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Male and Female Created He Them
"Explore the World. Meet the Word"
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Creation Science Male and Female Created He Them "Explore the World. Meet the Word" | Statistics: Time: 320 minutes Print: 64 pages |
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| Dear God. Help me to understand. Reason with me so that I can see you clearly. Help me to see the truth by your Spirit of Truth. Thank you. |
Regrets? "I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy. I ... am ready to cry with vexation at my blindness and presumption." Charles Darwin, quoted by Herbert Wendt in 'From Ape to Man' page 59.
The subject of creation is covered under Bible prophecy because the issue of who is the creator will become important in the final days.
One of the last prophetic messages to the world, tells mankind to love God and worship Him because He is the creator.
This message was supposed to begin around the time of the end after a great persecution. At that time the corrupt religion would fall and knowledge would increase.
This increase in knowledge also led to the theories of evolution. This describes the years after 1798.
» Worship the Creator. So we find a warning message to the world to turn back to God as the creator began at a time when evolution was being proposed.
... Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Worship Him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters. (Revelation 14: 7)
» Beast Becomes Man. The series of prophecies in Daniel also point to a beast who evolves into a man who tries to become God at the end of time.
One wonders if the prophet was symbolizing an important end time issue because, not only will we have the theory of evolution, we will have people claiming that we can evolve beyond humanity into deity. We shall become as gods.
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You Can Understand
Many people have accepted the theory of evolution because of a combination of reasons.
Scientists seem to have proved it, and the best and brightest seem to have accepted it.
In October 1996, even the Catholic Church has come to declare it as truth.
But the biggest reason why people accept it is because they do not understand it.
It is too complicated. And besides, most intelligent people believe it.
Since this is important for your understanding of God it is important for you to try to gain enough
information so that you can make an informed decision.
Besides, there is one compelling argument that I believe you can understand even if the others are still unclear.
Creation - The Biblical Account (Water, Water Everywhere!)
Creation is the belief that a supernatural being, God, created the universe and everything in it in six real days.
True creationism is based entirely, on the truth of the story as written in the Bible.
Creationists believe creation is the only explanation of the perfect conditions we are situated in and that science (man's observations of the physical world) and the Bible agree 100%.
There are some theories which attempt to reconcile creation with evolution, but these either ignore or twist what the Bible says.
So, when we talk about creation in this discussion, we affirm that we believe the Genesis account to be 100% factual.
The story of creation is found in Genesis 1 and 2. Genesis 2 also gives more detail about the sixth day of creation.
The creation began at sunset on Saturday.
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Genesis 1 - The Physical Universe (Water not Gas!) Day 1 - Sunday (Electromagnetism, Physics, Chemistry)
Day 2 - Monday ( Space ) Then God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters." God made the expanse, and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so. God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. Day 3 - Tuesday ( Geology and Botany ) Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them"; and it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a third day. Day 4 - Wednesday ( Astronomy ) Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so. Sun. God made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, Moon. and the lesser light to govern the night; Stars. He made the stars also. God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. Day 5 - Thursday ( Biology of Oceans and Birds ) Then God said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens." God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth." There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. Day 6 - Friday ( Biology of Land Animals and Humans ) Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was so. God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, " Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Then God said, "See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and see, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Genesis 2 - The Spiritual Universe Day 7 - Saturday ( Social, Psychological and Spiritual Foundations ) Genesis 2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. |
Changes
Less than 130 years after the creation, God was forced to separate Himself from direct contact with His creation. Adam and Eve sinned.
God immediately instituted some changes after sin. Most were environmental, but one seemed to be a structural change in one specie.
A Snake With Legs (Walking Snake). In 2006, the fossil remains of a primitive snake were discovered in Argentina. It shows a three feet long (92 cm) crawling creature with a sacrum and two legs which they claimed lived 90 million years ago.
There is also a reference to a fossilized snake with hind legs found in a stone quarry in Israel.
Most of these changes can account for the climatic, geological and genetic catastrophe that we witness today.
Flood - The Biblical Account. (Water, Water Everywhere!)
The flood is included in these discussions, because it is crucial to the creationist view.
It explains the catastrophic observations we see in geology.
The entire story of the Flood can be found in Genesis 6 through 8. Genesis 2:5-6 tells of the eco-system before the flood.
