In today's post I am going to go over dozens of reasons why I believe the bible instead of Darwin's theory of evolution. As a young earth creationist I believe the account of Genesis is literally true, and that the earth is around 6000 years old. Now let's go over my list of reasons why Darwin's theory just doesn't add up.
I will start off by stating that 5 out of the 6 different kinds of evolution are purely religious and not scientific. These five are Cosmic, chemical, stellar, organic, and macro evolution. They are religious in nature because they cannot be observed. They are unscientific because science can be defined as systematized knowledge that is derived from observation or study.
Let's Take It From The Beginning
The Law of thermodynamics states that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed, therefore we only have 2 choices for the origin of the universe either somebody made the world or the world created itself. It has been theorized by physicists that the universe came from a giant explosion of nothing. The big bang theory was invented in 1965 by a man by the name of George Lemaitre. In the beginning they claimed that the size of all the matter in the universe at the time of the big bang was a few light years in diameter. By the year 1972, it was reduced to 71 million miles, then in 1974 the size of it was 54,000 miles. It was in the year of 1983 that the big bang was said to have started when it was the size of a trillionth the diameter of a proton, and today nothing at all exploded.
Next let's continue to ponder the origin of the universe. If the big bang indeed started out as a tiny spinning dot as evolutionists claim then why don't all the planets and galaxies spin the same way? What am I talking about? You ask. I'm talking about the conservation of angular momentum. You see, if the universe began as a swirling dot and then exploded then all the planets, moons, and galaxies should spin in the same direction. This isn't what we observe however because 8 of our 91 moons spin backwards and so do some galaxies.
What are some Limiting Factors of the age of the earth?
If you take a look at the Population statistics from July 1999, earths population was about 6 billion people, a few decades ago in 1985 we had a population of 5 billion people. Just a couple hundred years ago earth had only 1 billion people on it. It has been estimated that there was 250 million at the time of Christ, if you turn that into a chart you would discover that the population of earth would have started about 4400 years ago right around the time of Noah's ark. If you believe in evolution and that we evolved from apes over millions of years, even if mankind is just 3 million years old, then you got about 150,000 people today per square inch of land.
The spirals in galaxy's prove they aren't billions of years old because we see the stars on the inside are going faster than ones on the outside. We also know that approx every 30 years a star will explode into a super nova but why is there less than 300 of them? Did you know that the moon gets farther away ever year? Scientist have discovered that you would have the moon just about touching the earth only 1.2 billion years ago. The earth is losing about 10 percent of it's magnetic strength every 150 years or so, therefore the earth cannot be more than a few tens of thousands of years old at the max.
Did you know that trees can produce 2 rings in a year? This is important to topic regarding the age of the earth because evolutionist will claim that there are tree's older than 4400 years. They try and determine the tree's age by counting it's rings and attributing each ring to a year. If there were tree's older than around 4400 hundred years then it would refute the idea of a global flood. It has also been discovered that the oldest reef is a mere 4200 years old. Interestingly our year 2000 was about the year 5760 on the Hebrew calendar. Scientists through studying the bones of the Apatosaurus discovered that it's nostrils were the size of horses and that it's lungs were too small for it's body. This could be the reason we don't see them around today, perhaps they couldn't get enough air after the flood. Another discovery that supports this theory is air bubbles found in amber that contained 50% more oxygen than the air we have today.
Those are Some really Big Fossils!
We have also discovered that things were bigger in the past than today. Why is that Important? Because it refutes the idea of upwards and onward evolution. Examples include a centipede that was 8 1/2 feet long, grasshoppers 2 feet long, 18 inch cockroaches , A donkey that was 9 feet tall at the shoulder, a tarantula with a 3 foot long leg-span, cattails plant 60 feet long, an 8 ft beaver, 12 foot across deer antlers, oysters 11 1/2 ft wide, and a goose that was as tall as an elephant is today and it weighed half a tonne. It's a fact that reptiles never stop growing... I wonder how big they would get if they lived hundreds of years just like the early people of the bible.
Not Just in Fairytales
Children today are taught from a very young age that dragons are make-believe, made up, fantasy. This however is not what the bible teaches. Dragons are mentioned in several books of the bible, and are just another reference to dinosaurs. Let's go over some evidence that supports the fact that dragons lived alongside man. First we have pictures of dragons on old preserved Babylonian walls dated around (600 BC). Alexander the great reported that when he was conquering India his men where frightened by dragons that dwelt in caves, that was around 326 b.c.
Next we have St. George who supposedly slayed a dragon way back in 275 a.d. It was also reported that the Emperor raised them to pull his chariots in parades. If dragons are just made up then why did the Emperor post a job as a royal dragon feeder back in 1611? It has also been reported that families raised them to use their blood for medicine.
Then you have the Nazca burial stones which have depictions of dinosaurs, they are dated around 500 B.C.-500 A.D. Have you stopped to consider the numerous incidents of seas monsters that were reported before the dark ages? Even in the last two hundred years there have been reports of dinosaurs in the likouala, Congo and Zaire. This is not surprising considering it is 55 thousand sq miles in Africa and eighty percent unexplored. There has also been over 11 thousand sightings of the lochness in Scotland, and there have also been reports of pterodactyls that are still alive. An athlete of the Kenya Olympic team said he had these animals in his village, the Indian Thunderbird tale comes from them.
