Question:
why do creationists think that evolution is a lie or at least errant?
gbiaki
2006-12-31 08:54:53 UTC
The scientific community overwhelmingly endorses evolution, which is backed by an incredible amount of evidence, and no counter examples. ID is not science because it fails to meet observations and fails to meet basic scientific criteria for a theory. Does the religious community simply think that science is unreliable?
I don't understand the skepticism, when science consistently delivers facts and religion just creates divisions and myths.

Is education that poor that people are prepared to believe myths rather than scientific facts or is it a right-side/left-side brain diference?

Science is interested in understanding nature and has a respectable process for acheiving this called the scientific method. It involves observation, theorizing, testing and peer review. How can faith be considered more reliable than this? How much faith do you put in used car salesmen? You require evidence that you aren't going to be ripped off right?
31 answers:
Deirdre H
2006-12-31 09:02:05 UTC
It's because, as I mentioned in another answer, religious people fail to accept that any real science may contradict what lies between the covers of a particular book.



They believe this book to be the inerrant and ultimately reliable source of truth. It is beyond their comprehension that any external evidence, whatever the source might contradict the book and remain true.



Therefore, when anything comes along which does contradict this book, they will not examine the evidence as it is considered false or heretical, regardless of its source or provenance. Proved, disproved, or otherwise, anything contrary to the book must be false.



And that's the difference between Science and religious fundamentalism.
Tommy
2006-12-31 13:18:28 UTC
Ah, the First Church of the Scientific Community et al.



My information says that the inferences that your "scientific community" (and there is more than one) draws from the raw data, they have collected from their previous assumptions, has yet to be proved; to the extent of discounting an intelligence behind what we observe. I am not saying DL is science.



Some recent study is showing that all human decission making is done on an emotional basis. This may put your conclusions, despite the data and peer review, on a non-logical shelf with the religious bunch. But let us test it out: If what you say is true; why can't you just declare a victory, pick up your marbels and go home? Can you do it? I doubt it.



"Science" is not delivering facts consistent with my experience; nor data complete enough to obtain comprehension meeting my standards. I have enjoyed and been employed in and around fields of science for at least one-third of my life. I find no problem with scientific method; have always believed in an evolutionary process and my beliefs have changed over the years. Which is more than I can say for some in both camps.



I do not see that any human being is obligated to confine his or her life to scientific method. I was not created to consistantly deliver facts to some museum, government agency or my like minded friends, however dumb or intelligent they may be.



As to your last paragraph. You define faith as trust which is more than most people do. My God, however, is not a used car salesman and my faith not only trust; but the ability to call things hoped for into existence. Heb. 11:1.



Is evolution as you accept it proven? I think not. There is no universal criteria for truth to this day and if every scientist signed off, it would still not make it true. There is still no 'true concept' of the nature of time or of dimensions in the universe nor any disproof of spiritual realms; which some who cling to science find so distasteful.



My experience says there is a spiritual realm and that is where the real problem rests between us. Did somebody throw this party or did it just happen. Is it a response of one protein with another? Am I talking to myself? Is the voice I hear real? Are the insights I receive valid? Checks out for me thus far.



When science gets it all sorted out, purists may find themselves looking at concepts which were answered by poets and mystics long ago. Won't that be a bummer.
Gordon B
2006-12-31 10:02:31 UTC
Creatinism is a "science" that accepts any research that agrees with the bible, then it ignores any future research which contradicts this.



Any research that goes against the bible is ignored or derided as untrue.



Science is open to any valid theory which then has to stand up to scrutiny, some are proven wrong and ditched, others are shown to be correct. Creationists will jump on any theory that goes with what they want and thats it true even when subsequently proven wrong or innaccurate.



Creationism is basically a way to try to prove the bible correct, this shows a lack of faith in the bible.



You must realise the bible is not literal but does have truth in it.



First the sun was formed, the earth formed, life started in the ocean then went to the land and eventually led to humans. In the bible god brought light (sun) made the fish then the animals then us. These do correspond but it is wrong to take everything literally.
2006-12-31 09:33:20 UTC
Creationists are scared of evolution, it undermines their already weak faith. Creationism is an attempt to bring pseudo religious logic to a rational framework. They do not say who made the world, they just say it must have a creator as it is so structured and integral. This is a religious argument, not a scientific one. They go on to say that evolution is just a theory. This is not true. It has been observed in action very many times, from viruses evolving to the stimuli of antibiotics and the discovery of brand new species of plants in very closely observed first world environments. If evolution is a theory, do not confuse it with cockamamie theory. It is an axiomatic reality, Creationism is a theory.
DATA DROID
2006-12-31 09:48:40 UTC
Evolution is a lie. That's why. The last poll I saw on this (about 1998?) had about 55% of scientist endorsing Darwinian evolution. The remaining 45% did "not" believe in Creation, but there were some. So, overwhelming support?? well, just barely. Evidence-an incredible amount??? No, no- incredible evidence I would say. ID is not science??? Well then where did the idea come from??? Would you believe Albert Einstein??-that's a fact Jack.

