Question:
why do pious people believe in god?
2006-06-27 06:01:37 UTC
when today v r having answer to every question like origin of earth,origin of human, his evolution,existence of all forms of life thro scientific reasoning with experimentation and valid proofs then y do religion and people keep stressing on the existence of some almighty or supernatural power who according to them has created everything.they dont have even indirect proofs 4what they say and if some argument breaks with them ,they just end up giving confusing and unreasonable statements.even the people who have studied science n r having careers in science do the same,ignoring the theory of evolution of life n other things they studied? what is the logic behind their thinking?
Seventeen answers:
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2006-06-27 06:06:26 UTC
The Bible has already been proven. Through science. There are things that have not been proven. But it has never been proven wrong. Every scientific artifact that has been found relating to the Bible has just proven the Bible to be more accurate. Science doesn't scare us... it backs us up...



Besides... didn't the "BIG BANG theory" odly enough, sound just like the story God told. It's like the way we believe we got here... minus the God part. It's the worlds way of saying that we were right... but taking God out of the equation.



Also, on Darwin's death bed... he asked the Lord to be his savior... and for God to forgive him for the things that he had done... doesn't sound like that was such a SURE thing to me... ??



Evolution? Ha! Don't make me laugh!

I suppose that when you die your going to turn into a pig too right?
John B
2006-06-27 06:18:34 UTC
Perhaps the problem is not with them. They look around at all the wonders of this world and they clearly see this was not an accident...a piece of rock floating through space that just happened to find it's place to begin.



All things on earth have a beginning and an end. So why would anyone believe that the earth, where we live, would not follow that trend.



Evolution is just that. Things change and everything on earth has that ability to do so. So why does that mean to you there is no god...that the earth could not have been created by God and then allowed over millions of years to be where it is now.



If you have the perfect answer to where it all begin...and there was no Divine being that created it in whatever form it was then why do you worry about other peoples belief's?



You are right the more science knows the more they understand that this was not all just an accident. If what they see tells them this then why can't you see it?
bluejacket8j
2006-06-27 06:09:18 UTC
People will defend to the death what they have had drilled into their heads ever since they were born. Science or religion, they will fight the opposition even if there is proof. They can't deal with the fact that something they have known to be true all their lives may actually be wrong. People had a hard time believing the Earth was round or that the sun was the center of the solar system. With religion, it can get very violent. Look at the Crusades. Wars today have been fought over religious differences. It's called being narrow-minded.
bobm709
2006-06-27 06:14:28 UTC
Unfortunately some of your basic premises are incorrect.



We do not have the answer to every question otherwise scientists would be out of a job.



We do not have the answer to the origin of the earth and humans. We have guesses based on assumptions, but we do not "know".



We have never seen evolution and creation of new forms of life, so no experimentations have occurred that worked to create life.



I believe in God because of the general revelation of nature around us and the special revelation of the Bible. Based on the Bible and using the same original facts that evolutionists use, I can come up with my own theories on creationism.



I recommend reading some articles from some scientists at this site:



http://www.answersingenesis.org/
sana
2006-06-27 06:11:43 UTC
Geetika, first of all i dont think pious people believe in gos but people believing in god are pious and who told you the scientists who studied science and the world told us there was no God.Trying going through the life of Albert Einstien or anyother people , they all say that they believe in God and they know that all cannot be explained.There are mysteries in the world which cannot be unravelled by science.



Do you know the story of the Pharaoh who crossed the sea when Moses was taking the people across.They say that he perished in the water and God had said that his body would never be destroyed.He did this becase he wanted Pharaoh o remain as the biggest proof for God's existence.And as you said more than bieng indirect this is a direct proof of God's existence.No scientist has ever proved it wrong.And so it happened. They reacovered the body months later from the sea untouched by the fish or any sea creatures and he still stays in the Egyptian museum just the way as he was found in the water without anything bieng embalmed on.How do you explain that?
dam_amasing
2006-06-27 06:37:51 UTC
Power of myth, money, fear of the unknown,control,brainwashing are some reasons.



Sadly most societies are based on these assumptions & false mythological beliefs. It's easy to say "God's wish" for Birth, sickness, death, suffering, disasters etc.



In all cultures there's the Gods rep. These God's reps had full control over ppl and got paid in the past. Mostly the ruler was the God's rep. Today, isn't the Catholic church one of the RICHEST organizations. Of course the Pope is God's rep.



In order to keep the money flowing they have to keep ppl under control in fear of death, hell etc.



There is no logical thinking for the followers but they THINK what the religions PROGRAMMED them to think.



