Evolution Microevolution (Special Evolution) Macroevolution (General Evolution) Change within a large defined group or kind Transforming change of one

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)

NO physical evidence

Much physical evidence

What kind of evolution is this??

Darwin’s Finches 14 different species of

finches collected on the

Galapagos Islands during

the voyage of the Beagle in the

1830’s

Microevolution!Not General Evolution!

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 find them embedded in the crust of the earth? Why is not all nature in confusion [of halfway species] instead of being, as we see them, well-defined species?"

Charles Darwin, quoted in H. Enoch, Evolution or Creation (1966), p. 139.

Darwin attributed this lack to the imperfect geological record and fully expected that scientists to follow would “dig up” the evidence.

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.

Fish

Bird

Reptile

MammalAmphibia

Evolutionists must ASSUME this happened because there

is absolutely NO evidence that it did or can happen.

"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

“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

In an article by Massimo Pigliucci, professor of Botany and the University of Tennessee, discussing the theories held today about the origin of life…

Is this a reasonable assumption for a

scientist to make???

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."

Evolution Creation

50% 50%

Percentage of Americans that believe in Evolution OR Creation..

Gallup pollsPEW Research

Evolution / Atheism

God-caused

Universe

13%

87%

Creation

Evolution

God-caused Evolution

13%

37%50%

Gallup pollsPEW Research

Earth’s waters came out of interior of earth during a very long epic

Earth was covered with water right from the beginning

Gen.1:2

1REASON

Evolutionary Geologists teach…

Genesis 1 teaches…

First life began accidentally in a very ancient primeval ocean and it was marine life.

First life began intentionally, on earth, and it was plant life

Gen.1:10-11

2REASON



Fish and other marine forms evolved long before there were any fruit trees.

Fruit trees were created before the fish and other living creatures.

Gen.1:11, 20-21



3REASON

Fishes evolved 100’s of millions of years before the birds.

Birds and fishes were created at the same time.

Gen.1:21

4REASON



Life began with small simple life forms, such as trilobytes, then on to larger marine organisms, amphibians, mammals, finally whales.

The first animals God created were the great whales.

Gen.1:21

5REASON



Organisms brought into existence very gradually through slow evolutionary processes from a common ancestor.

Genesis 1, stresses 10 times that God created entities, fully formed, that were to reproduce after their own kind.

6REASON



Man was formed gradually over millions of years through various animal stages.

Man formed on the 6th day by God.

Gen. 1

7REASON



Non-seed bearing plants evolved, perhaps 450mil years ago, then seed-bearing plants; then insects.

Bible says plants created on 3rd day and insects on the 6th day. Gen. 1

Question: If the days in Genesis were “ages”, millions of years, how did plants survive these ages without insects engaged in the pollination process?

8REASON



Each epic of time (“day”) was characterized by death, disease, devastation and destruction, which is represented in the fossil record.

Bible says at the conclusion of each day God said, “it is good.”

9REASON



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.”

10REASON



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….

Could be rendered “became” or “had

become”

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.

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Evolution Microevolution (Special Evolution) Macroevolution (General Evolution) Change within a large defined group or kind Transforming change of one