WHY FIGHT CREATIONISM?

This is a serious issue because it imperils Christianity's witness to Truth. By lying Creationists side with the Kingdom of Lies.

WHAT IS EVOLUTION ?

AREN'T YOU A CHRISTIAN? SO WHY ARE YOU FIGHTING CREATIONISM?

Because Creationism betrays the Truth, and Jesus is that Truth. Creationism is built on falsehood, ignorance and misinformation.

THESE SHOULD BE CLEAR SIGNS THAT CREATIONISM ISN'T OF GOD

YOUNG EARTH CREATIONISM FREQUENTLY ARGUES AGAINST EVOLUTION ON THE BASIS THAT IT ISN'T SCIENTIFIC AND IS THE PRODUCT OF PAGANISM OR POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES. WHAT'S THE REAL HISTORY OF EVOLUTION'S DISCOVERY?

The claim that God has created this Universe in a six day period some six to ten thousand years ago and left abundant signs of this event and the Biblical Flood is a testable hypothesis, and one that was abandoned by scientists over the period 1750 to 1830. The processes at work in today's world and conceivable processes that have left traces visible today [e.g. meteorite craters, glaciers] seemed enough to create this world's physical features. The Hand Of God was either present in all things, and so indistinguishable from Nature, or totally absent except at the very fringe of the World [e.g. the Beginning, what we call the Big Bang.]

As geologists studied the fossils in the early 1800s and naturalists collected more and more species of plants and animals from around the world certain lines of evidence began suggesting that life had evolved. Firstly, the fossils showed a multitude of animals and plants had once lived upon the Earth and yet lived no longer. This is EXTINCTION.

Many naturalists couldn't accept this and proposed that species had transformed over time, changing to suit their environments. Evolution, according these naturalists, was an orderly process which arose from within organisms. Lamarck was one of the first to propose this form of evolution and he was followed by others who examined organisms and found them to have very similar body plans.

Baron Cuvier was one of the 19th Century's greatest anatomists and he showed that not all organisms were alike, as the others believed. His work proved extinction to be a real process in the world. Von Baer, an embryologist, showed that there were four basic kinds of organisms amongst those known at the time.

A second line of evidence from the fossils showed that the kinds of living things had changed over time, with greater numbers of modern forms existing in more recent strata. Using this fact Charles Lyell estimated that the Cretaceous had finished some 80 million years ago, which is very close to the modern radioactive dating measurement. He studied the proportions of modern to extinct forms amongst shell-forming molluscs through the successive ages of the Cenozoic [the most modern era] and used this pattern of change to guess at how long it all might have taken. Similar patterns of appearance and disappearance existed all through out the fossils, leading many to ask "how did species arise?" Mere transformation from one to another wasn't enough, as species not only changed but they also diversified. This fact of the "Tree of Life" was well known by the 1840s - 1850s, and it led Darwin to finally publish his theories on evolution's causes.

Another line of evidence for evolution came from study of living things. The abundance of species, often unique to where they lived, caused many to seriously question whether God had created them all as diverse and as well adapted to their habitats in the Beginning. The World had changed and many found it difficult to believe that God's creatures could have all migrated from Noah's Ark merely 4500 to 5000 years ago. As more unique and bizarre lifeforms became known this simple view became very unlikely. By the late 1700s most naturalists were sceptical of the Biblical picture, and as geology dug up ever weirder creatures and extinct forms that resembled their living relatives and lived in similar places, the "Flood Dispersal" theory disappeared.

What remained was biogeography, and this very quickly came to accept the evidence as being in favour of evolution. The question which puzzled all scientists was the mechanism of evolution, not whether it had occurred or not.

Newton's laws had inspired generations of scientists to believe that Nature followed orderly laws which gave rise to phenomena in a predictable, orderly fashion. The order and intricacy of Life seemed the very opposite of random which is why many found God to be a plausible cause of that Order. When Darwin proposed that the creative process was the natural selection of advantageous forms created by normal "random variation" many scientists found it repugnant. Surely Life's complexity hadn't arisen out of random processes, they thought, and from the 1860s to the 1920s most evolutionists were not Darwinists.

WHY YOUNG EARTH CREATIONISM IS WRONG

EVOLUTION

WHY CREATIONISM IS WRONG

WHAT IS LIFE?

WHAT IS MIND?

Some other very recommended web-sites that cover the Creation/Evolution issue in solid detail... <>

Glenn Morton's Creation/Evolution Pages

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