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| God, Creation, and Evolution When I was in gradeschool, junior high, and highschool, science was one of my favorite subjects. However, when it came to evolutionary theories, I could never reconcile evolution as being feasible either religiously or even as a plausible scientific argument. After investing various other scientific theories beyond evolution, I came to the conclusion that evolution truly is not feasible naturally nor supernaturally. Maybe I don't have enough faith to believe that something can come from nothing. I dunno. But when an aspect unconfined to natural law, miraculous interposition, or God is added to the equation... Well, I hope that the same findings below will console you as much as it has me. - Jeremy (go here for more) "Can we truly grasp the concept that outer space is infinite? Let's relate this to God." - - Jeremy Brown "But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?.. The number of intermediate and transitional links between all living and extinct species, must have been inconceivably great!" - - Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, Chapter 6 and 10, 1862. "Charles Dawson, a British lawyer and amateur geologist, announced in 1912 his discovery of pieces of a human skull and an apelike jaw in a gravel pit near the town of Piltdown, England... Dawson's announcement stopped the scorn cold. Experts instantly declared Piltdown Man (estimated to be 300,000 to one million years old) the evolutionary find of the century. Darwin's missing link had been identified. Or so it seemed for the next 40 or so years. Then, in the early fifties... scientists began to suspect misattribution. In 1953, that suspicion gave way to a full-blown scandal. Piltdown Man was a hoax. Radiocarbon tests proved that its skull belonged to a 600 year old woman, and its jaw to a 500 year old orangutan from the East Indies." -- Lorraine Glennon. Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century, 1995. "The Piltdown incident fraud wasn't an isolated incident. The famed Nebraska Man was derived from a single tooth, which was later found to be from an extinct pig. Java Man, found in the early 20th century, was nothing more than a piece of skull, a fragment of a thigh bone, and three molar teeth. The rest came from the deeply fertile imaginations of plaster of Paris workers. Java Man is now regarded as fully human. Heidelberg Man came from a jawbone, a large chin section, and a few teeth. Most scientists reject the jawbone because it's similar to that of modern man. Still, many evolutionists believe that he's 250,000 years old. No doubt they pinpointed his birthday with carbon dating. However, Time Magazine (June 11, 1990) published a science article subtitled, "Geologists show that carbon dating can be way off." And don't look to Neanderthal Man for any evidence of evolution. He died of exposure. His skull was exposed as being fully human, not ape." -- Kirk Cameron (actor and former atheist), Evidence Bible, 2003. "We know from Moses that the world was not in existence before 6,000 years ago." -- Martin Luther "He [Moses] calls 'a spade a spade,' i.e., he employs the terms 'day' and 'evening' without Allegory, just as we customarily do� we assert that Moses spoke in the literal sense, not allegorically or figuratively, i.e., that the world, with all its creatures, was created within six days, as the words read. If we do not comprehend the reason for this, let us remain pupils and leave the job of teacher to the Holy Spirit." -- Martin Luther See where Jesus promoted Moses' writings by clicking these: 1, 2, and 3. "Theory" defined in scientific terms: A theory, by scientific defintion, means a well substantiated hypothesis that has been tested over and over again with positive results. A scientific theory is recognized as being something with a lot of evidence. In reality, the "theory" of evolution shouldn't even be considered a theory, because when held under harsh scrutiny, it crumbles. Evolution fails to meet the criteria that is necessary to be a true scientific theory. It isn't even adequate to have the scientific method performed on it. The scientific method involves experimentaion and observation, and never having seen an ounce of macro-evolutionary change, it is impossible to perform or repeat the scientific method. Sometimes, people say something such as, "(macro) Evolution is only a theory, don't put so much trust in it." But since it's really not even a theory by scientific definition, what they should say is something like, "(macro) Evolution is an unproven, unobservable assertion, don't put so much stock into it." -- J.S. Cuther Click the links below to find awesome research: Creation Animation The Creation Model Creation Evidence Museum Origin of Life Creation Science Answers in Genesis Creation Super Library Historically Defined Ages Paralleled with Bible Collapse of Evolution True Origin Lebendige Vorwelt Museum Mt. Blanco Museum Apologetic Press Resources Archaeologist David Rohl Apologetic Press's Free E-Books Institute for Creation Research The Biblical Creation Society (UK) Creation Research Society Creation Research Discovery Institute Access Research Network Lambert Dolphin Resources Real Science for Kids Six Day Creation Doctor Dino Dinosaur Adventureland Creation Science Resource Creation Truth Ministries Commentaries on Evolution Who was Cain's wife? Who was Cain's wife? part 2 Land of Nod What is wrong with believing in Evolution? The Evolution of Stupidity Where did the human races come from? How did skin colors come about? What was Adam like? Evolution disproves the Bible? Science and the Bible 50 Arguments Against Evolution High Priest of