FIFTY REASONS WHY
EVOLUTION WILL NOT FLY
CO-AUTHORED BY MIKE TOLER & ERIC SAMUELSON
FOR
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CREATION FELLOWSHIP
REVIEWED BY DR. ED HOLROYD FOR SCIENTIFIC CONTENT
WHAT IS
SCIENTIFIC CREATIONISM?
Creation Science is the practice of science with the
assumption and acknowledgment that there is a creator God. The current, prevailing assumption in much
of the scientific community is Naturalism, the belief that life and the
formation of galaxies are the result of random, chaotic events. Both systems agree on the basic facts. The dispute lies in the interpretation of
those facts. Since no scientist was
present to observe either the creation of any star or any species, and since no
one can replicate the conditions when life or planets began, reputable
investigators are left to interpret the data.
Creationism is not opposed to legitimate scientific
inquiry! In fact, the biblical mandate
to "subdue" the earth (Genesis 1:28) requires us to understand the
physical processes at work in the universe, which is the general purpose of
science. Once we leave the realm of
data, however, and enter in a discussion of interpretation, science ends and
religion begins.
At the beginning of this new millennium, two
opposing belief systems are being offered as valid descriptions of scientific
evidence. This article outlines 50
types of evidence contrary to Naturalism, or macro-evolution. Examine the data yourself and arrive at your
own conclusion.
WHAT IS EVOLUTION?
The term “evolution” requires immediate
clarification before intelligent discussion can occur. The word is often used interchangeably to
describe widely different processes, thus leading to confusion. If we were to witness an increase in organic
complexity over eons, such as reptiles mutating into birds, we would properly
call this “macro-evolution.” To
describe small changes that occur in a species over time, such as alterations
in color or bone structure, the proper term is “micro-evolution”.
No one, including creation scientists, disputes the
occurrence of so-called "micro-evolution", or the variation within a
type of organism, caused by natural selection.
This genetic function may be responsible for the large number of species
found within a type. Almost all
evidence for evolution falls into this category. Examples include Darwin’s finches or the British peppered moths. However, "micro-evolution" is a
misnomer, as it implies that "a little" evolution is taking
place. In actuality, NO evolution is
occurring, as no increase in complexity, such as the development of a new
organ, is being generated.
“Micro-evolution” merely describes how some existing genetic traits are
emphasized over others.
Large-scale change of one type of organism into
another cannot be produced simply
through mutation coupled with natural selection. Given the absence of transitional forms in the fossil record,
evolutionists quietly acknowledge this is still a "research issue". Even non-creation scientists, such as
Denton, Behe and Spetner have written books providing hard, scientific facts
that document why macro-evolution is impossible.
Take another example. The geologic column, that layering of rocks which is seen in canyons and mountain ranges, is cited as physical evidence of evolution. However, these layers are better explained as the result of a devastating global flood. Such a flood occurred approximately 5,000 years ago and is fully described in the Bible. Even evolutionists acknowledge that the fossil record is one of "fully-formed abrupt appearance" and "stasis" (i.e, no change over time). There is precious little in the fossil record that can be used as evidence of a transitional lifeform. When apparent examples of useful mutations are examined thoroughly, it becomes clear that no transitional creatures exist anywhere in the fossil record.
Looking to the creation of the stars, we are taught
that the lifeless atoms of a "Big Bang" eventually produced humans ALL
BY THEMSELVES without any intelligent guidance. This assertion is contrary to the well-proven Second Law of
Thermodynamics and the fundamentals of Information Theory. The universe is known to be "running
down" yet evolutionary theory postulates that it is "building
up". In your experience, do things
left untouched become more orderly over time, or more chaotic? “Atoms-to-people” evolution is much more a
"religious belief" than a scientific fact.
There is ample evidence to believe that a God
created our universe, earth, plants, animals, and people just as described in
the book of Genesis. Please read on and
give each point careful thought as to which religious view sounds more
reasonable -- special creation or evolution.
2.
GEOLOGY REVERSED: Around the world, we see
rock layers out of normal evolutionary sequence. Naturalist geologists believe the earth’s rocks were laid down in
a uniform manner over billions of years.
