The subjects of this article are all very small, but beautifully formed.
Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins and involved in almost every bodily function, including growth and development, healing and repair, normal digestion, and providing energy for your body. You will have been taught that evolution, given a long enough time period can work to produce these amino acids and proteins. My question is simple and direct: could time and chance ever combine so effectively to produce these apparent miracles? Because if not, then design of an exquisite type and from an intelligence far in advance of ours is the only alternative answer. This means either a Godlike being or the Richard Dawkins alternative: a highly evolved extra-terrestrial of unspecified origin and character who first developed life, then took an unspecified length of vacation across the universe in order to seed its novel invention on earth. Don’t believe me, then please watch the interview with Ben Stein.
Strange how Dawkins could not only invent such a being, but also propose its charitable intervention on our behalf. Having stepped tentatively into the realm of science fiction and made a considerable fool of himself he then continued his lucrative career as a God basher and of denying the possibility of any form of Intelligent Design in nature.
So, design or chance? Please watch the three very short videos below and make your own mind up.
Here is the continuation of the talk.
And one more time.
The speaker mentions a protein called Kinesin. It is like all the machines working in our body made from amino acids. Just look and be amazed.
So what are the chances of winning the lottery involved in putting us humans together? For any living organism to form and live its life would represent at least in general statistical terms, a continual unbroken progressive winning streak beyond any possible calculation. Kinesin and other motors are in every cell of your body in huge numbers and variety, and the number of cells range from thirty to one hundred trillion.
You have heard the odds against a small protein being created, but take a protein like Titin. It is a giant among minnows. A protein requiring a massive 34,000 amino acids. Each one of these 34,000 has to be located exactly right and all of them without exception must be left-handed. Titin’s primary purpose is to act like whopping big rubber bands in our muscles. But let’s pass on, assume its importance for muscle use and consider that this protein evolved by chance in order to fulfil this function. The problems are, firstly it defies commonsense, secondly no imaginable evolutionary process gets near explaining the range of specified functions, and thirdly it could never have done so for the statistical reasons referred to in the video above. The chances of an amino chain this long forming by time and chance is to push statistical analysis beyond its mathematical limits.
Just how clever and interlinked these foundational processes leading to life are, is demonstrated by the video below.
We are taught that all these essential units at the nano level of life evolved out of the original primordial soup. The idea of the primordial soup was originally proposed by Alexander Oparin and John Haldane as a possible explanation for the creation of life on our planet. The theory states that if energy is added to the gases that made up Earth’s early atmosphere, then the building blocks of life would be created. You now know that nineteenth century knowledge and all the conclusions built upon it, which includes neo Darwinism, have been left for dead by what has become known in the 21st century. My hope is that within the next half century most of Darwinism will have been consigned to the same fate. We should however acknowledge its crowning glory. Darwin’s discovery of natural selection does work to cause some change in species. Epi-genetics, which is the study of changes in organisms caused by modification of gene expression, rather than alteration of the genetic code itself is the science dealing with this phenomena. It can cause finch beaks on the Galapagos Islands to change seasonally in size and shape. But to change or evolve the finch into another type of bird or a chimp into a human has never been demonstrated. There are genetic boundaries which cannot be crossed.
Modern science has seen the potential in these molecular machines. Work from the University of Wales demonstrates the undeniable; that this naturally birthed nano-technology is intelligently designed. Here is a paraphrased account from the work being done at this university. Micro and nano-motors found in living organisms demonstrate machines capable of converting chemical or external energy into mechanical motion. These motors have proved their potential and represent intelligent biomedical platforms. Their movement is accomplished by the conversion of energy, transforming such varied forms of energy as electrical, light, heat, ultrasound, magnetic fields and chemical fuels. Such self-propelled chemical motors have proved their potential for a number of applications. These include controlled drug delivery, sensors, and even environmental use.
In conclusion to suggest anything less than intelligent design with regard to what you have seen and heard makes a mockery of our capacity to analyse data and form rational conclusions.
By proof of God I mean the sheer weight of circumstantial evidence that can be deduced from creation.
The picture above shows one of the most impressive motors in terms of structure and performance the world has ever known. And yet it looks primitive and simple. A sausage shaped body with a couple of long tails moving through a liquid environment at a rate of body lengths per minute as yet to be equalled by anything produced through modern technology. How deceptive an appearance of simplicity can be: in this case a microbe: a bacteria. It was of course as evolutionary theory demands incredibly simple and came into being roughly 3.5 billion years ago. Without this as yet unsubstantiated assumption Darwinism collapses, but for now we must accept it as the only alternative to a designer. But as nature abhors a vacuum and modern science abhors a god lets stick to the script, lay aside our commonsense and take a look at the first motors to appear on earth.
Bacteria have the three types of motor illustrated in the video below. We start with the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli: a common form of bacteria.
ATP synthase is a molecular complex which supplies the energy needs of all life. It captures chemical energy obtained from the breakdown of food molecules and releases it to fuel other cellular processes. It had to be in existence prior to the first life because there is an initial problem that life has to overcome. No source of energy, no life.
I am a child in matters of science so perhaps you could answer this childlike question. If the above motors are accurately described, and were intrinsic to the wellbeing of the most primitive living organisms which arose from the primeval slime of the early Earth, then how come that modern science cannot get close to replicating their advanced nanotechnology? And believe me science has been trying for quite some while. If you watch the video at the bottom of this article you will hear a scientist who passionately looks forward to that day when we catch up and utilise a technology we know works. If it didn’t work we would not know because we would not yet exist. Because we along with microbes share the internal technology essential for life. In fact we share the microbes as well, no microbes no you or I. It is amazing when we come to realise the co-ordination required for any of this to happen. In bacteria you have Dna, a membrane which fulfils many functions and without doubt the finest engine on planet Earth. And this brief inventory misses out many things far too complex for me to follow or understand.
After about two billion years of evolution, if you believe it, which I do not; the kind of cells emerged which led to mammal and finally human life. After a further billion or two years a kind of ape supposedly evolved into the tool making species Homo Sapiens, examples of our early efforts shown below.
Its a good start but it contrasts starkly with bacterial life. Humans have intelligence and over time have evolved, ( the correct word in this context ), incredible technologies. But here is a conundrum; bacteria, which are without intelligence had vastly superior technology to us from the first spark of life. Why are they so gifted? Why does one species have to work for its advancement while the other unconsciously bathes in its superior technological status. Maybe the creator of both saw something we have missed. Perhaps we were intended to develop by thought processes and ambition, and then to seek out the meaning of life. To look at the stars in wonder and pursue that wonder through the scientific method. It should be acknowledged that science was largely birthed in this kind of questioning environment. The pioneers of the scientific method in the West were mostly bible believing Christians. They had a template into which they could pursue ideas because they believed the earth and the cosmos had a rational genesis. Born in a creative and rational mind vastly superior to our own. Hence it is unsurprising that men of this mindset, who expected rationality to govern creation discovered the laws that underpin both physics and chemistry. They found that mathematical equations of beautiful simplicity and ingenuity ruled over all things physical, from the atomic domain upwards. The quantum world of atomic particles is admittedly a strange exception. The fact that these discoveries have been made is perhaps a hint to us that we really are fearfully and wonderfully made by a Creator or a Designer, and that we are meant to know and understand just how special we are.
The crude denial of that possibility explains the mindset of those who choose for themselves the evolutionary microbe to ape to human route. Self abnegation of a religious type perhaps, chosen in order to escape the horror of being a Creator’s creation. And even worse responsible for our actions before a maker and teacher who both cares for and loves us, and who in addition desires and expects us to search for the one who put it all into existence.
So, after that small diversion let’s continue by underlining the disparity between our first efforts at tools, weapons, ornaments etc and those of nature by examining the graphic below. The engines of bacteria are complex, having both gears and clutches.
The story so far. Nature in its most primitive state sponsors the arrival of microscopic creatures. These exist without a brain to initiate an idea or a sense of purpose. And yet they exist with ease, search for and find food and replicate on cue without a thought about how or why. They would in our world define the word ignoramus: the ultimate dunces. They flourish without a thought and obey whatever it is that prompts them. Whether they live or die is an irrelevance, and yet they seem to do everything they are capable of doing as if they cared. They somehow create out of whatever scraps of material were available to them motorised machines of astounding utility. Their engines are so sophisticated they have, as shown above, gears and clutches. This is creature operating a nano machine a millionth the size of a grain of sand that can rotate five times faster than a Formula One engine (18,000 rpm ) and can change direction faster than a mosquito beats it wings. A vibrio bacteria can stop and reverse its top speed 100,000 revs per minute engine in a quarter turn and then continue at it top speed in another direction. That is some special kind of clutch and gearing system. The motors in the bacterium speak of design while their lack of nervous system set them up as a brain dead unit. What we have is a strange twinset: a supremely fine tuned engine and a mindless host. But if that were the case how would they navigate towards their food supplies. These contradictions are not natural bedfellows. This is supposed to be simple stuff. Who or what gave the dumb bacteria its extraordinary motors and the capacity to live an active and meaningful life. If the organism itself has little to no clue, or self-awareness, or method of equipping itself then how did it get its hardware: the rotary motor, and software: DNA? By chance?
We can look at ourselves and ask these and many other questions, but most of us it seems choose to avoid them. Such questions are for philosophers and theologians, not your average Joe. But why not let the fool dream his dreams and search the dark areas while seeking that single immutable beauty: the truth. Questions do arise. Why should the lowest life forms on earth with an IQ of absolute zero be equipped with the finest possible motility systems? The only answer I can think of is that they have them because they need them. Who meets the need once the need is realised? The lesser usually looks to the greater for answers. But even that is ruled out, the bacteria spawned by evolutionary processes is not looking for a motor. And the motor cannot have come first because it is embedded in a membrane. It does not know it needs one and even if it did it would have to wait for beneficial mutations in perfect sequence and beyond counting before it could even hope. But even hope is not an option because there is no sense of direction or purpose permitted in evolutionary scenarios. So who or what supplied the needs? It must have been far thinking even at the microbial level to have anticipated all the roles that microbes are required to fill. Please read any scholarly article on this subject, there are many available on the internet. Microbes are vital to all life, they support everything you can think of from the Eco-system onwards. They are ubiquitous throughout nature. Without them there would be no life nor you and I.
So who or what did it?
Now we all know an almighty designer and creator God is ruled out as a contender. As is faith. Take it from a man who knows: Richard Dawkins.
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.”
If faith is a cop-out then what do you replace it with? The Dawkins sense of reason? Is it reasonable for a man of science to believe the systems illustrated above evolved without an idea or any sense of purpose and direction. How does he screw his thinking process into this black hole? It seems design is ruled out because it cannot for ideological reasons be ruled in. The cop-out may lay closer to his study door than he is yet ready to accept. Why does he deny intelligence or design? Is it for rational or for ideological reasons? Because the second option is a cop-out and it is irrational to argue that the appearance of exquisitely engineered systems are the result of unthinking and blind processes. All of our experience from childhood onwards recognises that any object that has design features was created by a designer.
Anyone who seriously believed these were not designed and made for a purpose would be a candidate for psychiatric care.