Do we think science is unreliable??-absolutely not. There are thousands of born again Christian scientist. Many are experts in their fields-they just don't buy evolution. Science is reliable-we trust it. Evolution is not science-it is a belief system. Science is great-but when you talk about evolution, you have left science and entered the world of make believe. Evolution is the "science" of the religion of secular humanism. The problem with evolutionist is that they hate God so much that they are willing to falsify their work to prove God a myth. How much fraud and fakery has there been in the evolution camp? You should check that one issue out-you may be surprised.

Yes there are plenty of flaky faith healers and money grubbers or charlatans in our religious circles. Robert Tilton, Benny Hinn, Kenneth Copeland, Paul Crouch, and many others. And yes, many dumb people follow then and give them all their money-it is sad. But a true Christian's faith is in Jesus Christ and not some phony religion. The Creation story was recorded about 3500 years ago, and to this day has not changed. Evolution is not 300 years old, yet it changes constantly. I guess it is still evolving.



When you look at religious people you don't see true Christianity. You don't see the thousands of changed lives (for the good), of the literally millions that are fed daily, or all the water wells, and medical clinics built in remote poor regions of the world. No, what you see are the fools and idiots on TV that rip money off poor stupid people, and the fakes that blow people down with their breath-like Benny Hinn and others.

There is a real side to Christianity just like there is a real side to science. Like I said, science is good-but there is a bad side. Unfortunately you are one of those in science who are blinded by the big lie of evolution. Like those in religion who fall for Benny Hinn, you fall for those like R Leaky, Dubois, Haeckhel, and others who defraud for fame and fortune. The more sad part is that "science" does not defame these frauds when they are discovered, leaving their lies in the records as truth. That is wrong. Looks like there is a need for clean up on both sides of this street. I know who the fakes are on my side of the street-do you know yours?





EDIT: Very good logic Jim W. That is a great answer.
secretsauce
2006-12-31 10:07:12 UTC
I really liked jim w's answer. Some genuinely sound logic there. So much so that I'd like to give him the respect of a refutation, of sorts, although his final conclusion (IMO) is correct.



"FOr a Christian (just as an example) to believe in Creation, he only has to believe 1 thing: The man who converted him would not willfully lie to him, and was intelligent enough not to believe someone who would wilfully lie to him."



Very nice. But that is a HUGE leap of faith in other human beings. History is full of counterexamples of insincere evangelists (converters). From modern preachers who turn out to be self-serving profiteers, to a long, long history of a church that used coercion, terror, torture, war, lies, broken promises, and far more subtle tactics to achieve conversions. I hesitate to call those people "Christians" ... but my point is that it is not a good idea to hitch your wagon to the notion of an unbroken chain of honest and pure witness leading back to Christ himself.



Second, your point is correct about the difference between Christian evidence and scientific evidence. Christian evidence relies on faith in the honesty of the human source of the information you are getting. Science relies on no such faith ... in fact the scientific method is relentlessly skeptical of "honesty of the source" as something reliable. Yes, there are a lot more steps involved in the scientific thread that leads to our knowledge of deep time ... but *every single step* is independently verifiable. I can, if I want, see the fossils, recreate the radiometric dating experiments, recreate the genetic tests. The papers all describe in excrutiating detail, the methods used to produce a certain piece of the puzzle. Other scientists verify these experiments and observations, and critique each others' methods mercilessly. At no point, ever, is someone simply "taken at their word", which is a requirement (as you say) of the Christian chain of evidence.



Third, you say, without foundation, "Jesus obviously was a creation believer." That is NOT obvious at all. The position of the modern Catholic church, for example, is that Jesus' teachings were concerned with the birth and life of the soul, not with reconfirming a literalist view of Genesis. Where Jesus made reference to the Old Testament, this was a natural consequence that he himself was a Jew, as were his followers, and thus had the old scriptures as a background. But we would no more expect Jesus to be teaching evolution to an audience of people who would be unable to fathom it, than we would expect God to explaining evolution to Moses ... except that with Jesus, the issues of evolution vs. creation were even *more* irrelevant.



