Evolution or devolution?
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"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." - Charles Darwin from The Origin of Species,Ch. 6.
In that quote, Darwin stated the fact that is now widely known - his theory has been disproved by now known scientific facts. Actually, the theory of evolution has been in question since it was first told, written down and published. With the discovery in the 1950's of the DNA molecule - with its complex, double helix of information - we discovered a part of the cell that had to be there, in its complexity, from the beginning - otherwise the cell simply could not do its work.
Darwin, by his own admission a scientist with a "stone heart," never attempted to explain the origin of life, saying "The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
Darwin's theories and writings cannot account for the design inherent in the complexities of the cell that modern microscopes and nanotech studies have revealed. The complex engineering design in the machine-like structures at work in the cells of the human body is essential to the proper functioning of those cells. And, that makes it necessary for the complexity to be there from the beginning. When we are born, those of us who are so blessed, have a working heart pumping blood throughout the body, lungs with which to breath, eyes with which to see, complex circulatory, respiratory, nervous, skeletal, muscular, digestive and endocrine systems and a very complex brain controlling all these organs and systems and many more.
There are many cells in the human body that are extremely complex and could not have "evolved" from a simple cell. Again, Darwin himself said, "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."
The complexity of design had to be there from the start, otherwise those cells would be non-functional.
Here are a number of quotes from notable scientists, interested and informed observers of the scientific community, world leaders and others about the theory of evolution.
On November 24, 1859, after reading The Origin of Species for the first time, Adam Sedgwick, a spiritually discerning friend of Charles Darwin, wrote to him:
"We are point blank at issue -- There is a moral or metaphysical part of nature as well as a physical. A man who denies this is deep in the mire of folly. Tis the crown & glory of organic science that it does thro' final cause, link material to moral. You have ignored this link; &, if I do not mistake your meaning, you have done your best . . . to break it. Were it possible (which God thank it is not) to break it, humanity in my mind would suffer a damage that might brutalize it -- & sink the human race into a lower grade of degradation than any into which it has fallen since its written records tell us of its history."
"Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable."
"The German fuhrer . . . consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution."
Sir Arthur Keith, British evolutionist
"The reason we scientists all jumped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores."
"It is clear that the doctrine of evolution is directly antagonistic to that of Creation . . . Evolution, if consistently accepted, makes it impossible to believe the Bible."
Sir Julian Huxley, British scientist, first director of UNESCO, grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (known as Darwin's bulldog due to his tenacious defense of Darwin's propositions, wrote of a "Great Chain of Being" with black Africans at the bottom and white Europeans at the top,) brother of Aldous Huxley (author of Brave New World) and a leading proponent of evolution prior to his passing in 1975
"[The theory of evolution] is one of the strangest phenomena of humanity; it is utterly destitute of proof."
The late Sir William Dawson, Canadian geologist
"The pathetic thing is that we have scientists who are trying to prove evolution which no scientist can ever prove."
Robert A. Millikan, Nobel prize-winning physicist
"So far as concerns the major groups of animals, the creationists seem to have the better of the argument. There is not the slightest evidence that any of the major groups arose from any other."
Dr. Austin H. Clark, author of The New Evolution: Zoogenesis
"Darwin's theory of natural selection has never had any proof . . . yet it has been universally accepted."
Dr. Richard Goldschmidt, professor of zoology at the University of California
"The Darwinist approach has consistently been to find some supporting fossil evidence, claim it as 'proof' for 'evolution,' and then ignore all the difficulties. It is, in fact, a common fantasy, promulgated mostly by the scientific profession itself, that in the search for objective truth, data dictate conclusions. Data are just as often molded to fit preferred conclusions."
Roger Lewin, science journalist, author of Bones of Contention
"The publicity that accompanies every new find of fossil human remains might give the impression that by now paleontologists have a great wealth of bones to study. Not a bit of it. The known fossils of man's ancestors would all fit on a good-sized dining table, and a couple of shoeboxes would accommodate all the teeth. On this slender evidence the paleoanthropologists have built their theories."
John Gribbin and Jeremy Cherfas, evolutionist science writers and authors of The Monkey Puzzle
"Christianity makes no distinction of race or of color; it seeks to break down all racial barriers. In this respect the hand of Christianity is against that of Nature, for are not the races of mankind the evolutionary harvest which Nature has toiled through long ages to produce? May we not say, then, that Christianity is anti-evolutionary in its aim?"