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No Rain. Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground. Genesis 7- The Flood Water from below and above for 40 days A Meteor Impact or A Verneshot? In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. Pressurized Water from Beneath the Earth. The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark, they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds. So they went into the ark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God had commanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him. Global Tsunamis. Then the flood came upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and lifted up the ark, so that it rose above the earth. The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered. The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered. All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind; of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. Thus He blotted out every living thing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark. Submerged for 150 days. The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
Genesis 8: Wind for 150 Days But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained; and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. During the Feast of Tabernacles. In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. The water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains became visible. Then it came about at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth. Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land; but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself. So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. The dove came to him toward evening, and look, in her beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth. Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not return to him again. New Year's Day. Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and look, the surface of the ground was dried up. Conditions lasted for approximately 370 days In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. Then God spoke to Noah, saying, "Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you". |
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Creation Theories
Several theories have been proposed that are related to either the creation or the flood stories.
Some of these theories were proposed to describe the biblical event while others were proposed in order to reconcile theology with science.
Short Day Theory
This theory say that the days of creation were actual twenty four hour periods.
It is supported by the Bible which does not speak of thousand year periods of creation.
This article is written in support of the short day theory. So whenever I speak about creation I am not talking about the other hybrid models.
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» The Canopy Theory. It says that before the Genesis flood the air above the earth was filled with a humid, watery vapor that rose from the ground and watered the earth in vapor form (Genesis 2:6). This made the climate very mild and suitable for many types of animals. After the flood, rain began to regularly fall on the earth and the climate changed to one with more extremes. This might have helped to cause the extinction of some species This theory does not contradict the Bible, nor do we need it to support any creationist argument.
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Long Day Theory
This "day" is an unknown length (millions of years old). They believe that these "days" were "ages" and were symbolic.
Where do they get their support? 2 Peter 3: 8 says "One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
However, does the passage talk about creation? No. It is simply talking about the timelessness of God.
Moreover, if that were the case, vegetation might have died (if the ambient light was not strong enough) because God created the sun moon and stars after vegetation. Proponents of this theory must also reject the order of creation as presented by God.
In any case, if we use prophetic time in which a day is a year then creation lasted for seven years.
If we use Peter then creation lasted 7000 years. But if he was talking about the light part of the day not just the 24 hour period, then each day was 2000 years and creation week was 14,000 years.
None of these is enough time to support evolution.
The Gap Theory
This is a variation of the Long Day Theory, it says that there was a long period of time between Genesis 1:1 (In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.) and Genesis 1:2 (Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.) What might have happened during that gap of time was the destruction of the "first creation" during the fall of Satan (as described in Isaiah 14:12 - 17). That time could have been an infinite amount of time. And, then, after the gap, of course, God resumed his creation work as described in the rest of Genesis 1.
None of this is in the Bible. It does not talk about a creation that was destroyed before ours. And nothing suggests a gap of time between the two verses.
There are many responses among the Christian community in reconciling Creation and evolution.
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The Creation Model
Creationists have proposed a model for the present conditions of the earth that is based on creation and the devastating effects of the flood.
The following short description is mostly taken from a special edition of the Insight magazine (1990 Volume 21. Number 14).
The Hydroplate theory of Dr. Walt Brown is a more comprehensive explanation for this observation.
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Earth Before the flood : The earth before the flood was probably like it is today - full of life. There probably were no great mountains over 9000 feet (2820 m) or great oceans, but underground rivers and lakes called aquifers, together with a mist supplied the earth with needed water in a world where rain was unknown. The absence of great bodies of surface water or oceans would guarantee that huge thunderclouds could not form. There was no rain. |
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The Flood Begins:
The floating plates of rock that made up the land areas began to sink, compressing the aquifers and causing great earthquakes. This could have been precipitated by huge asteroids.
Huge volcanoes erupted violently (verneshots). Great walls of water rushed in from the sea.
Thundering fountains of water and huge rocks burst from deep underground.
 Huge craters around the world, tectonic plates and the tilted earth.
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| Water Bursts From the Earth | |
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The Duration:
While the flood continued, great currents dumped layer after layer of mud over the submerged land.
Different types of sediments were laid down one on top of the other in rapid sequence.
Turbidity currents observed in 1929.
