Reasons to Reject Evolution part 2. Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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1 Reasons to Reject Evolution part 2 Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Reasons to Reject Evolution 1. It s a matter of faith Heb 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible

3 John 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

4 Ps 19:1-2 The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.

5 2. Evolution is anti-reason Stephen Jay Gould, Darwin s theory is inherently anti-plan, anti-purpose and anti-meaning. Nothing went bang and created everything

6 3. Evolution is anti-science Evolution is not Observable, Repeatable, Measurable The creation event was not observed by people and can not be repeated Evolution is contrary to 2 nd Law Thermodynamics

7 Evolution is anti-science Darwin s 3 assumptions have been proven to be false so his theory should be discarded No Transition fossils or animals No Spontaneous generation Irreducibly complex organs exist

8 4. Evolution can not explain the complex information (DNA) in every living cell Dr. John Baumgardner: "Do coded algorithms which are a million words in length arise spontaneously by any known naturalistic process? Is there anything in the laws of physics that suggests how such structures might arise in a spontaneous fashion?"...

9 4. Evolution can not explain the complex information (DNA) in every living cell Dr. John Baumgardner:..."The honest answer is simple. What we presently understand from thermodynamics and information theory argues persuasively that they do not and can not."

10 5. Evolution can not explain irreducibly complex machines Dr. Michael Behe, Darwin s Black Box "irreducible complexity" in the microscopic workings of the flagellum and the eye. Flagella tiny whiplike appendages on microbes have a molecular motor so intricate that even many...

11 Evolution can not explain irreducibly complex machines scientists concede that it looks like it was designed Some argue that the flagellum is itself irreducibly complex...others suggest that it contains 2 irreducibly complex subsystems whose coordination cannot be explained by evolution

12 Irreducible complexity As for the eye, Dr. Behe challenges evolutionists to explain the 11-cis-retinal molecule, which reacts with light to set off the biochemical process that produces vision. Note, too, the intricate cellular architecture of the retina if you remove even a single component, then the whole system fails

13 The complexity of a Single cell Each cell with genetic information from bacteria to man, consists of artificial languages and their decoding systems, memory banks for information storage and retrieval, elegant control

14 The complexity of a Single cell systems regulating the automated assembly of parts and components, error fail-safe and proof-reading devices utilized for quality control, assembly processes involving the principle of prefabrication

15 Unexplainable complexity... and modular construction... [and a] capacity not equaled in any of our most advanced machines, for it would be capable of replicating its entire structure within a matter of a few hours"

16 6. Natural selection has never created a new species T. H. Morgan Natural selection as the foundation of evolution is no good at all. Selection, then, has not produced anything new, but only more of certain kinds of individual. Evolution, however, means producing new things, not more of what already exists.

17 7. Random mutations (cancer) are not beneficial and never creative Sir Julian Huxley, commented on the unpredictability of mutations: "Mutation... provides the raw material of evolution; it is a random affair and takes place in all directions - unproven statement

18 Mutation C.P. Martin, "Mutation is a pathological process which has had little or nothing to do with evolution" Professor Martin's investigations revealed... mutations are overwhelmingly negative and never creative.

19 Mutation... He observed that an apparently beneficial mutation was likely only a correction of a previously harmful one, similar to punching a man with a dislocated shoulder and inadvertently putting it back into place.

20 Mutations Grassé, has observed that mutations do not take succeeding generations further and further from their starting point. Instead, the changes are like the flight of a butterfly in a green house which travels for miles without moving more that a few feet from its starting point....

21 Mutations There are invisible but firmly fixed boundaries that mutations can never cross... He insists that mutations are only trivial changes; they are merely the result of slightly altered genes, whereas 'creative evolution... demands the genesis of new ones' "

22 8. Reason to Reject Evolution the missing evidence The missing evidence denied: any thinking person can clearly see the overwhelming evidence for evolution no credible scientist denies the fact of evolution evolution is an established fact of science

23 Missing evidence denied Evolution is both a beautiful concept and an important one, more crucial nowadays to human welfare, to medical science, and to our understanding of the world than ever before. It s also deeply persuasive a theory you can take to the bank

24 Missing evidence Variation with in a kind is not evolution The evidence of variation and adaptation within species simply shows the marvelous engineering that God used in designing His creation. Shows the complexity of DNA

25 No fossil evidence Fossil record shows fully developed plants and animals with out any transitional forms

26 Missing evidence National Geographic s remarkable admission that "the fossil record is like a film of evolution from which 999 of every 1,000 frames have been lost on the cutting room floor"

27 Missing evidence Darwin, On the Origin of Species, admitted, "The number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed on the earth, must be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?

28 Missing evidence Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory

29 Missing evidence "I still think that, to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation [creation by God], E. J. Corner

30 9. Reason to reject evolution: Fabricated and Fraudulent evidence November 1999, National Geographic headline: New Birdlike Fossils Are Missing Links in Dinosaur Evolution this creature found in Liaoning Province, China is a true missing link in the complex chain that

31 Fabricated evidence...connects dinosaurs to birds." The fossil was named Archaeoraptor by scientists.. it was displayed proudly at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, DC. But then came the rest of the story. It was a total fraud.

32 Fraudulent evidence On August 14, 1986, ABC-TV's news program 20/20 aired a segment on the Tasaday tribesmen in the Philippine jungles, uncovering a hoax of monumental proportions.

33 Fraudulent evidence Piltdown man s reign of 40 years was a deliberate fraud. Nebraska man fabricated from a pig tooth

34 Imagined evidence In 2000 Gingerich, at a site in Pakistan, found a piece of fossil that changed the prevailing view in paleontology It was half of a pulley-shaped anklebone, know as an astragalus the petrified bone was the size of a lug nut but

35 Imagined evidence he realized how closely whales are related to antelopes. from the species he had eventually named Artioocetus clavis

36 Reconstructed evidence...take the case of "Lucy," the "oldest human." A small piece of the top of a skull, along with a tooth and a piece of shin bone found scattered in the dirt more than 40 feet apart served as the basis of this "scientific" reconstruction

37 10 th reason to reject evolution: it promotes racism, and inhumanity Evolution leads to racism Hitler embraced evolution Darwin opposed vaccination against smallpox since it helped the weak survive and propagate after their kind

38 Reasons to Reject Evolution Gen. 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

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