The worst is how religions have hypnotzed and brainwashed innocent ppl to believe nonsense to control them. When somebody else tries the same trick they cry CULT.
Suzanne: YPA
2006-06-27 06:08:44 UTC
What is the logic behind your thinking there is no God? You cannot prove someone's position is incorrect by raising unproven theories yourself.



The Bible has NEVER been proven to be wrong. Not by archeological evidence; not by historical evidence; and certainly not by its very words. In fact, the Bible contains over 3,000 fulfilled prophesies.



Even Darwin confessed, in his later years, that evolution is not likely. Most Darwinists conveniently overlook that. If you think I'm wrong, look into his statements about the probability that evolution resulted in the eye's development.
Deborah
2006-06-27 06:06:31 UTC
Even science has not proven itself beyond a shadow of a doubt that is why it is called theories. I find it a lot easier to believe that I was created by someone or something rather than I evolved from basically nothing.
Yngona D
2006-07-07 06:08:23 UTC
You can equally ask: Why do unpious people believe in god. Because they do as well.



Otherwise, the "logic behind their thinking" is that there is no proof of god - meaning, no proof of an objective reality. Meaning that the only truth is subjective, or that which lies within.
♥JCluvsu2!♥
2006-06-27 06:06:38 UTC
honey, if you can tell me where these gasses came from, then there might be a bit of evidence but since there really isnt, then I'll just stick to my religion. BUT IF YOU REALLY THINK YOU HAVE THE EVIDENCE, I'M SURE YOU'LL BE INTERESTED IN SOME MONEY $250,000..JUST GO TO THIS SITE:http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind.html



ALL EVOLUTIONIST SHOULD PARTICIPATE..you'll see there's no true evidence. So, evolution remains a THEORY NOT a FACT.
danielle s
2006-07-11 04:17:37 UTC
Humans don't become pious until they put their faith in God. Can scientists prove the existence of faith in the lab? The answer is NO, but does that mean faith doesn't exist? The answer is NO as well. So they can NOT disprove anything that they can NOT prove exisiting.
lynch0403
2006-07-09 22:27:00 UTC
First, the definition of pious is marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship. (miriam webster dictionary). So if you believe in a god, you are by definition pious.



Second, if you believe in a "Big Bang", evolution, etc., then you have more faith than I ever will.



I had this discussion with my little brother (who is an athiest as near as I can tell). It goes a little something like this:



As a Christian, I believe God created the heavens and the earth. It's that simple.



If you believe in the scientific theorum, then it follows you believe in the "Big Bang". According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions. (http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/academy/universe/b_bang.html)



In otherwords, everything, all energy and matter, was in a ball in the middle of.....nothing. Then, this big ball of ..... something/everthing suddenly decided to explode. Hurling everything outward in every direction. Which decides the best way to travel is to form atoms and energy and stuff.



Then these little pockets of something began to slow, and to swirl, and form galaxies. Within those galaxies, smaller balls of gas and matter began to slow, and swirl, and eventually make planets. These planets, which haven't got a whole lot going for them at this point, cool enough for pockets of mud to form. Then, lightning strikes the mud, creating the first amino acids....life!!!!



These amino acids, suddenly, decide, hey, we got to get together and form.....nacelles. These nacelles decide, we need some organization and after a few billion years, form true cells, which somehow avoid being wiped by meteors, solar radiation, more lightning (resiliant little fellas, ain't they).



Now we have a cell (probably a bacteria), which decides one day to split, forming two cells, which split some more, and more, and now you have....a bunch of cells, which are trying to function and feed and kill each other. Then they decide, lets get together and make something. At which time one yells...I'm the brains. This leads to a whole lot of shouting and shoving for positions such as the spleen and heart, leaving some poor cells to be the rectum (sigh).



Now we've got a something. But it's got no way to reproduce because it's so highly specialized. But wait. Miraculously, this same exact thing happened somewhere else (with the exception of some cells that decided to be manly, while others, rather femenine. ) These two somethings get together, and now you get ... baby somethings. (If, of course, both are biologically viable, and they don't kill or eat each other first, or a meteor doesn't squash them or lightning strike them or the acid burn them or whatever.)



Now you've got lots of baby somethings, swimming around in a sea, which formed while I was typing this. They've been some kind of fish now for a while, so they decide it's time for a change.



They decide that the view isn't that great from the bottom of the sea (and while this is happening, other things that formed somewhere else are now trying to eat the whole family). So everyone packs their amoebas and move to...land!!! Of course, they have to figure out how to breath, and eat, and deal with gravity, and mud, and more meteors, and humidity (assuming they come up here in Houston).



