false. This scientist's
name is George Wald who stated;
"Most modern biologists
having reviewed with satisfaction on the downfall of the
spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in
special creation, are left with nothing. I think a scientist has no choice but to approach
the origins of life through the hypothesis of spontaneous
generation."
In my opinion, Mr. Wald's statement is sad, because what is being said
here is that although Scientists believe that the theory of Spontaneous Generation
is not true, these same scientist who can not believe in a creator are left with
no choice but to believe in the theory anyway.
But the most predominant player
in the theory of Evolution with his writings on on the 'Origin of Species' is Charles
Darwin. We have all heard that name. He was English Naturalist who theories on creation
by means of what he refers to as 'Natural Selection', is what has and is being taught
in schools all around the world. It is his theories and his own words that will be
looked at here for you to decide for yourself how you should respond to anyone, especially
your children about this subject. We will also look at other dominant figures in
the scientific community to see what they think on these conflicting theories and
each others ideas.
To start, reprinted here are some interesting words from
Charles Darwin that are very important to understand;
"If
it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly
have been formed by numerous successive, slight modifications, my theory would
absolutely break down." (cited in Michael Behe, Darwin's
Black Box)
What Darwin is saying here is, if it could be demonstrated that any complex
organ that has formed, did so by any other means other than a evolving over time,
his theory would 'absolutely break down'. The reality is, there is no proof that
anything that has been 'formed' has any evidence of multiple progressions in the
fossil records. Darwin himself questioned his theories and stated;
"The
number of intermediate varieties which have formally existed on earth must be truly
enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and stratum full of such
intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graded organic
chain; and this perhaps is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged
against my theory." (cited in Pandas and People)
Darwin continues
to question the accuracy of the geological records in his writings on the 'Origin
of Species', published in 1859. Here is a particular interesting statement by Darwin;
"The geological record is extremely imperfect and this fact
to a large extent explains why
we do not find intermediate varieties, connecting together all of the extinct and existing
forms of life by the finest graduated steps. He who rejects these views on the nature of
the geological record, will rightly reject my whole theory."
I
truly wonder if in the teachings of Darwin's theories, these thoughts and concerns
he expresses in his writings are being pointed out to the student. I know for a fact
there are school books out there that only quote portions of his writings such as;
"Analogy
would lead me one step farther, namely to the belief that all animals and plants
are descended from one prototype." (Origin of Species 1859)
Lastly,
I present a few other prominent people in the scientific community that give their
comments on Darwin's theories. The first from David Raup. The director of Field
Museum of Natural History. He states;
"We now have about 120
years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has
been greatly explained. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the
situation hasn't changed much. The record of evolution is still
surprisingly jerky and,
ironically we have fewer examples of
evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's
time."
S. Lovtrup (Darwinism: The refutation of a myth) wrote;
"I believe
that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the
history of science. When this happens, many people will pose the question; How did this
ever happen?"
Also stated by an evolutionist and palaeontologist
of the London Museum of Natural History, Collin Patterson gives us these thoughts;
"I will lay it on the line- there is not one such [transitional]
fossil for which one could
make a watertight argument." (cited in Pandas and People)
In
the opening quote from Darwin above, he stated that if it could be demonstrated,
that any complex organ that has formed, did so by any other means other than evolving
over time, his theory would 'absolutely break down'. Michael Behe (in Darwin's Black
Box) states in part;
"To Darwin, the cell was a black box
and its inner workings were utterly mysterious to him. ........The
black box has been opened and we know how it works...... after 40 years, we can say Darwin's theory
has 'Absolutely broken down'."
One has to realize that
there is 'order' and not random chaos in the universe. ‘Intelligent design’ is not
the same as belief that God created everything. It is a scientific belief of anything
but creation by God. Anything scientists can come up to admit that there is order
in the universe without the admission of a divine creator. Charles Darwin admitted
that when he spoke about the marvelous details of the human eye. He said;
"To
suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus
to different distances, for admitting
different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by
natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest
degree."
For further proof of the existing of life being created by God,
I would ask you to consider the creation of the man know to be Jesus. He was born
of a woman, but not by normal human conception. But by the workings of the Holy Spirit.
Created by the true creator- our God.
As you have seen from the logic from those closer to these things than myself, it is evident that Carl Sagan's statement about "We will follow the evidence no matter where it leads us" although undeniably brings us to a creator, some just can't seem to accept it. Yet the evidence does lead us to this conclusion. In my opinion, the above information and denial of the reality of God proves what is in a book that was written over 1500 years ago;
"But the natural man does not receive the things
of the Spirit of God, for they are
foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 cor. 2:14