Ernst Haeckel, German evolutionist and scientific advisor to Nazi Germany
In Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, Darwin's theory of "the struggle for existence" is often mentioned along with examples from the animal kingdom to advocate the survival of the fittest and the elimination of the unfit to further social progress - "a higher race subjects to itself a lower race . . . a right which we see in nature and which can be regarded as the sole conceivable right (founded in) science."
In 1997, Nature, a British scientific journal, published a poll that forty-percent of the scientists asked believed in a personal creator God who answers prayer. They also believed in intelligent design - a scientific term for an ordered universe with clear, demonstrable evidence of meaningful design at all levels from the largest body in the known universe to the single cell itself and beyond to the smallest observable particle.
The Cambrian explosion, clearly represented in the fossil record, shows a sudden leap from simple to complex organisms. For Darwin's theory to be accurate, there should be a gradually evolving fossil record over time from simple to complex. The evidence doesn't support the theory because the missing links, proving evolution from simple to complex, do not exist in the fossil record.
Here's an example of evolutionary propaganda from 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The film continues the pro-evolutionary and satanic psychological programming from its predecessor, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Both of these MGM films were based on a short story, The Sentinel, by Arthur C. Clarke who became a Zen Buddhist and retired to Sri Lanka. (In the interest of accuracy, please remember that entertainment is often intertwined with propaganda.)
In "2010," the opening statement from the character of astronaut David Bowman is a reprise or repetition of a statement made near the end of "2001." The phrase, repeated 4 times in succession later in "2010", is purposefully repeated a total of 5 times in the film to lodge it in the mind of the viewer/listener. The number 5 also has the significance of associating it with the satanic. What is the statement? An affirmation of Carl Sagan's worship of the cosmos . . . "my god, it's full of stars." (This exclamation in itself is a violation of the commandment against taking God's name in vain as is the flippant exclamation of "oh, my ___" that is heard so often from the mouths of the ignorant, the thoughtless and from TV and film characters.) Character Bowman is talking about the "monolith," which in these films represents an alien intelligence that travels the universe, seeding new life on other planets by providing the missing link - a spark of intelligence that enables animals to evolve into men. But there is something more - what is full of stars? The universe or the cosmos. The hidden meaning advocates worship of the cosmos, a pagan religion that affirms the theory of evolution, an often arrogantly perpetrated lie that suggests all things begin and evolve, randomly and naturally, from the matter of the universe.
Narrator Ben Stein leads us on a very interesting and intelligent journey in the film Expelled.
The evidence presented in this film clearly shows that although good science supports intelligent design, advocates of the position are automatically labeled as creationists and ostracised by the diminishing segment of the scientific community which supports the crumbling Darwinian theory of evolution.
Why? Because the Darwinists wish to hold onto an unsupported and antiquated philosophy that all life evolved from a single, simple cell according to natural selection. Why? Because they do not want to bow the knee to God and submit themselves to His will. Instead of admitting that they were wrong, many "scientists" have gone on the attack - and they are not attacking the discoveries of Watson and Crick, the development of the microscope or nanotechnology. They are attacking the proponents of creation and intelligent design - including Christians and Christianity itself - calling them ignorant and evil. They have turned the tables - saying that those who do not accept Darwinism are ignorant and evil. Interestingly, they don't seem particularly interested in attacking Judaism even though the book of Genesis is the first book of the Torah in the Tanakh or Old Testament - probably because reformed Judaism has traveled so far from the Bible that this issue may be of concern to only a small remnant of religious Jews. Many Jews are politically liberal, not religious or are even against religion.
It's interesting that the most vocal and spiteful spokesmen for the evolutionary cause are atheists - writing books and debating the opposition whenever possible in as public a forum as possible. Because they can't attack the sound science backing creationism and intelligent design, they have chosen to attack the messengers.
In reality, it is ignorant to ignore the truth found in the revealed Word of God which reveals the creation, to ignore the scientific facts that prove intelligent design and it is evil to reject God, to deny the truth and to seek to destroy those who believe in God. In desperation to keep the evolutionary theories alive, an evil strategy has been devised to eliminate the truth of God from society along with those who speak and write it. In darkness and ignorance, an atheistic/humanistic world view is being taught in schools and by the media - a world view without religion in general and without Christianity in specific. Therefore, the primary task of indoctrinating the entire world with the propaganda of quantum mechanics, random evolution and natural selection can be accomplished without the interfering doctrines of world religions. By its very nature, the atheistic or humanistic world view seeks to discredit, destroy and eliminate opposition and to establish an oppressive, totalitarian world government. Part of the plan is to make all belief systems bow before the will of the state. Such a system necessarily denies the God of the Bible and the validity of any religious system other than a state-imposed religion - such as one based on state-sanctioned "science."
