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Therefore, even Charles Darwin admitted
that mankind could not have appeared through mere chance. He observed, "The
impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe with our conscious
selves arose through chance seems to me the chief argument for existence of God."
So remote is the probability of
evolution occurring under known circumstances that the mathematician Elden, in computing
that the possibility of evolution occurring was mathematically nil, commented, "An
adequate scientific theory of evolution must await the discovery of new natural laws --
physical, physicochemical, and biological."
Charles Darwin himself admitted that the
greatest enemy to his evolutionary theory was the evidence that had been uncovered from
the bowels of the earth. In 1859 he confessed that there were no fossils found that had
demonstrated changes between species. He was surprised by the "sudden
appearance" of whole groups of plants and animals in the fossil record. Eventually he
decided that "those who believe the geological record is in any degree complete, will
undoubtedly reject my theory."
The hope was that after enough time,
evolution would be proven in the fossil record.
The fact is that evolutionists do not
have one example from the fossil record that supports their contention. Collin Patterson
admitted, "I will lay it on the line -- there is not one such fossil (that is
ancestral of transitional) for which one could make a watertight argument."
"In fact," wrote Duane Gish in
Evolution: The Challenge of the Fossil Record, "our museums contain about
250,000 different fossil species, represented by many millions of catalogued
fossils." In spite of 130 years of research, not one piece of evidence of a
transitional species has been found.
There is a reason why transitional forms
cannot be found in the fossil records. Genetics disproves that species can change from one
to another. Breeding developments through the centuries have adequately demonstrated that
there is a limit to how much one can bend the genetic code of a species. This limit
represents the genetic code that determines the species itself. Therefore, Walter T.
Brown, Jr., wrote in In the Beginning, "Mendel's laws of genetics and their
modern day refinements explain almost all of the physical variations that are observed
within life, such as the dog family. A logical consequence of these laws is that there are
limits to such variation. Breeding experiments and common observations have also confirmed
that these boundaries exist."
Michael Denton explained in Evolution:
A Theory in Crisis, ". . . while breeding experiments and the domestication of
animals have revealed that many species were capable of a considerable amount of change,
they also revealed distinct limits in every case beyond which no further change could ever
be produced. Here then was a very well established fact, known for centuries, which seemed
to run counter to (Darwin's) whole case, threatening not only his special theory -- that
one species could evolve into another -- but also the plausibility of the extrapolation
from micro to macroevolution, which, as we have seen, was largely based on an appeal to
the remarkable degree of change achieved by artificial selection in a relatively short
time. If this change was always strictly limited then the validity of the extrapolation
was obviously seriously threatened."
Luther Burbank, the avid plant breeder
commented, "Experiments carried on extensively have given us scientific proof of what
we had already guessed by observation; namely, that plants and animals all tend to revert,
in successive generations, toward the given mean or average. Men grow to be seven feet
tall, and over, but never to ten; there are dwarfs not higher than 24 inches, but none
that you can carry in your hand. . . In short, there is undoubtedly a pull toward the mean
which keeps all living things some more or less limitations."
The evolutionist Edward S. Deevy also
recognized these limitations when he wrote, "Some remarkable things have been done by
crossbreeding and selection inside the species barrier, or within a larger circle of
closely related species, such as the wheats. But wheat is still wheat, and not, for
instance, grapefruit; and we can no more grow wings on pigs than can make cylindrical
eggs."
Now, the true modern scientist at this
point would consider that possibly the answers to life would lie in another explanation.
Like Copernicus, he would suggest an explanation that fits into the evidence in a more
simple fashion. The Aristotelian scientist though would hang on adamantly to his
proposition. The modern evolutionist has chosen the latter course of action.
Evolutionists, in spite of the fact that
mutations have been shown to provide only negative results in organisms, have suggested
that changes have occurred because of mutations. So, many of them have directed their
attention to the hopeful monster theory. This postulate surmises that, through a grand
mutation, a fish laid an egg and a lizard was hatched. Vincent Sarich argued on 11/15/94
that the notion of occasional dramatic escalation of the evolutionary process has been
generally accepted by evolutionists for a long time.
"The facts of greatest general
importance are the following," wrote Richard B. Goldschmidt. "When a new phylum,
class, or order appears, there follows a quick, explosive (in terms of geological time)
diversification so that practically all orders or families known appear suddenly and
without any apparent transitions."
To accommodate these gaps in the fossil
record, Goldschmidt devised the "hopeful monster". In other words, a lizard laid
and egg and a duck hatched out of it.
