Evolution or Creation?
“Well, hearing a creationist define evolution is a little bit like having Madalyn Murray O’Hare define Christianity. You’re not really going to get the straight story there” - Eugenie Scott (director,
Taking Ms. Scott’s comment into account, I guess you had better take what I am about to say with a grain of salt. I have no scientific background, but I do have some common sense (or at least, I like to think so). Besides, ‘The tendency of modern science is to reduce proof to absurdity by continually reducing absurdity to proof.’ But, it is the glory of science to progress, so I willingly turn to other ground. Or more so, to my point, which is this: evolution as an explanation of our origins is ludicrous.
Firstly, there is a total lack of undisputed examples, fossilized or living, of the millions of transitional forms (“missing links”) required for evolution to be true. Evolution does not require a single missing link but many. We should be surrounded by these “missing links” that cannot be categorized as one particular life form. Yet, we do not see this. Darwin acknowledged that if his theory were true, it would require millions of transitional forms. He believed they would be found in fossil records. They haven’t been.
Secondly, evolution is said to have begun by spontaneous generation – a concept ridiculed by biology. Louis Pasteur proved that life only comes from life – this is the law of biogenesis. Evolution will tell us that the first living cell came from a freak combination of nonliving material (where that nonliving material came from we are not told). Evolutionist admit that the chances of evolution progress are extremely low. Yet, they believe that given enough time, the impossible became possible. Any reasonable person would admit that greater periods of time make the possible likely. It will not however, make the impossible possible. No matter how long it is given, non-life will not become life.
Third and final point. The complexity of living systems could never evolve by chance – they had to be designed and created. In a recent interview Bill Gates was asked when he felt that computers would become as intelligent as humans. You would hardly think that computers can exhibit any ‘intelligence’ without having a source of higher intelligence. They will exhibit ‘intelligence’ because a more intelligent source (humans), program it into them. Information Science teaches us that in all known cases, complex information requires an intelligent message sender. DNA, for example, is by far the most compact information storage and retrieval system known to man. Any complex system cannot be random – they have to be designed and created. Only a twit would think that DNA came about ‘by a long series of chances’.
When dealing with origins, everyone who believes anything does so by faith. Either faith in God, modern science or whatever. The Bible’s teaching on creation is correct and the evidence around us supports that belief. Nothing on the market beats, “In the beginning God created…” But some of us prefer wishful thinking (evolution) to the Truth (Word of God). We are indeed a reasoning rather than reasonable species.