In other words, it is a mistake to assume that because modern *American* fundamentalist Christians have revived a literalist view of creationism, that this is an opinion that can be traced directly back to Christ himself. Christian, Jewish, and Muslim theologians have had a long tradition of allegorical interpretations of Genesis. (See source.)
fourmorebeers
2006-12-31 09:00:16 UTC
As hard as it is for me to understand there really are people ranging from the know-nothings to sometimes quite intelligent (though very heavily weighted towards the former) who just have to believe in something sooooo badly that they just close their eyes to evidence proof and rationality.



Of course belief in God is the prime example of this but this can sort of be tidied away by allowing God to be a first mover and nothing more which is what most of the 21st Century Christians outside the USA and the third world actually do believe, however it becomes hard to continue when faced with evolution which is about as established a fact as you will ever have.



It is something psychological and it is not amenable to reason, it is also quite sad.
2006-12-31 09:18:06 UTC
Religion was founded to create a power class to control the people even to the exclusion of governments.

Any threat to this power must be met by ridicule and as in the past and today violence. The threat to the religious leaders is that evolution hits hard at the very beginning of their myths(the first stories) on how man came to be.........if that story is proved to be false, then what follows is that the people will start to see the falsehoods in the rest of the writings and many will give up the superstition. This of course would not be good for the religious leaders............so they fight it.
ele81946
2006-12-31 09:14:51 UTC
For creationists who are not science inclined or close minded, they may not want to have their faith challenged. Certainly, they do not want their faith be denied.

There are those who are science inclined and open minded, though not necessarily creationist, there is at least one person who answered, the creator could have created evolution.

It appears that, the difference is whether people choose to be open minded about matters that can neither be proved nor disproved.
novangelis
2006-12-31 09:05:17 UTC
Biblical literalists keep the masses in line by telling them that the Bible is true and "interpret" the confusing passages for them. The account of Creation in the Bible is reduced to allegory if evolution is true. If page 1 is question, thought could become possible.
Dan
2006-12-31 09:07:48 UTC
I believe in microevolution, it can be observed; but not macroevolution. Example: bodies, skin color, and health will change slightly over time. If you eat certain foods, or are exposed to certain elements, things change. But the belief that everything was created out of nothing seems impossible to me. Example: 0 X 0 = 0. Life begets life, nothing produces nothing. When I observe life on earth, I see a design, as if I would see a dodge truck, I have to believe there was a designer. I know this is a short and simple response, but if you would like to research some more, I'd suggest going to the following website: http://www.reasons.org/
2006-12-31 09:06:03 UTC
Faith is not a question of "reliable". Faith, taken to extreme, means denying all evidence and logic in favor of "But the holy book says otherwise."



If you become so wrapped up in your religion that you cannot incorporate new information into the old holy books, then you have become, IMO, a fanatic.
Born Again Christian
2006-12-31 09:10:41 UTC
Evolution is just a THEORY, aka, a guess (that is from the dictionary). It is voodoo science that has NEVER been proven, for when a scientific theory is proven, it is called a LAW. This is still a THEORY.



Your theory/guess says life evolves, but what did the very first life form evolve from, because life can't evolve from non-life.



Logic dictates that since it could not evolve, because it had nothing to evolve from, then it had to be created by a superior being. That being is God.



Looks like Darwin has made a monkey out of you evolutionists. But, that is just my theory/guess.



Muhahahahahahahaha............
jelliebabe7
2006-12-31 09:20:13 UTC
Why do evolutionists think they are right, when nothing in the scientific world can prove it - its all theory.



You say that religion is myth, well I suggest you read the proper material and find the truth.



Even the man who made evolution famous, Darwin, recanted later, but nobody seems to mention his other book!



There are just too many faults in the evolution theory, things don't equate properly. Things are left with dead ends.



God is the Father of everything and if you tried going backwards without dismissing Him, you will see the truth.



The missing link = FATHER GOD =D



From the beginning not in between
2006-12-31 09:00:43 UTC
For starters, many creationists believe in a literal interpretation of the Bible.



Secondly. the "theory" of evolution does not meet the criteria of the scientific method. According to the scientific method, it is a hypothesis not a theory.



Thirdly, no scientific "fact" is ever truly a fact. An even cursory study of scientific history will show that the "facts" change over time.
jim w
2006-12-31 09:10:58 UTC
I'm not gonna argue with you over where the world came from. There's no point. I'm gonna try to show you where your logic is fallling apart, so you can stop being bothered by people who have a different opinion than you, and go back to your life without a superiority complex.



