Author Debunks Darwin's Theory of
Evolution: "In the 144
years since Charles Darwin published his notorious book, The Origin of Species,
his theory of evolution has come to be regarded by many as irrefutable fact."
Crumbling Icons:
"...the authors chided biology professors for presenting
speculative ideas as facts. 'Many generations have listened passively to these
presentations,' they noted. 'We feel obligated, however, to warn our readers
that these peaceful days are coming to an end and that we must prepare for strife.'...They
urged their readers to 'avoid the usual practice of leading all discussions
in such a way as to glorify Darwinian theory. With SOR students lurking in the
class, frail scenarios will no longer be passively accepted.'"
Asking the "Big" Questions:
"Each year at about this time millions of students across the country make their
way back to campus to continue their unfettered pursuit of truth by asking life’s
'big' questions in a free and liberating educational context; right? Well, unfortunately
this ideal isn’t always reached. In fact, sometimes it is even obstructed. As
an example, read the following caution that comes from a recent syllabus for
a science education class at a major U.S. university:
"Cautions
about sources and topics Never cite a religious science source such as ICR,
Answers in Genesis, or anything else like that. It is easy to recognize
these groups. They are virulently anti-evolution. This caution also extends
to the new ID (Intelligent Design) movement - another anti-evolutionary
charade. These people are 95% wrong..."
Faith in Evolution
- Essential
to the New World Order
Though evolution as the answer to the
origin of life has never been proven, classrooms now teach it as truth. Since
much social and environmental dogma is based on faith in evolution, our children
need to know some of its serious flaws expressed by well known and respected
secular scientists.
For example, Sir Frederick Hoyle, Professor
of Astronomy at Cambridge University, compared the absurdity of believing that
life could result from time, chance, and properties in matter with believing
that "a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from
the material therein."1 Listen to some of the other credible voices of science:
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil
record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary
tree that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of
their branches; the rest is inference...."
2
(Dr. Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Harvard
University)
One problem biologists have faced is the
apparent contradiction by evolution of the second law of thermodynamics
[Entropy]. Systems should decay through time, giving less, not more order."
3
(Dr. Roger Lewin, a well known evolutionist)
The origin of life appears to be almost
a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have to be satisfied to
get it going."
4 (Francis Crick, Nobel prize winner for DNA discovery)
"We now have a quarter of a million fossil species,
but the situation hasn't changed much.... ironically, we have even fewer
examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time. By
this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the
fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have
had to be discarded..."
5 (Dr. David Raup, Curator of Geology, Field Museum
of Natural History, Chicago)
"Evolution became in a sense a scientific
religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to
"bend" their observation to fit with it... To my mind, the theory [of evolution]
does not stand up at all."
6 (Dr. H.S. Lipson, a British physicist)
Faith in evolution was essential to America's
paradigm shift. First, it provided an alternative to biblical truth. Second,
it built a much-needed "scientific" foundation for today's leap of faith into
the new-paradigm view of the future. Many of today's most outspoken visionaries--Al
Gore, Robert Muller, Marilyn Ferguson, etc.--base their hopes for the 21st Century
on the spiritual evolution first popularized by the controversial Catholic priest
and scientist, Teilhard deChardin. Notice how he fits everything into the context
of his cosmic evolution:
"[Evolution] is a general postulate to which
all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which
they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light
which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must
follow."7
Quoting deChardin, Al Gore writes, "'The fate of mankind, as well as of religion,
depends upon the emergence of a new faith in the future.' Armed with such a
faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth..."
8
René Dubos, a board member of the futuristic organization
Planetary Citizens, carries Gore's thoughts a step further. In A God Within
(the book Lamar Alexander said "changed his thinking the most"
9),
Dubos writes,
"The earth is literally our mother, not only because
we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human
species has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution.... Our
salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature."
10
Dr. Thomas Sowel, economist and senior fellow
at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, would disagree. Piercing the
hollow visions of utopian dreamers, he writes:
"Dogmatic environmentalism, like fascism, communism
and eugenics, appeals to the frustrated egotism of intellectuals who
burn to tell lesser people how to live.... Nothing as mundane as mere
evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying."
11
Temblor was typical of
geologically young area, scientists say:
"In Monday morning's earthquake, the Santa Lucia
mountain range that holds the landmark
estate and adjacent towns shrugged its shoulders and then
grew with a sudden jolt, probably one to four feet, sending a
magnitude 6.5 reminder that California's central coast is a young and
restless region."
(SJM, 12/23/03)
The next link explains the sophisticated recent science behind the rise of
mountains and the frequent discoveries of ocean fossils in their lofty
peaks:
Catastrophic Plate Tectonics:
The Physics Behind the Genesis Flood:
"From the mid-1700’s through the days of Hutton, Lyell, and Darwin to the
1960’s,
it overwhelmed the human mind to imagine a
mechanism that could possibly deliver, in a single brief event, the
magnitude and complexity of geological change evident in the continental
rock record
above the point where fossils first appear. However, with the new awareness
that the Earth’s interior could participate in the process and that the
stiff layer of rock some 50 miles thick beneath the oceans could be recycled
into the Earth, the stage was set for a breakthrough in regard to the
mechanism for the Flood cataclysm.
"....one of the chief mental barriers to acceptance of the idea of
a single cataclysm
is the belief that radioisotope dating has proved beyond reasonable doubt
that the Phanerozoic record spans many hundreds of millions of years. There
is a startling inconsistency, however, between radiocarbon and long
half-life radioisotope methods. Since the advent of the accelerator mass
spectrometer (AMS) approach to measuring 14C/C ratios about twenty years
ago, AMS analyses of organic samples from throughout the Phanerozoic record
consistently show reproducible amounts of 14C that constrain their ages,
instead of to 30 or 100 or 350 million years, to less than 70,000 years.
