Creation vs. Evolution: What's the Evidence?

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The past two weeks at our church, we've been listening to the pastor speak on Creation vs. Evolution. This is a very important topic these days. Scientists in general tend to dismiss creation and assume that evolution is simply fact, which of course is not the case -- it is merely a theory. They tend to talk down to anyone who believes in creation, calling people religious nuts, uneducated, rednecks, and much worse terms. However, science itself actually provides evidence that creation is a viable theory. So what is the evidence, and what should we believe?

First, we believe in creation because the Bible teaches it. That is the first and last authority to us. It is not the only reason, but it is the most important reason. The very first verse of the Bible declares: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Gen. 1:1) That should be enough...but of course, for man's curious mind, it's not.

So, why else do we believe in creation? Because there is overwhelming science that shows it to be true. Yes -- really! First I want to show a couple of quotes from Darwin himself, to set up the argument:

"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." Think Exist

"First, why, if species have descended from other species by fine degradations, why do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in transition, instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?" Overcome Problems

There are more -- to the effect that, if Darwin had had the scientific tools we have today, his theory would have been proven false. Of course, no evolutionist today acknowledges these problems, nor do they use their new data to investigate further. They assume it is true.

Therefore, scientists today are biased. Scott Todd, a Kansas State University immunologist states, "Even if all the dara point to an intelligent designer, such a hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic." That is, because it cannot be easily observed, it must be false. (This is the simplistic thinking problem I discussed in my post on rejecting the medical community.)

It is known today that the universe is finely tuned to support life. If only one tiny thing were changed -- our position in relation to the sun, the size of the earth, the composition of the atmosphere, our air requirements, the structure of cells, etc. -- the whole thing would collapse. Yet -- we are supposed to accept that this happened completely by accident. As our pastor said, "If I throw a bunch of legos on the floor, what are the chances they will assemble themselves to form a building?" Truly, the chance is zero. To even ask such a question is ridiculous, yet this is what evolutionists are asking us to accept.

Our pastor also gave 5 very important reasons to reject evolution, which I will now summarize here:

1) It doesn't adequately explain the presence of complexity.
Since Darwin's time, we've developed numerous scientific advancements, including an electron microscope, which allows us to understand living organisms at a level that Darwin could not have even imagined. Just being able to look at what goes on in every individual cell is amazing (the DNA and RNA in a cell's nucleus, the special instructions to form amino acids into particular proteins, the way the cell carries in nutrients and carries out waste, all the small mechanisms that allow this process to carry on rapidly and constantly). There is no possible way that the fine, carefully balanced complexity of this process was some kind of amazing accident. The world is far, far too complex to have just happened, to have come from nothing. Speaking of nothing -- there has to be an original cause. If creation, God is clearly the original cause. In evolution...there is no explanation for the original cause, just some vague "big bang," although there is no explanation for what caused that.

2) It doesn't adequately account for the fossil record.
Despite what some scientists say and would have you believe, dinosaur footprints have been found right next to man's...and they were created at the same time. That is not at all what we have been told; we've been told dinosaurs lived millions of years before man because the earth is so old. Read more about the fossil records, and learn more about carbon dating (the supposed way that scientists "prove" that the world is millions of years old).

An interesting story about carbon dating and dinosaurs: "I have documentation of an Allosaurus bone that was sent to the University of Arizona to be carbon dated. We didn't tell them the bones they were dating were dinosaur bones. The result was sample B at 16,120 years. The Allosaurus was supposed to be 140,000,000 years old. The samples of bone were blind samples." Hmm...so, when scientists did not know they were dating dinosaurs, the bones were dated at only 16,000 years...when if they had known, they would have dated them at 140 MILLION years old, or 8750 times as old.

3) It doesn't adequately explain how the Second law of Thermodynamics is overcome (which is: things tend to o from order to chaos)
How is it that the law states, things specifically go from order to chaos, and we can observe that this is true all around us: our neat, orderly playrooms are quickly destroyed by eager toddlers -- yet Darwin asks us to accept that from primordial slime and complete chaos and confusion, life arose and humans eventually came to be? It does not make sense that all of this slime and randomness knit itself together and created life, and then became more and more complex life. Not to mention, why don't we see this continuing to happen? Why are there many well-defined species and none that are changing or evolving? Darwin himself (quoted above) admits that is a large problem with his theory.

4) It doesn't adequately account for consciousness
How did slime, or even unconscious one-celled organisms, turn into the humans we see today? How did "nothing" not only develop into complex life, but into fully conscious beings, who have rich emotional and mental lives? There is no way for Darwin to explain how this occurred. Of course, as emotional and mental conditions are not strictly "science," since they cannot be measured or quantified easily, Darwin probably simply eliminated them from his equation and looked only at the outer, physical characteristics. More simplistic, incorrect "scientific" thinking.

5) It doesn't adequately account for morality
Why are we moral beings? In Darwin's view, our only goal should be survival, and we should be fully selfish. There should be no desire to give to others or help others. We should have no seemingly in-born sense that it is wrong to steal or to kill. Animals do not have these senses; so how have we developed them? Only the presence of a loving God, who created us and gave us these laws, explains morality. Why do humans, even supposed atheists, still turn to prayer in dark times? Why do humans have a feeling they NEED God? Why have we ALWAYS had religion? Where did it come from to begin with? The only explanation (scientists are not interested in even looking for an explanation) is that God created us with that need.

There are many more resources available if you would like to learn more:
Creation Museum
Dissent from Darwinism (this is a collection of scientists who believe that Creation is more likely)
Answers in Genesis
ICR

The Reason for God, by Timothy Keller
The Case for a Creator, by Lee Strobel (a former agnostic!)
Scientific Creationism, by Henry M. Morris

What do you believe? Has what I've presented here changed your thinking or surprised you at all?