In Glacier National Park, however, a block of Precambrian “old” rock sits on top of Cretaceous “newer” rock. Why is this important? Evolutionists have a hard time explaining
this embarrassing example of 1 billion year-old rock sitting on top of 100
million year old rock. Perhaps the
rocks have moved since they were laid down?
Unfortunately, when geologists look for signs of movement such as scrape
marks or tallis piles they find none.
Additionally, the tensile strength of rock makes it highly unlikely that
the older block of rock moved across the newer without shattering to dust. Looking at the evidence, creationists say
that both rocks were created at the same time.
What do you say?
3.
RADIOMETRIC DATING: This process attempts to
place an accurate date on the age of rocks by measuring the decay of
radioactive minerals trapped within.
Scientists first examine the relative ratios of various minerals in the
host rock. Three basic assumptions are
made when dating a piece of rock;
A. the rock
contained no ” radioactive “daughter-product” atoms in the beginning, only
parent atoms.
B. since the moment
of its creation no parent or daughter atoms were either added to or taken from
the sample rock.
C. the rate of
decay has always remained constant (uniform decay).
These assumptions cannot be
proven with any degree of accuracy. To
make a scientific claim, one must be able to reproduce results. What do you think? In your experience, can an algebraic equation with three unknown
variables yield a predictable, verifiable result?
4.
OIL AND COAL ARE YOUNG: When the carbon-14 test
was first created, scientists used the process to date all sorts of things. Two examples included oil and coal. Tests of these two substances by the
carbon-14 dating method reveal them to be only several thousand years old
instead of millions of years old, as predicted by evolutionary theory. Once this method was shown to predict recent dates for oil and coal, scientists
stopped dating these products using this method. Do you think it is intellectually sound to reject a process that
fails to yield the results you so badly wanted? Is this good science?
5.
PERMANENCE OF KINDS: Also called stasis, this
field of observation has determined that most animals have remained relatively
unchanged throughout the fossil record.
Despite millions of (supposed) years and billions of chances to evolve
into higher life forms, no evidence exists for this theory. Many fossils from “older” rocks, when
compared to their modern counterparts, are often identical in form. Worms still look like worms, not some hybrid
creatures. Not one change of one life
form into another has ever been recorded, yet evolution is regarded in most
circles as fact.
6.
TRANSITIONAL
LIFEFORMS: If life has always been in a continual stream of transmutation
from one species to another, as evolutionists insist, then we would expect to
find many fossils intermediate between all the species. Yet, we do not find any transitional
species. Instead of finding fish
growing limbs and reptiles sprouting wings in the fossil record, what we
actually see are gaps. Creationists
continually ask evolutionists to explain the following gaps; non-living matter
to protozoan, protozoan to metazoans, metazoans to invertebrates, invertebrates
to fish, fish to amphibians, amphibians to reptiles, reptiles to birds,
reptiles to fur-bearing quadrupeds, quadrupeds to apes, and apes to man. Have you ever seen or heard of a
transitional fossil? Of course
not. They don’t exist!
7.
PETRIFIED LOGS: Petrified logs represent
something of an enigma for evolutionary scientists. These logs point to a rapid, catastrophic event, such as a
massive worldwide flood, rather than a slow burial. These trees all have their branches stripped off and yet their
bark is intact. This would indicate a
very different method of deposition than we currently find in forests and it
speaks of an event of enormous power. Creationists
believe much evidence exists for a worldwide (Noah’s) flood. Which belief system best explains petrified
logs to you, evolution or creationism?
8.
POLYSTRATIC TREES: Polystratic trees are
fossil trees that extend through several layers (“many strata”) of rock,
sometimes penetrating 20 feet deep.
According to evolutionists, a 20 feet deposit of rock would take place
slowly and uniformly, over a great many years.
However, no one doubts that these trees were buried rapidly, from top to
bottom. Otherwise, the top of the
trunks would have decayed well before new rock layers had a chance to surround
them. An example of polystratic trees
can be seen at Spirit Lake in Washington State. The observable, catastrophic events at Mt. St. Helens buried thousands
of trees rapidly. Sometimes
evolutionists try to explain polystratic evidence as a reburial event, but this
can hardly be the case when the rock layers are situated directly against the
trunk of the tree.
9.
EPHEMERAL MARKINGS: How long do animal tracks
last in the woods? Does rain leave an
imprint for millions of years?