FOr a Christian (just as an example) to believe in Creation, he only has to believe 1 thing: The man who converted him would not willfully lie to him, and was intelligent enough not to believe someone who would wilfully lie to him. If he believes that, then he can say, I was converted by Bob. Bob was converted by Sam, who was converted by Jim, etc. In just 80 names he comes to, who was converted by Paul, who was converted by Jesus.



Since Jesus obviously was a creation believer, and in Christian theology would definitely know if it were true, they have strong reason to believe in a creation.



In other words, there are only 80 steps before he has 100% solid proof. Granted in each of those steps there is a chance someone lied.



For you to believe in what you believe you have to believe that modern science has enough information available on a wide variety of subjects to be able to accurately predict what was going on in the world millions and even billions of years ago. That's a lot of faith to have to, chief. Espescially seeing that they often say, Wow, we looked through this big telescope and observed this thing far away and didn't expect to see what we saw. Or they crash millions of dollars worth of equipment into the surface of mars at high speed because they made a small error, and noe of the other thousand scientists on the project caught it.



In other words, there are hundreds of hundreds of pieces of theoretical information needed to arrive at your conclusion, each one of which must be correct. In each of them there is the chance that the scientific community has made a mistake.



You have two different ways of gathering information to reach conclusions. Neither is better.
revdauphinee
2006-12-31 09:01:11 UTC
since scripture tells me that a thousand years is a s one unto God (time being a man made thing)I have never had a problem with either creation could in Gos eyes take 7 days or seven thousand years no problem!



(2Pet.3:8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day
2006-12-31 09:06:25 UTC
They refuse to face the TRUTH and if they accept any part of it they minimally lose some of their power. If not for power religion would be another passe fad. Humans would be the better for it!
oceansnsunsets
2006-12-31 09:00:07 UTC
Because, it does not make good scientific sense. Actually, it would have to a bit embarrassing at times to be an evolutionist, because of all the times they have been wrong, and how uptight they get about it all. They don't seem like the most logical, well thought out group sometimes, and often don't like to be "bothered" with the actual facts, especially if it means they may have to really grapple with the idea it may be false.
2006-12-31 09:00:33 UTC
while their are some progressive christians who accept that it would be perverse to deny the extremely likelihood of evolution being true, the truth is that evolution explains our existence without any need of a "creator" fundamental christianity has almost no choice to attack it because it almost destroys any reason to believe that christianity is real
what?
2006-12-31 09:08:43 UTC
We all have to decide who or what we believe. I believe God when He tells us He created everything that ever was created.



The bible starts out- In the beginning God........



Evolutionary theory starts out- in the beginning "?"
Abdul
2006-12-31 09:06:02 UTC
i don't know people keep going on about this. let them think what they want.



They is no scientific evidence to subject there are aliens but some people still think they exist.
2006-12-31 08:59:04 UTC
i agree, i remember in 5th grade a my teacher was talking to us about evolution. a little girl in my class asked i though god created us and adam and eve were the first people on earth. my teacher had to explain to her that she couldnt teach that in class. i believe in evolution. there isnt any proof that god exists or that he created us. however there is proof that we were created by evolution and people need to start excepting that. good question.
cindersphere
2006-12-31 08:58:38 UTC
Your generalizing. Anyway I believe in god and I doubt they believe that evolution is not real. From my conversations which creationist ( best friends family are creatonist) they believe the god of hand guided evolution.
2006-12-31 09:05:38 UTC
Because that would mean we are really just Animals. How would that be to our self-worth?



Since most believe animals don’t have souls how would we reunite with our loved ones in Heaven.
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2006-12-31 08:56:15 UTC
Because they're faith is so weak, they can't allow it to be questioned.
Francis Z
2006-12-31 08:59:27 UTC
I think both sides should open their minds and come to the conclusion that both theories can co-exist.
Preacher
2006-12-31 08:57:37 UTC
Evolution is not a lie---it is just incomplete. It denies the activity of any intelligence, it has no logical beginning and no logical ending, and it is filled with gaps that cannot be filled in.
2006-12-31 08:57:28 UTC
well i think god created evolution
so so
2006-12-31 08:58:19 UTC
Why do evolutionists dismiss creationismto its very core, could it be you are wrong
smiling 4ever
2006-12-31 09:11:21 UTC
Read my ANSWER CAREFULLY AND YOU WILL KNOW......................



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.







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