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Evolution
Microevolution
(Special Evolution)
Macroevolution
(General Evolution)
Change within
a large defined
group or kind
Transforming
change of one
kind into new
and different
kind
Evolution
Microevolution
(Special Evolution)
Macroevolution
(General Evolution)
Much
physical
evidence
NO
physical
evidence
What kind of evolution is this??
Darwin’s
Finches
Microevolution!
Not General Evolution!
14 different
species of
finches collected
on the
Galapagos
Islands during
the voyage of the
Beagle in the
1830’s
Charles Darwin wrote in a letter to Asa Gray, a
Harvard professor of biology:
"I am quite conscious that my speculations
run quite beyond the bounds of true
science.“
Charles Darwin, quoted in N.C. Gillespie,
Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation
(1979), p. 2, University of Chicago book.
Charles Darwin wrote of his theory…
"As by this theory, innumerable transitional
forms must have existed. Why do we not
Darwin attributed this lack to the
findimperfect
them embedded
in
the
crust
of
the
geological record and fully
earth?
Why
is
not
all
nature
in
confusion
expected that scientists to follow
[of halfway
species]
instead
of
being,
as
we
would “dig up” the evidence.
see them, well-defined species?"
Charles Darwin, quoted in H. Enoch, Evolution
or Creation (1966), p. 139.
Dr. W.R. Thompson, entomologist, writes in
the introduction to the 1967 edition of Charles
Darwin's, Origin of the Species:
“This situation, where men rally to the
defense of a doctrine they are unable to
define scientifically, much less demonstrate
with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its
credit with the public by the suppression of
criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is
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abnormal and undesirable in science I am
not satisfied that Darwin proved his point or
that his influence in scientific and public
thinking has been beneficial . . the success
of Darwinism was accomplished by a
decline in scientific integrity.“
Dr. W.R. Thompson, entomologist, writes in the introduction to the 1967 edition of Charles
Darwin's, Origin of the Species:
The assumptions that evolutionists make are
actually things they should be proving to us!
Seven basic
assumptions
of evolution..
Gerald A. Kerkut (1927-2004)
was a distinguished British
zoologist and physiologist. He
attended the University of
Cambridge earning a doctorate
in zoology. He became
Professor of Physiology and
Biochemistry at the University of
Southampton and went on to
become the Dean of Science,
Chairman of the School of
Biochemical and Physiological
Sciences and Head of the
Department of Neurophysiology.
Bird
Reptile
Evolutionists must ASSUME
this happened because there
Mammal
is absolutely NO evidence that
Amphibia
it did or can happen.
Fish
"There are seven basic assumptions not
mentioned during discussions of
evolution....The first point I should like to
make is that the seven assumptions by their
nature are not capable of experimental
verification.... The evidence that supports [the
general theory of evolution] is not sufficiently
strong to allow us to consider it as anything
more than a working hypothesis."
G.A. Kerkut, Professor of Biochemistry,
Implications Of Evolution, 1960
In an article by Is
Massimo
professor of Botany and
thisPigliucci,
a reasonable
the University of Tennessee, discussing the theories held
assumption
for a
today about the origin
of life…
scientist to make???
“No serious scientific discussion of
any topic should include supernatural
explanations, since the basic (and
very reasonable) assumption of
science is that the world can be
explained entirely in physical terms,
without recourse to divine entities.”
Massimo Pigliucci is an associate professor in the Departments of Botany and
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Kenneth Miller,
professor of
biology at Brown
University,
believes firmly in
evolution. He
also believes in
God….
This book provides an
original, exhilarating look
at how a quite radical
version of neo-Darwinian
theory, usually
understood as excluding
and belief in God, can in
fact aid Christians in
developing a more
Biblical faith by replacing
the God of static design
and controlling power…
with the God of
vulnerable, self-giving
love."
Percentage of Americans that believe
in Evolution OR Creation..
Evolution
Creation
50%
50%
Gallup polls
PEW Research
Evolution /
Atheism 13%
87%
Godcaused
Universe
Evolution
13%
Godcaused
Evolution
37%
Creation
50%
Gallup polls
PEW Research
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
Earth’s waters
came out of
interior of earth
during a very long
epic
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Genesis 1
teaches…
Earth was covered
with water right from
the beginning
Gen.1:2
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
First life began
accidentally in a
very ancient
primeval ocean
and it was marine
life.
2
Genesis 1
teaches…
First life began
intentionally, on
earth, and it was
plant life
Gen.1:10-11
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
Fish and other
marine forms
evolved long
before there were
any fruit trees.
3
Genesis 1
teaches…
Fruit trees were
created before the
fish and other
living creatures.
Gen.1:11, 20-21
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
Fishes evolved
100’s of millions
of years before
the birds.
4
Genesis 1
teaches…
Birds and fishes
were created at
the same time.
Gen.1:21
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
Life began with small
simple life forms,
such as trilobytes,
then on to larger
marine organisms,
amphibians,
mammals, finally
whales.
5
Genesis 1
teaches…
The first animals
God created were
the great whales.
Gen.1:21
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
Organisms brought
into existence very
gradually through
slow evolutionary
processes from a
common ancestor.
6
Genesis 1
teaches…
Genesis 1, stresses
10 times that God
created entities, fully
formed, that were to
reproduce after their
own kind.
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
Man was formed
gradually over
millions of years
through various
animal stages.
7
Genesis 1
teaches…
Man formed on the
6th day by God.
Gen. 1
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
8
Genesis 1
teaches…
Non-seed bearing
Bible says plants
rd day
plantsQuestion:
evolved, If the dayscreated
on
3
in Genesis
perhaps
450mil
and
insects
on
the
were “ages”, millions of years,
th day. Gen. 1
yearshow
ago,did
then
6
plants survive these ages
seed-bearing
plants;
without insects engaged in the
then insects.
pollination process?
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
Each epic of time
(“day”) was
characterized by
death, disease,
devastation and
destruction, which is
represented in the
fossil record.
9
Genesis 1
teaches…
Bible says at the
conclusion of
each day God
said, “it is good.”
REASON
Evolutionary
Geologists teach…
Genesis 1
teaches…
Evolution requires
billions of years to
accomplish and
theistic evolutionists
say each Genesis
“day” means an epic
of time.
Bible teaches that
each “day” in
Genesis, from the
Hebrew “yom”, was
a solar day, a 24
hour period.”
10
Could be rendered
“became” or “had
become”
Gen 1:1 In the
beginning God
created the
heavens and the
earth.
Gen 1:2 The earth
was without form,
and void; and
darkness was on the
face of the deep….
Eons of time….
Gen 1:5 God called the light
Day, and the darkness He
called Night. So the evening
and the morning were the first
day (i.e. millions of years!)
"[In Darwin's writings] possibilities
were assumed to add up to
probability, and probabilities then
were promoted to certitudes.“
—*Agassiz, op. cit., p. 335.