Evolution, specifically, cross-species evolution, the pseudo-science that many believe is true due to propaganda from some of the scientific community, the media, the educational establishment and the great unwashed, uninformed and, sometimes, uniformed, is without factual basis or proof - a sham - according to many learned scientists, scholars, educators and clergymen. Please, research the science on both sides of the issue. These pages do not pretend to be an exhaustive scientific textbook approach to the debate. Just because evolutionists say it is so doesn't make it so. Discover where the true, best science is and what the facts support. Creationism does not presuppose a belief in God but the evidence for intelligent design leads one to see an order in the universe that is too complex for random chance. Through scientific research and study, the evidence is found by examining the vastness of the universe itself - including the earth and the human body. The argument or belief that all creationists come to their conclusions by reading the Bible first, then fitting the facts to the scripture is not factual. That is an argument used by the opposition to make creationism appear to be unscientific. It is more accurate to say that advocates of cross-species evolution read Darwin first and then fit the facts to his theory.
There are Christians who are also scientists who believe in a young earth and others who support the theories of a very old universe. [Genesis, chapters 1 and 2, are linked here.] They believe that Genesis 1:1 is the act of the creation of the universe and that it may have taken place a very long time ago. In their interpretation, Genesis 1:2 is the restoration of an earth that had already been created. Those who favor the young earth theory generally believe in the six literal days of creation in the book of Genesis. Sometimes, the old earth scientists suggest that the days mentioned in Genesis could have been longer than a 24-hour day. There is strong order in the Genesis creation - certain things had to happen before others could. How could God have created plants and vegetation on the third day and not have created the sun until the fourth day if these days were eons of time? The problem of plants and vegetation surviving for millions or billions of years without the sun is obvious. The evidence seems to support a young earth - whether created or restored in Genesis 1:2. Any other conclusion raises disturbing questions.
The fact is that none of us were there when it happened. All we can do is speculate. Either we believe in the Creator God and the sound Biblical account or we choose to accept the questionable and sometimes unsound science of multiple theories of how it all began and how we got to where we are today. Always remember that the position we take on an issue depends on our world view - what we assume and believe about the universe and everything that is in it. Those who have a world view without God have to work harder and often fail to come up with adequate explanations for the why and how questions. The saddest thing is that a majority of people don't ask the deep questions - they simply choose to believe what they are told by those who are presented as experts and authority figures. That also applies to Christians who don't read the Bible and rely on Bible teachers to do their thinking for them. God has given us His word and the revelation of Himself in His created universe for us to explore. David wrote in Psalms 19:1 - The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
The suggestion that man evolved from apes and lower forms of life is considered to be a giant, conspiratorial, satanic plot by many faithful, Bible-believing Christians. And to many creationists and advocates of intelligent design - it's bad science. Aided and abetted by money and by many, the evolutionary theories are told and sold over and over again in movies, tv shows, textbooks, fiction and non-fiction books, videos, DVDs, CDs - the entire resources of the media empires. And how about all the merchandise that was sold in that particular cause - clothing, lunch boxes, mugs, old and new museum tickets - the list goes on almost endlessly.
One of the greatest propaganda wars was the one waged for a new generation of converts. It was waged using all the above media and more. It was the story of how young minds were shaped to believe in the fairy tale theories of evolution as seen through the lives of dinosaurs. It was a highly successful war for those who support the theory of evolution. It didn't seem to matter how little actual fact or evidence was presented - the impact of the movie theater experience can make all seen and heard there appear to be true.
A major reason to continue to sell the theory of evolution is the attempt to destroy any and all belief and faith in God and Christianity in particular. By eliminating the influence of traditional morality and paving the way for a totally secular, humanistic and atheistic society, the masses of people can be controlled according to the goals of the ruling class - the super rich international banking cartels, investment banks and their hired servants which include world government and corporate leaders, scientists, the media, public educators and many others.
Why would they do such a thing? If you can indoctrinate children (and adults) into believing that there is no God and no need for God, you can replace that inner need to have faith in their Creator with a fairy tale - a carefully constructed and frequently revised story that the entire universe evolved from the matter of the cosmos that settled after the big bang. If you eliminate God, then individuals are totally free to do and believe anything we choose. Actually, God is the author of freedom and free will - it has been in His plan from the beginning.
Remember from Genesis how Satan seduced Eve and she seduced Adam into disobeying God by learning about both good and evil? God didn't have to give them a choice - but He did. Satan tempted Eve with the suggestion that both she and Adam would be like God if they only ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. But the intention of the serpent in the garden of Eden was not to free but to enslave. Men and women have been willing and unwilling slaves to sin and the evil effects of rebellion against God ever since. If man evolved from monkeys and other animals, then, it follows, that we are animals and will act accordingly - survival of the fittest, only the strong survive, etc. In this fallen world, that reasoning has too often proven to be true.