Now we are land creatures (without legs, which makes walking very difficult). So we decide, we had better do some adaptation. So they adapt, but so do the guys who have been trying to eat them. So they adapt some more, and go from amphibians (oh yeah, by the way, they changed from fish to amphibians, and found mates, thus did procreate, and make other little amphibians, anon, etc.), to .... reptiles.



Now they are really vicious. Reptiles, scaly and cold blooded, they do okay in the warmth, not so good on ice. They find enough to eat, and seem to be doing okay. Then one day, crazy Uncle Larry the Lizard decides he can fly. They all said, "Larry, you're crazy, it'll never work." Thus did Larry leap into the air and ... now he's a bird.



Not only is he a bird, he's warm blooded, so he does pretty good up north. He grows feathers, finds a mate (pretty good) and makes all sorts of other little bird creatures.



Then, I get lost. Somehow, mammals start showing up. Maybe one of Larry's kids lost the urge to fly (we could all be related to evil penquins!!!) or maybe one of the Lizards decided to try fur instead of scales. At any rate, we got mammals.



Then, something bad happens. All the lizards, which by this time are tremendously huge and have a horrible disposition, die because one of those stupid meteors fell and hit the earth and screwed up program. Now all we got are these little furry rodent things to work with. Oh well, lets get going.



So these things develop, and develop, and develop, and now we have...Lemurs!!! They seem pretty happy, but they decide they need to be bigger, like Larry's kids used to be. So they grow and grow and now...Monkeys. Which in turn decide they aren't quite sophisticated enough so they jump to....Gorillas. Now we're getting somewhere. We are now gorillas:big, imposing, hairy. Then Edna goes and has this one runt, small, nearly hairless, and she calls him ugly as a ... Human. At least, Neandrethal. Well, Andre (short for Ne Andre thal), can't find a chick, so he breeds backwords, and makes more humans??? What luck. Now we got lots of Andres running around, male and female. And finally, one day, one is born with even less hair, straight teeth, a less sloped brow, and enough intelligence to build a fire, hunt, cook, clean, do dishes, vacuum, the whole nine yards.



And then.......everything stops. Just stops. Everyone seems pretty happy with their spots. Those going up, go up. Those left behind on the evolutionary ladder like their niche. So everyone seems happy, no one else evolves, and we go on to create Yahoo so we can ask questions about the orgins of the universe.



Wow. And what is truly amazing is that this is the extremely, and unfortunately not all together factual (I had to improvise a little) account. What are the odds of every one of these events, from the big bang to my ability to type right this minute (and even to understand what a minute is). If you believe in all that, you have an infinite store of faith and I am humbled.



I don't write this to put anyone down, I just want to demonstrate that while some people don't understand why Christians (and Jews and Muslims don't forget) believe in something so unbelievable, I don't understand why someone wouldn't believe in something so simple.
2006-06-27 06:08:42 UTC
It has easy answer to believe than unbelieve in God.
2006-07-10 21:49:58 UTC
it is not pious people believe in god. it is the other way round. once u start believing in god you become pious.
Guy
2006-06-27 06:19:04 UTC
yes
2006-06-27 06:08:02 UTC
what me worry?
2006-07-01 07:58:15 UTC
Darwinism, in other words the theory of evolution, was put forward with the aim of denying the fact of creation, but is in truth nothing but failed, unscientific nonsense. This theory, which claims that life emerged by chance from inanimate matter, was invalidated by the scientific evidence of clear "design" in the universe and in living things. In this way, science confirmed the fact that God created the universe and the living things in it. The propaganda carried out today in order to keep the theory of evolution alive is based solely on the distortion of the scientific facts, biased interpretation, and lies and falsehoods disguised as science.

Yet this propaganda cannot conceal the truth. The fact that the theory of evolution is the greatest deception in the history of science has been expressed more and more in the scientific world over the last 20-30 years. Research carried out after the 1980s in particular has revealed that the claims of Darwinism are totally unfounded, something that has been stated by a large number of scientists. In the United States in particular, many scientists from such different fields as biology, biochemistry and paleontology recognize the invalidity of Darwinism and employ the concept of intelligent design to account for the origin of life. This

"intelligent design" is a scientific expression of the fact that God created all living things.





(THE SCIENTIFIC COLLAPSE OF DARWINISM)



Although this doctrine goes back as far as ancient Greece, the theory of evolution was advanced extensively in the nineteenth century. The most important development that made it the top topic of the world of science was Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, published in 1859. In this book, he denied that God created different living species on Earth separately, for he claimed that all living beings had a common ancestor and had diversified over time through small changes. Darwin's theory was not based on any concrete scientific finding; as he also accepted, it was just an "assumption." Moreover, as Darwin confessed in the long chapter of his book titled "Difficulties of the Theory," the theory failed in the face of many critical questions.