Another explanation for the gaps has
been promoted by Stephen Jay Gould, Niles Eldredge and Steven Stanley. Their proposal is
called "punctuated equilibrium".
"The punctuationists have come up
with a jerky mode of evolution and the answer," described Dr. Duane Gish in Evolution:
The Challenge of the Fossil Record. "According to this scheme, once a species has
developed, it proliferates into a large population and persists relatively unchanged for
one, two, five, or ten million years, or even longer. Then for some unknown reason a
relatively small number become isolated, and by some unknown mechanism rapidly evolve into
a new species (by rapid is meant something on the order of some tens of thousands of
years). Once the new species has evolved, it then either becomes rapidly extinct or
proliferates into a large population. This large population then persists for one or more
millions of years. The long period of status is the portion of the process referred to as
the period of equilibrium, and the interval characterized by rapid evolution is the
punctuation -- thus the term, punctuated equilibrium."
According to these folks, the long
periods of equilibrium enabled many fossils to be deposited. The short periods of change
were so rapid that no fossils were left behind. How convenient!
Yet, in spite of this plan, as penned by
the Oxford zoologist, Mark Ridley, "No real evolutionist, whether gradualist or
punctuationist, used the fossil record as evidence in favor of the theory of evolution
over special creation."
Certainly the comment of Colin Patterson
regarding the imaginative mechanisms devised to explain the gaps in the fossil record in
the BBC publication The Listener is relevant to this discussion. "As it turns
out," he wrote, "all one can learn about the history of life is learned from
systematics, from the groupings one finds in nature. The rest of it is story telling of
one sort or another. We have access to the tips of the tree; the tree itself is theory,
and people who pretend to know about the tree and to describe what went on in it -- how
the branches came off and the twigs came off -- are, I think, telling stories."
So what has occurred with the
introduction of the "hopeful monster"? Because the evolutionists have adamantly
held to the presumptions of one man, they have come up with imaginary mechanisms for
evolution that are far more preposterous than the errant assumptions of Lamark. They have
fallen into the same ignorant thinking that led people to believe that white worms just
appeared on rotting meat.
And yet the same people ridicule, as did
Sarich, the Christian belief in Noah and the Ark. They laugh when they think that every
animal in the world was housed in one space. They wonder how all of the animals from all
over the world got to the ark to begin with. They ridicule the Christian who believes that
God brought them there as if the belief in the supernatural sovereignty of God is just
superstition.
Yet, to support their own evolutionary
claims they will completely abandon the disciplines of science to fabricate anything that
will make it appear that their system of origins actually could have occurred. They stand
as antagonists to the laws of probability to assert their views emphatically and
dogmatically. They scoff at the evidence that contradicts their claims as if it is of
little relevance in the matter. And who in our society today exerts the greatest amount of
faith to adhere to his belief in the origins of man? Who has to come up with the greatest
amount of speculation? Who is coming up with the most complex and unbelievable resolution
to the matter?
There are few scientists today who will
debate with Duane Gish in a public forum. Just weeks before his debate with Sarich in
November of 1994, Gish was scheduled to debate another word-renown evolutionists. Right
before the debate was to proceed, the evolutionists backed out. The evolutionist explained
to a distressed promoter that he had a reputation to maintain.
"Evolutionists have given various
excuses why the creationists usually win these debates (and why most leading evolutionary
scientists now refuse to participate in such debates), but the real reason is because the
scientific evidences support creation -- not evolution!" wrote Henry Morris in Scientific
Creationism.
"Consequently, the answer of the
evolutionary establishment to the creationist arguments has not been scientific, but
emotional. Intimidation is evidently the game plan. The A.C.L.U. files or threatens to
file lawsuits wherever a two-model approach (or the consideration of both evolution and
special creation) is considered in a school district. A veritable stream of
anti-creationist tirades has poured forth from the liberal news media, as well as the
journals and books of the educational/scientific establishment."
There is a lot of prestige involved in
holding to the evolutionary dogma of today. There is a lot to be financially gained by
supporting Darwin. To be one with Darwin in America today is to be in the fold. It is not
much different than the days of Copernicus.
Of the ancient philosophers in his
world, Saint Augustine wrote, "To discuss historical topics, I left the philosophers
alone for a while. These men, in all their laborious investigations, seem to have had one
supreme and common objective: to discover what manner of living is best suited to laying
hold upon happiness. Yet, they have ended up by disagreeing -- disciples with masters, and
disciples with fellow disciples. Why, except they sought the answer to their question
merely in human terms, depending solely upon human experience and human reasoning?"