You may by now have come to the conclusion that the Designer of these systems had the ability to create machines at the lowest levels of life which outperform every human invention when it comes to motility and data storage. These bacterial motors have never evolved nor have they been updated or superseded, as evolutionary theory would expect. The story is they have remained unchanged over billions of years. How can that happen in a world formed by evolutionary progressions? Man made inventions evolve year on year or decade on decade. Each generation of inventors and engineers seeing further and deeper than the last. As Newton said, the advantage of standing on the shoulders of previous generations of intellectual giants. Nature has no such story to tell, whatever the evolutionists tell you. In fact the story told by life is that perfection began it all. The opposite to the story almost the entire civilised, technologically advanced world has absorbed as its favourite and as yet unacknowledged myth.
You should by now realise that simple life is anything but simple as the scientist giving the lecture in the video below will verify.
It is so easy to follow the recipe for life, and name all its bare necessities. All you need is a cast of Baloo’s Jungle Book friends, and a villain to spoil the party . The storyline goes something like this….
For life: that is everything from plants to bacteria and onwards to you and I there first has to be a Goldilocks like planet. In a universe so vast there has to be one place that is just right. Image a beginning at which we were called to be witnesses. With starry eyes we wait, looking up to the heavens. All the component parts of life are gathered in a small pool, held together by some unknown force, as if in a daisy chain. They do not degrade or separate as chemicals randomly gathered in a watery environment might be expected to do. They act as if in a laboratory, each component lovingly arranged and prepared for synthesis. If these parts were conscious they might be looking towards the sky, watching, waiting expectantly to be electrically shocked into action. And here it comes, a lightning strike hits the very spot and catalyses, causes an action or process to begin. A series of reactions occur which lead to the production of complex molecules: amino acids, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, RNA and DNA. You might think it was a miracle, but you would be wrong. Why: because the story is Darwinian; consequently we avoid words that could be construed as confusing or suggestive of purpose and meaning.
This kind of story belongs upon any shelf in any library, but only as a work of fiction. The one place where it should not be, is in the section labelled science. The bare necessities apply throughout life: flour to a cake, water to a car radiator, a handle to a door, a handkerchief for a runny nose, a key for a lock, a head for a hat and so on….Baloo’s bare necessities and listed in the video below
Consider some of the finely tuned factors that make our universe possible:
If the strong nuclear force were slightly more powerful, then there would be no hydrogen, an essential element of life. If it was slightly weaker, then hydrogen would be the only element in existence.
If the weak nuclear force were slightly different, then either there would not be enough helium to generate heavy elements in stars, or stars would burn out too quickly and supernova explosions could not scatter heavy elements across the universe.
If the electromagnetic force were slightly stronger or weaker, atomic bonds, and thus complex molecules, could not form.
If the value of the gravitational constant were slightly larger, one consequence would be that stars would become too hot and burn out too quickly. If it were smaller, stars would never burn at all and heavy elements would not be produced.
These foundational laws and constants are characteristic of design, not happenstance. The reason being that their values and settings are highly unlikely. They seem to be serving a higher purpose. They are specified in that they match the specific requirements needed for life. The universe as far as we can judge seems viciously hostile to life. We search but never find another planet like ours. And yet here sits the Earth, protected by a unique atmosphere under which we, the human race live and breathe. When we consider what surrounds us beyond our life saving atmosphere it is a wonder we live at such ease. We are like a helpless child in a crib overseen by innumerable benign and protective measures. And yet this is set against a seemingly eternal and threatening malignant silence and a darkness spattered by the light of planets and galaxies. We exist and for the most part carry on without a thought or a word of thanks to the being who must have placed us in the universe’s only safe haven. So I will say it because I believe in a Designer and Creator. Thank you Jesus: my Lord and my God.
A final word on the thought of an intelligent all powerful creator. A quote from Nobel laureate in physics Charles Townes: “This is a very special universe: its remarkable that it came out just this way. If the laws of physics weren’t just the way they are, we wouldn’t be here at all. The sun couldn’t be there, the laws of gravity and nuclear laws and magnetic theory. quantum mechanics, and so on have to be just the way they are.”
But what is that something and what does it mean? Is it real? Is it Armageddon? Has it happened before? Is it temporary? Or is the Climate Change agenda nothing more than a stab in the dark guess at what is going on? One based on the assumption it is all our fault. Just suppose the signs are attributable to something else? Perhaps a well known and experienced phenomena: like old age. Maybe the earth and its solar system is wearing out like an old sock and being counted down and out. We can stitch it up and wear it for a while, but before long your toes will reappear through the broken threads. Age catches up with everything eventually. I am 76 years old so I should know something about the inexorable progress of decay. Suppose we and indeed the universe are staggering on old legs. In which case we are merely experiencing the effects of a well established law of science. A law which states that there is a natural tendency for any isolated system to degenerate into an increasingly disordered state. This process is associated with the Second Law of Thermodynamics and is called Entropy. Our planet and our climate are subject to this law along with everything else.
It is a law which cannot be broken. It can be slowed at the level of human activity because we can analyse a problem, repair it and if necessary rebuild. Outside that narrow window of opportunity stands the imperious 2nd Law. And it heralds the eventual deconstruction, disordering and dismantling of all things. Entropy cannot be argued with, it just is; life puts things together and entropy pulls it apart. That does not exclude our planet or any of its ordered systems, such as our environment and climate. These along with everything else are on the hit list of entropy, and this has been so since the beginning. And yet, rather than affirm and accept this inevitable truth we spend our time in denial, in protest, and in La La Land by raising false hopes, thinking that modern populations will choose to disavow everything that has happened since the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. That is not going to happen, the majority will never voluntarily give up our modern lives with their attendant comforts and perceived necessities. So what are the alternatives? Living clean and green might help, but in all probability these two options are not up to the job.What we might consider doing instead is preparing ourselves for what must come one day to a generation like ours. We will try our best obviously, but like keeping the incoming tide out of a crenellated sand castle it can only be done for a while before it is overwhelmed. Children cry, adults dry their tears and explain that in this case nothing could be done. Is out thinking aligned to that of the adult or the child? It is interesting that at this time in history we are prepared to be led by a child; Greta Thunberg and her disciples.
Is the universe new or old? We know for sure that it is not new. So if it is getting old what should we expect of a finite system? We must turn and face the grim enactment of Second Law on physics and chemistry. What do we know about this ageing process? We know that youth and early middle age normally progress without much serious illness or drastic deterioration. We also know that old age, like the sun at dusk, it is on the horizon and about to disappear from view. One day maybe forever.
Old age is just a heading descriptive of the many entropic reasons why we humans fall into decay. From dust I came, and one day in that form my mortal remains will be handed to my wife or one of our children. Prostate cancer might be the direct cause of my death, but it will not be the only one. The entire body in which I live has been decaying for decades. To blame old age is just to give a heading beneath which there are more detailed and varied reasons. Some of the causes will be my fault. Have for example drink or drugs or sexual promiscuity contributed? Has a genetic disorder hurried my demise? Is the region of the world into which I was born a factor? Was I born into the lower stratas of society where medicines and drugs were unavailable and opportunities to better myself cut off? Was I the runt of a litter who was left behind by those more able and talented? It could be any of a multitude of reasons, some of which may have been self-inflicted. But other factors may have nothing whatsoever to do with decisions taken by me.
We are blaming ourselves for the state of the planet; fair enough, we are certainly guilty for some of it, but what about other reasons which may be far outside our control? Such as the inevitability of decline leading to the death of any complex interlinked system, whether created or evolved. Look at the rusted and abandoned pick-up truck which illustrates this article. Misuse and lack of care could be the cause, but so could the build up of natural processes. It just wore out and had to be abandoned. We know this is a truth proved beyond any reasonable doubt. A man made system always requires care and attention. So does a garden. If it falls into terminal decline it is in part nothing more than nature taking its course. In the process it will strangle cultured plants, encourage weeds and destroy the view. With a garden the fault is obvious. With a planet the fault is far from obvious. Could it be nothing more than entropy doing its work? Look in the bible and you will note that in the beginning the Earth was put into the care of humankind in the person of Adam. His work, his purpose, was to procreate with his wife and take care of the paradise into which he was born: his work was to look after the Garden of Eden. So we were supposed to continue on this theme, and take care of our world. It is undeniable that we humans have both exploited what the Earth has to offer and thought little of the consequences until fairly recently. But does that account for everything climate change activists have identified as the cause of global warming and its consequences? Is it true? There are dissident voices; some well qualified, others like me just thinking it through. An old man like me may look at his body and mind and see they have greatly deteriorated. Can I get back those years, can I rejuvenate by body and mind? To a degree maybe, but beyond that death is inevitable. It was inevitable from the moment of birth. Maybe the Earth which was also once birthed is subject to exactly the same fate.
Are we responsible for the apparent rundown of complex systems? Take as an example you and I and the global population. Are we at the peak of our potential or are we falling into decay?
Here is a paraphrased view by the evolutionist and scientist John Hawks concerning the state of modern man. He explains there is a list of changes which have occurred in our skeleton and skull. Hawks, who is a University of Wisconsin anthropologist, states that it is clear the brain has been shrinking, doing so since the Stone Age. He argues that over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain has decreased from 1,500 cubic centimetres to 1,350 cc. This represents a chunk the size of a tennis ball. This has occurred in China, Europe, Africa, everywhere! If this rate continues over the next 20,000 years, it will he says begin to approach the size of that found in the primitive type of human called Homo erectus, supposedly a human relative who lived half a million years ago. The male had a brain volume of only 1,100 cc. possibly owing to said shrinkage. The interviewer asks, “Are you saying we’re getting dumber?” The answer is yes! We are truly falling into a state we once called primitive. Even the great Isaac Newton modestly admitted this fact; famously stating that he only saw as far as he did by standing on the shoulders of giants who had preceded him.
An artists impression of Homo Erectus.
Is that the direction we are going: downwards into a decline which may be much worse than we imagine?
To blame human activity for all Climate Change is to be one-eyed. Open the other and have a look. Perhaps we have failed to notice many other contributory factors. Some which may account for example, for the inexorable loss of many species of flora and fauna caused by things like genetic decay, a process which has arguably been going on for millennia. We think we are at the peak of human ability. If you think that then you are out of date and ignorant of modern science. We are nowhere near as healthy, or as shown above, as strong or intelligent as we once were. The cause maybe genetic entropy. The genetic load: mutational damage which has been increasing generation upon generation, most probably since our species began. In the bible you can actually find a near perfect genetic decay curve. This can be done by examining the catastrophic fall in the ages of the patriarchs. From near one thousand years, Methuselah, to one hundred and twenty, Moses.
Here is an account based on an article on the website ‘Biology Today’.
It is said that harmful mutations can accumulate in populations; especially those like our, because natural selection, which removes many dangerous mutations is minimised in a wealthy heavily protected society like ours. One replete with health care of every type. Nevertheless it has been argued that humans may suffer from a significant rate of accumulation of genetic damage. This derives from new mutations. Why? Because some mutations are too hidden to be eliminated. The forces of selection are too weak in Western populations. The kind of natural wastage which occurs in less developed parts of the world does not happen so greatly in the privileged West. However we may already be experiencing an appreciable deterioration in fitness, and this could have dramatic consequences if populations were suddenly faced with a harsh environment. I suggest that we may be entering, or have been living for decades in a world where we ensure our generations genetic damage is passed on to future generations. And they will do the same to their progeny. It is a case of down not up. Darwin and many other thinkers of his time thought in terms of eugenics; ridding ourselves of those who carried weaknesses, whether racial, mental or physical. This was an idea acted out by the Nazi regime, one that no-one in their right mind would ever contemplate re-enacting. But we do have a problem. We can see it all around us. An industry of health workers are trying to manage the damage in both the young and the old. During the present Corona Virus it is known that the elderly, and those patients unlikely to survive the illness may go to the back of the queue so that fitter patients are given the chance of life. This, if it is happening, is a form of eugenics, favouring the healthy over the less healthy, the young over the elderly. For myself I have no problems with this even though I could get caught up in such a decision. Could all these problems and dilemmas be the result of a vast universal system racing towards its dotage? Has the Earth come close to having its day?
