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The Theory of Evolution
It is not the intent of this site to enter into a debate, but to motivate you to begin your own study, so you can make an informed decision. Your soul is your own responsibility.
The Odds Of Spontaneous Life:
Mathematicians and scientists have tried to calculate the astronomical odds of spontaneous life. They started by calculating the odds of some of the smallest fundamental building blocks of life. They rapidly found out that evolution is mathematically impossible.
In the 1970's, British astronomer Sir Frederick Hoyle calculated the odds of the simplest known free-living life form on earth (a bacterium) spontaneously generating out of a pre-existing primordial ooze. The calculation assumes a pre-existing primordial ooze that contained everything required to form the bacterium. For now we will ignore the fact that the ooze would have had to come from somewhere.
The odds of a single bacterium spontaneously generating out of a pre-existing primordial ooze are 1 in 10 . Mathematicians tell us that anything greater than 10 is mathematically impossible. Mathematicians tell us anything with 50 zeros is impossible, and we are talking about 40000 zeros. That's 800 times what mathematicians consider to be impossible, and this is only one calculation that assumes a pre-existing primordial ooze.
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The above is just one of the odds that would have to be overcome for spontaneous life. This in itself makes evolution impossible, and we have not even taken into account all the other odds that would have to be overcome. Each with equal or greater odds, as the complexity of the organisms become greater, and greater. Mindless random chance simply cannot produce complex organisms. This alone is enough to debunk the theory of evolution.
Previous to calculating these odds Sir Frederick Hoyle was a believer in spontaneous life. This calculation completely changed his mind, and he came to believe in intelligent design. Intelligent design means God.
Something From Nothing:
Since many people are now coming to the conclusion that evolution is impossible. We are starting to get strange theories, like Ancient Aliens. These types of theories still suffer from some of the same issues that evolution has. They do not explain the origin of life. Even if aliens seeded a planet they would still have to have come from somewhere themselves, and this just pushes the origin into space without explaining anything. This is similar to the Big Bang Theory. Now we get into areas where evolution, and other theories break one of the laws of logic. Nothing cannot produce something. No mater where you start there always has to be something to start with, and that something had to come from somewhere.
Causation:
Evolution also breaks the law of causation. As curious, and innovative humans we are constantly looking for the cause of things that happen. When our car breaks down we take it to a mechanic to find out what caused it to breakdown. If our computer fails the computer tech searches for the cause of the failure. Scientists look for the cause of disease. Police look for the cause of an accident... As intelligent beings we know that things don't just happen without cause, so we investigate, and look for the cause. Knowing the cause often gives us the ability to fix the problem, or prevent the issue. In other cases we may use cause to bring about desirable results. The point being is that things simply do not happen without cause. Yet the Theory of Evolution assumes that many, many occurrences happen without cause. In the natural world this simply does not happen.
Mindless Random Chance:
Mindless random chance does not produce intelligent design. If we look at the universe, the earth, and the living entities on the earth we can see that all things are very orderly, and intelligently designed. We have a delicately balanced ecosystem. When the balance is thrown off, bad things happen. Gravity keeps us on the surface of the earth, and holds our atmosphere in place. The oceans tides are controlled by gravitational forces from the sun, and the moon. The creatures of the earth show very intelligent design. Engineers, and scientists are constantly looking to nature for innovative ideas on how to build, or improve on something. Many, many things we enjoy today have come from the designs of nature, and there are still many things in nature that defy human comprehension. Where did this intelligent design come from?
DNA:
We have now begun to crack the DNA code. DNA is said to contain enough information to create a thousand volume encyclopedia. This would equate to a book with about a million pages. This dwarfs any existing encyclopedia, and the information is stored in something that is microscopic. Along with this massive amount of information, there is also a complex system that knows how to use this information, and how to maintain, and repair the DNA. A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard has successfully found a way to store around 700 terabytes (one million million bytes) in a single gram of DNA. This is just another instance of man looking to nature to improve on design. It is an accepted fact that information can only come from an intelligent source. Here we have massive amounts of information, and an intelligent design that far exceeds anything we could ever design.
