Biblical Perspective
Evolution is a lie to Eve from the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Since that time, it has been an occult practice to convince man he can evolve into a god. W.L. Wilmhurst in his book “The Meaning of Masonry” states the following:
The evolution of man into superman has always been the purpose of the ancient mysteries. Man came from earth and developed through the lower kingdoms of nature, to his present rational state. He has yet to complete his evolution of becoming god-like, unifying his conscience with the Omniscient.
Another new age leader states, “Open yourself to the potential of the human race, and you will become the universe. This statement is the general thesis of reincarnation. This same “lie of Satan” convinces the egotist that he can become as God in recurring lives. God warned man in the very beginning of Genesis of Satan’s intentions, but some still believe Satan instead of God.
Genesis 3:5 (Satan speaking to Eve) God knows that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and “ye shall be as gods”, knowing good and evil.
Darwin basically repeated the same message: man rose from the organic scale to the top of the scale, and hopes for a still higher destiny in the future. Ken Wilbur said, in The Atman Project, “If men came from the amoeba, then he is on his way toward being God”.
Reincarnation is of Satan. It becomes essential that they believe Satan’s statement in Genesis; ye shall be as gods. It is futile to come back after each death unless you are evolving upward to fulfill the lie of Satan. If we use logic, and man is stated as a chance product of evolutionary forces; his thoughts would also have evolved, including the thoughts of evolution. However, evolution has absolutely “no facts” in its support, only theories.
Genesis proclaims Adam was created by God. Adam is mentioned 30 times in the Bible in nine different books. Satan affirmed the fact God had warned Adam about the forbidden tree, so Satan knew Adam was in a close relationship with God. Jesus is called the last Adam, and the genealogy of Jesus is traced all the way back to Adam in the Bible.
If Adam had evolved from an amoeba instead of being created by God, all the references to him in the Bible would completely demean the truth of the Bible. The Bible only makes sense if Adam were created as shown in Genesis.
It is rather humorous that evolutionists believe the first man came into being through an evolutionary quirk. This means Eve had to happen by accident at the very same time with all her plumbing just right for Adam. It is a fact that man cannot breed with apes and produce children.
Here is wisdom. Why would Satan want to push evolution? If you destroy the truth of the creation of Adam and Eve, it makes original sin a myth to those who are fooled by it. If there is no original sin, then there is no need for the Son of God and his atonement, which is the lie of Satan, thus making man his own god. As Satan originally told Eve, “Ye shall be as gods”.
The evolution theory is nothing more than one of the many cults that some use as their excuse to reject God as the creator. If they hold to the cult of evolution, they believe this equips them with an excuse when facing God at the judgment. However, there will be no excuses. God will say, “Depart from me ye who work iniquity, I never knew you”.
Intelligent Design Perspective
Michael Denton, Australian biologist, agnostic and a former evolutionist: The Theory in Crisis states that science has so “thoroughly” discredited evolution that it should be discarded even as a theory.
Professor Wolfgang Smith: evolution is a metaphysical myth; totally bereft of scientific sanction.
Klaus Dose, a prominent evolutionist: more than 30 years on the origin of life in the fields of chemical and molecular evolution have led to a better perception of the immensity of the problem of the origin of life on Earth, rather than its solution. At present all discussion on principle theories and experiments in the field either end in stalemate or in confession of ignorance.
Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History: after working on it for more than 20 years, there is not one thing I know about it. It is quite a shock to learn one can be misled for so long. He asked other scientists to tell him one thing they knew about evolution, with no takers. Biologists at the American Museum of Natural History had no answer.
He tried the same questions on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and received no answer. He tried it on the Evolutionary Morphology Seminar at the University of Chicago and again there was silence. After a long wait, one attendee stated, “I do know one thing, it should not be taught in high school.
Richard Dawkins, Oxford University zoologist, and evolutionist: admits in his book, The Blind Watchmaker, that biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose. He says, “It is amazing that everything “chance produces” always looks as if it had been designed”.
Nobelist Lynus Pauling: a single cell, the smallest living unit, is more complicated than New York City. He explains some of this complexity below.