Ephemeral markings include ripple-marks, rain imprints, worm trails, and
animal tracks. These fleeting emblems
are found in great abundance in the fossil record. As you can well imagine, such fragile marks are very easily
disturbed, yet the fossil record yields a large amount of them. Most of these imprints were made in soft,
wet sand that hardened into rock. These
marks must be buried very fast or they will just wash away with the next
wave. Furthermore, they must be buried
at least to the depth of the imprint or the rock above the imprint will squash
it away to nothing. This is ample proof
that these ephemeral imprints were buried in a fast-moving, catastrophic
environment such as Noah’s flood.
10.
BIOTURBATION -- Bioturbation is evidence of
animal activity left in rock. This
phenomenon would be expected in the upper few feet of most layers of rock. Rapid bioturbation is seen on the East Coast
of the U.S., where hurricanes regularly deposit fresh new layers of sediments
along the exposed beaches. These
sediments are thoroughly inhabited by creatures within a few weeks time to a
depth of many feet. If the top few feet
of rock layers have been exposed for thousands or millions of years, as
evolutionists maintain, we should find profound evidence of animal life, as
well as root tracts from plants. Yet,
as we look carefully at the geologic column, we find precious little evidence
of bioturbation. How can we explain the
absence of these animal “tracks?”
Consider the expected results of a worldwide flood as described in the
Biblical book of Genesis. Such an event
would deposit rock layers so quickly that no bioturbation could occur. What do you think? Why can’t we find evidence of bioturbation in so-called “ancient”
rocks?
11.
SOIL LAYERS: Another concern for
evolutionists is the lack of extensive soil layers in the fossil record. With layers of earth exposed for what is
proposed as "millions" of years you would expect to find many soil
layers. Even in desert environments
soil layers would build up after eons of time.
Yet, in the fossil record very little evidence exists. Creationism predicts that only certain
selected areas on earth would present soil layers; exactly what you would
expect after a worldwide flood, and exactly what the earth reveals.
12.
FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS: The first law of
thermodynamics, also known as the Law of Conservation of Energy, states that
there can be no creation or annihilation of mass or energy. Certainly, one form of energy can be
converted into another, one state of matter can be converted into another, and
matter/energy interconversions can occur.
But, the total amount of matter and energy combined always remains
constant. This law has application to
the creation sciences by verifying that the universe could not just spring into
existence by accident. The Big Bang
theory, proposed and repeated as an article of faith by naturalists, violates
this fundamental law of physics. What
do you think: could matter and energy mysteriously appear without a Prime
Mover, a Creator God?
13.
SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS: The Second Law, also
called the Law of Entropy, states that anything which is organized tends, with
time, to become disorganized. Any physical
system left to itself will decay; that is, it will lose energy and organization
inside the system. Instead of remaining
highly organized, as earth’s systems, everything tends to become gradually less
organized. For example, over time,
chemical processes will reach equilibrium and become inert. The Second Law of Thermodynamics can be
expressed in different ways, all of which are equivalent. Three applications include;
A. Classical Thermodynamics: The energy
available for useful work in a functioning system tends to decrease, though the
total energy remains constant.
B. Statistical Thermodynamics: The
complexity or order of a structured system tends to become disorganized and
random.
C. Informational Thermodynamics: The
information that is conveyed by a communicating system tends to become
distorted and incomplete over time.
This fundamental law of physics clearly states that the incredible increase of information required for a lifeform to evolve from amino acids could never happen. Does it make sense to you that evolution could repeatedly violate the Second Law by organizing more complex forms of life from “simpler” versions?
14.
BIOGENIC LAW: This law has two provable
concepts to it;
A. Life can only come from life.
B. Like kinds
always give rise to like kinds. (reptiles produce other reptiles, and do not
magically become birds.)
More than a century
after it was first proposed, scientists have never seen this law violated.
15.
ANGULAR
MOMENTUM: Evolutionary astronomers calculate the universe to be 10-12
billion years old. They postulate that
the solar system appeared after enough particles gravitated together. However, given this hypothesis, the sun
should have 700 times more angular momentum than all the planets combined. Instead, the planets have 50 times more
angular momentum than the sun. How is
this possible? Celestial physics won’t
conform to the “Big Bang” theory.
16.
