The Science of
Creation
Part 1
Why Evolution Does Not Work
Introduction
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Apologies as this is a lot of repeat from Camp Wildwood.
Hopefully helpful and not too “nerdy”.
“Is that story true?”
Two part series on Creation.
• Why Evolution does not work.
• Why Creation does work.
• Why it is important and what it means to Christians
The Evidence
• There are four possible arguments:
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For Evolution
Against Evolution
For Creation
Against Creation
• This sermon is on Why Evolution does
NOT work.
Fossils
• The Cambrian period shows thousands of species, but
there is nothing Pre-Cambrian. This is true on every
continent.
• Darwin himself was worried. Where are the transitional
fossils that Darwin hoped would be found later… They
have had 150years. No one has found these transitional
fossils.
• Fossils that have be used to prove transition can be
called into question. (Horses)
• Using one small fragment of bone to reconstruct an
entire animal because it fits is done all the time. Too
many assumptions have been made.
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Radioisotope/Carbon Dating
Carbon has isotopes with atomic weights between 9 and 15. The most
abundant isotope in nature is carbon–12, followed in abundance by
carbon–13. Together carbon–12 and carbon–13 make up 99% of all
naturally occurring carbon.
Among the less abundant isotopes is carbon–14, which is produced in
small quantities in the earth's atmosphere through interactions involving
cosmic rays.
In any living organism, the relative concentration of carbon–14 is the same
as it is in the atmosphere because of the interchange of this isotope
between the organism and the air.
This carbon–14 cycles through an organism while it is alive, but once it
dies, the organism accumulates no additional carbon–14. Whatever
carbon–14 was present at the time of the organism's death begins to decay
to nitrogen–14 by emitting radiation in a process known as beta decay.
The difference between the concentration of carbon–14 in the material to
be dated and the concentration in the atmosphere provides a basis for
estimating the age of a specimen, given that the rate of decay of carbon–14
is well known. The length of time required for one-half of the unstable
carbon–14 nuclei to decay (i.e., the half-life ) is 5,730 years.
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So what is the problem with these estimates of the age of the earth?
What is a day to God?
Prior to the fall of man there was no imperfection in God’s creation
so no radiation at all…so some would argue that all radioisotope
dating is flawed.
Magnetic field protects us from cosmic radiation and it is on a
decline that has been predictable. The further back we go the less
radiation. The ratio in the atmosphere is not stable.
Genesis 1:6-8 And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the
waters to separate water from water.” So God made the expanse
and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.
And it was so. God called the expanse “sky”… Did this “Expanse” or
“Firmament” KJV protect us from cosmic radiation until the flood? So
there was no or very little C14 prior to the flood. Thus anything preflood would appear very old.
The first mention of rain in the Bible is the flood which buries all
living creatures and things to create the fossil fuels, fossils of extinct
creatures (Didn’t fit on the Ark) and soak up all the C14.
Carbon dating is not much good for anything over 100,000years.
Missing Links?
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Piltdown Man I and II were Hoaxes. Discovered by Charles
Dawson 1912 in a gravel pit in England were later proven to be
a modern human skull fragment put on top of an orangutan’s
jaw.
Ramapithecus: 1932 India was shown as evidence of the
evolution of man for 50 years was then shown to be not
fossilized teeth of the “missing link” but those of a modern
orangutan
Java Man 1891. Bone fragments retrieved but untrained
workers were assembled by Dr. Dubois…later proven to be not
750,000 years old but a mix of modern and ancient remains with
no connection to each other at all.
Nebraska Man: 1922 was all a fraud based on a fossilized tooth
that later proved to be that of an extinct pig
Lucy 1974 later proved to be an ape fossil, not a missing link
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Peking Man: Homo erectus named because it was a upright
walker. It was suggested to be sub human as the skull was
small=small brain. However it has now been proven that
the brain size would be equal to the average European
male today.
Neanderthal Man: found in Germany was later shown to
have skull deformities due to arthritis deforming and vitamin
D deficiency leading to thick ridges over the eyes and
curved leg bones
Cro-Magnon Man: was based on a fossilized tooth found
near a cave with drawing considered to be primitive. later
proved to be indistinguishable from modern man.
Genetics
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Atheists often ask: If God truly exists why does he
not reveal Himself?
Most of us would answer: He sent His son Jesus
Christ and He gave us His Word.