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The Flood Ends: As the land areas slowly became visible, the receding waters scoured the land. Newly formed soft earth was shaped and reshaped by the rushing currents. Some water was trapped in great inland seas. It eventually broke through small land barriers and formed magnificent canyons through erosion. |
| Currents Reshape Mud | |
 | What We Observe: The earth is crushed in on one side and has the motions of a wobble. Like the wobble of a spinning toy as it is about to stop rotating. The theory is that a great meteorite probably hit the earth, helping to break the great 'fountains of the deep'. The effect was so great, that it tilted the earth slightly on its axis and caused this wobble which is still measurable today. |
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The Aftermath:
Erosion continues to wear away at rock layers, exposing more evidence of the greatest catastrophe the world has ever known.
Circumstantial Evidence.
Trees trapped standing straight up in between layers of rocks of different ages. Human remains caught in the deepest layers of rock below animals that became extinct before humans.
Fish on top of mountains. This is what we observe.
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The geography of Pangea looks similar to the description of the New Jerusalem when the orientation
is adjusted for the current tilt of the earth.
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Catastrophism
Catastrophism attempts to describe our geography on the basis of a global flood.
It is the belief that many geological features were a result of catastrophic formation
rather than slow formation over millions of years (Uniformitarian).
The Supercontinent: Pangea
There is one area in which we agree with evolutionists.
At one time the earth was one large continent.
In 1912 Alfred Wegner proposed this theory and he named this land Pangea ("all the earth"). He became the father of the Continental Drift Theory.
Pangea broke apart into Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. They slowly drifted apart into the land formations we see today at the rate of 2.5 cm (1 inch) per year.
They also claim that there was an earlier formation named Rodinia, which broke up 750 million years ago.
Creationists also believe there was one land mass 6000 years ago which broke up by a combination of continental submersion and continental drift.
But the continental drift was rapid or the current topography could simply be a result of submerged continents.
Several permanent conditions occurred as a result of the catastrophic break up.
The Hydroplate Theory
Dr. Walt Brown proposed that the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia were once closer together fitting at the base of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge but not quite like the model of Edward Bullard.
The original Jig Saw model of the continents actually removed most of Mexico and central America, shrunk Africa by 40% and rotated the continents to obtain this fit.
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Experimental Evidence (Thermal Depolymerization).
This process shows that vegetation under moderate pressure (600 pounds) and temperature (500ºF) produces oil from organic material in hours when water is used to convey the heat.
These are the conditions after the flood. So the great coal beds and oil fields could have been created by the flood.
Eyewitness Evidence.
Unexpectedly, a salt water layer was found at a 2.1 mile (3.4 km) borehole in Oberpfalz, Germany. Fossils were found at 4.2 miles (6.7 Km).
The Theory of Evolution
Evolution is the theory that life evolved from nothing through a series of continuous process of natural selection and mutations over billions of years.
Mutation supplies the variations and changes, but natural selection through survival of the fittest decides which variations will survive and breed.
Evolution proposes various theories and mechanisms from the different branches of science to explain the processes within those systems.
Theories supporting evolution are proposed in order to explain how a process is occurring or how an event was started.
These processes require a significant amount of time to increase the possibility that they might occur.
According to the theory, everything started with a big bang and light appeared.
The elements were created from nothing!
Hydrogen formed and from this several other complex gases formed.
These grouped together to create the planets.
Earth was created and flooded by the sea. Eventually sea life and plants appeared, then insects and birds, finally animals and man.
Man evolved from bacteria, worms, fish, frogs, reptiles, mice, monkeys, apes and chimpanzees.
These theories arose in the age of enlightenment in the wake of the French Revolution as people everywhere began to abandon the oppression of religion while charting a new course where they were masters of their own destiny. The period was one of immorality, new scientific discoveries, the conquest of new nations and peoples as empire building relied on the slave trade. While the religious found biblical reasons to enslave others, politicians and law makers found economic reasons to justify slavery, and scientists found logical reason to separate people into different classes. This was the environment into which the pioneers of evolution lived. If science could prove that we evolved without the assistance of God, then there are no moral absolutes. Morality evolves with our own needs. If science could prove that one race was superior to another, then we would have proved the natural order ordained by God or nature and we could enforce this natural order without guilt.
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Summary of the Major Theories
There are many theories to explain many mechanisms of evolution.
For this discussion we will only focus on the theories which propose the origin of matter in the universe and the evolution of life.
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No Eyewitnesses.