INCLINED ORBITS: Again, if we are to
believe the naturalists, the orbit of each of the solar systems 63 moons should
lie in the equatorial plane of the planet it orbits, but many, including the
earth’s moon, are in highly inclined orbits.
Why?
17.
BIG BANG: A big problem exists with
the Big Bang, the evolutionists’ view of how the universe came into
existence. The Big Bang violates the
First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.
Physics does not confer the title “Law” unless an inviolable concept is
at stake. Is it not absurd for scientists
to twist these Laws in order to deny the existence of a Creator? The very idea of producing matter and energy
from nothing is absurd to the highest extreme.
Only by adding energy and information to an existing early universe
could one expect to initiate an evolving universe. But the evidence does not exist to support this ludicrous idea.
18.
POYNTING-ROBERTSON EFFECT: The sun, acting like a
giant vacuum cleaner, sweeps up close to 100,000 tons of inflow per day. The sun’s radiation pressure also serves to
push small, interplanetary dust particles outward into space. This phenomenon is known as the
Poynting-Robertson effect. If the solar
system is truly billions of years old, and if uniformitarianism is true, then
the solar system should have been swept clean by now. Unfortunately for evolutionists, tons of space dust remains in
the solar system. How does that
evidence square with naturalistic theory
19.
STAR CLUSTERS: Star clusters serve to
indicate a young age for the universe.
A star cluster contains hundreds or thousands of stars moving, as one
author put it, "like a swarm of bees." These heavenly bodies are held together by gravity. But in some clusters, the stars are moving
so fast that they could not have held together for millions or billions of
years. Star clusters tell us that the
age of the universe should be measured in thousands of years.
20.
SUPER NOVAS: When big stars run out of
fuel, they explode A certain number of these “super nova remnants” are visible
from the earth. According to
astronomical theory, in galaxies of our size, approximately 7,250 super nova
remnants should be visible. Using the
creationist age of the galaxy, we should expect to find between 125 and 200
super nova remnants. The actual number
of super nova remnants visible from the earth is 205, which is very close to
the creationist numbers. Where are the
thousands of predicted remnants?
21.
THE HUMAN EYE: The human eye is so
complex and sophisticated that scientists still do not fully understand how it
works. The eye completes 100,000
separate functions in a single day. While we sleep the eye conducts its own
maintenance work. Considering the
number of complex structures in the eye, as well as the highly integrated
synchronization, it is difficult to understand how the evolutionist can believe
that the eye emerged from a natural trial-and-error process. Darwin himself was troubled by the design
shown in this marvelous organ. The eye
is known to be useless unless fully developed.
It either functions as an integrated whole or not at all. Interestingly, the evolutionist has a deeper
problem with the eye. Five different
types of eyes exist: man, squid,
vertebrate, arthropod, and trilobite.
Are we to assume that chance mutations created not one, but five
separate viewing systems?
22.
TRILOBITE EYE: Trilobites were bottom
dwelling creatures that are now thought to be extinct. Because they lived at the ocean’s bottom,
great numbers were preserved. Trilobite
eyes had lenses made out of calcite.
Because these lenses are made out of "rock" and therefore
don’t decay, paleontologists have been able to study the design of trilobite
eyes. Unlike human eyes, which are
composed of a single lens, the trilobite eye is composed of a double lens with
up to 15,000 separate lens surfaces in each eye. This allows the trilobite to see under water perfectly without
distortion. Precise application of
several laws of optics, including Abbe’s sine law and Fermat’s principle, is
inherent in the design of these lenses.
How did a trilobite grow a second lens?
How did the eye function before the second lens was present? Did a grand engineer design the eye or did
it develop by chance?
23.
SEA SLUG: The sea slug is an
impressively designed creature that can be used to show evolution as
false. The sea slug feeds on the sea
anemone, is an animal with poisoned harpoons that paralyze anything they
contact. The sea slug’s stomach puts
these little darts into a sack inside its body and stores them to use in its
own defense. All these abilities need to be present from the very start or the
slug would die when it first encountered the sea anemone. How did multiple survival mechanisms arise
in the sea slug by chance? Why did the
slug evolve the dart storage if the anemone wasn’t edible? Natural selection wouldn’t favor a slug with
the dart storage capacity because no need for storage would exist until the
slug could devour the anemone. Which
came first? Or was everything designed
simultaneously?