So, even as Christianity was just
beginning, the great apologist had laid hold of the humanist's number. He had uncovered
their weakness. They could not agree because they had not submitted themselves to a higher
authority. Indeed, through the centuries that followed, humanism has never unlocked the
door to happiness through the arrogance of their own pride.
"What does it all go to
prove," Augustine continued, "except that human unhappiness cannot get very far
along the road to happiness unless divine authority shows it the way?"
"How different is the case of those
writers who with good reason have been included in the final canon of the Holy Writ. There
is no shadow of disagreement among them. That is why such enormous numbers of men, of
every conceivable description, have rightly found in their writings the voice of God
Himself or of God speaking through them. . ."
Augustine was querying his countrymen
regarding their love for the humanistic philosophers. He was wondering why they were so
adamant in following a brood who couldn't decide for themselves what truth really entailed
when there was such a cloud of witnesses in agreement among them who testified to the one
truth of Jesus Christ. The inquiry is just as valid today as it was back then.
"In Athens in those days,"
Augustine continued, " the philosophers went milling about with their hangers-on, in
broad daylight, here and there, now in the world-renowned Portico, now in the schools, now
in little gardens, in every species of public and private place, each one belligerently
propounding his own persuasions -- some saying that there is only one world, some saying
that it began, others, that it had no beginning; some saying it will come to an end,
others that it will go on forever; some saying that the world is ruled by divine
intelligence, others, that it is driven by fortuitous chance. With respect to the soul,
some say it is immortal, others, that it is mortal; some say the that the soul will turn
up again in a beast, others, no such thing; of those defending mortality, some say the
soul will die shortly after the body, others, that it will live on after the body, others,
that it will live on after the body; of these, some say it will survive for a little
while, others, for rather a long while, though not forever. With respect to the identity
of the highest good, some put it in the body; others, in the mind; still others, in both
at the same time; still others drag in extrinsic goods and add them to the body and the
mind. With respect to the validity of the sense experience, some say the senses are always
to be trusted; others, not in every instance; still others never." Look around at
what you can see today and tell me if you think anything has changed!
The humanists of Augustine's time had
demonstrated that they did not know what it was they were talking about. Through the next
1500 years the humanists have managed to consistently demonstrate that they have not
changed their stripes on iota. They still don't know anything about the nature of the
beginning and end of the world. They still can't agree on the nature of the soul and where
it will go. By their own definition of morality, they cannot discern what is right from
wrong. They have not been able to come to an agreement about whether truth is gathered
through the senses or through the mind; and whether we live in a real empirical world or
one that is derived out of our imaginations.
Yet, in spite of their confusion, the
humanists are the driving force behind every direction that modern man pursues. So,
Augustine cries out from the past, "Tell me, has any people, senate, or person with
any power or authority in the ungodly city ever bothered to examine these and the other
almost innumerable results of philosophical wrangling with a view to approve and accept
certain fixed principles and to condemn and reject all contentions to the contrary? "
You see, Augustine lived in a society
just like ours. And he was speaking to Romans who believed that truth had ceased to exist
as universal. It was a state of mind where everything was relative to each one's point of
view. He saw that this was the underlying cause of the ruin of the realm. So, Augustine
continued, "Is it not the case, rather, that the ungodly city has, without the
smallest degree of critical discrimination, taken all these scrapping ideas from here,
there, and everywhere, clutching them in pell-mell confusion to her bosom? . . No wonder,
then, that this earthly city has been given the symbolic name of Babylon, for Babylon
means confusion. . ."
And how is this confusion compared with
the messengers of truth? "How differently has that other race, that other
commonwealth of men, that other city, the people of Israel, to whom was entrusted the word
of God, managed matters!" Augustine continued. "No broad minded, muddle-headed
mixing of true prophets with false prophets there! They have recognized and held as the
true-speaking authors of Holy Writ only those who are in perfect harmony with one another.
These writers are for them their philosophers, that is, their lovers of wisdom, their
sages, their theologians, their prophets, their teachers of good living and right
believing -- all in one. They know that if they think and live according to what these men
taught, they are thinking and living according to God --who spoke through the inspired
writers -- and not according to man."
It is obvious that Augustine believed
that the cure for a society's problems lay in the belief of the God of Black and White.
Likewise, it is evident that this early apologist was assured that the only Scripture that
would mend the soul of the individual. That the Bible is a testimony that comes from the
very mouth of God. The belief in the Bible as the authoritive Word of God that all men are
to live by is the only thing that will lend rationality and reason to life.
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