We were made by God along with the universe and all its laws, such as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. That Law would indicate our trajectory is not upwards but downwards. And that history has a date with the grim reaper.
Isaiah 51 v 6 affirms this belief.
“Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies….”
The prophet Isiah died in the seventh century BC. He had a strong sense that the world he knew would one day wear out like an old garment. Maybe you non believers might decide this man of God knew something and spoke about it, warning us well in advance about a time such as this.
Do you want to know how it all ends. Here is the answer from the Bible, and it is amazing. How did these thoughts come into the mind of a man who was not formally educated. One who lived two millennia ago, who was not naturally all that bright and whose trade was as a fisherman. The apostle Peter wrote this in his second letter.
“But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.”
If there is a God then who is He, She or It and how to decide between the many contestants?
God or gods are many and varied, from local to universal. If there are many then the choosing between them becomes a virtual lottery with not much at stake. Get it wrong and what can happen? The probability is nothing will happen, the god you have chosen is likely to be an invention, a myth. Do all gods fall into this category, or are there a few who could be real, possibly watching or listening or taking an interest in us? So, could the list be fewer still? Three religions make the claim that there is one supreme God who created everything and everyone, including you and I. These three Gods can be reduced to two, since the God of the Jews and Christians are one and the same. The difficulty between Judaism and Christianity centres around the claimed divinity of Jesus Christ and the doctrine of the Trinity. Christians would claim that the God of the Jews in the Old Testament is the same as the God worshipped and loved in the New Testament. And that the Godhead includes Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Here is a brief understated message laying out the claims and character of this God.
Here is my answer to the Coronavirus. Faith! This video has a song we often sing at our church: this one comes with a testimony of a miracle.
‘Without faith it is impossible to please God.’
The full quote from the book of Hebrews in the New Testament is as follows.
So now to the main contenders. It may come as a surprise to you that Islam, the last of the three monotheistic faiths, claims the same God, but states that His name is Allah, and his prophet Mohammed. According to Muslims he was spoken about in the Bible as the last prophet, greater even than Jesus. On this religion I spend a lot of time because I believe it to be false from beginning to end. For Judaism I have great respect since Christian roots are sunk deeply into the religion of the Jews and we share the Old Testament.
All three of these global religions agree about one thing: God was the Creator of all things. He may have chosen to do it through the evolutionary method, guided the process or left it to its own devices. Or God may have done it as is stated in Genesis chapter one: by a series of spoken commands. That is what I believe, and I am not alone. Scientists and philosophers from both the past and the present hold this to be the Truth about Creation.
Science is the field of study concerned with discovering and describing the world around us by observing and experimenting. Biology, chemistry, and physics are all branches of science. Good science for centuries opened up the wonders of creation and was honoured for its services to mankind and for explaining what had for so long seemed inexplicable. Showed us how nature and the cosmos worked and defined the universal laws which underpinned all things, from the microscopic to a universe so large it beggared our imagination. The foundation upon which this was built can be summarised by the humble saying attributed to Johannes Kepler:
“Thinking God’s thoughts after Him.”
This German astronomer died in 1630. He calculated planetary orbits in great detail through careful observation and painstaking mathematical modelling. He used the scientific method shown above. He also said this:
“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God and which He revealed to us in the language of mathematics.”
Kepler represents a large number of the greatest names in science: those who laid the groundwork for very close to all scientific endeavour were believers in God and His Son Jesus Christ. Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics was a monk. James Clerk Maxwell, a devout Christian, was the father of almost any modern electronic device you could name.
Over the last 150 years this heritage has been abandoned to be replaced by outright rejection of these roots of Western Science. This has been the work of scientists and philosophers, some of them having attained celebrity status through the media rather than their scientific contributions. Most of them, certainly the more humble among them, would no doubt freely admit they are minnows in comparison to Kepler, Mendel and Clerk Maxwell. And yet the God these three greats of science attributed everything to has been erased from the modern script by the lesser men. It is these who have promoted and broadcast the current version of science which now rules over explanations of nature and the universe.
Please do not misunderstand me, modern science has much to commend it, not least in areas of technology and medicine. But it’s attempts to draw deductions about prehistory and how creation came to exist in all its vast and wondrous variety is altogether another matter. My contention throughout has been that to abandon the Creator of all things as an explanation for life and the cosmos is like following Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole. It is madness and leaves an intellectual void filled by whatever can be found, and that has proved to be a problem. The explanatory well is dry to the point of aridity without the design intuition.
At the beginning of this article I spoke about there not being much at stake in getting the God question and the choices between true or false, or this god or that god wrong. Nothing could be further from the truth since nothing matters in comparison. Missing that truth and getting everything else right is not good enough. When it comes to the end you need to know Jesus and believe he died for your sins and rose from the dead. You have no excuse not to know that Jesus died because very few biblical scholars, whether believers or unbelievers, doubt that Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem around 30 AD. No-one escaped death from that form of execution. Jesus was brutally flogged before carrying his cross to the execution site. While nailed to the cross if you not push up with your legs at regular intervals for breath you died of suffocation. When a victim ceased these regular movements it was the end, faking death was not possible.
Don’t doubt, believe, because it really happened. What happened subsequently, the resurrection, is founded on evidence just as compelling.
This theory 0f deep time was not based on science. It relies on a series of assumptions that began right here…at Siccar point in Scotland in 1788.
It is with James Hutton, the father of geology that the long ages and millions of years belief began to form. This was long before Darwin published his famous Origin of Species in 1859. While looking at the rock strata at Siccar Point a friend and colleague of his, John Playfair remarked that “the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time”
From this experience Hutton developed the idea of Deep Time. Was this science or was it just a feeling, an emotional response, a stab in the dark? An entire theory based on assumptions took hold of geology and never let go. Why? maybe because alongside this developing theory was another that desperately needed deep time and long ages. And that was the burgeoning theory of Evolution. One which could not work without millions if not billions of years.
There was a second reason. Another belief system hostile to Darwinism had to discredited. People still believed their historic faith which included Genesis: six days of creation, a global flood, and a Creator God who made it all. Now those who either hated or were sceptical of the biblical account could look elsewhere for answers. Everything could be explained by simple processes and deep time. Unnoticed in all this was the fact that there was not a fig leaf to cover the lack of science. James Hutton, the Father of Geology had reached the first two stages, or maybe only one and a half of the scientific method. He never got beyond it, because the main test bed for evolutionary theory is Radiometric Dating. A test which only first began to be used 1905. It is a method by which to determine the age of the Earth. Evolutionists argue that the matter of how life on earth came to be has been established and proved beyond reasonable doubt.
The Scientific Method is laid out below.
Define purpose.
Construct hypothesis.
Test the hypothesis and collect data.
Analyse data.
Draw conclusion.
Communicate results.
Richard Feynman a great and much respected scientist who majored on telling the truth and doing your level best to falsify your own theory in the cause of truth said this: “If It disagrees with experiment, its wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.” None of the three greats of science who laid the basis of evolutionary theory did anything scientific by was of experiment to find fault with their theory.
James Hutton’s visit to Siccar Point led to a profound change in the way the history of the Earth was understood. He began to argue for a much greater length of geological time than was popularly accepted. A concept of ‘deep time’ emerged with the recognition that the geological processes occurring around us today had operated over a long period and would continue to do so into the future. Proof of this: there was nothing at all. It had no more substance than an aboriginal dream-time experience.
Time passed and the next great man appeared and muddied the water still further. He was Charles Lyell’s and his great work was the book: Principles of Geology, published in 1830. The main point of the book is that the forces of geological change that have been shaping Earth for millennia are observable today.
Lyell’s most memorable quote is: The Present is the Key to the Past.
A catastrophic flood was replaced by Uniformitarianism: a theory which states that geological history has resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes. Lyell heavily influenced and encouraged Charles Darwin. He was reading Lyell’s book while on the ship Beagle which took him to the Galapagos Islands. Darwin died in 1882. The first time an actual scientific procedure was applied to these huge assumptions was 1905; subsequent to this date all three of the men who had put evolutionary theory together were whistling in the dark. Nothing by way of what we would call modern science, which should have included: testing the hypothesis and collecting and analysing data, had been done. In fact until the 1950’s Darwinism was in so much trouble it had to be resuscitated and renamed as Neo Darwinism. Neo-Darwinism is generally used to describe the integration of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection with Gregor Mendel’s theory of genetics. Today Neo Darwinism is locked into evolution via genetic mutations. Mutations are at best neutral in their effects. Outside that neutrality the record is of genetic damage up to and including early death. An example from personal experience; mutations have caused my prostate cancer.
All cancer is the result of gene mutations. Mutations may be caused by ageing, exposure to chemicals, radiation, hormones or other factors in the body and the environment. Over time, a number of mutations may occur in a single cell, allowing it to divide and grow in a way that becomes a cancer.
Genetic mutations are not good news. That Darwinism relies upon them to create the diversity required for novel selections says something. Its like looking upwards and searching for a solution to a problem while walking downwards into the darkness of a pit. In conclusion, how do you solve a problem with the theory of evolution? Look for answers in the most dangerous area of genetics. That Neo Darwinism has been forced to choose this route is a demonstration of how desperate evolutionists are. Squaring a circle is a tricky business.
Evidence for the Flood / Dinosaurs buried globally!
God’s intention was to kill all human and air breathing animal life on earth with the exception of those on the Ark. That being so what would you expect to find? Something like what is recorded in the graphics above.
Scientists have created a massive database of fossils discovered all around the world in a painstaking project that covers 165 million years of dinosaur evolution. Or 6000 years if you believe the Bible is an accurate, historical account. Describing how God first filled the earth with humans and animals of every kind, and then due to the total corruption of humankind wiped all land based life out apart from those Noah took into the Ark prior to the Flood. It is the ultimate example of starting over again.
The Paleobiology Database encompasses all known dinosaur species, with more than 2,000 types represented across every continent on Earth. Scientists have created a massive database of fossils discovered all around the world, in a painstaking project that covers 165 million years of dinosaur evolution. A remarkable interactive map visualising the data allows users to explore nearly 8,000 discovery sites, revealing information on what could be as many as 25,000 dinosaur fossils.
This information alone should make Christians who deny the global flood think again. Only water could have done this, and the evidence is undeniably global. But what about those which seem to be buried at sea according to the graphics above?
Dinosaurs buried at sea. More evidence of a flood that was global
The magazine Scientific American has an article relating to a dinosaur buried at sea, and at the end of the article it mentions others as well. It describes a sauropod dinosaur, a herbivore which lived on land during the Cretaceous period. It was foundburied in mudstone and the article added that there was no doubting that this Austrosaurus dinosaur was buried in the ocean, not much of it was left, the torso was the only remaining part of its fossilisation. Dinosaurs could turn into inflated balloons. In this state they could be carried on rivers and floods great distances. As in this case into an ocean. The article goes on to say that other dinosaurs have been found buried in sediments. So there is nor reason to doubt the graphic above which shows dinosaur fossils scattered around the seas and oceans.
