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EVOLUTION
IMPOSSIBLE TO EMBARRASS ITS BELIEVERS by
Henry M. Morris
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Creationists have often pointed out that evolution is
unscientific because it can never be proved by science
to be true. It is not happening at present and without a time
machine, they can never be sure that it happened in the
past.
Regardless of how much an organism looks like it had been
intelligently designed, evolutionists (without even sounding
embarrassed) will insist that natural selection has the power to
make it look like it was designed, even though it
wasn't. Furthermore, no matter what fossil they find out of its
accepted place in the evolutionary "record," the
evolutionists can "explain" how it got there.
The recent discovery of the intact flesh of a Tyran-nosaurus
rex with its "blood vessels still flexible and elastic
after 68 million years and apparently intact cells
is a case in point. It would seem impossible for such soft
structures to be preserved intact even for 6800 years, but
evolutionists accept it on faith.
Similarly, Silurian fossil ostracodes supposedly 425 million
years old have been found recently in England virtually identical
to their modern-day counterparts and containing "a
jaw-dropping amount of detail,"2 but this
discovery does not phase evolutionists. They still believe it was
buried 425 million years ago!
On another front, one would think that geophysicists would be
embarrassed by their repeated failure to find the so called
Mohorovocic Discontinuity (except by inference from seismic
waves) at the boundary between the earth's "crust" and
"mantle." Since the supposed evolutionary history of
the earth is theoretically related to this "Moho,"
scientists have been trying to confirm its existence, along
with the assumed nature of the mantle, by drilling deep holes in
the crust. This has been going on since the early sixties without
success, the latest such attempt having failed earlier this year.
The Bible long ago prophesied that it was not possible that the "heaven
above be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out
beneath" (Jeremiah 31:37). Nevertheless:
"Undaunted, oceanographers are ready to try again."3
On the heavenly front, the same unembarrassed evolutionary
cosmologists will evidently continue trying to
"explain" the evolutionary history of the cosmos.
Theories abound, and change frequently, the rising favorite being
"string theory," involving multiple dimensions of space
and even multiple universes of space/time. However, as one
evolutionary astrophysicist admits:
.. the universe unveiled by the hellishly
complex mathematics of superstring theory is not even remotely
close to what string theorists anticipated."4
Another cosmologist insists, however, that "string theory
possesses a virtue for which many physicists are willing to
accept these seeming absurdities: It can reconcile quantum
mechanics and Einstein's theory of gravity."5 But
then he admits that "the theory itself continues to grow
more complicated and mysterious."6
Its main virtue is that it can explain the cosmos without God. As
Gardner insists, ". . . the fundamental credo of science is
that deep mysteries like these will someday, if only in the
distant future, succumb to rational explanation."'
And what about human evolution? A recent statistical study of
the genetics of human populations revealed, the most recent
common ancestor (MRCA) for a randomly mating population would
have lived in the very recent past.... In particular, the MRCA of
all present day humans lived just a few thousand years ago in
these models.
The writer avoids mentioning the "Adam and Eve"
explanation, of course. Nevertheless, he also notes that:
"And a few thousand years before that.... the ancestors of
everyone on the earth today were exactly the same."9
One would think that analyses such as this, made by evolutionists
on the real data of genetics and human populations would be
embarrassing to evolutionists who commonly postulate an
approximately million year history of human existence on earth.
But even if there were people living all during the past million
years, how come they all kept the same genetic makeup until just
a few thousand years ago? The Biblical record would seem at least
relevant to the discussion!
Then there are the recent research findings by ICR scientists and
others working on the RATE project that have uncovered many new
evidences that the earth is young, including the ubiquitous
presence of radiocarbon in coal beds and even in diamonds. For
years, of course, creationists have been pointing out that no
real evolution has taken place during the several thousand years
of human history and also that there are no legitimate series of
transitional forms in the fossil beds of the past, plus the
negative effects of mutations and the testimony of the laws of
thermodynamicsall of which seem to make any macroevolution
extremely unlikely, if not impossible.