None of these theories have been proved by reproducible experiments or observation of generations of natural offsprings or what is known about the mechanisms of genetics and inheritance. They have simply been proposed by observing what exists, namely we have organs that work together.
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Biological Laws. Do you wonder why? This sounds like a very intelligent set of accidents. Two mutually beneficial monster mutations occurring at the same time every 50,000 years to produce a new pair of species (male and female) leaving no transitional forms.
The proposed theories demonstrate the problem with evolution - time.
Because biological systems need to be formed with all their parts working, single step by step mutation would not
have worked. New organs would have been of no use. This violates the theory of use and disuse.
The Theory of need has a lot of built in assumptions and immense foresight.
To work, this implies great intelligence and planning that is beyond the capability of a ball of slime in a mud pool.
How could that single celled creature envision an eye and plan one and build one and tell the offspring to pass it on?
We have no known mechanism by which superficial changes are passed on to our children.
We also have evidence that changes imposed at the gene level do not last beyond the second generation.
Changes at the physical level are not transmitted to the genes.
If I liposuction and botox myself to death, my children will still have my fat genes.
The Evolution of Man
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Adam, I hear that the Troglodytes are swingers. They are certainly not our "kind" |
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| 0.10-0.012 | Homo Floresiensis | The Hobbit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.25-Present | Homo Sapiens Sapiens | Modern man | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.16 | Homo Sapiens Idaltu | 3 craniums | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.25- | Homo Sapiens | Cro-Magnon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.23-0.03 | Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis | Humans who made music and sewed clothes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.30-0.12 | Homo Rhodesiensis | - |
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| .4-.2 | Homo Sapiens Archaic | Last step before modern man | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.60-0.25 | Homo Heidelbergensis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.80-0.35 | Homo Antecessor | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0.80 | Homo Cepranensis | Only one skull cap found | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.25-0.30 | Homo Erectus | Walked upright | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.80-1.60 | Homo Ergaster | Homo Erectus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.90-1.25 | Homo Georgicus | "Dmanisi Man" found in Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1.90 | Homo Rudolfensis | Skull 1470 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2.50-1.50 |  Homo Habilis | Used crude stone tools | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3.00-1.20 | Paranthropus | 4.26-4.59 feet tall (130-140 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3.50-3.20 | Kenyathropus | Distorted skeleton, features not clear | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.00-1.80 | Australopithecus | Man's oldest ancestor. All the early apes were the size of a chimpanzee. They appeared in the following order: afarensis, africanus, robustus and Boisei | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5.50-4.40 | Ardipithecus | Walks upright most of the time, lives in trees | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6.10-5.80 | Orrorin | "Millennium Man" from Kenya is the earliest human branch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7-5 | Sahelanthropus | The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Evolutionary Tree of Life
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| 10 K | Agriculture | - | | Homo Sapiens | Homo Sapiens, hobbit |
| 5 | - | - |  | Sahelanthropus | Ancestors of humans and the chimpanzee split |
| 13 | Herbs Weeds | Chimpanzee | Ancestors of humans and the great apes split | ||
| 15 |  | Apes | Ancestors of humans and the gibbon split | ||
| 25 | Catarrhini | Catarrhini split into two branches: Old world monkeys and apes. Butterflies, ants | |||
