CREATION VS EVOLUTION (part 1)
#1.) EVOLUTION is ADHERED TO like a RELIGION:
From Charles Colsons BREAKPOINT:
Broadly speaking, a religion is anything that
functions as a person's ultimate belief or worldview-
anything that answers the basic questions of life:
Where did we come from? What are we here for? How
do we know what's right and wrong?
For many people today, Darwinian evolution answers
those fundamental questions. Where did we come from?
From chance collisions of atoms, Darwinism says.
Why are we here? There is no purpose to life, Darwinism
says-no reason for existence. We are cosmic accidents.
How do we know right and wrong? We DON'T know any
objective moral law: Morality is merely an idea
that appears in the human mind when it has evolved
to a certain stage. Hence people make up
their own ideas of right and wrong.
Cornell biologist William Provine sums up the implications
Of Darwinism in simple bullet points: It means "No life
after death; no ultimate foundation for ethics; no
ultimate meaning for life . . .
This is why the issue of Darwinism versus cosmic design
Has become such a fierce battleground in America today.
The debate is not just about fossils or genetic
mutations. Our theory of origins determines our
identity, our values, our sense of meaning.
Modern Science's Anti-God Bias Dr. George Wald Professor Emeritus of Biology at Harvard/Nobel Prize winner in Biology in 1971:
"There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution OR a supernatural creative act of God there is no other possibility. Spontaneous generation was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others, but that just leaves us with only one other possibility that life came as a supernatural act of creation by God, but I can't accept that philosophy because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution"
Frog + Princess's Kiss = Prince (We call it a fairy tale.)
Frog + Evolution = Prince (We call it science.)
Rom 1:20-21 (NIV)
20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-- his eternal power and divine nature-- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.
Darwin's Statements Concerning The Old Testament "from its manifestly false history of the earth was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindus, or the beliefs of any barbarian." The New Testament "is a damnable doctrine." (I can) "hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true."
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#2.) HERE ARE BASIC SCIENTIFIC FACTS THAT YOU CAN USE TO PROVE THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION IS ONLY A THEORY AND CANNOT BE A FACT:
a) THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS - This irrefutable law states that order goes to disorder - hot disburses to cold - NOT the random ASSEMBLING of materials to for life as evolutionists believe . . . INFORMATION DISSIPATES (write a letter and leave it out in the rain for a month).
b) THE FOSSIL RECORD - Of ALL the fossils recovered in the past century and a half, NOT ONE MISSING LINK (the half ape/half man evolutionary being) has shown up ! ! ALL of the species found are FULLY FORMED and SUDDENLY APPEAR in the rock strata :)
c) THE STATISTICAL CHANCE OF EVEN ONE PROTEIN COMING TOGETHER OR EVOLVING IS STAGGERINGLY SMALL - NOT TO MENTION ENTIRE CELLS, ORGANS, AND SPECIES:
The Complexity of Life: Hemoglobin
Hemoglobin
The protein, hemoglobin, is an essential component of humans and other vertebrates. Contained in red blood cells, hemoglobin serves as the oxygen-carrier in blood. Each human has over 60 octillion (60,000,000,000,000,000,000) hemoglobin molecules. Each hemoglobin molecule is made up of two twisted chains of 574 amino acids each linked together in a specific order. There are thousands of different types of amino acids, however, only 20 of these types of amino acids are used in living organisms. This means that only these 20 are used in making hemoglobin and each amino acid must be linked up in the right order.
Trains and Things that Link Together
If we were to take two railroad trains of 574 cars each, with 20 different colors of cars, we would have a picture of hemoglobin. In order to link the cars of the train in the proper order, we have to choose the correct color car for each position. Since there are 20 different colors of cars, this means for the first position there are 20 different choices. To properly link the first two cars, we must select from 20 different color choices for each of the two cars. 20 possible colors for the first car and 20 possible colors for the second car20 times 20, or 400 possible color combinations just to properly link the first two cars. If we were to link up the first three cars we would have 8,000 different combinations, 20 choices for each of the three cars (20 times 20 times 20). This can also be written as 203 (20 multiplied by 20 for 3 times).
Hemoglobin has 574 'cars' or 20 raised to the 574th power (mulitiply 20 times 20 and do it 574 times to get the possible number of combinations). How long would it take to assemble a train, with the colored cars in the correct order, with this many possible combinations? If you were able to do one combination every second of your life, you would run out of time. If you were able to try one combination for every second of the estimated age of the universe (15 billion years or about 1018 seconds), you would still run out of time. There is not enough time in the estimated age of the universe to try even a small fraction of the possible combinations. It would take over a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) years of trying a combination every second and still, there would not be enough time to try all the possible combinations. How could this have happened in less than 4 billion years without the help of an intelligent designer?
. . . in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
- Ex 20:11