Another example from Italy. After dying, the dinosaur Saltriovenator somehow floated into the sea and sank to the bottom. There the remains provided meals to numerous sea creatures before fossilising, the researchers said.
The bones show marks likely left by attacking sharks and fish. They also show signs of feeding by smaller creatures, such as sea urchins. And there are small holes in the bone apparently left by even smaller marine worms.
Fossilisation
It is not easy to become a fossil, especially if you are a large animal. You need to be buried very fast and so completely that nothing can get to you, not predatory animals or even bacteria. Buried and turned to rock is the normal life and death story of a fossil. As you can see below, being fossilised in the act of taking your lunch must have happened quickly.
The website: https://answersingenesis.org/fossils/how-are-fossils-formed/ gives a good account of how fossils are created. That dinosaurs of great size have also been fossilised proves that burial must have involved monumental amounts of sediment.
Were they all killed by an angry God. The cause of this anger? A creation which had through the perpetual wickedness of its human overseers left no other option than to start all over again. Here is a biblical story about starting over again, a potter whose work spoils in his hands. There seems nothing wrong about this, because any creator of anything has absolute rights over his or her creation. it would not exist without the creative craftsmanship which formed the object. God understand this perfectly as this story demonstrates.
Jeremiah 18 v 1 – 4.
‘The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying: “Arise and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause you to hear My words.” Then I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, making something at the wheel. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter; so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make.‘
That is the right of any creator over anything they have created.
Christians Who Have Lost Their Way
Geology is used to discredit Genesis and once Genesis has been tipped over the rest of the Bible will follow.
Here is what I believe to be a false statement from a Christian source. I found it really shocking even though I had heard it before. The Universe, the Six Days of Creation, the goodness of the original Creation, Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden and the origin of Sin; Cain and Abel, The corruption that fell upon the whole earth, God’s judgement through a Flood whose intention was to wipe out all land animal and human life with the exception of Noah and his family, the Tower of Babel, the confusing of languages, the the dispersion of the human and animal populations to the furthest corners of the earth. All gone, due to one horrifying fact, lack of faith in God and his Word.
The following is from: https://biblestudyblueprint.com/bible-timeline/
The Bible Timeline – Old Testament
< Pre-History / 2,000 B.C.
2,000 B.C. – Events of Genesis 1-11
The Patriarchs: 2,000 – 1,750 BC
2,000s – Abraham’s life and covenant with God
1,900s – Isaac’s life
1,800s − Jacob’s life
1,750 − Joseph’s life and God’s people move to Egypt
Genesis chapters 1- 11 are placed into pre-history. I can hardly imagine a greater lie. Effectively wiping out the first eleven chapters as myth and implying that biblical history begins with Abraham. Many of the people and events mentioned in chapters 1-11 are referenced as being real and significant in many the subsequent books of the Old and New Testaments. Jesus and Paul are just two who speak about and teach from scriptures that many Christians describe as pre-history. In other words myths. The Creation account is a myth, Eden is a myth, the origin of sin is a myth, the Flood becomes a myth, the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth are myths, Babel is a myth, the confusion of languages and the dispersal of mankind all over the globe. . And yet many references to these historical markers are used by New Testament writers, and these include Jesus and the Apostle Paul. I am going to try to convince you that if the flood described in such detail through Genesis ch’s 6-9 is a myth then huge parts of what we do know to be true about the history and geology of the earth has no good explanation. This I hope will be demonstrated by what follows.
Flood Stories
Some are as mad as the Mad Hatter, but you can still hear echoes from the original Genesis account.
Why has this Bible story rather than any other gone global? That might be a good question to ask.
If it had been spread by early Christian evangelists then why do stories about Moses or Jesus not appear in any of them? Answer: because this story belongs to the period of those who scattered across the globe following the dispersal from Babel. This is the one story that should have been burned into their memories. Over time this story, like any other often retold account of anything will get muddled over the generations. Like Chinese whispers, each time it was retold bits of the original fell out and the gaps filled by myths. The God they once knew was supplanted by cultural gods and spirits and the flood stories corrupted.
Here is an Eskimo story.
Noah invited all animals to save themselves aboard his ark, but the mammoths thought there would not be much of a flood and that their legs were long enough to deal with it, so they stayed outside and became extinct. The other animals believed Noah and were saved.
This in my view explains the stories quoted above. A true account reduced to near idiocy by constant retelling and the inevitable erosion of almost every fact. In the end the only account that makes sense and reads like a captains log from a voyage in modern times in the biblical account.
Evolutionists do now believe in Catastrophes and Floods, but…only if they result from an asteroid strike on Earth, then floods are allowed
Here is quote from the National Geographic: Mere minutes after a miles-wide asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, a hailstorm of tiny glass beads rained down on a flooding estuary in what’s now North Dakota. As seismic waves from the impact thrashed the water, plants and animals were jumbled up and buried in the shifting sediments, which preserved the aftermath for millennia.
It could well be that asteroid or meteor strikes added to the traumas inflicted on our planet during the shaking of the earth and the Flood.
What was the Earth like before the Flood trashed it?
‘Eighty million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period, Mongolia’s Gobi Desert was a dinosaur’s paradise of vast valleys, freshwater lakes and a humid climate. Mammal-eating velociraptors, lizard-hipped sauropods and spike-armoured ankylosaurs could have been spotted roaming in what are now the Martian red sandstone spires of Bayanzag’s Flaming Cliffs.’
Quote from BBC Science and Environment 2019
It must have been inferior to the Garden of Eden, but to us it would have still seemed a like paradise. Here are three short quotes from the National Geographic which should make all of us stop and think!
Archaeological evidence of past settlements is abundant in the middle of what are arid, unproductive areas of the Sahara today. This evidence includes rock paintings, graves, and tools. Fossils and artefacts show that lime and olive trees, oaks, and oleanders once bloomed in the Sahara. Elephants, gazelles, rhinos, giraffes, and people used stream-fed pools and lakes.
An international scientific team which has been drilling beneath the bed of the Arctic Ocean says it enjoyed a sub-tropical climate 55 million years ago. The Arctic Coring Expedition (Acex) has recovered sediment cores from nearly 400m (1,300ft) below the sea floor. It says fossilised algae in the cores show the sea temperature was once about 20 C, instead of the average now, -1.5C.
‘Decomposing plants and other organisms, buried beneath layers of sediment and rock, have taken millennia to become the carbon-rich deposits we now call fossil fuels. These non-renewable fuels, which include coal, oil, and natural gas, supply about 80 percent of the world’s energy. They provide electricity, heat, and transportation, while also feeding the processes that make a huge range of products, from steel to plastics.’
Fossil Fuels: Oil, Coal and Natural Gas. Where do they come from and what created them and how?
What other than this subtropical environment and a global flood that buries all of a sub tropical world filled with plant and animal life. This accounts for the fossil fuels which have kept the world energised for thousands of years.Why are these fuels non renewable? Because no power on earth is capable of reproducing what the global flood laid down during its one year destruction of plants and animals.
Loads of Water Can Do More Than You Might Think
Floods that are not global can act like a template for something vastly greater. A flood can be sediment loaded. These are called turbidity currents and they are known to create some of the greatest canyons on earth: both on land and underwater. The Channelled Scablands of Washington State and the Monterey submarine canyon. Turbidity currents can operate both underwater and across land. They often have a “snow-balling-effect” stirring up the ground over which they flow, in the process gathering even more sedimentary particles in their current. Their passage leaves the ground over which they flow scoured and eroded. An example of this are the Channelled Scablands formed when Glacial Lake Missoula emptied itself in a vast flood. This video gives an idea of the scale and an appreciation of what the sudden draining of a glacial lake can accomplish in a day or two.
As regards how the geology of the earth was formed and by what mechanism and over what period of time it took, needless to say the book of Genesis takes a very different view. Genesis states that much of the earth as it appears today was caused by a global flood and eruptions from beneath the earth’s crust. Yes there is a fair amount of water deep beneath us. Gleeson, a hydrogeologist at the University of Victoria in Canada and his team report that there are 6 quintillion gallons of groundwater in the upper 1.2 miles of the Earth’s crust. If you could magically pump it all out of the ground and spread it across the continents, it would form a layer of water 600 feet high. So when it is written in Genesis that…. ‘In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month–on that day all the springs ( fountains) of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.’ On that basis you can take it that a lot of water was involved.
This mega cataclysm took place over a single year. With it came the resulting climate change, ice age and later the thawing of the ice and the aftershocks. The secondary floods caused by the melting and release of huge glacial lakes, like the one which flooded Washington State scoured out of the Channelled Scablands. But floods on such a scale were not welcomed by the establishment which ruled over unwanted explanations such as talk of floods. The geologist Harlen Bretz, ( 1882 – 1981 ) became a lone voice, a worrisome and tenacious critic of the ruling elites in the Geological Society of Washington. For decades he claimed that immense, cataclysmic floods had created unusual landscapes in America’s Pacific Northwest. These were dismissed by other geologists. They only accepted geology that involved slow, gradual changes. Bretz was worse than a critic and seen as a heretic. Now he is honoured as one of the greats by an establishment that once ridiculed his water borne theory. Nevertheless lessons learned are soon forgotten. Vast quantities of fast moving sediment laden waters forming canyons are still not popular. Submarine canyons are of course another matter, but those above sea level like the Grand Canyon are usually attributed to millions of years of slow erosion.
This is a map of the full extent of the power of moving water over this huge area. It would have occurred after the global flood. One reason for believing that is the total lack of fossils. I have searched the internet but have failed to find mention of any animal fossils in the face of such a huge sediment laden flood. Marine fossil of some types would be expected. The lack of animal fossilisation would be a surprise, but not if there had been no animals around to fossilise. Why? because they were all wiped out. Re population of the earth after the global flood would I guess have taken a few centuries.
One final question: how big are the Scablands in comparison to the Grand Canyon? Answer, slightly larger. Scablands 2000 square miles. Grand Canyon 1900 square miles.
Here is an informative video telling the story of how it happened. It involves a wall of water 800 feet high moving at speeds of maybe sixty miles an hour.
From First to Last
From little known ancient creatures buried in the earliest rock layers to modern animals like dogs, horses and sabre toothed tigers buried in the most recent rock layers.
We have been taught that the geologic column and the history of the earth is the product of hundreds of millions of years. The method being a long slow processes of deposition and erosion. The Tertiary layer at the top is separated from the trilobite in the Cambrian 425 million years. And yet to come is a story that bridges that gap in a way that makes the evolutionary myth hard to maintain.
Suppose the trilobite in the Cambrian layer turned up in the recent life layer called the Cenozoic or Tertiary, because it has a major role to play in this argument against the accepted evolutionary explanations for the history of the earth.
Searching For The Silver Bullet
A long time ago while studying this subject I prayed to God asking if there was a way to shake the foundations of evolutionary theory and to totally destroy its credibility. To do that its foundations need to be falsified in such a way that it can never rise again. The foundation I have in mind is the story of the millions and billions of years that are so vital to evolutionary theory.
It is a prayer I believe God answered. And the following is what I discovered. This is not a rehashed creationist argument, it is entirely new as far as I am aware. To my knowledge this has never even appeared in Creationist literature. And the information was supplied by evolutionists. None of this has appeared in the two or three huge creationist organisations: Answers in Genesis being the most famous. The reason few if any discovered it outside those with the intent and influence to bury it forever is a story in itself. It disappeared within a few weeks of publication and was never mentioned again. So if it was not picked up immediately it would pass by unnoticed. From the evolutionary standpoint it seems to me that evidence which could prove long age evolutionary theory to be false was very professionally whitewashed.
