The Bankruptcy of Evolution
by Stephen Bastin
Ever
since Charles Darwin wrote his book, “The Origin of Species” in 1859,
scientists who do not believe in God have been trying mightily to confirm his
theories. The beliefs upon which his
theory were based have been mostly disproved at this point, yet the theory of
evolution continues to dominate thinking in a wide range of fields, morals,
ethics, economics, biology, theology and others.
When
Darwin’s theory became popular it was widely believed that life could arise
spontaneously from a variety of environments.
Pasteur and others had yet to prove that life only comes from life.
It was years later that the scientific view of “biogenesis” (life
comes from life) became firmly established.
Even
with this principle firmly established, those who believe in evolution continued
to cling to the belief that there is one exception to the law of biogenesis.
This is roughly similar to jumping off a cliff and hoping that the law of
gravity will be suspended just one time.
After
years of experimenting with various chemical combinations and using electrical
charges to produce a chain reaction, scientists have been unable to produce life
from lifeless matter. Even great
intelligence has not been able to reproduce what God did
in the beginning. At this
point, evolution should have been rejected as a scientific theory, but it was
not.
When
Darwin first proposed his theory, he proposed a system in which the
“fittest” would survive. He made
no proposals as to how the “fittest” would arrive on the scene in order that
natural selection could work to choose the “fittest.”
It was later that scientists proposed mutations as the way in which
changes would be introduced. Darwin’s
theory simply suggested that small changes would accumulate over eons of time to
produce all the variety we see in our world today.
Despite repeated experiments, there is still no evidence that mutations
can produce a new kinds of life forms.
Darwin’s
hope was that further fossil discoveries would fill in the missing blanks in his
evolutionary scheme, thus proving him right.
The problem is that the “missing fossils” have still not been found.
The evidence continues to accumulate that there are no transitional forms
between the major groups of life forms. Evolution must be supposed to
always have been happening somewhere other than where the fossils are being
discovered.
In order to bring evolutionary theory into line with the evidence, it is now
being proposed that life forms were unchanged for long periods of time and then
in a very brief time underwent dramatic changes to produce new species.
This explanation is said to account for the missing transitional forms by
saying
No
one seems to notice that the fossil record is consistent with what the Bible
teaches about God creating “kinds” which reproduce only similar “kinds.”
To
make matters even worse for those who choose to believe in evolution,
biochemists have now begun analyzing what happens inside a cell.
While evolution may account for improvements in vision, evolutionary
theory cannot explain the intricate mechanisms occurring inside the cell that
enable it to detect light. To put
the matter simply, there is just no way that small, incremental changes could
have produced a cell that was able to detect light.
Without that original cell to detect light, there would be nothing to
“improve” to reach the present state of vision in animals and humans.
The original cell that detected light had to have a Creator.
All
of this would be simply “academic” if it were not for the effect that
“evolutionary thinking” has had upon other fields of study.
For
example, evolutionary thinking has led “experts” to conclude that there is
no divine lawgiver. Since everything
is a result of evolution, there is no God.
Therefore all moral codes are relative.
There are no absolute standards of right and wrong.
Society’s ideas of right and wrong have evolved as humans have evolved.
Since
humans are “evolving” they are undoubtedly getting better.
Moral codes then are a relic from the past that we have “outgrown.”
That
has led us down the path that we are on today.
God’s standards have been rejected, because after all, God does not
exist and everything has simply evolved. But
since things have not evolved there is a divine Creator.
And that Creator has given us an absolute code of right and wrong!
It
is time to “wake up and smell the coffee!”
Right and wrong are not the result of evolution.
They exist as the divine decrees of our Creator.
We are subject, not to the whims of society, but to the eternal judgment
of the God who created us.
Sociologists
and psychologists who tell us that we are ever improving have gotten it wrong.
Man has always, since the garden of Eden, known good and evil.
There is the capacity within every man to do good.
But there is also the capacity in EVERY man to do evil.
Without consequences, men will naturally choose evil.
It is only by enacting laws that punish the evil doers and by creating a
society that rewards those who work, that we can build a stable society.
“Do
not be deceived. God is not mocked;
for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.
For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap
corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap
eternal life.” Galatians 6:7-8
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