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In the beginning, God created ... (Genesis 1:1)
If you had not
eaten in over two weeks and you found a dollar, would you spend it on a burrito
(a sure thing) or on a lottery ticket and a chance to win $10 million (not a
sure thing)? If all you have to do is
pick five correct non-repeating numbers in no special order, your chance of
picking all five correctly is 1 in 71.5 million. If, on the other hand, the numbers must be in
the correct sequence the odds decrease to 1 in 8.6 billion.[1] With those kinds of odds, I am sure I would
buy a burrito rather than a lottery ticket!
The odds for
spontaneous generation of life from non-life are greater than that of winning
the lottery. “So even by the wildest ‘guesstimates,’
the universe isn’t old enough or big enough to reach odds like the 1 in
103,000,000 that Huxley, an evolutionist, estimated as the odds against
the evolution of the horse.”[2] With odds
like these, one may as well consider evolution a veritable impossibility.
Like creation, evolution cannot be proven
scientifically or mathematically for that matter. It takes an enormous amount of faith to
believe “in the beginning hydrogen.”
Therefore, the only thing we can do is to consider the scientific
evidence and see which origins model makes more sense or is more reasonable.
First of all, the universe and all
that is in it “looks” designed. Design
demands a Designer. Consider again the
bacterium’s flagellum.
The flagellum has
a motor that is about one-tenth of a micron in diameter, and a tail that turns
at up to 100,000 rpm and acts as a propeller. The motor can reverse direction
within a quarter turn. The electric motor of the flagellum is precisely
analogous to our electric motors, but on a fantastically smaller scale, and it
functions better than anything we can make.
One of the smallest man-made electric motors is 2 mm in diameter and was
invented for use in boring plaque out of coronary arteries. It involved the work of visionary cardiologists,
as well as biomedical engineers. These
scientists, of course, stood on the shoulders of previous electricians,
mathematicians, and engineers.
But the bacterial
flagellum is 20,000 times smaller than this motor, works better, and turns
faster! The flagellum is fastened
securely to the bacterial cell wall and has all the analogous parts of a
man-made electric motor: It has a hook, or universal joint; a bushing; a rod
(drive shaft); and an electrically-charged rotor and stator.[4]
Intelligent scientists and engineers took years to design a tiny
micro-motor that is clunky in comparison to the motor that drives the
bacteria’s flagella, and yet we are amazed at the genius of the men that
designed it. But therein lays the
answer: men with intelligence designed it; it did not “evolve” on its
own from an assortment of miscellaneous junk parts. The same is true of the bacterial flagellum;
it is of impeccable design, and only a fool will attribute its existence to the
“blind watchmaker” of evolution.
From the smallest bacteria to the greatest galaxies, our universe
displays incredible design and precision.
Evolution, on the other hand, wants to take credit for all that exists
by claiming that 14 billion years ago some nondescript cosmic egg exploded, and
that from all of the chaos of that primordial explosion, all that we now see
“organized itself” into what we understand our universe to be. It makes for a nice story, but it lacks
substance. Dr. Henry M. Morris offers
five solid reasons why this “big bang” theory is a load of poppycock:
1.
The primordial explosion should have
propelled all the matter/energy of the cosmos out radially from its center, and
by the principle of conservation of angular momentum, none of it could ever
thereafter have acquired any kind of curvilinear motion. Yet there are all kinds of curving and
orbiting motions of the stars and galaxies of the cosmos, a situation that
seems quite impossible if the universe began with the big bang.
2.
Sensitive measurements in recent years
have increasingly been showing that the background radiation is not homogeneous
and isotropic (that is, the same in all directions), as it should be if it had
been produced by the big bang, but is “anisotropic” in all directions.
3.
The universe is anything but uniform
in large-scale structure, as both the big-bang and steady state theories
require, but instead is full of huge agglomerations of matter in some regions
and vast empty spaces in others, scattered around the cosmos in far from any
uniform manner. Some astronomers are now
trying somehow to justify a primeval lumpy big bang!
4.
In the context of the primeval
fireball, it is hard to justify the accumulation of any amount of matter in any
one location such as a star. If the
explosion is driving all galaxies apart in the resulting expansion, how could
it fail to drive all atoms apart before they came together in galaxies?
5.
The most serious objection comes back
again in the second law of thermodynamics.
Explosions produce disorder, not order!
The primordial super explosion surely would have produced absolute chaos
and the most utter disorder. If the
universe is indeed a closed system, as evolutionary cosmogonists allege, then
how in the name of sense and science could this primeval chaotic disorder have
possibly generated the beautifully organized and complexly ordered universe
that we now have? The big-bang idea,
viewed in this light is as absurd as the steady state idea. [5]
“In the beginning hydrogen?”
Not hardly. Order cannot come
from disorder. Life cannot come from
non-life. Evolutionists will attempt to
deny, or otherwise skirt the issue, but the fact remains that even in the
simplest form of life, all the creature’s parts must be present concurrently or
the thing will not live, let alone survive.
Evolution from non-life would require that all the necessary proteins
and amino acids come together instantaneously and in the proper configuration
in order to produce life. This has been
attempted in the laboratory, and what was touted as a great success (the
creation of a few amino acids) was in fact a miserable failure.[6]
The resultant “building blocks” of life were the wrong blocks, and they did not
fit together in any way to produce life.
Of course, that was conveniently left out of the headlines.
This fact alone should discredit the illusion of evolution, but
the averse will adamantly cling to the myth claiming that all life originated
from a single source billions of years ago.
Although it has been shown that spontaneous generation is next to
impossible, let us assume an original source from which all life sprang. Surely the fossil record would bear some
evidence of transitional forms of one kind of life changing to another. Without a doubt, several “proofs” have made
the headlines only to be exposed as frauds, the lie to be revealed only in the
most obscure sections of the printed media.
The fact is that the fossil record is remarkably silent on transitional
forms. Everything in the fossil record
appears suddenly and fully formed, but bless their hard little hearts, the
evolutionists continue their desperate search.
The Bible says that God created everything: space, time,
matter/energy, earth, sky and sea, all plant life, sun, moon and stars, sea
animals, land animals and at the top of His creation was man – created in the
image of God. All things were created in
six 24-hour days, and at the end of each creation day, God declared His
creation “good.” Then on the final day
of creation, He declared His creation “very good” – that is to say, “perfect.” Declaring that each act of creation was good
suggests that there was no need for improvement, i.e. “evolution.” Plants were to bear seed “after its own
kind.” Animals were to reproduce “after
their kind.” This is what the fossil
record bears out.
Neither creation nor evolution can be proven scientifically, but
when compared side by side, creation, as recorded in the Bible, makes much more
sense. “In the beginning hydrogen?” No! In
the beginning God!
[2] From Answers in
Genesis, “The Odds of Evolution,” http://aigbusted.blogspot.com/2007/11/odds-of-evolution_07.html
[3] The Institute
for Creation Research, The Creationist Worldview Program, Module 4, Course 2,
Lesson 1, “Is
Intelligent Design Unscientific?” Section : “Design: Purposeful Arrangement.”
[4] Ibid.
[5] Morris, Henry
M., The Biblical Basis for Modern Science,
(Green Forest, AZ, 2008), pp. 132-133.
[6] See article
“Evolution Hopes You Don’t Know Chemistry: The Problem with Chirality” by
Charles McCombs, Ph.D, http://www.icr.org/article/evolution-hopes-you-dont-know-chemistry-problem-wi/