Symbiotic Relationships & Colonies:
At a high level we have animals dependent on the oxygen produced by the plants, and the plants dependent on the carbon dioxide produced by the animals. Honeybees are dependent on pollen-bearing plants, and pollen-bearing plants are dependent on the Honeybees for propagation. Each member of the bee community is dependent on the other for survival, and together they build a hive. The fact that bees build a hive, is another stumbling block to evolution. There are many other examples of symbiotic relationships in nature that defy evolution.
Mutations:
A common misconception is that the diversity we see in some creatures today is evidence of evolution. Lets use dogs as an example. Many people today look at all the different breeds of dogs, and believe that is evidence of evolution. This is actually devolution. If we compare a poodle, and a wolf we see a vast difference. In order to make a poodle out of a wolf the dog has to lose genetic information. We can make a wolf into a poodle, but we cannot make a poodle into a wolf. The information is gone. In order for evolution to take place we need to add generic information. On top of this a poodle is still a dog. We don't see any examples of one species becoming another in nature. Mutations are generally bad, and are the result of a lose of generic information.
The Fossil Record:
One of the major problems for evolutionists is stasis (state or condition in which things do not change) in the fossil record. The necessary transformations required for evolution are absent in the fossil record. We also have animals today we refer to as living dinosaurs that go back millions of evolutionary years, and yet have not changed at all. We have found fossils of modern birds with dinosaur fossils. There are occurrences of polystrate fossils (a fossil that extends through several layers of rock). We see fossilized trees standing upright through many layers of sedimentary rock. This is contrary to uniformitarianism (geological changes that have come from continuous and uniform processes) beliefs. We find bone beds of fossil remains:
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With different species that hail from different parts of the earth.
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With sea creatures, and land creatures in the same bone bed.
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With many creatures all buried in the same location.
The aforementioned fossil remains indicate a fast burial which would be indicative of a major catastrophe like a global flood.
Dating:
You will hear people stating this happened, so many millions of years ago. Or this artifact is so many years old. We don't actually have any accurate dating methods except for historically passed down information. Many times when scientists date something they will get a huge difference in dates while dating the same object. Carbon-14 (C-14) dating is a common method of dating. The theoretical limit for C-14 dating is 100,000 years, but for practical purposes it is about 45,000 to 55,000 years. Yet C-14 has been found in dinosaur bones. Scientists have also found dinosaurs bones that still contain biological material that could never last for millions of years. Tree rings are another method of dating used. This would likely be a more accurate way of dating, but is also not infallible. Studies have shown that certain types of trees under certain conditions grow more than one ring a year, and have been found to grow up to five rings in a single year. In recent years we have seen flood waters form canyons, cutting through rock in short observable periods of time. Some examples: Lake Canyon Gorge (2002), and Burlingame Canyon (1926). This is proof positive that catastrophic events can form canyons in a short period of time.
True Science:
Scientific consensus is not science, but is used today. Science is not a vote taken to find out how many people are of a certain opinion, it is to be the systematic study of facts, through experiments and observation. There was scientific consensus for Piltdown man for many years before they found out it was a hoax. It turned out that a man had taken an orangutan jaw bone, filed down the teeth, and added the jaw bone, to a human scull.
Summation:
Proteins are one of the primary building blocks of life. In the 1950's scientist Harold F. Blum estimated the probability of the spontaneous generation of a single protein (polypeptide). The following is a quote from noted scientist Harold F. Blum, writer of the book: "Time’s Arrow and Evolution" (2nd edition, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955) : "The spontaneous formation of a polypeptide of the size of the smallest known proteins seems beyond all probability. This calculation alone presents serious objection to the idea that all living systems are descended from a single protein molecule, which was formed as a 'chance' act, a view that has been frequently entertained." (Pg. 158) .
The Theory of Evolution is just that, a theory. It is being presented as fact, but has never been proven. As we have seen above it has many flaws that it cannot overcome, and it has been proven to be mathematically impossible. There is strong evidence to support a creator, and intelligent design. To quote Ian Juby: “Evolution is not science it is faith. A faith in which the facts have failed”. We all must come to the place were we decide if we want to put our faith in man made unsubstantiated theories or put our faith in an intelligent creator.
Ian Juby's popular tv show: "Genesis Week" contains a wealth of information concerning the evolution creation debate:
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