“The discovery in 1953 of the double-helix structure
of the genetic code (DNA)…we are now in
possession of a very clear information filled
message that is so staggering in its complexity that it
cannot possibly have been produced without a
supernatural intelligence.” pg148 Creation. Remarkable
Evidence of God’s Design by Grant R. Jeffrey
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We now have that message!
• Mutations usually
bring about bad things.
Genetics
Evolution
says it brings about positive things.
• How do you make an eye through mutations. Or
reproductive organs.
• Single cell organism to us is a lot of genetic
code...millions and millions of different steps to get to
us. Darwin’s time had a very simplistic view of the
cell…it is way more complicated.
• Million monkeys typing for a million years will produce
Shakespeare...not according to the math. To write “In
the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth.” 45 keystrokes in the right order excluding
spaces it would take 1 billion monkeys typing with a
modified keyboard
120,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. It
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Mutations are often bad but if induced by outside influence
often correct themselves. (Fruit fly experiment) Why
because there are backups coded into the DNA!
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DNA is a double helix of deoxyribonucleic acids that form
pairs to hold all of our information. It all coils up in the
nucleus of 60 trillion cells that make up our body.
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DNA if stretched out would be 6 feet long but so thin 1
trillion double helixes side by side would be one inch.
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The amount of information that can be stored in DNA is
staggering. All the essential genetic code for all of
humanity you could fit into a tylenol capsule.
Life from Non Life
• Single cell organisms are much more
complicated that Darwin knew about.
• Miller-Urey Experiment...building blocks
of life does not equal life.
• Simplest organisms have 126 complex
proteins minimum. Proteins are long
chains hundreds/thousands long of
amino acids…remember the monkeys?
Life from Non Life
• Simplest organisms have 126 complex proteins
minimum. All life on earth have left handed
enantiomers.
• What are enantiomers?
Every protein is a chain that
twists into a 3D structure. It can twist to the left or to
the right.
• If evolution is true should there not be equal numbers
of left to right?? They are almost all to the left…How?
God is a Lefty!
• Many scientist will now concede that life from non life
is mathematically impossible for such a young earth
and therefore say that life started “out there”. I like to
agree ;)
The Laws of Physics
• The Laws of Physics: First Law of
Thermodynamics...Energy is neither created or
destroyed.
• Second Law of Thermodynamics...In any cyclic
process the entropy will either increase or
remain the same. Entropy is the measure of
disorder in a system.
• In other words the universe should be getting
more chaotic as time goes on...not more
organized. Evolution requires things to get more
organized.
• Sheldon Cooper should be ashamed.
Perspective
• “Evidence when examined with the presumption that
God does not exist, or that He does not have
effective control with His creation, could logically
support evolution. The same evidence examined
from a viewpoint that He does exist often yields
completely different conclusions...When we are faced
with evidence which can be explained in two different
ways, it seems most unscientific to withhold
consideration of one of these ways, just because it
does not fit with your own ideas of how it should
happen.” pg 11 Creation vs Evolution Handbook ,
Thomas F. Heinze
Why it matters
• Romans 1:18-20 “The wrath of God is being
revealed from heaven against all the
godlessness and wickedness of people, who
suppress the truth by their wickedness, since
what may be known about God is plain to
them, because God has made it plain to them.
For since the creation of the world God’s
invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine
nature-have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that
men are without excuse.”
Suppressed Truth
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Hopefully we have learned how evolution as a theory does not
work.
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So why is it still taught as the only theory?
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Why were there all these efforts to find the missing link and the
hoaxes that were put forward as truth?
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Why are other perspectives not being listened to or laughed at?
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Science is not at odds with God as many believe and many
who start out trying to find evidence to disprove God find
exactly the opposite.
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Why is the truth in science not coming out? It is actively being
suppressed.
Conclusion
• It takes way more faith to believe in Evolution than
in Creation. (Tornado example)
• Evolution does NOT work.
• “It makes this difference-if man was gradually
evolved he is a rising being and improving. BUT if
man was created and his history is to be found in
Genesis, he is a fallen creature in need of a
Savior.” pg 78
• Jesus was there “In the beginning” (John 1:1-5).
Man is without excuse and will suffer God’s wrath in
the end if we don’t humble ourselves before our
creator God and accept the free gift of salvation
secured for us on the Cross by Jesus taking the
cup of God’s wrath and dying for us.