Can evolutionary theory be falsified?
The following quote is from the Latin Times. It appears in the blurred type under the image of what is without doubt a trilobite.
‘Paleontologists in Venezuela have found some interesting fossils under the Venezuelan soil which includes finds like a giant armadillo that is the size of a Volkswagen, a crocodile larger than a bus and a sabre-toothed tiger. The fossils reportedly date back from 14,000 to 370 million years ago, according to the oil companies’ surveys of the soil….’
I do not believe the survey of the soil gave this extraordinary span of years even if you take the very best assessment in evolutionary terms in terms of years over which this tar pit could range, say 3,000,000 years. This makes the gap between the creature they found in the oil and armadillos and sabre-toothed tigers as 367 million years. It is this creature, a trilobite, that throws a huge spanner into the story all evolutionists accept. That the most primitive animals appear at the bottom of the geologic column, the most modern and highly evolved at the top. The question is simple, what is one of the most primitive creatures doing buried among animals at the pinnacle of the geologic column?
The Latin times in which the above quote appears is an internet news source and features a headline beneath which is a large photo of one of the few creatures that could explain the dates quoted above. One that could never naturally be associated with sabre-toothed tigers or armadillos. It is a trilobite: one of the first complex organisms on earth according to evolutionary theory.
And one such appears on this front page of the Latin Times. It caused a few well hidden and never published ripples in the evolutionary establishment. How do I know? Please read on.
Trilobites vary a little in body shape and length of arms or fins or paddles seen below.
14 THOUSAND TO 370 MILLION YEARS IS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE!
Evolutionary theory cannot accommodate such a range of dates from a single deposit. Dates that pass over entire geological eras. Animals from the Devonian, dated at between 416-359 million years are supposed to have seen the arrival of the tetrapods, the first four limbed vertebrates. These creatures are so far removed from mastodons and armadillos etc that even the thought of linking them together would send any competent palaeontologist into a tailspin. It is inconceivable that a creature from this remote period, hundreds of millions of years ago, could be found nestling up against a sabre toothed cat and a human artefacts like a spear-heads which have also been found.
The only photo released to the media by paleontologist Ascanio Rincon that is characteristic of a fossil associated with dates like 370 million years looks exactly like a trilobite. These can range from anywhere between 542 million years and 250 million when they suddenly became extinct. All this of course presumes evolutionary dating methods are accurate.
There is another source that displays the Venezuelan tar pit trilobite. It can be seen on this link: Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk/…/Armadillos-big-cars-crocodiles-bigger-buses-ton. Please look it up and scroll down the article. There are a number of black tar covered fossils. The photo in the Mail of what appears to be a fossilised trilobite is the second to last of a number of fossils shown in descending order. The photo you need to look at is titled: A fish fossil. I ask you to examine the image of the supposed fish and compare it to that of a fossilised trilobite. In body shape they are identical. Here is the fossil which can be seen in the Daily Mail Link.
To my knowledge there has never been any explanation for the 370 million year date. There appears to have been not only no explanation for the impossible gap between the two possible dates but no news of any kind since that date was announced. I searched and searched but found nothing. Rincon who had been so enthusiastic and committed to unearthing human and other remains disappeared apparently without trace, I had to search through his career data to discover he had been moved on to another dig. Why? A reason could be that since the reports from September 2013 all further information has been suppressed. Was he read the riot act and told to keep his mouth shut? The question remains, was there a fossilised trilobite buried in this tar pit, and if there was does it prove that the Theory of Evolution actually is falsifiable?
The truth is nothing will do that; this theory is not scientifically falsifiable because no evidence however compelling will be permitted to bring it down. It is simply impervious to criticism. Any discovery however apparently dire will just be incorporated into the theory. Darwinism will only fall when the many good, decent, honest scientists, who I am convinced are in the majority get sick and tired of upholding a version of events that becomes an embarrassment to them. Darwinism is a state sponsored myth, weak, false and vulnerable. But like many other philosophical and political ideas it will flourish until it runs out of credibility, its ruling elite falters and its enforcers lose faith.
Mount St Helen’s and Pyroclastic Turbidity Currents
Examples of turbidity currents involving other fluid mediums besides liquid water include: avalanches (snow, rocks) and the pyroclastic flows, volcanic (as in Mount St Helen’s). Long timescales for canyon formation are reduced to near nothing at all when a turbidity current is involved. The picture below is of a canyon formed in a day.
The video below tells you about how this Little Grand Canyon formed.
A Tale of Two Canyons
Below is a map of the submarine canyon in Monterey Bay, California. It has steep canyon walls measuring a full 1 mile in height from bottom to top, which height/depth rivals the depth of the Grand Canyon itself. It is the largest such submarine canyon along the West coast of the North American continent, and was formed by the underwater erosion process known as turbidity current erosion. A massive current of rapidly moving sediment-laden water down a slope, in this case the continental shelf. Note that it has two almost identical cuts into the main canyon, one at Moss Landing the other south of the town of Monterey. This dual feature is replicated at the Grand Canyon.
Turbidity currents can also occur in other fluids besides water. Pyroclastic flow may be caused by a volcanic eruption. A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter that moves away from a volcano at about 100 km/h (62 mph) on average, but is capable of reaching speeds up to 700 km/h (430 mph).
It looks like two very different kinds of turbidity currents may have much the same effect. They carve canyons very quickly. The Grand Canyon however is attributed to painfully slow erosion by the Colorado river. It is held as iconic, the ultimate demonstration of leisurely processes working over millions of years.
Monterey Canyon stands as an accepted example of water carving out features which closely resemble Grand Canyon. If it was caused by sediment carrying floodwaters at the speeds shown above then this canyon was carved super fast. A feature that intrigued me is that if you look at satellite photos of Grand Canyon, showing the original incision below Lake Powell you will see its appearance is remarkably similar to Monterey. The Grand Canyon is set within a similar encircling bay of higher hills. If a vast torrent of water caused one canyon, which it certainly did, then why not the other? Look at the two initial cuts into the Monterey Canyon. You will see the same characteristics in the Grand Canyon.
The beginnings of Grand Canyon are similar. Two sharp incisions in the rock before the canyon opens out. These were supposedly cut slowly over millions of years by the Colorado River.
Is this similarity significant? Could the same processes have carved both? If so it was floodwater entering the area of erosion from above. So we could add two others formed by the same processes. Which would mean all four canyons featured in this article: Monterey, Grand Canyon, Channelled Scablands and the Little Grand Canyon at Mount St Helens. Does size matter? Or is the size of the canyon only dependent on the amount and speed of the medium: whether that be water or lava flow.
Animals of enormous size killed and buried in a single very short moment of time.
From around 500 million years ago, so the story goes, huge numbers of animals died in a manner which involved being buried under large amounts of sediment. A process which must have flattened them in double quick time to ensure they became fossilised. Becoming a fossil is not easy to accomplish. If a corpse lays about on the surface for much time it will be torn apart by predators or rotted down by bacteria. If however you are lucky enough to be hit by a turbidity current and rapidly buried under a hundred feet of damp sediment, then your chances are much improved. Once it has hardened into rock then you are free to be yourself.
Here is an Ichthyosaur buried and fossilised while giving birth. These adults are big animals, the largest discovered is 85 ft. in length, the smallest around 7 ft
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Creatures like this buried in the prime of their lives so fast gives rise to problems for the authorised story. Nevertheless slow and gradual processes over millions of years is the view taken by evolutionists. This of course rules out rapid depositions of rock layers laid down either in a single flood, or through a series of floods over relatively short periods of time. And yet there are anomalies, big ones.
Hell Creek Bone Bed
Below are some of the dinosaurs buried in the rocks at Hell Creek. From back to front: Ankylosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, Triceratops, Struthiomimus, Pachycephalosaurus, and the unnamed dromaeosaurid and caenagnathid now named Acheroraptor and Anzu respectively.
This area in Montana probably qualifies as the greatest single kill event recorded on earth. The Hell Creek Formation has world-famous dinosaur fossil sites. Fossils include dinosaurs, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, turtles, frogs and salamanders. Remains of fishes and mammals have also been found in the Hell Creek Formation. It has produced impressive assemblages of invertebrates (including ammonites), plants, mammals, fish, reptiles, including the marine reptiles like mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and sea turtles), and amphibians. Notable dinosaur finds include Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. A few bird, mammal, and pterosaur fossils have also been found. The teeth of sharks and rays are sometimes also found in the riverine Hell Creek Formation, Fossil insects from inclusions found within amber are known. It is a huge mix that is very difficult to explain.
And what about plant life from many distant parts of the world buried alongside all of the above creatures.
Here are those listed on Wikipedia. Not one of them is native to the Montana where Hell Creek is found. A sample of each kind of tree and plant is found buried. Question? How did they get there? It is not a question of when they died which troubles evolutionary theory it is where they died. Sometimes thousands of miles from where they were known to come from.
Trees and plants some of which should never be seen together, not until modern humans took an interest in planting trees and plants native to other countries and continents in the gardens of great houses and places like the well named Eden Project.
Just look at where these trees and plants came from!
Cycads are found in Hell Creek / their origin is uncertain
Ginkgo (uncommon) are found in Hell Creek / native to South East Asia
Various angiosperms from Hell Creek / origins are a mystery
Monkey-puzzle leaves are found in Hell Creek / this is native to Chile and Argentina.
Fossil palm trees indicate a hotter paleoclimate / its origins are uncertain but thought to be Mesopotamia in North Asia
Redwood seed cones are known from Hell Creek / natural habitat is California
Laurus are found in Hell Creek / is native to the Mediterranean
Cercidiphyllum are found in Hell Creek / native to China and Japan
Magnolia is found in Hell Creek / is thought to have originated in China and Vietnam
Devon! Why Devon?
Because of the following: a list of creatures found disarticulated, smashed to pieces and laid to rest in various Devon cave systems known from the late 1880’s. This list was put together by R.N. Worth in his writings titled The Transactions of the Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society 1887 – 1888. It catalogues the burial in caves of all the following.
Cattedown, Stonehouse, Oreston, Yealhampton, Brixham and Kents Cavern.
Fifteen humans both young and old / Elephant / Rhino / Hippo / Cave Lion / Cat / Brown Bear / Grizzly Bear / Cave Bear / Hyena / Lynx / Wolf / Fox / Dog /Weasel / Stoat / Polecat / Hedgehog / Shrew / Horse / Ass / Ox / Irish Elk / Reindeer / Red Deer / Hog / Sheep or Goat / Badger / Beaver / Hare / Rabbit / Seal / Mole / Bank Vole / Field Vole / Bats and Birds.
Nothing we know about natural events can really explain this, but a massive flood at least goes some way towards explaining the deaths and burials and broken bones of such numbers and varieties of creatures: big and small, domestic and wild, predators and prey, probably carried great distances before being dumped after a turbidity current began losing its momentum. Their bones are more likely to have been broken that way than by predators taking their kills into caves before being smashed to pieces themselves.
To those caves listed above could be added the Joint Mitnor Caves at Buckfasleigh discovered much more recently.