This is true of essentially all samples tested since the early 1980’s in
dozens of AMS laboratories around the world as documented in the
peer-reviewed radiocarbon literature [9]....
"Another indication that the uniformitarian time scale is faulty is
the timing of the uplift of today’s
continental mountain ranges. Ollier and Pain [24], have reviewed the
considerable documentation in the geomorphology literature for a recent (Plio-Pleistocene)
near-synchronous
uplift of all the continental mountain belts.
They point out that in most cases this uplift was preceded by widespread
regional erosional planation of the land surface. They emphasize that both
the planation and the rapid uplift were global phenomena."
Dr. John Baumgardner's work related
to the Genesis flood:
(This scientist is respected
by the secular scientific establishment as well as by creationists)
"...evolutionists generally feel
secure today, even in the face of compelling creationist arguments, because
of their utter confidence in the geological time scale. Even if they cannot
provide a naturalistic mechanism for macroevolution, they appeal to the 'fact
of evolution,' by which they mean an interpretation of earth history in which
they believe there has been a succession of different types of plants and animals
in a drama spanning many hundreds of millions of years."
See
What Darwin didn't know
Monkeys and atheists:
"Thomas Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") is said to have come up with the most famous
defense of the atheist belief that life was created by chance, not God. In a
debate at Oxford, he is reported to have stated that if enough monkeys randomly
pressed typewriter keys for a long enough time, sooner or later Psalm 23 would
emerge...."
Darwin in the Classroom: "After years of being marginalized, critics of
Darwin's theory seem to be gaining ground. What is going on? And why now? Two
developments have been paramount.
"First, there has been growing public recognition
of the shoddy way evolution is actually taught in many schools. Thanks to the
book Icons of Evolution by biologist Jonathan Wells, more people know about
how biology textbooks perpetuate discredited "icons" of evolution that many
biologists no longer accept as good science.... Teachers who do inform students
about some of Darwinism's unresolved problems often face persecution by what
can only be termed the Darwinian thought police....
"Science is supposed to prize open minds and critical
thinking. Yet the theory of evolution is typically presented today completely
uncritically, as a dogma to be accepted rather than as a theory to be explored
and questioned. Is it any wonder that policymakers and the public are growing
skeptical of such a one-sided approach?
"For years, Darwinists successfully shut down any
public discussion of Darwinian evolution by stigmatizing every critic of Darwin
as a Biblical literalist intent on injecting Genesis into biology class. While
Darwinists still try that tactic, their charge is becoming increasingly implausible,
even ludicrous. Far from being uneducated Bible-thumpers, the new critics of
evolution hold doctorates in biology, biochemistry, mathematics and related
disciplines from secular universities, and many of them teach or do research
at American universities."
To avoid compromise with the kind of mythical
thinking and earth-centered environmentalism that brings destruction, not healing,
children should watch out for....
* Songs and poems that encourage earth worship.
* Classroom exercises or rituals that "empower" children to connect with Mother
Earth, hear her voice, learn her wisdom and visualize her healing.
* Environmental programs that promote the lifestyles of pagan cultures.
* Native American chants and prayers to the Great Spirit.
* Buzzwords like connectedness--referring to spiritual oneness rather than biological
interdependence--and reverence (suggesting a response reserved for the Creator
Himself.
* A pledge of allegiance to the Earth. Many versions are in use.
To help your children understand both the national
and the personal consequences of worshiping nature instead of God, read Romans
1:18-32, Deuteronomy 11:13-19, Isaiah 24, and Jeremiah 14:22 together. Take
time to think about each message. Talk about the ways God shows His love by
giving us these warnings.
Remember, God told man to take care of His beautiful
planet.12
To do our part, we need to heed the Maker--not earthy spirits. When he put
humans in charge of his creation,13
He wanted us to love and care for it as He would, not abuse it. He wants us
to see the world through His watchful eyes and value all life as He does.
His Word tells us how. It warns us against mistreating animals, wasting
trees, and squandering His resources. Before the watchful eyes of the world,
we need to model grateful appreciation for God's gifts.
"For from Him and through Him and to
Him are all things.
To him be the glory forever." (Romans 11:36)
An excerpt from
Brave New Schools
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Endnotes:
1. Sir Frederick Hoyle, "Hoyle on Evolution," Nature (Novermber
12, 1981); 105.
2. 2. Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution's Erratic Pace," Natural History (April
1977); 14.
3. Roger Lewin, "A downward slope to greater diversity," Science (September,
1974); 1239.
4. Francis Crick, "In the beginning..." Scientific American (February 1991);
125.
5. Dr. David Raup, "Conflicts between Darwin and Paleontology," Field Musumof
Natural History Bulletin (January, 1979); 25.
6. H.S. Lipson, "A Physicist Looks at Evolution," Physics Bulletin (May 1980);
138..
7. Quoted by Henry M. Morris and Gary E. Parker, What is Creation Science? (El
Cajon, CA: Master Books, 1982), 21.
8. Al Gore, Earth in the Balance (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1992), 263.
9. Lamar Alexander, Steps Along the Way: A Governor's Scrapbook (Nashville:
Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1986), 85.
10. René Dubos, A God Within A God Within: A Positive Approach to Man's Future
as Part of the Natural World, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972), 38,
41.
11. Thomas Sowell, "Revelations for the Anointed," Forbes (January 18, 1993);
65.
12. Genesis 2:15.
13. Genesis 1:19, 26.
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