24.
GARDENING ANTS: One of nature's most
impressive symbiotic relationships exists between the gardening ant and the
Bull’s horn acacia tree. The tree
supplies the ants with food in pods specifically for the ants. The tree also provides shelter for the
ants. The ants reciprocate by clipping
all the growth that competes with the acacia tree. Consequently, the acacia tree never has any competition, and
therefore gets plenty of sunlight in a dense rain forest. If the ants are removed from the tree, the
acacia dies within two to fifteen months.
How would this partnership arise in a survival of the fittest
competition between the plant and animal kingdoms?
25.
BOMBARDIER BEETLE: The bombardier beetle is a
small insect armed with an impressive defense system. Whenever threatened, this beetle blasts the aggressor with a
spray of irritating and noxious high temperature gases. This beetle keeps two highly dangerous
chemicals, (hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide) separated in its little body by
the use of a chemical inhibitor. The
inhibitor happens to be the exact chemical needed to balance the other
two. The beetle also has a fourth
chemical that, when introduced to the mixture, suppresses the inhibitor. Also, this beetle has twin tubes exiting out
its backside that can be aimed in any direction like a gun turret. Finally, this insect can recognize friend
from foe. The bombardier beetle must be
fully functional from the moment of inception.
Without the inhibitor, the chemicals would dissolve the insect. Without a well-designed mixing chamber, the
pressurized gas could not form. Without
the tubes, the animal would explode. How
did the beetle acquire all the right mechanisms simultaneously? Can evolution explain that? Are we amazed that a jet has all of the
systems working harmoniously? Of course
not. A jet is designed to work from the
blueprint stage. Likewise, the bombardier
beetle can only survive because its systems were designed correctly from
inception.
26.
FLIGHT: Insects are the only
invertebrates with the ability to fly.
Different than other winged creatures, their flight involves a sculling
motion similar to rowing a boat, whereas other flyers use straight
flapping. The one exception is the
hummingbird. What makes flight so
interesting for creationists is that flight did not evolve just one time, as
the evolutionists would have you believe.
There are four different flyers in the fossil record, each with unique
characteristics. They are: reptiles (represented by the pterodactyls), modern
birds (which could not emerge from a reptilian ancestor), mammals (represented
by the bat), and flying insects. There
are too many different characteristics for these to have a common
ancestor. The odds against four
parallel evolutionary tracks for flight are impossible.
27.
DESIGN OF HAWKS: For birds to be able to
fly, the ratio of weight to bone strength must be exactly right or the bird
will be grounded. While hollow bones
are good enough for most birds, the bone structure of hawks and a few other
birds are much more advanced in their design.
A hollow bone design does not allow for high gravity turns. The Creator added to the hawk’s bones a
design that includes diagonal struts, which provides the very best
strength-to-weight ratio. This
structure, known as the Warren Truss, is very advanced, having been discovered
only in the last 50 years by flight engineers.
28.
DECOYS AND ANGLERS: Did you hear about the
Hawaiian fish that uses a lure to catch its meals? It’s true! This animal
uses a dorsal fin to attract other fish.
This fin even has a set of fake eyes and mouth. The fish just shakes his "lure",
acting like a little fish in trouble, and waits for the predator to move
in. At times, this lure is bitten off,
but built into this fish's DNA is the ability to grow a new one. How did mutated genes learn to paint so
well?
29.
MIMICRY: Mimicry is the ability of a
creature to imitate another so that it is hard to tell the fake from the
real. Most mimicry is found in the
insect world. An example would be the
praying mantis, which looks like a stick, or certain spiders, which pretend to
be ants. How does a creature evolve the
ability to change color to the point that it represents an advantage? Some insects even imitate things that are
normally lethal. This mimicry seems to
cry out that the creatures were created fully formed, not evolved.
30.
GECKO
LIZARD: This lizard has several features that are hard to explain by
evolution. It can run across ceilings
and walls without falling off. Looking at the feet of the gecko under a
microscope, we find tiny little hairs.
Certainly, these could not hold the lizard to the ceiling. When examining hairs under an electron
microscope, scientists found tiny little suction cups attached to these
hairs. Scientists estimate there are
more than 500 million suction cups on each gecko. How would these evolve?
31.