This is an elephants tooth from the Joint Mitnor Cave which Jennie and I saw a few years ago. Sadly this site was recently vandalised. This is just one of many limestone caves opening into the Higher Kiln Quarry. It is believed these formed a part of one larger cave before the quarry was dug. All these caves formed under the River Dart when it flowed at a higher level. However, about 100,000 years ago ( you and I may not accept that timeline ) the Dart had deepened its valley and the caves were dry. At the back of the Joint Mitnor cave a hole had opened to the land surface which acted as a pitfall, and many animals fell in. This falling in theory more or less by accident of the curiosity killed the cat type, involves large numbers of usually cautious animals of all sizes just losing their footing and falling in. There was no flood in this theory, just a stream of careless animals falling head over heals into a hole in the ground. Strange that no such events are recorded in modern times.
This Phenomena is Global
The famed Sharktooth Hill Bone Bed in California produces teeth as big as a hand and weighing a pound, from giant prehistoric killers called megalodon.
Look at the range of creatures attributed to this bone bed.
Whales / Sharks / Seals / Walruses / the extinct hippos / Turtles / Marine Crocodiles / Deer like creatures / Tapirs / Weasel like creatures / Mammoth or elephant like creatures / Rhinos / Dog like carnivores, some as big as bears / extinct three toed horses / and finally birds!
Another mystery is that the Sharktooth Hill bone bed occurs in sediments that are mysteriously barren of any other kinds of organic remains. In an interval several hundred feet both above and below the bone-bearing horizon there is absolutely no trace of past animal or plant life….Such an unusual collection of diverse species of marine mammals sharks, birds, rays, skates and even land mammals requires a unique mechanism of preservation. What could that be? Maybe being buried in a vast sediment laden turbidity current which swept through California before eventually emptying into the sea, forming the vast submarine canyon off Monterey Bay.
There are twenty unspecified species of birds plus marine and land animals. Is it likely that any such mass assemblage of bones belonging to creatures as diverse as sharks, tapirs, birds and rhinos, could reasonably be put together by anything other than some catastrophic event involving massive floods, maybe caused by underground volcanism on an unprecedented scale? It is worth knowing that this area with its ludicrously narrow bed, seven feet, have buried within it, not just a few bones. The layers exposed at Sharktooth Hill (along the Kern River upstream of the town of Bakersfield) have yielded up not just thousands of specimens, but hundreds of thousands. In some places, a shovelful of dirt would hold hundreds of shark teeth. You could call it a mystery or you could face the facts.
Chalk Cliffs from Dover to Australia
The Cretaceous chalk beds of southern England are well known because they appear as spectacular white cliffs along the coast.
These chalk beds can be traced westward across England and appear again in Northern Ireland. In the opposite direction, these same chalk beds can be traced across France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, southern Scandinavia, and other parts of Europe to Turkey, then to Israel and Egypt in the Middle East, and even as far as Kazakhstan. Remarkably, the same chalk beds with the same fossils and the same distinctive strata above and below them are also found in the Midwest USA, from Nebraska in the north to Texas in the south. They also appear in the Perth Basin of Western Australia.
How, other than by a massive flood could the same sedimentary material be laid down so thickly across so many parts of the globe.
The Grand Canyon
This view is simply amazing. It shows layer upon layer of rock seams laid flat, one upon another in a cascade of mind shuddering beauty and drama.
The Grand Canyon just could be the result of the exact opposite of the accepted account. The constant refrain of evolutionists, the retelling of how this incredible canyon was created through its slow formation over millions of years by the steady erosion of the Colorado river. However you might perhaps consider that there is another way. The Creationist geologist Steve Austin believes in the glacial lake theory. One that may have formed in the higher ground around Lake Powell and released in the same manner as the Lake Missoula when it flooded through and caused the Channelled Scablands to form. That theory has of course been rubbished. But it worked well enough to account for the even bigger, in terms of square miles: the Channelled Scablands. It is worth remembering that the geologist Harlan Bretz, who stood his ground against all expert opinion for fifty years had it right about the Scablands. The Geological Society of Washington and all its establishment experts who stood against Bretz and his insistence that a flood had been the cause of this huge canyon, were forced to admit their errors. Bretz was honoured. He received the Penrose Medal; the Geological Society of America‘s highest award, in 1979, at the age of 96. After this award, he told his son: “All my enemies are dead, so I have no one to gloat over.”
Experiments in Stratification
The conclusions of this long article might change your views about what can happen to sediment when transported by moving water. This is science you can watch, an experiment in a water flume performed by scientists at Colorado University along with many other fascinating facts. It could explain how the animals listed above at the start of the very long article could have found themselves sharing the same fate, all buried together
We are used to the expression Islamophobia and we understand what it means. But is the word phobia applicable in this case? It used to be used in connection with a treatable condition and defined as an overwhelming and debilitating fear associated with many possible things. An object, a location, situation, a feeling, or an animal. Phobias are more intensely experienced than even fears. A phobia develops when a person forms an exaggerated or unrealistic sense of danger relating to a situation or object. The picture above is descriptive of one of my phobias. I hate and fear being lost in a forest, or indeed anywhere especially towards the end of a day when the sky is darkening.
The question arises how has society and government come around to categorising aversion to the religion and culture of Islam as it manifests itself in counties like Iran and Saudi Arabia as phobic? For starters a phobia is something a person cannot control. You cannot for example criminalise a person with an extreme fear of enclosed spaces, spiders or snakes or clowns. At worst these are a matter for gentle treatment. Prosecution, or fines or imprisonment under hate law are not rational responses to this condition. Then comes the question; is a phobia a condition you could reasonably apply to people who have an extreme fear or aversion to Islam. In Communist countries it used to be the way that an activist or dissident could find himself or herself placed in camps for the mentally disturbed, harshly treated and isolated and only allowed out when pacified or contrite. When you consider the PC regime has been likened to Social Marxism you may see why this connection is being made. Cause for concern is that those of us who cannot see in this post modern society the bright dawn of a new world order might find ourselves similarly treated. So it could be that a person has good reasons for these aversions and fears. To have a fear of snakes in general might be a phobia, but is a fear of a particular venomous snake like a cobra hissing in your living room a phobia? No, it is a well justified fear. That is the question being asked by people like myself. Is the fear or aversion legitimate? For example, I deny that having a deep concern, verging on fear with regard to Islam is either extreme or irrational. If I yelled abuse at a Muslim woman just because she wore a burka then you would have a case. If I sought to burn down a mosque you would have a slam dunk case of some sort, but not necessarily of a phobia. I have a fear and dislike of Islam for what are to me are sound reasons. Does this admission mean I hate or dislike Muslims? The answer to that question is unequivocally no. I have never had the opportunity to meet or converse with a Muslim. However, many of those I have listened to on You Tube I have greatly admired. Some have moved me deeply, leaving the impression that these are wonderful people of great courage, grace and intelligence. A large number, but not all of these were converts from Islam to either Christianity or Atheism. Other than obvious fanatics I find no fault with Muslims. If I met a Muslim who was in my opinion hateful, I would not hate that person. I am a Christian and to hate another human being is contrary to everything I am required to accept and believe. If offended or hurt or physically harmed my response has to be, according to my faith one of forgiveness. Even if this person regarded me as an enemy to be beheaded, I am still under the command of my God, Jesus Christ to love my enemy.
I have no reason to think that an individual Muslim is anything other than like myself, a human being made in God’s likeness. Therefore no different to any other people for the very good and unifying reason that we are all created and loved by God. And God has no favourites. We are all without exception sinners: humanists: Christians, atheists, Hindus, Jews, Muslims. Not one of us can be saved other than through Jesus Christ. And Jesus is open and available to all those listed above and many others besides. In contrast Allah definitely has favourites. if you are outside his group you are according to Mohammad and the Quran infidels deserving nothing other than damnation. Jesus saves by grace through his own sacrifice made on our behalf. Jesus loves and redeems the lost and his gospel (which means good news) is based on grace rather than works of religion. Allah in contrast is rule setting and demanding, having produced a tick box system of righteousness in which no-one can be certain of salvation however hard they have tried to fulfil the many scrupulous demands of the religion. I fear Islam for many reasons, the speed of its growth in the West, its well stated agenda illustrated throughout its long history of conquests and enslavement of peoples. Its Sharia courts and hatred of apostates, its insistence on submission and its utter lack of mercy to those who do not subscribe to its prophet or its god. There are many other reasons given in the article on Islam. I deny that my fear of this religion has anything to do with a phobia. On the contrary, I have good reasons which have been carefully researched and thought through.
Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi have some interesting things to say on this subject.
To replace one thing for another involves the matter of trust. Who or what is responsible for the changes that have and are occurring in the present age? Most of those experienced over the last decade or so have resulted from pressure groups: climate change and trans lobbies provide two vivid examples. I look around the world today and I see a changed world. Nobody as far as I am aware ever asked anyone about the wisdom or desirability of the ongoing changes which are not trivial: on the contrary they are foundational. They fall into a category titled Post Modernism which is really nothing more than an updated radical version of how reality is viewed. It involves dismantling the framework which supported the principles upon which the modern world was based. It began with a sneering hatred and revulsion for the version of history I was taught as a child to both love and admire. Our history is based on the development of Western Civilisation and founded on the Christian Faith. Britain;s history as seen through modern eyes has become a shameful spectre, an aberration called the British Empire. A stain which must be apologised for and erased. This is a subject I have written about in an article titled The Stigma of Empire. Today we are taught to turn our faces away in shame from what was done by our ancestors. The faith, principles and laws which defined the modern age into which I was born in 1944 are being systematically pulled down and stigmatised. Once such an act of vandalism has been activated it becomes easy to teach and inspire a new generation with a new vision. Living with justified shame is hard enough, but to have undeserved shame placed on the shoulders of a generation is to breed one lost to the truth. Which just happens in my opinion to be the primary objective of postmodernists. Truth has been erased and facts are things of the past. The facts of life which were once a guide to adolescents is now seen as a false creed. Self proclaimed identities are the modern thing, consequently you and I must bow before proclamations of self which can leave a penis hanging between the legs of a person who self identifies as a female. A feature of modern life which has outraged feminists. Everybody is enraged by everyone else as each extreme sub section of society seeks a safe haven for their crusade.
The prophet Isaiah wrote this: “So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.”
Principles from the past, in case you have forgotten them or never knew them are as follows: the list on the left. What has arisen to replace them are on the right.
There is a huge difference between the two, and the former has morphed into the latter with amazing speed and finality. If you felt the world of your parents or grandparents was like walking with a stone in your shoe, then this new version of reality gets rid of the stone. Life gets easier to live; your personal freedoms are enhanced and any consequences for getting it wrong are lessened. This alternative theory is a broad belief system tied to philosophical and humanist thought. Political Correctness is one result of this philosophy. One that elevates contemporary and heavily interpreted truth-claims to levels high enough to attain political acceptance. It can suggest the meaning of words can be better represented by the reader than the author. If you are a Christian, you will have seen this applied to the Bible.
In brief, postmodern theory sees reality as what individuals or social groups like it to be and if possible, politically make it to be. This is a modern concoction that can take in almost anything and rearrange its content to make it digestible. Its thinking has entered us and as far as I can understand it is acting like a virus. Aspiring elites form around protest movements, and then like three years old’s use their perceived victim-hood against those they accuse of misusing their authority through discrimination and oppression. As with the tyrannically minded three year old child, every time the parent or authority figure gives way they take the vacated ground and cry for for more room in order to express themselves. This is true of all those groups usurping the rights of the majority, and because the majority are an ill defined mass without a coherent voice it folds before each advance. Movements pursuing narrow agendas against those groups and individual to which have the word phobia can be attached are almost guaranteed to have their demands enacted. To be accused of homo or Islamophobia, or opposed to feminism or trans rights to do whatever they want is to be found guilty of grievous offences against the new order of society. Harbouring thoughts of traditional values and fixed beliefs regarding normal and natural is to be seen as aberrant, a stain on society. Veganism has been awarded equal rights to those of a religion. Presumably veganophobia will be added to the growing list of protest movements guarded by the threats of hate crime legislation. Our government has enshrined the rights of minorities above those of the majority. They have written these rights into the law and are very willing to prosecute offenders.
