Problems with Evolution

Overview  All information is filtered through a person’s worldview  What are some prominent examples of how evolutionists interpret evidence differently?  Prominent means most well-known, not necessarily most persuasive

A definition  Extrapolation: 1. to infer (an unknown) from something that is known; conjecture. 2. Statistics. to estimate (the value of a variable) outside the tabulated or observed range. 3. Mathematics. to estimate (a function that is known over a range of values of its independent variable) to values outside the known range.

Examples of religion strongly influencing science  Explaining the origin of life  Possibility A: Life occurred by spontaneous, self-generation  Possibility B: Some sort of intelligence was first and it caused life to begin  Many scientists (both Christian and Atheist) have calculated the likelihood of Possibility A

Origin of Life  The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trail is only one part in , an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. – Sir Fred Hoyle & N.C. Wickramasinghe  For a simple gene of only 300 sequences the “odds against” have been calculated as one followed by 130 zeros, to one. … It is, then, small wonder that most scientists have come to the conclusion that sequenced DNA and proteins cannot be attributed to chance alone. – Dr. A.E. Wilder-Smith

Put another way...  “The English mathematician and astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle made a similar comparison in an interview published in Nature magazine on November 12, Although an evolutionist himself, Hoyle stated that the chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.”

Imagination and Interpretation  Statistically speaking, both estimates are “impossible”  For evolutionists, possibility A is all their worldview allows  Seek out evidence that shows life exists elsewhere (e.g., Mars)  Thus, life must have evolved in an older part of the universe  Possibility B requires much less imagination – Job 38:4

Miller-Urey experiments  Tried to re-create the recipe for life  Chemical soup + volcanic gases + electric zap = Life (amino acids)  Problems:  Scientists no longer believe the gases they used existed on early Earth – when agreed upon gases are used no amino acids even form  The amino acids don’t constitute “life”, even with the incorrect atmosphere scientists have can’t make even the simplest protein

Haeckel’s embryos  Mentioned on the AIG video  Deliberately faked to support Darwin’s theory  Still used in some biology textbooks!

Homology as evidence  Homology = a fundamental similarity based on common descent  Homology = evidence for common descent  Thus, “similarity due to common ancestry demonstrates common ancestry”

Galapagos Finches  Darwin observed multiple “species” of finches on the Galapagos islands while aboard the H.M.S. Beagle in 1835  Academy of Sciences use change in beak size as an example of how species originate  But it failed to report beak size decreasing after a drought ended and the merging of species

Just a few other examples  Darwin’s tree of life  Cambrian explosion  Mutant fruit flies  Genetic engineering only leads to harmful repetition of existing genetic information  Peppered moths  Moths actually don’t rest on exposed tree trunks and photographs were staged  Piltdown man  Used in scientific literature as evidence for “missing link” for over 40 years before exposed as a hoax

Two ways to see the world  Romans 11:33  The awe and humble wonder towards God and his creation  Romans 8:6-8  The frantic search to make man answerable to no one in order to escape God’s law

Important points  It’s not about ridiculing the evidence used for evolution, but understanding why it makes so much sense to people who reject God  Again, more reason to address the person AND the issues, not just trying to have more knowledge than them  Matthew 6:24 - No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

Bible verses  Job 38:4 - 4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.  Romans 11: Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! 34"Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"  Romans 8:6-8 – The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; 7the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.  Ecclesiastes 12: Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.  Matthew 6:24 - No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.