| 30 | - | Platyrrhini  Catarrhini Haplorrhini | Haplorrhini split into two branches in the continental drift. Catarrhines (old world monkeys) stayed in Africa. Platyrrhines (New world monkeys) migrate 4500 km across the Atlantic on a vegetation raft to South America | ||
| 40 | Rose | - |  | Primates | Ancestors of humans |
| 65 | Grasses |  | Euarchonta | Nocturnal, tree climbing, insect eating. Dinosaurs extinct | |
| 100 | Angiosperms (Flowers) |  | Mammal (Eomaia scansoria) | Bees A common genetic ancestor of mice and men Oil Formed. Global deposits of oil rich black shale | |
| 130 | Coal Forests  | ||||
| 170 | - | | Birds, insects | - | |
| 220 | Cycads | | Cynodonts | Teeth, mammal jaws, dinosaurs | |
| 256 |  Ginkgos | Diapsida | Synapsida | Synapsida evolves into mammals | ||
| 300 | Lycopods | Club Mosses Horsetail |  | Hylonomus | Reptiles |
| 315 | Conifers |  | Acanthostega | Amphibians with limbs | |
| 360 | Seed Ferns |  | Cockroaches | ||
| 400 | Gymnosperms | - |  | Coelacanth | Scorpions, centipedes and milipedes move to land.  Living coelacanth specimens found in 1938 |
| 475 | Plants move to land | Fungi | |||
| 480 | Mosses Liverworts |  | Placodermi | Jawed fish | |
| 505 | Primitive plants Bryophytes  | Ostracoderm | Jawless fish. Vertebrates | ||
| 530 | Pikaia | Ancestor of chordates and vertebrates | |||
| 540 | Acorn worms | Link to vertebrates and invertebrates | |||
| 550 | Flatworms | Brain, organs, bilateral symmetry | |||
| 580 | Cnidarians | Nerves and muscles | |||
| 600 | Sponges (Porifera) | Multicellular. Ozone layer forms | |||
| 900 | Algae | Molds | Choanoflagellates | Ancestors of the animal kingdom | |
| 1200 | Sexual reproduction evolves | ||||
| 3900 | Archaebacteria | Protista | |||
| 3500 | Bacteria | ||||
The Evolutionary Time Frame
| Era/Epoch | Years | Period |  | What Emerged | Day |
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| Neolithic | 6,000 | Quaternary | Adam, Eve and the universe were created. Last ice age | 6 | |
| - | 74,000 | Mt. Toba eruption. Human adult population now 2000+ | |||
| Paleolithic | 250000 | Homosapiens, evolutionists. Early stone age | |||
| Pleistocene | 1.8mya | Homoerectus. The great ice age | |||
| Pliocene | 5 mya | Tertiary | Australopithecines, whales. Human-chimpanzee split | ||
| Miocene | 20 | Planet cools. Southern Ice cap, Himalayas, Red Sea | |||
| Cenozoic | 54 | Dogs, herbivores, carnivores, flowering plants, fish | |||
| Eocene | 65 | Cat, greenhouse climate change. No polar ice caps | |||
| KT Boundary | Dinosaurs disappear, small mammals appear | ||||
 | 65 | Mesozoic "The Age of Dinosaurs" Coal Forests | 60% Mass extinction by Chicxulub meteor and the Deccan Traps supervolcano in India. Dinosaurs extinct | ||
| Cretaceous | 120 | Insects, flowering plants, mammals. Pangea broke up | |||
| 144 | Mass extinction by meteor kills dinosaurs | |||
| Jurassic | 170 | Large dinosaurs, first mammals, birds, fish, insects | |||
| 208 | 20% Mass extinction. Manicougan crater in Canada and the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province supervolcano near Sierra Leone | |||
| Triassic | 225 | Dinosaurs, reptiles, plants (gymnosperms) | |||
| 251 | 96% Mass extinction by Wilkes Land, or Bedout High meteor and the supervolcano in the Siberian Traps | |||
| Permian | 270 | Paleozoic "Ancient Life" | Amphibians, seed plants, coral, sponges, fish. Pangea | 5 | |
| Carboniferous | 295 | Reptiles, fern forests, cockroach. Pangea (350-260) | |||
| Pennsylvanian | 300 | The last trilobite died | |||
| 364 | 70% Mass extinction. Frasnian-Fammian. Siljan crater in Sweden. Pripyat-Dniepr-Donetsk supervolcano (Ukraine) | |||
| Devonian | 395 | Fish, ferns and other seed plants. Land vertebrates, wingless insects and spiders. New types of fish | |||
| Silurian | 425 | Fish continued to evolve | |||
| Ordovician | 500 | Vertebrate sea life. Plants moved to land | 3 | ||
| Cambrian | 545 | Planets, early invertebrate sea life | |||
| Neoproterozoic | Precambrian | 900- 540 Oldest known animal fossils | |||
| Paleoproterozoic | 2500-1600 Photosynthesis. Rodinia continent. 3500-1500 Transition to oxygen atmosphere (200 billion tons) made by stromatolytes (blue-green algae) | 2 | |||
| Archaen (3.9-2.5) | 2500 | 3900-2500 Oceans, blue-green algae, fossils, rocks | |||
| 3500 | Granite crust made from super heated water on basalt | ||||
| Hadean (4.5-3.9) | 3800 | Late Heavy Bombardment. Comets with water form oceans for 400 million years | |||
| 3800 | 4500-3800 earth has a molten hellish environment | ||||
| 13,700 Million | The Big Bang | 1, 4 | |||
The Chicxulub impact generated enough rock to fill mount Everest.