Why I don't trust the Textbooks
Now let's go over why I believe you should take what science textbooks say with a grain of salt. Way back in 1770 textbooks said the earth was 70,000 years old, in 1905 it was supposedly 2 billion years old. Then in 1969 it was changed to 3.5 billion, the textbooks today claim it is 4.6 billion years old. Wow, the earth sure is getting old quick!
Uniformitarianism teaches that the way things are happening now is the way they always been happening, this is an assumption and cannot be proven. In the geologic column each layer given a name, age, and index fossil. This was done in 1830, this was way before carbon-dating was invented. What most school teachers don't tell you is that the geologic column is only found in textbooks, it is not found that way in nature. In other words it doesn't exist. Evolutionist date the layers by bones that are found in it and the bones by the layers, this is circular reasoning and a logical flaw. What I find absurd is there is actually a college textbook that says as the earth was forming it was like the moon and the rocks absorbed the oxygen, even though there was none.
Graptolites and the Coelacanth are two examples of living fossils. They supposedly lived hundred of millions of years ago, but are found still alive today with no sign of evolution. Geologist have found petrified trees standing up and that run through different rock layers, also known as (poly-strata fossils). There are 100's of them found, sometimes even upside down. Now which is more logical sounding to you a) they just stood there for millions of years while slowly being covered with dirt or b) they where buried in a catastrophic flood. Under the right conditions petrification can happen quickly.
In regard to animals changing over time, all that mutations do is just scramble existing information, no new genetic information is created. Natural selection doesn't create.. it selects from what is already there. Even recently, possibly still today school textbooks include the peppered moth and Haeckels embryo drawings, the problem is that these are known fraudulent documents.
The Danger of Teaching Darwins Theory
Now I want to briefly cover why believing in evolution is dangerous. If evolution is true and were just smart animals then that would mean that our morals are subjective and there is no true evil. Yes Evolutionist themselves may be moral but they are acting contrary to their worldview. The columbine shooters Dylan and Eric believed in evolution, and did the shooting on Hitlers b-day on purpose. They shot one guy because he was black, and a girl for believing in God. You see that evolution supports racism because it teaches that some humans are more evolved than others, namely whites are superior to blacks. Hitler thought he would speed up Natural selection by killing the "inferiors". Ultimately your behavior is determined by your beliefs. What is really tragic is that Australian Aborigines were killed to use their skulls for Evolution because they have bigger jawbones, it is cause they used them. Let's not forget that there was a large Eugenics movement until WW2, this was another bad fruit of evolution.
Dr. walter browns hydro-plate theory
Another thing that I want to suggest to the reader is to take a look at the Hydro plate theory which describes the changes that may have taken place when the earth was flooded by water. It states that there were subterranean water chambers about ten miles beneath the earths crust which burst open and caused torrential rains. This jet of water sprayed supersonic-ally 20 miles into the air, some of this water turned into ice crystals in the earth's atmosphere and produced ice dumps that froze many animals almost instantly including the mammoths.
The sediment that was created by the flood formed the fossil record, and the compressed rock beneath the subterranean chambers sprung upward which created the mid-Atlantic ridge. Finally the continental plates slide away from ridge reaching about 45 mph then ran into resistance and compressed / buckled forming mountains and ridges, and opening up ocean basins and lakes.
What about Carbon Dating?
Some Evolutionary Scientist today will try and use Carbon Dating to refute the bible stating that they have specimens ten's of thousands of years old. Please note that this is not an exact age but a maximum age. In regards to c-14 it's entering and leaving of the earth's atmosphere still hasn't reached equilibrium. This process should've only taken 30,000 years, but it's still gaining 28 to 37%. Another factor to take into consideration about c-14 dating is that you don't know how much it had while it was alive or if the decay rate has changed.
There are several examples that really screw up the reliability of this dating method including, a freshly killed seal dated to be 1300 years old in 1971. Next we have a mammoth leg c-14 dated at 15,380 years old while it's skin dated at 21,300 years old in 1949. There have been live penguins tested to be 8000 years old, and a mollusk shell supposedly 2,300 years old in 1963. Another amazing example is dinosaur bones carbon dated at 20,000 years old, which flat out destroys the theory that they died out over sixty million years ago. There have also been some eruptions in the 1900's which give hundred of thousands to millions of years old K -AR dates. If we can't trust them on the ages we do know, why are we relying on them for ages we don't know?
A Few more Interesting Points!
Before concluding this article I thought I would go over a few more interesting tidbits of information relevent to this topic. In regards to ancient technology there have been artifacts of tiny airplane-like objects found in the tombs of South america and Egypt that where dated to be around ten and twenty-one hundred years old.
I don't consider plant's to be alive but rather are a complex, self-replicating food source given to us by our Creator. Man made artifacts have been found in coal, this refutes the idea of them being millions of years old. The panda, fruit bat, and monkey all have sharp teeth but they are herbivores, so just because some dinosaurs had sharp teeth this doesn't mean they ate meat. How did Noah bring big Dinosaurs on the ark? He brought them when they were babies or very young.
Do you find it odd that there are around 270 flood legends if there wasn't actually a global flood ? Another startling evidence of a global flood is petrified clams, they were discovered in the closed position on Top of mt. Everest. You can petrify acorns in one year. A petrified cowboy boot was discovered with a foot still inside, that's just one more evidence of quick petrification. How do you get bent rock layers with no cracks if it's not done with water?
So in conclusion we can trust Jesus when he told us that in the beginning God made them male and female; so now we know that mankind didn't take millions of years to evolve into the form we have today.
The Information in this Article is derived from Kent Hovind's Creation Seminars #'s 1-7.
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