When there is no standard set by a Holy, sinless God for people to live up to, the standard can be set by men and women who have their own evil world view and agenda to pursue. Namely, enslaving the entire population of the world under a socialist-communist-fascist world governments in which the population might be drastically reduced through oppressive governments, inadequate resources or health care, war, famine, pestilence and other man-made disasters.
Make no mistake about the lie that any government based on Marxism is benevolent. Lenin and Stalin took the principles in the communist manifesto to extremes and millions died. Millions live under socialist governments where they have lost personal freedoms and pay very high taxes to the central government for services that they used to get for less at a much higher quality. Adolf Hitler was a student of Darwinism and eugenics. He approved the application of the theories of natural selection and population control through fascist policies and experiments that led to mutilation and death for many. There is no freedom where tyrants rule from an all-powerful central government.
With controlling forces attempting to shape a global society predicated on fierce competition for resources, greed and lust for power/wealth/sex and whatever else, there sometimes seems to be little room left for love, charity, kindness, unselfishness and everything else that is good. But that is only an illusion.
The facts, and please research them, prove that most evolutionary models are figments from the imagination of the scientists who discovered one or two fossil remnants and then constructed an entire skeleton from them. Piltdown Man was a hoax perpetrated by a student on his professor and then used to bolster evolutionary theory; Nebraska man, an evolutionary hoax constructed from a single, extinct ape tooth, was used as evidence in the Scopes trial and was made famous in the evolutionary propaganda film, "Inherit the Wind." The legend of "Neanderthal man" is said to have been based on the remains of an elderly, arthritic Frenchman.
The same modus operandi of theoretical creativity is in effect for the "discoveries" of the remains of many other species - notably, the dinosaur. This is not to say that dinosaurs did not exist and leave traces in the fossil record - but that the exact "scientific" descriptions and explanations for some of them tend to be based on evidence comparable to that for ancient man - scant to non-existent. But, once you have an entire generation mesmerized and indoctrinated with the Hollywood movie version of reality, you can make them believe almost anything you want - for a while.
If Darwinian evolution is totally true and accurate, why does the scientific community that propagates it continually revise it every time there is a new "discovery?" New scientific discoveries often tend to negate the theory of evolution instead of supporting it. In order to prop it up, new arguments and defenses have to be manufactured. Many flights of scientific fantasy are on display in films and television progaganda. Often public broadcasting and other cable and satellite pay channels present costly, polished documentaries suggesting that a particular theory is fact. This is the nature of atheistic science which has taken on the form of a religion. There are many who have faith that science can and will explain everything about the universe. The truth is that although science has verified many laws of nature (that were set and are kept in motion by God) there are many more things that it cannot explain.
In order to keep "science" as the religion of the God-less, "scientists" must invent theories to explain what cannot be explained in the absence of a creator God - an all-powerful God who controls the universe even to the point of being able to suspend the laws of nature when it fits His divine purposes. The facts about the Creation were presented once - in Genesis - and are confirmed throughout the Bible and in the universe around us. There is no need to continually tinker with obvious facts in order to make them plausible or more acceptable to those who do or don't think critically. Unfortunately, much of the world's population has not been taught to think or has been trained not to think but to accept as fact the propaganda of the the educational system and the media. In this advanced state of gullibility, the general public will accept lies as truth without bothering to research the facts for themselves. Anyone who can look at the great natural beauty of the world or up into the night sky filled with stars and say that it's all just random chance is clearly not thinking at all. Those who take a close look at the reason and the good science behind it all find that there is very clear evidence of design and purpose.
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Genesis, chapter 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3 God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.
6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so. 10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good. 11 God said, "Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it,on the earth;" and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with its seed in it, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
14 God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons,and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the earth;" and it was so. 16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of sky to give light to the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19 There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky." 21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
24 God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, livestock, creeping things, and animals of the earth after their kind;" and it was so. 25 God made the animals of the earth after their kind, and the livestock after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. God saw that it was good. 26 God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over thebirds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea,over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth." 29 God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food. 30 To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, Ihave given every green herb for food;" and it was so. 31 God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.
Chapter 2:1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array. 2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
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Copyright © 2008 by Lamplight Press
Some of the direct quotations attributed to individuals are excerpted from
Solving Bible Mysteries
by Dr. D. James Kennedy
Copyright © 2000 by D. James Kennedy
published in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
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