A Curious Observation
With the exception of the creation of the planets of our solar system on day four, the creation order in Genesis shows the same order.
Now, why would a story conceived by illiterate and superstitious people show such scientific order?
And, just like the process of sexual reproduction is so out of character with the theory of evolution.
Is it possible that we can find some evidence in the seemingly misplaced events of the fourth day of creation?
The time between events (72 hours) may be too short to measure any odd events, but I am currently limited by what I know.
Plants were created before the sun, moon and stars. The earth was also created before them.
Is there something in stellar physics that shows that the earth is older than the sun, even though it is such a short time?
Even the statement that God created it all out of nothing sounds a lot like the Big Bang theory.
And this itself is another odd statement. How could illiterate people say that something came out of nothing.
They would at least have said that it came from some part of God.
Instead, the Bible says God spoke everything into existence. Electromagnetic waves started it all.
This is another odd coincidence you see, because the core of all life, the smallest particles are electromagnetic waves.
Basic Requirements for Both Theories
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Requirements for Evolution to Occur
In order for evolution to occur several conditions and possibilities must be present
Requirements for Creation to Occur
In order for creation to occur several conditions and possibilities must be present.
Creationists cannot prove the existence of God. We cannot even consistently prove by statistical evidence that we can affect our world by appealing to God. The last age of miracles was 2000 years ago. What we can show is that what God says can occur or must occur within the time He says it did.
Proofs and the Scientific Method
We will approach this debate as an examination of the quality of evidence that exists.
The Process of the Scientific Method. The basis of the scientific method is asking questions and then trying to come up with the answers, based on logic.
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Logical Reasoning and Limits to the Scientific Method
The scientific method is a rational, logical thought process that is used to figure out facts (the raw data) and sometimes truths (the actual meaning).
All of the answers must be able to be proven.
However, there are serious limitations.
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Ultimately this method is based on our limited knowledge about what is proof, what is provable and how a fact can be verified.
Instead of endless philosophical discussions to prove a point, experiment becomes the final arbitrator of truth, a successful approach.
The issue becomes a bit sticky when discussing origins. How do we test the theory of evolution? We do not have the luxury of having a miniature universe with aeons of time in the corner of a laboratory.
So this leaves both evolutionists and creationists in the same boat. No absolute way to objectively test their assertions. No eyewitnesses. Both are left to propose a model and then compare it with nature for consistency.
Types of Evidence and Testimony.
The scientific approach is to arrive objectively at truth by examining the evidence without bias.
In conducting experiments and gathering data and formulating proofs, there are several types of evidence available. Some are more trustworthy than others because they are more objective and less open to personal interpretation. These are the major types of evidence:
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Eyewitness. Testimony from someone or something that was actually there when an event occurred.
This may seem to be the most reliable evidence, but sometimes under highly emotional state and depending on the length of time from the incidence to
the recording of the testimony, the truth may not be as accurate.
Scientific (Forensic, Direct, Real, Physical). This is the equivalent of a scientific eyewitness. It is based on the examination of physical evidence left behind. Based on our ability to measure certain materials and knowledge about its rate of change under certain conditions, or statistical information on its frequency of occurrence.
we can make very good guesses about what is most likely to have occurred.
But it still involves some degree of circumstantial evidence evaluation because we must still
interpret the meaning of the scientific facts.
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Mathematical.
Use trusted chemical and mathematical formulas to calculate outcomes based on the assumptions of the theories.
Calculations will show the possibility of events in the past conforming to current observations.
Statistical. This can probably be viewed as "mathematical" forensic evidence. Given all the data, the calculations are based on how likely an event will occur. DNA is statistical forensic evidence.
The flaw is, we may not have all the data. But from experience (common sense) we may infer that given certain sets of facts that are based on common everyday occurrences, that only a rare unlikely event could change the conclusion.
In recent discussions with evolutionists, I have heard news personnel mention the phrase "mathematical evidence" or "statistical evidence" and dismiss it as irrelevant.
They never say what the evidence is, they just say the two words in a derogatory way.