Darwin invested all of his hopes in new scientific discoveries, which he expected to solve these difficulties. However, contrary to his expectations, scientific findings expanded the dimensions of these difficulties. The defeat of Darwinism in the face of science can be reviewed under three basic topics:

1) The theory cannot explain how life originated on Earth.

2) No scientific finding shows that the "evolutionary mechanisms" proposed by the theory have any evolutionary power at all.

3) The fossil record proves the exact opposite of what the theory suggests.



The power evolutionists impute to the three force they believe to have produced life—time, mud, and chance—is actually enough to elevate them into a trinity. They believe that the combination of these random forces gave shape to the human brain, intelligence, cognitive ability, judgment and memory.

In this section, I will examine these three basic points in general outlines:





The First Insurmountable Step:

(The Origin of Life)



The theory of evolution posits that all living species evolved from a single living cell that emerged on the primitive Earth 3.8 billion years ago. How a single cell could generate millions of complex living species and, if such an evolution really occurred, why traces of it cannot be observed in the fossil record are some of the questions that the theory cannot answer. However, first and foremost, we need to ask: How did this "first cell" originate?

Since the theory of evolution denies creation and any kind of supernatural intervention, it maintains that the "first cell" originated coincidentally within the laws of nature, without any design, plan or arrangement. According to the theory, inanimate matter must have produced a living cell as a result of coincidences. Such a claim, however, is inconsistent with the most unassailable rules of biology.



"LIFE COMES FROM LIFE"



On the other hand, Darwin never referred to the origin of life. The primitive understanding of science in his time rested on the assumption that living beings had a very simple structure. Since medieval times, spontaneous generation, which asserts that non-living materials came together to form living organisms, had been widely accepted. It was commonly believed that insects came into being from food leftovers, and mice from wheat. Interesting experiments were conducted to prove this theory. Some wheat was placed on a dirty piece of cloth, and it was believed that mice would originate from it after a while.

Similarly, maggots developing in rotting meat was assumed to be evidence of spontaneous generation. However, it was later understood that worms did not appear on meat spontaneously, but were carried there by flies in the form of larvae, invisible to the naked eye.

Even when Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, the belief that bacteria could come into existence from non-living matter was widely accepted in the world of science.

However, five years after the publication of Darwin's book, Louis Pasteur announced his results after long studies and experiments, that disproved spontaneous generation, a cornerstone of Darwin's theory. In his triumphal lecture at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said: "Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment."30

For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted these findings. However, as the development of science unraveled the complex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea that life could come into being coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.





The French biologist Louis Pasteur

The Russian biologist Alexander Oparin



The artificial atmosphere created by Miller in his experiment actually bore not the slightest resemblance to the primitive atmosphere on earth. Today, Miller too accepts that his 1953 experiment was very far from explaining the origin of life.



(Inconclusive Efforts in the Twentieth Century)



The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin of life in the twentieth century was the renowned Russian biologist Alexander Oparin. With various theses he advanced in the 1930s, he tried to prove that a living cell could originate by coincidence. These studies, however, were doomed to failure, and Oparin had to make the following confession:

Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolution of organisms.31

Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to carry out experiments to solve this problem. The best known experiment was carried out by the American chemist Stanley Miller in 1953. Combining the gases he alleged to have existed in the primordial Earth's atmosphere in an experiment set-up, and adding energy to the mixture, Miller synthesized several organic molecules (amino acids) present in the structure of proteins.

Barely a few years had passed before it was revealed that this experiment, which was then presented as an important step in the name of evolution, was invalid, for the atmosphere used in the experiment was very different from the real Earth conditions.32

After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medium he used was unrealistic.33

All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth century to explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist Jeffrey Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an article published in Earth magazine in 1998:

Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest unsolved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century: How did life originate on Earth?34

One of the evolutionists' gravest deceptions is the way they imagine that life could have emerged spontaneously on what they refer to as the primitive earth, represented in the picture above. They tried to prove these claims with such studies as the Miller experiment. Yet they again suffered defeat in the face of the scientific facts; The results obtained in the 1970s proved that the atmosphere on what they describe as the primitive earth was totally unsuited to life.



All information about living beings is stored in the DNA molecule. This incredibly efficient information storage method alone is a clear evidence that life did not come into being by chance, but has been purposely designed, or, better to say, marvellously created.