Evolution Reveals his Religion Science Confirms the Bible Scientific Facts in the Bible Biblical Reliability Accuracy in Genesis World Flood Creation according to the Native American Blackfoot tribe Creation according to the Miao people of China The Walum Olam of the Native American Lenape Tribe Creation according to the Native American Seneca tribe Creation according to Greek and Roman Mythology Creation Tales from the Phillipines Ancient Writings Compared With Biblical Texts Creation-Evolution Encyclopedia The Trilogy: An Introduction to the History of Mankind The Tablet Theory of Genesis Authorship After the Flood by Bill Cooper Travels of Noah into Europe Table of Nations An egg which came from no bird is no more 'natural' than a bird which existed from all eternity. And since the egg-bird-egg sequence leads us to no plausible beginning, is it not reasonable to look for the real origin...outside of sequence altogether? You have to go outside the sequence of engines...to find the real originator of the rocket. Is it not equally reasonable to look outside Nature for the real Originator of the natural order? -- C.S. Lewis, God In The Dock, "Two Lectures", p211. It appeals to every part of me except my reason...I believe it no longer. -- C.S. Lewis, on evolution, from "The Funeral of a Great Myth" References: Martin Luther in Jaroslav Peliken, editor, "Luther's Works," Lectures on Genesis Chapters 1-5, Vol. 1 (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1958), pp. 3, 6. �Evolution is a fairy tale for grown ups. This theory has helped nothing in the process of science. It is useless.��Professor Louis Bounoure, former President, Biological Society of Strasbourg, Director of the Strasbourg Zoological. �Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.� - Sir Arthur Keith (He wrote the forward to the 100th anniversary edition of Darwin�s book, Origin of Species in 1959) �This notion of species as �natural kinds� fits splendidly with creationist tenets of a pre-Darwinian age. Louis Agassiz even argued that species are God�s individual thoughts, made incarnate so that we might perceive His majesty and His message. Species, Agassiz wrote, are �instituted by the Divine Intelligence as the categories of his mode of thinking�. But how could a division of the organic world into discrete entities be justified by an evolutionary theory that proclaimed ceaseless change as the fundamental fact of nature?��Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard University �The Big Bang is presumed to have produced just hydrogen and helium, only 2 of the 92 elements of the earth�s crust.� � Dr. Robert V. Gentry, Research Physicist �As a matter of fact, however, it may be stated categorically that no archeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference.� �Nelson Blueck, Rivers in the Desert, 1959, p. 31 Palestinian archeologist. �I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it�s been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.� �Malcom Muggeridge, journalist and philosopher, Pasccal Lectures, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada �Scientists who go about teaching that evolution is a fact of life are great con-men, And the story they are telling may be the greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we do not have one iota of fact.� �Dr. T. N. Tahmisian, Atomic Energy Comission, USA �As yet we have not been able to trace the phylogenetic history of a single group of modern plants from its beginning to the present.� �Chester A. Arnold, Professor of Botany and Curator of Fossil Plants, University of Michigan in An introduction to Paleobotany, p. 7 Some popular evolutionists were: Thales of Miletus, Anaximander, Empedocles, Anaximenes, Epicures, Lucretius, Aristotle, Xenophanes of Colophon, Lord Bacon, Rene Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, Jean-Baptiste Lamark, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, George Louis Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Hugo de Vries, Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler, Richard Dawkins, Julian Huxley, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Stalin, Mao I have included these several pre-Darwinian evolutionists to counter the statement that "Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Knox, and John Wesley would have believed evolution if they had heard of it in their day." Evolution is the foundation of Atheism, homosexual movements, promiscuity, Liberalism, abortion, Euthenasia, Fascism, Communism, The ACLU, religious pluralism, and the censorship of Christians.. Evolution is not a fact. Nor is it a theory or a hypothesis. Evolution is a metaphysical philosophy. Before the first sin of Adam and Eve, all humans and animals were vegetarian. We all know and realize that there is much less vegetation than there was in the distant past. All land was linked as a continent known as Pangaea. All animals were created in their present state rather than evolved, including dinosaurs. Both human and animal were created to be undying. Animals matured to a certain age and aged no more. Even sharks ate vegetation. Snakes would have swallowed fruit and or other plants. The same goes for canines, felines, dinosaurs, fish, and all other predatory, carnivorous plants and animals. In creation�s perfect state and even for a thousand years or so thereafter, genetic defects were not commonplace. As creation maintained and continued after the inducement of the sin disease, aging, death, diseases, and animal and plant defense mechanisms and predatory tendencies were introduced. Considering all the new disorders and defects, it could be said that creation is constantly devolving. Jeremy Brown 2000-2005 BACK |