But our mathematical and statistical evidence are a logical scientific method to bring evidence out of the realm of faith and speculation.
The type of statistical evidence we present is not one that is a photo finish or that can be argued with.
It is evidence that is in the realm of possible versus impossible, not "likely" or "some chance".
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Experimental.
With this method one tries to reproduce the facts by creating a similar situation and measuring conditions before the experiment and after.
If it succeeds you may have proven that under the conditions of your experiments that certain events can occur.
However, although experimental evidence could show that certain actions can produce certain effects, it cannot prove that in the past this situation existed, especially if the situation is highly unlikely and never observable in modern times.
If it were possible to conduct all possible experiments to rule out the impossible then we could say with certainty what happened.
Mother Nature Testifies.
Rare natural processes observed in real time could also be counted as an experimental environment that is conducted by nature itself in the presence of eyewitnesses.
They have the added testimony that this is a possibility, since it is not an artificial environment set up in a laboratory.
Demonstrative Evidence. This type of experimental evidence illustrates a point through charts, graphs, maps, illustrations and reenactments.
It tends to simplify complicated situations or illustrate and assist verbal testimony.
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Circumstantial.
Examining what remains after the fact. The interpretation of facts based on the physical evidence found after the incidence has happened and the original participants are gone.
There is a danger that we could use current thinking and understanding to interpret the data.
This is because the interpretation of circumstantial data is based on assumptions, common sense and all known
experimental data.
Documentary Evidence. The eyewitness is a document in written or printed form. This document must be authenticated or have a trustworthy origin and chain of custody.
Most legal documents are authenticated by signatures and eyewitnesses to the transaction.
Anecdotal evidence may once have been documentary evidence for the ancient people.
So the problem with this type of evidence is time. The more time has elapsed, the less confidence exists in their authenticity and veracity because of the issue of chain of custody and dead eyewitnesses.
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Expert Witness (Forensic People).
Experts sometimes utilize hearsay and routinely express opinions. Through training and experience, they are better qualified to form an opinion. However, their knowledge is limited by the limits of science and their own capabilities. They are at best interpreting forensic and circumstantial evidence.
Common Sense (An Expert Common Man). At first this may seem to be emotionally based and possibly limited by our knowledge and flawed interpretations.
But it is not a private interpretation. Common sense therefore, is helpful as an arbiter over all the forensic and experimental evidence because it is based on years of experience shared by every one. Whatever gives the expert witness the right to speak about complicated scientific evidence, also gives every man the right to speak about common everyday occurrences.
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Hearsay Evidence. A potential eyewitness who cannot be cross-examined. Hearsay evidence consists of statements made out of court by someone who is not present to testify under oath.
The problem with this type of witness is that people can lie or misinterpret the meaning of a message.
Anecdotal.
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Testimonial Evidence. This is anecdotal evidence by an eyewitness or a recommendation because of personal experience.
Currently most celebrity testimonals are not based on any experience but based on the reputation or public appeal of the presenter.
Rebuttal Evidence.
This is not a separate type of evidence.
This is evidence used to contradict other evidence. Generally, the rebuttal evidence should be of similar or higher reliability than the evidence disputed.
Therefore, anecdotal evidence should not be used to rebut experimental evidence.
Weighing the Evidence
Therefore, using a simple system based on the scientific method we can devise a plan
for evaluating the importance of each type of evidence we see.
To evaluate the evidence we need to look at a minimum of two different dimensions.
| Quality Points | ||
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| Letter Grade | Numerical Grade | Meaning |
| A | 4 | Excellent |
| B | 3 | Good |
| C | 2 | Fair |
| D | 1 | Poor |
| F | 0 | Fail |
To combine both evaluations into a single score, we will use the following formula:
Total Score = Type of evidence X Numerical quality points
Problems.