(THE COMPLEX STRUCTURE OF LIFE)



The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in such a great impasse regarding the origin of life is that even those living organisms deemed to be the simplest have incredibly complex structures. The cell of a living thing is more complex than all of our man-made technological products. Today, even in the most developed laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be produced by bringing organic chemicals together.

The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great in quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of proteins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coincidentally, is 1 in 10950 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids. In mathematics, a probability smaller than 1 over 1050 is considered to be impossible in practical terms.

The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the information coded in DNA were written down, it would make a giant library consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias consisting of 500 pages each.

A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can replicate itself only with the help of some specialized proteins (enzymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be realized only by the information coded in DNA. As they both depend on each other, they have to exist at the same time for replication. This brings the scenario that life originated by itself to a deadlock. Prof. Leslie Orgel, an evolutionist of repute from the University of San Diego, California, confesses this fact in the September 1994 issue of the Scientific American magazine:

It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of which are structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the same place at the same time. Yet it also seems impossible to have one without the other. And so, at first glance, one might have to conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated by chemical means.35

No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have originated from natural causes, then it has to be accepted that life was "created" in a supernatural way. This fact explicitly invalidates the theory of evolution, whose main purpose is to deny creation.





(IMAGINARY MECHANISMS OF EVOLUTION)



The second important point that negates Darwin's theory is that both concepts put forward by the theory as "evolutionary mechanisms" were understood to have, in reality, no evolutionary power.

Darwin based his evolution allegation entirely on the mechanism of "natural selection." The importance he placed on this mechanism was evident in the name of his book: The Origin of Species, By Means of Natural Selection…

Natural selection holds that those living things that are stronger and more suited to the natural conditions of their habitats will survive in the struggle for life. For example, in a deer herd under the threat of attack by wild animals, those that can run faster will survive. Therefore, the deer herd will be comprised of faster and stronger individuals. However, unquestionably, this mechanism will not cause deer to evolve and transform themselves into another living species, for instance, horses.

Therefore, the mechanism of natural selection has no evolutionary power. Darwin was also aware of this fact and had to state this in his book The Origin of Species:

Natural selection can do nothing until favourable individual differences or variations occur.36





(Lamarck's Impact)



So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darwin tried to answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive understanding of science at that time. According to the French biologist Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darwin, living creatures passed on the traits they acquired during their lifetime to the next generation. He asserted that these traits, which accumulated from one generation to another, caused new species to be formed. For instance, he claimed that giraffes evolved from antelopes; as they struggled to eat the leaves of high trees, their necks were extended from generation to generation.





(The French biologist Lamarck)



Lamarck thought that organisms could pass on to their offspring traits acquired during their lifetimes. As an example to this line of reasoning, he suggested that the long neck of the giraffe evolved when a short-necked ancestor took to browsing on the leaves of trees instead of grass. With the discovery of the laws of genetics, it was seen that acquired traits could not actually be inherited at all. As a result, Lamarckism had been invalidated by science by the beginning of the twentieth century.



Darwin also gave similar examples. In his book The Origin of Species, for instance, he said that some bears going into water to find food transformed themselves into whales over time.37

However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Gregor Mendel (1822-84) and verified by the science of genetics, which flourished in the twentieth century, utterly demolished the legend that acquired traits were passed on to subsequent generations. Thus, natural selection fell out of favor as an evolutionary mechanism.



The direct effect of random mutations is harmful. Above is a mutated calf which was born with two heads.





(NEO-DARWINISM AND MUTATIONS)



In order to find a solution, Darwinists advanced the "Modern Synthetic Theory," or as it is more commonly known, Neo-Darwinism, at the end of the 1930's. Neo-Darwinism added mutations, which are distortions formed in the genes of living beings due to such external factors as radiation or replication errors, as the "cause of favorable variations" in addition to natural mutation.

Today, the model that stands for evolution in the world is Neo-Darwinism. The theory maintains that millions of living beings formed as a result of a process whereby numerous complex organs of these organisms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) underwent "mutations," that is, genetic disorders. Yet, there is an outright scientific fact that totally undermines this theory: Mutations do not cause living beings to develop; on the contrary, they are always harmful.

