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I have found in discussing evolution
with others, that defining the terms is essential if you are going to understand
each other.
Evolution is a tricky word. Many
of the people who believe in evolution don't really know what evolution is. Some
will say "Evolution is decent with modification". Well I would have to agree
with that. People, animals and basically every thing changes with
time. The real question is how much change?
(read my
article on how much change is possible here) I don't look anything like my
grandfather, but I am still a human. So that doesn't nearly cover the massive
claims made by mainstream evolutionist.
When referring to Evolution on this website we are speaking
of the general theory of naturalistic evolution...
Evolution is the
belief that all living things on this earth have a common ancestor. That is to
say roses, bananas, fish and people have a common ancestor. This is exact what they
teach in the text books, this is exactly what Darwin said
in his book quote
"it is truly a wonderful fact... that all animals, and all
plants through out all space and time should be related to each other."
reference (1)
One text book pictured to the
left says
"you are an animal and share a common heritage with
earth worms" (2).
According to this public school text book you and
earthworms (not just apes) have a common ancestor.
But evolution is still more then
that. Evolution is the teaching that all of space, time, and matter arose by
chance, and naturalistic processes that even stars and people have a common
ancestor. I was in a debate with an atheist whom
said "the big bang has nothing to do with evolution". But this simple is not
true. Every scientific journal I have ever read that even mentions stars
forming and the big bang speak of stars "evolving", planets "evolving". I
also have many college and high school text books all of which speak of
planets, stars, people, animals, basically everything evolving. So this is a
ridiculous point to quibble over. The bottom line is
either it was created out of nothing or it
"evolved" from something that was already there. So I believe
it is more then reasonable to use their own terms and call it all evolution.
I understand there are many people who
believe some compromise of one theory or the other. But I think all would
agree God created this world, or it created itself. These are the only true
options for origins. I believe it is clear that the universe was created
fully functional and that science when studied properly, (as unbiased as one
can be) show the earth and all we study to be consistent with a sudden
creation.
One could even say that evidence FOR creation is evidence AGA INST evolution,
and the same visa versa.
However most of the time we are looking at
the same evidence. The interpretation of the evidence is the problem.
(read more
on this under who's bias).
There are basically Four
essential ingredients for "Bacteria to Man" evolution to work.
1. Incredible, really
unimaginable amounts of time, (the presents is the key to the past,
uniformitarism (what)
)
2. A mechanism for
changing one kind of animal into another. (So far mutations
(what?)
is their best
option)
3. the "New" creature
must survive to make more of himself. (Natural selection
(what))
4. The process must
operate completely undirected by chance! That is the whole
point of evolution! A naturalist explanation. People who say God "Helped
the process" of evolution don't understand the meaning of the theory.
Click here to read more on each of these four
ingredients.
If any or all of these
steps fail the whole theory fails.
It is our contention that there is NO solid evidence for Macro-evolution
(what).
Since neither Creation
nor Evolution are truly falsifiable (you can't test the past) they both really
should be taught as models not theory's.
However it is easy to
compare the models with the evidence from the fossil record, geology, biology
etc and it is clear the evidence best supports a recent creation.
As you read and
study on this subject you will find that all of these steps fail at every stage.
1. Charles Darwin Origin of Species p. 135 Chapter 4 summary on natural
selection
2. Biology: Visualizing Life, Holt, 1994
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