Yet evolutionists continue to control the scientific and
education establishments, insisting that total evolution is a
scientific fact and creation is religion, so only evolution can
be allowed to be taught in public schools and colleges. They
gloat over the alleged fact that "an unprecedented 14
percent of Americans tell pollsters that they are atheists,
agnostics, secular humanists, or simply disinterested in
religion."10 Even if this figure is assumed to be
correct, it still leaves 86% of the population who believe in
God.
And they express surprise that so many people have somehow come
to believe in creation despite all the brainwashing in schools.
The editor-in-chief of the premier magazine Science, recently
moaned in a lead editorial that:
Alternatives to the teaching of biological evolution are now
being debated in no fewer than 40 states. Worse, evolution is not
the only science under such challenge. In several school
districts, geology materials are being rewritten because their
dates for Earth's age are inconsistent with scripture (too
old)."
A few evolutionists do seem to have at least a glimpse of why we
object to their insistence that evolution be considered a
scientifically proven fact. The following commentary on
evolutionary science was in a recent issue of Geotimes.
Evolutionists have "Physics Envy". They tell the public
that the science behind evolution is the same science that sent
people to the moon and cures diseases. It's not. The science
behind evolution is not empirical, but forensic. Because
evolution took place in history, its scientific investigations
are after the factno testing, no observations, no repeatability,
no falsification, nothing at all like physics.... I think this is
what the public discerns that evolution is just a bunch of
just-so stories disguised as legitimate science.
Another evolutionist makes an interesting admission. He says:
"Contrary to their public image, scientists are normal,
flawed human beings." They are as capable of prejudice,
covetousness, pride, deceitfulness, etc., as anyone.
Evolutionists can't seem to comprehend why most Americans still
believe in God, creation, and the Bible, despite having the
"fact" of evolution dogmatically taught to them
throughout their school years. The fact is that there is an
abundance of objective evidence that the Bible really is the Word
of God. It is not just a book of religion as they argue, but a
book of factual history. Jesus Christ really did rise from the
dead and Jesus Christ really did confirm the truth of the
Biblical account of origins. Creationists do not believe in the
Bible just because they are ignorant of science
Peter says that "we have not followed cunningly devised
fables.... We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto
ye do well that ye take heed ..." (II Peter 1:16,19). And
the apostle Paul, prophesying of the humanists of "the last
days" said that they would be "Ever learning, and never
able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy
3:1, 7) because "they shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:4). A
creationist scientist justifiably might think of the Psalmist's
caustic commentary on the ancient idol making pantheistic
evolutionists: Their idols are silver and gold, the work of
men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have
they, but they see not:... They that make them are like unto
them; so is every one that trusteth in them (Psalm 115:4, 5,
8).
Endnotes 1. Erik Stokstad, "Tyrannosaurus
rex Soft Tissue Raises Tantalizing Prospects," Science
(vol. 307, March 25, 2005), p. 1852.
2. Erik Stokstad, "Gutsy Fossil Sets
Record for Staying the Course," Science (vol. 302,
December 5, 2003), p. 1645.
3. Richard A. Kerr, "Pursued for 40
Years, the Moho Evades Ocean Drillers Once Again," Science
(vol. 307, March 18, 2005), p. 1707.
4. James N. Gardner, "Fundamental Cosmological
Understanding Eludes Us," Skeptical Inquirer (vol. 28,
July/ August, 2004), p. 51.
5. Adrian Cho, "String Theory Gets Real-Sort
of," Science (vol. 306, November 26, 2004), p. 1461.
6. Ibid., p. 1462. 7. James N.
Gardner, op. cit., p. 52.
8. Douglas L. T. Rohde, Steve Olson, and
Joseph T. Chang, "Modelling the Recent Common Ancestry of
all Living Humans," Nature (vol. 431, September 30,
2004), p. 562.
9. Ibid., p. 565.
10. Promotional brochure published by the Council for
Secular Humanism.
11. Donald Kennedy, "Twilight for the
Enlightenment?" Science (vol. 308, April 8, 2005), p.
165.
12. John Chaikowsky, "Geology v. Physics," Geotimes
(vol. 50, April 2005), p. 6.
13. David Weatherall, "Conduct Unbecoming," American
Scientist (vol. 93, January-February 2005), p. 73.
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