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Bible versus Evolution
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters … 11 Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good … 20 Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens." 21 God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." … 24 Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Gen 1:1-27)
“God had nothing to do with any of it. Everything you see is the handiwork of evolution. We have explained it all, there is nothing left for a creator to do. Why believe in God except for sentimental reasons? There is no scientific evidence of a creator. No evidence of a will, not even evidence for a purpose, all can be accounted for by evolution.” (Carl Sagan)
“The fossil record and only the fossil record provides direct evidence for evolution.” (Stephen Stanley, a leading paleontologist of John Hopkins University)
Origin of Metazoa Life
Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures (Gen. 1:20)
“A fossil record of their history has not yet been found.” (Introduction to Evolution, Paul Moody)
Origin of Cambrian Animals
"One of the major unsolved problems of geology and evolution is the occurrence of diversified, multi-cellular marine invertebrates in Lower Cambrian rocks and their absence in rocks of greater age … Their high degree of organization clearly indicates that a long period of evolution preceded their appearance in the record. However, when we turn to examine the pre-Cambrian rocks for the forerunners of these Early Cambrian fossils, they are nowhere to be found.” (D. Axelrod; Science, 128).
Origin of Vertebrate Marine Animals
God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind (Gen. 1:21)
“There is no direct proof or evidence that any of the suggested events or changes ever took place. In this sense, this account is science fiction. There is a gap which we may never be able to fill. (N.J. Berrill, The Origin of Vertebrates, p. 10).
Origin of Amphibians
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind … creeping things” (Gen. 1:24)
“There are no intermediate forms between finned and limbed creatures in the fossil collections of the world. Once again the critical evidence for gradual evolution is missing.” (G.R. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery)
“We lack transitional forms to bridge the gap. The modern amphibians appear in the fossil record without transitions and essentially modern in appearance.” (Atheistic Paleontologist Alfred Romer)
Origin of Reptiles
Everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. (Gen. 1:25)
“How or when did this change occur, we do not know. As usual, the fossil record is blank just when we most need it.” (G.R. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery)
Origin of Birds
Then God said … let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens … and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good (Gen. 1:20-21)
“The origin of birds is largely a matter of deduction. There is no fossil evidence of the changes and stages of how the remarkable change from reptile to birds was achieved.” (W.E. Swinton head of British Museum of Natural History).
“Of all these changes, the most radical and the most baffling is thermo regulation. It appears, full fledged on the evolutionary scene with as little warning as the Devil in pantomime.” (G.R. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery)
Origin of Mammals
Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. (Gen. 1:24-25)
“Apparently, the transition to mammals occurred in the late Triassic period. Unfortunately, the fossil record is most fragmentary at this point” (Introduction to Evolution, Paul Moody)
“More than a dozen, modern groups appear simultaneously in the fossil record instead of developing from one another … At that time, almost all the familiar modern groups, from rabbits to tigers to ant eaters to bats are rather common. What would explain the sudden appearance of so many new lives? It is a puzzle unlikely to ever be solved.” (G.R. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery)
“The fossil record (at Big Horn) does not convincingly document a single transitioning from one species to another.” (Stephen Stanley, a leading paleontologist of John Hopkins University)
“Even more recent evolutionary changes are baffling. Whales and dolphins appear in the fossil record, already fully formed and diversified.” (G.R. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery)
“In all 32 orders of mammals, the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of each order of mammals is speculative.” (Evolutionist G.G. Simpson)
Origin of Man
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Gen. 1:26-27)
“We encounter an unfortunate gap in the fossil record … Some are clearly ape like and others are clearly human like fossils but there are millions of years of transitions that we don’t have.” (Introduction to Evolution, Paul Moody)
Origin of Plants
11 Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good (Gen. 1:11-12)
“Botanical evolutional theory is mainly unsupported by fossil evidence.” (Introduction to Evolution, Paul Moody)
Conclusions
“The absence of transitional forms is an almost universal phenomenon. The line making connection with common ancestry is not known even in one instance.” (Evolutionist G.G. Simpson)
“For paleontologists who have dedicated careers to confirming Darwin’s theory, the fossil record is discouragingly void of transitional forms that might explain the progression of one species to the next. In fact, no explicit examples of the kind of evolution that Darwin predicted between species has shown up.” (PBS Nova, 2003)
“We as paleontologists have said that the history of life supports the story of gradual adaptive change all the while really knowing that it does not.” (Niles Eldridge, The Pattern of Evolution)
“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record is the trade secret of paleontology.” (Paleontologist, Stephen J. Gould)
“With each passing year, the once rather simplistic view on evolution continue to crumble.” (University of Illinois biology professor T.H. Peseta)
“We don’t know as much as many biology textbooks would like for you to believe … how plausible is all this? It is certainly conceivable from the standpoint of modern biology but the problem is that each step so far has proven remarkably elusive from an empirical standpoint … Should a skeptic reject outright any special creation of life? No, reluctantly it has to be true that we really don’t have a clue about how life on earth originated by natural means … Skeptics should be wary of oversimplified answers found in introductory biology textbooks. (Skeptical Inquirer, 2002)
“I was a convinced Darwinist and a chemical evolutionist. But it became increasingly difficult for me to provide examples of actually observed evolutionary change for my students. Unfortunately I am not allowed to discuss these topics in my courses at San Francisco State. I think the more we learn in molecular biology and the more we learn from chemical evolution studies the less likely it is that the chemical evolution is going to explain it and turn out to be the right one.” (Dean Kenyon, chemistry professor at San Francisco State on BBC, 2001)
“Evolution is accepted, not because it can be proven by logically proving that it is true but because the only alternative of special creation is clearly incredible.” (Evolutionist D.M.S. Watson)
“Time: Could the answer be God? Dawkins: There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding. Collins: That’s God. Dawkins: Yes but it could be any of a billion gods.” (Time, Nov. 2006)
“I believe in punctuated equilibrium.” (Stephen Stanley, a leading paleontologist of John Hopkins University)
“What I believe in is evolution by direct pan spirumia. An advanced extra terrestrial civilization possibly facing extinction sent primitive life forms to earth at different stages in spaceships. What sort of evidence would support this? Well if my theory is true, the organisms should appear suddenly without any ancestral forms proceeding them and this explanation fits the facts perfectly.” (Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA)
“When a scientist of Crick’s caliber feels as though he has to evoke undetectable spacemen maybe it is time to consider that life is what it so evidentially seems to be; a product of intelligence and supernatural intervention.” (Philip Johnson, law professor at UC Berkley).
“There is only one answer to the intricate laws that exist in creation, an omnipotent creative God … I passionately believe in a universe with purpose created by God.” (Henry Marginile, a Yale physicist in Cosmos Bios Theos)
1. I can have Confidence.
2. I can have Courage.
3. I can have Comfort.
Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing … 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. 29 He gives strength to the weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power. (Isaiah 40:26-29)