When I wrote my book Creation
Versus Evolution : Scientific and Religious Considerations, I pondered
over several other possible titles. Among these were “Evolution - Hoax
of the Centuries” and “Have You Been Brainwashed By Evolution?” I do
not know how marketable the book would have been with one of these titles,
but still feel these phrases have some merit. The reason I believe that
the theory of evolution is a hoax is that the public has been brainwashed
into believing that the theory of evolution is supported by scientific
evidence. In most of the school boards and courts considering Creation
versus evolution, the issue has been presented as religion versus science.
They argue that Creation should not be taught in public schools because it
is religion, but that evolution can be taught because it is science. The
theory of evolution is not scientific. It
is important that we know what science is and are able to distinguish
between “science” and what is “falsely called science.” A typical
definition of science is that it is a branch of study concerned with
observation and classification of facts, especially with the establishment
of verifiable general laws, chiefly by induction and hypothesis. Webster
defines science as “systematized knowledge derived from observation,
study, and experimentation…”. You can look at various dictionaries and
get slightly different definitions but the key words will be
“observation,” “experimentation,” “verifiable,”
“testable,” and “repeatable.” In other words, if it cannot be
observed, repeated, verified or subject to experimentation, then it is not
scientific. Evolution has never been observed, repeated, verified nor has
an experiment ever been performed regarding it. Thus evolution is not
scientific. The
theory of evolution contradicts known scientific laws such as the law of
biogenesis, the law of kinds and the second law of thermodynamics. The law
of biogenesis is that life can only come from other life. Life does not
spring from non-living things. This is what we observe and what the Bible
teaches in Genesis 1, where various forms of life were created to
reproduce. Perhaps the most difficult problem that evolutionists face is
the question of how self-replicating life systems could form from
non-living, non-replicating systems. Some evolutionists propose that in
the beginning small inorganic molecules such as water, methane and
ammonia, somehow by chance chemical reactions, formed amino acids. These
amino acids supposedly combined to form proteins and eventually living
cells. The idea that living creatures can be produced naturally from
non-living substances is called spontaneous generation. Never has this
been observed, repeated or verified, and thus this idea is not scientific.
The law of kinds is that life reproduces after its own kind. The phrase
after his kind is used at least ten times in the creation account (Genesis
1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25). This applies to both the plant and the animal
kingdoms. Specifically mentioned are grasses, herbs, trees, fishes, birds
, beasts and creeping things. What this means is that pear trees produce
pears and not bananas or monkeys. Cows have calves and horses beget colts.
In other words, “like produces like.” The theory of evolution
contradicts the “law of kinds ” by saying that one kind of creature
evolved into another kind. The
second law of thermodynamics shows that systems left to themselves go to a
condition of greater disorder, probability and randomness. Hurricanes do
not build buildings. Explosions in junkyards do not build airplanes.
Earthquakes do not create living systems. Systems go from order to
disorder. This contradicts evolutionary theory , which assumes that
disordered particles eventually evolved to form ordered life. The second
law of thermodynamics also contradicts the idea that a Big Bang Explosion
could have produced an ordered universe. For an ordered pattern to occur,
there must be a designer and energy. The orderliness of the universe and
the complexity of living organisms confirm the work of a divine Creator.
Our ordered universe could not have developed from chaos. There are no
exceptions to the second law of thermodynamics. Evolutionists try to point
out that snowflakes forming, trees growing and embryos developing are
exceptions to the second law. Snowflakes and other crystals form because
of the sizes and shapes of atoms, ions and molecules that predetermine the
shapes of the crystals. For example, if you dropped some marbles on a
Chinese checkerboard, the marbles would take the pattern of the
indentations on the board. This “disorder to order” is really not that
at all, but is rather that the marbles are falling into a pre-designed
order. Likewise, the order of a growing tree or a developing embryo has
been pre-encoded into the cells of these systems. Both
Creation and evolution are religious views. The issue is not religion vs.
science, but religion vs. religion. Any concept regarding origins is not
scientific, in that origins were not and cannot be observed, repeated or
verified. Scientists can only deal with present evidence. The choice of
which theory to accept becomes a matter of faith. To accept something
without evidence requires faith. Hebrews 11:1-3 states, “Now faith is
the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen…By
faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so
that the things which are seen were not made of things which are
visible.” The Christian believes that God created the universe, life and
man, while the evolutionist believes that the universe, life and man
somehow evolved without any supernatural direction. “Evolution cannot be
proved or tested, it can only be believed.” Considering the majesty,
beauty and complexity of the earth and universe, it is relatively easy to
believe in Creation. But to believe that dead matter could create life,
and have absolutely no evidence, requires faith of another order. Some
believe that a cosmic egg of energy exploded to form chemical elements,
stars , galaxies and finally people. Some even have the faith to believe
that life was planted on earth by an unknown civilization from outer
space. Since evolution cannot be observed, repeated or verified, it is no
more “scientific” and no less “religious” than Creation. One
person was asked, “Why aren’t you an evolutionist?” His reply was,
“I don’t have enough faith to believe that random particles arranged
themselves into ordered life.” The
zeal of Darwinists to evangelize the world with their theory makes it also
seem like a religion. They see evolution as a light which illuminates all
facts. To them evolution is the god they worship. Christians however
recognize that the great Creator became our Savior and all of God’s
fullness dwells in Him. Jesus Christ is the Light of the world and the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and wisdom.
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