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EVOLUTION AND THE BIBLE
Many people today are discarding the Bible because of their faith in evolution. They are told that evolution is a fact and that the Bible is wrong. But is this point of view correct? The theory of evolution that is being presented today by most evolutionists does contradict the Bible. Not only Genesis, but the New Testament as well, See Hebrews 11:3, for example.
The theory of evolution has not been proved. Mathematicians at Worchester Institute working on the possibility of evolution occurring by mutations and selections, as is taught today, after a thorough statistical analysis, stated that there has not been enough time for evolution to occur. Mathematically, evolution is not a fact. Professor Whitehead pointed out that the doctrine of organic evolution is incomplete in that it does not in the least explain why the process should ever have occurred.
But, you ask, haven't the fossils proved evolution? The answer is emphatically not. The fossils show change, but not the kind of changes necessary to prove evolution. Dr. G.G. Simpson, a leading evolutionist, said that most new species, genera and families arise suddenly in the fossil record and they are not led up to by a series of gradual changes, as evolution requires. Evolutionists have been unable to show how evolution, above the species level, could occur at all. Dr. Austin Clark, an evolutionist, said, "There is not the slightest evidence that any one of the major groups (that is, of animals) arose from any other".
>From the standpoint of materialistic evolution, it is impossible to explain the existence of matter, of the universe, of life on earth, of rational thought, of altruistic love, of human personality, or of man's moral nature. A.C.V. Lovell, director of the Jodeville Bank Observatory, said, "As a scientist I cannot discuss this problem - the creation of the primeval atom - because it proceeds the moment when I can ever hope to infer from observation the conditions that existed". He said that to talk about the origin of matter or of the universe, one had to leave science and move into the realm of metaphysics and theology, where it is the belief of the individual that counts.
Materialistic evolution cannot explain the existence of life. Spontaneous generation of the living from the nonliving is scientifically impossible. Dr. George Wahl, an evolutionist, has said, "One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task, to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living thing is impossible, and yet here we are as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation," he concluded. This is his faith talking, not his science.
Dr. Guy, a Swiss physicist, worked out the time it would take to form a simple protein molecule by chance, at the rate of 500 trillion chances a minute, and though his molecule was purposely too small and too simple for protein molecules as occur in living things, he found it would take 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years for this to happen. Obviously, even the evolutionists' time table would be too short for evolution to have occurred.
If time permitted, it could be shown that materialistic evolution could not explain the existence of rational thought, altruistic love, man's moral nature, or man as a person. If we turn to the Bible, however, we have excellent explanation of the origin of all of these. God is presented as the ever-existing, ever-living, allpowerful, all-wise, all-loving person. He communicates with the other members of the Godhead, saying, "Let us make man," so God is a person, not a thing, not an impersonal power. Of course, this is not science, but science does not comprise all truth.
Let me challenge you to read the first two chapters of Genesis. Just see what is said. It states the following historic facts: God is; God created everything; God did it systematically and orderly; the culmination of God's creation was human kind, made in the image of God, partaking both of the physical nature of the universe and of the very spirit of the eternal deity.
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