NEANDERTHAL MAN -- When this prehistoric man
was first discovered, only part of an arm was recovered. Yet, the scientific community fabricated an
entire ancient society around an arm bone.
Scientists have since found quite a few Neanderthals and after careful
study have concluded that these ancestors were regular humans with bone
disease, probably rickets.
Unfortunately, this rush to judgment is a consistent and disingenuous
theme of the evolutionary science community.
32.
PILTDOWN MAN: This ancient creature was
another supposed ancestor of modern man.
For more than 50 years we were led to believe this “truth.” Two scientists eventually took a closer look
and found out that Piltdown man was a fraud.
This invented creature was a composite of the jawbone of an orangutan
and the skull of a small child. The
original “discoverers “ had stained these bone fragments to gain recognition
and promote the falsehood of evolution.
33.
NEBRASKA MAN: One ancient tooth was
discovered in Nebraska. Eager
evolutionists built a whole imaginary society and lifestyle around this single
tooth! When they found the rest of the
skull some two years later, it was clear that the tooth belonged to a pig. For many years, evolutionists described Nebraska
Man as a missing link. The only thing
missing was thorough research.
34.
JAVA MAN: This prehistoric man was
found on the island of Java and was reported to be the missing link between man
and ape. After serious study it was
found that the two pieces of Java Man were from two different skulls from two
different areas of the island. Both
were from the same species, probably an Orangutan, but they were not the parts
of a man. Recent human skulls have now
been discovered in the same layer of rock.
35.
PEKING MAN: This manlike creature was
found in China during the early part of this century. No other scientists have directly observed this site and it has
not actually been seen in more than 50 years.
All of the examples of Peking Man were reported to have the back of
their skulls smashed in, exactly matching the result when people of that region
hunt for monkey brains. Also, modern human remains were found at the same site.
36.
LUCY: Lucy is the latest find by
Leakey that has been almost universally accepted as mankind’s ancestor. Lucy is an Australopithecus, which is
actually more like a monkey than man.
When the bones were studied by spectrograph, they were found to match a
chimpanzee, rather than a man. Lucy
too, is a mosaic, with bones assembled from different locations. This is an example of poor anthropology
being used in an attempt to convince the public that God does not exist.
37.
LAETOLI FOOTPRINTS: These footprints were
found in the same strata as the Lucy bones.
Evolutionary scientists have said that Lucy-like animals made these, but
a podiatrist concluded they are modern human footprints. It appears that Lucy is not an ancestor of
modern man, but simply a monkey.
38.
FOSSIL HORSE SERIES: Horse fossils have been
used for years by naturalists to “prove” evolution. There are a number of problems with this series.
A. A complete series of these horses in the correct order has never been found in any rock anywhere in the world.
B. The sequence of small toes to big-toed
horses does not exist in the fossil record.
C. The teeth of the animals found are either
grazing or browsing types. There are no
transitional types of teeth.
D. Two modern horses are found in the fossil
record at the same level as the earliest types.
Horse evolution is now a
discredited theory. This is not a proof
of evolution!
39.
VESTIGIAL ORGANS: These human body parts
were thought by evolutionists to be remnants of formerly important organs. At one time, more than 200 organs of the
human body were classified as such. In
the last 100 years, all but four of these organs have been found to have
important functions for the body. It
appears that every part of the human body has functionality. This implies masterful design, not chance
evolutionary processes.
40.
PEPPERED MOTHS: This case study is widely
used in textbooks to describe evolution.
It does describe micro-evolution, that is change within a kind, but does
not describe a new kind of animal arising from another. In England, as the industrial revolution
turned the trees darker through air pollution, more black moths survived simply
because they blended in with the darker trees.
Predators attacked the whiter moths as they contrasted with the
background. Natural selection took
place, but moths remained moths. No new
species arose.
41.
ARCHAEOPTERYX: This species was
originally thought of as a transitional fossil between the reptiles and
birds. It is now considered by most
evolutionists to be a true bird. Also
true birds have been found lower in the fossil record, making them older than
Archaeopteryx. Some evidence points to
this being another evolutionary fraud.
42.
MILLER-UREY EXPERIMENTS: This was an experiment to
see if mankind could create life from scratch.