The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very complex structure, and random effects can only harm it. The American geneticist B.G. Ranganathan explains this as follows:

First, genuine mutations are very rare in nature. Secondly, most mutations are harmful since they are random, rather than orderly changes in the structure of genes; any random change in a highly ordered system will be for the worse, not for the better. For example, if an earthquake were to shake a highly ordered structure such as a building, there would be a random change in the framework of the building which, in all probability, would not be an improvement.38

Not surprisingly, no mutation example, which is useful, that is, which is observed to develop the genetic code, has been observed so far. All mutations have proved to be harmful. It was understood that mutation, which is presented as an "evolutionary mechanism," is actually a genetic occurrence that harms living things, and leaves them disabled. (The most common effect of mutation on human beings is cancer.) Of course, a destructive mechanism cannot be an "evolutionary mechanism." Natural selection, on the other hand, "can do nothing by itself," as Darwin also accepted. This fact shows us that there is no "evolutionary mechanism" in nature. Since no evolutionary mechanism exists, no such any imaginary process called "evolution" could have taken place.





(THE FOSSIL RECORD: NO SIGN OF INTERMEDIATE FORMS)



The clearest evidence that the scenario suggested by the theory of evolution did not take place is the fossil record.

According to this theory, every living species has sprung from a predecessor. A previously existing species turned into something else over time and all species have come into being in this way. In other words, this transformation proceeds gradually over millions of years.

Had this been the case, numerous intermediary species should have existed and lived within this long transformation period.

For instance, some half-fish/half-reptiles should have lived in the past which had acquired some reptilian traits in addition to the fish traits they already had. Or there should have existed some reptile-birds, which acquired some bird traits in addition to the reptilian traits they already had. Since these would be in a transitional phase, they should be disabled, defective, crippled living beings. Evolutionists refer to these imaginary creatures, which they believe to have lived in the past, as "transitional forms."

If such animals ever really existed, there should be millions and even billions of them in number and variety. More importantly, the remains of these strange creatures should be present in the fossil record. In The Origin of Species, Darwin explained:

If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking most closely all of the species of the same group together must assuredly have existed.... Consequently, evidence of their former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains.39



The larger picture belongs to a 100-million-year-old Nautilus fossil. On the left is a Nautilus living in our day. When we compare the fossil with today's Nautilus (on the right is the cross section of the creature's shell), we see that they both have the same identical characteristics.





(Darwin's Hopes Shattered)



However, although evolutionists have been making strenuous efforts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth century all over the world, no transitional forms have yet been uncovered. All of the fossils, contrary to the evolutionists' expectations, show that life appeared on Earth all of a sudden and fully-formed.

One famous British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager, admits this fact, even though he is an evolutionist:

The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether at the level of orders or of species, we find – over and over again – not gradual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of another.40

This means that in the fossil record, all living species suddenly emerge as fully formed, without any intermediate forms in between. This is just the opposite of Darwin's assumptions. Also, this is very strong evidence that all living things are created. The only explanation of a living species emerging suddenly and complete in every detail without any evolutionary ancestor is that it was created. This fact is admitted also by the widely known evolutionist biologist Douglas Futuyma:

Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible explanations for the origin of living things. Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not. If they did not, they must have developed from pre-existing species by some process of modification. If they did appear in a fully developed state, they must indeed have been created by some omnipotent intelligence.41

Fossils show that living beings emerged fully developed and in a perfect state on the earth. That means that "the origin of species," contrary to Darwin's supposition, is not evolution, but creation.





(THE TALE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION)



The subject most often brought up by advocates of the theory of evolution is the subject of the origin of man. The Darwinist claim holds that modern man evolved from ape-like creatures. During this alleged evolutionary process, which is supposed to have started 4-5 million years ago, some "transitional forms" between modern man and his ancestors are supposed to have existed. According to this completely imaginary scenario, four basic "categories" are listed:





1. Australopithecus

2. Homo habilis

3. Homo erectus

4. Homo sapiens

Evolutionists call man's so-called first ape-like ancestors Australopithecus, which means "South African ape." These living beings are actually nothing but an old ape species that has become extinct. Extensive research done on various Australopithecus specimens by two world famous anatomists from England and the USA, namely, Lord Solly Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows that these apes belonged to an ordinary ape species that became extinct and bore no resemblance to humans.42

Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as "homo," that is "man." According to their claim, the living beings in the Homo series are more developed than Australopithecus. Evolutionists devise a fanciful evolution scheme by arranging different fossils of these creatures in a particular order. This scheme is imaginary because it has never been proved that there is an evolutionary relation between these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth century's most important evolutionists, contends in his book One Long Argument that "particularly historical [puzzles] such as the origin of life or of Homo sapiens, are extremely difficult and may even resist a final, satisfying explanation."43

By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo habilis > Homo erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these species is one another's ancestor. However, recent findings of paleoanthropologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo erectus lived at different parts of the world at the same time.44

Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erectus have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) co-existed in the same region.45

This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that they are ancestors of one another. A paleontologist from Harvard University, Stephen Jay Gould, explains this deadlock of the theory of evolution, although he is an evolutionist himself:

What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages of hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and H. habilis), none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the three display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth.46

Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is "upheld" with the help of various drawings of some "half ape, half human" creatures appearing in the media and course books, that is, frankly, by means of propaganda, is nothing but a tale with no scientific foundation.

Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and respected scientists in the U.K., who carried out research on this subject for years and studied Australopithecus fossils for 15 years, finally concluded, despite being an evolutionist himself, that there is, in fact, no such family tree branching out from ape-like creatures to man.

Zuckerman also made an interesting "spectrum of science" ranging from those he considered scientific to those he considered unscientific. According to Zuckerman's spectrum, the most "scientific"—that is, depending on concrete data—fields of science are chemistry and physics. After them come the biological sciences and then the social sciences. At the far end of the spectrum, which is the part considered to be most "unscientific," are "extra-sensory perception"—concepts such as telepathy and sixth sense—and finally "human evolution." Zuckerman explains his reasoning:

We then move right off the register of objective truth into those fields of presumed biological science, like extrasensory perception or the interpretation of man's fossil history, where to the faithful [evolutionist] anything is possible – and where the ardent believer [in evolution] is sometimes able to believe several contradictory things at the same time.47

The tale of human evolution boils down to nothing but the prejudiced interpretations of some fossils unearthed by certain people, who blindly adhere to their theory.



Imaginary representations of 'primitive' human beings are frequently employed in stories carried by pro-evolution newspapers and magazines. The only source for these stories, based on these imaginary representations, are the imaginations of their authors. Yet evolution has suffered such a defeat in the face of the scientific facts that fewer reports concerning evolution now appear in scientific magazines.





(TECHNOLOGY IN THE EYE AND THE EAR)



Another subject that remains unanswered by evolutionary theory is the excellent quality of perception in the eye and the ear.

Before passing on to the subject of the eye, let us briefly answer the question of how we see. Light rays coming from an object fall oppositely on the eye's retina. Here, these light rays are transmitted into electric signals by cells and reach a tiny spot at the back of the brain, the "center of vision." These electric signals are perceived in this center as an image after a series of processes. With this technical background, let us do some thinking.

The brain is insulated from light. That means that its inside is completely dark, and that no light reaches the place where it is located. Thus, the "center of vision" is never touched by light and may even be the darkest place you have ever known. However, you observe a luminous, bright world in this pitch darkness.

The image formed in the eye is so sharp and distinct that even the technology of the twentieth century has not been able to attain it. For instance, look at the book you are reading, your hands with which you are holding it, and then lift your head and look around you. Have you ever seen such a sharp and distinct image as this one at any other place? Even the most developed television screen produced by the greatest television producer in the world cannot provide such a sharp image for you. This is a three-dimensional, colored, and extremely sharp image. For more than 100 years, thousands of engineers have been trying to achieve this sharpness. Factories, huge premises were established, much research has been done, plans and designs have been made for this purpose. Again, look at a TV screen and the book you hold in your hands. You will see that there is a big difference in sharpness and distinction. Moreover, the TV screen shows you a two-dimensional image, whereas with your eyes, you watch a three-dimensional perspective with depth.

For many years, tens of thousands of engineers have tried to make a three-dimensional TV and achieve the vision quality of the eye. Yes, they have made a three-dimensional television system, but it is not possible to watch it without putting on special 3-D glasses; moreover, it is only an artificial three-dimension. The background is more blurred, the foreground appears like a paper setting. Never has it been possible to produce a sharp and distinct vision like that of the eye. In both the camera and the television, there is a loss of image quality.

Evolutionists claim that the mechanism producing this sharp and distinct image has been formed by chance. Now, if somebody told you that the television in your room was formed as a result of chance, that all of its atoms just happened to come together and make up this device that produces an image, what would you think? How can atoms do what thousands of people cannot?

Compared to cameras and sound recording machines, the eye and ear are much more complex, much more successful and possess far superior designs to these products of high technology.

If a device producing a more primitive image than the eye could not have been formed by chance, then it is very evident that the eye and the image seen by the eye could not have been formed by chance. The same situation applies to the ear. The outer ear picks up the available sounds by the auricle and directs them to the middle ear, the middle ear transmits the sound vibrations by intensifying them, and the inner ear sends these vibrations to the brain by translating them into electric signals. Just as with the eye, the act of hearing finalizes in the center of hearing in the brain.