The simplest self-sufficient cell has the capacity to produce thousands of different proteins and molecules, at different times, and under variable conditions. Synthesis, degradation, energy generation, replication, maintenance of cell architecture, mobility, regulation, repair, communication; all of these functions take place in virtually every cell, and each function itself requires the interaction of numerous parts.
If any part of this incredibly complex biochemical machinery is not functioning properly, the cell will die.
Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe provides one example: A single flaw in the cell’s labrybrinthine protein-transport pathway is fatal. Unless the entire system was immediately in place, our ancestors would have died; attempts at a gradual evolution of the protein-transport system are a recipe for extinction.
At some point, this complex machine had to come into existence, and it could not have done so in a step-by-step fashion. The cell doesn’t merely “give the appearance of being designed”; it could only have been designed.
Richard Dawkins, the evolutionist admits: every cell, plant or animal, contains in its nucleus “a digitally coded database larger, in information content, than all 30 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Imagine the odds of “chance” creating a 30 volume encyclopedia!
Even if that “impossibility” occurred, only one cell would have been produced, and there are trillions of cells in the body, and thousands of different kinds of cells, each working in unbelievably complex relationships with the others.
The mathematical odds against life beginning and developing by chance (even with unlimited time) are so astronomical as to render it logically impossible. The following example is given.
The combinations of the 26 letters of the alphabet in blocks of 26 are expressed as 26! This means 26 times 25 times 24, etal down to 26 times 2 gives a limited number of combinations. This quantity of the various combinations would be 400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Instead of their being 26 as the multiplication factor, there would be as many as 3000 proteins strung together in a similar sequence. Chance would “never” put them together. Furthermore, each protein of the 3000 is itself a long chain of chemically joined amino acids folded into precise structures. It is easy to see, chance could never produce the right change.
If everything isn’t in perfect order at the beginning, it will not work. It would be impossible to evolve toward the right combinations. It could only happen by design. Evolution can not even get started at the biochemical and cellular level.
Life is base on machines made of molecules, which are enormously complex. This complexity of life’s foundation has paralyzed science’s attempts to account for it. Those who support evolution fall silent and cannot explain any of it.
Sir Fred Hoyle, British astronomer and mathematician: the scientific world has been bamboozled into believing evolution has been proven; nothing could be further from the truth. He calculated that the odds of producing just the basic enzymes of life by chance are 1 in 1×40,000 zeros after it. This can be compared with plucking one particular electron out of the universe which would be only 1 in 1×80 zeros. Make another universe out of every electron, and the odds of plucking one particular electron out of all those universes are 1 in 1×160 zeros. This should give an idea of how fictional it would be for life to have evolved by chance at the odds of 1 in 1×40,000 zeros.
[Most scientists still cling to evolution because of its grip on the educational system. They have to go along with the concept, or be branded a heretic by the educational community. I suspect this factor hurts the amount of grant money to the scientists (my comments).]
Of course, there are many other reasons that evolution of life is impossible by scientific standards. Chance cannot even produce the basic enzymes necessary for life. This adds to the impossibility and odds against evolution.
Enzymes play a critical role in blood clotting, and this is a very complex function. Absent or significant defects in any of a number of components causes it to fail. Blood must clot at the exact proper time and location in the body. Blood clotting cascades have about 30,000 gene pieces. Tissue Plasminogen Activator (TPA) has four different types of domains. The odds of getting the four domains together are 30,000 to the fourth power.
The odds are even greater to have the prothrombin present at the right place and time. There are other chemical elements that must be present at the same location and time, such as fibrinogen, Plasminogen, proaccelerin, and other actuators and functions. The whole process of clotting does not have time to wait; all processes must take place at the exact same time and place on the body.
These odds of chance of getting all of these needed elements together are impossible. If the guessed at age of the universe of 10 billion years were compressed into one second and relived every second for ten billion more years, the odds are against it happening. Darwin’s mechanism of natural selection would actually hinder the formation of irreducibly complex systems such as blood clotting.
