Creation vs. Evolution

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Creation vs. Evolution

• Is there a God?
• Is there purpose?
• Is there faith?
• Is there evidence?

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Bones of Contention

• Marvin Lubenow

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Michael Charney

• On the question of biological, especially human
  origins, Lubenow is not content to merely quote
  biblical theory. Like a true scholar he
  researches in depth the literature in the
  scientific journals, sifting the evidence,
  searching out the areas open to interpretation.

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Michael Charney

• He does his homework so thoroughly that he makes
  someone like me who would carry on a dialogue
  with him also do his homework. He is a pleasure
  to fence with intellectually.

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Bones of Contentionp. 7

• The human fossil record is strongly supportive of
  the concept of Special Creation. On the other
  hand, the fossil evidence is so contrary to human
  evolution as to effectively falsify the idea that
  humans evolved.

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Bones of Contentionp. 7

• This book is the fruit of twenty-five years of
  research. Because its conclusions are different
  from what is almost universally believed, it is
  heavily documented from the most recent
  scientific literature.

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Bones of Contentionp. 9

• It is impossible to deal with the subject of
  human fossils without also dealing with the
  subject of the radiometric dating methods... The
  appendix of this book is a case study of the
  torutred ten-year attempt to date the famous
  fossil KNM-ER 1470 discovered in 1972

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Bones of Contentionp. 9

• This case study clearly reveals that the
  radiometric dating methods are not independent
  confirmations of evolution and an old earth
  These dating methods are, instead, faithful and
  obedient servants of evolution.

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Bones of Contentionp. 178

• The facts of the big picture are that first,
  fossils that are indistinguishable from modern
  humans can be traced all the way back to 4.5
  m.y.a, according to the evolution time scale.

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Bones of Contentionp. 178

• Second, Homo erectus demonstrates a morphological
  consistency throughout its two-million-year
  history. The fossil record does not show erectus
  evolving from something else or evolving into
  something else.

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Bones of Contentionp. 178

• Third, anatomically modern Homo sapiens,
  Neandertal, archaic Homo sapiens, and Homo
  erectus all lived as contemporaries at one time
  or another.

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Bones of Contentionp. 179

• Fourth, all of the fossils ascribed to the Homo
  habilis category are contemproary with Homo
  erectus. This, Homo habilis not only did not
  evolve into Homo erectus, it could not have
  evolved into Homo erectus.

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Bones of Contentionp. 182

• David Pilbeam There is no clear-cut and
  inexorable pathway from ape to human being.

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Bones of Contentionp. 182

• David Pilbeam on whether man evolved from
  gibbons, chimp, or orangutans The fossil record
  has been elastic enough, the expectations
  sufficiently robust, to accommodate almost any
  story.

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Bones of Contentionp. 182

• Mary Leakey on the constructing of evolutionary
  family trees in the present state of our
  knowledge, I do not believe it is possible to fit
  the known hominid fossils into a reliable plan.

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Bones of Contentionp. 182

• Robert Martin So one is forced to conclude that
  there is no clear-cut scientific picture of human
  evolution.

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Bones of Contentionp. 8

• The fossil humans with a somewhat different skull
  shape (morphologically) are actually products of
  the post-Flood Ice Age. The Ice Age, in turn, is
  inseperably linked in terms of cause and effect
  to the world-wide Genesis Flood.

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Bones of Contentionp. 8

• The scientific community, rejecting the Genesis
  Flood, has been singularly unsuccessful in
  developing an adequate explanation for the Ice
  Age.

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Luke 1727

• People were eating, drinking, marrying and being
  given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the
  ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.

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Hebrews 117

• By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet
  seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his
  family. By his faith he condemned the world and
  became heir of the righteousness that comes by
  faith.

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2 Peter 25

• if he did not spare the ancient world when he
  brought the flood on its ungodly people, but
  protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and
  seven others

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2 Peter 36

• By these waters also the world of that time was
  deluged and destroyed.