These scientists created a few amino acids under tightly controlled
circumstances, unlike those conditions you would find in a primordial
earth. Also, the amino acids they
created were a long ways from being alive, and the solution contained both left
and right-handed amino acids. In
nature, only left-handed amino acids are used to make proteins. In fact, if even one single right-handed
amino acid occurs in a protein, it renders the entire chain useless. Miller himself has stated that no useful
conclusions can be drawn from his experiments.
Besides, it took intelligent design to construct the experiment in the
first place!
43.
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY: This theory states that
similar features found in two different creatures indicate that these animals
are distant cousins on the evolutionary tree.
The problem with this concept is that many of the anatomical features
that scientists point to appear in different areas on the DNA strand. Like an architect, an intelligent designer
could certainly make multiple use of well-constructed organs or skeletons. Comparative anatomy points to design, not
chance evolution.
44.
HUMAN POPULATION: The human population can
be extrapolated backwards to see how long it would have taken to achieve
present-day numbers. Using even
conservative growth figures of one-half percent per year, earth’s population
would have been eight people about 5,000 years ago. That compares nicely with the number of people on Noah’s
Ark. Starting with evolution’s claim
for the origin of man, and using the same ½ percent growth figure for the human
race, we calculate a huge present day population that can not be justified by
the fossil record or current statistics.
45.
INFLUX OF ELEMENTS INTO THE
OCEANS: The
oceans receive tons of effluent every year from rivers. Scientists know with a fair degree of
accuracy the quantity of each element’s influx. They also know the current concentration of these elements in the
oceans. By simple division, they can
calculate the time it took to reach present levels, even accounting for
sedimentation and dissipation. None of
these elements give an age of the earth even coming close to billion of years.
46.
MAGNETIC FIELD: The earth’s magnetic field
is decaying at a rate of one half strength every 1,400 years. If we extrapolate backward from current
levels over several half lives, we arrive at a maximum age for the earth of
about 10,000 years. If the earth were
any older, the magnetic field would have been too strong to sustain life.
47.
OIL FIELDS FLUID PRESSURE: The pressure in modern day
oil fields is too high for them to be very old. Current estimates indicate that the longest a rock layer could keep
oil under pressure would be 100,000 years.
Our oil is simply not as old as evolutionists’ claim.
48.
ORIGIN OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION: No verifiable record of
human civilization is older than 5,000 years.
Civilization, like everything else, appears suddenly in the historical
record.
49.
EARTH SPIN SLOWING DOWN: The Earth is slowing down
its spin at a rate of one third of a second every year. If we extrapolate this back billions of
years we obtain an unreasonable spinning speed for the earth.
50.
ROTATION OF SPIRAL GALAXIES: The rotation of spiral
galaxies eventually makes them stretch out due to differential rotation. They lose their spiral shape given enough
time. Since these galaxies obviously
retain their spiral shape, they cannot possibly be billions of years old.
WHAT'S NEXT?
Now that you have seen the evidence that supports
creation science I believe you will agree it is clear that there is a creator
God. This creator God desires a
relationship with you. However, being perfectly
good, He cannot have a relationship with you or me because both of us have
sinned in His eyes. The Bible says that
all have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23). It further says that the penalty for this
sin is death (Romans 6:23). This verse
reminds us that even one sin earns this penalty.
But, the good news is that God sent his son, Jesus,
to take our place and die for us (Romans 5:8).
The scripture further says that this same Jesus who died, soon rose
again, and now sits at the right hand of the father. Romans 10:9 says that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus
is Lord, and believe in your heart that God the Father raised him from the
dead, you will be saved.
If you would like to do this, then say this prayer,
"Lord Jesus, I believe that you are Lord of all creation and as such you
have the power to save me and give me eternal life. I now ask for the eternal life that God, the Father, showed when
he raised you from the dead. Cleanse me from all my sins. Please send your Holy Spirit to live inside
me to help me be more like Jesus each day.
Thank you Lord Jesus for saving me, Amen".
Congratulations, you are now a brother or sister in
Christ. Please consider joining a
church that teaches the full council of God.
If you are a Christian already, and are making a renewed commitment to
view God’s word as true from Genesis to Revelation, praise the Lord. You will find scripture much more alive and
available to live your life by.
Send comments or suggestions to:
Rocky Mountain Creation Fellowship
PO BOX 29144
Thorton, CO 80229
mail: questions@youngearth.org