There are literally thousands of intricate systems in the body which are just as complex. The immune system is dizzyingly complex. First, the body must recognize a foreign invader. Bacteria cells have to be distinguished from blood cells; and viruses from connective tissue. There are billions of different antibodies to fight the various intruders. Science has no answers to the origin of the immune system.
They do not even know how the body is tolerant to its own various tissues, cells, and internal particles. It has to be admitted that a system of self-toleration had to be present from the start of the immune system. Whichever way science turns, an evolution of the immune system of all the interwoven requirements blocks any explainable mechanism for evolution. The complexity of the immune system completely dooms any Darwinian evolutionary theory.
No person at Harvard University, any National Institutes of health, National Academy of Science, Nobel Prize winners, etal, can begin to give an account of how the cilium, vision, blood clotting, immune system, and other such systems could possibly have evolved. All doors close each time a solution is even attempted. The final thesis is that all of these systems have to be by design and not chance.
Behe and many others have proven beyond all logical doubt the life as Darwin imagined could not have evolved. The odds are more astronomical than the universe itself. If Darwin was alive to see the complexity and even examine a cell, he would not have even dared to suggest evolution.
Biochemistry continues to show the unimaginable complexity of the cell. The cell contains about 2,000 mitochondrion compartments which has machinery to capture the energy of foodstuffs and store it in a chemically stable, yet readily available form. The system uses a flow of acid to power its machines shuttling electrons among a half-dozen carriers requiring an extremely delicate interaction between many components.
Each individual cell controls how much and what kinds of chemicals it makes; when it loses control, it dies. These systems prove again and again that intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself, and the systems, without any proof required from the Bible or any other religious views.
A comment by Darwin himself, who did not have the ability to see the cell or systems as the scientists of today, sees them: if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would “absolutely” break down.
The building blocks of life, DNA, pose even greater problems. This nucleic acid (DNA) is made up of four nucleotides (A, C, G, & T). Nucleotide “A” can be in several forms (AMP, ADP, or ATP). The AMP nucleotide is the first to be synthesized in the cell and is comprised of ten carbons, eleven hydrogens, seven oxygens, four nitrogens, and one phosphorus atom.
The formation of biological molecules from these atoms requires specific highly sophisticated molecular robots to make AMP. High-tech equipment is also a requirement in the systems. If enzymes are not present, AMP cannot be made. AMP must be produced for life on earth to make both DNA and RNA. If the cell did not immediately have this AMP available any cell would be dead.
Not one scientist can explain how the AMP pathway developed. Other explanations for biosynthesis of the larger amino acids, lipids, vitamins, heme, etal, are absent and cannot be produced by evolution. Darwin would not have proposed his theory of evolution if he knew the impossibilities present in his theory.
The prestigious Journal of Molecular Evolution, the highest authority in its field, will not even attempt to propose a detailed model for a complex biochemical system producing a gradual step-by-step evolvement of life.
Four hundred papers, concerned with molecular evolution, were published between 1984 and 1994, and not one paper, and any other science organization, attempted to explain or provide any detailed way of evolution in the cell or systems supporting life. There is an embarrassing silence from the evolutionists on these fronts.
If evolution were true, there would be billions of intermediary stages filling the fossil record. It must have taken millions of tiny steps over millions of years to develop lungs from gills, the stomach and digestive system, eyes, kidneys, the brain, nervous system, heart, bloodstream, sperm for man and ovum for the female, the egg and shell for birds and reptiles. Yet, we cannot find one missing link, when there should be millions.
How about instinct? If the bat’s radar suddenly appeared by chance, who taught the mutation to use it? How many artic terns drowned before the first one, by chance, learned to navigate the 1000 miles across the ocean? How many salmon lost their way in the ocean and never made it back to spawn before this uncanny instinct was developed?
How many millions of spiders starved before the amazing mechanism for making webs suddenly came into existence by chance? Who taught the mutated spider to make a web? How many eggs of all manner of birds rotted before the instinct to hatch eggs developed, and how was it learned and passed on?
The bottom line always comes back to the Bible. It tells us the creator designed us and placed us on the Earth. Scientists, who are not afraid of being called heretics or losing funding money, are speaking up and admitting that the only way life could possibly happen is by intelligent design.
Father Time
