IS IT SCIENTIFIC

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IS EVOLUTION POSSIBLE?

• IS IT SCIENTIFIC?
• WHAT IS THE MATHMATICAL CHANCE?
• HAS IT BEEN DEMONSTRATED AS FACT?

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WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION?
Romans 121 Because although they knew God, they
did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful,
but became futile in their thoughts and their
foolish hearts were darkened.
Psalms 134? The fool has said in his heart
there is no God.
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WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION?
Darwins real achievement was to remove the
whole idea of God as the Creator of organisms
from the sphere of rational discussion.
Sir Julian Huxley, first director general of
UNESCO, keynote address at the Darwin Centennial
1959
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IS IT SCIENTIFIC?
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Scientific an investigation according to the
rules laid down in exact science for performing
observation and testing the soundness of
conclusions.
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IS IT SCIENTIFIC?
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Scientific an investigation according to the
rules laid down in exact science for performing
observation and testing the soundness of
conclusions.
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IS IT SCIENTIFIC?

• OBSERVABLE?
• TESTABLE?
• PERFORMABLE?

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IS IT OBSERVABLE?
Darwin said the fossil record was inadequate to
prove his theory but that over time discoveries
would prove it as fact.
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IS IT OBSERVABLE?
150 years later the fossil record is much more
extensive but Darwins theory has not been
proven, quite the opposite. There are still no
fossils that show evolution at work.
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IS IT OBSERVABLE?
150 years of fossil gathering has garnered more
problems for the evolutionists and offered no
solutions. No observable increased complexity or
information in nature.
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IS IT OBSERVABLE?
The actual tree of evolution we can see has no
connected branches between kinds of species its
a group of sticks not a tree.
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IS IT OBSERVABLE?
The noted paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould of
Harvard pointed out that "The fossil record with
its abrupt transitions offers no support for
gradual change ........ All paleontologists know
that the fossil record contains precious little
in the way of intermediate forms transitions
between major groups are characteristically
abrupt (Gould, 1977)".
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
Man lived with the dinosaurs. On the Paluxy River
bed near Glen Rose Texas, fossilized footprints
were revealed by erosion of a dinosaur and a
human whose paths crossed. Discovered by Stan
Taylor in 1969
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
Man lived with the dinosaurs. Among the the
trail there are human-like fossilized footprints
within the fossil footprint of the dinosaur.
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
Man lived with the dinosaurs. Close examination
shows actual human toe indentations in the
fossil.
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
The fossil record of life
Life forms had little or no change in their
history Most fossil types are identical to their
living descendants Fossil types appear without
ancestral lineage
From In six days, Dr. John Morris
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
Life is extremely complex. The trilobite is
claimed by evolutionists as one of the most
ancient examples of life on earth. By there
definition it must be one of the simpler forms of
life.
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
Life is extremely complex. However, the trilobite
has the most complex eye structure observed in
nature. Much more complex than any living
creature today.
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
The geological timetable is full of
contradictions. The strata of rock that
evolutionists use to date ancient life is based
upon the order in which it lies. The bottom is
the oldest the top the youngest.
Chart from www.wasdarwinright.com
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
The geological timetable is full of
contradictions. The flat-like sedimentary layers
have gaps around the world. Sometimes scores of
them representing hundreds of millions of years.
Chart from www.wasdarwinright.com
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
Mt. Saint Helen Rock known to be 20 years old has
been tested to be between .35-3 million years old.
Sediments over 600 feet thick were distributed.
Then cut through by subsequent mud flows to form
a canyon where the misdating was calculated.
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
4.5 Billion Years The age evolutionists have
given earth would have eroded the mountains away
several times.
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
A recent (2001) Times newspaper headline shows
that this Theory is still considered the possible
origin of all the species on Earth today. The
headline stated that "Origin of the species is
traced to pond life".
The newspaper article comments on a paper (King
and Carroll, 2001) in which the
organism  Monosiga brevicollis was found to have
a protein similar to one found in animals.
Scientists consider the moment at which
multi-celled animals,  (or metazoa), evolved from
the protozoans (e.g. organism such as amoebae
and Monosiga brevicollis) to be one of the
turning points in the history of life on Earth,
and to have occurred about 600 million years ago.
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
A recent (2001) Times newspaper headline shows
that this Theory is still considered the possible
origin of all the species on Earth today. The
headline stated that "Origin of the species is
traced to pond life". However, as Monosiga
brevicollis is a eucaryotic protozoa it is by no
means the most simple single celled organism on
the planet today. If we are to believe the theory
of Evolution, this organism itself must have
evolved from more simple single celled organisms
such as bacteria.
excerpt from www.wasdarwinright.com
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
Even the simplest forms of life are incredibly
complex
A single DNA strand has enough information to
fill 30 Encyclopedia Britannica's Unfurled into
one straight strand it would be over one meter
long and be so thin only the worlds most
powerful microscopes would be able to see it.
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
Darwins glob of protein
In Darwins day, cells were thought to be
incredibly simple. Today we know that they are
made up of millions of components and machines
that make them functional.
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WHAT IS OBSERVABLE?
Darwins glob of protein
If any part were missing they would not function.
Each part had to be in place, functioning for the
cell to exist from its beginning.
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WHAT IS TESTABLE?
THERMODYNAMICS
The four laws of thermodynamics are scientific
facts that can be observed in nature, as well as
reproduced in a controlled environment. Two of
these laws have particular relevance to the
possibility of macro evolution.
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WHAT IS TESTABLE?
1st Law of Thermodynamics
All matter and energy (the substance of the
universe) is constant. None is being added or
deleted from the universe
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WHAT IS TESTABLE?
2nd Law of Thermodynamics
All work requires energy. Once expended it is no
longer available.
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WHAT IS TESTABLE?
Conclusion
Since Law 1 states that no new energy is being
added, and that work requires energy to be
performed, eventually there will be no energy
left and the universe will cease to exist.
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WHAT IS TESTABLE?
Conclusion
This is called Entropy, or distribution of heat.
Entropy demonstrates that the universe has a life
span and thus must be winding down.
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WHAT IS TESTABLE?
Conclusion
If the universe will end, then it must have a
beginning. Evolutionists have no explanation of
how this happened.
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WHAT IS TESTABLE?
Conclusion
The Bible explains it all. Genesis 11 In the
beginning God created
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FOR EVOLUTION TO WORK
Needs increasing complexity information added It
must work on molecular level The fossil record
must show transitions The laws of science would
work for not against
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IS EVOLUTION SCIENTIFIC?
Evolution is neither observable, nor testable.
Therefore it can not be considered a
scientifically proven fact.
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IS EVOLUTION POSSIBLE?
Evolutionists say that with enough time anything
is possible. That evolution moves so slowly its
unobservable.
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IS EVOLUTION POSSIBLE?
Part 2 Well give evolution a chance and all the
time it needs and see if it is mathematically
possible.