The situation in the eye is also true for the ear. That is, the brain is insulated from sound just as it is from light. It does not let any sound in. Therefore, no matter how noisy is the outside, the inside of the brain is completely silent. Nevertheless, the sharpest sounds are perceived in the brain. In your completely silent brain, you listen to symphonies, and hear all of the noises in a crowded place. However, were the sound level in your brain was measured by a precise device at that moment, complete silence would be found to be prevailing there.

As is the case with imagery, decades of effort have been spent in trying to generate and reproduce sound that is faithful to the original. The results of these efforts are sound recorders, high-fidelity systems, and systems for sensing sound. Despite all of this technology and the thousands of engineers and experts who have been working on this endeavor, no sound has yet been obtained that has the same sharpness and clarity as the sound perceived by the ear. Think of the highest-quality hi-fi systems produced by the largest company in the music industry. Even in these devices, when sound is recorded some of it is lost; or when you turn on a hi-fi you always hear a hissing sound before the music starts. However, the sounds that are the products of the human body's technology are extremely sharp and clear. A human ear never perceives a sound accompanied by a hissing sound or with atmospherics as does a hi-fi; rather, it perceives sound exactly as it is, sharp and clear. This is the way it has been since the creation of man.

So far, no man-made visual or recording apparatus has been as sensitive and successful in perceiving sensory data as are the eye and the ear. However, as far as seeing and hearing are concerned, a far greater truth lies beyond all this.





(To Whom Does the Consciousness That Sees and Hears within the Brain Belong?)



Who watches an alluring world in the brain, listens to symphonies and the twittering of birds, and smells the rose?

The stimulations coming from a person's eyes, ears, and nose travel to the brain as electro-chemical nerve impulses. In biology, physiology, and biochemistry books, you can find many details about how this image forms in the brain. However, you will never come across the most important fact: Who perceives these electro-chemical nerve impulses as images, sounds, odors, and sensory events in the brain? There is a consciousness in the brain that perceives all this without feeling any need for an eye, an ear, and a nose. To whom does this consciousness belong? Of course it does not belong to the nerves, the fat layer, and neurons comprising the brain. This is why Darwinist-materialists, who believe that everything is comprised of matter, cannot answer these questions.

For this consciousness is the spirit created by God, which needs neither the eye to watch the images nor the ear to hear the sounds. Furthermore, it does not need the brain to think.

Everyone who reads this explicit and scientific fact should ponder on Almighty God, and fear and seek refuge in Him, for He squeezes the entire universe in a pitch-dark place of a few cubic centimeters in a three-dimensional, colored, shadowy, and luminous form.



Motion

Tought

Touch

Talking

Vision

Tasting

Hearing

Smelling

We live our entire life within our brain. The people that we see, the flowers we smell, the music we listen to, the fruits we taste, the wetness we feel on our hand… All of these form in our brains. In reality, neither colors, nor sounds, nor images exist in our brain. The only things that exist in the brain are electric signals. This means that we live in a world formed by the electric signals in our brain. This is not an opinion or a hypothesis, but the scientific explanation of how we perceive the world.





(A Materialist Faith)



The information we have presented so far shows us that the theory of evolution is a incompatible with scientific findings. The theory's claim regarding the origin of life is inconsistent with science, the evolutionary mechanisms it proposes have no evolutionary power, and fossils demonstrate that the required intermediate forms have never existed. So, it certainly follows that the theory of evolution should be pushed aside as an unscientific idea. This is how many ideas, such as the Earth-centered universe model, have been taken out of the agenda of science throughout history.

However, the theory of evolution is kept on the agenda of science. Some people even try to represent criticisms directed against it as an "attack on science." Why?

The reason is that this theory is an indispensable dogmatic belief for some circles. These circles are blindly devoted to materialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the only materialist explanation that can be put forward to explain the workings of nature.

Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from time to time. A well-known geneticist and an outspoken evolutionist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University, confesses that he is "first and foremost a materialist and then a scientist":

It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.48

These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma kept alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This dogma maintains that there is no being save matter. Therefore, it argues that inanimate, unconscious matter created life. It insists that millions of different living species (e.g., birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers, whales, and human beings) originated as a result of the interactions between matter such as pouring rain, lightning flashes, and so on, out of inanimate matter. This is a precept contrary both to reason and science. Yet Darwinists continue to defend it just so as "not to allow a Divine Foot in the door."

Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings with a materialist prejudice will see this evident truth: All living beings are works of a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-Wise, and All-Knowing. This Creator is God, Who created the whole universe from non-existence, designed it in the most perfect form, and fashioned all living beings.







They said:"Glory be to You!

We have no knowledge except what You have taught us.

You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise."

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