12/02/2009

This year is the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species (24 November 1859) and the 200th anniversary of the unfortunate birth of Charles Darwin on 12 February 1809. It is fitting, therefore, that today of all days I get to thump my tub about the theory of this lapsed Christian who did not wait for more evidence.

Evolution is an idea that tries to explain the existence of everything without the action of a Creator. A Christian cannot subscribe to evolution because at its core is the presupposition that God does not exist. Darwin had abandoned his former foundation.

 

There is no evidence for evolution. Supposed fossil evidence showing the incidence of simple organisms at the bottom or ‘oldest’ layers and complex organisms at the top or ‘youngest’ layers of the geology of the world is totally invalidated by the historical, global flood of Genesis 6-8. In addition, there is no fossil evidence of fossils in transition from one species to another. There are no ‘missing links’ because after 150 years’ search they are still missing!

 

The complexity of information in the simplest of organisms is such that there is not enough time in the universe, even by evolutionary standards, for them to have come about by random processes. Darwin never saw the science of genetics.

 

It is a fallacy to say that complex organisms developed from less complex ones either gradually or suddenly because a complete set of new information has to be added. That is, the designs for new organs, like the complete eye, must be introduced from outside.

 

Variation within species, such as the incidence of varieties of dogs, for example, or peppered moths, does not prove evolution. Variation merely rearranges existing information. Breeding isolates the organism from the pool of available information, producing an organism with less information that was available, not more.

 

Mutations do not prove evolution, either, nor to they advance it. The are almost always harmful because they degrade the organism by the corruption and loss of information.

 

The age of the universe, always growing, but estimated currently at 4.5 billion years, proves nothing because of the fallacy of producing life from non-life by random processes still is a fallacy.

 

Radiometric dating, which is supposed to show the great age of rocks, is based on a number of assumptions and is unreliable, even in evolutionary terms. The assumptions:

 

1. That we know the condition of the sample at the start

2. That nothing else has happened to it

3. That the decay rate has remained constant

4. That we are talking in huge numbers

 

We don’t know 1 and can’t be sure about 2. Three is unknown and 4 is a presupposition based on the evolutionary position.

 

To summarise:

 

Evolution model

Matter plus energy plus time produces order and complexity.

 

Creation model

Matter plus information plus energy produces order and complexity.

 

Of course Darwin will know how wrong he is, now.