British Values, Diversity, Equality and Political Correctness. Are they the way ahead or a dead end.
This is the battle ground, and the war is between a secular society seeking its own way and two religions it has to deal with: Christianity and Islam; neither of which can ever live altogether comfortably with each other, or with a state that chooses to follow a Post Truth, Post Modern way of life. Post Truth and Post Modernism are not benign ideologies, not if you disagree with their core principles. Now State Laws are as doctrinaire as any religion. Political Correctness is a vicious device which encourages conformity while ensuring that opposition is seen as a reactionary response deserving censure. In my view protest groups like the English Defence League would not exist if the huge right wing of society had a voice in the centre of our political arena. Many in the Labour Party have moved far to the Marxist left, the Tories have regrouped and chosen to occupy territory once covered by Tony Blair’s New Labour. The once called right wing of politics has been shoved into a category that even the modern Conservative Party would reject as a label. Right wing is becoming or has already become a toxic brand wrapped in the Union Jack and illustrated by the worst of our society, racist and homophobic. No political party can afford being tarnished by this partial caricature.
Speaking of Political Correctness gone wrong you can watch a really disturbing video shown below. It is an interview between the Private Eye editor and Have I Got News For You panellist Ian Hislop, and the once disgraced Apprentice star and Sun journalist Katie Hopkins. Hislop is questioning Hopkins about remarks made in one of her articles. The language she has used in this article is shocking and in my view rightly condemned. But, and its a big BUT she has a point, one which only becomes clear at the close of this videoed encounter between left and right wings. As you will see in this interview is deadly serious. To Hopkins her accuser is a representative of the Establishment: a preening, self satisfied, self righteous liberal who thinks himself sat opposite a right wing bigot. Hopkins to her credit has not just sat around pontificating about subjects like immigration. She has put herself in danger, she has seen the threatening effects of immigration face to face in a very dangerous area of Stockholm. At the close of the interview she makes an utterly chilling comment. It really is worth hearing and seeing, it left me with much to think about. One of the great problems of our age is that public concerns which do not meet with the approval of the state are not addressed.
Here is another view on the subject of Post Modernism.
Nothing is more incompatible than the polar opposites provided by explanations for creation. These divide into two camps. Modern Science holds the dominant position claiming evolutionary theory as the only possible plausible account of creation. The only competitor to Darwinism is God as Designer and Creator. There are of course attempts to bridge this gap which tend to attract Christian intellectuals attempting to escape what they believe to be an embarrassing dead end: namely the Genesis account found in the opening chapter of the Old Testament. This ancient account is largely ignored or treated with contempt. Why? because it assumes an almighty force above and beyond the bounds of nature. One which it is claimed is both unprovable and extremely unlikely. My answer to that accusation is compared to what? The only other explanation which is evolution should evoke a similar reaction since it has not been proved and arguably cannot be proved. Two hundred and fifty years plus since its appearance and it is seen to be still shot full of holes, as is roved by numerous quotes listed later in this article. It is also counter intuitive. Biological systems which at every level of their existence give the appearance of exquisite design are said to be without a single fraction of design. Purpose also is ruled out. Why? It cannot be ruled out on the basis of science. An oak tree dropping its seeds in season guarantees the propagation of the species. It is an act of faith to insist that this has no purpose in a greater scheme of things. That one biological act is linked to another in an endless circular chain of events which contribute to what we call the Eco System. The Eco System exists in another finely tuned environment, and that in another until we hit the foundational laws of physics and chemistry which rule everything from the earth to the outer edges of the universe; that is if there is a boundary to the universe. The denial of a higher purpose is an act of faith perhaps more closely linked to spitting into the wind. My view is that much of modern science is devoted to hypothetical assertions which are presented as established facts. This is not realised by most and is kept well under wraps by the many enthusiastic apologists for Darwinian explanations.
So, is Darwinism pseudo science?
Here is a definition of Pseudo science: A collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as based on the scientific method. This Scientific Method is a systematic procedure that has characterised natural science since the 17th century, consisting of observation, measurement, and experiment, plus the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. If Darwinism were a religion it would be pulled apart by critics largely because the explanations offered are incoherent. Designed objects and systems such as those found in nature do not just appear. According to the Scientific Method, which is set aside in the cause of Darwinism, evolutionary theory when applied to nature is unbelievable.
The greats of science, the fathers of most of its disciplines always applied the scientific method. Faraday, Clerk Maxwell, Mendel, Boyle, Newton etc. They observed, hypothesised, critically tested, and repeated their experiments and tests, thereby proving themselves. They were all bible believing Christians. They based their key assumptions on the belief that a rational God had created the universe. They were proved correct: it was discovered that mathematical principles and equations underpinned everything everywhere. Today we have the The Big Bang theory. One filled with fudge factors, including out of nothing came everything, inflation theory, the invention of dark matter and dark energy neither of which have ever been observed. The Multiverse theory, the belief in an infinity of universes can never be proved either true or false by the scientific method. And yet it has become an icon, a fixed belief lodged in some of the finest minds on the planet. Pseudo science reigns like a sovereign in all these areas. Another is evolution, a subject on which I have devoted a lot of time and space.
The reason I am going to give is heartfelt and personal. Darwinism and its explanation for life through evolution and millions of years has done more damage to the biblical accounts and caused more loss of those born to Christian parents than any other secular belief system bar none. I studied the matter and survived, perhaps only by the grace of God since I worked to understand the problem entirely alone. I was open to Darwinism or Lamarckism being the explanation and remember at the time favouring the latter. A theory making a bit of a comeback with the discovery of Epigenetics. I was just another unprepared innocent waiting to get suckered into what l now consider a myth without even a hint of science to back it up. In modern times upheld through constant reinforcement via the most powerful persuasive force on earth: the media. A regime producing non-stop streams of sophisticated presentations promoting hundreds of millions of years of evolution through mutations and natural selection. And the source of their information? Those propagating the myth.
The great majority of Christians will disagree, but in my estimation if this debate is forever lost nothing much will be left to defend. Why? Because God’s word throughout scripture, the goodness and truthfulness of his character and any pretence of divine knowledge re the universe and nature are gone beyond recovery. Modern science tells a story which contradicts scripture, and it is the evolutionary story which is now believed by the great majority. If you want an example of the effectiveness of indoctrination through media and the erasure of the only plausible alternative, then you need look no further than Darwin’s theory. Since the nineteen fifties, during which its acceptance became almost total among scientists, Darwinism has cast a long shadow over the bible. If scientific presuppositions were once influenced by religious convictions this no longer applies. The former experimental methods which demanded the possibility of a hypothesis being falsified are rarely applied to Darwinism. Every assumption made in areas of science where evolution is a factor assumes that evolution is a fact beyond doubt and questioning. Assumed to be true in the same way that God is assumed to be true by Christianity. Demonstrations of this bias are innumerable and can be heard or read in almost any media production relating to nature. The other side is rarely heard and never on an equal footing: PhD scientist against PhD scientist with each given equal time. You will never have heard such a debate on public broadcasting. The reasons are obvious to me, it is a shut out. God as a Creator of an instantaneous myriad of life forms, such as those that populate the oceans and seas and rivers is derided without good cause. The reason being, if an Almighty God such as that described in Genesis and throughout the Bible exists, and is true to his word, a hypothesis which can never be disproved, created all things then why think, act and speak as if it could not happen. This alternative is not to be heard because if it was it may prove unsettling to the consensus view: a Darwinian construct upheld for so long it would now be unwise to tug at its roots. The design / designer argument is strong and intellectually satisfying, but it is also dangerous because if given credence and a public airing it might provoke many to consider that evolutionary theory is counter intuitive. Worse than that, despite that fact that if it were true there should be a vast reservoir of slam dunk proofs in the fossil record. Transitions and intermediates should be numerous and obvious, since the change for instance between fish and tetrapods (four legged air-breathing mammals) should be traceable in the fossil record, and it is not. This problem is universal and it has not been solved even though you will read and see graphically demonstrated that this question has been solved many times over. This is bluster and lies. The examples of intermediate fossils become temporary icons that fade without any of the fanfare that heralded them. They sink into the conjecture that gave them temporary life. They were names that if recalled give rise to nothing but embarrassment. Here are a few: Coelecanth, Neanderthal, Ida, Ambulocetus, Tiktaalik to name just a few.
They hang on these for as long as possible, in human evolution the apelike Australopithecus named Lucy is presented in museum displays as a bright eyed, upright intermediate. Believe it if you must, but if Lucy and all the others promoted as the real deal are as suggested, proofs of evolution, then how can a list like the following be produced. A number of respected scientists who can see no evidence whatsoever? As far as I am aware all of these scientists accept evolutionary theory as being true; they just cannot find the evidence to prove their contention. This problem was known to Darwin and also to his great supporter Aldous Huxley who had well established motives which had nothing to do with science. Darwinism provided a get out clause for atheists. Huxley’s quote below relates directly to Darwin’s theory of evolution.
“The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in ‘hard’ science has become a dogma can only be explained on sociological grounds.” (Ludwig von Bertalanffy, biologist) ‘I had motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics, he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves. … For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.’ Aldous Huxley: Ends and Means, pp. 270 ff.
Darwin had this to say.
“There are two or three million species on earth. A sufficient field one might think for observation; but it must be said today that in spite of all the evidence of trained observers, not one change of the species to another is on record” (Life and Letters, vol. 3, p. 25). There is a small controversy about this quote. A section of it seems to have been inserted by his son Francis. However it is admitted this changes virtually nothing of what Darwin said. The defence of Darwin states the following. Before the semicolon, Francis Darwin editorially inserted a gloss in square brackets: “i.e. we cannot prove that a single species has changed.” So the actual words of the second half of the quotation aren’t Darwin’s, although the sentiment is.
Many other evolutionary scientists have expressed similar disappointment and frustration.
Dr. Austin Clark of the U.S. National Museum wrote concerning the Cambrian fossils:
“Strange as it may seem … molluscs were molluscs just as unmistakably as they are now” (The New Evolution: Zoogenesis, p. 101).
Drs. Marshall Kay and Edwin Colbert of Columbia University marvelled over the problem in these words:
“Why should such complex organic forms be in rocks about 600 million years old and be absent or unrecognised in the records of the preceding two billion years? ….if there has been evolution of life, the absence of the requisite fossils in the rocks older than the Cambrian is puzzling.” ( Stratigraphy and Life History p. 102)
All of the following quotes are from the website Genesis Park.
“The cases in point include the origin of complex RNA molecules and protein folds; major groups of viruses; archaea and bacteria, and the principal lineages within each of these prokaryotic domains; eukaryotic super-groups; and animal phyla. In each of these pivotal nexuses in life’s history, the principal ‘types’ seem to appear rapidly and fully equipped with the signature features of the respective new level of biological organisation. No intermediate ‘grades’ or intermediate forms between different types are detectable.” (Koonin, Eugene, “The Biological Big Bang Model for the Major Transitions in Evolution,” Biology Direct, 2007, 2:21.)