| Evidence | Weight | Comment |
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| Subjective evidence based on Personal Evaluation | ||
| Eyewitness to Past Events | 0 | Ideally this should have been 10, but because there is no mutually accepted eyewitness and because Bible prophecy hints at a breaking into history of the lying spirits so that you can no longer trust what you see, I give no credence to eyewitness evidence |
| Documentary | 0 | Bible |
| Anecdotal | 1 | Scientific stories and observations from the past |
| Hearsay | 3 | I will take only ancient scientific observations. No prophets. |
| Common Sense | 5 | Observations based on the subjective evaluation of reasonable, ordinary people. |
| Circumstantial | 6 | Often based on the subjective evaluation of experts |
| Expert | 6 | Subjective and scientific evaluation of trained or experienced people. |
| Objective evidence based on scientific evaluation | ||
| Statistical | 9 | Conclusions based on mathematical evidence and possibilities. |
| Experimental | 9 | Observable laboratory experiments or natural event |
| Forensic | 10 | Conclusions based on known, reliable scientific experiments and processes applied to discoveries of ancient artifacts. |
| Eyewitness to Current Events | 10 | Conclusions based on observed processes in nature by scientists. |
Conclusion. But what remains in nature is circumstantial evidence and the forensic information we can gather from the evidence left behind. We can conduct experiments to try to mimic a mechanism that caused the event but we cannot be certain that the environment is correct. We can only say that if the experiments worked, then this is only one way it COULD have worked. Finally, taking all the evidence we can impartially gather through science, we are left with statistical methods and common sense to interpret the data so that we can become "experts".
Scientific Evidence
There are several sciences which are prominent in the theory of evolution and each has developed
laws which contribute to the theory. Remember, from the scientific methodology that a law has greater status than a theory because it appears to be universal and it is reproducible.
A list of some of the theories proposed for each of the scientific discipline is given.
Because I am not familiar with the science, not all theories will be covered in this article.
However, I have listed them so that you can research on your own.
| Science | Description | Evolution Theories | |
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 | Physics | Study of matter, energy and atoms | Big bang theory |
 | Chemistry | Study of Atoms and molecules and how they react | |
| Cosmology | Study of space | Stellar Evolution: Nebular Hypothesis, Fission Theory, Capture Theory, Accretion Theory, Planetary Collision Theory, Stellar Collision Theory, Gas Cloud Theory |
 | Astronomy | The study of planets | |
 | Geology | The study of the earth and rocks | Geologic Columns, Continental Drift, uniformitarianism Creation Theory. Catastrophism, hydroplate, canopy |
 | Botany | The study of plants | Natural Selection, Monster Mutation, Punctuated Equilibrium, Spontaneous Generation, convergent evolution, parallel evolution. Theory of use and disuse |
| Biology | The study of animals (living things) | |
 | Paleontology | The study of bones and fossils (dead things) | |
Biology and Zoology - The Study of Animals and Living Things
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There are currently four related theories concerning the method by which life emerged.
It is interesting to note that the later theories were proposed because scientists could not escape
the need for decreased time in which critical leaps are needed.
Let us look at the theories.
Natural Selection.
Accidental changes in plants and animals will always produce improvements which will keep changing each species of plant and animal into new and larger ones.
But observations did not support the theory. Changes only occurred within species and these were slight changes.
No living plants or animals ever produced a different kind of plant or animal.
Fossil records do not show changes between species. They show minor variations within the same species.
The next new wave of theories attempted to explain how the accidental changes occurred, because no one ever changed any physical or structural body part by force of mind.
Mutations.
The next wave of theories declare that it is mutations (changes in the genes) which have made the changes from one species to another.
But changes between species still proved illusive. One specie simply did not change into another.
A dog never became a cat.
And to make matters worse, experiments shows that even non-lethal mutations within species tended to revert back to
the original form once the foreign agent causing these slight changes were removed.
These are probably not genetic mutations, but chemical changes like immunity that can be passed from mother to child during breast feeding or across the placenta during gestation or epigenetics.
Mutations only weaken, damage, sterilize, or kill the creatures in which they occur.
Beneficial mutations just did not occur, and any changes were too small and too slow.
Limits of Mutation.
The massive radiation exposure at Chernobyl, Nagasaki, Hiroshima and the thousands of irradiated gypsy moths of experiments did not produce new species.
Scientists claim that sickle cell anemia is a beneficial mutation that occurred in response to malaria.
DNA Barrier and Genetic Laws.
The cloning and genetic experiments being done at the moment demonstrate that even with a 99% to 1% mixture of genes across species lethal mutations often occur and in those who survive other problems surface.
Species cannot migrate from one form to another by mutation.
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There was no rain before the flood according to Genesis 2: 5.
Ararat
After Flood
Out of Nothing. God created the world out of nothing visible. He spoke and it happened. So elecromagnetic waves became matter.
This is totally consistent with particle physics.