“Gaps remain, of course, in the fossil records of many species, although a lot of them shrink each year as new fossils are discovered. These gaps do not indicate weakness in the theory of evolution itself. Rather, they point out uncertainties in our understanding of exactly how some species evolved.” (Miller, Kenneth, Levine, Joseph, Prentice Hall Biology, 2008, p. 383.)
“The fossil record is a unique source of evidence for important evolutionary phenomena such as transitions between major clades. Frustratingly, relevant fossils are still comparatively rare, most transitions have yet to be documented in detail and the mechanisms that underpin such events, typified by rapid large scale changes and for which microevolutionary processes seem insufficient, are still unclear….Normal microevolutionary processes seem insufficient to account for the rapid large scale changes that typify most transitions but, at the same time, the operation, or even existence, of alternative macroevolutionary processes is uncertain and controversial.” ( Lü, Junchang, Unwin, David M., Jin, Xingsheng, iu, Yongqing, Ji, Qiang, “Evidence for Modular Evolution in a Long-tailed Pterosaur with a Pterodactyloid Skull,” Proceedings of the Royal Society, Biological Sciences, 277:1680.)
“It is as though they [fossils] were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists. …Both schools of thought (Punctuationists and Gradualists) despise so-called scientific creationists equally, and both agree that the major gaps are real, that they are true imperfections in the fossil record. The only alternative explanation of the sudden appearance of so many complex animal types in the Cambrian era is divine creation and (we) both reject this alternative.” (Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker, 1996, pp. 229-230.)
“Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.” (Ernst Mayr-Professor Emeritus, Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, What Evolution Is, 2001, p.14.)
“The turtle body plan is evidently highly derived, indeed unique among tetrapods. The problem for an evolutionary biologist is to explain these transformations in the context of a gradualistic process. …Ribs can only be located either deep to, or superficial to, the scapula. There are no intermediates, and there is only one way to get from one condition to the other, which is the redirection of the migration, through the embryonic body, of the precursor cells that will form the ribs.” (Rieppel, Olivier, “Turtles as Hopeful Monsters,” BioEssays 23, 2001, p. 990-991.)
“All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt. Gradualists usually extract themselves from this dilemma by invoking the extreme imperfection of the fossil record.” (Gould, Stephen J. The Panda’s Thumb, 1980, p. 189.)
“What is missing are the many intermediate forms hypothesized by Darwin, and the continual divergence of major lineages into the morphospace between distinct adaptive types.” (Carroll, Robert L., “Towards a new evolutionary synthesis,” in Trends in Evolution and Ecology 15(1):27-32, 2000, p. 27.)
“Given that evolution, according to Darwin, was in a continual state of motion …it followed logically that the fossil record should be rife with examples of transitional forms leading from the less to more evolved. …Instead of filling the gaps in the fossil record with so-called missing links, most paleontologists found themselves facing a situation in which there were only gaps in the fossil record, with no evidence of transformational evolutionary intermediates between documented fossil species.” (Schwartz, Jeffrey H., Sudden Origins, 1999, p. 89.)
“He [Darwin] prophesied that future generations of paleontologists would fill in these gaps by diligent search….It has become abundantly clear that the fossil record will not confirm this part of Darwin’s predictions. Nor is the problem a miserably poor record. The fossil record simply shows that this prediction was wrong.” (Eldridge, Niles, The Myths of Human Evolution, 1984, pp.45-46.)
“There is no need to apologise any longer for the poverty of the fossil record. In some ways it has become almost unmanageably rich, and discovery is out-pacing integration…The fossil record nevertheless continues to be composed mainly of gaps.” (George, T. Neville, “Fossils in Evolutionary Perspective,” Science Progress, vol. 48 January 1960, pp. 1-3.)
“Despite the bright promise – that palaeontology provides a means of ‘seeing’ evolution, it has presented some nasty difficulties for evolutionists the most notorious of which is the presence of ‘gaps’ in the fossil record. Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them. The gaps must therefore be a contingent feature of the record.” (Kitts, David B., “Palaeontology and Evolutionary Theory,” Evolution, vol. 28, 1974, p. 467.)
About 80% of all known fossils are marine animals, mostly various types of fish. Yet there is no evidence of intermediate forms. “The most common explanation for the total lack of fossil evidence for fish evolution is that few transitional fossils have been preserved. This is an incorrect conclusion because every major fish kind known today has been found in the fossil record, indicating the completeness of the existing known fossil record.” (Bergman, Jerry, “The Search for Evidence Concerning the Origin of Fish,” CRSQ, vol. 47, 2011, p. 291. ) “Absence of the transitional fossils in the gaps between each group of fishes and its ancestor is repeated in standard treatises on vertebrate evolution…. This is one count in the creationists’ charge that can only evoke in unison from the paleontologists a plea of nolo contendere” (Strahler, Arthur, Science and Earth History, 1987, p. 408.).
“It is interesting that all the cases of gradual evolution that we know about from the fossil record seem to involve smooth changes without the appearance of novel structures and functions.” (Wills, C.,Genetic Variability, 1989, p. 94-96.)
“So the creationist prediction of systematic gaps in the fossil record has no value in validating the creationist model, since the evolution theory makes precisely the same prediction.” (Weinberg, S.,Reviews of Thirty-one Creationist Books, 1984, p. 8.)
“We seem to have no choice but to invoke the rapid divergence of populations too small to leave legible fossil records.” (Stanley, S.M., The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes, and the Origin of Species, 1981, p. 99.)
“For over a hundred years paleontologists have recognized the large number of gaps in the fossil record. Creationists make it seem like gaps are a deep, dark secret of paleontology…” (Cracraft, in Awbrey & Thwaites, Evolutionists Confront Creationists”, 1984.)
“Instead of finding the gradual unfolding of life, what geologists of Darwin’s time, and geologists of the present day actually find is a highly uneven or jerky record; that is, species appear in the sequence very suddenly, show little or no change during their existence in the record, then abruptly go out of the record. and it is not always clear, in fact it’s rarely clear, that the descendants were actually better adapted than their predecessors. In other words, biological improvement is hard to find.” (Raup, David M., “Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology,” Bulletin, Field Museum of Natural History, vol. 50, 1979, p. 23.)
Chicago Field Museum, Prof. of Geology, Univ. of Chicago, “A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks, semi-popular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general, these have not been found yet the optimism has died hard, and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks…One of the ironies of the creation evolution debate is that the creationists have accepted the mistaken notion that the fossil record shows a detailed and orderly progression and they have gone to great lengths to accommodate this ‘fact’ in their Flood (Raup, David, “Geology” New Scientist, Vol. 90, p.832, 1981.)
“As we shall see when we take up the creationist position, there are all sorts of gaps: absence of graduationally intermediate ‘transitional’ forms between species, but also between larger groups — between say, families of carnivores, or the orders of mammals. In fact, the higher up the Linnaean hierarchy you look, the fewer transitional forms there seem to be.” (Eldredge, Niles, The Monkey Business: A Scientist Looks at Creationism, 1982, p. 65-66.)
“A persistent problem in evolutionary biology has been the absence of intermediate forms in the fossil record. Long term gradual transformations of single lineages are rare and generally involve simple size increase or trivial phenotypic effects. Typically, the record consists of successive ancestor-descendant lineages, morphologically invariant through time and unconnected by intermediates.” (Williamson, P.G., Palaeontological Documentation of Speciation in Cenozoic Molluscs from Turkana Basin, 1982, p. 163.)
“What one actually found was nothing but discontinuities: All species are separated from each other by bridgeless gaps; intermediates between species are not observed . . . The problem was even more serious at the level of the higher categories.” (Mayr, E., Animal Species and Evolution, 1982, p. 524.)
“The known fossil record is not, and never has been, in accord with gradualism. What is remarkable is that, through a variety of historical circumstances, even the history of opposition has been obscured . . . ‘The majority of paleontologists felt their evidence simply contradicted Darwin’s stress on minute, slow, and cumulative changes leading to species transformation.’ . . . their story has been suppressed.” (Stanley, S.M., The New Evolutionary Timetable, 1981, p. 71.)
“One must acknowledge that there are many, many gaps in the fossil record . . . There is no reason to think that all or most of these gaps will be bridged.” (Ruse, “Is There a Limit to Our Knowledge of Evolution,” 1984, p.101.)
“To explain discontinuities, Simpson relied, in part, upon the classical argument of an imperfect fossil record, but concluded that such an outstanding regularity could not be entirely artificial.” (Gould, Stephen J., “The Hardening of the Modern Synthesis,” 1983, p. 81.)
“The record jumps, and all the evidence shows that the record is real: the gaps we see reflect real events in life’s history – not the artifact of a poor fossil record.” (Eldredge, N. and Tattersall, I., The Myths of Human Evolution, 1982, p. 59.)
“The fossil record itself provided no documentation of continuity – of gradual transition from one animal or plant to another of quite different form.” (Stanley, S.M., The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Species, 1981, p. 40.)
“The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.” (Gould, Stephen J., “Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?,” 1982, p. 140.)
“We have so many gaps in the evolutionary history of life, gaps in such key areas as the origin of the multicellular organisms, the origin of the vertebrates, not to mention the origins of most invertebrate groups.” (McGowan, C., In the Beginning . . . A Scientist Shows Why Creationists are Wrong, 1984, p. 95.)
“If life had evolved into its wondrous profusion of creatures little by little, Dr. Eldredge argues, then one would expect to find fossils of transitional creatures which were a bit like what went before them and a bit like what came after. But no one has yet found any evidence of such transitional creatures. This oddity has been attributed to gaps in the fossil record which gradualists expected to fill when rock strata of the proper age had been found. In the last decade, however, geologists have found rock layers of all divisions of the last 500 million years and no transitional forms were contained in them. If it is not the fossil record which is incomplete then it must be the theory.” (The Guardian Weekly, 26 Nov 1978, vol. 119, no 22, p. 1.)
“Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasn’t changed much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, 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 or modified as a result of more detailed information — what appeared to be a nice simple progression when relatively few data were available now appear to be much more complex and much less gradualistic. So Darwin’s problem has not been alleviated in the last 120 years and we still have a record which does show change but one that can hardly be looked upon as the most reasonable consequence of natural selection.” (Raup, David, “Conflicts between Darwin and Paleontology,” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, Jan. 1979, Vol. 50 No. 1 p. 25.)’
So try this one out: an example from nature, a fish solves a design problem, one requiring a grasp of geometry. How could the following have come about through the processes proposed by Darwin’s theory. Maybe an aquatic mathematician with romance and reproduction in mind might think it up: but a small fish!
Watch it and remember all you have been taught. When you see a natural miracle, don’t be alarmed, just stir in a pinch of evolutionary theory and out pops the answer; time and purposeless, directionless processes enabled this fish to create a design somehow implanted into its consciousness. Causing the impulse to create a beautiful design out of sand, knowing in advance it would attract a female, thereby ensuring the propagation of the species. You may think you do not not believe in miracles, but you do. You may think you do not have faith, but you do. I wonder if you can admit this to yourself.
“First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me.”
Pastor Niemoller
There is a principle here which could soon apply right across the Western World. If you want to see a sign: a straw in the wind then watch the video below. How long before they come for those who uphold biblical teachings on marriage, sexuality and the right to speak of these things in public? The answer is not when, it is already happening.
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